What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?

The project manager is managing the research and development of a new cancer screening test. The project manager would like to determine whether the processes currently in use in the project are effective in meeting the quality requirements specified by the customer. What does the project manager need to obtain first to make this determination?

A multi-phase project has reached a phase gate. The key project stakeholders want to determine if the phase has met its success criteria and if the project should proceed to the next phase. In addition to the project management plan, which documents will be required?

Have the team attend a workshop on Kanban You are developing the project scope statement. You have specified the deliverables for the project, included the requirements under which the deliverables will be accepted, and explicitly stated what is out of project scope. What else should you include in the project scope statement?

Procurement audits, negotiated settlements, and a records management system are tools and techniques used in which Procurement Management process?

You are developing the risk management plan for your project. In support of this process, you need to determine the acceptable level of overall project risk exposure. What should you do first?

What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?

The project sponsor asks for a copy of the document that contains the description, owner, source, priority, and status of product requirements. Which project document is the project sponsor requesting?

A project manager does most of her communicating with team members, internal project stakeholders, and external project stakeholders via email. The project manager incorporates specific techniques when composing her emails to reduce any misunderstandings. Which of the following is not considered one of these techniques?

Collecting requirements for the project and creating the WBS has been a daunting task because stakeholders’ needs are vague and are only expressed in the most general terms due to the nature of the project. As a result of this uncertainty, the project manager is concerned about excessive changes, wasted work, and rework anticipated during project execution. What is the project manager’s best course of action?

To define the product that will be produced by the project, the project team is using a product analysis technique that helps with breaking down the high-level requirements into the level of detail needed to design the product. Which of the following is the product analysis technique used by the team?

Your sponsor has committed to building a high-speed rail from one major inland city, Azules, to the coast. You have two possible routes, either Brazos or Corazon. Given the costs, odds, and rewards of high demand and low demand of each route in this decision tree, what is the expected monetary value of the route to Brazos?

You are assigned to a software development project, and you are conducting a product review with an important client. Although the deliverables were previously verified, the client detects a defect and rejects one of the deliverables. What should you do?

An output of the Develop Project Team process is:

What happens to a stakeholder’s project influence over time?

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

An input to Close Project or Phase is:

Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?

You meet with your team to determine the life cycle for your project. After analyzing the best way to define and manage requirements, develop deliverables, handle changes, control risk and cost, and engage key stakeholders, the decision is made to select a hybrid life cycle. With the project life cycle selected, how will the product be delivered?

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

You are facing problems decomposing the testing work package into the final activities required to complete the work package. Detailed testing plans and activities cannot be determined until the system is at least 50% developed and more details become available. The system development work package will take at least three months to complete. What is the best way to resolve this problem?

As the project manager, you are leading a brainstorming session with key stakeholders to identify project risks. Once the project risks are determined, you immediately proceed to nominate different team members as risk owners and assign them the task of developing individual risk response plans. Have you properly conducted risk management planning?

A project manager is implementing the requirements management plan for a software upgrade project that will incorporate some agile elements. The project manager needs to quickly define cross-functional requirements and reconcile stakeholder differences to build a consensus among the relevant stakeholders. What is the project manager’s best course of action?

A three-phase project to build a prototype is underway. The first phase entails design. In the second phase, the manufacturing team would produce the parts from the design specifications. In the third phase, the production team would assemble the parts to construct the prototype. The project is now at the end of the first phase. What should be done with the phase’s deliverables?

Senior leadership has returned from a conference where they have learned about the agile practice of retrospectives. Even though the organization does not manage any projects in an agile manner, they mandate that from now on this ceremony is included in all projects. How should the outputs from the retrospectives be stored and managed?

Not all team members are properly checking out resources used in the project. What is the best option for the project manager?

DA project manager is in the process of developing the stakeholder register. As the first step in this process, she needs to create a list of potential stakeholders and decides to use a data gathering technique called brain writing. What is the first thing to do when using that technique?

At the start of a typical project life cycle, costs are:

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  A. Reviewing the lesson learned register
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  B. Monitoring stakeholder engagement

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  C. Examining the resource breakdown structure
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  D. Studying the project team assignments

At the completion of a project, a report is prepared that details the outcome of the research conducted on a global trend during the project. Which item did this project create?

What is a technique used in the performance reporting process?

As a project manager, you are in the process of estimating the team resources that will be required for your project. The challenge you are having is that, due to the nature of the project and the selected development approach, only a few of the top levels of the WBS have been identified with the remainder to be progressively elaborated throughout the project. What is the best approach to determine the team resource requirements for the project?

Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?

You are about to start planning for a large and complex project. Due to the size of the project along with the regulatory and environmental considerations, the development of a detailed project management plan will be critical. As a starting point for initial project planning, what is the first thing you should do?

You are managing a project to build a database and need to acquire information from the stakeholders of the project. The team is using brainstorming, focus groups, interviews, questionnaires, and benchmarking to understand and document the stakeholders’ needs. The methods the team is using are representative of which tool and technique?

During project execution, the team discovers that some of the buttons on the remote control developed by the project for a new product do not work according to the specifications. A change request is submitted and approved to replace the buttons. Which of the following best describes this change request?

A project is nearing its end when the project manager receives an approved change request to replace a defective unit. What should the project manager do next?

The resource management plan for an international project calls for a scrum team to be colocated during the regular workweek. However, after five sprints were completed, the project manager got a change request approved to cut costs by transitioning the team to a virtual environment working remotely from their homes with the start of the sixth sprint. After the team begins working remotely, what will be the best method to understand the impact of the change on the team’s productivity?

In a pharmaceutical project, human trials have been started. The CEO is thrilled about the success of the trials up to this point. She announces that the size of the patient pool for the trials should double from the one originally planned and results tracked in the new system launching this week. What should the project manager do first?

D. Consult As the project manager, you are leading a brainstorming session with key stakeholders to identify project risks. Once the project risks are determined, you immediately proceed to nominate different team members as risk owners and assign them the task of developing individual risk response plans. Have you properly conducted risk management planning?

. During an inspection of a project deliverable, the team detects the same defect in the deliverable that has already been identified during a previous inspection. The project manager is confused about how this could have happened since a change request was approved to repair the defect. After discussing the issue with the team, the project manager learns that the team never implemented the approved change request. What could have helped prevent this situation?

An input to the Plan Procurement Management process is:

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?

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?

You are part of a project team designing a new type of a vehicle. You are about to begin work on a work package for the braking system of the vehicle and want to review the acceptance criteria before starting the work. Where can you find this information?

The Closing Process Group includes which of the following Knowledge Areas?

As you are monitoring the cost baseline for your project, you notice that project expenses are higher than expected at this point in the project. What is the most likely cause of the variance?

The project is in execution, but your project team is unable to stop arguing about the project milestones and the specific risks associated with them. This on-going conflict puts the project at risk of running behind schedule. What would likely have helped avoid this conflict had it been properly created first?

A project manager meets with a customer for initial discussions about an upcoming project. At the end of the meeting, the customer asks the project manager for a rough estimate of the project duration. Based on her experience with three similar projects, the project manager provides an estimate of 8-10 months. What estimation technique does the project manager use?

A technician has just tested a piece of equipment and found a defect. The technician has informed the project manager and submitted a change request to repair the defect, indicating that the repair will require significant rework. What should the project manager do first?

As part of the Plan Resource Management process, project team members hold a brainstorming session to charter working agreements. The team identifies 37 agreements that include communication guidelines, decision-making and conflict resolution processes, core hours, a definition of a story point, how and when user stories will move through the Kanban board, etc. What should the project manager do next?

Following is an illustration of a project network activity node that includes some information about activity D. Given the information provided, what is the total float of activity D?

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

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

The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project. Based on the chart, what is the cost performance index (CPI) for Task 2?

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

At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?

A project to construct an assembly line is nearly complete. The project manager closes procurements, shares the final project report, updates the lessons learned repository, and obtains feedback from the relevant stakeholders. What should the project manager do next?

The process for performing variance analysis may vary, depending on:

Recently, you promoted your star programmer, Sam, to lead the agile development team. Sam was a fantastic software coder, and you thought the promotion would mean that he could now share his expertise with the other development team members. However, you are surprised to learn that the performance of Sam in his new role is not meeting your expectations. Which empirical rule did you forget while considering the promotion of Sam?

During a daily stand-up meeting, one of the programmers mentions that she had some extra time and added functionality, which was not included in the original design. She believes the customer will appreciate the added functionality. What is your best course of action?

A project manager is performing quality assurance for a project whose quality standards are very stringent. In order to meet and exceed the quality requirements, the project manager uses a set of technical guidelines, which were applied during the design phase of the project to optimize quality. What tool or technique is the project manager using in this scenario?

At the end of a design project, a competitor has gained market share with a new technology that has rendered the project?s deliverable obsolete. The project sponsor is pleased with the work of the project team who finished within budget and on time but thinks that the project should have been terminated much sooner. What might have the manager of the project done differently in this situation?

A project manager implements the project management plan meticulously but is struggling with leading the project team effectively. There is a great deal of unhealthy tension between the project team members as well as with the project manager. The project manager has had several outbursts during sprint retrospectives, which has caused the meeting to be abruptly adjourned. What should the project manager do first?

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

The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project. Based on the chart, what is the schedule performance index (5PI) for Task 4?

You are leading a large project that involves many stakeholders. You want to get two new team members up to speed with the overall dynamics of the project and engage effectively with the project stakeholders. What should you do?You are leading a large project that involves many stakeholders. You want to get two new team members up to speed with the overall dynamics of the project and engage effectively with the project stakeholders. What should you do?

A project manager is in the process of obtaining team members. She wants to understand the availability of the team members required to complete project work. What should the project manager do to find this information?

An example of a group decision-making technique is:

A project team is mulling over two risk responses for inclusion in the risk register. The first risk response has two criteria that must be met and costs $5,000. The second risk response has four criteria that must be met, but only costs $2,000. What action is the project team least likely to take in selecting the best risk response?

Verification of project deliverables occurs during which process?

You have just taken over a project in execution. During your first week, you determine that the project team members spend a lot of time responding to unexpected requests for information from different project stakeholders. Because of these interruptions, the team cannot focus on their project activities, and as a result, the project is behind schedule. What should you do first?

The project manager is managing the research and development of a new cancer screening test. The project manager would like to determine whether the processes currently in use in the project are effective in meeting the quality requirements specified by the customer. What does the project manager need to obtain first to make this determination?

You have compiled a list of potential stakeholders for your project, and now you are classifying the stakeholders with regard to the direction of their influence. As you work through your way down the list of stakeholders, you have come to the project sponsor. How should this stakeholder be classified?

A project is underway to construct a wind farm in an area with no communication infrastructure. The plan is to monitor progress and coordinate the scheduling of the project activities using project management software and provide daily status updates to the project sponsor at the home office. Two project teams will work and reside onsite in rotating seven-day tours. Which of the following is the most likely challenge the teams will face while controlling the schedule?

A project is six months into its nine-month projected duration. The project manager reports that the project is at least three months behind schedule because certain key stakeholders were resistant to consequential changes due to the project. What might have been done differently during project planning to avoid this situation?

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  A. Data gathering

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  B. Data analysis
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  C. Decision making
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  D. Data representation

The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group includes processes that:

Which of the following outputs from the Control Schedule process aids in the communication of schedule variance (SV), schedule performance index (SPI), or any performance status to stakeholders?

Which schedule compression technique has phases or activities done in parallel that would normally have been done sequentially?

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  A. Monitor Risks
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  B. Manage Quality
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  C. Control Schedule

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  D. Develop Schedule

To acquire resources for the project, the project manager consults the resource management plan. The plan calls for the scrum master to be assigned to the team. However, the only individual in the company qualified to serve as a scrum master has already started working on another project, and her functional manager does not cooperate on a potential resolution. How could this situation have been prevented?

Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?

A team member submits a draft of the requirements management plan to the project manager for a review. The project manager notices that one of the components included in the plan does not belong there. Which of the following components did the project manager most likely notice?

During an inspection of a project deliverable, the team detects the same defect in the deliverable that has already been identified during a previous inspection. The project manager is confused about how this could have happened since a change request was approved to repair the defect. After discussing the issue with the team, the project manager learns that the team never implemented the approved change request. What could have helped prevent this situation?

You are working with a team to estimate how much time is required for each activity. You are using a document that contains information on the categories of labor, material, and equipment required to complete the project. You are also interested in the skill levels, required certifications, and the grade levels for supplies. Which of the following documents would you primarily refer to for this purpose?

A project is behind schedule because department managers reassigned project team members to work on other assignments. After negotiations with the managers, you agreed to a temporary solution where a core group of project resources is dedicated to performing the project work until more resources are approved. What conflict resolution technique did you most likely employ in this situation?

Two team members are arguing over how to organize the work packages in the work breakdown structure (WBS). One says the work packages should be arranged in the order the work is planned to be carried out, while the other insists the order of the work packages in the WBS does not matter. The two ask the project manager for advice. What is the project manager’s best response?

The three processes of Project Cost Management are:

Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?

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  A. As long as everyone is in agreement, then let’s skip the team charter and get ahead of schedule
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  B. Let’s use the team charter from our last project as a starting point and then update it as necessary

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  C. The team charter is required by the project management office (PMO) for all projects
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  D. The team charter will eliminate any potential conflicts which will improve our productivity

A project to reduce the defect rate of the manufacturing process is underway. To analyze and improve the process, the project team is now carrying out the quality assurance activities. Which of the following would be the most beneficial for this project?

What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?

Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?

In which Process Group are lessons learned documented?

While reviewing your project’s performance, you discover a significant variance. If the issue is not fixed before the next customer inspection, your project might be canceled. However, after a further review conducted by the project team, you are glad to hear that bringing the project back on track requires only a minor correction to a configuration element. What should you do first?

The team has just reported to you that they have completed the Plan Quality Management process. You review their work and see that they have produced the quality management plan, and made the necessary updates to the project management plan and project documents. What did they forget?

While performing project work, a team member notices that there is a potential new risk, which could impact the project’s critical path. What should the team member do immediately?

The organization?s leadership wants projects to include more agile methodologies. Before mandating any agile methods to be used in a project, what should be done first?

You are leading a project to design a high-efficiency solar cell. The project needs copper, silver, and silicon among other materials. You have ordered custom-built manufacturing equipment, secured permission to install a solar array on the roof for testing, and reserved a conference room for daily stand-up meetings. What is the result of your efforts?

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

A key benefit of the Manage Communications process is that it enables:

Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?

You are leading a project to build an oil pipeline in a foreign country. You want to outsource some of the construction work to local contractors and are in the process of preparing the bid package for prospective sellers. Which of the following documents would you leave out of the package?

During project planning of a large, complex project, project management best practices were rigorously and thoroughly followed. During project execution, the project experienced several critical risks, which were foreseen and previously identified. Despite the meticulous planning, the project failed to achieve the established objectives due to these realized risks. What may have gone wrong in this scenario?

Sharing good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the organization and/or industry is an example of:

Which of the following is an output of Close Procurements?

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

A project manager is leading a process improvement project for a factory operation. Currently, the project manager and the team are performing the Monitor and Control Project Work process. Which of the following activities might be carried out during this process?

Your project team members are writing software code together as a pair and reviewing each other’s work to determine if the code conforms to the requirements documentation. Which of the following will be a result of these reviews?

You are managing a project that is nearing its end and planning to settle all pending claims with the vendors. In one case, you are not satisfied with the delivery of their final product. All conversations with the vendor have ended in an impasse. What should you do in this situation?

You are establishing the relative priorities of individual risks identified in the project. Which of the following tasks is the least likely to impact this prioritization?

During project execution, several unexpected issues have developed and are now threatening the project schedule and budget. What is the best course of action for the project manager to address the issues?

Plan Schedule Management is a process in which Knowledge Area?

An input of the Plan Procurement Management process is:

You are managing a project to build a house for a private client. A few weeks before the project’s planned completion date, the client calls and asks to add an outdoor sauna to the property. You analyze the project schedule and determine that this change would be fairly easy to implement without having an impact on the completion date. What should you do first?

You are developing the communications management plan for a construction project. You want to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders, specifically focusing on the type and the format of information that will be required to communicate with the stakeholders. What is your best course of action?

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

Conflict should be best addressed in which manner?

Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?

When are deliverables accepted or not accepted?

An organization has a policy that a change control board (CCB) must review all change requests for every project in the organization, and that the CCB follows the recommended activities outlined in the PMBOK® Guide. Project managers and the project team do not serve as members of the CCB. Based on this scenario, which of the following activities might be performed by members of the CCB?

As part of the Direct and Manage Project Work process, the project manager conducts an iteration planning meeting. The meeting is dominated by the most senior developer who frequently and sharply interrupts the other team members. The project manager wants to ensure that during the next iteration planning meeting all voices are heard. What is the project manager’s best course of action?

Your company was awarded a contract that includes a 10% bonus payment if the project is completed two months early. You consider several options to exploit this opportunity. What is the best course of action for you to increase the chances of receiving the bonus?

Team members are frequently changing during the long timeline of a multi-phase project. The project manager is questioning whether to include agile practices to accommodate the changes. What should the project manager do prior to moving to a hybrid approach?

To produce the deliverables, the project will procure goods and services from outside the organization. The project manager has instructed the team to develop a comprehensive list of individual project risks related to those procurements. What is the best course of action for the project team?

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

DThe project is in execution, but your project team is unable to stop arguing about the project milestones and the specific risks associated with them. This on-going conflict puts the project at risk of running behind schedule. What would likely have helped avoid this conflict had it been properly created first?

The cost performance baseline is typically displayed in the form of:

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

A team member volunteered to provide the project status update in a weekly presentation to the key stakeholders. After the first meeting has taken place, feedback from the stakeholders suggests that the presentation was not very engaging. What is the best way for the project manager to address this situation with the team member?

You are part of a cross-functional development team piloting an adaptive approach to project management in an organization that has traditionally used a predictive approach. You realize that you have to tailor the template of the schedule management plan. Which of the following components of the template are you likely to tailor the most?

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

Which of the following is a complete set of indexed contract documentation, including the closed contract?

A company has authorized a dedicated change control board (CCB) to review and evaluate all change requests that are submitted for any project. If the project sponsor is a member of the CCB, which of the following best describes an individual or group that can request a change on a project?

The scrum master, business analyst, programmers, and testers have been assigned to a product development project. The performing organization is well-versed with the traditional waterfall framework but will incorporate scrum for the software development phase of the project. What is the best strategy to ensure that all of the scrum roles and responsibilities are served in the project?

The quality management plan specifies the use of a data representation technique to show the strength of relationships between four factors. Which of the following tools or techniques should be used to comply with the plan?

Midway into project execution, new cybersecurity laws take an immediate effect and require audits of the system. The project has a well thought out project management plan. The audits may come at any time throughout the system?s development. What is the best way for the project manager and team to address the risk of audits disrupting the project plans?

You are managing a renovation project of a house which is to be completed at a budget of $100,000. Earned value analysis shows that so far you have completed 40% of the work and spent $60,000. How much more will it cost to complete the project if the cost performance remains unchanged?

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

While processes in the Planning Process Group seek to collect feedback and define project documents to guide project work, organizational procedures dictate when the project planning:

A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:

The following Gantt chart displays the schedule for a software upgrade project. The system analysis was completed on August 12th, but the system design and development activities are still in process as of October 3rd. Once the product is developed, the project team will need to test and deploy it, which must be completed by October 17th. The method used to determine the earned value is based on percent complete. What is the cost variance as of October 3rd? •

Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Define Activities process?

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? •

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?

The project management plan specifies that a predictive development approach has been selected to produce the project deliverables. Where in the project life cycle will the overall project risk be the lowest? (Please note that on the real PMP exam you may be asked to provide your answer by clicking the correct area in the image. But here in the simulator, we are asking you to select the answer below.)

One of your contractors is not performing to the agreed-upon standards. You want to terminate the contract and engage another contractor for the same job. You need to determine the specific legal procedure for the early termination of the contract. What should you do?

The construction project has many people and specialized teams at the worksite every day. Frequent communication between the team leads is critical for safety and efficiency. Which agile ceremony can this project incorporate to increase timely cross-functional communication?

You have just taken over a project in which some of the deliverables will be produced by external vendors. You want to familiarize yourself with those who are involved in the project from the sellers’ side. Where would you look to obtain this information?

A plan-driven project has many deliverables planned to be released at the end of the phase. The project manager wants to ensure that the deliverables are completed as expected. Which agile practices can the project manager recommend to the team to make certain that the deliverables are completed and delivered as expected?

A major dispute arises with a vendor on a project. The project manager claims that the vendor has failed to perform its contractual obligations, while the vendor complains that the project is behind on payments. What is the best course of action for the project manager in this situation?

Cost baseline is an output of which of the following processes?

When does risk monitoring and control occur?

. You have been asked to lead a product development project which will use an agile framework. Currently, you are in the process of drafting the project charter, and you want to bring together stakeholders and subject matter experts to discuss perceived project risk, success criteria, and other topics. What is the best way for you to accomplish this objective?

Which items are an output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

A corporate restructuring project is in execution. The job responsibilities of many key stakeholders are being disrupted, which has caused challenges in keeping the stakeholders engaged in a positive manner. Which of the following actions is the project manager least likely to perform in this situation?

A project team performs monthly risk audits for a project, where a large number of identified risks have been realized. So far, the risk responses have been appropriate, and the reserves sufficient. An executive for the requesting organization criticizes the project manager improper risk audits, stating that only independent, external resources should perform risk audits. How should the project manager respond?

Which organizational process assets update is performed during the Close Procurements process?

A company is considering two projects, Alpha and Beta. Project Alpha is expected to result in a $50 million net profit, while project Beta and is expected to net $45 million. Both projects could be very lucrative and rewarding. However, the financial controller has stated that the company can only invest in one of these projects. If project Alpha is selected, what will be the opportunity cost?

A project is divided into four sequential phases. The second phase of the project has just been completed, and the third phase is about to begin. What should the project manager do first?

At times over a project life cycle, the team must adopt a few agile ceremonies. The aim is to communicate quicker in times of tight deadlines. Unfortunately, team members are not getting the information needed during the ceremonies. What is the best option to confirm that the information is received and understood?

Your project has been plagued with numerous change requests. What is the most likely reason?

A project manager facilitates a discussion with the team about experimenting with some agile practices in their plan-driven project. A suggestion of incorporating daily standups is on the table. The team members, however, are unsure of what is expected of them. What can the project manager suggest the project team members do prior to the daily standup?

You want to recognize the contributions of some of the high-performing team members so far in the project. Which of the following do you need to guide you through this process?

A project manager is in the process of developing the stakeholder register. As the first step in this process, she needs to create a list of potential stakeholders and decides to use a data gathering technique called brain writing. What is the first thing to do when using that technique?

A tool or technique used during the Administer Procurements process is:

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

A servant leader has just been assigned to an upcoming product development project and believes that the project is well-suited to Kanban. However, the development team is unfamiliar with this approach. What is the servant leader’s best course of action?

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?

An output of the Close Project (or Close Phase) process is:

During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?

You are managing a project to build five bridges. The project consists of five sequential phases with each phase delivering one bridge.After the first phase of the project is complete, which process group of the second phase should follow?

An organization has a project management office (PMO) that ensures all relevant project documents are created, and all project management processes are followed according to established best practices. What should the project manager review first to identify stakeholders for a newly started project?

A project manager is wrapping up the hardware development phase of a product development project. The project will now transition to the software development phase. How might the project manager’s role change with respect to integration management?

In the design phase, external experts verified that the team’s blueprints for a new crane complied with requirements. During the build phase, the customer performed a walkthrough and found that some welding joints on the crane were defective. The crane needs to be reworked to ensure it can be operated safely. How could this situation have been avoided?

The project team is undergoing an agile transformation. This requires the team members to maintain their original project plans in the current management tool, but also enter performance data in the new tool built around agile practices. The team identifies that the information in the two tools is out of sync. This risk has been identified earlier in project planning. What is the best course of action for the project manager?

You are managing a project to construct a bridge at a location that is highly regulated by multiple levels of government. You are in the process of developing a plan that will establish the criteria and the activities for developing, monitoring, and controlling the schedule. Which of the following should you gather to complete this process?

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?

During a daily stand-up meeting, one of the programmers mentions that she had some extra time and added functionality, which was not included in the original design. She believes the customer will appreciate the added functionality. What is your best course of action?

Which baselines make up the performance measurement baseline?

Specification of both the deliverables and the processes is the focus of:

Updates to organizational process assets such as procurement files, deliverable acceptances, and lessons learned documentation are typical outputs of which process?

The scrum master, business analyst, programmers, and testers have been assigned to a product development project. The performing organization is well-versed with the traditional waterfall framework but will incorporate scrum for the software development phase of the project. What is the best strategy to ensure that all of the scrum roles and responsibilities are served in the project?

Completion of the product scope is measured against the product:

The project aims to investigate the feasibility of constructing a hydroelectric dam from a technical, economic, and social point of view. The project charter created by the project manager on behalf of the project sponsor is now approved. Which of the following processes should be performed next?

The following table is an activity list that includes the duration and predecessor for a series of project activities. What is the duration of the critical path? •

You are conducting a sprint retrospective in accordance with the communications management plan. The development team members want to try pair programming as they believe it will improve productivity by reducing rework. Even though you are very skeptical, you agree to implement the practice as you want to empower the team to be a self-managing unit. What should you do next?

For an upcoming project, a needs assessment and business case have been completed, and the project management office (PMO) is reviewing a draft of the benefits management plan. The PMO highlights an element of the benefits management plan and requests that the element be removed before the document is finalized. Which of the following was most likely the element the PMO requested to remove?

Projects in a program are using various project management approaches, such as plan-driven, agile, hybrid. The project teams are complaining that because of that, the team members must enter the same work, hours, risks, and other data in multiple tools. The redundant work is impeding on their productivity time. What is the best course of action for the program manager?

One of the project activities requires that a search of a large area is conducted to find debris from an explosion of a failed prototype. The project is now in planning, and there is a debate among the team members on the type and quantity of resources needed to complete this activity. What should the project manager do first?

A project manager does most of her communicating with team members, internal project stakeholders, and external project stakeholders via email. The project manager incorporates specific techniques when composing her emails to reduce any misunderstandings. Which of the following is not considered one of these techniques?

Budgets reserved for unplanned changes to project scope and cost are: