Reserve analysis is a tool and technique used in which of the following processes?
The highest degrees of project risk and uncertainty are associated with the following phase of the project:
Which quality management tool would be used to determine potential causes of a production problem?
Which tool and technique uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate estimates?
A company attorney, newly hired by the company, walks into the project manager's office and tells her that he is ready to work with her on the procurement process. The project manager has little experience with procurement, so she is excited to have the assistance.
With which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to ask the attorney for help?
Which of the following lists contain processes that are included within Project Procurement Management?
You have been assigned to a project that will allow job seekers to fill out applications and submit them via the company website. You report to the VP of human resources. You are also responsible for screening applications for the information technology division and setting up interviews. The project coordinator has asked for the latest version of your changes to the online application page for his review.
Which organizational structure do you work in?
When communicating with large audiences, which communication method works most effectively?
If you are the project manager for a new project. You have collected the necessary input information and delivered the project charter to the stakeholders.
What should you do next?
Activity resource requirements and resource breakdown structure are outputs from what Project Time Management process?
The use of group creativity techniques as a tool and technique is done in which of the following processes?
A project team member has been having a big disagreement with another team member for over two months when the other team members become involved. The issues are complex, but you have specific experience in the area and know what needs to be done. The BEST choice would be to:
A project manager is creating a risk response plan. However, every time a risk response is suggested, another risk is identified that is caused by the response.
Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?
While preparing your risk responses, you realize that you have not planned for unknown risk events. You need to make adjustments to the project to compensate for unknown risk events. These adjustments are based on your past project experience when unknown risk events occurred and knocked the project off track.
What should you do?
Which of the following is one of the key components of the basic communications model?
A line manager who is asked to wear two hats and function as a project manager at the same time is likely to exercise:
Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?
Providing forecasts to update current cost and schedule information is a part of which process?
Using the chart, what is the lowest cost of crashing this project to save four weeks?
What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?
While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only.
Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?
Employee unions would most likely satisfy which level in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
In the precedence diagramming method, which of the following is a logical relationship for the activities?
A(n) _____ is defined as a specified accomplishment in a particular instant in time which does not consume time or resources.
What is a specific advantage of analogous estimating in comparison with other cost estimate techniques?
You are the project manager of a project. You have just completed the Collect Requirements and Define Scope.
What should you do next?
A project manager needs the project team to make a group decision. Which of the following is a method that can be used to reach a group decision?
A person is writing a document identifying the business need for a project and is including a description of the product created by the project. She includes a list of stakeholders and pre assigned resources.
What is the role of this person on the project?
Which knowledge area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
In which of the following contract types is a price ceiling set and any additional costs above the price ceiling becomes the responsibility of the performing organization?
You have assembled your thoughts into a message. As you pass this information to a second party, you are giving this person you’re:
There are seven members on the project team not counting the project manager and the sponsor. How many communication channels are there?
You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States government. Your mission-should you choose to accept it-is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is that finding contractors with top-secret clearances takes quite a bit of time, and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director's hot new project.
Which of the following type of project ending is this?
Company expenses such as auditing costs, supervision, office supplies, building rent and maintenance are elements of the:
You know that PV = 470, AC = 430, EV = 480, EAC = 500, and BAC = 525.
What is VAC?
Which Activity Duration Estimating technique incorporates additional timing for contingency purposes?
Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?
In which of the following organizational structures does the project manager have full authority on a project?
Lessons learned are most often based upon project historical records. Lessons learned can be used to:
Project scope statement and resource calendars are inputs to what Project Time Management process?
A problem occurs on an activity with free float and the project manager has extended its duration.
What is MOST likely to be affected?
All of the following are tools and techniques of the Performance Reporting process except which one?
What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
A project involves arranging for the closing of the company office where the team works and relocating everyone to a new city. The BEST thing the project manager can do is:
A project manager believes that modifying the scope of the project may provide added value for the customer. The project manager should:
What is the term assigned to products or services having the same functional use but different technical characteristics?
When working in a matrix environment, all of the following are true regarding the Manage Project Team process except for which one?
Overlapping activities on a project, such as design and construction, is referred to as:
You are a project manager for the Swirling Seas Cruises food division. You're considering two different projects regarding food services on the cruise lines. The initial cost of Project Fish'n for Chips will be $800,000, with expected cash inflows of $300,000 per quarter. Project Picnic's payback period is six months.
Which project should you recommend?
Sally is a project manager working on a project that will require a specially engineered machine. Only three manufacturers can make the machine to the specifications Sally needs. The price of this machine is particularly critical to this project. The budget is limited, and there's no chance of securing additional funds if the bids for the machine come in higher than budgeted.
She's developing the evaluation criteria for the bidders' responses and knows all of the following are true except for which one?
The project management office is worried about the quality of the company's various projects. They want to know which projects are having problems and which ones are doing well.
If the PMO receives the following information, which project should they be the MOST concerned about?
You are negotiating with a seller. Time is of the essence but you have a limited budget, and the seller knows this.
What is your BEST negotiating strategy under these circumstances?
You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country. You know, but have not yet informed your company, that you are going to go to work for the competitor, which happens to be bidding for this same opportunity.
What is the most appropriate response?
A Project with a total funding of $70,000 finished with a BAC value of $60,000.
What term can best describe the difference of $10,000?
The Monitoring and Controlling process group contains which of the following processes?