PMP Practice Exam 3

Which one of the following options best describes the contents of the Scope Baseline?

You are managing a software development project with a set of preplanned milestones. Your team has completed all milestones and you are now verifying that the product meets the specifications outlined in the project management plan. What process group are you currently in?

Your construction project is located in an area which is prone to overnight burglaries. Since this is a problem that you cannot solve it, your project team has decided to do nothing for this risk other than just taking out an insurance policy. Which type of risk response planning is this?

For the first time in your career you are assigned as the manager of a project with 250 stakeholders. You have never dealt with this number of stakeholders in a project. What would be your best course of action in this situation?

In which one of the following organizations does the project manager have more power?

Tom is managing a project that was contracted on a time and material basis and during the project execution he finds that some of the tasks have been taking less time than planned. On average each team member has required only 25 hours to accomplish work which was planned for 37.5 hours during the week. What is the best thing that Tom can do in this situation?

Which structured technique in the Manage Quality process involves finding a long-lasting solution for a discovered issue?

Your team is currently in the process of controlling and verifying the quality of the deliverables on your project. Which TWO tools would they not be utilizing to accomplish this?

As the project manager of a manufacturing facility construction project, you have needed to estimate certain activity durations before all project team members were acquired. During the acquisition of the project team, you find that the actual competency levels of the team members are much lower than what you had anticipated when you were estimating the activity durations. What would be the best course of action in this situation?

Your company’s vice president just informed your division that it would be utilizing a change-driven Agile project delivery method going forward for all new projects. Which quality may negatively impact the success of this initiative?

You are currently implementing the risk management process of your project. There are a number of risks that have been identified in your project, however the team has elected not to change the project plan to deal with the risk, but they have established a contingency reserve in the event that some of these risks are triggered. This is an example of what type of risk mitigation technique?

On a control chart, a source of variation that is intermittent, not inherent in the system, and is not predictable is known as:

You are in the process of closing your project and you are looking at different documents which you have in your archive as the project manager. There is an untitled document in which throughout various project meetings you have documented differences in opinion, situations to be investigated, and emerging or unanticipated responsibilities. If you want to pick a title for this document, which one of the following it would be?

You are going to start your fifth project as the manager at your company. From your past experience, you know that one of the stakeholders has always made a lot of changes in the projects. What would be your best approach to manage this particular stakeholder in the beginning of the project?

Large fluctuations in the periodic expenditure of funds are undesirable for organizational operations. Therefore, the expenditure of funds is frequently reconciled with the disbursement of funds for the project. This is known as:

Drag and drop the sort elements to match the descriptions with the leadership styles.

You are working on a project where a negative risk has occurred. However, you have no contingency plan for this risk. You call a meeting and a solution is devised to change the workflow until a permanent solution can be implemented. This is an example of?

The project sponsor gives you a project charter and asks you to start working on the project immediately and to provide him with a schedule. What should you do first?

Your project is running slightly over budget. You mention this to another project manager, who suggests you shift some of your expenses to indirect costs that are not charged to your project budget. What do you do?

What is the last thing that should be done in the Close Project process?

Which is a technique that the project manager can use during the Implement Risk Response process to enable action when those who are responsible for executing the risk response are outside of the project team?

As a project manager in the middle of project execution you realize that completing the project will take longer than the original plan. What is the best course of action to take?

Yesterday you met with the customer on your current project and presented the progress on the deliverables for the new widget you are building them. Unfortunately, they were disappointed with what they saw and remarked that what was being built was not exactly what they asked for. They asked you to rectify it, and since it was your mistake, they would not expect the schedule or budget to be impacted.

You are not clear why there were crossed signals since everything had been signed off on until now. What should you do next?

All of the following statements regarding a project manager are correct, EXCEPT which one?

As a project manager you work under the supervision of a project division director who oversees several other projects. During a company meeting you are present when your manager is presenting a status report of all the projects being run in his division. He reports that all projects are within budget and none of them is behind the schedule. However, you know that your status reports for the last several weeks have been reporting a delay in the schedule. What do you do in this situation?

You are preparing for your meeting with the customer so they can validate the work done so far. What do you need to ensure is ready and completed before the meeting begins?

You are manager of a sports complex construction project. During the planning phase of the project one of the team members who is asked to prepare activity duration estimates sends you an email including duration estimates for two activities as follows: Activity A: 15 days + a lag of 4 days; Activity B: 1 month + a lead of 2 weeks. What would be your possible objection to these estimates?

You are close to the project’s end when a group of stakeholders demands that some requirements be changed now that they see what the impact will be. This is obviously a problem because you have not accounted for the time and cost of these requirements in the project’s original plans. What is the best thing to do to prevent such problems in the future?

Tom, as the project manager, is in the middle of project execution when his boss tells him that he should release one of his team members for another project. Assuming that all of his project resources have similar capabilities and each resource is working on only one activity at a time, which activity would be impacted the least if that resource were released?

You are a software development project manager and most of your team members operate from remote locations without the benefit of face-to-face contact. One of your major concerns is to build trust among the team members. Which of the following will help you the most in doing so?

A colleague of yours who is currently managing a project is retiring and you are going to be his substitute. During the handover meetings he tells you that the project is on schedule and within budget, but only because he has pushed the project team so hard. What should be your first course of action?

Which conflict resolution method does not have long-term effects?

You are going to be a construction project manager to build a new pharmaceutical plant. The project requires that governmental hearings about the end product of the plant be held prior to site preparation. What kind of a dependency is this?

You are managing a construction project. After you have created the schedule performance baseline, your project customer, which is external to your company, approaches you about adding some new items to the project scope. You will ask the customer to issue which one of the following documents?

When are risk identification activities performed?

You are the project manager for the production of a commercial complex construction project. You have completed the Define Scope process for your project. Which of the following may be generated through this process?

As the manager of an IT project, you have utilized 360-degree feedback techniques for your information gathering and are in the process of giving formal feedback to team members. You will be setting specific goals for employees for the remainder of the project. Which technique are you utilizing?

You are managing a software development project budgeted at $360,000 according to the earned value analysis report which you have on your desk. As of today you have spent $110,000 and the earned value is $120,000. However, according to the project schedule you should have spent $150,000. Which one of the following options best describes your project status?

Which of the following organizational types has many features of a functional organization and gives the project manager more of a coordinator or expeditor role than a manager?

You are managing a multi-disciplinary project when the functional manager of a project resource responsible for a critical path task informs you that the resource will be out on sick leave for the next two weeks. There will be a day to day slip on the project until the resource returns, as there is not an alternative resource that can be used. What do you do?

Your project has completed and the final deliverables have already been sent to the customer, but the customer refuses to give the project final acceptance. What would you do in this situation?

You are explaining resource leveling to one of your team members. You can tell any of the following statements about resource leveling, EXCEPT?

You are managing a project for a customer that has offered an incentive for meeting all deadlines. At this time, the project is running on a compressed schedule, but is continuing to have regular quality meetings to ensure the output of the project meets the customer’s requirements. Your manager, however, is concerned that the meetings will cause further project delays and missed deadlines, which will in turn result in the loss of potential incentive payments. He insists that the meetings be stopped immediately and that all project effort be focused on making on-time deliveries. What do you do?

As a senior project manager you have been assigned as mentor for a newly hired junior project manager. You want to explain where the control limits are located on a control chart. Which option will you tell him?

Place the following actions in the correct sequence for what to do when a change is requested by the customer. Drag and drop the actions to sort them first to last.

Your company has an emergency and needs contracted work done as soon as possible. Under these circumstances, which of the following would be the helpful to add to the contract?

As a new project manager in the company, you have been sent to a training course. During the course you hear the instructor using the expression “halo effect”. You don’t understand the expression and ask from the instructor about the meaning. He explains that “halo effect” refers to the tendency to:

During the Sequence Activities process, your project team has identified several dependencies to a few related projects that will provide major and critical deliverables to your project. Some of those projects are very similar to your project in terms of their scope and deliverables. In this situation, which of the following processes you should be most concerned about?

As the project manager you are in the middle of the project execution phase when a team member informs you of a cost overrun on a specific work package. What should be your first action in this situation?

You are going to be hired in a company as a project manager, but you are told in the first interview that according to your capabilities, you will be given a coordinator or expeditor role. How is a project expeditor role different from a project coordinator role?