PMP Practice Exam 4

As the project manager at the buyer organization, you extend a formal invitation that contains a scope of work that seeks a response that will describe the methodology and results that will be provided to your organization. This is called:

As the manager of a small construction project, you are nearing project closing when a previously unidentified risk is identified by one of the team members. The risk could affect the project success and on time completion. What should your next action be?

As the project manager currently involved in the Scope Management Plan processes, you have obtained a large number of ideas during sessions to gather product and project requirements. Which of the following techniques is best suited to have these ideas sorted into groups for review and analysis?

A project manager must have some work done by an outside contractor. This work has a great deal of risk associated with it, and it has become very difficult to find a contractor willing to take on the job. Which of the following types of contracts would offer the greatest incentive to the contractor?

You are managing a design project and you should gradually submit to your customer the project deliverables including drawings and documents as they get completed. One of your designers approaches you and gives you a completed document to be submitted to the customer. When skimming through the document you realize that the document is shorter than what you expect according to your past experience. What should be your first action in this situation?

Getting human resources assigned when there is no one co-located with the necessary skill sets is known as which one of the following options?

You are working in an organization which handles several projects every year. Who should be in charge of determining the project priorities in such an organization?

You are managing a highway construction project. Which of the following quality tools could you implement to ensure that your project team members are completing all of the required steps during an installation procedure?

You are in the process of project cost estimation. Which one of the following is not required to estimate the project?

As a project manager you see that the updated project schedule shows 2 weeks delay compared to the baseline schedule. You decide to take actions to bring the project forecasted completion date back to the original planned one in the baseline. This action could be best described as?

Which of the following is not true of emotional intelligence and its benefits on projects?

As a project manager you are hired by a projectized organization. You have been working on a 1-year project for nine months since you became the employee of the company. The project is ahead of schedule when one of the functional managers tells you the resources committed to the project are no longer available.

After further investigation, you discover the company has another project that just started and is using the resources committed to your project. You believe the new project is not critical, but the project manager is the son of the company CEO. What is the BEST course of action in this situation?

Which of the following statements is true for improving the quality of the project’s processes?

You are managing a project and you know that the first phase of the project is completed. What will you make sure that is done before starting the second phase of the project?

You are weighing the different alternatives which you have in order to make a career shift. One of your alternatives is a company with a projectized organizational form. In your assessments, which one of the following would be considered as a drawback of such an organizational form?

During the execution of the project, as the project manager you realize that a new quality standard has been adopted by your company. Your project team will meet with the company quality department to determine how the new standard will apply to your project. This is part of which quality process?

You are in the process of conducting procurement management, and you are about to award a contract to a subcontractor for a portion of the project scope. The mentioned portion, which is described at a high level, will cost $4 million with a standard deviation of $500,000. What type of contract do you recommend in this situation?

You just finished acquiring the members of your project team for your new project. You now need to ensure that each person is associated with a project activity and their roles and responsibilities are documented. What is the term for what this project artifact is called?

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You are leading a change-driven project, and the first iteration of the project is completed. Which TWO activities need to be complete before beginning the next iteration?

As the manager of a construction project, you are reviewing an earned value analysis report which includes only the variance information. Schedule variance is $320,000 and cost variance is $100,000. Your guess is that the planned value of the project at this point should be $2,000,000.

It is after normal office hours, and you don’t have access to the analyst who prepared the report, though you see that the report shows an SPI of 1.16 and a CPI of 1.05. What does this information tell you about the project?

Which one of the following options best describes the role of a sponsor in a project?

You are a project manager, and you have sub-contracted some of the project work to another company. Through an independent review, you uncover that the process the subcontractor uses to report its progress is highly inefficient. Through which process and activity have you found this?

During the Plan Procurement process you are performing the make-or-buy analysis. Apart from the costs, which one of the following options will convince you to do the work yourself instead of hiring another company to do it for you?

As the project manager you have just made a change to the project. What should be your next course of action?

According to the the PMBOK^® Guide, which of the following is not a part of the Executing process group?

A project manager has increased the project costs by $200,000, but he has completed the project 4 weeks earlier that it was planned. What activity is best described in this situation?

As a project manager, you have just been assigned to a new project, and you have received the approved project charter from the sponsor. What is the first thing that you will do now?

You are the project manager on a large IT project and have noticed the project team can’t easily find the right information to make good decisions, and there is a lot of confusion about which versions of documents are the most up-to-date. You are also having a tough time integrating the various processes. As a result you suggest improvements be made to which of the following?

You are managing a design project and one of the project deliverables had a major defect. You have involved the project management team and project engineering team in investigating the situation. The project management team believes that the reason for the defect is lack of proper software used to create the deliverable, and the engineering team believes that lack of correct input information has created the defect. You decide to use a fishbone diagram to address the root of the problem. In which part of the quality management process group are you involved?

You are a project manager and your team is executing the work packages to create a software package. Two of the project’s stakeholders have just asked for changes that each says should be the number one priority. What would be the BEST thing to do?

As the project manager you are in the project schedule management knowledge area. Which one of the following processes includes asking the team members about the time estimates for their activities and reaching agreement for the calendar date of each activity?

You are assigned as the manager of a highly important project in your organization. You have only been given 10 resources and there are no more resources available in the company. The project should be completed in a period which is half the time that will take you to complete the project with the available resources. Due to the project’s high priority, management does not accept any change in the project required completion date. What will you do in this situation?

As the project manager you are working with your team to perform the Control Scope process. The variance analysis has resulted in a change request to the scope baseline. This change request will be processed for review and disposition in which project management process?

Your project has just passed its finish date and the customer has accepted the completed project scope. However, the lessons learned which are required according to your company’s project management procedures are still under preparation. What is the status of the project in your opinion?

When should quality audits be conducted?

As a member of the company board you are involved in choosing the projects to be carried out among the available alternative projects. The cost of choosing one project and giving up another one is called?

Who is responsible for organizing training of the new staff on a project?

All of the following options can be derived from the Estimate Costs process except which one?

During the requirements gathering phase of the international cloud e-commerce project, your boss asks you to find out if the product will be subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, if so, what the implications are to the project. Why is your boss asking this question?

As a project manager you are involved in contract negotiation for subcontracting a part of the project work. The most important thing to focus on in contract negotiations is:

Who owns the quality of the software in a change-driven, agile project?

A new project has been defined in your company to improve the quality of the concrete utilized in all of the construction projects currently under execution at the company. As the project manager you are asked to prepare the project management plan. Considering the project and situation which one of the following you should prepare first?

All of the followings should be done to close a project except which one?

All of the following are the purposes of the project charter except for which one?

You are in an internal meeting with the project team when the person in charge of the project procurement informs you that you need to buy an item which has a single-source seller. A single-source seller means what?

According to the PMBOK^® Guide, many organizations treat contract administration as an administrative function separate from the project organization. What is the title of the individual responsible for managing the contract?

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A project manager is doing detailed estimation of the project. In this case which type of estimating is most likely being used?

Your project is 25% complete when you discover that the budget at completion (BAC) is no longer viable. You try to come up with a forecasted estimate at completion (EAC). What index can you use to look at the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work?

You as the project manager observe that a team member is repeatedly completing tasks with errors, resulting in rework. On investigation of the team member’s past track record, it is established that the individual does not have a skill gap. What would be your first action in this situation?