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Below are the individual test questions, along with the correct response and reason.

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1. If there are 10 people working on a project, how many communication channels are there?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

45 channels If n is the number of people, then there are n*(n-1)/2 communication


channels in the project. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 292]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Communications Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response: BLANK

Incorrect response: 100 channels

Incorrect response: 20 channels


CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: 10 channels

2. If you would like to base your project cost estimate on historical data and statistical analysis,
which cost estimation technique would you use?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Parametric Estimating Parametric estimating is the process of using historical data to


compare against your project to determine a correlation and thereby a
cost estimate for your current project. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 205]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Analogous Estimating

Incorrect response: Vendor Bid Analysis

Incorrect response: Bottom-up Estimating

3. Which of these is not a typical constraint on the project team's personnel options?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Physical location The physical location of individuals might have been a constraint in the
past. With todays technological advances, however, it is simple to work
across countries and time zones using virtual teams. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 271]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Organization structure

Incorrect response: Collective bargaining agreements

Incorrect response: Economic conditions

4. Which of these is not a common type of cost-reimbursable contract?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON


Cost-Plus-Fixed-Time Cost-Plus-Fixed-Time is not a valid type of contract. The other choices
are examples of cost-reimbursable contracts. [PMBOK 5th Edition,
Pages 363, 364]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Procurement Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Cost-Plus-Award-Fee

Incorrect response: Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee

Incorrect response: Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee

5. Tom has been hired by a strict functional organization as a project management expert. John
has been asked to develop various project document templates for the organization. Tom wants to
produce the stakeholder register template as his rst deliverable. Which of the following is not a
typical component of a stakeholder register?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Lessons learned from the past projects Lessons learned from past projects can be consulted by the project
manager whenever needed. These lessons learned are the
organizational process assets. However, this information is not directly
updated in the stakeholder register. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 398]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Initiating

Your response:

Incorrect response: Stakeholder assessment information

Incorrect response: Stakeholder identication information

Incorrect response: Stakeholder classication

6. As a project manager, you are having diculty understanding which tasks each member of your
team is responsible for completing. Additionally, team members do not believe that they are
getting sucient information about the tasks they are working on. What tool would help clarify
these issues?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

RACI chart A RACI chart is a matrix that shows for each task, who is Responsible,
who is Accountable, whom to Consult, and who needs to be kept
Informed. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 262]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Planning
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Your response:

Incorrect response: Network

Incorrect response: Flowchart

Incorrect response: Hierarchical-type organization chart

7. What is the most effective means of resolving issues and conicts?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Face to face meetings Face-to-face meetings allow all of the key players to engage in a
conversation at the same time and are a highly effective
communication tool. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 283]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Email

Incorrect response: Ocial reports

Incorrect response: Telephone conversations

8. What are some of the outputs of the Plan Quality Management process?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Quality Management Plan, Quality Checklists, The Plan Quality Management process is an important process with
and Quality Metrics outputs including the Quality Management Plan, Quality Metrics,
Quality Checklists, Process Improvement Plan and Project Document
Updates. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 232]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Quality Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Quality Management Plan, Process Improvement Plan, and Cost-Benet Analysis

Incorrect response: Quality Management Plan, Design of Experiments, and Benchmarking

Incorrect response: Quality Management Plan, Quality Metrics, and Cost of Quality

9. Which of the following statements is not true about a subproject?



CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

A subproject is the smallest unit of a project A subproject is not necessarily the smallest unit. On very large projects,
and cannot be broken down further. the subproject can consist of a series of even smaller subprojects.
[PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 3]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Framework


Process Group: Initiating

Your response:

Incorrect response: A subproject is a manageable component of a project.

Incorrect response: A subproject may be created from a project depending on human resource skill requirements.

Incorrect response: A subproject can be contracted to an external enterprise or another functional unit in the performing
organization.

10. George is managing a construction project. In a recent stakeholders update meeting, some
serious stakeholder conicts have arisen. George has to escalate these issues to the appropriate
level in the company. Where can he nd details on the escalation process?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Communications management plan Details on the approved escalation process are documented in the
communications management plan. The other choices do not typically
document this information. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 406]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Stakeholders management plan

Incorrect response: Risk register

Incorrect response: Stakeholder register

11. What tool should you use to help identify project risks and their mitigation plans to support the
project schedule?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Risk Register The risk register helps a project manager identify risks and
countermeasures that might impact the schedule. [PMBOK 5th Edition,
Page 327]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Your response:

Incorrect response: Critical Path Method

Incorrect response: Risk and Evaluation Plan

Incorrect response: Schedule Network Analysis

12. Conguration Status Accounting is an activity that is performed as part of which process?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Perform Integrated Change Control Conguration Status Accounting is a key conguration management
activity and is done as part of the Perform Integrated Change Control
process. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 97]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Monitor and Control Project Work

Incorrect response: Close Project or Phase

Incorrect response: Collect Requirements

13. Project risks should include impacts to project:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

schedule, cost, quality or performance Schedule, cost, quality, and performance are typically the key factors
that project risks can affect. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 310]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: schedule only

Incorrect response: cost only

Incorrect response: quality only

14. Which of these is not one of the tools and techniques recommended in the Control Schedule
process?
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Expert Judgment Expert judgment is not used as a tool and technique in the Control
Schedule process since the focus is on current project performance.
[PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 185]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Time Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Performance Reviews

Incorrect response: Modeling techniques

Incorrect response: Schedule compression

15. Nelson is managing a lab construction project. There has been a change in the project
stakeholders' needs and expectations. Nelson has to review his stakeholder management plan and
make the necessary adjustments. Which of the following processes must be started by Nelson?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Control stakeholder engagement Control Stakeholder Engagement is the process from the Monitoring
and Controlling process group that adjusts the stakeholder
management plan. The rest of the choices do not belong to the
monitoring and controlling process group. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page
409]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Identify stakeholders

Incorrect response: Plan stakeholder engagement

Incorrect response: Manage stakeholder engagement

16. During lunch with a project manager from another department, you are told that it is sucient
to adhere to the applicable standards for the project. Regulations are not necessarily applicable to
projects since they are guidelines, and you as the project manager have the option to decide
whether they are applicable. Your own understanding is that:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Standards are guidelines established by Standards are regarded as guidelines developed by a recognized body
consensus and approved by a recognized and established by consensus. In contrast, regulations are government-
body whereas Regulations are mandatory, imposed requirements. For example, building codes are an example of
government-imposed requirements. regulations. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Pages 557, 563]
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Framework


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Standards are mandatory requirements created by the project team whereas Regulations are
mandatory requirements issued by the Government.

Incorrect response: Standards are internally issued guidelines whereas Regulations are government-issued guidelines.

Incorrect response: Both are the same. The usage of the term varies depending on the country in which you operate.

17. The project manager of a software development team for a new credit card product is given a
deadline of November 15 to release a new product targeted at Christmas sales. This is an example
of:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Project constraints Project constraints are factors that limit the project team's options. In
this case, the deadline of November 15 is a hard deadline since it is tied
to the Christmas shopping season. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 124]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: A Critical success factor

Incorrect response: An assumption

Incorrect response: Project scheduling

18. The system which includes the process for submitting proposed changes, reviewing and
approving proposed changes, dening approval levels for authorizing changes, and providing a
method to validate approved changes is the:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Conguration Management System The conguration management system includes the process for
submitting proposed changes, reviewing and approving proposed
changes, dening approval levels for authorizing changes, and
providing a method to validate approved changes. In most application
areas, the Conguration Management System includes the change
control system. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Pages 96, 532]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: Change Control Board

Incorrect response: Approval Plan

Incorrect response: Work Authorization System

19. A project to construct 10 buildings in sequence is estimated to cost $500,000 with a project
timeline of 6 months. During a review after 3 months, the project manager nds that only 4
buildings are ready. The Actual Cost is $200,000. The Schedule Performance Index (SPI) of the
project is:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

0.8 SPI = EV/PV. Earned Value = (4/10)*500,000 = 200,000 since 4


buildings are completed out of 10. Planned Value = (5/10)*500,000 =
250,000 since 5 of 10 buildings were expected to be completed. Hence
SPI = 200,000/250,000 = 0.8. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 219]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: 1.25

Incorrect response: 1

Incorrect response: Cannot be determined since the data is insucient.

20. Mark is the manager of a project to install 600 new desktop computers at a budgeted estimate
of $60,000. He estimates the project duration as 30 days. After 5 days, Mark nds that he had
inaccurately estimated his team's capabilities. His team has now completed the installation of 150
desktops. The Actual Cost is $10,000. What is the Estimate at Completion (EAC)?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

40000 The Budget at Completion (BAC) = $60,000 (given). The Actual Cost
(AC) = $10,000 (given). The Earned value (EV) = (150/600)*60,000 =
$15,000 since 150 desktops have been installed. CPI = Earned Value /
Actual Cost = 15,000/10,000 = 1.5. This is an instance of a typical
situation in the project. The project manager has underestimated the
team's capabilities in his original estimate. The calculation for EAC is:
EAC = BAC/CPI = 60,000/1.5 = 40,000. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 220]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: 45000

Incorrect response: 30000

Incorrect response: 55000

21. Which of these is not a commonly used Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis technique?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Control charting Control charting is not used in the quantitative risk analysis process.
The other choices are valid techniques of the process. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Pages 338, 339]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Expected monetary value analysis

Incorrect response: Sensitivity analysis

Incorrect response: Decision tree analysis

22. Three recommended responses to positive risks are:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

exploit, share, enhance The project can capitalize on positive risks by using one of these four
techniques: Exploit, share, enhance, or accept. [PMBOK 5th Edition,
Page 345]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: share, mitigate, avoid

Incorrect response: exploit, share, extend

Incorrect response: exploit, enhance, mitigate

23. You are gathering information to identify the risks in a project. In order to reach a consensus
among experts, which technique might you apply?
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Delphi technique Delphi technique is a technique used to reach a consensus among


experts. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 324]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Delta technique

Incorrect response: Variance analysis

Incorrect response: Monte Carlo method

24. You are part of the review team of a running project. Which of the various documents dene
how the project is executed, monitored, controlled, and closed?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Project Management Plan The project management plan is one of the major documents in the
project. It describes how a project will be executed, monitored,
controlled, and closed. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 76]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Project Scope Management Plan

Incorrect response: Project Scope Statement

Incorrect response: Project Charter

25. Contractual agreements with unions or other employee groups can require certain roles or
reporting relationships. This is an example of:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

A constraint that limits the HR planning Constraints can limit the exibility of the human resource (HR) planning
process. process. Collective bargaining agreementscontractual agreements
with unions or other employee groupscan require certain roles or
reporting relationships. The project team may not have direct control
over collective bargaining agreements. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 268]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Incorrect response: An assumption

Incorrect response: Mandated Resource planning

Incorrect response: Politics

26. What are the three-point estimates used during the Estimate Activity Duration process?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Most likely, Optimistic, Pessimistic Most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic are the three-point estimates
used during the Estimate Activity Duration process. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 170]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Time Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: High probability, Low probability, Most likely

Incorrect response: Best-case, Worst-case, Mean

Incorrect response: Most likely, Most dangerous, Average

27. You are working on a large project that has been divided into the following phases:
feasibility,
conceptual, design, prototype, and build. You want to use the process groups with these different
phases. What is the recommended approach?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Repeat all of the ve process groups for each Process groups should not be confused with project phases. Each
phase. phase should contain all of the process groups. [PMBOK 5th Edition,
Pages 47, 48, 49]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Framework


Process Group: Initiating

Your response:

Incorrect response: Assign one process group to each phase.

Incorrect response: Eliminate your phase structure and rename each phase with one of the process group names.

Incorrect response: Skip a couple of the process groups since they don't apply to a large project.

28. Rolling wave planning is a form of:



CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Progressive Elaboration Rolling wave is a form of progressive elaboration planning, where the
near-term work is planned in detail and the work for the far future is
planned at a much higher level. As the project progresses, the
subsequent milestones are planned in greater and greater detail.
[PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 152]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Time Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Regressive Elaboration

Incorrect response: Expert Judgment

Incorrect response: Historical Analysis

29. You are managing a project team that is distributed across global locations. You communicate
by email daily and have a status call by telephone once a week. Which of the following statements
is valid?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

The receivers of communication at the remote Nonverbal cues represent a signicant part of communication. In the
location will not be able to pick up nonverbal absence of this element, as project manager, you may need to take
cues and this results in a certain loss in further actions to ensure that communications are being properly
communication. You need to factor this in understood by the remote team. Consider options such as team
your planning. building to improve team cohesiveness and videoconferences on a
regular basis. The other options are invalid since they quote invalid
inferences. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 287]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Communications Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Plan telephonic status calls every day and follow up every email communication with a telephone
call to discuss whether the remote team has understood the task allocation.

Incorrect response: Remote teams are an overhead on the project and should be avoided as far as possible.

Incorrect response: The communication of status reports and work allocation can never be done effectively via email.
Plan for 50% eciency for the remotely located team.

30. Jane is managing a complex process improvement project. There had been a serious conict
between the key project stakeholders recently. Jane was successful in getting this conict
resolved in a timely manner. However, this caused a signicant delay on the project. What must
Jane do next?
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Update the lessons learned documentation The scenario describes neither the root cause behind the conict nor
the nature of the conict. Hence, the choices of transferring the
stakeholders to another group and reviewing the stakeholder
management plan can easily be eliminated. Avoiding conict resolution
in the future could well lead to disaster; this choice can also be
eliminated. It is clear in the scenario that the conict was resolved by
the project manager. The next thing that needs to be done is updating
the lessons learned documentation with the appropriate conict and
resolution details. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 415]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Stakeholder Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Avoid resolving similar conicts in the future

Incorrect response: Transfer these stakeholders to the project resisting stakeholders group

Incorrect response: Review the stakeholder management plan

31. In the past, you have had issues with stakeholders who come back to you a year after you
thought the project was complete. This time, you are going to have the stakeholders sign an
acceptance of deliverables document. This procedure should be included in what project
management plan?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Scope Management Any process that formalizes the acceptance of the deliverables of a
project should be included in the scope management plan. [PMBOK
5th Edition, Page 110]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Change Management

Incorrect response: Quality Management

Incorrect response: Risk Management

32. You are managing a project to lengthen a runway at a major airport. However, after you have
worked on the project for six months and held weekly status meetings, many of your stakeholders
are dissatised with the deliverables, even with a CPI of 1.0 and an SPI of 1.0. Which of the
following phases has probably not been done properly?
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Dene Scope With a CPI of 1.0 and an SPI of 1.0, the project is on time and on
budget, but the stakeholders are dissatised with the deliverables. This
indicates that the Dene Scope phase was not properly done. [PMBOK
5th Edition, Page 120]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Control Scope

Incorrect response: Identify Risks

Incorrect response: Change Management

33. Pierre is a project manager who has just nished a project. This project yielded less than
desirable results. Which of the following is an important activity that Pierre must conduct with key
internal and external stakeholders?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Lessons learned session The correct response is lessons learned sessions. Lessons learned
provide future project teams with information that can increase
effectiveness and eciency of project management. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 104]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Closing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Project party

Incorrect response: Fault-nding session

Incorrect response: 360 degree session

34. You have been asked to provide a reasonably accurate estimatewithout spending much
money creating itfor a project to create material safety data sheets (MSDS) for a chemical
company. This project is similar to one that your company closed last year. You have decided to
gather the project team members from the previous project to discuss and come up with an
estimate for your management team. This is an example of what type of estimating?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON


Analogous Estimating The estimate will use expert judgment (past team members) and data
from a prior project. Not much money should be spent creating the
estimate. This is an example of analogous estimating. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 204]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Expert

Incorrect response: Bottom Up

Incorrect response: Parametric Estimating

35. You have outsourced programming to a company in another country and structural
engineering to a company in a different country. The project does not have the budget to bring all
the teams together, so you will be relying on e-mail, fax, videoconference and chat to work
together. This is an example of:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Virtual Team Any team that does not meet face to face but instead relies on
electronic communications is a virtual team. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page
271]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Global Team

Incorrect response: Cross Functional Global Team

Incorrect response: Diverse Team

36. Lisa is the project manager of a large project. Early on, she identies a number of risks in the
project and wants to prepare for them. Which of the following can be used to transfer project risk?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Insurance contracts Transferring project risk (to a third party) can be done through tools
such as insurance contracts, performance bonds, and warranties.
Changing the project management plan is a form of risk avoidance.
Developing a risk response strategy would imply risk mitigation.
[PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 344]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Your response:

Incorrect response: Develop risk response strategy

Incorrect response: Accept the risk

Incorrect response: Change the project management plan to eliminate risk

37. You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting, where you presented
the requested changes to the employee move project. Five changes were approved but one was
denied. You are now updating the project management plan to incorporate the changes. In which
project management process would this be done?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Direct and Manage Project Work Making changes to the project management plan is part of the Direct
and Manage Project Work process. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 79]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Planning

Incorrect response: Monitor and Control Project Work

Incorrect response: Initiation

38. You have been contracted to build a manufacturing plant in Kuala Lumpur. However, you are
not familiar with the building codes in Kuala Lumpur or Malaysia, so you are reviewing all of their
building codes prior to "turning a shovelful of earth." This is an example of:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Quality planning All types of quality plans, such as building codes, OSHA guidelines, ISO
9000, or company quality plans are examples of Organizational
Process Assets which are inputs to the Plan Quality Management
process. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 234]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Quality Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Project initiation

Incorrect response: Quality assurance

Incorrect response: Quality control


39. You are eight months into a project, and you have been given a new resource, Joe, due to
another employee resigning. After a couple of weeks on the job, Joe states that it isn't clear to him
what exactly he should be accomplishing. While this is disturbing to you as the project manager,
you decide to give him a document that contains detailed descriptions of work packages. What
document did you give him?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

WBS Dictionary The WBS dictionary includes contract information, quality


requirements and technical references. All the other documents would
help this individual but not give him an exact idea of what he needs to
accomplish. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 132]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Project Scope Management Plan

Incorrect response: Activity List

Incorrect response: Project Charter

40. The correct sequence of processes in the Risk management area is:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, Perform The correct sequence is: Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, Perform
Quantitative Risk Analysis and Plan Risk Quantitative Risk Analysis, Plan Risk Responses. Perform Qualitative
Responses Risk Analysis includes methods for identifying risks for further actions
such as Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Plan Risk Responses.
[PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 309]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Risk Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Plan Risk Responses, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

Incorrect response: Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Plan Risk Responses

Incorrect response: Plan Risk Responses, Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

41. Which of the following is similar to a mind map in that it is used to generate ideas that can be
linked to form organized patterns of thought about a problem?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON


Anity diagrams An anity diagram is similar to a mind map in that it is used to generate
ideas that can be linked to form organized patterns of thought about a
problem. The other choices are not similar to mind maps. [PMBOK 5th
edition, Page 245]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Quality Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Control charts

Incorrect response: Histograms

Incorrect response: Scatter chart

42. Your company has been chosen to develop a new line of business for a large insurance
company. This is a large and prestigious project for the company, and you have told senior
management that you will be creating a team meeting room for this project. This is one of the
strategies for:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Collocation In collocation, all the team members are brought together physically,
such as in a team meeting room. Collocation is a highly recommended
project management practice. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 277]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Centralized Team

Incorrect response: Project Control

Incorrect response: Develop Project Team

43. You and your team have been diligently working on a project over the past two years.
Yesterday, you met with the Operations department to turn over the production system to the
Operations team. You came back from the meeting with signed formal documentation stating that
the project has complied with specications and that the deliverables have been ocially turned
over to production for ongoing maintenance. This is an example of:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Project or phase closure documentation Project closure documents consist of formal documentation and the
ocial turnover to Operations. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 104]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Closing
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Your response:

Incorrect response: Contract Closure

Incorrect response: A new project for Operations

Incorrect response: Quality control

44. Which of the following is an approach used to optimize project life cycle costs, save time,
increase prots, improve quality, expand market share, solve problems, and use resources more
effectively?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Value Engineering (VE) Value Engineering is an approach used to optimize project life cycle
costs, save time, increase prots, improve quality, expand market share,
solve problems, and use resources more effectively. [PMBOK 5th
edition, Page 566]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: Project Engineering (PE)

Incorrect response: Cost Engineering (CE)

Incorrect response: Eciency Engineering (EE)

45. In a typical project, in which stage do stakeholders have maximum inuence?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Initial stage Stakeholders typically have the most inuence during the initial stages
of a project. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 40]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Framework


Process Group: Initiating

Your response:

Incorrect response: Middle stage

Incorrect response: Inuence is similar at all stages

Incorrect response: Final stage


46. For the week of July 15, you will be reporting to management that your project has an EV of
$7700 and a PV of $9600. What is the status of your project?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Behind Schedule Your project is behind schedule. You had expected to have $9600
worth of work completed; that is your planned value (PV). However,
you completed only $7700 worth of work; that is your expected value
(EV). Your schedule variance (SV) is computed by the formula SV = EV
PV. Here, SV = $7700 - $9600 = -$1900. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 218]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Cost Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Ahead of Schedule

Incorrect response: On schedule

Incorrect response: Not enough information provided

47. Which of the following is an input to the Develop Project Team process?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Resource Calendars Resource Calendars are inputs to the Develop Project Team process.
[PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 273]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Executing

Your response:

Incorrect response: Resource Requirements

Incorrect response: Resource Conicts

Incorrect response: Resource Breakdown Structure

48. Which of the following correctly depicts the most common order in which the project
management processes are executed?

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Control Quality is done before Validate Scope Validate Scope is primarily concerned with the acceptance of all the
deliverables while Control Quality is primarily concerned with meeting
the quality requirements specied for the deliverables. Control Quality
is performed before Validate Scope. The other responses are incorrect.
Perform Quality Assurance is done before Close Project or Phase.
[PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 134]
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Scope Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling

Your response:

Incorrect response: Perform Quality Assurance is done after Validate Scope

Incorrect response: Validate Scope is done before Control Quality

Incorrect response: Control Quality is done after Close Project or Phase

49. Lynn is the project manager of a project. She creates a structure similar to the Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS). However, instead of being arranged according to the project deliverables, it is
arranged according to the team's existing departments and units. The project activities and work
packages are listed against each existing department. This would be called:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

An Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) is the correct answer. This is
a useful way of listing project activities. An operational department
such as Information Technology or Purchasing can see all of its project
responsibilities by looking at its portion of the OBS. [PMBOK 5th
Edition, Page 261]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Human Resource Management


Process Group: Planning

Your response:

Incorrect response: A Department Breakdown Structure (DBS)

Incorrect response: A Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Incorrect response: A Hierarchical Breakdown Structure (HBS)

50. One of the project team members had a teleconference with a customer representative who
reviewed some of the deliverables and discussed some changes in the product requirements. Your
project team member discusses the changes with you and states that these are necessary for the
project. You agree with the team member's view. As a project manager, you should ensure that:

CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

The changes are documented and they follow All changes should be formally documented in writing. Any changes
the change management process to obtain an that are verbally discussed but undocumented should not be processed
Approved Change request. or implemented. [PMBOK 5th Edition, Page 96]

Knowledge Area / Topic Area: Project Integration Management


Process Group: Monitoring & Controlling
CORRECT RESPONSE REASON

Your response:

Incorrect response: Ask the project team member to go ahead with the changes.

Incorrect response: Summarize the changes and archive your discussion with the team member as a future record.

Incorrect response: Ask the team member to ignore the changes.

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