David Geoffrey Litten

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp

50 HOT PMP Q & A HOT PMP Exam
Questions and Answers
50 HOT PMP EXAM
Questions & Answers



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Your PMP Exam?

50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 2

1. You are having problems with a project product that repeatedly fails inspection testing, and you
are advised that the design needs further refinement. This will cause cost and time increases to
the project. You have raised a change request that has now been approved. What else must you
do?
Create new quality assurance standards
Update the project baselines
Create an issue for preventative action
Inform the change control board

2. Crashing can:
Reduce the schedule by reconnecting series activities to occur in parallel
Reduce project cost and duration
Reconnect activities so that slack or float is maximized
Reduce the schedule by adding extra resources on critical path activities

3. There are outstanding issues, claims, and disputes with one supplier of your project. A common
method for addressing these is through:
Negotiated settlements
Procurement audits
Lessons learned
Firm fixed price

4. An output of the cost budgeting processes is:
Cost performance baseline
Projects funding requirements
Project schedule updates
All the above

5. Which of the following is not considered when calculating cost of quality?
Appraisal
Quality function deployment
Training
Rework

6. Which process documents uncertain events that can influence your project objectives?
Identify risks
Plan risk management
Monitor and control risks
Plan risk actions


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 3

7. When project managers do not have position power, they will need to use:
Listening
Leadership
Influencing
Negotiation skills

8. The right to make and approve decisions is:
Competency
Responsibility level
Authority
Role definition

9. Which document would be the most appropriate to review if you need to ensure that all project
work is complete prior to closing the project. ?
Cost performance index
Project management plan
Schedule management plan
Scope management plan

10. In which process is information from the stakeholder register is used?
Plan communications
Develop project charter
Perform quality assurance
Distribute information

11. The project manager will need to engage in which activity to effectively manage their project
team:
Negotiating
Norming
Enforce project standards
Conflict management

12. A risk reassessment is used for:
Correct errors from the original risk assessment
Check whether assumptions are valid
Identifying the risks and recalculate their impact and probability
To reconfirm the data accuracy


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 4

13. Your project has these details: EV = $450,000, AC = $510,000. Your BAC is $950,000. What is
your EAC?
$1,207,843
$1,076,666
$1,002,725
$1,325,000

14. You measure completion of product scope against:
The product requirements
The scope management plan
The approved scope statement
The project management plan

15. Projects are normally split down into phases to make them easier to manage. Within the
initiating process group, which of the following is most likely to be used?
Development
Concept
Testing
Planning

16. What are items at the lowest level of the WBS called?
Activities
Tasks
Milestones
Work packages

17. A good friend of yours has given you a job as a project manager within his company. Which of
the following types of power have you been given?
Forcing
Referent
Expert
Formal

18. The Close project process inputs do NOT include which of the following?
Variance analysis
Project management plan
Organizational process assets
Accepted deliverables


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 5

19. Project objectives should NOT include which of the following?
Project budget
Projects completion date
Quality parameters
Risk assessment

20. A defect has been discovered in a product, and you are trying to determine what input may
have caused the defect. Which technique of the following would help you to chart this analysis?
Ishikawa diagram
Run diagram
Pareto chart
Scatter diagram

21. Which process (where the deliverables are created), will depend most on the nature of the
performed work?
Define project scope
Create WBS
Direct and manage project execution
Monitor and control project work

22. Which following process as the project charter as an input?

Create WBS
Collect requirements
Control scope
Verify WBS

23. Which of the following is identified within the scope statement:
The name of the project manager
The specialist team for project delivery
The project business case
Assumptions and exclusions

24. The verify scope process of forms which of the following?
Formal acceptance of the project scope
Project team sign-offs
Formal acceptance of completed project deliverables
Formal documentation of the project scope


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 6

25. Which of the following stakeholders is responsible for funding the project?
Finance department
Senior management
The sponsor
The requestor of the project

26. The output of quantitative risk analysis is:
Identifying risks with a close time proximity
The probability of achieving your project schedule and cost objectives
Provides trend information of qualitative risk analysis
Shows the likelihood of achieving your project risk objectives

27. The least favored conflict management approach that a project manager would use is?
Avoidance
Compromise
Collaboration
Problem solving

28. Which contract choice would encourage the seller to meet or exceed given project performance
criteria?
Firm fixed price
Cost plus incentive fee
Time and material
Cost plus fixed price

29. The motivation theory that you most favor, set high standards tied to rewards for work
performance, while ensuring that such rewards are seen as beneficial for your team. Which of
the following theories do you favor?
Reward setting theory
Theory X
Contingency theory
Expectancy theory

30. Which of the following options is an output from the estimate activity resources process?
Requested scope changes
Resource breakdown structure
Authorize changes
Activity cost estimates


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 7

31. Your project is due for a financial review and you have gathered some data. Your EV is $680,000,
your AC is $720,000 and your BAC is $960,000. What is your EAC?
$1,000,550
$1,016,470
$1,200,000
$1,100,750

32. Which of the following documents contains a definition of the project cost variance thresholds?
The cost baseline
The configuration management plan
The resource management plan
The cost management plan

33. Where is the product lifecycle documented?
The project management plan
The project scope statement
The scope management plan
The scope requirements plan

34. What type of chart ranks of the reasons for cost variance?
Flowchart
Cause and effect diagram
Pareto chart
Run chart

35. The ability, skills and capacity of an individual to implement project activities is called their:
Competency
Responsibility
Authority
Role

36. Which of the following is not an activity within the control scope process?
Managing the product and project scope changes
Making sure that scope creep does not occur on the project
Deliverable verification
Obtaining customer sign-off on the final deliverable


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 8

37. You are currently negotiating a FPIF contract. The target cost = $400,000 with a target profit of
15%. The incentive split has been decided as 60/40. As of today, the actual costs are $350,000.
What is the actual profit?
$80,000
$20,000
$40,000
$10,000

38. The purpose of a change control system is to:
Assess cost or schedule impacts prior to implementation
Ensure that a common plan is used by all project team members
Ensure that changes to the SOW are approved
All the above

39. When implementing the increased accuracy of a bottom up estimate, what potential downside
must be considered?
The size of the project
The additional cost of estimating
The amount of risk within the project
The experience of the estimators

40. Your project is approaching the end of a key development phase and you are gathering historic
data to prepare for an important project status review. For the past three months you note that
the TCPI has been getting progressively larger. What does this signify?
Your forecast accuracy is improving
Your cost performance is improving
Your cost performance is getting worse
Your schedule performance is getting better

41. One of your key development resources has been head hunted by a competitor and they have
been immediately removed from the project site. For the immediate future, you need to farm
out his work to those team resources that remain on the project. Which tool or technique
should you use to spread his work among the remaining team?
Resource optimization
Resource leveling
Variance analysis
Schedule compression



50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 9

42. Which process has a primary purpose of maintaining the integrity of project baselines?
Perform integrated change control
Control the scope
Report performance
Monitor and control project work

43. The sender within a communication model has the responsibility for:
Correct interpretation of the information
Making the content clear and complete
Ensuring that all the information is received
Decoding the message contents

44. You have an unresolved dispute with the supplier during the close project process. You are
considering the option of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). What type of option is this?
Litigation
Arbitration
Sublimation
Transportation

45. Your project has emerged from an audit with a discrepancy between yourself and your sponsor.
In your opinion the discrepancy is not major, but as the sponsor is more senior, you manage the
situation by highlighting the many achievements and downplayed the few differences that the
audit has identified. This is an example of:
Smoothing
Compromising
Collaborating
Avoiding

46. Your project that is producing a particular product must be developed by machinery that is
calibrated within very fine tolerances. To ensure that this happens, you have implemented laser
controlled measurement devices that constantly monitor this machines set up. To be effective,
these devices must have a high degree of:
Precision
Control
Repeatability
Accuracy



50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 10

47. Which of the following options is correct for the Close Project process:
It is not mandatory only optional
It may occur at the end of each project phase
It must occur once per project
The process ensures that the project is successful

48. Your project is developing a new product due to be launched at a trade show in November this
year. The total investment cost is $2,800,000, and you are expecting to recapture $1,200,00 by
February the following year, and the remaining $1,600,00 investment by July of that year. What
type of forecast is this called?
Future value
Payback period
Benefit cost ratio
Net present value

49. Which is the highest performance level for a project team?
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing

50. As the project manager, you are working closely with your team to ensure they thought was on
meeting the project objectives and working as an efficient and effective team. This is an
example of:
Leadership
Listening
Negotiation skills
Influencing

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50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 11

1. You are having problems with a project product that repeatedly fails inspection testing, and you
are advised that the design needs further refinement. This will cause cost and time increases to
the project. You have raised a change request that has now been approved. What else must you
do?
Create new quality assurance standards
Update the project baselines
Create an issue for preventative action
Inform the change control board

2. Crashing can:
Reduce the schedule by reconnecting series activities to occur in parallel
Reduce project cost and duration
Reconnect activities so that slack or float is maximized
Reduce the schedule by adding extra resources on critical path activities

3. There are outstanding issues, claims, and disputes with one supplier of your project. A common
method for addressing these is through:
Negotiated settlements
Procurement audits
Lessons learned
Firm fixed price

4. An output of the cost budgeting processes is:
Cost performance baseline
Projects funding requirements
Project schedule updates
All the above

5. Which of the following is not considered when calculating cost of quality?
Appraisal
Quality function deployment
Training
Rework

6. Which process documents uncertain events that can influence your project objectives?
Identify risks
Plan risk management
Monitor and control risks
Plan risk actions


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 12

7. When project managers do not have position power, they will need to use:
Listening
Leadership
Influencing
Negotiation skills

8. The right to make and approve decisions is:
Competency
Responsibility level
Authority
Role definition

9. Which document would be the most appropriate to review if you need to ensure that all project
work is complete prior to closing the project. ?
Cost performance index
Project management plan
Schedule management plan
Scope management plan

10. In which process is information from the stakeholder register is used?
Plan communications
Develop project charter
Perform quality assurance
Distribute information

11. The project manager will need to engage in which activity to effectively manage their project
team:
Negotiating
Norming
Enforce project standards
Conflict management

12. A risk reassessment is used for:
Correct errors from the original risk assessment
Check whether assumptions are valid
Identifying the risks and recalculate their impact and probability
To reconfirm the data accuracy


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 13

13. Your project has these details: EV = $450,000, AC = $510,000. Your BAC is $950,000. What is
your EAC?
$1,207,843
$1,076,666
$1,002,725
$1,325,000

14. You measure completion of product scope against:
The product requirements
The scope management plan
The approved scope statement
The project management plan

15. Projects are normally split down into phases to make them easier to manage. Within the
initiating process group, which of the following is most likely to be used?
Development
Concept
Testing
Planning

16. What are items at the lowest level of the WBS called?
Activities
Tasks
Milestones
Work packages

17. A good friend of yours has given you a job as a project manager within his company. Which of
the following types of power have you been given?
Forcing
Referent
Expert
Formal

18. The Close project process inputs do NOT include which of the following?
Variance analysis
Project management plan
Organizational process assets
Accepted deliverables


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 14

19. Project objectives should NOT include which of the following?
Project budget
Projects completion date
Quality parameters
Risk assessment

20. A defect has been discovered in a product, and you are trying to determine what input may
have caused the defect. Which technique of the following would help you to chart this analysis?
Ishikawa diagram
Run diagram
Pareto chart
Scatter diagram

21. Which process (where the deliverables are created), will depend most on the nature of the
performed work?
Define project scope
Create WBS
Direct and manage project execution
Monitor and control project work

22. Which following process as the project charter as an input?

Create WBS
Collect requirements
Control scope
Verify WBS

23. Which of the following is identified within the scope statement:
The name of the project manager
The specialist team for project delivery
The project business case
Assumptions and exclusions

24. The verify scope process of forms which of the following?
Formal acceptance of the project scope
Project team sign-offs
Formal acceptance of completed project deliverables
Formal documentation of the project scope


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 15

25. Which of the following stakeholders is responsible for funding the project?
Finance department
Senior management
The sponsor
The requestor of the project

26. The output of quantitative risk analysis is:
Identifying risks with a close time proximity
The probability of achieving your project schedule and cost objectives
Provides trend information of qualitative risk analysis
Shows the likelihood of achieving your project risk objectives

27. The least favored conflict management approach that a project manager would use is?
Avoidance
Compromise
Collaboration
Problem solving

28. Which contract choice would encourage the seller to meet or exceed given project performance
criteria?
Firm fixed price
Cost plus incentive fee
Time and material
Cost plus fixed price

29. The motivation theory that you most favor, set high standards tied to rewards for work
performance, while ensuring that such rewards are seen as beneficial for your team. Which of
the following theories do you favor?
Reward setting theory
Theory X
Contingency theory
Expectancy theory

30. Which of the following options is an output from the estimate activity resources process?
Requested scope changes
Resource breakdown structure
Authorize changes
Activity cost estimates


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 16

31. Your project is due for a financial review and you have gathered some data. Your EV is $680,000,
your AC is $720,000 and your BAC is $960,000. What is your EAC?
$1,000,550
$1,016,470
$1,200,000
$1,100,750

32. Which of the following documents contains a definition of the project cost variance thresholds?
The cost baseline
The configuration management plan
The resource management plan
The cost management plan

33. Where is the product lifecycle documented?
The project management plan
The project scope statement
The scope management plan
The scope requirements plan

34. What type of chart ranks of the reasons for cost variance?
Flowchart
Cause and effect diagram
Pareto chart
Run chart

35. The ability, skills and capacity of an individual to implement project activities is called their:
Competency
Responsibility
Authority
Role

36. Which of the following is not an activity within the control scope process?
Managing the product and project scope changes
Making sure that scope creep does not occur on the project
Deliverable verification
Obtaining customer sign-off on the final deliverable


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 17

37. You are currently negotiating a FPIF contract. The target cost = $400,000 with a target profit of
15%. The incentive split has been decided as 60/40. As of today, the actual costs are $350,000.
What is the actual profit?
$80,000
$20,000
$40,000
$10,000

38. The purpose of a change control system is to:
Assess cost or schedule impacts prior to implementation
Ensure that a common plan is used by all project team members
Ensure that changes to the SOW are approved
All the above

39. When implementing the increased accuracy of a bottom up estimate, what potential downside
must be considered?
The size of the project
The additional cost of estimating
The amount of risk within the project
The experience of the estimators

40. Your project is approaching the end of a key development phase and you are gathering historic
data to prepare for an important project status review. For the past three months you note that
the TCPI has been getting progressively larger. What does this signify?
Your forecast accuracy is improving
Your cost performance is improving
Your cost performance is getting worse
Your schedule performance is getting better

41. One of your key development resources has been head hunted by a competitor and they have
been immediately removed from the project site. For the immediate future, you need to farm
out his work to those team resources that remain on the project. Which tool or technique
should you use to spread his work among the remaining team?
Resource optimization
Resource leveling
Variance analysis
Schedule compression



50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 18

42. Which process has a primary purpose of maintaining the integrity of project baselines?
Perform integrated change control
Control the scope
Report performance
Monitor and control project work

43. The sender within a communication model has the responsibility for:
Correct interpretation of the information
Making the content clear and complete
Ensuring that all the information is received
Decoding the message contents

44. You have an unresolved dispute with the supplier during the close project process. You are
considering the option of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). What type of option is this?
Litigation
Arbitration
Sublimation
Transportation

45. Your project has emerged from an audit with a discrepancy between yourself and your sponsor.
In your opinion the discrepancy is not major, but as the sponsor is more senior, you manage the
situation by highlighting the many achievements and downplayed the few differences that the
audit has identified. This is an example of:
Smoothing
Compromising
Collaborating
Avoiding

46. Your project that is producing a particular product must be developed by machinery that is
calibrated within very fine tolerances. To ensure that this happens, you have implemented laser
controlled measurement devices that constantly monitor this machines set up. To be effective,
these devices must have a high degree of:
Precision
Control
Repeatability
Accuracy



50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 19

47. Which of the following options is correct for the Close Project process:
It is not mandatory only optional
It may occur at the end of each project phase
It must occur once per project
The process ensures that the project is successful

48. Your project is developing a new product due to be launched at a trade show in November this
year. The total investment cost is $2,800,000, and you are expecting to recapture $1,200,00 by
February the following year, and the remaining $1,600,00 investment by July of that year. What
type of forecast is this called?
Future value
Payback period
Benefit cost ratio
Net present value

49. Which is the highest performance level for a project team?
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing

50. As the project manager, you are working closely with your team to ensure they thought was on
meeting the project objectives and working as an efficient and effective team. This is an
example of:
Leadership
Listening
Negotiation skills
Influencing


50 HOT PMP Q & A

CasaBlanca Publishing Corp | David Geoffrey Litten 2012 20

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