PMP Flashcards
(39 cards)
You’re managing a project for a military subcontractor to modify the software for a missile guidance system. You’re planning the project, and need to take into account information about the company’s operating environment. Which of the following is NOT an example of the factors you are looking at:
A. Marketing conditions
B. The forecast for project completion, including ETC and TCPI
C. Government standards you need to comply with
D. The political climate that can affect your project
B. The forecast for project completion, including ETC and TCPI
The CFO of a company tells you that you need to include a new feature in software that’s being produced by a project that you are managing. The deadline for the project is tight, and if you take on the extra work then the project will come in late. What BEST describes the first thing that you should do?
A. Update the Project Management plan to make sure the new feature is included in the project.
B. Tell the CFO that he needs to wait until you’re working on the next version, and then submit a change request to the change control board.
C. Tell the CFO that the deadline it too tight, and the feature can’t be included.
D. Evaluate the impact that the change will have on the project
D. Evaluate the impact that the change will have on the project
Which of the following BEST describes the role of the project sponsor?
A. Assigning work to the project team
B. Paying for the project
C. Politically supporting the project inside the organization
D. Define the type of organization (matrix, functional, etc.)
B. Paying for the project
Which of the following is NOT a part of the Project Management plan?
A. The lifecycle selected for the project
B. The level of implementation for each of the processes
C. The organization’s staffing and retention guidelines
D. Techniques used to communicate with stakeholders
C. The organization’s staffing and retention guidelines
You’re managing an architecture project to design an extension of an existing building. One of the stakeholders has been adamant that the plans do not include an interior supporting wall, because she wants to be able to reconfigure the floorplan. Where do you document this information?
A. Project scope statement
B. Scope Management plan
C. Work breakdown structure
D. WBS dictionary
A. Project scope statement
You’re in the process of talking to the project stakeholders, figuring out what they need, and writing it down. Which of the following is a tool or technique that you would use?
A. Decomposition
B. Observations
C. Variance analysis
D. Inspection
B. Observations
A project manager is analyzing deliverables and subdividing them into smaller, more manageable components. This project manager is performing WHICH process?
A. Control Scope
B. Define Scope
C. Collect Requirements
D. Create WBS
D. Create WBS
A software project team lead is working with stakeholders to make sure that there’s formal, documented acceptance of every one of the project deliverables. Which of the following BEST describes the work that she’s doing?
A. Performing variance analysis on the cost baseline
B. Updating the traceability matrix
C. Structuring and organizing the WBS
D. Running the software and walking through it with the stakeholders
D. Running the software and walking through it with the stakeholders
You’re working on an IT project to set up a development environment, including designing and building a computer room, installing the operating system and software, and performing a security evaluation. You need at least two weeks to order the hardware before you can configure it and install the operating systems. Which of the following BEST describes this relationship?
A. Lead
B. Lag
C. Finish-to-Start (FS)
D. Start-to-Start (SS)
A. Lead
You’re planning an IT project to set up a development environment, including designing and building a computer room, installing the operating system and software, and performing a security evaluation. Your project includes three different activities that involve three different network technicians splicing ends onto wires in order to build their own Ethernet cables, because that’s less expensive than buying prepackaged ones. Every Ethernet cable must be tested with a qualification tester. That’s an expensive piece of equipment, and there are only a few of them that must be shared amongst all of the technicians in the company. You need to plan your schedule based on the availability of the testing equipment. What’s the BEST place to find that information?
A. Staffing requirements
B. Activity network diagram
C. Resource calendar
D. Activity resource requirements
C. Resource calendar
You’re working on an IT project to set up a development environment, including designing and building a computer room, installing the operating system and software, and performing a security evaluation. Once the operating system on a machine is installed, it needs to be imaged and copied to three identical boxes. Which of the following BEST describes this relationship?
A. Lead
B. Lag
C. Finish-to-Start (FS)
D. Start-to-Start (SS)
C. Finish-to-Start (FS)
You’re working on an IT project to set up a development environment, including designing and building a computer room, installing the operating system and software, and performing a security evaluation. Your team comes up with a best-case scenario for the activity that involves ordering and installing the equipment. If everything goes perfectly, they feel it will take five weeks. However, they think it’s much more likely to take nine. A team member points out that on his last project, there was a major equipment delivery delay that cost the project an extra four weeks, and the rest of the team agrees that this is a possibility in a worst-case scenario. Use PERT analysis to calculate how long you should expect this activity to take.
A. 5 weeks
B. 9 weeks
C. 12 weeks
D. 13 weeks
B. 9 weeks
Which of the following BEST describes funding limit reconciliation?
A. Comparing your project’s budget against the project’s reserves
B. Comparing your project’s planned expenditures against the funding constraints
C. Comparing the project’s planned value against the actual costs
D. Comparing the project’s net present value against the internal rate of return
B. Comparing your project’s planned expenditures against the funding constraints
Your project has a budget of completion (BAC) of $75,000, and you need to figure out if you’re on track to meet it. You know that you’ve already spent $56,000, and you’re 70% done with the project. If your project continues expenditures at the current rate, what’s the lowest that you can allow your CPI to go before you’ve exceeded your project’s budget?
A. .94
B. 1.18
C. 1.43
D. 1.08
B. 1.18
You’re managing a construction project to install 7,500 light switches in a new high-rise building. You’ve installed 3,575 of them so far, and you’ve spent $153,500 of your total budget of $245,000. Which of the following is true?
A. The AC is $153,500, so I’m ahead of schedule
B. The ETC is $168,995, so I’m within my budget
C. The CV is $36,880, so I’ve exceeded my budget
D. The CPI is .7597, so I’ve exceeded my budget
D. The CPI is .7597, so I’ve exceeded my budget
You’re managing a construction project, and you’re estimating your project’s activities using a spreadsheet that a consulting company created for you. You have the fill in the dry weight of the materials, the number of people required to do the work, the type of building you’re working on, and other information about the project. Which BEST describes what you are doing?
A. Parametric estimation
B. Analogous estimation
C. Bottom-up estimation
D. Top-down estimation
A. Parametric estimation
Which of the following is NOT considered when calculating cost of quality?
A. How much it costs to repair deliverables when they don’t meet requirements
B. The cost of training the team to perform inspections
C. The cost of working with customers who find problems with the work delivered to them
D. The cost gaining formal acceptance of project deliverables
D. The cost gaining formal acceptance of project deliverables
Which of the following is NOT an example of quality assurance?
A. Examining the way deliverables are produced to see if processes are being followed
B. Examining deliverables to see if they meet requirements
C. Examining a group of deliverables to figure out why they all had the same defect
D. Examining the company’s documentation on how processes are to be performed
B. Examining deliverables to see if they meet requirements
Which of the following BEST describes a situation where statistical sampling is appropriate?
A. You just got a shipment of 50,000 parts, and you need to figure out if enough of them are within tolerance to be used on your project
B. You need to figure out which defects are critical, and which can be delivered to you customer and repaired later.
C. You need to use the rule of seven on a control chart
D. You need to determine if your project is ahead of schedule and within budget
A. You just got a shipment of 50,000 parts, and you need to figure out if enough of them are within tolerance to be used on your project
You’re planning your project’s quality activities. You know that as you go through your project, your team will find lots of ways to improve how your company does work in the future. You need a way to handle that information in a systematic manner. What document is BEST used to plan for this?
A. Quality checklist
B. Process Improvement plan
C. Quality Management plan
D. Quality metrics
B. Process Improvement plan
A project manager working in a projectized organization is putting a team together to perform a project. Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique that might be used to do this?
A. Colocation
B. Virtual teams
C. Preassignment
D. Negotiation
A. Colocation
A project manager is building her team. She notices that team members are not collaborating efficiently, and she is concerned that this is leading to a destructive environment. Which of the following BEST describes the state that the team is in?
A. Norming
B. Forming
C. Storming
D. Performing
C. Storming
A project manager is running into trouble with his team, because they always come to meetings late. Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to be the cause of this problem?
A. The team resents the work that they’re doing
B. The project manager needs to schedule meeting later in the day
C. The project manager was late to meetings himself, and this influenced the team
D. The team is in the storming phase of team development
C. The project manager was late to meetings himself, and this influenced the team
A project manager for a software project is well regarded by people in her company as an expert programmer. She has an especially good reputation among the senior managers of the company. The CTO of the company tells her that anytime she runs into trouble, he’ll back up any decision that she makes-and everyone on the team admires the CTO, and they have a lot of loyalty to him. Which BEST describes the power the project manager is exerting?
A. Reward power
B. Expert power
C. Punishment power
D. Referent power
D. Referent power
