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1. Which of the following metrics demonstrates to a project manager if a project is overspending or underspending?

2. The PMO is responsible for: (Choose two.)

3. When a risk event occurs, which of the following documents is BEST suited for recording and tracking new items corresponding to the risk?

4. A project team member highlights to the project manager that expensive licensing for critical software in use across the project may expire before the completion project.

Which of the following would the project manager MOST likely do?

5. Which of the following roles has approval authority for project funding?

6. A project in the execution phase is over budget, and tasks on the critical path are on schedule.

Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?

7. A project manager received a change request, immediately documented the required changes, and evaluated the impact of and justification for the changes.

Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?

8. new stakeholder has been added to a project with a BAG of $850,000. The stakeholder has raised five change requests to the CCB; two of them have been approved, and three are awaiting initial review.

Considering the project has a CPI of 0.89 and an SPI of 1.14, and the approved ones will be implemented, which of the following should the project manager do LAST?

9. In a project with a of $235,000, the CPI is 0.80, and the SPI is 1.20. Based on this information, which of the following can the key stakeholders determine about the project?

10. The project manager of a global project constantly receives complaints from individuals at another location that some team members are not available after lunch on Fridays. This is acceptable to the project manager.

Which of the following factors is the MOST likely cause for this scenario?

11. After identifying all known tasks, the project manager has started to sequence and set durations.

Which of the following describes how the project manager should BEST determine the initial sequence and durations?

12. A project team added a new member who has proprietary information about a competitor's product. The team member was suddenly removed from the project.

Which of the following MOST likely occurred?

13. Which of the following describes risk mitigation?

14. A change must be made to a project to comply with municipal code. The project manager updates the relevant shared project documents. The key stakeholders subsequently update the documents with new information. When the project deliverables are reinspected, they fail the inspection.

Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the failed inspection?

15. There are four parallel paths on a network diagram.

The summary duration of each path is below:

A, C, G: 10 weeks

A, B, F: 8 weeks

D, E, H: 12 weeks

D, B, F: 7 weeks

Which of the following tasks are on the critical path?

16. Which of the following would indicate a project manager is working in a matrix-based organization?

17. A project manager has an opportunity to add a highly skilled expert to the team who can increase the probability of the project’s success.

Which of the following risk strategies should the project manager adopt?

18. A project manager has received a change order that will reduce a project's timeline and budget. However, the change order also indicates the goals and deliverables of the project must remain unchanged.

Which of the following is the MOST logical impact to the project?

19. Assuming an iterative approach, which of the following will be conducted at the end of each iteration?

20. A project manager is creating the WBS.

In which of the following phases is the project?

21. An outsourced project team member approaches the project manager and complains that the contract does not permit overtime. The project manager had fast-tracked tasks that require additional hours.

Which of the following documents did the project manager fail to reference?

22. A project team is composed of numerous team members who are located throughout a country. All personnel have identified core business hours. A team engineer based in a machine shop has a question during business hours for the project manager, who is located at a different facility.

Which of the following is the MOST expedient communication method, assuming the question can be resolved quickly?

23. A project sponsor and Chief Information Officer (CIO) disagree about how to release the final deliverables to the market. The sponsor wants to do a massive product release, while the CIO wants to be extremely cautious and add more time for testing and defect resolution. The project manager works with both parties and determines the best solution is to roll the product out in a pilot release to see how it tests, and then use customer feedback to determine next steps.

Which of the following conflict resolution techniques is the project manager using?

24. A team has been assembled and assigned a project to reduce recent, unanticipated production cost overruns.

Which of the following tools should the project team select to determine the possible origins of the increased costs?

25. A department manager asks a project manager about the status of a project that has only a few employees from the department assigned to it.

Which of the following were MOST likely missed during project planning?

26. At a weekly project team meeting, it is apparent the project is over budget. The project manager needs to determine the reason for this issue.

Which of the following documents should MOST likely be analyzed to obtain the answer?

27. A project manager was directed to complete a project sooner than previously planned.

Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective step to take to ensure the project’s success?

28. An industry leader may be joining the project team and can potentially provide additional expertise.

Which of the following strategies should the project manager employ?

29. An organization has multiple projects that are taking place simultaneously.

Which of the following should be tasked with ensuring resources are appropriately allocated to projects?

30. During the execution phase, the project manager discovered that the testing phase is dependent on completion of the vendor’s tasks. The project team has just informed the project manager their activities are almost complete, and they would like permission to begin testing. The vendor is not scheduled to deliver the products for two months.

Which of the following should have occurred to prevent this issue?

31. A part that is needed to complete Task 3 has been backordered and will arrive three days later than scheduled. Task 3 must be complete for Task 4 to start. There is one day of float for the two tasks.

Which of the following represents the number of days the project schedule will be delayed?

32. In which of the following organizational structures would a project manager have the MOST authority?

33. A project manager is informed that a team member would like to enhance the code with an additional function.

Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?

34. A project is coming to the end of a phase. The PMO required that the quality team review the work and budget before moving on to the next phase of the project. The project manager must schedule the review of the phase and have the stakeholders present.

This review is referred to as:

35. The project manager for a TV tower construction project receives notification that a strong storm is expected the following week.

Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?

36. A project team is comprised of a mix of in-house and virtual team members.

When a complex announcement needs to go out to the entire project team, which of the following is the MOST effective way to communicate it?

37. A team member was replaced on a project by a new team member of equal capability.

Which of the following should the project manager do FIRST?

38. A critical stakeholder has requested additional status updated beyond the schedule.

Which of the following factors MOST likely needs to be accounted for when communicating with this stakeholder?

39. A project manager is creating the monthly report for top management. The project manager has collected the information below:

AC = 100

PV = 80

EV = 120

Based on this information, the CPI reflects which of the following about the project?

40. Team members have reported that meetings are poorly attended and unproductive.

Which of the following steps can the project manager take to make the meetings more productive?

41. Which of the following describes how a project is related to a program?

42. Two team members have concluded that documentation is not required due to the size of the current project. The project manager has encouraged them to align strictly within the process.

Which of the following conflict resolution techniques has the project manager utilized?

43. Which of the following Agile ceremonies is used to determine the backlog items that will be worked on the next weeks?

44. A project manager is working on the project charter.

Which of the following phases does this describe?

45. A project team is overseeing the installation of a new reptile habitat at the local zoo. During execution, zoo personnel decides to house a different type of reptile that will require a different temperature range than the capacity of the installed system. The modification has been approved.

Which of the following constraints are MOST likely to be affected? (Choose two.)

46. The project team is distributed throughout a single country. The scrum master has decided to hold remote "stand-ups" on a daily basis.

Which of the following would be the MOST effective means to do this?

47. Which of the following is an example of a project?

48. Which of the following activities are associated with the closing phase of a project? (Choose two.)

49. A program manager informs a project manager that a new, high-priority project has been approved and will need the current project’s resources before the scheduled project close date. The project team meets and determines that the project should be fast-tracked.

Which of the following documents should the project team reference to fast-track the project? (Choose two.)

50. The project schedule performance index is 1.1, and the cost performance index is 0.9.

Which of the following describes the project status?

51. A project manager wants to introduce the practice of a WBS to the PMO, but the other managers believe this will create extra work.

Which of the following would BEST communicate the need for a WBS to the other managers? (Select TWO).

52. Which of the following is a team-building stage that involves the team learning to trust one another’s abilities and begin working together as a productive group?

53. A governance committee has just approved a new project. The project scheduler is now developing the project schedule.

Which of the following activities should be done FIRST?

54. A team member was assigned a new task during a meeting. The team member did not complete the task by the end of the phase, and the PM is looking for evidence to escalate the issue.

Which of the following documents could help in this situation?

55. A project manager travels abroad to meet the offshore team and sends out a meeting invitation to review requirements. However, many team members decline the meeting invitation. The PM approaches one team member to determine why people are declining. The team member indicates the project manager scheduled the meeting at a time when employees typically have permission to take a nap.

Which of the following is the project manager facing?

56. A project manager is managing a transactional project. One of the key team members is having difficulties understanding the client requirements.

Which of the following actions would be BEST for the project manager to take?

57. A project manager would like to bring vendors into a new project.

Which of the following documents should the potential vendors submit so the project manager can find the best vendors for the project?

58. A project manager needs to track the actual and estimated start and finish dates of all WBS work packages.

Which of the following is a necessary step to record the actual durations?

59. A senior manager asks a project manager for an estimated budget on a new project.

Which of the following is the BEST step for the project manager to take?

60. A new project charter is being drafted.

Which of the following would be the BEST source for the high-level project requirements?

61. A company decides to give a large section of its development project to another firm to manage and complete because that firm has the appropriately skilled resources to execute the work. This approach is referred to as:

62. A project manager provides status reports to a customer on a biweekly basis, but the customer is very busy and only has a few minutes to review the project.

Which of the following are critical for the project manager to provide?

63. Which of the following risk strategies is represented by the purchase of insurance?

64. A project team on a four-year project has a shortage of workspace within an office.

Which of the following is the MOST viable solution for the project team while ensuring work hours are not wasted?

65. Which of the following is the MOST likely target audience to be notified of the achievement of a key milestone in a project schedule?

66. During the execution phase of a project, a project task has run longer than anticipated.

Which of the following is the new critical path of the project if Task 2 requires an additional two days to complete?

67. While working on risk ranking, the project team is unsure about the qualitative scales to be used for probability and impact. The project manager directs the team to look in the:

68. An authorized change to a construction project was implemented. During the modification, the team identified a defect in which the change caused the building power output to be outside the KPPs.

Which of the following actions should the project manager take?

69. A new project sponsor has joined the project team, and the constraints on the project have been reprioritized. The project cost was previously the most important factor, but the new sponsor has indicated that meeting a new, shorter deadline is the priority.

Which of the following effects is this MOST likely to have on the project?

70. A vendor is unable to deliver an order by the specified date.

Which of the following should be the project manager’s NEXT steps? (Choose two.)

71. A project manager is trying to ensure the quality of the design and reduce the number of potential defects. The project manager would like to use the fishbone diagram to perform this analysis.

This type of modeling relies on:

72. A risk with minor impact has been realized. There is no change to the triple constraint. The PM should notify the:

73. A non-stakeholder approaches the project manager and asks if certain items can be added

to a project that was started two months earlier.

Which of the following constraints does this impact MOST?

74. Several team members report that meeting objectives are not being met.

Which of the following documents would a project manager create to make team meetings more effective? (Choose two.)

75. A WBS is being developed for a project.

Which of the following would be BEST suited to contribute cost and time estimates for the project activities?

76. Which of the following job roles is primarily tasked with communicating the project timeline changes?

77. A project manager is assigned to a project and has not had a handover meeting with the previous project manager. The new project manager is reviewing the percent of project completion, schedule progress, and budget constraints.

Which of the following documents should the project manager use to obtain this information?

78. A project manager is releasing resources and archiving documents.

Which of the following phases is the project MOST likely in?

79. The project sponsor has cut the resources required for project completion. The project manager cannot complete the project without additional resources.

Which of the following should the project manager do to obtain the resources?

80. A project team is mainly based in a metropolitan area. The team also has members in a remote area, where Internet access is limited and unstable.

Which of the following factors will MOST likely influence the communication methods used in the project?

81. A project has been experiencing some difficulties due to third-party vendors. The project manager should request.

82. Which of the following is the primary purpose of an MOA or an MOU?

83. In which of the following categories does a business process change fit?

84. Due to a new government regulation, a project change is required. The project manager evaluates the change and realizes a representative from the legal department will need to approve the change as well.

The project manager should:

85. A project manager has been assigned a project with a budget of $50,000. Three change requests are submitted during execution that will increase the overall project cost to $60,000.

Which of the following steps should the project manager perform NEXT?

86. During a project assessment, a project manager determines the initial project cost estimates were incorrect, and there is not enough budget left, including reserves, to complete the project.

Which of the following actions should the project manager take?

87. An agreement document that is intended to prevent two or more organizations from sharing specific, confidential information with anyone but each other is called:

88. The project manager is reviewing the earned value of work completed compared to the planned value and is representing it in a dollar figure.

This type of analysis is an example of which of the following?

89. During a project, the project manager discovers there is insufficient time allotted for quality control.

The project manager prepared to submit a revised schedule to the CCB.

Given the attached chart, which of the following is the critical path if one day is added to each task for quality control?

90. Which of the following charts is a graphical representation of the causes of a specific event?

91. A project manager is trying to explain to a stakeholder why projects are progressively elaborated upon.

Which of the following is the BEST explanation?

92. Which of the following vendor documents specifically address quality? (Select TWO).

93. A business has implemented a new online performance management tool that allows functional and project managers to rate employees online.

This action is known as which of the following?

94. A project requires daily status updates.

Which of the following is the MOST effective method for providing these updates?

95. A project has just finished performance testing and found that the application can only handle 100 concurrent users where the requirement was to handle 500 concurrent users.

In which of the following components of the project plan should this be documented?

96. When forming a project team, there are a number of phases.

When a project team is productive and effective this phase is known as which of the following?

97. Which of the following is a definition of an RFP?

98. Which of the following are characteristics of a project? (Choose two.)

99. A project is in the initiation phase.

Which of the following tasks will take place during this phase?

100. A project manager is assigned to a new project that must start immediately. No formal or approved documents have been authored for the project. The project manager must identify project roles, justify the business need, and determine project scope boundaries.

Which of the following documents should the project manager create?