Question No.

:1
Selected Choice:

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a project?

1 Constrained by limited resources

2 Planned, executed, and controlled
3 Creates a unique product or service
4 Ongoing and repetitive
Question No.:2
Selected Choice:

In your project, you create a document to record the code of account identifier, description of work,

responsible organization, and schedule milestones. This document can be referred to as:

1 WBS
2 WBS dictionary
3 PERT/CPM charts
4 Roles and responsibilities matrix
Question No.:3
Selected Choice:

In which document will you find the code of account identifier, description of work, responsible

organization, and list of schedule milestones?

1 WBS
2 WBS Dictionary
3 PERT/CPM Charts
4 Roles and Responsibilities Matrix
Question No.:4
Selected Choice:

The project manager has created the project schedule. In this context, which of the following

activities would the project manager NOT use schedule control for?

1 Influencing the factors that create schedule changes

2 Determining if the project schedule has changed
3 Determining planned start and finish dates for project activities
 4 Managing actual schedule changes as they occur
Question No.:5
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, in approximating costs, you consider the possible causes of variation

of the cost estimates, including risks.

For your project, which is in the initiation phase, your team has suggested a rough order

of magnitude estimate. This could be in the range of:

1 -75% to +90%
2 -25% to +75%
3 -10% to +25%
4 -5% to +10%
Question No.:6
Selected Choice:

You are working for a semi-conductor company. There have been several instances

in the past week when a few circuits have not been giving accurate results.

You have been assigned the task of determining the probable cause for the variations.

Which tool would you use?

1 Control Chart
2 Ishikawa Diagrams
3 Pareto Diagrams
4 Inspection
Question No.:7
Selected Choice:

Which of the following statements about the project management team and the

project team is inaccurate?

1 The project management team is also called the core, executive, or leadership team.
2 The project team is responsible for activities like planning, controlling, and closing.
3 The project management team is a subset of the project team.
4 For small projects, the project management responsibilities are shared by the entire team or
by the project manager.
Question No.:8
Selected Choice:

You have recently assumed charge of a project from another project manager.

You want to know what kind of information you should provide to different stakeholders

and what methods to adopt for this purpose. You will find this information in the:

1 Communications management plan

2 Performance reports
3 Project records
4 Communications plan
Question No.:9
Selected Choice:

In your project, you are creating a diagram that describes the decision under consideration

and implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. This will help to:

1 Get a qualitative analysis of the risk

2 Determine which risks may have the most impact on the project
3 Translate the uncertainties at a detailed level into potential impact on objectives
expressed at the level of the total project
4 Determine which decision yields the greatest expected value
Question No.:10
Selected Choice:

A contract obligates the seller to provide the specified product and obligates

the buyer to pay for it. In this context,

which of the following is a mandatory feature of a contract?

1 Mutually binding
2 Complicated
3 Very detailed statement of work
4 Signatures of senior leadership of the buyer
Question No.:11
Selected Choice:

The responsibility of stakeholder expectations management usually lies with the:

1 Project management team

2 Project manager
3 Project team
4 Project manager, project sponsor, and project management team
Question No.:12
Selected Choice:

In an automobile company in which you are the project manager,

the allowable standard deviation for a product to be delivered by the contractor

is less than 0.002 inches. However, product testing has revealed that the actual

deviation is slightly more than 0.002 inches.

You believe that the variation from the permissible deviation is negligible. In this case, you must:

1 Allow the product, since deviation from the company standards is small.
2 Document the low quality level of the product, ask the contractor for an explanation,
and find a solution.
3 Reject the product outright.
4 Allow the product this time, but mentor the contractor to be more quality conscious
henceforth.
Question No.:13
Selected Choice:

In a kick-off meeting for your project, you provided information to your team members

about the different process groups to be followed in the project. According to PMI,

which are the project management process groups?

1 Conceptualizing, Initiating, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing

2 Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing
3 Initiating, Verifying, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing
4 Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Administrative Closure
Question No.:14
Selected Choice:

In your project, you are in the process of leading and performing the work defined

in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the

project`s objectives. This is done during:

1 Direct and Manage Project Work

2 Develop Project Management Plan
3 Monitor and Control Project Work
4 Create Deliverables
Question No.:15
Selected Choice:

You are a project manager in a large software development organization. It is a primary

objective in your company to deliver quality products, with a low rate of errors and a high

product acceptance rate by your customers. The company has made significant

investments in a robust system to support these corporate objectives and goals.

When developing contracts for software development projects, it is standard that the

customer is required to follow rigorously defined processes for user acceptance

testing which must be conducted each time a module is completed.

The customer is also required to notify the project manager,

in writing, that the software module was tested and whether it was acceptable or not.

This user acceptance testing, and the resulting notification is part of which process?

1 Control Scope
2 Collect Requirements
3 Validate Scope
4 Perform Quality Assurance
Question No.:16
Selected Choice:

You are taking over a project that is currently in the planning stage. The previous

project manager worked with the team to finalize the process of defining activities,

and you joined the team at the end of this process. The next process requires

the determination and documentation of the relationships among project activities.

Of the following, which is a tool and technique used in this process?

1 Schedule Baseline
2 Dependency Determination
3 Activity List
4 Schedule Compression
Question No.:17
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you are estimating the costs required to complete the project activities.

In this context, which of the following tools or techniques cannot be used?

1 Analogous estimating
2 Vendor bid analysis
3 Historical relationships
4 Cost of quality
Question No.:18
Selected Choice:

You are managing the tools/spare parts section for an aircraft manufacturing company.

Your team members have discovered some defective tools/spare parts.

The probable cause for these could be materials used, defective measurement systems,

inaccurate tolerances in the machines, or other factors. To determine what caused the defect,

you will:

1 Use a control chart

2 Draw an Ishikawa diagram
 3 Create a flowchart
4 Draw a Pareto chart
Question No.:19
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you are interested in the personal activities of team members.

Other than working with you on the project, the team members love to go out with

you for lunch or play an occasional game of golf. The power that you have over

the team members is:

1 Penalty power
2 Expert power
3 Legitimate power
4 Referent power
Question No.:20
Selected Choice:

In your project, you have drawn up the project management plan and identified the various

stakeholders. You are ready to distribute information to stakeholders as planned.

Which of the following inputs will you use for this purpose?

1 Work Performance Reports

2 Deliverables
3 Requested changes
4 Information methods
Question No.:21
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you are concerned with determining which risks may affect the project.

What is the process by which such risks are determined?

1 Plan Risk Management

2 Identify Risks
3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
4 Plan Risk Responses
Question No.:22
Selected Choice:

In your project, you are entering into a fixed-price contract in the form of a purchase order.

The contract is for a specified item to be delivered by a specific date for a specified price.

In the contract, the profit is:

1 Determined by the buyer during contract sign-off

2 Determined by the seller during contract sign-off
3 Provided by the buyer to the seller at the end of the project if defined performance
criteria are met
4 Not known at the time of the contract sign-off
Question No.:23
Selected Choice:

You, as the project manager, are planning to document relevant information on interests,

involvement, influence, and impact of project stakeholders.

Which of the following processes should you follow?

1 Stakeholder Analysis
2 Plan Communications Management
3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
4 Identify Stakeholders
Question No.:24
Selected Choice:

Which of the following is not approved by PMI as part of the PMI Code of Ethics

and Professional Conduct?

1 Satisfying scope and objectives of professional services

2 Refusing to accept gifts under any circumstances
3 Maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information
4 Reporting a violation of PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to PMI
Question No.:25
Selected Choice:

You are managing the release of a new drug in the market. Your role is that of a:

1 Functional Manager, because you have good functional knowledge of the

pharmaceutical industry
2 Project Manager, because you are creating a unique product within specific time
schedules
3 Operations Manager, because you have to do several repetitive tasks
4 Program Manager, because you have to manage several projects to do your
job effectively
Question No.:26
Selected Choice:

You are preparing a document using project statement of work, business case, agreements,

enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets. These are valid inputs for:

1 Develop Project Management Plan

2 Direct and Manage Project Work
3 Develop Project Charter
4 Perform Integrated Change Control
Question No.:27
Selected Choice:

In your project, you use product analysis to translate high-level product descriptions into

tangible deliverables and requirements. Which of the following techniques is not used in

product analysis?

1 Value engineering
2 Value analysis
3 Product breakdown
4 Alternatives identification
Question No.:28
Selected Choice:

You are taking over a project during the planning stage. You have managed to identify five

tasks to be completed during the project. Please refer to the table given below:

What is the length of the critical path in months?

1 12
2 10
3 11
4 14
Question No.:29
Selected Choice:

In your company, payback period is primarily used as the decision criterion for project selection.

Payback period is the:

1 Number of years a company takes to get back the invested amount

2 Discount rate on an investment that makes present value of all cash inflows equal
to present value of all cash outflows
3 Duration in which the project gets completed
4 Number of years a company takes to make profits equal to the amount invested
Question No.:30
Selected Choice:

Quality management complements project management, as both recognize the importance of:

1 Exceeding customer expectations using additional features

2 Providing customer satisfaction
3 Decreasing total scope of ownership of the project
4 Decreasing risks associated with outsourcing
Question No.:31
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you want to have an appropriate recognition and rewards system to

encourage better performance and reinforce desired behavior. Which of the following

statements on recognition and rewards system is incorrect?

1 Recognition and reward systems should promote or reinforce desired behavior.

2 Recognition and rewards should consider cultural differences.
3 Recognition for team members who work extra hours on the weekends.
4 Give the team recognition throughout the life cycle of the project rather than wait
until the project is completed.
Question No.:32
Selected Choice:

In your project, you are monitoring and controlling communications throughout the entire

project life cycle to ensure the information needs of the project stakeholders are met.

The information typically provides status and progress information on the project

at the level of detail required by the various stakeholders. This is done through:

1 Plan Communications Management process

2 Control Communications process
3 Manage Communications process
4 Earned Value management
Question No.:33
Selected Choice:

In your project, you have identified important risks and planned appropriate responses

to the risks. Some risks, such as the possibility of natural disasters impacting the project,

have been documented and accepted in the risk register. What are the remaining risks called?

1 Unidentifiable Risks
2 Residual Risks
3 Secondary Risks
4 Accepted Risks
Question No.:34
Selected Choice:

Which of the following is a hybrid type of contractual arrangement?

1 Time and material contracts

2 Fixed-price contracts
3 Cost-reimbursable contracts
4 Fixed price with redetermination
Question No.:35
Selected Choice:

In your project, you actively manage stakeholders engagement in order to meet their

needs and expectations. Doing this is very beneficial, however, it may not help to:

1 Increase the likelihood of stakeholders` acceptance of the project goals

2 Influence and negotiate expectations of stakeholders to achieve project goals
3 Ensure stakeholders` awareness of all project details
4 Uncover and discuss stakeholder issues and concerns
Question No.:37
Selected Choice:

Your company is responsible for developing an anti-virus software. You are responsible

for managing both the individual product releases and the coordination of multiple releases.
 Your role is that of a:

1 Program manager
2 Project manager
3 Functional manager
4 Operations manager
Question No.:38
Selected Choice:

You are a project manager. You have received a request from the stakeholders to provide more

features to the product. Which tools and techniques do you use to process the request

through "Perform Integrated Change Control" process?

1 Expert judgment and risk identification

2 Change control tools and project document updates
3 Expert judgment, meetings, and change control tools
4 Expert judgment, meetings, and stakeholder analysis
Question No.:39
Selected Choice:

Your project sponsor recently attended a project management conference where the purposes

of the Management-By-Objectives (MBO) approach were discussed. In this context,

which of the following is NOT a purpose of MBO?

1 Aligning project goals with organization goals

2 Aligning project goals with the goals of other sub-units of the organization
3 Aligning project goals with the goals of previous projects
4 Aligning project goals with individual goals
Question No.:40
Selected Choice:

You have managed to identify the five main tasks in your project. You represent the dependency

and duration in the table given below:

 What is the slack of task 5?

1 0
2 1
3 2
4 -1
Question No.:41
Selected Choice:

In your project, you have reasons to believe that the current variances occurred because of

extraneous factors, and you do not expect similar variances to occur in future.

What should be the estimate at completion (EAC) for your project?

BAC = $300,000; AC = $100,000; EV = $150,000; CPI = 1.5

1 $250,000
2 $220,000
3 $280,000
4 $200,000
Question No.:42
Selected Choice:

Your company has developed a software product to analyse ‘big data’ From Multiple Sources.

While performing beta testing with a small sample of users, you notice that the product has

defects because of the following reasons:

- Non-compatibility with the operating system (20%)
- Bugs in the software (22%)
- Difficulty in understanding instruction manuals (20%)
- Non-availability of desired features (15%)
- Others (23%)

To illustrate the causes of these problems, you could use a:

1 Flowchart
2 Quality Checklist
3 Scatter Diagram
4 Histogram
Question No.:43
Selected Choice:

In a project life cycle, the least number of conflicts occur over:

1 Priorities
2 Schedules
3 Personality
4 Costs
Question No.:44
Selected Choice:

You have eight people in your project, and one more person will be joining next week.

Once the new person joins, the number of communication channels will increase by:

1 0
2 8
3 12
4 20
Question No.:45
Selected Choice:

Workarounds differ from contingency plans in that:

1 Contingency plans are planned in advance and workarounds are not planned in advance.
2 Workarounds are planned in advance and contingency plans are not planned in advance.
3 Contingency plans include plans for force majeure events, e.g. natural calamities,
but workarounds are the residual risks in the project.
4 Workarounds only include plans for force majeure events, e.g. natural calamities
Question No.:46
Selected Choice:

In your project, your subcontracting requirements of the machining of high-value equipment

are very demanding. Hence, you have determined the technical criteria to evaluate the sellers.

This is an example of:

1 Objective evaluation criteria

2 Source selection criteria
3 Statement of work
4 Work breakdown structure
Question No.:47
Selected Choice:

The processes used in Project Stakeholder Management are

1 Identify Stakeholders, Plan Stakeholder Management, Manage Stakeholder

Expectations, and Control Stakeholder Expectations
2 Identify Stakeholders, Plan Stakeholder Communications, Manage Stakeholder
Engagement, and Control Stakeholder Engagement
3 Identify Stakeholders, Plan Stakeholder Management, Manage Stakeholder
Engagement , and Control Stakeholder Engagement
4 Identify Stakeholders, Stakeholder Management Plan, Manage Stakeholder
Engagement, and Control Stakeholder Engagement
Question No.:48
Selected Choice:

You recently took over the responsibilities of a project manager from another person.
 While reviewing the project cost, you realize there has been an item of $100,000

waiting to be paid, which, you think, is a disputed item. Your project CPI is 1.2. In this case:

1 Since this is a small amount compared to the total project value, it can be paid
ignoring all objections.
2 Since the project CPI is greater than one, you do not have any difficulties with
the cost of the project. You can, hence, bury the payment in contingency account
and move on with the project.
3 You should inform your manager and ascertain the facts of the matter before
making the payment.
4 You must refuse the payment.
Question No.:49
Selected Choice:

You have reached the end of the design phase of your project. You decide to

call a "phase end review" for obtaining authorization to close the design phase

and initiate the next phase (i.e., execution phase) of your project.

Your manager disagrees with your suggestion.

He wants a "kill point" to formally end the design phase of the project. In this context,

you should:

1 Disagree with your manager because you know that phase end reviews
should be used at the end of each phase of the project
2 Agree with your manager as kill point is a phase-end review
3 Escalate this issue to the project sponsor
4 Take advice from a senior project manager about what should actually
be done at the end of each phase of the project
Question No.:50
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager of a project, which has the objective of producing bearings

with a margin of error of .002 mm according to Six Sigma specifications used in

your company. You have been asked to create documents that can help you

apply technical and administrative direction to audit the bearings and ensure that
 they conform to requirements. You should use:

1 Product scope description

2 Configuration management system
3 Statement of work
4 Project management plan
Question No.:51
Selected Choice:

During the Validate Scope process, you formalize acceptance of the project deliverables

and keep the project focused on the business need for which it was undertaken.

This should be done:

1 At the beginning of the project

2 At the end of the project
3 When required by the project sponsor
4 After getting verified deliverables from the Control Quality process
Question No.:52
Selected Choice:

You are a project manager overseeing the construction of a Baseball Stadium. T

he activity of laying the Grass Sod has an optimistic estimate of 10 days,

pessimistic estimate of 16 days, and most likely estimate of 13 days.

If your company has a quality requirement of Six Sigma, what is the duration

within which this task must be completed?

1 10 days to 16 days
2 7 days to 19 days
3 12 days to 14 days
4 11 days to 15 days
Question No.:54
Selected Choice:

The project team has added some functionalities to the product that are not required as
 part of the project. However, the customer is satisfied with the product.

From a quality perspective, the action of the team is:

1 Justified because customer expectations are exceeded.

2 Not acceptable, because it constitutes gold plating, which is not a good practice.
3 Desirable as this means repeat business from the customer.
4 Not ethical as the customer indicated project deliverable is not produced.
Question No.:55
Selected Choice:

In your project, you are in the process of determining the project roles, responsibilities,

and reporting relationships for your team members.

Which of the following would you NOT define/create at the end of this process?

1 Project staff assignments

2 Roles and responsibilities
3 Project organization charts
4 Staffing management plan
Question No.:56
Selected Choice:

You are preparing the communications management plan for your project by using

communication requirements analysis. Which of the following statements about

communication requirements analysis is inaccurate?

1 Requirements are defined by combining the type and format of information

needed with an analysis of the cost of that information.
2 Project resources are expended on communicating information that
contributes to success.
3 Project resources are expended on communicating information where
lack of communication can lead to failure.
4 The intention is to prevent overloading stakeholders with minor details.
Question No.:57
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager of a project which involves off-shore oil exploration.
 Since you cannot plan for all eventualities, you establish a contingency reserve

, including amounts of time, money, or resources to handle the risks.

This is an example of:

1 Risk avoidance
2 Risk transfer
3 Active risk acceptance
4 Improper risk planning since all risks should be identified and accounted
Question No.:58
Selected Choice:

In your project, you are preparing procurement documents to seek proposals

from prospective sellers. Which of the following statements about procurement

documents are accurate :

A. The buyer structures the procurement documents to facilitate an accurate

and complete response from prospective sellers.

B. Requests to potential sellers to submit a proposal or bid is formally issued

in accordance with the policies of the buyer`s organization.

C. With government contracting, some or all of the content and structure of

procurement documents can be defined by regulation.

D. The term `proposal` is usually used when the seller selection decision

will be based on price.

1 B, C and D
2 Only B and C
3 All of the Above
4 A, B and C
Question No.:59
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager in a pharmaceutical company and you are involved in

managing stakeholders’ engagement to satisfy their needs and addressing any

issues as they are identified. In this context,

 which of the following is NOT a relevant output?

1 Organizational process assets updates

2 Change requests
3 Project management plan updates
4 Stakeholder Management Plan
Question No.:61
Selected Choice:

You are working in the Project Management Office (PMO) of your organization.

Your job responsibility is to:

1 Manage the operational activities in the company

2 Manage human resource and risk management issues for individual projects
3 Provide support functions to project managers in the form of training,
providing software, standardizing policies, etc.
4 Provide subject matter expertise in the functional areas of the project
Question No.:62
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager responsible for developing a software application

based on customer requirements. Which technique do you use in order to consider

the customer`s change request?

1 Additional planning
2 Project selection methods
3 Expert judgment
4 Corrective action
Question No.:63
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you are aware that changes are bound to occur during projects.

While monitoring and controlling change on your projects, you use the term scope creep.

What does the term refer to?

1 Uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time,

cost, and resources
 2 Controlled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time,
cost, and resources
3 Manageable expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time,
cost, and resources
4 Unmanageable expansion to product or project scope with adjustments to time,
cost, and resources
Question No.:64
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you have developed the Schedule Management Plan.

You are now in the process of identifying and documenting the relationships

among the project activities. You want to ensure that every activity and

milestone except the first and last are connected to at least one predecessor

and one successor. Which of the following tools can you use for this purpose?

1 Published estimating data

2 Parametric estimating
3 Precedence diagramming method
4 Performance reviews

Question No.:65
Selected Choice:

A company is considering three projects:

Project A has an NPV of $500,000

Project B has an NPV of $300,000

Project C has an NPV of $200,000

What is the opportunity cost if project A is selected?

1 $500,000
2 $200,000
3 $300,000
4 $0
Question No.:66
Selected Choice:

Which of the following types of costs is not incurred toward ensuring compliance to

requirements?

1 Prevention costs
2 Appraisal costs
3 Quality planning costs
4 Warranty costs
Question No.:67
Selected Choice:

Your company has a projectized organization structure. As your project nears completion,

you notice that your team members are more interested in trying to find new positions

rather than properly discharging their duties. Their motivation is:

1 Safety
2 Social
3 Psychological
4 Self-esteem
Question No.:68
Selected Choice:

You are in the execution stage of your project. For the information of the stakeholders,

you have documents to highlight project status, lessons learned, issue logs, and

outputs from other knowledge areas. These documents should be included in:

1 Project reports
2 Change logs
3 Lessons learned documentation
4 Performance reports
Question No.:69
Selected Choice:
 Please refer to the Decision Tree diagram given below. It shows the analysis of profit/loss

for the two alternatives (i.e., to build or buy).

What is the opportunity cost if the project manager decides to build instead of buy?

1 - $1,500
2 $3,500
3 $1,500
4 $5,000
Question No.:70
Selected Choice:

The process of identifying the project needs that can be met by acquiring products outside

the project organization is done as part of:

1 Conduct Procurements
2 Control Procurements
3 Close Procurements
4 Plan Procurement Management
Question No.:71
Selected Choice:

You are in the process of identifying the relevant stakeholders in the project. In this context,

which of the following is/are relevant output(s) of this process?

1 Stakeholder register and Stakeholder Management Plan

2 Stakeholder Management Strategy
3 Organizational process assets updates
 4 Stakeholder register
Question No.:72
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, one of your responsibilities is to manage stakeholder expectations

to the best of your ability. However, if there are conflicts among stakeholders,

they should usually be resolved in favor of:

1 Business partner/Project sponsor

2 Team members
3 Customers
4 Stakeholders
Question No.:73
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager in a company where you have maximum authority.

To which organizational structure does your company belong?

1 Functional
2 Weak Matrix
3 Strong Matrix
4 Projectized
Question No.:74
Selected Choice:

In your project, you are performing several actions to execute the project management

plan and to complete the work defined in the project scope statement.

You will be involved in:

1 Identifying corrective or preventive action to control the project performance

2 Settling or closing any contract agreement established for the project
3 Creating a document that will formally authorize the project
4 Collecting information about the completion status of the deliverables and other
relevant details about project performance.
Question No.:75
Selected Choice:

You are managing a project. Your company has set a pre-defined budget for you to

work with. In this context, a pre-defined budget is considered as a:

1 Risk
2 Assumption
3 Constraint
4 Stage point
Question No.:76
Selected Choice:

Five tasks have to be completed one after another in your project.

The Contract with your Sponsor contains very strict penalties for delays.
The schedule reveals that the project has a negative float of three months,
which of the following task(s) should be crashed to bring the project on schedule?
Please refer to the table given below:

Task Original Duration (months) Crash Savings Original Cost Crash Cost
(months)

M 5 1 $1,600 $1,700
N 6 2 $1,800 $1,900
O 7 1 $2,000 $2,050
P 8 1 $3,000 $3,200
Q 13 3 $2,500 $2,650
1 Task Q
2 Task N and Task O together
3 Either Task Q or Task N and Task O together
4 Task N and Task P together

Question No.:77
Selected Choice:

You recently took over the management of a construction project.

The project is in the executing phase and the previous project manager has

left the organization. You realize the project is seriously behind schedule and over budget.
 After talking with the project team,

and discussions with the project management team regarding the issues,

you still have not been able to discern the reason for the schedule variances.

The team is working well, and from what you can see, should be on schedule and

within budget. As you begin to review the progress that has been made so far,

and compare that to the schedule, you see that certain tasks have taken significantly

longer and incurred more costs than originally estimated. The site preparation work

was estimated to take one month, but actually took two months and cost 30% more

than anticipated. Pouring the foundation was scheduled to take two weeks,

but actually took three weeks and again cost more than planned. Paving the

parking area also took longer than expected. Your analysis also indicates that

the period during which these activities were being carried out had much more

rain than normal.

Based on this information, what would be the MOST LIKELY reason for the variances

in the project schedule and budget?

1 The scope was not well defined

2 The project manager was not ensuring that scope verification was being done
3 Assumptions used in the planning processes were not valid
4 Integrated Change Control was not being performed
Question No.:78
Selected Choice:

Your quality process did not meet the four sigma requirements desired by your customer.

So, some of your products were rejected and there is a possibility that you would not

receive repeat business from the customer. From a quality perspective, the costs

associated with the rejected products can also be categorized as:

1 Cost of conformance
 2 Customer retention costs
3 Failure costs
4 Performance costs
Question No.:80
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager of a manufacturing firm that produces machine parts

required in automobiles. During a review, you discover some design requirements are

not taken into account. You should:

1 Instruct your team to incorporate the requirements and do an analysis to figure

out the potential impact.
2 Inform your project sponsor that the project may be delayed because of the
missed requirements.
3 Go ahead with production because incorporating the requirements may delay
the schedule.
4 Escalate this issue to your senior management.
Question No.:81
Selected Choice:

As part of the risk management process, you have just created an overall risk ranking

of the project and a list of prioritized identified risks which need additional analysis

and determined trends in risk analysis results. What should you do next?

1 Analyze the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives

2 Create a list of identified risks
3 Maintain a risk register
4 Make a list of potential responses to the risks
Question No.:82
Selected Choice:

Early termination of a contract is a special case of contract closure.

This can happen because of:

1 Default of the buyer

2 Default of the seller
3 Mutual agreement of the parties
 4 Any of the above reasons
Question No.:83
Selected Choice:

Identify Stakeholders is the process of identifying all people or organizations

impacted by the project and to document:

1 Stakeholder interests, involvement, and impact on project success

2 Stakeholder needs and address issues as they occur
3 Project requirements from stakeholders
4 Stakeholder needs and define a communication approach
Question No.:84
Selected Choice:

You notice that the financial statements of the company you joined recently do not

conform to generally accepted accounting practice standards and hence are inaccurate

. What should be your next course of action?

1 Inform the government agencies of the inaccurate accounting practices in

the company
2 Talk to your finance managers on why you think that they may be violating the
standard accounting norms
3 Assume that the accounting standards are different and hence do not want to
make an issue out of it, since you are new to the company
4 Talk to the finance manager in your previous company to get expert opinion on
accounting standards of the new company
Question No.:85

Selected Choice:

Which of the following exhibits greatest resistance to change?

1 Business requirements
2 Technology
3 People
4 Environment
Question No.:86
Selected Choice:

A project manager wants to update a project management plan.

You suggest that the updated project management plan should include:

1 Work performance information and enterprise environmental factors

2 Expert judgment and change control tools
3 Final product, service, or result transition and organizational process
assets updates
4 Quality management plan, cost, and schedule baselines
Question No.:87
Selected Choice:

As the project manager for a large, complex project, you have been getting complaints

from your team, including some of the management team, about all the time being

spent on planning. You know that by spending time following the appropriate

planning processes, you can prevent many problems during execution.

This will save time in the later stages of the project. One of the primary complaints

you are hearing is related to the time it takes to create

the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). You are explaining the

importance of the WBS to your project team members.

Which of the following statements about the WBS is incorrect?

1 It is a hierarchical decomposition of project work

2 Planned work contained in the lowest level WBS components are called
WBS dictionaries
3 The WBS subdivides the project work into smaller, more manageable pieces of work
4 The WBS organizes and defines the total scope of the project work

Question No.:88
Selected Choice:

You are managing a project to develop an emergency brake to an upcoming new

 model of RV. In your project, you have to complete building a prototype before testing

can begin. This is an example of:

1 Mandatory dependency
2 Discretionary dependency
3 External dependency
4 Preferred logic
Question No.:89
Selected Choice:

Which of the following statements related to Life Cycle Costs is incorrect?

1 Life cycle costs include direct and indirect costs.

2 Life cycle costs include periodic or continuing costs of operation and maintenance.
3 In the selection criteria for two projects, even if one project has a lower NPV,
it may be selected if it has a lower life cycle cost.
4 Life cycle costs are the responsibility of a project
Question No.:90
Selected Choice:

According to the 80/20 rule, 80 percent of the problems are because of 20 percent

of the causes. To identify the most probable defects and to evaluate nonconformities,

you do a rank ordering of the defects using:

1 Statistical sampling
2 Control chart
3 Pareto diagrams
4 Inspection
Question No.:91
Selected Choice:

You are managing the project for setting up an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean.

Which of the following could be a valid constraint when you are doing

human resource planning for your project?

1 Weak matrix organization structure

 2 Unlimited budget, since the project is very critical to meet compliance needs
3 Oil price increasing to more than $60 a barrel
4 Oil price decreasing below $40 per barrel
Question No.:92
Selected Choice:

You have fifteen members in your project team. You have called for a project status

meeting without prior notice. There have been too many sidebar conversations and

arguments. As a result, you have achieved nothing substantial from the meeting.

To achieve orderliness in the meeting next time, you should:

1 Decrease the number of people in the meeting

2 Publish a meeting agenda
3 Ensure that you control the channels of communication
4 Give incentives to team members for conforming to desired meeting norms
Question No.:93
Selected Choice:

In your project, probabilities are estimated and the alternatives are expected to be as follows:
25% probability for $ 25,000 profit
50% probability for $ 40,000 profit
25% probability for $ 100,000 profit

What is the expected profit in your project?

1 $ 40,000
2 $ 50,000
3 $ 51,250
4 $ 53,750
Question No.:94
Selected Choice:

You are performing a make-or-buy analysis. In which of the following cases would you

not prefer making the product/service in-house?

1 The item under consideration is a capital item which can be used for other
projects in the same organization (in other words,
 there is an ongoing need for the item).
2 Your organization is going through a slack period, and some resources,
who can produce the product in-house, are underutilized.
3 The item under consideration is a proprietary or business critical product
which is a part of the core business for the company.
4 The item under consideration is not part of your core business, but your
company has the skills for developing the product in-house, if required.
Question No.:95
Selected Choice:

Stakeholder analysis is used to systematically gather and analyze quantitative

and qualitative information on stakeholders’ level of interest in the project. In this technique:

1 Stakeholders are identified based on degree of interest

2 Stakeholder register templates are created
3 Stakeholders are influenced to gain support and reduce negative impact
4 Stakeholder registers from previous projects are used
Question No.:96
Selected Choice:

You are managing a project in a foreign country. You realize that, to get things done

for the project, you may have to pay tips to the government officials. You should:

1 Pay tips to the officials as otherwise they could cause delays

2 Refuse to pay tips, as this can be considered unethical
3 Make a case for payment of tips to government officials and present it to
your management
4 Offer gifts instead of paying cash to government officials to get their support
Question No.:97
Selected Choice:

Matrix organizations exhibit features of both projectized and functional organizations.

In a weak matrix organization, the role of a project manager may be that of a:

1 Coordinator
2 Manager with considerable authority
3 Support person
4 Functional manager
Question No.:98
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager of a pharmaceutical company responsible for

releasing a new drug in the market. While managing the project, you have created

several documents (e.g., project management plan; risk registers and other registers;

project calendars; change management documentation; etc.).

All these documents should be stored in:

1 Historical information
2 Project files
3 Project or phase closure documents
4 Configuration management system
Question No :
99

In your project, a team member suggested the addition of a functionality, which she thinks,

will improve customer satisfaction. Your approach would be to:

Choice
1
Allow for the functionality, because satisfying the customer is your objective.
Choice Disallow the new requirement, because it changes the project scope, and the
2 customer did not explicitly state this requirement.
Choice
3 Make changes to the project plan to accommodate the new requirement
Choice Ask the customer for additional funding to implement the requirement
4
Question No.:100
Selected Choice:

In the Develop Schedule process, you create a distribution of probable durations for each

activity and use it to calculate the distribution of probable results for the total project.

The technique that you are using is:

1 Parametric estimating
2 Mathematical analysis
3 Simulation
4 Resource leveling
Question No.:101
Selected Choice:

Which cost estimating technique costs the least and saves the most time?

1 Parametric estimating
2 Bottom-up estimating
3 Analogous estimating
4 Three-point estimates

Question No.:102
Selected Choice:

Which of the following statements on quality planning is inaccurate?

1 Quality planning is performed in parallel with the other project planning processes.
2 During quality planning, you should be aware of governmental regulations, rules,
standards, and guidelines specific to the application area.
3 You can use DOE to help identify which factors may influence specific variables
of a product or process under development.
4 During quality planning, you can use change requests to take corrective or
preventive action or to perform defect repair.
Question No.:103
Selected Choice:

To get the work done, the supervisor threatens punishment and strictly supervises the work.

The supervisor believes in:

1 Theory Y (McGregor Model)

2 Theory X (McGregor Model)
3 Maslow`s hierarchy of needs
4 Referent power
Question No.:104
Selected Choice:

You are managing a critical project with virtual teams located in eight countries. At times,

team members find it difficult to understand and interpret what others are communicating
 via tele-conferencing. From a communication management point of view,

this difficulty in transmitting and understanding messages can also be referred to as:

1 Disturbance
2 Noise
3 Interference
4 Breakdown in encode-decode model
Question No.:105
Selected Choice:

Project Risk Management includes all the processes concerned with conducting risk

management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and controlling risk

on a project. In this context, which of the following statements about risk is not accurate?

1 Risk is an uncertain event or condition.

2 Risks have to be identified and properly managed.
3 Risk management should be done throughout the project.
4 Risk have a negative impact on the project objective.
Question No.:106
Selected Choice:

Your company has decided to outsource one of its IT product developments to ABC IT

Services through a contract. You clarify the structure and requirements of the contract

so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract. Which of the

following statements on procurement negotiations are correct?

A. You have to discuss technical and business management approaches, proprietary rights,

overall schedule, payments, and price.

B. At the end of the procurement negotiations, you will have a contract document executed

by both buyer and seller.

C. The project manager is the lead negotiator on the procurements.
D. Final contract language will reflect all agreements reached.

1 B, C an D
2 Only B and D
 3 A, B and D
4 All of the Above
Question No.:107
Selected Choice:

During the Identify Stakeholders process, the project manager identifies all people or

organizations impacted by the project, and documents relevant information regarding their

interests, involvement, and impact on project success. Once identified, a plan needs to be

created to keep stakeholders engaged throughout the project. In this context, which of the

following statements is incorrect about stakeholder management?

1 Stakeholders exert influence over the project and its deliverables

2 It is critical for project success to identify stakeholders early in the project
3 All critical stakeholders should be engaged at the same time
4 A strategy or approach may be developed for engaging each stakeholder
Question No.:108
Selected Choice:

Which of the following is not the responsibility of a PMP certificant?

1 Ensuring that there is no conflict of interest that can compromise the legitimate
interests of a client or customer
2 Ensuring that technical specifications are appropriately defined
3 Disseminating PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to other
PMI members
4 Cooperating with PMI concerning ethics violation related to PMI and
PMP Certification, and the collection of related information

Question No.:109
Selected Choice:

You have recently joined as a project manager in a company where they follow a

projectized organizational structure. All your team members work in the same office

where you have a lot of independence and authority. Which of the following is NOT

an advantage of a projectized organizational structure?

1 Loyalty to the project

 2 Home for the team members after the project is completed
3 Effective communication
4 Efficiency in project organization
Question No.:110
Selected Choice:

When does the project manager review prior phase documentation and customer

acceptance documentation from the Validate Scope process?

1 Close Project or Phase

2 Control Scope
3 Control Quality
4 Perform Quality Assurance
Question No.:111
Selected Choice:

The Scope Management Plan is an important component of the Project Management

Plan since it provides direction on how the project scope will be managed throughout

the project life cycle. The Scope Management Plan documents:

1 Which product requirements will be incorporated

2 How project scope will be defined, developed, controlled, and verified
3 Which stakeholders are most critical for defining the project scope
4 High-level project scope deliverables
Question No.:112
Selected Choice:

Which document provides high-level schedule information that is useful when planning

for project schedule management?

1 Schedule management plan

2 Activity list
3 Project charter
4 Schedule baseline
Question No.:113
Selected Choice:

There are two projects:

Investment in project A is $1,000,000 and its NPV is $100,000

Investment in project B is $1,200,000, its net cash inflows are $2,000,000,

and net cash outflows are $1,900,000

Which project should be selected if net present value (NPV) criterion is used for selection?

1 Project A
2 Project B
3 The information in the question is inadequate
4 Either project A or project B
Question No.:114
Selected Choice:

You are a project manager tasked with developing a new machine that will be used

for producing a unique style of reusable pop-off bottle cap. You are working with the

Quality team to identify potential quality issues with the machine during testing.

When you collected the requirement from stakeholders, the manager of manufacturing

explicitly stated that it was important for the number of defects to be kept to 2% or less.

The sponsor asked for consistency and reliability in order to avoid machine and

employee downtime. The CFO said that the machine needed to last a minimum of

seven years without replacement. The customer’s focus was on getting the bottle

caps produced in time for the launch of a new product which uses the new caps.

The team is currently assessing performance of the machine over time and would

like to ensure that the measurements of each bottle cap produced are within the set limits.

You collect quality metrics data for a number of bottle caps produced by the machine

and would like to analyze the findings using an appropriate tool.

 Which tool is the most appropriate for this?

1 A Histogram as it shows the number of defects

2 A Run chart; if the chart indicates a run, then you can use this to predict a trend
in the data
3 A Pareto chart as it will show which defects are the ones to focus on fixing
4 A Control chart as it will show whether the machine performance is stable and
predictable
Question No.:115
Selected Choice:

Your organization has to follow some guidelines and policies while recruiting people.

From your project perspective, these guidelines and policies will be classified as:

1 Regulations
2 Best practices
3 Assumptions
4 Constraints
Question No.:116
Selected Choice:

Due to a shift in company objectives, your project is expected to terminate before completion.

Team members are scared and disappointed as they learn they will be out of a project.

As the project manager, what should you do in this situation?

1 Ignore them, they are no longer your concern.

2 Talk to the sponsor to try to reinstate the project.
3 Delegate to HR for post project staff assignment.
4 Call them for a meeting to discuss team members concerns.
Question No.:117
Selected Choice:

You have completed the process of developing options and actions to enhance

opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives. What is your NEXT step?

1 Determine which risks may affect the project and document their characteristics.
2 Implement risk response plans, track identified risks, monitor residual risks,
identify new risks, and evaluate risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
 3 Define how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
4 Assess the priority of identified risks using their probability of occurrence.
Question No.:118
Selected Choice:

You are considering whether to buy or make a software product. If you want to buy,

the cost is $80,000, and the cost of procuring and integrating the product in your company

is $1,000. If you want to build it yourself, the product will require seven engineers working

for three months. The salary of each software engineer is $4,000 per month. The other

related miscellaneous costs allocated to the project are $2,000. Which option will you choose?

1 Buy
2 Build
3 Neither build nor buy
4 Need more information on suppliers to make a decision
Question No.:119
Selected Choice:

While identifying stakeholders, you plan to group project stakeholders based on their

level of authority and their active involvement in the project. You can do this by using:

1 Power/Interest grid
2 Power/Influence grid
3 Influence/Impact grid
4 Salience model
Question No.:120
Selected Choice:

You had earlier worked as a project manager in a firm specializing in manufacturing

semi-conductor chips. Now that you are working with a competitor,

1 You should not use the knowledge gained in the first company to improve the
competitor`s product quality
2 You can use the knowledge gained in the first company to improve your present
company`s product quality
3 You should get your first company`s approval before doing anything that may
 adversely impact them
4 You should do nothing by way of competing with or undermining the products of
the first company
Question No.:121
Selected Choice:

Your project stakeholder has asked you to create a financial plan for your project.

Preparing a financial plan will require:

1 Program management skills

2 Industry specific skills
3 Financial subject matter expertise
4 Both project management and industry specific skills
Question No.:122
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you are using the configuration management system to centrally

manage approved changes and baselines within the project. What are the configuration

management activities that you will include in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

1 Configuration accounting and verification and audit

2 Configuration identification, status accounting, and configuration accounting
3 Configuration identification, status accounting, and verification and audit
4 Configuration verification, configuration identification, and risk forecast
Question No.:123
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager in a company. You have finished preparing a detailed

description of the project and product. What will you do next?

1 Collect Requirements
2 Create WBS
3 Validate Scope
4 Control Scope
Question No.:124
Selected Choice:

As a project manager during the Develop Schedule process, you are now deliberating

on the type of schedule presentations you are going to use. The difference between a

milestone chart and a bar chart is that unlike bar charts, milestone charts:

1 Show activity start and end dates

2 Show dependencies among tasks
3 Identify the scheduled start or completion of major deliverables only and not
all the tasks
4 Show supporting details
Question No.:125
Selected Choice:

In your project, you are estimating schedule activity costs by determining the unit cost rates,

e.g., staff costs per hour. In this context, which of the following cannot be used to

determine resource cost rates?

1 Statistical relationship between historical data and other variables

2 Gathering quotes
3 Standard rates with escalation factors (for contracts)
4 Commercial databases or seller published price lists
Question No.:126
Selected Choice:

During Plan Quality process, you are going to use Design of Experiments (DOE) to

determine which factors might influence specific variables. Which variable can be

used in your analysis?

1 Dollars
2 Pounds
3 Weight
4 Meters
Question No.:127
Selected Choice:

What is the factor that helps a project manager gain maximum support from the

assigned project personnel?

1 Expertise
2 Work challenge
3 Authority of the project manager to penalize team members
4 Authority of the project manager to recommend promotions to team members
on the basis of their performance
Question No.:128
Selected Choice:

In your project, you have established tools to ensure that appropriate information is

available to project stakeholders in a timely manner. In this context, if there is

a conversation taking place using a sender-receiver model, which of the following

statements is NOT correct?

1 The sender is responsible for making the information clear, unambiguous,

and complete.
2 The receiver confirms that the information is properly understood.
3 The receiver is responsible for ensuring that the information is entirely received
and understood.
4 The receiver should agree with the sender about the message being
Communicated
Question No.:129
Selected Choice:

In your project, the project architect met with an accident and will not be available

for the next 3 months. You had not planned for this in risk planning - what should you do

NEXT?

1 Create a Workaround
2 Create a Fallback Plan
3 Do additional risk response planning
 4 Create a new risk register for this risk
Question No.:130
Selected Choice:

As a buyer, during Control Procurements, you have recently conducted an audit of your

seller to determine weaknesses in the seller`s processes that need to be corrected.

You want to document the results of the audit and the communications with the seller.

This should be done using:

1 Performance reports
2 Correspondence
3 Change requests
4 Procurement audits
Question No.:131
Selected Choice:

As the project manager, you are currently involved in monitoring stakeholder relationships

and adjusting plans for their engagement. Which process are you currently working in?

1 Identify Stakeholders
2 Control Stakeholder Engagement
3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
4 Plan Stakeholder Management
Question No.:132
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager of a sewage treatment plant. The government has mandated

that you ensure that the neighborhood is not adversely impacted by your project plant.

For your project, this directive is regarded as a/an:

1 Assumption
2 Ethical practice
3 Constraint
4 Deliverable
Question No.:133
Selected Choice:

Which of the following statements is NOT true about a project life cycle?

1 All project life cycles are usually identical.

2 The level of risk is highest at the start of the project and decreases as the
project progresses.
3 The ability of the stakeholders to influence the final characteristics is highest
at the start and gets progressively lower as the project continues.
4 Cost and staffing requirements usually peak during the intermediate phases.
Question No.:134
Selected Choice:

Stakeholders, including consultants, customers, sponsors, and professional and

technical associations, are some of the sources of:

1 Enterprise environmental factors

2 Organizational process assets
3 Expert judgment
4 Risk monitoring and control
Question No.:135
Selected Choice:

There has been a change in the scope of your project, which may adversely impact

the project schedules and cost. You have updated the technical and planning documents.

All the requested changes and recommended corrective actions will now

be processed through:

1 Impact request statements

2 Change control system
3 Perform Integrated Change Control process
4 Changes to the scope management plan
Question No.:136
Selected Choice:

The following are all tools and techniques for the Plan Schedule Management process:
 1 Expert judgment, Analytical techniques, Meetings
2 Expert judgment, Reserve analysis, Meetings
3 Expert judgment, Reserve analysis, Rolling wave planning
4 Analytical techniques, Meetings, Project management software,
Question No.:137
Selected Choice:

Which document provides high-level cost information that is useful when planning

for project cost management?

1 Cost management plan

2 Project charter
3 Cost baseline
4 Requirements documentation
Question No.:138
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager responsible for developing a new type of soap.

You decide to do a statistical sampling for this project. Statistical sampling surveys

only a portion of the population of interest. If you had chosen to survey

the entire population, which of the following is NOT a problem you would encounter?

1 Inaccurate data
2 High cost
3 Extended timeline
4 Inadequate resources
Question No.:140
Selected Choice:

Which of the following statements about communication is inaccurate?

1 Informal communication includes briefings and email.

2 Formal communication includes reports.
3 External communication could include talking with the customer, media, public, etc.
4 Communication with peers is called horizontal communication.
Question No.:141
Selected Choice:

You are in the process of creating a risk management plan for your project.

This plan will describe how risk management will be structured and performed on the project.

Your risk management plan may include:

1 Avoid, transfer, mitigate, and accept risks

2 Risk audits, reserve analysis, and technical performance measurement
3 Risk audits, triggers, and inputs to other processes
4 Budgeting, timing, and risk categories
Question No.:142
Selected Choice:

Since the buyer could not meet the requirements of the contract, you (the seller)

want to terminate the contract early. This is done in the:

1 Plan Procurement Management process

2 Control Procurements process
3 Close Procurements process
4 Conduct Procurements process
Question No.:143
Selected Choice:

If you are describing classes of stakeholders based on their power (ability to impose their will),

urgency (need for immediate attention), and legitimacy (their involvement is appropriate),

this can be referred to as:

1 Group decision technique

2 Salience model
3 Power/Influence grid
4 Influence/Impact grid
Question No.:144
Selected Choice:
 You are the project manager of a construction company planning to build a water

treatment plant close to a residential locality. The project owner and sponsor have obtained

all the legal clearances for the project. Some of the residents of the locality have

approached you with concerns on the probable impact of the project on the environment.

In this case, you must:

1 Go ahead as planned, because all the statutory approvals have been obtained
2 Try to fairly resolve issues among the stakeholders
3 Communicate this issue to the senior management of the company and ask them to
take necessary steps
4 Give a high priority to the interests of your company while trying to resolve
conflicts with local residents
Question No.:145
Selected Choice:

In your organization, all big technical projects go through Initiate, Analyze, Design,

Implement, Test, and Closeout. In this context, a project life cycle:

1 Defines the product life cycle

2 Defines the project phases
3 Contains several product life cycles
4 Has deliverables that must be completed before work starts on the next phase
Question No.:146
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager for a construction project, and 121 people report to you.

Your job requires that you allocate work to others and ensure that the work is done on time.

The tool you use is:

1 Work Breakdown Structure

2 Work Authorization System
3 PERT / CPM / Network diagrams
4 WBS dictionary
Question No.:147
Selected Choice:

Planning the scope for a project occurs very early in the project life cycle. One of the

first steps is to document how the project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled.

The output(s) of the Plan Scope Management process are:

1 Scope management plan

2 Scope baseline and Requirements documentation
3 Scope management plan and Requirements documentation
4 Scope management plan and Requirements management plan
Question No.:148
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager of a construction company. You know that the builders

start painting the walls 30 days after they start installing the drywall. This waiting time

can also be referred to as:

1 Lead time
2 Project float
3 Constraint
4 Lag
Question No.:149
Selected Choice:

Which of the following estimates is not used by the Program Evaluation and Review

Technique (PERT)?

1 Pessimistic
2 Optimistic
3 Most likely
4 Mean
Question No.:150
Selected Choice:
 Control Quality is the process of monitoring and recording results of executing the

quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes.

To evaluate control quality output data, the project team must ideally have a

working knowledge of:

1 Prevention and inspection

2 Sampling and probability
3 Special causes and random causes
4 Tolerances and control limits
Question No.:151
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you advocate active participation of your team members;

this is because you believe in:

1 Theory Y (McGregor Model)

2 Theory X (McGregor Model)
3 Maslow`s hierarchy of needs
4 Referent Power
Question No.:152
Selected Choice:

You have recently conducted a variance analysis of your project and found that the

project is 25% over-budget. This is a very important issue, which you would like to

discuss with your project stakeholders. What communication method should you use?

1 War room discussion

2 Face-to-face meeting
3 Formal report
4 Telephone calls and electronic mail
Question No.:153
Selected Choice:

Which of the following tools and techniques would you NOT use in your project
 during the Plan Risk Responses process?

1 Strategies for negative risks or threats

2 Contingent response strategies
3 Expert judgment
4 Simulation
Question No.:154
Selected Choice:

You would like to obtain information, quotations, bids, offers, or proposals from sellers

as part of the Conduct Procurements process. In this process, which of the following is

the most critical?

1 Determine whether a product should be purchased or manufactured in-house.

2 Ensure that prospective sellers clearly understand the technical and contract
requirements.
3 Clarify the structure and requirements of the contract.
4 Prepare an independent estimate to verify the proposed price structures of the sellers.
Question No.:155
Selected Choice:

In your project, while identifying stakeholders, you want to create a Stakeholder Register.

In this context, this document should NOT contain which of the following?

1 Identification information
2 Assessment information
3 Stakeholder classification
4 Stakeholder management strategy
Question No.:156
Selected Choice:

The Cost Performance Index (CPI) of a project is 0.8 and you have a limited budget.

You are planning to procure a product from the supplier. In this situation, you should:

1 Ask the supplier to supply a product of slightly lower quality, since it will cost less.
2 Try innovative means to lower costs.
3 Remove non-critical tasks from the project schedule.
 4 Try to crash the project as shortening the project schedule decreases costs.
Question No.:157
Selected Choice:

A project manager has to manage different stakeholder expectations. Project sponsor

and customer are two very important stakeholders in any project. In this context,

which of the following is NOT the responsibility of both the project sponsor and the customer?

1 Take into account risk tolerance

2 Provide key events, milestones, and deliverable due dates
3 Formally accept the product of the project
4 Provide financial resources for the project
Question No.:158
Selected Choice:

The director (information systems) in your company is in the process of creating a

project charter to formally authorize a new project in your company. In this context,

what should be done FIRST?

1 Develop Project Management Plan

2 Identify a project manager for the project
3 Acquire Project Team
4 Integrate the work of the project with the ongoing operations of the performing
organization
Question No.:159
Selected Choice:

Which of the following statements related to Validate Scope and Control Quality processes

is accurate?

1 Validate Scope is concerned with correctness of the work results, while Control
Quality is primarily concerned with acceptance of the work results.
2 Validate Scope is concerned with acceptance of the work results, while Control
Quality is primarily concerned with correctness of the work results.
3 Validate Scope is done only after changes are approved by the change control board.
4 Both Validate Scope and Control Quality processes are always done sequentially.
Question No.:160
Selected Choice:

You are managing a Wind Energy Project. You have created the Network Schedule

Diagram given below (all units are in days):

What is the project float if management wants to complete this project within 13 days?

1 0 days
2 - 3 days
3 2 days
4 Cannot be determined, because information given
Question No.:161
Selected Choice:

You are given the following four projects. Which project will you select?

1 Project A with an opportunity cost of $100,000

2 Project B with a benefit-cost ratio of 0.75
3 Project C with an IRR of -2%
4 Project D with NPV of $100,000
Question No.:162
Selected Choice:

Statistical sampling involves choosing part of a population of interest for inspection.

In this context, which of the following statements on attribute sampling and variables

sampling are accurate?

A. Attribute sampling shows degree of conformity.

B. Attribute sampling indicates that the result either conforms or does not conform.
 C. Variables sampling indicates the result rated on a continuous scale.
D. Attribute sampling and variables sampling are done during Control Quality.

1 B, C and D
2 A, C and D
3 A, B and D
4 A, B and C
Question No.:163
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager in a software company. As an output from the Plan Human

Resource Management process, you have determined the roles and responsibilities

of all your project team members. Which of the following statements about your team

members` roles and responsibilities in the project is inaccurate?

1 Members can be designated as business analyst, technical architect, programmer,

project manager, team leader, etc.
2 Team members` individual levels of authority are matched with their competencies
in order to get the best performance.
3 Proper responsibility (work that a team member is expected to perform in order to
complete the project`s activities) is assigned to all the team members.
4 Competency and proactive responses (e.g. training, hiring, schedule changes,
or scope changes) of the team members are improved.
Question No.:164
Selected Choice:

In your project, you use issue logs or action item logs to document and monitor

resolution of issues. You focus on documentation and timely resolution of issues,

because unresolved issues can:

1 Be escalated to the project sponsor

2 Be a major source of conflict
3 Become undetermined risks in the project
4 Have adverse effect on all project parameters
Question No.:165
Selected Choice:

You have geographically dispersed team members, from whom you would like to

anonymously obtain expert opinion on the project you are managing.

Which information gathering technique should you use?

1 Brainstorming
2 Delphi technique
3 SWOT analysis
4 Checklists
Question No.:166
Selected Choice:

Which of the following is the most widely used contract type?

1 Cost plus incentive fee contracts

2 Fixed price incentive fee contracts
3 Cost plus award fee contracts
4 Firm fixed price contracts
Question No.:167
Selected Choice:

Which of the following is NOT a valid input for the Identify Stakeholders process?

1 Enterprise environmental factors

2 Procurement documents
3 Project scope statement
4 Project charter
Question No.:168
Selected Choice:

A project manager disclosed some crucial information to a prospective seller.

Which aspect of PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct did he violate?

1 Maintain and satisfy the scope and objectives

2 Prevent conflict of interest
 3 Provide accurate and truthful representations
4 Refrain from offering or accepting inappropriate payments, gifts, etc.
Question No.:169
Selected Choice:

As a project manager for a construction company, you are responsible to Define Scope,

Define Activities, Develop Schedule, and Determine Budget. These responsibilities are

performed as part of:

1 Closing
2 Initiating
3 Planning
4 Monitoring and Controlling
Question No.:170
Selected Choice:

A project manager has to manage conflict in an organization. Which of the following

could be the source of least conflict in an organization?

1 Weak matrix structure with multiple managers to report to

2 Low position in the organization hierarchy
3 Roles that are not well defined
4 Work pressure and high stress
Question No.:171
Selected Choice:

The scope baseline is a component of the project management plan and is critical

for you to verify scope and perform scope control.

Which of the following is NOT a component of the scope baseline?

1 Project Scope Statement

2 WBS
3 WBS dictionary
4 Activity list
Question No.:172
Selected Choice:

You are managing a new project to add parking to the airport in your home town.

Your Friend, the Mayor has asked you to Estimate the time and resources required

so that he can Secure Funding. You have divided the Project into 3 Tasks and

interviewed relevant experts to get Time and Material estimates for each of the Tasks.

You have depicted the Survey Data in the table below:

Which of the three tasks (A, B, C) has the maximum variance?

1 Task A
2 Task B
3 Task C
4 Cannot be determined
Question No.:173
Selected Choice:

Analytical techniques which are most useful during the Plan Cost Management process

include:

1 ROI, Payback period, NPV, IRR

2 IRR, Opportunity cost, Discount rate
3 Depreciation, Cost of goods, ROI
4 Sunk cost, NPV, ROI
Question No.:174
Selected Choice:
 You are working as a project manager in an automobile company.

Recently the government has amended the regulations to enforce stricter emission

requirements for automobiles. As a project manager, you are concerned that

your project quality norms may not satisfy the revised quality standards. So,

you do an audit and try to remedy this problem through:

1 Quality assurance
2 Quality planning
3 Quality control
4 Modifications to quality management plan
Question No.:175
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager in a software company. In your project, you want to

ensure that all the operational departments in your organization (e.g. information integrity,

data architecture group, servers group, etc.) clearly visualize their project responsibilities.

Which one of the following helps you achieve this objective?

1 Organizational breakdown structure

2 Staffing plan
3 Project staff assignments
4 Resource breakdown structure
Question No.:176
Selected Choice:

In your project, a team member is not performing well. Best way to handle issues

of poor performance is through:

1 Informal written communication

2 Informal verbal communication
3 Formal written communication
4 Formal verbal communication
Question No.:177
Selected Choice:

Graphical representations of situations showing causal influences, time ordering of events,

and other relationships among variables and outcomes are also referred to as:

1 Cause-and-effect diagrams
2 System flow charts
3 Influence diagrams
4 Simulation diagrams
Question No.:178
Selected Choice:

If you would like to compare different suppliers and rate their proposals for the

purpose of procurements, you should use:

1 Bidder conferences
2 Selected sellers
3 Procurement documents
4 Source selection criteria
Question No.:179
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager of a $20 million project, and you are struggling to manage

the needs of all the stakeholders. You decide to classify the stakeholders, which you

hope will enable you to focus on the relationships necessary to ensure the success of the project.

In this context, which of

the following is NOT a factor that you should consider while classifying stakeholders?

1 Stakeholders’ interest in the project

2 Hierarchy of the organization
3 Stakeholders’ involvement in the project
4 Stakeholders’ influence on the project
Question No.:180
Selected Choice:

Your project is nearing completion, when the customer requests you to include

an additional feature in the project`s final product. The BEST course of action is to:

1 Include the feature, as it will improve customer satisfaction

2 Include the feature - otherwise the product will not be accepted by the customer
3 Talk with the customer and explain that the new feature does not make business
sense
4 Take the requirement through the change control process
Question No.:181
Selected Choice:

Almost all projects are planned and implemented in a social, economic, or environmental

context, and have intended and unintended positive or negative impacts. In this context,

which of the following statements about Enterprise Environmental Factors is NOT true?

1 Neither promote nor hold back the project management processes

2 May restrict the project management processes
3 May promote the project management processes
4 May either promote or hold back the project management processes
Question No.:182
Selected Choice:

The project team has successfully delivered the final component of a year long project

on-budget and ahead of schedule. You, as the project manager, have been offered a

promotion due to this great success. The final product has been transitioned into

production and post-implementation support requirements have been completed.

As part of project closure, what would be done NEXT?

1 Create project closure documents

2 Release project team
3 Update Organizational Process Assets
4 Validate Scope
Question No.:183
Selected Choice:

After collecting requirements, one of your tasks as a project manager is to prepare a scope

statement for your project. The scope statement provides:

1 Authorization to the project manager for using organizational resources for project
activities.
2 Documentation of how the project scope will be managed and how scope changes
will be integrated into the project.
3 Definition for work breakdown structure.
4 Common understanding of the project scope among project stakeholders.
Question No.:184
Selected Choice:

There is an ongoing project to give a 100-year-old Football Field a $250 million facelift

over the next two years. While Estimating Activity Durations, you obtain the data shown

in the table below (durations in months):

If the critical path consists of these three tasks (A, B, and C), what is the PERT estimate

for the duration of the project?

1 22.5 Months
2 10.33 Months
3 32 Months
4 5.17 Months
Question No.:185
Selected Choice:

The rate used in your company to calculate the present value of expected yearly
 benefits and costs is referred to as:

1 Interest rate
2 Discount rate
3 Internal rate of return
4 Benefit cost ratio
Question No.:186
Selected Choice:

You are a project manager at a large software development organization. A primary

objective of your company is to deliver high-quality products to your customers, with

a low rate of errors and post-delivery fixes. The company has made significant

investments in a robust quality management system, including very detailed and

thorough procedures and processes, designed to support the quality objectives of

the company. In software development projects, prior to submitting software modules to

the customer for user acceptance testing, your team uses a set of rigorous scripts to

test the code and functionality. In which process would the team use these scripts to

test the modules and in what process would the test scripts be audited to ensure

they are valid and produce the desired results?

1 Quality Assurance, Validate Scope

2 Validate Scope, Control Quality
3 Control Quality, Validate Scope
4 Control Quality, Quality Assurance
Question No.:187
Selected Choice:

You have been given a high priority task that needs to be completed within a short time

frame. Since you know what has to be done, you assign tasks to different team members

and tell them when and how the tasks should be completed. The management style

that you are following is:

 1 Directing
2 Laissez Faire
3 Delegating
4 Task-oriented
Question No.:188
Selected Choice:

You are the project manager, heading a team of ten technical developers. Three more

developers will be joining within a month. What will be the increase in the number of

communication channels after the new members join your team?

1 15
2 23
3 36
4 Cannot be determined from the given information
Question No.:189
Selected Choice:

You are in the build phase of a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project, which has run

into several unanticipated problems. Several risks have surfaced which you had not

anticipated earlier. The project is over-budget and significantly behind schedule.

What should you do?

1 Create updates to risk response plan

2 Create a revised project plan
3 Perform risk audits
4 Perform updated risk identification and analysis
Question No.:190
Selected Choice:

A contract where the buyer reimburses the seller the costs incurred by her and also

provides a fixed amount of profit is called a:

1 Cost plus incentive fee contract

2 Cost plus fixed fee contract
 3 Time and material contract
4 Cost plus award fee contract
Question No.:191
Selected Choice:

In your project, you use an issue log or action item log to document and monitor the

resolution of issues. You focus on documentation and timely resolution of issues

because unresolved issues can:

1 Be escalated to the project sponsor

2 Be a major source of conflict
3 Become undetermined risks in the project
4 Have adverse effect on all project parameters
Question No.:192
Selected Choice:

You are aware that a team member of your project is likely to be promoted shortly.

There is also a possibility that she may be transferred out of the project following the

promotion. In this situation, you should:

1 Give a bad appraisal report to delay the promotion of the person until the
project is completed.
2 Inform the team member about the likelihood of her promotion and ask
her to give her responsibilities to another person.
3 Ask the member, after she is promoted and receives transfer orders,
to prepare a transition plan.
4 Hire another resource, who can replace the promoted member.
Question No.:193
Selected Choice:

As a project manager, you realize that managing project stakeholder expectations is

an important priority. Which statement on project stakeholders is NOT correct?

1 Negative stakeholders must be ignored if the project has to be successfully

completed.
2 Stakeholders have varying levels of responsibility and authority when participating
on a project and these can change over the course of the project life cycle.
3 Some key stakeholders include project manager, operations management,
 project team, customers, and sponsor.
4 Stakeholder expectations may be difficult to manage, because stakeholders
often have very different or conflicting objectives.
Question No.:194
Selected Choice:

In the project, the sponsor has provided a budget of $20 million. This is an example

of a/an:

1 Constraint
2 Assumption
3 Kill point
4 Risk
Question No.:195
Selected Choice:

In your project, you need to verify whether deliverables meet requirements and

product acceptance criteria. For this purpose, which of the following would you rely on?

1 Inspection
2 Expert judgment
3 Observations
4 Focus groups
Question No.:196
Selected Choice:

As the Project manager of a Satellite Uplink project, you have created a Schedule

Management plan. You obtain the data shown in the table below about three of the

many Tasks you need to complete before Project Closure.(duration in days):

 If these three tasks (i.e., Tasks A, B, and C) are not part of the critical path of a project,

what is the PERT estimate for the duration of the project?

1 22.5 Days
2 10.33 Days
3 32 Days
4 Cannot be determined
Question No.:197
Selected Choice:

You are creating a cost management plan for your Six-Sigma project. In this context,

which of the following statements relating to creation of the cost management plan is

inaccurate?

1 Specifies the precision level to which the schedule activity cost estimates
will adhere
2 Establishes variance thresholds for costs
3 Defines formats for various cost reports
4 Uses preferred tools for cost estimating
Question No.:198
Selected Choice:

Which of the following statements about Control Quality is accurate?

A. Prevention refers to keeping errors out of the process,

whereas inspection refers to keeping errors out of the hands of the customer.
B. Attribute sampling determines whether the result conforms or not,

and variables sampling determines the degree of conformity.

C. Tolerances refer to a specified range of accepted results and control limits

refer to thresholds, which can indicate whether the process is out of control.
D. Control Quality is only performed during the Monitoring and Controlling phase of a project.

1 B, C and D
2 A, C and D
3 A, B and D
 4 A, B and C

Question No.:199
Selected Choice:

Two project team members disagree often on the best way to handle an issue.

You ask them to look at the positives and negatives of their approaches and submit

their recommendations, which could be a "middle path".

Which of the following conflict resolution techniques have you used?

1 Smoothing
2 Compromising
3 Confrontation
4 Withdrawal
Question No.:200
Selected Choice:

Which of the following statements about communications management is incorrect?

1 Communication planning involves determining the information and

communication needs of the stakeholders.
2 Communicating is the most critical skill for a project manager.
3 Project managers spend more than 90% of their time communicating.
4 To be effective, a project manager should control all communication channels.