Project Management Final

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You are the Project Manager for a large construction project. While reviewing the expenditures, you realize that you are 20% over budget. What process group are you working in?

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What is the main benefit of a balanced matrix organization over a projectized organizational structure?

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As the Sponsor on a large, multi-national hydroelectric power project, during the execution phase, your primary responsibilities are to:

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Name the 5 project management process groups.

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You are hired to manage an exciting new project for a software development company making CRM tools. You are unfamiliar with the project management resources available in the company. Who should you go to for help identifying the resources and best practices?

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As you progress through the project life cycle:

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The purpose of the Closer Process Group is:

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In the Statement Of Work, you provide:

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The output of the Develop Project Charter process is:

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According to the PMBOK all the following are types of project constraints except:

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You are the Project Manager for a project that will design and build the iPhone X, the latest in mobile phone technology. The requirements call for a new production facility in Asia. Immediately after working with Senior Management to create a business case and statement of work for the new production facility, what document will you want to produce?

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The ideal Project Team size is?

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Your project has been officially approved by your sponsor, what process group will you move from and which process group will you move to?

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All the following are examples of expert judgement except:

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In Project Integration Management, as you develop the Project Management Plan, you will:

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The process group where you will identify if any changes to the plan are needed and initiate those plans is:

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The organizational structure that gives project managers a very high degree of authority over their project is:

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The largest portion of the projects budget will be expended in what process group?

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All of the following are examples of Enterprise Environmental Factors EXCEPT:

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The leader of the project is working on completing a database upgrade but cannot get the additional resources she needs to be able to complete the project. The rest of the project team is working on daily operations work. The leader has not been given the authority to put additional resources on the project. What is the organizational structure this team is working in?

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Portfolio management refers to:

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A project has all of the following characteristics except:

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A program is:

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The project manager has the lowest level of authority in this type of organization:

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Project Management Process Groups are:

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Decomposition is:

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You are exactly half way through a construction project when the customer insists that you add a third entry way. What process will you need to follow to make the updates?

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What process group determines how the scope is defined?

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Requirements must be:

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All of the following are tools for collecting requirements EXCEPT:

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The process that documents stakeholder needs to meet the projects objectives are:

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Acceptance Criteria is:

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The project scope statement is:

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The WBS is:

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The lowest level of WBS components are:

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The project scope statement includes all of the following except:

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One of the outputs for the validate scope process is:

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Which of the following provides more detailed information?

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You are the leader of the Project Management Office for your company. One day, an experienced Project Manager asks why he should go to the trouble of creating a Work Breakdown Structure for his new project. The best answer would be:

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What is the purpose of the validate scope process?

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Create WBS is in which process group?

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Gold plating is:

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Project scope is:

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What is the WBS typically used for?

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Which of the following processes is not an output of the control scope process?

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You are managing a global project that involves stakeholders and several international locations. You are likely to consult the WBS dictionary to find:

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The following is an example of a constraint associated with the project scope that limits the team's options and scope definition:

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An output of the define scope process is:

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The difference between the Project Charter and the Project Scope Statement is:

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Control scope:

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Plan schedule management is:

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The duration of a milestone is:

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What is the best tool for determining the overall length of a project?

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The critical path is:

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The maximum amount of slack in the critical path is:

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The Critical Path has a duration of 10. There is an independent sequence, XYZ. Activity X has a duration of 2. Activity Y has a duration of 3. Activity Z has duration of 2. The EAC is 4000. The total float of XYZ is:

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To complete your project on time, you ask for additional overtime for your project team. This is an example of:

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Lag is:

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You ask your construction manager how long it will take to complete the new server room. He gives you a likely estimate of 6 weeks, but says it may take as long as 10 weeks. He may be able to get it done in 4 weeks if everything goes well. Calculate your PERT estimate of how long it will take to complete the server room.

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The method where buffers are added to each activity to account for resource availability is:

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A benefit of bottom-up estimating is:

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One of the outputs of the Develop Schedule process group that helps create the Project Management plan is:

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The minimum project duration is 6 months. Another path, series ABCD, will take 4 months to complete. In addition, series EFG will take 2 months. How much float is in ABCD?

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Which of the following allows you to accomplish tasks in parallel when they normally would be done in sequence?

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Analogous estimating is a technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or project using historical data from a similar activity or project. What is the disadvantage of this technique?

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Your project will run through the summer when your employees generally take vacation. To account for the risk of lower resource availability in your project plan, you could use:

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You need Activity A in your project plan to start 3 days before Activity B. Activity B would be called:

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You are creating the Schedule Baseline for a multi-national government pipeline project that will deliver oil faster and cheaper. You need to know how long it will take to build the new capacity. Who would you consult to determine the time required?

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An example of a finish to finish relationship is:

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Parametric estimating:

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In rolling wave planning:

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Analogous duration estimating is:

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To enter logical dependencies in MS project you enter the dependency in which column:

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Outputs from the Estimate Activity Resources process include:

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An example of a mandatory dependency is:

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Earned Value is:

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A SPI is 1.4 - your project is?

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You are 1 month into your project. You need to determine how much your project will cost when it is done. What Earned Value metric will you use to determine the cost?

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Project XYZ has a Schedule Variance of -500. That means that:

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Your EAC is 4000. The PV is 1000. The AC is 400. What is the ETC?

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All of the following are processes included in Project Cost Management except:

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Planned value is:

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If the earned value is 40,000, the planned value is 50,000, and the actual cost is 45,000, what is the cost performance index?

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In class, we discussed that in Initiation, a Rough Order of Magnitude estimate should be within what percent?

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Your project is behind schedule and over budget. When calculating the project’s CPI, you will get:

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What metric will show how efficiently the project team is using time?

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The output of the determine budget process is:

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During a project, earned value analysis is performed. You get the following numbers:

EV = 50,000 PV = 60,000 AC = 75,000

What are the correct results?

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There are 4 activities in your project. Activity A has a planned value of 20,000. Activity B has a planned value of 30,000. Activity C has a planned value of 10,000. Activity D has a planned value of 40,000. What is the BAC?

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Determine the variance at completion with the following information:

SV = -50,000

Estimate at completion = 100,000

Budget at completion = 200,000

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Direct costs are:

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Which of the following processes do not belong to the Project Cost Management process group?

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Cost estimation of individual work packages or activities is called:

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The output of determine budget is:

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The earned value calculations for your project are:

BAC = 10,000 EAC = 5,000 ETC = 4,000

What is the VAC and will you be over or under budget?

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Parametric estimating involves:

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The EAC is based on:

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Earned value management (EVM) is a commonly used:

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You're earned value management analysis indicates that your project is falling behind its baseline schedule. You know this because the cumulative EV is much:

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Item PV AC EV

1 10,000 11,000 10,000

2 9,000 8,000 7,000

3 8,000 8,000 8,000

4 7,000 7,000 5,000

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Plan quality management is:

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What would be the least effective tool or method to reduce quality cost?

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Quality is:

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The 3 quality processes in project quality management are:

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The Ishikawa Diagram tool is used to:

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Grade is:

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The cost of quality includes all of the following EXCEPT:

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The quality management plan is an output of which process:

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Increased prevention costs should result in:

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Pareto diagrams:

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Perform quality assurance is:

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Scatter diagrams:

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A project manager can use a control chart to determine:

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The results of performing the control quality process are:

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An example of appraisal costs is:

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The perform quality assurance process is in:

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Checksheets are:

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Degree of quality should be:

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Control Quality is:

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Understanding, evaluating, defining & managing requirements are essential to satisfying:

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The quality management plan is a component of the ________________ that describes how the organization's quality policies will be implemented.

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The seven basic quality tools include all of the following EXCEPT:

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Inspection is:

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Which of the following is true regarding precision and accuracy?

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Project Human Resource Management includes the following processes:

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The human resource management plan is an output of which process:

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The best illustrate for your project teams reporting relationships you would use:

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Which of the following is NOT one of toucans 5 stages of team development?

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There is a critical disagreement between two of your project team members. You need to help them resolve the issue. To help them find a solution that is a win for both sides, you would use which technique for resolving conflict?

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RACI stands for?

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The project manager:

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A member of your team has broken one of the agreed upon ground rules, who should enforce the rule?

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The process of developing an appropriate approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholder’s needs, requirements, and available organizational assets is:

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In addition to distributing information, the Manage Communications process is also concerned with:

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For your new project, you need to produce a simple status update for your Sponsor. What information would you not want to include?

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As a Project Manager in a matrix environment, you do not have direct authority over your project team. However, your team likes you and enjoys working for you. You are relying on what type of influence?

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What topic would likely be covered in the kick off meeting?

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Mid-way through a project, your sponsor comes to you and asks for a monthly project status report to be produced that will help the executive team understand the progress being made on the project. What process are you in now?

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You have a virtual team working on your project. What is a disadvantage of having a team that is not all located in the same place?

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The PMO:

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Your project team is beginning to work together and adjust their habits to support the team. They are beginning to trust each other more. What development stage is your team in?

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You are creating a weekly status update, what process are you in?

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Your project team is well organized, interdependent and handles issues effectively. What stage are they in?

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The HRMP should generally include all of the following EXCEPT:

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Techniques and considerations for effective communications management generally includes all of the following EXCEPT:

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The acquisitions strategy for acquiring a project team consists of:

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The Acquire Project Team is the process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities. The enterprise environmental factors that can influence this process generally include all of the following EXCEPT:

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Generally acknowledged techniques for resolving conflict include:

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Project risk is:

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The strategy to address opportunities and seek to ensure the opportunity happens is:

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The risk register is an output of which project risk management process?

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The following process is in monitoring & control:

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Relies on anonymous feedback from experts through questionnaires and drives toward consensus

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The risk register should include:

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Is used to determine the risk rating to help prioritize risks:

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Helps compare the relative importance & impact of variables that have a high degree of uncertainty to those that are more stable:

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Uses a computer to produce many simulations using random sampling to obtain probable results distribution:

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You are building a skyscraper in New York City. If the project falls behind schedule, you will lose millions of dollars in fees to the city. You want to shift the financial burden of the threat of fees to a third party. What strategy should you use?

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Your software project is given very good press in The Wall Street Journal. You want to make sure the chances for success are increased so you add more resources to the project. What strategy are you using?

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Qualitative risk analysis deals with:

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Using Expected Monetary Value Analysis, calculate the average outcome for a project that has either a $300,000 profit and 30% chance of achieving it, or a $100,000 loss and 70% chance of having that happen.

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Process of determining options to reduce threats and enhance opportunities:

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Your Risk Register calls out several risks, including not having enough resources available to complete the software in time to ship it. You check in weekly with the developers to make sure the software will be completed in time. What process are you in?

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When using the Delphi technique, you should:

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In the plan risk responses process, an accept strategy for a negative risk or threat indicates that the project team has decided:

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As an update of the control risks process, an updated risk register generally includes some or all of the following EXCEPT:

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To be successful, an organization should be committed to addressing risk management:

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The primary output of the identify risks process is the:

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The mitigate risk response strategy:

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The probability and impact risk assessment thresholds:

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Sensitivity analysis helps determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. How is that info shown?

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Expected monetary value (EMV) analysis has all of the following characteristics except:

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An output of perform qualitative risk analysis is:

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Identify stakeholders is a part of which process group?

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You are evaluating various bids to determine which vendor you will purchase your building materials from. What process are you in?

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You are a Project Manager constructing a large building to store your company’s work vehicles. You know exactly what you want built. It will only take 3 weeks to build. In this case, what type of contract would you want to use?

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You a working on a project that will augment the staff in grade schools by providing temporary substitute teachers for the school district. To account for fixed overhead costs and hourly wages, the best contract type would be:

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The stakeholder register is an output of which process?

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In the Power/Interest stakeholder grid, which quadrant should you spend the most time on and provide the most attention?

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The stake holder register should contain at least the following:

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Lessons learned:

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If a contract has an incentive fee, financial incentives are dependent on:

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During closing, you should hand off the project to:

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In the agile framework, individuals and interactions are valued more than:

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You are a Project Manager for Apple and your latest project is developing the new iPhone 6Z. You need to build a solar battery that will enable the phone to go without charging for 2 weeks at a time. Critical to this project is the new chip design that requires a special assembly line to produce. This new assembly line is not a core competency of Apple. You need to decide what type of contract will work best to acquire the new chip. What procurement process are you in?

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Which type of contract is the riskiest for a contractor?

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The output of the conduct procurements process is:

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Your project Sponsor is actively engaged in your project and understands the benefits and impacts. How would you classify the Sponsor as a stakeholder?

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During the Closing process, you should do all of the following except

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Enterprise environ factors are:

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Who represents the customer in SCRUM?

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Procurement is:

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The best measure for progress in agile is:

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Cost plus fixed fee contracts (CPFF) have all of the following characteristics except:

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You are involved in the process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs/expectations, address issues as they occur, and foster appropriate stakeholder engagement in project activities throughout the project life cycle. This is known as:

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Manage Stakeholder Engagement involves all of the following activities except:

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Control Stakeholder Engagement tools and techniques include all of the following except:

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Outputs from the Close Procurements Process generally include all of the following except:

Quiz on Project Management Final, created by Laura Qualey on 22/07/2015.

Project Management Final

You are the Project Manager for a large construction project. While reviewing the expenditures, you realize that you are 20% over budget. What process group are you working in?

What is the main benefit of a balanced matrix organization over a projectized organizational structure?

As the Sponsor on a large, multi-national hydroelectric power project, during the execution phase, your primary responsibilities are to:

Name the 5 project management process groups.

You are hired to manage an exciting new project for a software development company making CRM tools. You are unfamiliar with the project management resources available in the company. Who should you go to for help identifying the resources and best practices?

As you progress through the project life cycle:

The purpose of the Closer Process Group is:

In the Statement Of Work, you provide:

The output of the Develop Project Charter process is:

According to the PMBOK all the following are types of project constraints except:

The ideal Project Team size is?

Your project has been officially approved by your sponsor, what process group will you move from and which process group will you move to?

All the following are examples of expert judgement except:

In Project Integration Management, as you develop the Project Management Plan, you will:

The process group where you will identify if any changes to the plan are needed and initiate those plans is:

The organizational structure that gives project managers a very high degree of authority over their project is:

The largest portion of the projects budget will be expended in what process group?

All of the following are examples of Enterprise Environmental Factors EXCEPT: