PMP 03 - 80 Questões

QUESTION 17( EXAME 3)
You are a consulting project manager with over 15 years experience running software development projects. You have been engaged to manage a finance application project for a new customer. However on the first day onsite at the customer's headquarters you are told the project has been cancelled, but there is a need for a project manager to manage a major infrastructure project to deploy a large number of servers and storage devices. The customer asks if you would be interested in leading this project. You have never managed this type of project before but would be interested in the challenge. Which of the follow is the best response?

QUESTION 18
A Project manager estimates the work to be accomplished in the near term in detail, at a low level of the Work Breakdown structure (WBS); while he estimates work far in the future as WBS components, that are at a relatively high level of the WBS. What is this technique called?

QUESTION 19
Negative risks can either be ______, transferred, or mitigated as a countermeasure.

QUESTION 20
The WBS represents all product and project work. The total work at the lowest levels should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed. This is also called as:
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QUESTAO 21 You are at work related social event and a colleague tells you another project manager has just hired her niece's engineering firm for a city public improvement project that you are managing. You know that this company's proposal did not meet the pre-defined selection criteria to be considered for award. What do you do?

QUESTAO 22: A project manager is just finishing a project that has not gone well. Apart from cost overruns and schedule overruns, there have been a lot of quality defects and the project required a lot of senior management intervention to finally reach completion. The project manager should now:

QUESTAO 23: In a matrix organization, where the team members report to both, a functional manager as well as a project manager, generally, whose responsibility is it to manage the dual reporting relationship?

QUESTAO 24: A Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) would be used to breakdown the project by type of resources. The RBS is an example of a:

QUESTAO 25: While managing a project, you decide to prepare an email for the project stakeholders describing the current project status. This is best described as an example of:

QUESTAO 26: QUESTION 26
Analogous Estimating is an estimation technique that use the values of parameters such as scope, cost, budget and duration from a previous similar activity as the basis of activity and is frequently used to estimate when there is a limited amount of information about the project. This is a form of:

QUESTÃO 27: During the execution of your project, you decide that you would like to have charts of your project status - cost and schedule, display certain key project data, and hold your project meetings in a specific conference room. Such a place would be called:

QUESTAO 28: The document that formally authorizes a project is the:

QUESTAO 29: You are managing a medium sized construction project, and are reviewing some invoices from the electrical contractor. You see that materials not required for your project have been included on the invoice. After making a few phone calls it becomes clear that one of your project resources asked one of the vendor's staff to add a few extra circuits to one part of the building. This change was never approved through the change management process. What do you do?

QUESTAO 30: You are presented with a situation in a project where you need to measure the performance of the project. Which of these techniques would suit your requirement?
A. Learned Value Technique

QUESTAO 31: A manager asks you to evaluate four new projects that he has suggested for next year. You review the projects and notice that one is not really a project, but more an operational task. Which of these is not a project?

QUESTAO 32: Which of the following Project Scope Management processes documents a configuration management system?

QUESTAO 33: The stakeholders of a project typically have:

QUESTAO 34: A project was estimated to cost $ 200,000 with a timeline of 10 months. Due to a shipment delay, the schedule was slightly delayed. This was however made up by receiving the first batch of materials for the project by air. The net result was that there was some additional cost in the project. At the end of the second month, the Project Manager reviews the project and finds that the project is 20% complete and Actual Costs are $ 50,000. The Estimate to complete (ETC) for the project would now be:

QUESTAO 35: You have a team of engineers working on your project. Two of the engineers have frequent disagreements. You ask them to resolve their differences through a discussion. However, that does not yield any results. Subsequently, you get involved and based on an analysis of the situation, suggest some changes in the way they work with each other. This still does not yield results and you find that the project schedule is beginning to suffer. What is you next course of action?

QUESTAO 37:While developing the project schedule, you find that the completion of a successor activity depends on the completion of its predecessor activity. What is this dependency called?

Which of the following is not a tool and technique of the Collect Requirements process?

You are planning out the communications methods to use as part of stakeholder management. The most effective means for communicating and resolving issues with stakeholders is:

A project manager wishes to illustrate the connections between the work that needs to be done and the project team members. According to the PMBOK, the resulting document would be called:
A. Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)

Which of the following contains an extensive procurement changes approval process?

A project manager found that some of the project work was not done at the right time and was done in an improper sequence. What do you think was the likely issue?

A contract change control system should include:

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QUESTION 1
Your project is slightly behind schedule, and you have not yet made a full impact assessment to make associated project changes to accommodate it. The weekly project status meeting is this afternoon, and because of your conference call schedule this morning you will not be able to complete the assessment to report to in the meeting. However, this is only a minor delay and you do not want anyone to worry unnecessarily. What is the best response?
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You are involved as project manager in a fairly large-sized project. You are in the process of making a procurement decision and plan to go with a simple purchase order. However, you are doubtful whether this is the correct thing to do and decide to find out more details about the process to be followed. Based on your findings, which of the following would be correct?

Robert is currently identifying his project stakeholders. Which of the following is the key input to this process?

A control chart is used to determine whether or not a process is stable or has predictable performance. When a process is within acceptable limits, the process need not be adjusted. What are the upper and lower control limits usually set as?

Robert is currently identifying his project stakeholders. Which of the following is the key input to this process?

The Cost Management Plan is an output of the Plan Cost Management process. This plan is then integrated with other project plans in which of these processes?

The three categories into which contracts can be broadly classified are:

For any complex project, once the project stakeholders are identified, the next step is to classify these stakeholders based on their current and desired engagement levels. What is the benefit of classifying the project stakeholders?

A ______ is a collection of projects or programs grouped together for strategic business needs.

In a Finish to Start relationship between predecessor and successor activities, a project manager decides to schedule a successor activity 5 days before its predecessor is complete. This is accomplished by providing 5 days of:

While managing a project, you decide to contract to an external enterprise. You enter into a contract where you pay the external enterprise a set amount (as defined by the contract), irrespective of the seller's costs. What would best describe this type of contract?

Which of the following inaccurately describes a prototype?

Susan is the project manager for a dam construction project. All project communications are recorded and documented for future reference. It has been decided that the project team will maintain last three months of project communication records at any given point in time. It has also been decided that the older communication records will be archived on a monthly basis. Where these records must be archived?

Which of these is not an information gathering technique used in the Identify Risks process?

QUESTION 15
Which of the following is accurate regarding Project Integration Management?

Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique of the Acquire Project Team process?

A company you worked for several years ago is bidding on a project your new company will be starting in approximately 6 months. You have been selected to manage the project, and will be participating in the vendor selection processes. What should you do?

While the five process groups are typically completed in order, they often overlap with each other throughout the project. Which two process groups do not overlap unless a project is canceled?

Which of the following is the correct logical sequence of the five process groups?

You have met with your project sponsor and have been told that the project MUST be completed by the end of the year, no exceptions. This should be included in the project scope statement as a:

The change requests created as an output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process may be attributed to all of the following except:

Lee is the project manager of a project and is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct response of implementing this risk response, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These would be termed as:

You have been identified as the project manager for constructing a large shopping mall in your city. Which of the following are not necessarily stakeholders in your project?

Three strategies that typically deal with negative risks or threats are:

Which of the Project Time Management processes involves identifying and documenting dependencies between schedule activities?

What does it mean if the Earned Value is equal to Actual Cost?

Your project sponsor has asked you to add 30% contingency to your project budget as a hedge against any unforeseen costs that could exceed the currently forecasted expenses, but has not provided any additional detail about why this is required. What do you do?

Steve is the project manager of a global project. He finds that of late, there has been a deterioration in the quality of communication between various team members across the globe. What would you term this?

You are the project manager managing a project to design a print head for dot matrix printers. In order to determine ideal settings for print quality, the quality manager of the company suggests trying out various scenarios for printing by varying certain parameters on the print head. Identifying such variables which influence the product or process under development is called:

Which of the following statements best describes Time & Material (T&M) contracts?

When does the Close Project or Phase process need to be performed in case of multi-phased projects?

A project manager is about to start on a new project. Where would he find details about his authority level in the project?

Which of the following is not true about the WBS?

Which of the following is accurate regarding the Estimate Activity Resources process?

In a project, Activity A has a duration of 4 days and begins on the morning of Monday the 4th. The successor Activity, B, has a Finish-to-Start (FS) relationship with A. The Finish-to-Start relationship has 2 days of lag, and Activity B has a duration of 3 days. If Saturday and Sunday are non working days, which of the following statements is true?

What is the BEST way to make an accurate forecasting of ETC?

Which of the following is not a valid instance of Risk Transference?

Under which of the following scenarios would you not use a Decision tree?

You have been assigned as a project manager of a new project to be executed out of New York. However, you determine that the project requires a Global Positioning Systems Expert who is not available within the company in New York. On doing a little checking, you determine that the company has an expert based in London, who is suitable for the project. However, the London based employee is not willing to relocate to New York for the project. In such a case:

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QUESTAO 1You are managing a project to manufacture widgets for a customer. The customer has come to the factory to examine the product, and determines that while the product itself meets its requirements, the manner in which about half the widgets have been packaged does not meet requirements and is insisting they be repackaged. This re-work will require considerable time, resources, and cost to complete. The investigation into how and why the packaging was problematic, revealed that no process was developed to govern how the widget was to be placed in the packaging. The result is that the assembly line workers developed their own processes for packaging. What do you do?

When writing the roles and responsibilities for team members, you should document the role, authority, responsibility and competency for each team member. Where must this information be documented?

A project's financial management reserve is identified in which process:

Which of these is not a component of the scope baseline that is contained in the project management plan?

John has been assigned to design a new car model for a well-known car manufacturer. The project has a small number of key stakeholders and John is planning to meet all of them in person in order to understand their requirements and expectations. Which of the following is not a project key stakeholder?

Project stakeholders are individuals and organizations that are actively involved in the project or have an interest in it. Which of the following is not a stakeholder?

You have landed your dream job, as project manager working in an exotic sports car factory. Your project involves coming up with a smoother ride for the car. You have tasked the engineers to determine which type of suspension and what type of tires will provide the best ride and the most reasonable cost. This relates to which of the following processes?

The Manage Communications process requires which of the following inputs to determine which project management information system is available to manage project communications?

You are about to contract out a project to a service provider. However, at the time of awarding the contract, you are not sure of the total effort involved. Since the scope of work cannot be accurately estimated, you want to agree the per unit rates for difference services. Which of the following would best suit your purpose?

The Identify Stakeholders process has four inputs. Three of them are project charter, enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets. What is the fourth one?

As an experienced PMP, you have found that running a WBS meeting is tricky because you need to find a balance between decomposition and excessive decomposition. When items are excessively decomposed it leads all of the following, EXCEPT:

You are the sponsor of a project that is designed to record phone calls for quality control purposes. You are in the process of writing the charter, what is NOT an input into this document?

John, a project manager, for Code Crashers Inc. has been assigned a project where he must lead a group of inexperienced programmers in developing a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This is very similar to a project that his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006, with some junior programmers. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?

You are an expatriate working in a foreign country and have been asked to offer a cash payment gift to the procurement manager at a company you are bidding on work for. How BEST should you interpret this request?

Jonathan is managing a computer network deployment project at a university campus. Jonathan wants to involve the key project stakeholders in the scheduling of the major work packages. He sends out a meeting invitation to all key stakeholders for this brainstorming session. Which of the following types of communication methods has Jonathan selected for the brainstorming?

QUESTION 16 (exame 5 )
The Project Managers have maximum authority in which type of organization?

QUESTION 17
As the Project Manager on the construction of a new hotel you have developed a project management plan that you believe is realistic and will be formally approved. The organizational assets that influenced the development of the plan may include all of the following except:

QUESTION 18
As part of your staffing management plan, you have developed a chart indicating the # of hours (Y axis) a senior programmer will be working over the months (X
axis) of the project. This is an example of what?

QUESTION 19
Which of the following is a control tool that helps the project management team quantify and categorize defects according to sources?

QUESTION 20
While performing an audit on a project run by another project manager, a certified PMP, you find that project processes have not been followed, and that company
procurement policies have been repeatedly violated. What do you do?

QUESTION 21
You have successfully passed your PMP exam and are leading a project to replace the storage devices in a data center. In the following week, you and your team
of experts will be meeting with a storage device vendor to discuss the status of their deliverables that are due at week's end. What management process do these
activities reflect?

QUESTION 22
Alan is the project manager of a project with 6 stakeholders. If the number of stakeholders goes up to 8, how many additional channels does he have to manage?

QUESTION 23
The project management plan can best be described as:

QUESTION 24
Which of the following is not an example of a procurement document?

QUESTION 25
Your company will receive a large bonus payment for completing a customer's project by a certain date. However, as the project manager, you know the project
will complete approximately 2 weeks after that date as it is currently scheduled. Your manager is insisting that you to do whatever it takes to finish the project by
that date, even if it means "cutting corners here and there." What do you do?

QUESTION 26
An organization wishes to ensure that the opportunity arising from a risk with positive impact is realized. This organization should:

QUESTION 27
Your Vice President has asked you what the Estimate at Completion is going to be for a small project you are working on. You were given a budget of $30,000,
and to date you have spent $20,000 but only completed $10,000 worth of work. You are sure that the future work will be accomplished at the planned rate.

QUESTION 28
You have just sat through an exhausting change control meeting discussing a change in scope to the project you have been working on for the last 7 months. After
lengthy discussion the change in scope was approved. As the Project Manager you should now update all of the following documentation, EXCEPT:

QUESTION 29
You work at a software company that authors Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for chemical companies. Prior to releasing the MSDS to the company you have
created a list of items to be reviewed to see that they appear on the document such as: chemical name, CAS#, protection required, what to do an emergency, etc.
This is an example of what type of tool?

QUESTION 30
A project team is required to prepare a monthly project update report for the project key stakeholders. This report must contain the current status of the
deliverables, information related to the recently approved change requests, project's health and the forecasted estimates. This report is an example of?

QUESTION 31
You are the Project Manager for a large petroleum company and are in the process of writing the project charter for your sponsor. You have used the following as
inputs except:

QUESTION 32
Which of these statements is accurate regarding quality management?

QUESTION 33
Which of the following processes produces a Risk Register?

QUESTION 34
The Risk Register contains details of all identified risks and current status. It is a document containing the results of:

QUESTION 35
A co-worker mentions that another project manager regularly takes certain project resources to expensive dinners and expenses it to the company. However, this
project manager does not recognize or reward the contributions of any other project resources. What should you do?

QUESTION 36
You the project manager responsible for building a 100,000 sq. ft. data center. One of the schedule activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air
Conditioning (CRAC) units, however in order to start the installation of the units the raised floor in the data center must be completely installed first, so the units
have something to be bolted on to. This is an example of what type of dependency?

QUESTION 37
Robert wants to assign a risk owner for every project risk for which a risk response action has been planned. Where must he update this information?

QUESTION 38
You are analyzing the risk in a project and decide to do sensitivity analysis to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. You look at a
tool to help compare the relative importance of variables that have a high degree of uncertainty to those that are more stable. One such tool is:
A. Beta Distribution

QUESTION 39
Which of these is accurate regarding the Develop Schedule process?

QUESTION 40
A new CEO has come into your company and has promptly shut down your project because it no longer met the business needs of the company. While not
pleased with the decision, you document the level and completeness of the project to date. What activity or process is this part of?

QUESTION 41
When a project is performed under contract, the contractual provisions will generally be considered as _____________ for the project.

QUESTION 42
You are the project manager responsible for building a 100,000 sq. ft. data center. One of the schedule activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air
Conditioning (CRAC) units, however in order to start the installation of the units the raised floor in the data center must be completely installed first. This is an
example of what type of precedence relationship?

QUESTION 43
The Manage Project Team process is part of what process group?

QUESTION 44
You have been assigned a project where you are responsible for building a condo complex in a resort town. The project is expected to take 2 years to complete.
During your work breakdown structure meeting you have decomposed many deliverables into work packages and schedule activities, however there are some
work packages that will be occurring a year from now, so you have elected not to decompose those deliverables and work packages at this time. This is an
example of what tool and/or technique?

QUESTION 45
A Probability and Impact Matrix contains risks prioritized according to their potential implications for meeting the project's objectives. The typical approach is:

QUESTION 46
You are attempting to estimate the resources required to put the server racks together in the new data center you are building. It has occurred to you that you may
be able to compress the schedule if you look at using power tools vs. hand tools to build the racks and use individuals who have worked on this brand of rack in the
past. This is an example of what type of resource estimating tool?

QUESTION 47
A project is contracted as a Time & Material (T&M) type of contract. The service provider initially estimates that the total effort involved would be about 1000 hours
of effort. The project is contracted at a rate of US$ 75 per hour of effort. If the project ended up with 1200 hours of effort, what would the contract payout be.

QUESTION 48
A project is contracted as a Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee (CPIF) type of contract. The project is negotiated such that if the final costs are less than expected costs, the
sharing formula for cost savings is 75:25. The targeted cost is US$ 100,000 with an 8% incentive fee on the targeted cost. If the project comes in at US$ 80,000,
what would be the cost of the total contract?

QUESTION 49
Organizations strongly influence the project framework. The PMBOK Guide recognizes which of the following types of organizations?

QUESTION 50
During a work breakdown structure meeting you have decomposed the deliverables into work packages and created your WBS dictionary. However, you now want
to decompose the work packages to assist you in estimating, executing and control the project. These decomposed work packages are called?

(EXAME 6)
QUESTION 1
While having lunch with another project manager, he tells you that he underestimated the number of staff resources needed for his project by nearly 50%, but says
he has plenty of reserves to cover the costs. During the next staff meeting, the same project manager says he has nothing new to report for his project and that all
is progressing according to schedule. What do you do?

QUESTION 2
Accepted deliverables are an input to the Close Project or Phase process. These deliverables would have been accepted through which of the following
processes?

QUESTION 3
Which of the following is not accurate about the initial phase of a project?

QUESTION 4
As part of the Define Scope process, a project manager documented the specific project assumptions associated with the project scope in the project scope
statement. While reviewing this document, an experienced project manager pointed out that the project manager should also document:

QUESTION 5
Nancy has recently taken over a website development project. The project is already in execution and half of the project work has been completed. Nancy finds out
that the stakeholder register does not contain any information about key stakeholders from the buyer of the product. What is the potential root cause of this issue?

QUESTION 6
Which process group corresponds to the "do" part of the plan-do-check-act cycle?

QUESTION 7
The Control Procurements process ensures that the seller's performance meets contractual requirements and that the buyer performs according to the terms of
the contract. This process is part of which process group?

QUESTION 8
You are currently leading a project and performing the work defined in the project management plan. This activity relates to which of the following processes?

QUESTION 9
One of the configuration management activities in the project involved capturing, storing and reporting configuration information needed to manage products and
product information. This is known as:

QUESTION 10
Sharon has recently been asked to manage the deployment of an enterprise resource planning system for her organization. Sharon has sent her project sponsor a
meeting request to discuss her project's stakeholder management plan. The sponsor believes that the stakeholder management planning is not relevant for such
internal projects. The sponsor believes that only the scope, schedule and cost management plans are sufficient for such projects. The sponsor has asked Sharon
to describe the objective of the meeting. Which of the following is the best response to this question?

QUESTION 11
The paint on the exotic cars that are manufactured in your plant is bubbling after about a year of application. What would be the BEST tool for your team to use to
find potential causes of the peeling paint?

QUESTION 12
You are meeting with your team, early in the project, and would like to address all the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats the project is facing. What
tool should be used?

QUESTION 13
You are assigned to prepare the Procurement Management Plan for a project that involves setting up an org-wide supply chain management system. You are
looking for a guideline on what type of contracts you can use and what type of contract forms are to be used for this project. Which source will help you obtain this?

QUESTION 14
You are in charge of constructing the Ferris wheel in each town a carnival visits. However, this is something you have never done before and you are getting
different opinions from others on how long it takes. Joe, is new and has given you what you believe to be an optimistic estimate of 3 hours, Bill says it will take 10
hours, which seems too long to you and quite pessimistic. Lastly, Margie, who is the most experienced at this task is telling you it will take 8 hours. You are not sure
who to believe, so you decide to do a PERT estimation, based on this you have determined it will take how many hours to assemble the Ferris wheel.

QUESTION 15
Rosemary is the project manager at a pharmaceutical company. She begins her day by analyzing her team's work requirements. She then assigns daily tasks to
her team members over a centralized project management information system that then generates automatic task assignment notifications for the team members.
Which of the following types of communication methods has been selected by Rosemary?

QUESTION 16
A project manager colleague of yours is currently working under contract on a short term project. He has expressed some concerns about finding work after the
project ends. The project he is working on is currently ahead of schedule and he expects they will finish a month sooner than initially expected. What advice would
be appropriate to provide him?

QUESTION 17
You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting where you presented the requested changes to the employee move project. You had five
change requests approved, however one rejected request. These are outputs of what process?

QUESTION 18
There are two activities on your schedule, which are: 1) Install server in lab 2) Move server into the data center. However, the second task can't start until the
server has run in the lab for 5 days without failure. This is an example of what?

QUESTION 19
You just found out that a major subcontractor for your project consistently provides deliverables late. The subcontractor approaches you and asks you to continue
accepting late deliverables in exchange for a decrease in project costs. This offer is an example of:

QUESTION 21
During your weekly status reports you are reporting the earned value for the project. This information is important for you and the stakeholders to gauge the
progress of the project. What process group are the cost and schedule control part of?

QUESTION 22
You have your project team members record the time they spend on different activities during the day such as: programming, electrical, HVAC, etc. This is an
example of a tool and technique in what process?

QUESTION 23
You are working with your team and are looking at the cost risks in the project. You are your team are currently creating a tornado diagram for the project risks.
This is done as a part of which of the following processes?

QUESTION 24
Body language plays an important role in effective communications. This relates to which of the following communications dimensions?

QUESTION 25
You have taken over the management of a project from another project manager, who is a certified PMP. This project has been completed and is in the process of
closing. You discover that there is no project schedule. What do you do?

QUESTION 26
You are in the execution stage of your project and you have been informed that "corporate" will be sending in a team of consultants to review whether your project
activities comply with company's and PMI's policies, standards and procedures. This is an example of?

QUESTION 27
You are in the initiation phase of your project and believe the project can be completed for $100,000. However, you are an experienced project manager and know
that many things can happen between the initiation phase and the closure of the project. You have provided an estimate in the project charter of $75,000 -
$175,000. This is an example of?

QUESTION 28
PMBOK recognizes five process groups typical of almost all projects. Which of the following is not one of them?

QUESTION 29
A technique that calculates multiple project durations with different sets of activity assumptions and variables is called:

QUESTION 30
A project team is currently assessing the project stakeholder management plan for its validity. The project documents are essential inputs to this process. Which of
the following project documents must be used by the project team during this process?

QUESTAO 31
A process that states how formal validation and acceptance of the completed project deliverables will be obtained is documented in the:

QUESTION 32
The WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives. This is created
as part of:

QUESTION 33
Which of the following Perform Quality Assurance techniques relates to root cause analysis and is used to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes, and develop preventive actions?

QUESTION 34
The process of auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational
definitions are used is the definition of:

QUESTION 35
Several of your resources report to another manager. You need them to participate in a series of project meetings over the next two weeks. How should you
handle this?

QUESTION 36
A buyer has just received a final set of deliverables from the seller and finds that they do not conform to the specifications that were originally planned for. Ideally,
where would the buyer expect to find documentation on how to handle non-conforming deliverables?