PMP Practice Exam 1

You are a construction project manager and have been recently hired in a well known company as the manager of a highly crucial project. The project is expected to be completed in 2 years. During the project initiation phase you realize that some regulatory and environmental requirements have not been considered in the contract.

Failure to meet the mentioned requirements will negatively affect your company’s reputation, but meeting them will require more time and cost, which will lead to budget and time overruns. In that case, there’s also a chance that the client decides to cancel the project. What would you do in that situation?

Your sponsor will be leaving your project soon due to other obligations. She informs you that her role will be filled with two new people. She assures you that this should not affect the communication complexity of the team since you are only going from eleven to twelve members. Is your sponsor correct?

You are managing a software development project which should be completed in 18 months according to the project contract and schedule. Your customer has recently faced regulatory changes that require your project to be finished 2 months earlier and he asks you to do so. How will you approach this situation?

According to the contract, your customer has assigned one of his staff to your project office to attend the meetings and contribute to the decision making. However, this person is too confrontational and his behavior to your project team members is intimidating. What should be your action in this situation?

The majority of the project management software applications use the ——— method to build the project schedule network diagram.

You have just been assigned to a new change-driven project. The team has never worked together before, but they are experienced with agile techniques. Which TWO of the following techniques would be most useful for promoting your team’s performance?

To formally authorize the project, which of the following documents is necessary?

The photo transfer project will be starting in a few weeks, and it is up to you to decide which project methodology the team will use. You have some concerns about the project because the customer will not always be available, and the team has mixed experience in agile methods.

Also, even though the sponsor is quite supportive in allowing you to choose whichever approach is best, he has given you a warning. He suggests that you be prepared since this particular customer is known to be demanding and changes their mind frequently based on the latest market intelligence they’ve heard. After reviewing the situation, which method would be most appropriate?

You are a project manager and you are about to perform the risk management processes. Which one of the following documents evolves throughout the risk management processes?

As a project manager you are performing scope management processes. What is the function of the WBS Dictionary?

As the manager of a large project, you are performing the Control Procurements process. Which one of the following activities would you likely not be involved in?

Some projects have a comprehensive procurement phase that covers buying a huge number of items and for each item several suppliers are contacted to receive their bids. As a project manager in such projects, you need to make sure that every supplier has a clear understanding of the requirements of the project. Which one of the following techniques could be used for this purpose?

You have just been given the responsibility to staff and oversee a new Scrum project. There are very limited resources, and you don’t have the budget to hire new people. One individual has been pre-assigned to the project, and she has asked to be the project’s scrum master. Although she has participated in Scrum projects previously, she has never had this role. What would be your best option in this situation?

As the project manager you are reviewing the earned value analysis report performed by your team. The SPI is 0.87. What does this figure mean to you?

As the project manager you wish to use a document that shows the work assigned to each project team member. What’s the title of the document that you will use?

You are managing a project in a highly cost sensitive company. Therefore, you need to reduce the costs to the extent possible. Which one of the following categories of cost would you consider as the first option for cost reduction?

You are leading an Agile project for a new IT initiative in the company that will get a lot of visibility. You have been disappointed that the quality of the product delivered for the last several sprints has been poor. What is the best option that the team should take?

As a project manager you are involved in purchasing various items for the project. However, you suddenly receive an official letter from your client ordering the immediate termination of the project. What will be your best course of action?

Frank has been meeting with stakeholders to flesh out and understand the requirements for his new project. Which activity would he likely not be engaged in?

In an industrial project the equipment installation can be started 15 days after the equipment foundation is completed. What type of dependency is this?

According to Tuckman, which of the following is not one of the stages of team development?

Ashley, the agile team’s product owner, recently hired Bill as a software developer for their team. Unfortunately, after Bill was hired, another product owner was able to reserve 50% of Bill’s time for their project. What is one of the key problems with not having Bill dedicated to Ashley’s team?

Which TWO activities might a project manager be doing while acquiring resources for their project?

Your website development project is newly underway. The team appears to be in the “storming” stage, with several members insisting that the process occurs in a certain way and others unwilling to participate after their views were overruled. You recognize that cooperation and collaboration are imperative for the team to achieve the sponsor’s goal of a working prototype within the next few weeks. What is the most helpful action for you to take?

The new cloud computing project had been going well when Tammy, the project manager, received a call from an irate stakeholder that there were several issues on the project, and they were not being addressed or being given more visibility. Tammy knew that there was an issue log that had the current status information on these problems. Tammy was, therefore, not clear as to why the stakeholder was not aware of this. What would be the most appropriate action for Tammy?

As a project manager involved in the Control Procurements process you are aware that early termination of a contract is a special case of procurement closure. The special cases of procurement closure can result from all of the following except?

The cost baseline is developed during which process?

Which statement about the project critical path is true?

While acquiring your project team you realize that according to the project charter a specific consultant is required to be on your team. This consultant has particular knowledge and your client has dictated that you hire him as a team member. This situation describes which one of the tools and techniques of the Acquire Resources process?

You are assigned as the manager of a huge multi-billion dollar infrastructure project with a time span of 3 years. You are working in the planning process group of your project and currently you are creating the project WBS. Due to lack of information you decide to create the WBS of the commissioning phase of the project (which is the last phase) in more details later on when you have more information. This approach to creating the WBS is also known as:

Your project is 4 weeks behind schedule and you have been asked to crash the project in order to make up the lost time. The tasks listed in the table below are all on the critical path. Which of the tasks below would you crash?

You are managing a project and one of your close friends is also a manager at the client organization. During the project execution, your friend asks for changes to be made in the project scope, and with the reasoning that the changes are critical to the success of the project, he asks you to handle them on an informal basis. He argues that if you want to follow the normal change procedures you will lose considerable time. What should you do in this situation?

As a project manager you are using a fishbone diagram to find the potential risks on your project. Which process are you in?

As a project manager, you are currently involved in a Close Project or Phase process. In this situation which one of the following activities might possibly be unnecessary?

You are the construction project manager of an important stadium which is going to be used for the Winter Olympics. The games start a month from now, and your project has faced some weather delays in pouring the concrete for the landscaping. You know that bad weather might affect the quality of the concrete, however since the deadline is closing you decide to not delay the project anymore and go ahead with the remaining concrete work. Which risk strategy are you undertaking?

Rhonda is an IT Manager responsible for an important new project. The stakeholders are encouraging her to use Scrum; however, her team doesn’t have experience with it. What is the most important cultural factor Rhonda should ensure is in place for a successful change to this method?

Tom is managing a software development project in a large IT firm. According to the project essential requirements, he has written an email to one of the functional managers and requested a number of staff to be assigned to his project on a permanent basis for a 2-week period. The functional manager has rejected Tom’s request. What should Tom do in this situation?

You are managing a residential building construction project. Your client has just requested a change in the lighting system which may increase project risk and costs. What should be your first action?

For the purpose of recording project lessons learned, you are analyzing the major delay in the project schedule. The root cause of the delay was a demonstration done by a group of green initiative supporters. They were unhappy because their representatives were not informed about all of the arrangements that you are taking to protect the environment. What could you and your team have done better to prevent this from happening?

In the Plan Quality Management process, which of the following is not attributable to the cost of non-conformance?

Categorizing identified stakeholders can assist the project team in building valuable relationships with these stakeholders as the project progresses. All of the following techniques are useful for this purpose except for

Your company has a new product concept to replace its standalone customer relationship management software with a cloud-based version that has a number of new attractive features. The project is approximately two months underway, and you are receiving complaints from some of the team members that the information they need is not being readily shared by several of the team. Some of this information involves knowledge from past projects regarding how the old products were architected. What would be the most helpful action for you to take that will improve this situation?

You are managing a small project in the context of a large organization. A strategic decision made in the organization was to shut down one of the operation units which was supposed to work a few days for your project. This might lead to missing a major milestone in your project so you need to do the required planning to acquire outside resources to get your project activity done. Which tools and techniques of the Plan Risk Response process will help you in this situation?

A project manager recently assessed the team’s performance using earned value metrics and found that the rate of deliverable completion has slowed. After some investigating, he determined that one of the team members is inexperienced in the technique that the team has chosen to develop the software for the current phase of the project. He meets with this team member and suggests that they take a two-day class that others on the team have taken previously. What should the project manager do next?

Projects, by definition, represent change since each one is unique. Some projects represent a greater change to the organization than others, such as when changing a project methodology from a predictive to an adaptive one if it is new to the organization. Fill in the blank regarding the most important cultural norm necessary to create organizational change.

You are managing an airport construction company. In the middle of the project you realize that one of the subcontractors is not meeting the quality requirements as stipulated in their contract. This is a risk that may result in the final product of the project being rejected by your client. What is your first course of action?

You are in charge of performing the financial analysis for a troubled project in your company. The project is currently on hold and based on the results of your work, top management will decide on continuing or dropping the project. Which category of costs should you not consider in your analysis?

As a project manager in a large organization with various projects similar to yours, you are responsible to report the project status to the top management in a way that quickly and easily gives them the required information. Which one of the following is the best type of report to provide the required information to senior management?

Which of these is an output from the Acquire Resources process?

Which one of the following is not an input to the Develop Project Charter process?