2. You have just been assigned as project manager for a large telecommunications project. This one year project is about halfway done. The project team consists of 5 sellers and 20 of your company's employees. You want to understand who is responsible for doing what on project. Where would you find such information ?

3. Formal written correspondence with customer is required when :

In what kind of phase-to-phase relationship is a phase planned at a given time and planning for a subsequent phase is carried out as work progresses on the current phase or  deliverables  ?

9. Which one of the following will NOT be considered a valid way of reducing risks in your project ?

9. A project  manager is in Develop Project Team process focusing on enhancing project performance by building a sense of team and improving competencies, team interaction, and overall team environment. While referring to Tuckman's model, she notices that the greatest level of conflict in the five different stages of team building is most likely to appear in which of the following stages :

1.  A CPI value of 1.20 and an SPI value of 1.30 for a project mean which of the following ?

4. A project manager has six stakeholders during requirement gathering phase but the number increase to eleven in the design phase. How many additional channels communication were added at design phase ?

6. You were asked by your management to investigate the cause of severe cost overrun in the one of the project that was completed last year. You found out that a certain contract was used in project that is considered to be very risky for the buyer as it does not encourage the seller to control costs; rather, it motivates the seller to be inefficient. What sort of contract was used in the project ?

5. In a fixed price incentive fee contract, the target cost is estimated at $250,000 and the fee at $35,000. The actual cost came to be $210,000, since there was a cost saving, the seller shares the saving at a 70/30 ratio ( 70 % to the buyer and 30% to the seller). What the final fee and final price ?

A project manager wants to determine how his project is doing the end of sixth month. The actual total expense of the project is $720,000. The planned budget for this length of the time was $600,000. He finds that :

All of the following should be done during the closing process group EXCEPT :

As a project manager at a consulting firm and recently received a statement of work (SOW) from the client. As your expectation, the SOW should contain or reference which of the following elements ?

A project just initiated under a contract in your organization, and you were assigned as the project manager. You were expecting a statement of work (SOW), which will describe the business need, product scope, and other elements. In this case, from whom should you expect the SOW ?

8. You are in the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process and are focused on meeting and exceeding the stakeholders' expectations by continuously communicating with them, clarifying and resolving their issues., addressing their concerns, and improving project performance by implementing their change requests. Which of the following is a tool & techniques used in this process ?

A project's approved budget is $250,000 and planned budget to date is $150,000. What will be the Schedule Variance when Schedule Performer Index is 0.8 ?

Which of the following is NOT a tool and technique used in the Define Scope process ?

Which one  of the following is NOT a planning process  ?

4. One common way to compute estimate at completion (EAC) is to take the budget at completion (BAC) and :

Which of the following is FALSE about analogous estimating ?

6. The team has identified several mitigation and contingency action plans to deal with potential risks within the project. Who is responsible for implementing the actions defined by mitigation and the contingency plan in risk management ?

Which one f the following is NOT true about the Define Scope process ?

8. A project manager overseeing an ERP implementation project planned to distribute large volumes of information about the project to a large audience. He decided to post the information in an online knowledge repository for access at dicreation of stakeholders. This type of communication method is known as :

if the optimistic estimate for an activity is 12 days, and the pessimistic estimate is 18 days, what is the standard deviation of this activity ?

8. A project manager is overseeing a complex custom CSM solution that has rigorous quality standards and high schedule constraints. The project manager just found out that one of the key deliverables in the project was not completed because the team member responsible dor it was assigned to another higher-priority project by her functional manager. Who will be the person for the project manager to address the issue with this kind of situation ?

2. A Cost Performance Index (CPI) of 0.89 means :

1  . Which of the following is NOT a tool used to manage the stakeholder engagement ?

Which one of the following is FALSE about change management in a project ?

10. A project manager involved in the Estimate Costs process in the early phase when a limited amount of detail was available. The range was $75,000 to $200,000, and actual cost come to be around $150,000. What would you call such an estimate ?

1 . A control chart helps the project manager :

10. Stakeholder management necessitates all of the following EXCEPT :

All of the following are examples of organization process assets EXCEPT :

7. A project manager is in the process of ensuring that the information needs of the project stakeholders are met by monitoring and controlling communication throughout the project life cycle

Which of the following statements BEST describes how stakeholder are involved on a project?

7. Which of the following is the process of documenting project purchasing decisions, specifying the approach, defining selection criteria to identify potential sellers, and putting together a procurement management plan ?

3. Which one of the following is NOT true about a cost reimbursable contract ?

8. Plan Quality Management is the process of identifying all the relevant quality requirements, specifications, and standards for project and product and detailing how the specification will be met and should be performed

2. All the following statements concerning procurement documents are incorrect, EXCEPT :

4. Which of the following assess someone's current engagement level in a project ?

In which process group does the team track, measure, inspect, monitor, verify, review, compare, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; ensure that plan is working; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes ?

Sometimes a project coordinator is an assigned role of organization. which of the following statements is NOT true for a project coordinator ?

3. You will be overseeing a project to develop a smartphone application. While analyzing your project, you identify that there is a 55 percent probability of making $120,000, a 45 percent probability losing $55,000. What does $41,250 represent in this case ?

Which of the following is a KEY output of the Validate Scope process ?

10. You were informed by management that an external audit team will be auditing your project to make sure that the project complies with standard organizational project management policies and procedures. During the audit, the key auditor wants to review the training plan for the team members as well as their certification requirements. You should refer the auditor to which of the following ?

The scope baseline, which consists of the scope statement document, the WBS, and the WBS dictionary, is used as an input in all of the following processes EXCEPT :

6. You are planning to hire a third-party to perform a schedule or random structure review to determine whether your quality management activities comply with organizational an project process, policies, and procedures. All of the following will be done in this quality audit EXCEPT :

Which one of the following estimating techniques uses mathematical models based on historical records from other projects and can produce higher levels of accuracy ?

When should the Validate Scope process be done ?

A team member notifies the project manager that the activities comprising a work package are no longer appropriate. It would be BEST for the project manager to be in what part of the project management process ?

7, Control Quality is the process of monitoring specific project results to determine if they comply with relevant quality standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory results. All of the following tools & techniques use in Control Quality EXCEPT :

Which of the following is NOT a typical characteristic of a project management office (PMO) ?

The organization has to make an initial investment of $250,000 with expected cash inflows of $75,000 in the first year and $25,000 per quarter thereafter for the first project. The second project has a payback period of thirty-five months. Which project should the selection committee recommend ?

1  . A project manager has a problem with a team member's performance. What is the BEST form of communication for addressing this problem ?

7. You have identified several problems along with their causes in your web-based application development project. Which one of the following have you probably used to show the problem and its causes and effects ?

2. The primary purpose of the stakeholder register is :

1  . All of the following forms of power derivied from the project manager's position, EXCEPT :

Which of the following is true regarding the project charter ?

Which one of the following process group consists of iterative and ongoing processes to establish the total scope of effort, to define the project the objectives, and to identify the course of action required to attain those objectives ?

8. You asked one of your team member about the schedule variance (SV) for one of the key deliverables. He mentioned that he is behind the schedule but there would not be a cost variance. Which of the following is NOT true in this case ?

8. You are in the Monitor Risk process of identifying, analyzing, and planning for newly arising risks, keeping track of identified risks, reanalyzing existing risks, monitoring trigger conditions, monitoring residual risks, and reviewing the execution and effectiveness of risk response. Outputs from the Monitor Risk process include all of the following EXCEPT :

4. Cost associated with inspection, laboratory measurements and analysis, machinery maintenance and calibration, field-testing, and procedure checking are examples of which of the following ?