Random CAPM 60

Scenario:

A task was originally estimated to require 100 hours effort. 80 hours have been spent and the person assigned to the task estimates 80  additional hours will be required to complete the task.

In the sample above, what is the calculated percent complete for this task?

Which of the following are considered to be milestones?

As of the data date, your project schedule has a BCWS of 100. The BCWP, however, is  90. This tells you that your project is currently 10 percent:

All of the following assist in determining the impact of a scope change EXCEPT:

Due to cuts in funding, your project has been terminated. The scope verification process:

If team members are more technically skilled than the project manager, what actions should the project manager take?

You have just taken control of a project in the middle of execution and need to learn who has approval authority for revisions in scope.  Which document provides this information?

Reviewing work products and results to ensure that all were  completed satisfactorily and formally accepted is part of:

The purpose of a dummy activity in activity-on-arrow diagramming is to:

A process is a series of actions to bring about a result. In a project, the five basic process groups (PG) are:

Scenario :

The Delphi technique is a risk identification method used by project  managers to poll expert advice.

In the above sample scenario, what is a key characteristic of the Delphi technique ?

A change control board (CCB) is:

When a project manager places a purchase order for a piece of equipment, it represents which of the following?

Cost estimates include all of the following resource categories except:

Analogous estimating:

Of the following, which is not considered to be an accelerated depreciation method?

The project manager is critical to project communication because:

When assigning tasks to team members, which of the following strategies are appropriate?

The subprocesses of a project are linked by one subprocess providing an output that feeds one or more subprocesses as an input. Thus, subprocess are defined by PMI as  having an input,________,, and an output.

Analogous estimating is also called:

“Earned value” can best be defined as:

Scenario:

A project manager must decide whether to purchase a $1 5,000 tool to improve the productivity of her six person team. She guesses that the likelihood of a 10% productivity gain for the six month project duration is 50%. The probability of a 5% in productivity is also 50%. The average team member cost is  $80,000 per year.

In the sample scenario above, what is the expected monetary value of purchasing the tool?

You are the project manager and responsible for quality audit. You have been accused for being a fanatic because of your practice of conducting not one, but multiple, quality audit on a project. Which one of the following types of audits is not an example of a quality audit?

Scenario:

John Jones hired the ABC Construction Company to build a new office building. The contract is a cost-plus percentage of costs Contract. Estimated costs are $3,000,000 and the estimated total price is $3,300,000. ABC recently completed the building and the associated costs were $4,000,000.

In the above scenario, what is the total price of this building which will be paid by John Jones?

Which of the following statements would be most likely to be associated with a compromise style of conflict resolution?

A KEY activity for achieving customer satisfaction is to define:

Scope change control MUST be integrated with all of the following control processes EXCEPT:

Estimate at completion (EAC) may be computed as:

Project sponsors have the GREATEST influence on the scope, quality, time, and cost of the project during the:

Risk response development is intended to:

A network analysis technique that allows for conditional and probabilistic treatment of logical relationships is know as:

Most project managers spend about _________ of their work time engaged is some form of communications.

Project cost management includes all of the following functions except:

Sally Woo is the project manager of a fixed price project  nearing completion. The project has been less profitable than  planned, but has not lost money. Team members worked 10- 20 hours of compensated overtime per week during the past month to  complete the effort.

In the above sample scenario, what is an appropriate project close-down activity?

The overall duration of the project schedule is not influenced by:

In which activity or activities, the delay will definitely delaying project schedule?

Planning a project is a process that develops products such as a schedule. This process produces the following for a schedule:

Risk quantification includes:

If PV (BCWS) = 100, EV (BCWP) = 98, and AC (ACWP) = 104, the project is:

Scenario:

A general contractor has been asked to provide an estimated cost for a project to build a four bedroom colonial. The contractor has  recently built similar houses in the selected neighborhood. The  potential buyers would like a “ballpark‟ estimate before they  proceed with detailed planning.

In the sample scenario above, what estimating method is the general contractor most likely to use?

Resource planning must include consideration of the use of:

What is the difference between the project plan and the performance measurement baseline?

What is a sunk cost?

The main difference between the two types (ADM and PDM) of the critical path method (CPM) of scheduling

A project was estimated to cost $1.5 million and scheduled to last six months. After three months, the earned value analysis shows the following:
BCWP = $650,000 BCWS = $750,000 ACWP = $800,000
What are the schedule and cost variances?

Scenario:   

Item     PV (BCWS)          AC (ACWP)           EV (BCWP)

1                10,000                   11,000                      10,000
2                 9,000                    8,000                       7,000
3                 8,000                    8,000                       8,000
4                 7,000                    7,000                       5,000
5                 6,000                    9,000                       6,000

Which item has the lowest SPI?

Elements of changing a project schedule include all of the following EXCEPT:

If seven people are intimately involved in the same task and must frequently communicate with each other, how many lines of  communication are there?

Configuration management is a technique for:

Fast tracking in time management is:

In network diagramming, a loop means

What is an example of a product with high quality but low grade?

The measure used to forecast project cost at completion is:

Scenario:

Sam Johnson is a project manager developing a new sales process for The Magic Games Company. Joe Stevens is the client representative assigned full time to the team to provide guidance regarding requirements and ongoing functional knowledge. Sam has observed that Joe spends much of each morning reading the paper, and usually takes a three hour lunch break. The other team members are starting to complain that they are not getting the information they need to develop the process.

In the sample scenario above, what action should Sam take?

A precise description of a deliverable is called a:

What is a common complaint regarding iterative development methodologies, e.g., building a system through cyclical iterations?

To decrease the total project duration for the least cost is called:

In the earned value system, cost variance is computed as:

A Gantt chart is useful in determining:

A controlling process is necessary in project management to ensure planned actions are executed and measured for progress. The controlling process for the schedule typically will focus on: