Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?
Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?
Which of the following is one of the tools and techniques for the Define Activities process?
Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Collect Requirements process?
You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on _______ during planning to improve your chance of success.
All of the following are true regarding Communications Planning except for which one?
You have accumulated project information throughout the project and need to distribute some important information you just received.
Which of the following is not an information distribution method?
Which type of control tool identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
Which of the following is an output of the Information Distribution Process?
The methods and techniques for determining the economic costs, the environmental impact, the economic returns, and the probability for success are called:
The decision to approve or reject a particular change request is made in which of the following processes?
You are managing an internal project where a vice president from the user group is acting as the sponsor. You have just been informed by your team that the critical path has slipped by three weeks. You should:
Which analysis uses beta and triangular distributions as a tool and technique?
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
The project manager decides to conduct a meeting with the team and management after a new risk has been identified. After the meeting, the decision is to allow the risk to occur.
This is an example of which type of risk response strategy?
In which of the following team development stages does the team meet and learn about the project and their formal roles and responsibilities?
Which tool or technique measures performance of the project as it moves from project initiation through project closure?
Identifying major deliverables, deciding if adequate cost estimates can be developed, and identifying tangible components of each deliverable are all part of which of the following?
While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery.
What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
Which of the following lists contain processes that are included within Project Procurement Management?
Forecasts, requested changes, recommended corrective actions, and organizational process asset updates are all outputs of which process?
You know that PV = 470, AC = 430, EV = 480, EAC = 500, and BAC = 525.
What is VAC?
Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?
Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
With triangular distribution, the low, likely and high values are 20, 30 and 40, respectively. The mean is _____.
Going from Level 2 to Level 4 in the work breakdown structure will result in ___________.
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
A project manager you are mentoring comes to you for help because he is about to face his first procurement audit. You might explain that he should NOT worry about such an audit because it:
Advantages of the functional (hierarchical) form of organization include _____ and creation of technical competence.
Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?
What is the difference between management reserves and contingency reserves?
If a project manager is concerned with gathering, integrating, and disseminating the outputs of all project management processes, she should concentrate on creating a better:
Your management has decided that all orders will be treated as "projects" and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, to resolve issues, and to ensure that the customer formally accepts the product within 30 days of completion. Revenue from the individual orders can vary from US $100 to US $150,000. The project manager will not be required to perform planning or provide documentation other than daily status.
How would you define this situation?
All of the following are typical concerns of matrixed team members EXCEPT:
While reviewing project performance, the project manager determines that the schedule variance is -500.
What is the BEST thing to do?
A project manager convenes a meeting to determine why the time to produce one product according to specifications has increased from one day to three days over the past month.
Which tool or technique is used in this case?
Control chart theory is based on the differentiation of the causes of variations in quality. Variations may be produced by assignable causes. All of the following are examples of assignable causes except:
Quality and credibility of the qualitative risk analysis process requires that different levels of the risk's probabilities and impacts be defined is the definition of what?
Company A bought a well-defined project deliverable from Company B. Company A will pay a fixed total price plus a percentage premium for the schedule target achieved.
Which of the following is the LEAST effective way to influence the factors that create changes to the cost baseline?
In an organization with a projectized organizational structure, who controls the project budget?
A project manager for a small construction company has a project that was budgeted for US $130,000 over a six-week period. According to her schedule, the project should have cost US $60,000 to date. However, it has cost US $90,000 to date. The project is also behind schedule, because the original estimates were not accurate.
Who has the PRIMARY responsibility to solve this problem?
The Monitoring and Controlling process group contains which of the following processes?
While project work is being done, conflicts can arise between the procurement officer and the project manager because the procurement officer:
Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?
Formal written correspondence is mandated in which of the following situations:
Many companies self-insure against some risk. Problems which can arise from self-insurance include:
As the project manager, you are preparing your methods for quality management. You are looking for a method that can demonstrate the relationship between events and their resulting effects. You want to use a method to depict the events that cause a negative effect on quality.
Which of the following is the BEST choice for accomplishing your objective?
Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?
You are a project manager for Dutch Harbor Consulting. Your latest project involves the upgrade of an organization's operating system on 236 servers. You performed this project under contract.
You are in the Closing process and know that product verification is for what purpose?
The customer's expectations for quality are shown on a control chart as the:
Which of the following outputs from the Schedule Control process aids in the communication of SV, SPI or any performance status to stakeholders?
Employee unions would most likely satisfy which level in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Which of the following must not performed in the project initiation process?
Draw the precedence diagram for the dependencies and activity times below to answer the question. Use AON or another technique to derive the answer using F-S relationships.
What is the total float on path BEG?
Which of the following is NOT a reason to measure variances from the baseline?
A project becomes officially authorized when which of the following occurs?
Which of the following techniques uses historical information to estimate the activity duration?
Draw the precedence diagram for the dependencies and activity times below to answer the question. Use AON or another technique to derive the answer using F-S relationships.
What is the critical path duration for the given schedule network?
A non-critical path activity is completed in half the time. Then, ___________.
A project manager has just been assigned to a new project and has been given the approved project charter. The FIRST thing the project manager must do is:
Providing forecasts to update current cost and schedule information is a part of which process?
The project manager has performed schedule network analysis, compressed the schedule, and completed a Monte Carlo analysis.
What time management activity should be done NEXT?
All of the following statements about acceptance sampling are true except:
During which process would you obtain stakeholders' formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
Rolling wave planning is used as a tool and a technique in which of the following processes?