A contract cannot contain _____________.
Who is responsible for issuing the project charter?
If a project with a CPI of 1.2, what you tell?
The activity that is most concerned with the current status of the project schedule is called ___________.
You are the project manager of the MKTG Project. The project has a budget of $200,000 and is expected to last 2 years. The project is now 20 percent complete and is on schedule. What is the BAC?
You are the project manager of a project. Your project just went into integration mode. This means that your project __________.
What are common types of cost-reimbursable contracts?
Your project team is composed of team members in three countries plus a contractor team in a fourth country. What tool would optimize communication?
______________ provides details about how the project scope may be changed.
Which of the following is an output of Verify Scope?
Cost benefit analysis, scorecard modelling, payback periods, and internal rate of return are examples of ____________.
A Risk Register is a part of the ________.
Assumptions are factors that, for planning purposes, are considered to be ______.
In PMBOK, the buyer is ________ to the project team.
Which type of network diagram allows you to depict four types of dependencies (finish-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-start, and start-to-finish)?
When you are developing the estimates for project, you choose in a mathematical model to predict estimate. What type of estimation method are you using?
Which monitoring or controlling activities would not result in preventive action being applied?
You are project manager of a project and you are offering an estimate that you know will be changed after the contract is signed is ___________.
Who has the responsibility for informing the final deliverable to all stakeholders?
The project management plan:
Delivery dates and availability of resources can be found in the details of the __________.
You have been with the organization; you constantly hear rumours about a certain CAPM failing to live up to the CAPM Code. What you should do?
_______ is the road map for the execution of the project.
The process to change a contract clause is _______ the project change control system.
18 You are the project manager of a software company. As software development can be very chaotic, your company has decided to follow a more rigorous approach to software development. Specifically your company has chosen to adopt the extreme programming XP methodology for your current software project. The XP methodology is highly iterative, and produces numerous deliverables include UML diagrams, architecture diagrams, prototypes and test-cases. Assume you are in the Sequence Activities phase of the project. Which of the following sequencing methods should you use to identify the logical relationships between tasks, so that the activities can be sequenced correctly?
The MOST important selection criterion to select a project manager for a large project in a technical industry is:
The Person primarily responsible for the quality of deliverables is the.
The cost effective rule for shortening a project is to crash the:
A project Control Scope system is documented during the ______ process.
As a project manager, you know that the most important activity to ensure customer and stakeholder satisfaction is which of the following?
After preparing a probability distribution of cost outcomes for a project, the estimate with a 20% probability of being exceeded is approximately one standard deviation:
Developing alternative activity sequences is an example of:
During project integration activities, a project sponsor's role can best be described as doing which one of the following?
Your project is moving ahead of schedule. Management elects to incorporate additional quality testing into the project to improve the quality and acceptability of the project deliverable. This is an example of which one of the following?
All of the statements regarding control accounts and planning packages are true EXCEPT:
To verify if the scope of the project is being met (Verify Scope), it is necessary to:
Which of the following are not essential for project close out ?
A primary function of the change control board is to:
You are the project manager and are considering recommending a project that costs $280,000; expected inflows are $10,000 per quarter for the first two years and then $25,000 per quarter thereafter. What is the payback period?
Comparing actual to baseline schedules, examining the statement of work, understanding cost overruns, and assessing risk; all occur during a:
A project is considered successful when
You have been assigned to a project where the objective is to create a new building. You are in charge of the demolition phase of this project, and you report to the project manager in charge of this project. You have been hired on contract and will be released at the completion of the demolition phase. What type of organizational structure you are working for?
What type of organizational structure usually experiences the MOST team nervousness at project close-out?
The stakeholder's influence is greatest at the ______ of the project.
With respect to earned value analysis, which of the following is the value of work actually completed?
Random variance in a process, as measured by the standard deviation can be directly reduced by:
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding various Activity Scheduling tools?
________ must be measured regularly to identify variance from the plan.
Which of the following is not a process of Project Communications Management?
Employees in a balanced matrix often report to two or more managers. Functional managers and project managers share authority and responsibility for projects.
The receiver filters messages based on all but the following:
The process of monitoring specific project results to determine if they comply with relevant quality standards is called _______________.
Under what circumstances is it better for a contractor to subcontract?
Which of the following is true concerning evaluation criteria?
A contingency plan is ______________.
Which of the following statements concerning compromise as a conflict resolution is false?
A cost-plus-incentive-fee (CPIF) contract has an estimated cost of $150,000 with a predetermined fee of $15,000 and a share ratio of 80/20. The actual cost of the project is $130,000. How much profit does the seller make?
The concept that it is easier and less costly to do the work right the first time is called _______________.
Mathematical models using linear, dynamic, integer, or algorithm models are considered _____________.
A leadership style in which the project manager shares problems with team members and formulates solutions as a group is called ____________.
Which of the following is not a process of project human resource management?
Which of the following is a method for quantifying qualitative data in order to minimize the effect of personal prejudice on source selection?
Which of the following is not an input into organizational planning?
Which of the following is true regarding NPV?
Which of the following statements is false?
Which of the following statements concerning bottom-up estimating is true?
Project Risk Management includes all of the following processes except ______________.
A schedule activity may start 5 days before the predecessor activity finishes. This is an example of ______________.
Which of the following statements concerning acceptance sampling is false?
During the execution phase, a resource is added to the project team. What effect will this have on the project?
Who is the person responsible for obtaining funding for a new project's conceptual study?
___________ must be measured regularly to identify variance from the plan.
The communications management plan is primarily dependent on the ____________.
Techniques for conducting product analysis include:
Which of the following is a method for quantifying qualitative data in order to minimize the effect of personal prejudice on source selection?
Which of the following are not functions of the project kick off meeting?
A Strong Matrix is _____.
The principle states that "Employees who believe that their efforts will lead to effective performance and who anticipate important rewards for their accomplishments become productive stay productive." This principle illustrates which of the following theory?
Which of the following is not a process of Project Communications Management?
Which of the following is not an input into organizational planning?
Decomposition is ___________.
The party that needs the change resulting from the project, and who will be its custodian on completion is the _______.
Which of the following is part of the expectancy theory of motivation?
A cost management plan is ______________.
What impact does a matrix organization have on project team development?
80% of the problems are found in 20% of the work is a concept of ___________.
Formal acceptance by the client or sponsor of the project should be prepared and distributed during which of the following process?
Which process involves coordinating people and other resources to carry out plan?
A series of consecutive points on the same side of the average is called ____________.
Estimated at Completion is determined by ___________.
The independence of two events in which the occurrence of one is not related to the occurrence of the other is called _______.
The most effective method in developing a project team within a matrix organization is to follow the ________.
Which process is not included in the Project Time Management process?
Inputs of Develop Project Team include all EXCEPT:
Project risk is defined as the cumulative effect of chances of ________ which will adversely affect project objectives.
A Project Cost Management Plan is created as a part of:
In which type of organization, a project manager is in complete control of the project?
Which of the following is NOT output of Qualitative Risk Analysis ?
Dummy relationships or dummy activities can be used in which Sequence Activities technique ?
A Trend Analysis is best described as:
The process that is not a part of time management is:
Change requests should be ______ ?
The process of identifying and defining a product or a service is called:
Risk event is the description of what may happen to the _____ of the project.
What are you likely to see as a project progresses in a schedule with must fix dates and little or no slack?
Which of the following is not a tool or technique for a Source Selection?
Which of the following relationship is used in the Arrow Diagramming Method [ADM] :
A Reserve Analysis involves:
A RAM is:
Contract close out contains:
You have a piece of equipment that was purchased for your project recently for $5,000 and is expected to last 5 years in production. At the end of the five years, the expected worth of the equipment is $2,000. Using the straight-line deprecation, what is the amount that can be written off each year?
Another term for top down estimating is:.