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GIAC GCPM GIAC Certified Project Manager Certification Practice Test Exam Practice Test

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GIAC Certified Project Manager Certification Practice Test Questions and Answers

Question 1

Tom is the project manager for his organization and he's creating a project network diagram for this project. He has created his project network diagramming with the consideration of the availability of project resources. What network diagramming approach has Tom used in this example?

Options:

A.

Critical path method

B.

Critical chain method

C.

Activity on the arrow

D.

Fast tracking

Question 2

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Which of the following charts provides a useful framework that helps you in deciding which risks need your attention?

Options:

A.

Gantt chart

B.

Risk probability and impact matrix

C.

Pareto chart

D.

Scatter chart

Question 3

What forecasting method would your project use if your project customer requires an autoregressive moving average for performance forecasting?

Options:

A.

Ensemble forecasting

B.

Judgmental methods

C.

Time series method

D.

Causal/econometric method

Question 4

You are the project manager for your organization and would like to use a time and materials contract for a small project. What must a time and materials contract have to safeguard the project?

Options:

A.

Terms for payment

B.

A not-to-exceed clause

C.

An approved vendor by a leading trade organization

D.

Approval from the project sponsor

Question 5

You are the project manager for your organization and are planning the project work with your project team. You are currently breaking down the project scope into work packages to determine an accurate time and cost estimate. What document are you and the project team creating?

Options:

A.

Project management plan

B.

Work breakdown structure

C.

Code of accounts

D.

Project scope

Question 6

Alan works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He is working on the office renovation project. The office has 200 doors. All doors have to be glassed and painted. Before each door can be painted, the glasses must be fitted in them at least 12 hours before. Alan has arranged these tasks with a finish to start relationship between glassing and painting. What else should Alan do to account for the twelve hours of maintenance time?

Options:

A.

Alan must add twelve hours of lead time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

B.

Alan must schedule all 200 office doors to be glassed first and then schedule all 200 doors to be painted to ensure time for the maintenance.

C.

Alan must add twelve hours of lag time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

D.

Alan must add an intermediary task with duration of twelve hours.

Question 7

Jane works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. She is calculating the estimated activity durations for her project. She is using parameters such as duration, budget, size, weight, and complexity from a previous similar project as the basis for estimating the new project. Which of the following estimate activity duration techniques is she using in the project?

Options:

A.

Expert judgment

B.

Three-point

C.

Parametric

D.

Analogous

Question 8

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are currently working with the project stakeholders to identify risks in your project. You understand that the qualitative risk assessment and analysis can reflect the attitude of the project team and other stakeholders to risk. Effective assessment of risk requires management of the risk attitudes of the participants. What should you, the project manager, do with assessment of identified risks in consideration of the attitude and bias of the participants towards the project risk?

Options:

A.

Evaluate the bias towards the risk events and correct the assessment accordingly

B.

Evaluate the bias through SWOT for true analysis of the risk events

C.

Evaluate and document the bias towards the risk events

D.

Document the bias for the risk events and communicate the bias with management

Question 9

Identify Risks is the process of determining which risks may affect the project. Which of the following are inputs of the Identify risks process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Risk register

B.

Scope baseline

C.

Project documents

D.

Risk management plan

Question 10

Which of the following statements about Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) are true?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

It defines a project and groups the project's discrete work elements in a way that helps to organize and define the total work scope of the project.

B.

It cannot be revised and updated as needed by the project manager.

C.

It provides a framework for detailed cost estimating and control along with providing guidance for schedule development and control.

D.

It is an important project management tool.

Question 11

Which of the following is a formal documentation that indicates the completion of the project or phase and the transfer of the completed project deliverables to the operations group or to the next phase?

Options:

A.

Project handover report

B.

Stakeholder register

C.

Risk register

D.

Project charter

Question 12

Holly is the project manager of the GHH Project. During risk identification and the subsequent risk analysis process she has identified a risk with a high probability and high impact for her project.

She and the stakeholder agree that the project management plan should be changed to eliminate the risk threat entirely. What risk response has Holly used in this instance?

Options:

A.

This is the avoidance risk response.

B.

This is the transference risk response.

C.

This is a scope change and not a risk response.

D.

This is the risk mitigation response.

Question 13

You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves development of a new interface for your existing time management system. You know that developers are available in your organization, and would like to use them. However, your program manager thinks that an outside company needs to be engaged to complete this development. Which of the following will help you to convince your project manager to use the internal resources?

Options:

A.

Expert Judgment

B.

Make or buy analysis

C.

Survey Questionnaire

D.

Issue log

Question 14

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It is an approved time-phased budget that monitors and measures cost performance throughout the project life cycle."

Options:

A.

Cost baseline

B.

Scope baseline

C.

Cost budgeting

D.

Cost estimation

Question 15

Billy is the project manager of the PQW Project and she has an assigned project budget of $655,000. Currently she is 80 percent complete with the project though she was scheduled to be 100 percent done by this date. She has spent $490,000 to date and other than the project schedule, which was delayed because of a vendor, the project is going well. What should Billy report as her schedule performance index for this project?

Options:

A.

1.23

B.

$524,000

C.

.80

D.

100 percent because the vendor caused her lateness

Question 16

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It is a monetary calculation of the quality performance of an organization. It is the monetary figure used by project management personnel in the decision making process."

Options:

A.

Scope creep

B.

Cost of Quality

C.

Cost benefit analysis

D.

Integrated change control

Question 17

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______is the measure of chance that, due to unfavorable events, the planned or budgeted cost of events can be exceeded

Options:

Question 18

Wanda is the project manager for her organization and is creating a checklist for her project team. In this project the team will be installing electrical fixtures throughout an office building and she wants to confirm that the installations will be done correctly each time. Her goal is that the project deliverables will be of quality throughout the project installation process. In what project process will Wanda's team use the checklist?

Options:

A.

Planning quality

B.

Project execution

C.

Quality control

D.

Quality assurance

Question 19

Which of the following processes is used to obtain formal acceptance of the project scope by the stakeholders?

Options:

A.

Expert judgment

B.

Identify risk

C.

Quality control

D.

Verify scope

Question 20

Which of the following is a process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope?

Options:

A.

Control scope

B.

Perform quality control

C.

Identify risk

D.

Plan quality

Question 21

Which of the following are inputs of the Perform Quality Control process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Project management plan

B.

Quality metrics

C.

Quality checklists

D.

Validated changes

Question 22

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It measures the quality objectives of the project. It provides the foundation for measuring and reporting quality performance as part of the performance measurement baseline."

Options:

A.

Cost baseline

B.

Scope baseline

C.

Schedule baseline

D.

Quality baseline

Question 23

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

A ______ is performed to identify successes and failures that warrant recognition in the preparation or administration of other procurement contracts on the project, or on other projects within the performing organization.

Options:

Question 24

How many stages are there in the project life cycle?

Options:

A.

5

B.

6

C.

4

D.

3

Question 25

Alan works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He is working on the office renovation project. The office has 200 doors. All doors have to be glassed and painted. Before each door can be painted, the glasses must be fitted in them at least 12 hours before. Alan has arranged these tasks with a finish to start relationship between glassing and painting. What else should Alan do to account for the twelve hours of maintenance time?

Options:

A.

Alan must schedule all 200 office doors to be glassed first and then schedule all 200 doors to be painted to ensure time for the maintenance.

B.

Alan must add twelve hours of lag time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

C.

Alan must add twelve hours of lead time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

D.

Alan must add an intermediary task with duration of twelve hours.

Question 26

You are the project manager for the NHQ Project. Your project has 76 stakeholders. Two of your key stakeholders, Nancy Smith, the COO, and Chuck Thomas, the CIO, need to contribute information to one another and to you, the project manager, in order for the project to move forward. It comes to your attention that Chuck and Nancy are in disagreement with one another and won't communicate. This disruption has caused your project to come to a standstill. What component of the communication model does this scenario represent?

Options:

A.

Feedback

B.

Barrier

C.

Medium

D.

Noise

Question 27

Which of the following is the delay between tasks that have a dependency?

Options:

A.

Fixed time

B.

Lead time

C.

Mean time

D.

Lag time

Question 28

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

A _______ is a scale of values for the vendors where not all of the values are of the same weight

Options:

Question 29

Your project uses a piece of equipment that if the temperature of the machine goes above 450 degree Fahrenheit the machine will overheat and have to be shut down for 48 hours. Should this machine overheat even once it will delay the project's end date. You work with your project to create a response that should the temperature of the machine reach 430, the machine will be paused for at least an hour to cool it down. The temperature of 430 is called what?

Options:

A.

Risk identification

B.

Risk response

C.

Risk event

D.

Risk trigger

Question 30

You work as a Project Manager for PassGuide Inc. You are developing the schedule for your project. Your project deals with the construction of a new building for PassGuide Inc. You want to break the project into small, individual, and manageable components. Which of the following tasks will you perform in the above scenario?

Options:

A.

Create a Gantt chart.

B.

Create WBS.

C.

Create an activity diagram.

D.

Create a PERT chart.

Question 31

Which of the following is the process of monitoring cost performance and controlling changes to the cost baseline?

Options:

A.

Cost control

B.

Bottom-up cost estimation

C.

Cost budgeting

D.

Performance review

Question 32

You are a Project Manager in your organization who is managing a considerably huge budget project to develop new software. Considering the varied nature of your stakeholder group, you would like to put together a plan as to what information the stakeholders need, and how to provide that information. What is the document that you would need, and as part of which process group would you achieve this?

Options:

A.

Communications Management Plan, Execution Process group

B.

Project Management Plan, Planning Process Group

C.

Communications Management Plan, Planning Process Group

D.

Project Management Plan, Initiating Process Group

Question 33

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

The______ defines the period in which, during the development of the project scope statement, a clear and very thorough project scope statement narrative is documented.

Options:

Question 34

Which of the following are inputs of the perform quality assurance process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Change requests

B.

Quality metrics

C.

Work performance information

D.

Project management plan

Question 35

Which of the following documents is described in the statement below?

"It is an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do an act which is enforceable in the court of law."

Options:

A.

Risk register

B.

Contract

C.

Project calendar

D.

Resource calendar

Question 36

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to improve the competencies and interaction of team members to enhance project performance. Which of the following processes will help you to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Manage Project Team

B.

Acquire Project Team

C.

Develop Project Team

D.

Develop Human Resource Plan

Question 37

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are performing steps to carry out and finish the project according to the measures drawn through the planning stage. Which of the following stages of the project are you working on?

Options:

A.

Monitoring and controlling

B.

Closing

C.

Initiation

D.

Execution

Question 38

Which of the following types of organizational structures represents a hierarchy where every member has one leader and the employees are grouped by the area of expertise?

Options:

A.

Matrix

B.

Functional

C.

Jury

D.

Projectized

Question 39

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are performing a task to generate a hierarchical list of resources related by function and resource type that is used to facilitate planning and controlling of project work. Which of the following components of project management will you use to accomplish the above task?

Options:

A.

PERT chart

B.

RBS

C.

Gantt chart

D.

WBS

Question 40

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to demonstrate how a process performs over time and when a process is subject to special cause variation, resulting in an out-of-control condition. Which of the following Perform Quality Control tools will help you accomplish the above task?

Options:

A.

Control chart

B.

Scatter diagram

C.

Cause-and-effect diagram

D.

Pareto chart

Question 41

Which of the following theories describes the statement below?

"It states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction, while a separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction."

Options:

A.

Herzberg's theory

B.

Ouchi's Theory Z

C.

McGregor's X and Y

D.

Expectancy theory

Question 42

Which of the following elements facilitates people to know large amounts of information as a picture rather than a table of names and numbers?

Options:

A.

Risk register

B.

Stakeholder register

C.

Project charter

D.

Organization chart

Question 43

Gary has identified a project risk that could injure project team members. He does not want to accept any risk where someone could become injured on this project so he hires a professional vendor to complete this portion of the project work. This workaround to the risk event is known as what type of risk response?

Options:

A.

Mitigation

B.

Acceptance

C.

Transference

D.

Avoidance

Question 44

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Which of the following risk response planning techniques will you use to shift the impact of a threat to a third party, together with the ownership of the response?

Options:

A.

Risk acceptance

B.

Risk transference

C.

Risk avoidance

D.

Risk mitigation

Question 45

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. A new project has been proposed to change all keyboards of every computer in your organization. There are 1,600 keyboards that will need to be removed and replaced with wireless keyboards. What document will you first need to start this project?

Options:

A.

Project risk statement

B.

Risk register

C.

Project charter

D.

Contract for new keyboards

Question 46

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______is the best method to achieve the final equitable settlement for all outstanding issues, claims, and disputes

Options:

Question 47

In which of the following process groups is the initial scope defined and are the initial finances committed?

Options:

A.

Executing

B.

Monitoring and controlling

C.

Initiation

D.

Planning

Question 48

Which of the following are outputs of the Plan Quality process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Stakeholder register

B.

Process improvement plan

C.

Quality management plan

D.

Quality metrics

Question 49

Which of the following documents refers specifically to the input output mechanism that serves the purpose of providing a narrative description of the sum of the scope of the project?

Options:

A.

Project charter

B.

Project scope statement

C.

Project WBS

D.

Project WBS dictionary

Question 50

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are in a constant effort to improve business processes, procedures, and operations. Which of the following management techniques are you using for the above task?

Options:

A.

Continual process improvement management

B.

Configuration management

C.

Change management

D.

Risk management

Question 51

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are using the three point estimate to calculate the estimated activity durations for your project. If you have an optimistic estimate of 10 days, a pessimistic estimate of 19 days, and a most likely estimate of 13, which of the following is the expected activity duration for your project?

Options:

A.

16.5

B.

18

C.

17

D.

17.5

Question 52

Which of the following are the prime reasons behind the use of the Critical path method in a project?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

It categorizes the tasks that can be delayed for a while if resources need to be reallocated to catch up on missed tasks.

B.

It determines both the early start and the late start date for each activity in the schedule.

C.

It identifies the tasks that should be completed on time for the whole project to be completed on time.

D.

It is used to describe the maximum length of time needed to complete a project.

Question 53

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______describes the utilization of formal econometric techniques to evaluate the aggregate risk in a financial portfolio

Options:

Question 54

Jeff works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He has to adjust the amount of time between two activities. He wants to delay the start of the second activity by 14 hours. Which of the following scheduling components will Jeff add to the second activity?

Options:

A.

Project slack

B.

Project float

C.

Lag time

D.

Lead time

Question 55

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It means that feedback regarding performance is provided to the person being evaluated from many sources, including superiors, peers, and subordinates."

Options:

A.

360-degree evaluations

B.

Goal review

C.

Team-led project reviews

D.

Organizational performance appraisals

Question 56

You are the project manager of the GYG Project. A new scope change is being considered for your project. You are concerned, however, that the scope change may add costs, risks, and adversely affect the project schedule. What project management process is responsible for evaluating the full effect of a proposed scope change on your project?

Options:

A.

Schedule change control

B.

Scope change control

C.

Change Control Board approval process

D.

Integrated change control

Question 57

Kelly is the project manager for her organization and is managing a project to create new software. In this project some of the project team members have misunderstood the project requirements and have added features to the software that were not requested. Kelly needs to examine the amount of time it took to create these features and determine if the changes should be kept or discarded. What scope control tool and technique would help Kelly determine the magnitude of this variation?

Options:

A.

Variance analysis

B.

Configuration management system

C.

Replanning

D.

Change control system

Question 58

You are the project manager of the NJYO Project and are working with your project team to create the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). This project will span all areas of the matrix organization and your project team doesn't really know the resources from the other departments. Some of the project team members have asked that you excuse them from the WBS when the section of the project scope doesn't apply to them. You tell them 'No'. Why?

Options:

A.

The project team should work on the WBS as a whole even if they cannot contribute.

B.

The creation of the WBS is an example of team building.

C.

You need all the project team members to see that you are in charge of this diverse group.

D.

It would not be fair to the other project team members.

Question 59

Which of the following are outputs of the Develop Project Team process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Team performance assessment

B.

Project management plan

C.

Enterprise environmental factors update

D.

Project staff assignment

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