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26. You are attempting to estimate the resources required to assemble the server racks in the new data center you are building. It has occurred to you that you may be able to compress the schedule if you use power tools instead of hand tools to build the racks and if you employ individuals who have worked on this brand of rack in the past.
Answer-26. C – Explanation- In this scenario, you are looking for alternative ways to compress the schedule by using experienced resources and power tools instead of hand tools. This is an example of alternative analysis.
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Test Paper- III
PMP Test Questions
1.
You are managing telecom project. The contract
awarded to your company is fixed price and is based on some pre-determined
quantities of work to be executed. During execution
you find out that the actual quantities of work that need to be executed
are 20% higher than what has been stated in the contract. What should
you do?
A.
Bill the buyer the additional scope of
work separately without amending the
contract
B.
Collect necessary evidence and request
the buyer to amend the contract with
new quantities
C.
Engage a third-party arbitrator to help
resolve the issue
D.
Sue the buyer for stating wrong
quantities in the contract
2. Good project manager must take communication very
seriously and must be an effective and efficient communicator. Which
of the following is not a important attribute of effective communication?
A.
Clarity on the purpose
B.
Understanding receiver's communications
requirements
C.
Relying on verbal communications
D.
Monitoring communications
3.
Who is primarily responsible for the
dissemination of the approved project
charter and for ensuring that all key stakeholders have a common understanding
of key deliverables of the project and milestones?
A.
Project sponsor
B.
Project team
C.
Project manager
D.
Project client
4.
You manage the construction of a new telecom site at your location. Since
your organization does not have experience deploying the sophisticated transmitter system, you outsourced this to a specialist
organization. PMBOK’s Procurement Management knowledge will
help you successfully administer this deal; however, for the supplier of
the system, all the PMBOK processes will apply since this will be a
complete
project for the supplying organization. Which of the following will
be a common denominator between your project and the supplier projects?
A.
Project management plan
B.
Supply agreement
C.
Project’s scope of work
D.
Budget for the air-traffic control system
5.
At which stage in a project should the
project manager begin to develop effective
stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project lifecycle?
A.
Initiating
B.
Executing
C.
Planning
D.
Monitoring and Controlling
6.
Sahithi has just become the project manager
of a multi-million-dollar construction
project. Sahithi also has an approved project charter that authorizes
him to apply organizational resources to the project. Now, Sahithi wants to take all key stakeholders onboard with the project charter. Where
can Sahithi find a preliminary list of all key stakeholders?
A.
Project charter
B.
Stakeholder register
C.
Project management plan
D.
Risk register
7.
When writing the roles and
responsibilities for team members, you should document
the role, authority, responsibility, and competency for each team member.
Where must you document this information?
A.
Resource management plan
B.
RACI chart
C.
Resource calendar
D.
Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)
8. In which process, project’s financial management reserves
are determined?
A.
Estimate Costs
B.
Determine Budget
C.
Control Costs
D.
Estimate Activity Resources
9.
Which of these is not a component of the
scope baseline that is contained in
the project management plan?
A.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
B.
Requirements documentation
C.
WBS Dictionary
D.
Project Scope Statement
10.
The agile technique of on-demand
scheduling is not suitable when:
A.
Product deliverables can be incrementally
developed.
B.
Project requirements can be decomposed
into smaller chunks that are relatively
similar in size and scope.
C.
Project tasks can be bundled by size and
scope.
D.
The use of a predictive lifecycle is
mandated by the customer.
11.
Project stakeholders are individuals and
organizations who are actively involved
in the project or who have an interest in it. Which of the following
is not an internal stakeholder?
A.
Program Manager
B.
Project Sponsor
C.
Competitor
D.
Project Manager
12.
Project running by Marcelino is behind schedule. He
is planning to crash the project by allowing
overtime to the project team. This approach can bring additional risks
to the project. Which of the following is not a valid risk in this scenario:
A.
The profit margin might decrease.
B.
Risk of employee attrition might
increase.
C.
Risk of errors and/or rework might
increase.
D.
The project’s acceptance criteria might
get updated.
13.
Johanan is managing a complex ERP design
and implementation project. The
project team has recently been hired. It is an enterprise-wide project affecting
many stakeholders. It is very important for each team member to properly
understand and follow the project communication requirements in order
to keep the stakeholders engaged and informed. Which of the following
tools and techniques can Johanan use to ensure that team members
properly understand the project’s communications requirements?
A.
Ground rules
B.
Training
C.
Co-location
D.
Recognition and rewards
14.
You are managing a construction project.
Your company does not specialize
in construction design so you outsourced the construction design
to a third party. You are conducting regular procurement performance
reviews and are dissatisfied. You want to carry out a detailed audit
of the design supplier’s work processes to determine the root cause. Can
you do that?
A.
Yes, it is a good project management
technique advocated by the PMBOK
guide.
B.
Yes, if there is a provision in the
contract allowing work process audits.
C.
No, you are only authorized to perform
quality audits on the delivered products
and not the supplier’s internal work processes.
D.
No, a detailed procurement audit cannot
be performed until you terminate the
contract.
15.
Merita is currently drafting a stakeholder
engagement plan for her new website
development project. Her organization has strict communication guidelines.
Merita wants to ensure that her stakeholder engagement strategy
aligns with the organizational communications guidelines. Where
can she find these guidelines?
A.
Corporate knowledge base
B.
Stakeholder register
C.
Project contract
D.
Lessons learned library
16.
As an experienced PMP, you have found
that running a WBS meeting is tricky
because you need to find a balance between insufficient decomposition
and excessive decomposition. When items are excessively
decomposed, it leads to all the following except:
A.
Breaking the 100 percent rule
B.
Inefficient use of resources
C.
Nonproductive management effort
D.
Decreased efficiency when performing work
17.
Which of the following can NOT be used to
measure business value?
A.
Customer satisfaction
B.
Revenue growth
C.
Market share
D.
Expected monetary value
18. Mark is a project manager for Code
Crashers with a group
of inexperienced programmers that will develop a software package
that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company.
This situation strongly resembles a project his colleague, Paul,
worked on in 2006. If Mark needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude
estimate, what tool or technique should he use?
A.
Parametric Estimating
B.
Bottom Up Estimating
C.
Three-point estimate
D.
Analogous Estimating
19.
Michael is currently working for XYZ Contractors as a quality control manager
for a railway track construction project. National Railways awarded
this cost-plus construction contract to XYZ Contractors a few months
ago. As a contractual requirement, XYZ Contractors has to submit
each completed deliverable for client acceptance. Reviewing project
data, Andy found that the current submission rejection rate is 22 percent.
He conducts a root cause analysis and submits his findings along with
construction process improvement recommendations to the project director.
In this scenario, Michael’s report is an example of:
A.
Work performance data
B.
Raw observations
C.
Work performance information
D.
Work control report
20.
Jing has recently become the project
manager for a project already in execution. Jing has learned the previous project manager did a good job
so far and religiously followed the PMBOK guiding principles. However,
some of the project communications don’t make sense to her. Which
of the project artifacts should Jing refer to in order to determine reasons
for distribution of some reports?
A.
Stakeholder engagement plan and the scope
management plan
B.
Stakeholder engagement plan and the
communications management plan
C.
Scope management plan and the
communications management plan
D.
Scope management plan and the risk
management plan
21.
Which of the following is NOT a knowledge
management tools and
technique?
A.
Networking
B.
Change requests
C.
Knowledge fairs and cafes
D.
Storytelling
22.
Which of the following statements correctly
define the 100 percent rule for
WBS?
A.
The project is only considered complete
once all requirements defined in the
original scope statements have been completed.
B.
The project is only considered complete
once all requirements in the last approved
scope baseline have been completed.
C.
The final deliverables should fully
conform to product requirements; nothing
less, nothing more.
D.
The total of the work at the work package
level should roll up to the higher
levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed.
23.
As part of your resource management plan,
you have created a chart indicating
the number of hours (Y-axis) that a senior programmer will be working
over the months (X-axis) of the project. This is an example of a:
A.
Pareto Chart
B.
Ishikawa Diagram
C.
Resource Histogram
D.
Staff Acquisition Chart
24.
Which of the following is NOT a valid
project schedule presentation format:
A.
Activity list
B.
Activity attributes
C.
Bar chart
D.
Network diagram
25.
Which of the following is a set of
technical guidelines that may be applied
during the design of a product for the optimization of a specific aspect
of the design?
A.
Scope creeping
B.
Rolling-wave planning
C.
Design for X
D.
Scrum master
26. You are attempting to estimate the resources required to assemble the server racks in the new data center you are building. It has occurred to you that you may be able to compress the schedule if you use power tools instead of hand tools to build the racks and if you employ individuals who have worked on this brand of rack in the past.
According
to PMBOK, considering multiple options for estimating is an example
of what type of resource estimating technique?
A.
Top Down Estimating
B.
Bottom Up Estimating
C.
Alternative Analysis
D.
Robust estimating
27.
You have just received an invoice from
your supplier that contains some uncertified
items. Payments to the supplier are processed through your corporate
accounts payable system only after certification of satisfactory work
by the project quality control specialist. What should you do?
A.
Process the supplier’s invoice since this
is your liability
B.
Call the supplier and obtain more
information
C.
Ask the supplier to stop all deliveries
until the matter has a resolution
D.
Seek judicial arbitration
28.
You have recently joined an organization
as the procurements manager. You
have just received an invoice from a contractor. Some of the items from
the invoice are as follows: EV of work completed to date: $50,000. AC
of work completed to date: $40,000. Total costs reimbursed by the buyer
to date: $35,000. If the contract between the buyer and the contractor
is a CPIF contract, what is the total value payable to this contractor?
(Assume that the contract allows for a 10 percent fee over net payable
whenever CPI > 1).
A.
$500
B.
$5,500
C.
$44,000
D.
$55,000
29.
David has been asked to conduct the
feasibility of a new CRM system. So far,
the business has been relying on its traditional manual customer relationship
management processes, but now it is struggling to keep up with
the competition. In this scenario, the business’ requirement of acquiring
a state-of-the-art CRM system to boost its customer relations management
capabilities is an example of:
A.
Business requirements
B.
Functional requirements
C.
Non-functional requirements
D.
Project requirements
30.
During a work breakdown structure
meeting, you have decomposed the deliverables
into work packages and created your WBS dictionary. However,
you now want to decompose the work packages to assist you in
estimating, executing, and controlling the project. These decomposed work
packages are:
A.
Work packages can't be decomposed into
smaller units
B.
Activities
C.
Milestones
D.
Control Accounts
31.
An organization wishes to ensure that the
opportunity arising from a risk with
positive impact is realized. This organization should:
A.
Exploit the risk
B.
Mitigate the risk
C.
Accept the risk
D.
Avoid the risk
32.
Your vice president asked you what the
Estimate at Completion (EAC) will
be for a small project you are working on. You were given a budget of
$30,000, and to date you have spent $20,000 but only completed $10,000
worth of work. You are sure the future work will be accomplished
at the planned rate. What is the EAC?
A.
$40,000
B.
$30,000
C.
$60,000
D.
$10,000
33.
You just sat through an exhausting change
control meeting discussing a change
in scope to the project you have worked on for the past seven months.
After lengthy discussion, the change in scope was approved. As the
Project Manager, you should now update all the following documentation,
except:
A.
Scope Baseline
B.
Requirements documentation
C.
WBS Dictionary
D.
Project charter
34.
You work at a software company that
authors Material Safety Data Sheets
(MSDS) for chemical companies. Prior to releasing the MSDS to the
company, you have created a list of items for review to ensure they appear
in the document. These items include chemical name, CAS#, protection
required, what to do in an emergency, etc. This list is an example
of what type of tool?
A.
Checklist
B.
Process Improvement Plan
C.
Quality Management Plan
D.
Quality Metrics
35.
Agile release planning provides a
high-level summary timeline of the release
schedule based on the project roadmap. Agile release planning also
determines the number of iterations required for the product development.
These iterations are also known as:
A.
Epics
B.
Kanbans
C.
Sprints
D.
Phases
36.
You manage an airport construction
project. Since sophisticated technology
and systems are involved, your project procurements require significant
lead times. Your procurement specialist has recently proposed a
new procurements management process that will significantly reduce these
lead times and result in cost savings for the project. Besides implementing
this new process, what else should you do?
A.
Resell your current inventory at the
purchase price
B.
Shut down the project warehouse
C.
Update the lessons-learned database
D.
Do not include the over-processing costs
37.
Susan is managing an ERP system
deployment project. Due to the complexity
of the project and the number of project stakeholders involved,
she decides to use a multi-criteria decision analysis for reviewing
all change requests. What should be her first step in establishing
this?
A.
Develop a decision matrix
B.
Develop a decision tree
C.
Develop a fishbone diagram
D.
Develop a control chart
38.
Which of the following processes produces
a Risk Register?
A.
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
B.
Plan Risk Management
C.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
D.
Identify Risks
39.
The Risk Register contains details of all
identified risks and their current status.
It is a document containing the results of:
A.
Plan Risk Responses
B.
Identify Risks
C.
Monitor Risks
D.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis,
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis, and
Plan Risk Responses
40.
Crosby is the project manager for a mobile
application development project. Due
to a recent technological development, a significant change in the product
design is required. This change would require a 25 percent increase
in the project budget. Ben prepares a detailed report and emails it
to the project sponsor, and the sponsor acknowledges the receipt of the report.
What should Ben do next?
A.
Update the cost management plan
B.
Update the project budget
C.
Update the project schedule
D.
Wait for the formal approval of the new
budget
41.
You are the project manager responsible
for building a 100,000-squarefoot data
center. One of the scheduled activities in your plan is to install the
Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units. However, before beginning
the installation of the units, a raised floor must be installed for the
units to bolt to. This is an example of what type of dependency?
A.
External
B.
Optional
C.
Discretionary
D.
Mandatory
42.
Daryl wants to assign a risk owner for
every project risk for which a risk
response action is planned. Where must he update this information?
A.
Resource management plan
B.
Risk register
C.
Stakeholder register
D.
Project charter
43.
You are analyzing the risk in a project.
You decide to do a sensitivity analysis
to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project.
You consider using a tool to help compare the relative importance
of variables that have a high degree of uncertainty with those variables
that are more stable. One such tool is:
A.
Beta Distribution
B.
S-Curve
C.
Control Chart
D.
Tornado Diagram
44.
Which of these is accurate regarding the
Develop Schedule process?
A.
Schedules are optimized such that all
noncritical activities have a zero total
float.
B.
The critical path method is a schedule
network analysis technique that is performed
using the schedule model.
C.
Schedule compression shortens the project
schedule while changing the project
scope.
D.
Schedule network analysis is a technique
carried out once the schedule is approved.
45.
You are working as the project manager on
a mega-construction project. You
need to prepare a quarterly report for the project investors. You need
to collect work performance data and convert that into work performance
information. Which of the following processes produces work
performance data?
A.
Direct and Manage Project Work
B.
Control Schedule
C.
Control Costs
D.
Manage Communications
46.
When a project is executed under
contract, the contractual provisions will
generally be considered as _____________ for the project.
A.
Constraints
B.
Exclusions
C.
Deliverables
D.
Provisions
47.
You are the project manager responsible
for building a 100,000-squarefoot data
center. One of the scheduled activities in your plan is to install the
Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units. However, a raised floor
must be installed in the data center before installation of the units can
begin. This is an example of what type of precedence relationship?
A.
Finish to Finish
B.
Start to Finish
C.
Start to Start
D.
Finish to Start
48.
The Manage Team process is part of what
process group?
A.
Planning
B.
Executing
C.
Monitoring and Controlling
D.
Closing
49.
You have a project in which you are
responsible for building a condo complex
in a resort town. The project is expected to take two years to complete.
During your work breakdown structure meeting, you have decomposed
many deliverables into work packages and schedule activities.
However, there are some work packages that will occur a year from
now, so you have elected not to decompose those deliverables and work
packages at this time. This is an example of what tool or technique?
A.
Scope Creep
B.
Poor Planning
C.
Rolling Wave Planning
D.
Time-delayed Decomposition
50.
Pete has recently been assigned as the
project manager for a new shopping
mall construction project. Since the project will span well over five
years, Pete is a bit hesitant to use the current market rates for estimating
construction materials cost. The prices have been steadily increasing
and the current market rates might not remain valid in the future.
Which of the following techniques can Pete apply to determine her
project budget?
A.
Conduct a trend analysis on the cost of
materials and use that to extrapolate
the cost of materials in the future.
B.
Determine the cost of the project using
current market rates and increase the
total budget by some factor.
C.
Compute the Net Present Value of the cost
of materials and use that to determine
the project budget.
D.
Use Rolling Wave Planning to determine
the budget as the project progresses.
Test Paper - III
Answer Key and Explanations
Answer-1. B – Explanation- In this scenario the scope of works has increased
for the contractor. As a first step, the contractor needs to collect necessary
evidence and request for the amendment in the contract. If both parties cannot
settle this amicably, ADR procedures need to be followed.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 492, Project Procurement
Management
Answer-2. C – Explanation- The fundamental attributes of effective
communication include clarity on the purpose, understanding communication needs
and requirements, and monitoring communications.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 363, Project Communications Management
Answer-3. C – Explanation- The project manager is responsible for the
dissemination of the approved project charter. Although, during the development
of the project charter, the participation of the project manager is
recommended, once the project charter is approved, it is the project manager’s responsibility to distribute it to the key stakeholders and ensure
common understanding. This is also mentioned in the PMP examination
content outline as one of the project manager’s task during project
initiation.
Reference: PMI best practice; not explicitly stated in PMBOK, Project Integration Management
Answer-4. B – Explanation- The common denominator should be a document that
is common between the buyer and the supplier, that is the supply agreement. The
rest of the choices are the project artifacts what will be different for each party
since supplier’s scope of work is limited in comparison to the buyer’s scope of
work.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 489, Project Procurement Management
Answer-5. C – Explanation- The project manager starts developing effective
stakeholder engagement strategies early during the project’s planning phase.
This effort is carried out during the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process and the strategies are then documented in the Stakeholder Engagement
Plan.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 516, Project Stakeholder Management
Answer-6. A – Explanation- The project has just been approved and all Andy
has at the moment is the project charter itself. The project charter has a
preliminary list of project stakeholders. Andy can use this list as a starting
point.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 81, Project Integration Management
Answer-7. A – Explanation- Information regarding team roles,
responsibilities, authorities and competencies is documented in the Resource
Management Plan.
Reference: PMBOK 6th Edition, Pages 318, 319, Project Resource Management
Answer-8. B – Explanation- The Management Contingency Reserve is identified
in the Determine Budget process.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 254, Project Cost Management
Answer-9. B – Explanation- Project requirements documentation is used as an
input to define the project's scope baseline. However, the requirements documentation is not a part of the scope baseline.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 161, Project Scope Management
Answer-10. D – Explanation- If the use of a predictive lifecycle is mandated
by the customer, no other project life cycles can be selected. Hence most of
the agile techniques will be inapplicable in those scenarios.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 177, Project Stakeholder Management
Answer-11. C – Explanation- The competitors are affected by the project but
are not actively involved in the project. Competitors are external project
stakeholders.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 550, Project Framework
Answer-12. D – Explanation- Meeting customer requirements by overworking the
project team may result in decreased profits, increased levels of overall
project risks, employee attrition, errors, or rework. The project’s acceptance
criteria should not get updated as a result of crashing.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 273, Project Quality Management
Answer-13. B – Explanation- All of the choices look correct at the first
glance. However, the question is specifically asking for a technique that will
raise the awareness of the communication requirements. Training is the ideal tool
for increasing the awareness of the team members.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 342, Project Communications Management
Answer-14. B – Explanation- Inspections and audits required by the buyer and
supported by the supplier, if specified in the procurement contract, can be
conducted during execution of the project to verify compliance in the seller’s
work processes or deliverables.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 498, Project Procurement
Management
Answer-15. A – Explanation- Merita is looking for the organizational policy on
project communications. This is a part of the organizational process assets
which are stored in corporate knowledge bases.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 520, Project Stakeholder Management
Answer-16. A – Explanation- Excessive decomposition can lead to inefficient
use of resources, decreased efficiency and non-productive management efforts.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Pages 160, 161, Project Scope Management
Answer-17. D – Explanation- An increase or decline in Business Value that an
action produces is traditionally measured in terms of Customer Satisfaction,
Revenue Growth, Profitability, Market Share, Wallet Share, Cross-Sell Ratio, Marketing
Campaign Response Rates, or Relationship Duration. Expected monetary value is
the product of an event's probability of occurrence and the gain or loss that will result. EMV is used for managing risks and not measuring business value.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Pages 7, 435, Project Integration Management
Answer-18. D – Explanation- Analogous estimating is the correct choice. This
technique relies on parameters from a similar previous project and is a gross
value estimating approach. It is also generally less accurate.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 200, Project Cost Management
Answer-19. C – Explanation- The data on rejections is the project performance
data. Andy analyzed it and converted it into work performance information, i.e.
reasons for rejections and recommendations.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 26, Project Quality Management
Answer-20. B – Explanation- The reason for information distribution are
documented both in stakeholder engagement plan and communications management
plan. Jing should refer to both of these plans.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Pages 377, 522, Project Stakeholder Management
Answer-21. B – Explanation- Change request is a change management tool and
not a knowledge management tool. The other choices are valid examples of
knowledge management tools.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 103, Project Framework
Answer-22. D – Explanation- The WBS represents all product and project work,
including the project management work. The total of the work at the lowest
levels should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra
work is performed. This is called the 100 percent rule.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 161, Project Integration
Management
Answer-23. C – Explanation- Resource histogram is a bar chart showing the
amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time
periods.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Pages 719, Project Resource Management
Answer-24. B – Explanation- Activity attribute is not a valid project
schedule presentation format while the rest of the choices are.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 176, Project Quality Management
Answer-25. C – Explanation- Design for X is a set of technical guidelines
that may be applied during the design of a product for the optimization of a
specific aspect of the design. Other choices are either invalid or do not
relate to product design.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 295, Project Stakeholder Management
Answer-26. C – Explanation- In this scenario, you are looking for alternative ways to compress the schedule by using experienced resources and power tools instead of hand tools. This is an example of alternative analysis.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 699, Project Schedule Management
Answer-27. B – Explanation- The supplier could have sent the invoice by
mistake or some other reason. The first step is to clarify the matter with the
supplier. You must call the supplier and obtain more information before you
take any other step.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 498, Project Procurement Management
Answer-28. B – Explanation- Since this is a CPIF (Cost plus incentive fee)
contract, the fee is calculated as a percentage of the actual cost provided
that the CPI is greater than 1. In this case CPI is greater than one (i.e. CPI
= 1.25) and hence 10% fee is applicable on the total cost reimbursable. AC is
$40k out of which $35k has already been reimbursed. Hence total cost reimbursable is $5k. The total payable in this case is $5k x 1.1 =
$5,500.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 472, Project Procurement Management]
Answer-29. A – Explanation- Business requirements describe the higher-level
needs of the organization as a whole, such as the business issues or
opportunities. Other choices are much lower level requirements.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 148, Project Framework
Answer-30. B – Explanation- Activities represent the effort needed to
complete a work package and are an output of the Define Activities process.
During this process, the work packages are further decomposed into project
activities.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 185, Project Schedule Management
Answer-31. A – Explanation- Five strategies to deal with risks with
potentially positive impacts on project objectives are to escalate, exploit,
share, enhance, or accept the risk. An exploit strategy ensures that the opportunity
is realized.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 444, Project Risk Management
Answer-32. A – Explanation- If the future work will be accomplished at the
planned rate, then the Estimate at Completion (EAC) will be AC+BAC-EV. Budget
at Completion (BAC) is $30,000, Earned Value (EV) is $10,000, and Actual Cost (AC) is $20,000. Hence, the EAC is $40,000.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 267, Project Cost Management
Answer-33. D – Explanation- It is the project scope statement and not the
project charter that should be updated. The project charter contains only the
high-level requirements and high-level project description. All of the other documents listed in the other choices should also be updated.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 81, Project Scope Management
Answer-34. A – Explanation- The scenario describes a checklist that someone
would use to review the document prior to its release.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 292, Project Quality Management
Answer-35. C – Explanation- Agile release planning determines the number of
iterations required for the product development known as sprints.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 216, Project Stakeholder Management
Answer-36. C – Explanation- Sharing lessons learned information on mistakes, innovations
and outcomes from projects can have a positive impact on your next project. The
procurement specialist came up with a cost- and time-saving technique and this
will prove to be valuable for future projects. Reference: PMBOK 6th
edition, Page 484, Project
Integration Management
Answer-37. A – Explanation- The Multi-criteria decision analysis uses a
decision matrix to provide a systematic analytical approach to evaluate the
requested change according to a set of predefined criteria. The other choices
are either quality or risk management tools.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 119, Project Quality Management
Answer-38. D – Explanation- The risk register is an output of the Identify
Risks process.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 409] [Project Risk Management]
Answer-39. D – Explanation- The Risk Register contains the results of the
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis, and Plan
Risk Responses processes. It details all identified risks, including
description, category, cause, probability of occurring, impact(s) on
objectives,
proposed responses, owners, and current status.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Pages 419, 428, 449, Project Risk Management
Answer-40. D – Explanation- Acknowledgement of a message does not necessarily
mean agreement with or comprehension of the message. Ben should wait for a formal
approval of the budget before taking any action. Reference: PMBOK 6th
edition, Page 113, Project
Communications Management
Answer-41. D – Explanation- This is an example of a mandatory dependency,
since the units will be bolted to the raised floor.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 191, Project Schedule Management
Answer-42. B – Explanation- The assigned risk owners are documented in the
risk register.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 413, Project Risk Management
Answer-43. D – Explanation- A tornado diagram is useful for comparing the
relative importance of variables that have a high degree of uncertainty with
those that are more stable.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 434, Project Risk Management
Answer-44. B – Explanation- The accurate statement regarding the Develop
Schedule process is that the critical path method is a schedule network analysis
technique that is performed using the schedule model. The other statements are
not accurate.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 209, Project Schedule Management
Answer-45. A – Explanation- 40. A
- Although the scenario of the question is broad, the question specifically
asks about the process which produces work performance data. In other words,
what is being asked is “work performance data” is output of which of the given
processes. The correct answer is Direct &
Manage Project Work process.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 90, Project Integration Management
Answer-46. A – Explanation- When a project is performed under contract, the
contractual provisions are generally considered as constraints for the project
as they are the limiting factors.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 42, Project Scope Management
Answer-47. D – Explanation- The successor activity, in this case the
installation of the CRAC units, cannot begin until the raised floor in the data
center is completed (because the units need to sit on the raised floor).
Therefore, this is an example of a finish-to-start relationship.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 190, Project Schedule Management
Answer-48. B – Explanation- The Manage Team process is part of the Executing
process group.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 25, Project Resource Management
Answer-49. C – Explanation- The correct answer is rolling wave planning.
Rolling wave planning is a form of progressive elaboration and is used when the
project management team does not have enough information for a phase or deliverable
that will occur far into the future.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 160, Project Scope Management
Answer-50. A – Explanation- Conduct a trend analysis on the cost of materials
and using that to extrapolate the cost of materials in the future is the best
response. Trend analysis is used to forecast future based on past results. This
is most probably the only choice available to Pete if she is required to
determine the project budget today. Other choices are incorrect as they can’t
produce better results.
Reference: PMBOK 6th edition, Page 111
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