PMP® Full Exam: 2: 200 Questions and Answers

PMP® Full Exam - 2

200 Questions and Answers

Second Edition

by

Leithy Mohamed Leithy

MBA, PfMP, PgMP, PMP, PMOC, COBIT, ITIL, CSSGB

Published By Leithy Mohamed Leithy at Smashwords

Copyright © 2016 Leithy Mohamed Leithy

All rights are reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

For permission to use material from this text or product, contact us by:

e-mail: support@6p-Consulting.com,

Website: www.6p-Consulting.com

This eBook is licensed for your personal use only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Please note that this book has the same exam, Exam 2, in the "Passing the PMP® Exam: A Study Guide" book created by the same author.

Therefore, if you bought "Passing the PMP® Exam: A Study Guide", there is no need to buy this book.

This edition considers the new changes in the Examination Content Outline for 2016 PMP exam.

ISBN-13: xxxxxxxx

Discover other titles by Leithy Mohamed Leithy:

- Passing the PfMP®: A Study Guide

- Passing the PgMP®: A Study Guide

- Passing the PMP®: A Study Guide

Acknowledgement

To my Wife and my Sons

For their patience and encouragement

About the Author

Leithy Mohamed Leithy is a certified Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP®), Program Management Professional (PgMP®), and Project Management Professional (PMP®). He also has the certification of Project Management Office (PMOC), ITIL, COBIT, and CSSGB.

Leithy is originally an engineer of computer and automatic control, graduated from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 1989. Later, he upgraded his educational level and got his master (MBA) in IT Management from Leicester University in the UK.

Leithy has extensive experience in portfolio management, program management, project management and PMO. He practiced the implementation of project management office, program management office, and portfolio management office for the different models: Supportive, Directive and Controlling.

He has practical experience in delivering sensitive projects and programs under high pressure, harsh target deadlines, and budget challenges. He developed project and program management methodologies and implemented them in large multi-national organizations.

He acquired excellent practical portfolio management experience while managing multiple portfolios and guided the portfolio managers to achieve their target strategic and financial objectives.

He worked in Egypt and in the Arabian Gulf over the last twenty-five years with big firms and international enterprises, strengthening his practical experience and adding a lot to his pragmatic thinking. While concentrating on information technology, he interfered with different industries; educational, health, financial, telecommunication, utilities, and oil and gas.

Combining the practical experience with the academic knowledge and international certifications creates an excellent understanding of the best practice and world-class standards.

Leithy is the founder of the 6P-Consulting management services company, which is specialized in project, program, portfolio, and PMO management services, www.6P-Consulting.com

Contents

About the Author

Introduction

1. Exam 2 - Questions

2. Exam 2 – Questions and Answers

Appendix (A) – Questions Mapping per Knowledge Area

Introduction

This book is developed to help you in passing the Project Management Professional Certification PMP® Exam on your first attempt.

The book is created based on the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Fifth Edition which was PMI certified in 2013. Throughout this book, it will be referred to as the Standard Guide. This book adopts all PMI publications related to the Project Management that were created before the publication date of this edition.

This book contains one Full PMP® sample exam with its detailed answer and explanation, i.e., it has 200 questions and answers. The questions were created based on the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)® Handbook and the PMP Examination Content Outline changes for 2016 exam.

Please note that this book has the same exam, Exam 2, in the Passing the PMP® Exam: A Study Guide book by the same author.

Therefore, if you bought Passing the PMP® Exam: A Study Guide, there is no need to buy this book.

This book is different from others as it is created by an author who passed the PfMP®, PgMP® and PMP® Exams on his first attempt, so, the author knows how to pass the different exams from the PMI on the first attempt. This reflects the flavor of the questions that you are going to see on the exam. Besides, it covers different examples of each type of the commonly found questions on the PMP® Exam model; including the regular question, table question, and question set.

As a project manager, your practical experience will help you a lot to pass the exam, and it is a critical success factor of your readiness to the exam. However, in this book, you will find a major support to orient you to the examination philosophy that you will face.

PMP, PgMP, and PfMP are registered trademarks by PMI.

This book is not related to PMI or licensed by PMI.

Please note that each question answer has the following details:

- The right answer

- Question Reference: this is referring to the Standard Guide: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Fifth Edition which is registered for PMI in 2013. If the question reference section from the Standard Guide span over few pages, I will mention the page number that is directly related to the subject question

- Clarification and Tips: this is the most important part of the answer that describes the reasons for selecting the right answer and eliminating the three other choices

- Process Group: the name of the process group covering this question

- Process: the process pertained to this question’s subject

- Knowledge Area: the name of the Knowledge Area covering this question

For any query, please contact us at support@6P-Consulting.com

1. Exam 2 - Questions

Q1: Project team training is usually planned, but in certain cases, there are needs to execute unplanned training, which of the following cases may be considered for unplanned training?

(a) As a result of observation

(b) As a result of project performance appraisals conducted during the controlling process of managing the project

(c) As a result of conversation

(d) All the above

Question Category: Moderate

Q2: Sam, the project manager of UCA project, is thinking where to record the rejected change request, what is your advice to him?

(a) Like the approved change requests, the rejected change requests are recorded in the Change Log

(b) Rejected change requests are recorded in the Rejected Change Log

(c) Rejected change requests are recorded in the Issue Log

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Difficult

Q3: For projects, not using earned value management, how to perform schedule variance analysis as part of the Schedule Control process?

(a) By comparing planned activity start or finish dates against actual start or finish dates to identify variances between the schedule baseline and actual project performance

(b) By measuring the SV and SPI for the current progress

(c) For projects not using earned value management, cannot have the schedule variance analyzed

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Moderate

Q4: Which of the following may be produced as the output of the Scope Management Plan process?

(a) Scope Statement

(b) Requirements Management Plan

(c) Project Charter

(d) All of the above

Question Category: Difficult

Q5: ____________ is used by the project manager to manage contract and procurement documentation and records.

(a) A records management system

(b) Minutes of meeting

(c) Issue and change logs

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Difficult

Q6: Which of the following organizational process assets that may influence the Control Communications process?

(a) Allowed communication media

(b) Report templates

(c) Security requirements

(d) All the above

Question Category: Easy

Q7: While creating your vendor contracts, which of the following might be considered a type of these contracts?

(a) Fixed-price

(b) Time and Material

(c) Cost-reimbursable

(d) All of the above

Question Category: Easy

Q8: What should be your advice to a project manager on the objectives of developing a project team?

(a) Improving feelings of trust and agreement among team members to raise morale, and increase teamwork

(b) Creating a dynamic, cohesive, and collaborative team culture to improve individual and team productivity

(c) Improving knowledge and skills of team members to increase their ability to complete project deliverables

(d) All the above

Question Category: Easy

Q9: Omar started to score his project team members, which of the following can be used in the selection criteria to score his team?

(a) Knowledge

(b) Skills

(c) Attitude

(d) All the above

Question Category: Easy

Q10: On your new project, you started to complete your stakeholder register. Which of the following is not considered an Internal Stakeholder?

(a) Portfolio governance body

(b) Program team

(c) Investors

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Moderate

Q11: Which of the following activities is part of the configuration Identification?

(a) Recording the status of proposed changes to the configuration

(b) Ensuring the composition of a project’s configuration items is correct, and that corresponding changes are registered

(c) Selection of a configuration item to provide the basis for which the product configuration is defined and verified

(d) All the above

Question Category: Difficult

Q12: Allan is confused about what is meant by preventive action, how can you help him?

(a) An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan

(b) An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan

(c) An intentional activity that ensures the past performance of the project work is aligned with the project baseline

(d) None of the above

Question Category: Difficult

Q13: Sam is executing the Close Procurements process, which of the following output can result from this process?

(a) Closed procurements

(b) Procurement audits

(c) Claims administration

(d) All the above

Question Category: Moderate

Q14: Omar is using the following tools, Risk probability, and impact assessment, Probability and impact matrix, and Risk data quality assessment. Which of the following processes is Omar executing?

(a) Identify Risks process

(b) Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process

(c) Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process

(d) Plan Risk Responses process

Question Category: Easy

Q15: Sam is confused about the influence of the Enterprise Environmental Factors on the Acquire Project