What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
A project manager has created an issue log to document issues communicated by project team members during weekly team meetings. This is an input of:
Projects are separated into phases or subprojects; these phases include:
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
Which technique is utilized in the Control Schedule process?
Which type of contract is a hybrid of both a cost-reimbursable and a fixed-price contract?
The process for performing variance analysis may vary, depending on:
Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?
The staffing management plan is part of the:
Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?
Which of the following is a tool and technique used to monitor risk?
The correct equation for schedule variance (SV) is earned value:
An input to the Collect Requirements process is the:
Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?
Which process requires implementation of approved changes?
While preparing the project management plan on a weekly basis, the project manager indicates the intention to provide an issues report to the staff via e-mail. In which part of the plan will this type of information be included?
A tool and technique used during the Define Scope process is:
At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?
Which of the following correctly explains the term "progressive elaboration'?
Quality metrics are an output of which process?
Which tool or technique is used in Close Procurements?
Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Define Activities process?
The output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:
Labor, materials, equipment, and supplies are examples of:
Types of internal failure costs include:
Which of the following is an input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process?
Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
How is the schedule variance calculated using the earned value technique?
The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the:
Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?
Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?
Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
As the project progresses, which of the following is routinely collected from the project activities?
Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?
Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:
Which tool and technique is used in Conduct Procurements?
A project has a current cost performance index (CPI) of 1.25. To date, US$10,000 have been spent on performing the project work. What is the earned value of the work completed to date?
During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?
The integrative nature of project management requires which Process Group to interact with the other Process Groups?
Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?
The Define Scope process is in which of the following Process Groups?
Which of the following techniques is used during Control Scope?
What is the function of a Project Management Office (PMO)?
Which group creativity technique asks a selected group of experts to answer questionnaires and provide feedback regarding the responses from each round of requirements gathering?
What is a hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category?
The project manager notes that stakeholders are aware of the project and potential impacts and are actively engaged in ensuring that the project is a success. The engagement level of the stakeholders should be classified as:
Outputs of the Control Communications process include:
The process of identifying and documenting the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables is known as:
When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail using which type of estimating?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Which of the following is an output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?
The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500.What is the actual cost of the project?
What type of reward can hurt team cohesiveness?
While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery. What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
What cost control technique is used to compare actual project performance to planned or expected performance?
Which Process Group's purpose is to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes?
Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?
Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
Project deliverables that have been completed and checked for correctness through the Control Quality process are known as:
An issue log is an input to which Project Human Resource Management process?
Organizational process assets, a lessons-learned database, and historical information are all inputs to which process?
Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
Which type of graphic is displayed below?
Project Stakeholder Management focuses on:
Correlated and contextualized information on how closely the scope is being maintained relative to the scope baseline is contained within:
When the business objectives of an organization change, project goals need to be:
An output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:
Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
Which process is usually a rapid and cost-effective means of establishing priorities for Plan Risk Responses?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The total float for the project is how many days?
The zero duration of milestones in project planning occurs because milestones:
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
In the Define Activities process, the schedule management plan is used to:
Analytical techniques are a tool and technique of which process in Project Procurement Management?
Outputs of the Control Communications process include:
The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:
Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?
Which items are components of a project management plan?
Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?
What are the Project Procurement Management processes?
Which item is an output of Plan Quality Management and an input to Perform Quality Assurance?
An output of the Validate Scope process is:
Which input provides suppliers with a clear set of goals, requirements, and outcomes?
Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:
An input to Develop Project Charter is a/an:
Reserve analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?
In a project, total float measures the:
The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action is known as:
Sensitivity analysis is typically displayed as a/an:
The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information become available is known as:
Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:
The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:
Which grid shows which resources are tied to work packages?
An input to Close Project or Phase is:
Which process involves developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?
Enterprise environmental factors are an input to which process?
An input to the Manage Project Team process is:
Which conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?
Change requests are processed for review and disposition according to which process?