A risk response strategy in which the project team shifts the impact of a threat, together with ownership of the response, to a third party is called:

Which of the following are outputs of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?

Reserve analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?

Which of the following tools and techniques is used to estimate cost?

Which type of contract is most commonly used by buying organizations because the price for goods is set at the outset and is not subject to change unless the scope of work changes?

What entity is assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain?

Who is responsible for initiating a project?

Which of the following correctly explains the term “progressive elaboration’?

Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?

PMBOI Guide is a standard that describes:

Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?

Which process involves developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?

Which tool is used to develop technical details within the project management plan?

On what is project baseline development established?

The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?

Ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation is a focus of which of the following?

A tool and technique used during the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process is:

The project management processes presented in the PMBOK Guide® should:

The ability to influence cost is greatest during which stages of the project?

Which of the following project documents is an input to the Control Scope process?

In project management, a temporary project can be:

Activity resource requirements and resource breakdown structure are outputs from what Project Time Management process?

A weighting system is a tool for which area of Conduct Procurements?

Technical capability, past performance, and intellectual property rights are examples of:

Which tools or techniques will the project manager use for developing the project team?

The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (WBS) is called a/an:

Scope, schedule, and cost parameters are integrated in the:

Which of the following events would result in a baseline update?

Which Perform Quality Assurance tool or technique is used to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it, and develop preventative actions?

Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is used to document changes that occur during the project?

Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses the values of parameters from previous similar projects for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project?

Which of the following is a project constraint?

Which statement correctly describes the value of a business case?

Which is an output of the Collect Requirements process?

Most experienced project managers know that:

In which process group is the scope first defined?

Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?

The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:

Processes in the Initiating Process Group may be completed at the organizational level and be outside of the project’s:

Cost aggregation is typically performed by aggregating work packages in accordance with the:

A measure of cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal and is expressed as the ratio of the cost needed for finishing the outstanding work to the remaining budget is known as the:

Which conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?

The person assigned by the performing organization to be responsible for achieving the project objectives is the:

Which is the document that presents a hierarchical project organization?

Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?

The risk shared between the buyer and seller is determined by the:

Which stakeholder approves a project’s result?

Project management processes ensure the:

The business needs, assumptions, and constraints and the understanding of the customers needs and high-level requirements are documented in the:

An input to the Plan Cost Management process is:

The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?

An associate who calculates fees daily to support the department is doing which of the following?

The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group includes processes that:

Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?

Verification of project deliverables occurs during which process?

Which element does a project charter contain?

The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:

A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:

Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?

An output of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is:

The degree, amount, or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand is called risk:

Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?

Which item is an input to the Define Activities process?

Under which type of contract does the seller receive reimbursement for all allowable costs for performing contract work, as well as a fixed-fee payment calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs?

Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?

Which of the following is a set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a prespecified product, result, or service?

Retreating from an actual or potential conflict or postponing the issue to be better prepared or to be resolved by others describes which of the five general techniques for managing conflict?

Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:

Project Stakeholder Management focuses on:

A stakeholder expresses a need not known to the project manager. The project manager most likely missed a step in which stakeholder management process?

Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?

Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?

An electronics firm authorizes a new project to develop a faster, cheaper, and smaller laptop after improvements in the industry and electronics technology. With which of the following strategic considerations is this project mainly concerned?

Projects can be divided into phases to provide better management control. Collectively, what are these phases known as?

An effective technique for resolving conflict that incorporates multiple viewpoints from differing perspectives to achieve consensus and commitment is:

Which of the following is an output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process?

Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?

Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?

Which of the following choices is a contract closure tool or technique?

The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?

Which is the Define Scope technique used to generate different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project?

Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:

Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and the cost of changes as project time advances?

What characteristic do project and operational work share in common?

Which document in the project management plan can be updated in the Plan Procurement Management process?

Which of the following is used to illustrate the connections between work packages or activities and project team members?

Which process involves aggregating the estimated costs of the individual schedule activities or work packages?

Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?

When painting a bedroom, preparing the walls can be done while the paint is being chosen. This is an example of a:

Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:

When sequencing activities, what does the common acronym FF stand for?

The project governance approach should be described in the:

A temporary endeavor that creates a unique product or service is called a:

Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the Verify Scope process?

The probability and impact matrix is primarily used to: •

The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action is known as:

Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?

When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail using which type of estimating?

Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?

Which of the following schedule network analysis techniques is applied when a critical path method calculation has been completed and resources availability is critical?

What quality control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?

A project has a current cost performance index (CPI) of 1.25. To date, US$10,000 have been spent on performing the project work. What is the earned value of the work completed to date?

What type of reward can hurt team cohesiveness?

Which Process Group and Knowledge Area include the Sequence Activities process?

Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Develop Project Charter process?

Prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact takes place in which process?

What process determines which risks might affect the project?

Which document describes the necessary information to determine if a project is worth the required investment?

In which Knowledge Area is the project charter developed?

The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:

Analogous cost estimating relies on which of the following techniques?

Which type of dependency is established based on knowledge of best practices within a particular application area or some unusual aspect of the project in which a specific sequence is desired, even though there may be other acceptable sequences?

What is the schedule performance index (SPI) if the planned value (PV) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $150, and the earned value (EV) is $50?

A reward can only be effective if it is:

When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?

What is the definition of project plan execution?

Which of the following processes includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?

Which of the following is an output of the Distribute Information process?

Which group creativity technique asks a selected group of experts to answer questionnaires and provide feedback regarding the responses from each round of requirements gathering?

Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?

The Cost Management processes and their associated tools and techniques are usually selected during which of the following?

Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?

Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?

What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?

Projects are authorized by which of the following individuals?

Types of internal failure costs include:

The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:

The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements describes management of which of the following?

Which Process Group contains those processes performed to define a new project?

The Define Scope process is in which of the following Process Groups?

A projects purpose or justification, measurable project objectives and related success criteria, a summary milestone schedule, and a summary budget are all components of which document?

A project lifecycle is defined as:

As part of a mid-project evaluation, the project sponsor has asked for a forecast of the total project cost. What should be used to calculate the forecast?

Quality metrics are an output of which process?

What cost control technique is used to compare actual project performance to planned or expected performance?

Which Activity Duration Estimating technique incorporates additional timing for contingency purposes?

When a permitting agency takes longer than planned to issue a permit, this can be described as a risk:

In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?

What is a technique used in the performance reporting process?

Plan Risk Management is the process of defining how to:

Which of the following tools and techniques is used in the Develop Project Team process?

Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?

When a project is undertaken to reduce defects in a product or service, the objective of the project is to create a/an:

An element of the project scope statement is:

Which of the following is an output of the Define Activities process?

What are the five Project Management Process Groups?

A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:

Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?

Which is a communication method used in the Report Performance process?

Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?

An input to the Control Quality process is:

If the most likely duration of an activity is five weeks, the best-case duration is two weeks, and the worst-case duration is 14 weeks, how many weeks is the expected duration of the activity?

What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?

What name(s) is (are) associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle?

Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?

An output of the Develop Project Team process is:

At which point of the project is the uncertainty the highest and the risk of failing the greatest?

Which Control Stakeholder Engagement tool or technique allows the project manager to consolidate and facilitate distribution of reports?

Define Activities and Estimate Activity Resources are processes in which project management Knowledge Area?

Which is used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers?

A collection of projects managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives is referred to as a:

An input of the Control Schedule process is the:

Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?

Risk exists the moment that a project is:

What do composite organizations involve?

Which of the following forecasting methods uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes?

Skills necessary for project management such as motivating to provide encouragement; listening actively; persuading a team to perform an action; and summarizing, recapping, and identifying next steps are known as:

Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?

Identify Risks is part of which Process Group?

The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:

The creation of an internet site to engage stakeholders on a project is an example of which type of communication?

Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?

Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?

An output of the Plan Quality Management process is:

Which key interpersonal skill of a project manager is defined as the strategy of sharing power and relying on interpersonal skills to convince others to cooperate toward common goals?

The three processes of Project Cost Management are:

Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?

Which type of dependency is legally or contractually required or inherent in the nature of work and often involves physical limitations?

Which process is included in the Project Integration Management Knowledge Area?

The component of the human resource management plan that includes ways in which team members can obtain certifications that support their ability to benefit the project is known as:

Which type of risk diagram is useful for showing time ordering of events?

Which of the following is an example of a technique used in quantitative risk analysis?

Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?

An input to the Collect Requirements process is the:

Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?

When can pre-assignment of project team members occur?

One of the fundamental tenets of modern quality management states that quality is:

Which technique is utilized in the Schedule Control process?

Which item is a cost of conformance?

Which type of control tool identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?

Conflict should be best addressed in which manner?

Every project creates a unique product, service, or result that may be:

Which of the following is TRUE about most project life cycles?

Assigned risk ratings are based upon:

Which of the following reduces the probability of potential consequences of project risk events?

The component of the risk management plan that documents how risk activities will be recorded is called: