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The following processes are part of the Project Time Management Knowledge Area EXCEPT:

Collect Requirements

You're working on a construction project which requires 800 square meters of tilling. The tiler works eight hours a day and manages to lay 40 square meters of tiles per day. Use parametric estimating to calculate how many hours the tiling would take to complete.

160 hours

What is the source of the information used during the Manage Project Team process to identify issues that need to be addressed within the project team?

Team performance assessments

Which term is the expressed amount of acceptable variation for a project objective communicated to team members?

Risk threshold

Which input to the Monitor Communications process provides observations of the type and quantities of communications that has been shared with stakeholders?

Work performance data

Which conflict resolution technique is characterized by the following traits?
The person with the power makes the decision
It does little for team development
It is generally seen as a win-lose solution

Forcing

Identify a quality improvement strategy used to establish continual improvement in project quality management.

The plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle

The project manager needs to address internal strategic issues that may affect project quality. Which role is held by the person who can best assist with these issues?

Sponsor

Which enterprise environmental factors can influence the Identify Stakeholders process?

Organizational culture and political climate

Which document is used for making decision results from monitoring the execution of project activities?

Work performance reports

When planning procurement management, which contract type is used as an input when requirements are thoroughly defined and the scope is not expected to change?

Fixed-price contract

Which project cost management process makes use of the following data analysis techniques: earned value analysis, variance analysis, trend analysis, and reserve analysis?

Control costs

What is used during the Create WBS process to identify limitations that affect the project?

Project scope statement

Which trend in project quality management verifies that the project produces the intended product, and that the product is fit to be used?

Customer satisfaction

A project manager notices that the duration for the planned schedule is 95 days. However, the project has to be completed in 85 days, on June 25. Which technique should the project manager use to ensure that the project is completed on time with the least incremental cost?

Crashing

The following are key functions or principles of general management in the organization EXCEPT:

.
Support of project manager

Which Process Group contains the processes used to gain authorization to start a new project phase?

Initiating

Which process involves watching the overall project stakeholder relationships and adjusting strategies and plans for engaging stakeholders?

Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

Which document includes a glossary of commonly used terms?

Communications management plan

Which process is responsible for creating the requirements management plan?

Plan Scope Management

Which option represents three inputs to the Monitor and Control Project Work process?

Project management plan, cost forecasts, and work performance information

Which process involves archiving information for future use?

Control Procurements

You are in the process of planning cost management for your project. You need to develop detailed project costs from the preapproved financial resources. Where can you locate this information?

Project charter

How do the top two percent of project managers distinguish themselves from other project managers?

Superior communication skills

What is produced by the Acquire Project Team process that identifies when project team members are available to work on project activities?

Resource calendars

Which input is used by the Plan Risk Responses process includes the prioritized risks?

Risk register

What is an output of the Identify Stakeholders process?

Stakeholder register

What is a key benefit of the Plan Procurement Management process?

Determines whether or not outside support should be obtained

Which of the following are emerging trends in project resource management? Choose 3.

Effective distributed teams
High emotional intelligence (EI)
Optimal resource utilization

Which statement BEST describes a characteristic of the project management plan?

Updates to the project management plan require approval through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.

Lessons learned register and stakeholder register are examples of which output from the Monitor Communications process?

Project documents updates

What describes the culture and structure of a project environment?

The international, national, regional, and local laws that could affect the project

You need to identify the opportunities that may affect the project's quality requirements. Which input to the Plan Quality Management process is the best source of this information?

Risk register

Which role does a project manager have a part to play in with respect to the industry?

Staying current with respect influences impacting the field of project management

Which Process Group contains the processes that are used to normalize variances?

Monitoring and Controlling

What is used when controlling project costs to identify the cost performance that must be achieved on remaining work if the project is to meet a financial goal set by management?

TCPI

Which input to the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process contains useful information from risk databases available to the industry?

Risk management plan

Which item represents an input for the Define Activities process?

Scope baseline

What is used during the Collect Requirements process to determine how to define and develop the project scope?

Scope management plan

Which process is the scope baseline an output of?

Create WBS

As more information is known about the project, which technique is typically used with decomposition to provide details about project activities?
Answers

Rolling wave planning

Which process is focused on documenting the interests, involvement, interdependencies, influence, and potential impact on project success of the people, groups, or organizations involved with or affected by the project?

Identify Stakeholders

Identify the project cost management process that determines how project costs will be estimated and managed.

Planning the cost management

All of the following are outputs of the Control Quality process EXCEPT:

Accepted deliverables

Which sphere of influence does the participation of the project manager in continuing education with PMI fall under?

Professional discipline

Which input contains forecasting data that is used by the Monitor Risks process?

Work performance reports

Which tools and techniques are used by the Manage Team process?

Project management information system, conflict management, and interpersonal and team skills

At what point while performing the processes that make up the Initiating Process Group is a project considered to be officially authorized?

When the project charter is approved

Which type of PMO provides moderate control and requires compliance?

Controlling

What is the key benefit of the Manage Communications process?

It facilitates a smooth flow of information between project stakeholders

Which process uses the project charter as a key input?

Develop Project Management Plan

Which project document contains status information that can be used for communication purposes?

Work performance reports

Which process ensures that the performance of the buyer and seller meet the procurement requirements that were agreed to in the contract?

Control Procurements

Which process in the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group contains the activities used to ensure that completed deliverables are formally accepted?

Validate Scope

What is an output of the Acquire Project Team process and is used to stipulate when people are allocated to the project team?

Project staff assignments

Identify the project type that would benefit most from detailed cost estimation methods in agile/adaptive environments.

A project with a short-term planning range

Which output of the Plan Quality Management process details quality requirements that may need to be updated?

Scope baseline

Which of the following is a characteristic of Project Integration Management?

Provides the project management plan to successfully carry out the project objectives

Salience model is an example of which tool or technique of the Identify Stakeholders process?

Data representation

Being involved in expanding the number of peers and business contacts is an example of which power?

Relational

Which document can be used to indicate when risk responses need to be adjusted?

Work performance information

Which process enables the allocation of clear responsibilities for each work unit that is required by the project?

Create WBS

Which matrix organization type most closely resembles a functional organization?

Weak

Deliverable status and performance reports are examples of which output from the Manage Communications process?

Project communications

Which process is responsible for carrying out the activities used to confirm that the project results conform to the requirements?

Validate Scope

Identify the outputs of the Conduct Procurements process. Choose 3.

Change requests
Agreements
Selected sellers

Which skill set is excluded from the PMI Talent Triangle?

Facilities management

Generally, one user or group has direct or indirect project management responsibilities across multiple projects. Which user or group matches this description?

Project management office

Which process uses approved change requests resulting in modifications to a deliverable?

Direct and Manage Project Work

Which of the following refers to a delay between project activities?

Lag

Which of the following benefits are related to successfully applying the Control Quality process? Choose 3.

It provides a structured method for measuring and analyzing work results.

It helps identify the sources of unsatisfactory work results and prioritize action on sources of errors that cause the most problems.

It enables the performing organization to determine whether work results meet project quality standards.

Which statements are a key concepts in project cost management? Choose 3.

The effect that project decisions have on the cost of using and maintaining the product

The way in which stakeholders calculate project costs

The price of the resources needed to finish all project tasks

Which chart type is especially suitable for clarifying roles and responsibilities in cross-departmental projects?

RACI matrix

Which Process Group contains the processes required to align the purpose of the project with the expectations of the stakeholders?

Initiating

A project has a greater likelihood of succeeding when stakeholders are actively involved. Which practice is NOT a strategy of effective stakeholder engagement?

Assign a team member to conduct stakeholder engagement activities

When planning for Risk A, your risk strategy was originally to accept the risk. However, due to new government regulations, you can no longer accept the risk. After reviewing the situation, you have determined that the best course of action is to eliminate the threat. Which strategy should be applied in this situation for Risk A?

Avoid

All of the following are inputs to the Control Quality process EXCEPT:

Work performance information

What is a technique used in the Collect Requirements process to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis for measuring performance?

Benchmarking

Which output of the Monitor Risks process contains information about the effectiveness or risk response planning and the implementation of risk responses?

Work performance information

Which Process Group contains the process used to perform assessments of project team members?

Closing

What is used during the Plan Cost Management process to consider strategies for project funding?

Data analysis

Which tool or technique of the Develop Project Team process focuses on the forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning stages of development?

Team-building activities

What conclusion can you draw if you're presented with a project schedule network diagram that includes multiple successor activities?

There is a path divergence

Which statement BEST distinguishes leadership from management?

Collaborates with team members to guide the project forward

Which process involves communicating and working with stakeholders to satisfy their requirements and expectations?

Manage Stakeholder Engagement

Which item represents a formal proposal by project stakeholders to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?

Change request

The following are domains of the common governance framework that can be applied to a standalone project, or a project being run as part of a program or portfolio EXCEPT:

Oversight

What is used during the Monitor Communications process to make informed decisions about monitoring communications with the public?

Expert judgment

Identify the tools and techniques used in the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process. Choose 3.

Expert judgment
Data gathering
Meetings

Which input to the Manage Quality process is used as the basis for developing test scenarios for improvement initiatives?

Quality metrics

Which processes are part of the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area? Choose 3.

Develop Project Charter
Direct and Manage Project Work
Develop Project Management Plan

What is an example of a business and strategic factor?

Risks and issues

Which input is used by the Plan Scope Management process to determine the approach that will be used to plan and manage the project scope?

Project management plan

Which type of chart should you create to allow people to quickly identify all of the project responsibilities for a particular department?

Organizational breakdown structure

Which type of response strategy involves increasing the likelihood of an opportunity occurring by eliminating uncertainty?

Exploit

During which process are forecasts provided to update current schedule information?

Monitor and Control Project Work

While managing project communications, what offers a way to express the analyzed and integrated work performance data in a clear and succinct way that stakeholders can understand?

Project reporting

Which estimating technique is used during the Estimate Costs process when you need to account for uncertainty?

Three-point

Which organizational structure contains full-time project managers with moderate authority, and includes full-time project administrative staff?

Strong matrix

A project manager determines that he will need five programmers to test an application's code from Monday to Friday. However, the project manager will only need three programmers from Monday to Friday if one programmer works the weekend. What did the project manager use in this scenario?

Data analysis

What is used during the Create WBS process to assign identification codes to the WBS components?

Decomposition

Which document defines the initial intentions of a project?

The agreement

Which leadership style focuses on accomplishments to determine rewards, empowers followers by example, and can inspire with enthusiasm and self-confidence?

Interactional

Which statement provides the BEST example of work performance data?

Actual costs incurred

What is the main output of the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?

Project documents updates

Which output of the Plan Quality Management process identifies how quality performance will be measured to ensure the deliverables meet the quality standards set for the project?

Quality metrics

Which estimating technique typically provides the most accurate results?

Bottom-up

Which of the following are included in a resource management plan? Choose 3.

Recognition and rewards
Resource acquisition guidelines
Training

Which dimension of communication deals with social media?

Informal

Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process would describe the communication technologies used between stakeholders?

Communications management plan

During which process are relationships between project tasks identified?

Sequence Activities

What is NOT a feature of the project management office?

A decentralized approach to managing multiple projects simultaneously

Which statement BEST describes technical project management skills?

The ability to create the project work breakdown structure (WBS)

Which tool or technique is used by the Monitor Risks process to determine whether there are enough funds set aside to cover the amount of risk remaining in the project?

Reserve analysis

Which of the following are something the project manager should consider when tailoring the project resource management processes? Choose 3.

Life cycle approaches
Physical location of resources
Team management

What is the purpose of project integration management?

To provide an approach for coordinating various processes and project management tasks within the Project Management Process Groups

Which tool, used during the Plan Quality Management process, uses quality criteria from another project as a reference point for the current project's quality criteria?

Benchmarking

What is used during the Estimate Costs process to determine the impact of additional funds required for conformance versus nonconformance?

Cost of quality

Which of the following are characteristics of agile approaches in project scope management? Choose 3.

The deliverables are established throughout the project

A comprehensive scope is determined and approved at different stages of the project life cycle

The focus is on improving the process for determining the scope

Which of the following is an output of the monitor communications process?

Work performance information

Which input provides the project approval requirements that are used in the development of the schedule management plan?

Project charter

Stakeholder needs are established in the stakeholder engagement plan at the start of a project, and are updated to reflect changes in the stakeholder population. Identify a situation that does NOT trigger adjustments to the plan.

A phase of the project is finalized

Which of the following are outputs of the Manage Quality process? Choose 3.

Change requests

Project management plan updates

Project documents updates

Which tools and techniques are used by the Control Costs process?

Earned value management, forecasting, and to-complete performance index.

Which statement about the Perform Integrated Change Control process is TRUE?

During this process, changes to approved work products are considered through formal change control procedures.

A project manager determines that two days of lead-time can be placed on one of its activities on the project's critical path. What effect can this lead-time have on this project?

It can decrease the overall project schedule and increase the risk.

Which of the following is an output of the Validate Scope process?

Accepted deliverables

Which tool or technique is used by the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process to prioritize project risks?

Probability and impact matrix

Which of the following are a tailoring consideration for project communications management? Choose 3.

The language of team members

The organization's knowledge resources

The available communications technology

Which inputs are used by the Develop Project Team process?

Human resource management plan, project staff assignments, and resource calendars

In terms of project stakeholder management processes, what is the purpose of frequent interaction with stakeholders throughout the project?

To lower project costs

While in the process of estimating costs for a complex project activity, you obtain a range of estimates from an expert in the industry. The expert states that while the activity could be completed for as little as $300, it is possible it could cost as much as $1200 to complete. They also tell you that from past experience the activity typically costs $450. What is the beta distribution estimate for this activity?

550

Which outputs are produced by the Manage Team process?

Change requests, project management plan updates, and enterprise environmental factors updates

All of the following are inputs to the Plan Scope Management process EXCEPT:

Requirements management plan

Which item is a key input to the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?

Work performance data

Which term refers to the translation of a message back into meaningful thoughts and ideas by an individual?

Decode

Which tools and techniques are used by the Plan Risk Responses process?

Strategies for opportunities, contingent response strategies, and expert judgment

Which of the following are tools or techniques from the Monitor and Control Project Work process? Choose 3.

Expert judgment

Meetings

Analytical techniques

Which type of precedence relationship is most commonly used in PDM?

FS

Which document includes significant events that have zero duration?

Milestone list

Which item represents the three inputs to the Close Project or Phase process?

Accepted deliverables, organizational process assets, and the project management plan

Identify a characteristic of project stakeholder management.

Includes strategies for determining which individuals, groups, or companies may affect or be affected by a project

Which of the following is NOT an emerging practice for project communications management?

Exclusion of stakeholders from project meetings

Which process uses inspection as one of the main techniques?

Validate Scope

What is interactive communication an example of as part of Project Communications Management?

A communication method

Which statement correctly describes the reason for expert judgment being used during the Close Project or Phase process?

It is used to ensure that the activities performed during the process are in accordance with the appropriate standards.

A project manager has determined that their project is two weeks behind schedule. The project manager needs to finish the project on schedule, but they do not want to change the project scope. The project can tolerate more risk, but it cannot accept additional costs. Which technique should the project manager use to bring the project back on schedule?

Fast tracking

An intranet site is provided to the 200 project team members for reviewing project updates, meeting dates, industry standards, and other important information. What is this method of sharing information an example of?

Pull communication

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In which process group does a project manager assess the performance of the team?

In which process group does the team measure and analyze the work being done on the project? During the monitoring and controlling process group, project performance is measured, and needed changes are identified and approved.

What are the 5 process groups of a project?

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In which of the following project management process group are processes performed to complete the work define in in the project management plan?

3. Executing. Executing consists of the processes used to complete the work defined in the project management plan.

Which process group does the manage project Team process belong to?

Executing. The executing group is where most of the action happens on a project. It is also where most of the budget is spent and where the actual project deliverables are produced. The executing process group includes ten project management processes.