Q1. Tom works in a construction business where he has awarded a contract to a subcontractor for $20,000 + $4,000 fee. Things were going smoothly when one of his team members reported to him that subcontractor has gone over budget due to an unexpected reason which they have not accounted for it initially. The over budget amount is 22k. However, the project team member suggested to check on the cost projected by the subcontractor. The primary purpose of the project was to enforce the timely delivery of the project work which the subcontractor managed to deliver. How much fees should be paid to subcontractor? 20k-+4ke 2+ aie 20k + 2k 20k +10% incentiveQ1. Tom works in a construction business where he has awarded a contract to a subcontractor for $20,000 + $4,000 fee. Things were going smoothly when one of his team members reported to him that subcontractor has gone over budget due to an unexpected reason which they have not accounted for it initially. The over budget amount is 22k. However, the project team member suggested to check on the cost projected by the subcontractor. The primary purpose of the project was to enforce the timely delivery of the project work which the subcontractor managed to deliver. How much fees should be paid to subcontractor? 20k-+4ke 2+ aie 20k + 2k 20k +10% incentive EXPLANATION: The primary purpose of the contract was to deliver within the allocated time which the subcontractor ‘managed. In PMI's world, it has to be win-win situation for both seller and buyer and to be ethical Tom should pay 22k the over budget amountQ2. Mark is a project manager who has ordered a new machinery for his project. The cost of the machinery will be $20,000 for 12 months. However, after 4 months into the project, David who is the senior vice president of the company informs Mark that this machinery would no longer be needed and inform him to terminate the contract. The procedure of termination will be done according to? Mark and David's company Contracting Company ‘The Contact ‘Mutual understanding of bathQ2. Mark is a project manager who has ordered a new machinery for his project. The cost of the machinery will be $20,000 for 12 months. However, after 4 months into the project, David who is the senior vice president of the company informs Mark that this machinery would no longer be needed and inform him to terminate the contract. The procedure of termination will be done according to? Mark and David's company Contracting Company The Contract ‘Mutual understanding of bath EXPLANATION: The termination procedure fs explained in the contract, It is not as per the discretion of buyer or seller.Q3. Company is in the process to do make vs buy analysis. They are working on a project which they have divided into two phases. Now the company is confused whether they should outsource the phase Il or do it in- house. Company has a preferred vendor who can do the testing for $100 a day for one resource and 10 testers will be required for this project for a duration of 10 working days. Company's budget for phase Il is $9500 which the company cannot exceed. What should the PM do? Hire the preferred vendor Check his company's resource strength for testing Look for other vendors Fast Track the project.Q3. Company is in the process to do make vs buy analysis. They are working on a project which they have divided into two phases. Now the company is confused whether they should outsource the phase Il or do it in- house. Company has a preferred vendor who can do the testing for $100 a day for one resource and 10 testers will be required for this project for a duration of 10 working days. Company's budget for phase II is $9500 which the company cannot exceed. What should the PM do? Hire the preferred vendor Check his company's resource strength for testing Look for other vendors Fast Track the project. EXPLANATION: Lets calculate the buy side: For one resource, cost for 10 days will be = $100 X10 days = $1000 and for 10 resources, it will be $1000 X 10 = $10,000. Make side is $9500 which is less than $10,000. So the company has to go with internal resources only which is option B.Q4. Andy is a senior project manager who is handling a project on the business side. This project involves multiple stakeholders from three different divisions of the company, The project is a new initiative for the company and Andy is excited to evaluate the prospects for the company. He is creating a document which will help his team to understand the stakeholder’s engagement level. Which document is he developing? Stakeholder Register Stakeholder Management Plan Communication Management Plan ‘Work Performance ReportsQ4. Andy is a senior project manager who is handling a project on the business side. This project involves multiple stakeholders from three different divisions of the company, The project is a new initiative for the company and Andy is excited to evaluate the prospects for the company He is creating a document which will help his team to understand the stakeholder's engagement level Which document is he developing? Stakeholder Register Stakeholder Management Plan Communication Management Plan ‘Work Performance Reports EXPLANATION: Stakeholder engagement matrix is in the stakeholder management plan. The question is purposefully confusing test takers to use terms like new initiative ete.Q5,Ithas always been said that interpersonal skills play a major role in the life of a project manager. A successful project manager should have excellent interpersonal skills. Which of the following is not an example of interpersonal skills for a project manager? Motivation Political and Cultural awareness Negotiation Presentation @ Aightanswers J Wronganswers Skipped answersQ5,Ithas always been said that interpersonal skills play a major role in the life of a project manager. A successful project manager should have excellent interpersonal skills. Which of the following is not an example of interpersonal skills for a project manager? Motivation Political and Cultural awareness Negotiation Presentation EXPLANATION: Refer to PMEOK, chapter 1 introduction, presentations skills are manayement skills and not interpersonal skills, @ Aightanswers J Wronganswers Skipped answersQ6. Grant who is the project manager in the company is working on an internal project for the legal department of the company. This is a critical project and if it is not implemented in a timely manner, the company can be sued for millions of dollars. Stakeholders are concemed about the schedule milestones. The project also has budget constraints. As a project manager, Grant should be checking which document first to handle such a situation. Project Management Plan Project Sehedule Activity Cost Estimates Cost Management PlanQ6. Grant who is the project manager in the company is working on an internal project for the legal department of the company. This is a critical project and if it is not implemented in a timely manner, the company can be sued for millions of dollars. Stakeholders are concerned about the schedule milestones. The project also has budget constraints. As a project manager, Grant should be checking which document first to handle such a situation. Project Management Plan Project Sehedule Activity Cost Estimates Cost Management Plan EXPLANATION: Scope Baseline have project scope stalement, WBS and WBS dictionary. Schedule milestones are part of, WBS dictionary and constraints are part of scope statement, And Scope Baseline is part of project management plan.7. Rizwan is a project manager who is excited about a new project which the company have recently got. The project perfectly aligns with the company's strategic plan and will be a good initiative for them. Sponsor Tequested Rizwan to setup a kick off meeting with all the stakeholders. Rizwan is planning to setup a meeting within next 1 week but is not sure about the agenda items of the meeting, What should be the top most priority agenda item for this meeting? ‘To allow everyone to get to know each other and establish PMs authority on the project. ‘To discuss the high level stakeholder’s requirements, ‘To discuss how the project meets the company's strategie objectives. ‘To discuss the high level timeline of the project.7. Rizwan is a project manager who is excited about a new project which the company have recently got. The project perfectly aligns with the company's strategic plan and will be a good initiative for them. Sponsor Tequested Rizwan to setup a kick off meeting with all the stakeholders. Rizwan is planning to setup a meeting within next 1 week but is not sure about the agenda items of the meeting, What should be the top most priority agenda item for this meeting? ‘To allow everyone to get to know each other and establish PMs authority on the project. ‘To discuss the high level stakeholder’s requirements, ‘To discuss how the project meets the company's strategie objectives, ‘To discuss the high level timeline ofthe project EXPLANATION: The main purpose of the kick off meeting is to introduce the people which is option A. Rest all options are also good but the most important is meeting the people and then discuss about other relevant/important things.Q8, Richard is managing a project with multiple stakeholders, The main stakeholders are Kevin who is the sponsor, Jim who is the senior manager, David who is the project coordinator and Neal who is the business manager. There are couple of more business managers as well. Richard requested David to setup the project Kick off meeting where they will discuss the project high level requirements. Who should be responsible for explaining those requirements to the stakeholders? sim Richard DavidQ8, Richard is managing a project with multiple stakeholders, The main stakeholders are Kevin who is the sponsor, Jim who is the senior manager, David who is the project coordinator and Neal who is the business manager. There are couple of more business managers as well. Richard requested David to setup the project kick off meeting where they will discuss the project high level requirements. Who should be responsible for explaining those requirements to the stakeholders? Kevin sim Richard David EXPLANATION; Ultimately the responsibility should be of the project manager which is Richard in this case.Q9. Robert is a project manager working to identifying the schedule of the project. He has created the network path and is adding buffers to make sure he has enough time for known unknowns. Which scheduling technique did Robert used? Critical Path Method Critical Chain Method Resource levelling Resource SmoothingQ9. Robert is a project manager working to identifying the schedule of the project. He has created the network path and is adding buffers to make sure he has enough time for known unknowns. Which scheduling technique did Robert used? Critical Path Method Critical Chain Method Resource levelling Resource Smoothing EXPLANATION: The keyword in the question is buffers which is added through the critical chain method. (Bion onswers Wrong answers J Skipped ansivers10. You have been assigned a special project which will not follow the normal governance process of the organization. Your team has full time staff from the functional departments and have developed own set of operating procedures. What type of organization are you working in? ‘Balanced Matrix Strong matrix Composite Matrix Functional Organization10. You have been assigned a special project which will not follow the normal governance process of the organization. Your team has full time staff from the functional departments and have developed own set of operating procedures. What type of organization are you working in? Balanced Matrix Strong matrix Composite Matrix Functional Organization ‘EXPLANATION: It is composite organization where you can have full time staff from functional departments for some special projects. They ean work outside of normal reporting structure. @ Rightanswers J Wronganswers Skipped answersQIL Youare a project manager and you are all set with the bid and other relevant procurement documents. You are optimistic on getting the contract. However, after having a discussion with the manager of the contracting company, you realize that even though they like your proposal and bid and they are interested in working with your company, they want some innovative ideas to handle one of the critical pieces of the project. They are very keen on exploring new ideas and cost is not a constraint for the contracting company. Being the PM, what your first step to get this contract? Discussing with the sponsor on the approach Brainstorming with the team members for the innovative ideas. Setup a subject matter expert workshop to explore innovative ideas Submit a revised proposal which includes innovative ideas.QL You are a project manager and you are all set with the bid and other relevant procurement documents. You are optimistic on getting the contract. However, after having a discussion with the manager of the contracting company, you realize that even though they like your proposal and bid and they are interested in working with your company, they want some innovative ideas to handle one of the critical pieces of the project. They are very keen on exploring new ideas and cost is not a constraint for the contracting company. Being the PM, what your first step to get this contract? Discussing with the sponsor on the approach Brainstorming with the team members for the innovative ideas Setup a subject matter expert workshop to explore innovative ideas Submit a revised proposal which includes innovative ideas. EXPLANATION: The question is asking about the first thing you will do as a project manager. Option D is eliminated as you first need to discuss and then submit. Option A can also be eliminated as more than the sponsor it would be either your team or SME who can help you to provide innovative ideas. Now among team members and SME, you can assume that the ‘team members already know about this and if they knew they would have already provided you with come ideas. So it will bbe better if you take some experts help on this.Q12. Ben, sponsor for one of the project conducted a meeting to explain why a particular project is selected among other projects and also discussed about the benefits that this project would give to stakeholders. Ben formally authorizes the project in this meeting. What do you expect him to do in this process? ‘Appointing a PM. Creating a project management plan Conducting kick off meeting with stakeholders ldentitying the different stakeholders on the project.Q12. Ben, sponsor for one of the project conducted a meeting to explain why a particular project is selected among other projects and also discussed about the benefits that this project would give to stakeholders. Ben formally authorizes the project in this meeting. What do you expect him to do in this process? ‘Appointing a PM. Creating a project management plan Conducting kick off meeting with stakeholders Identifying the different stakeholders on the project EXPLANATION: Based upon the description of the question, it looks like that the sponsor is in the develop project charter process where a project manager is appointed on the project. G Fichtanswers J Wronganswers J Skipped answers13, Tiffany is a sponsor for one of an enterprise wide project. This is a large and complex project which involves multiple stakeholders. She appoints Jenny to help her from the beginning of the project. They start working on creating documents which will help stakeholders to understand budget, schedule, scope, risk ete. Which document Tiffany and Jenny are working on first? Project Management Plan Project Charter Busines Case ‘Stakeholder Register13, Tiffany is a sponsor for one of an enterprise wide project. This is a large and complex project which involves multiple stakeholders. She appoints Jenny to help her from the beginning of the project. They start working on creating documents which will help stakeholders to understand budget, schedule, scope, risk ete. Which document Tiffany and Jenny are working on first? Project Management Plan Project Charter Busines Case Stakeholder Register EXPLANATION: Technically the first document to be created on the project is project charter, however the question is not about which document is created first. It is about which document contains budget, schedule, scope, risk ete. which is the project management plan. @ Bigntanswers QZ Wronganswers Skipped answersQ14. Your colleague reaches out to you to understand the difference between project and product life cycle. You explain both the life cycles from start to finish. Which of the following is not a part of project life cycle? Starting the project, Organizing and preparing Closing the project ‘Maintaining the project workQ14. Your colleague reaches out to you to understand the difference between project and product life cycle. You explain both the life cycles from start to finish. Which of the following is not a part of project life cycle? Starting the project, Organizing and preparing Closing the project Maintaining the project work EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, chapter two organizational influence and project life cycle. Maintaining the project work {is not part of project life cycle. Though it can be part of product life cycle. BZ Ricntancwers J Wionganswers Skipped answersQ15 Linda is working on a project which she recently got from David. David is leaving the company and he has created a 2-week transition plan. As per David, the CPI of the project is 8 and SPI is 14. What can you interpret from this? (Over Budget, Behind Schedule Over budget, Ahead of Schedule Under Budget, Behind Schedule Under Budget, Ahead of ScheduleQ15 Linda is working on a project which she recently got from David. David is leaving the company and he has created a 2-week transition plan. As per David, the CP! of the project is 8 and SPI is 14. What can you interpret from this? (Over Budget, Behind Schedule Over budget, Ahead of Schedule Under Budget, Behind Schedule Under Budget, Ahead of Schedule EXPLANATION: CPI of lees than 1 means over budget and SPI of greater than 1 means ahead of schedule.Q16, You are new project manager in the PMO department of the company. The organization heavily follows the PMI processes and methodologies and you are excited since you have never worked in such an environment before. This will be a good chance for you to learn and grow. Your colleagues often talk about the organization process assets and enterprise environmental factors and you are confused which one is what? Which of the following is part of enterprise environmental factors? ‘Standard processes, policies and process definitions. Change Control procedwes Project Management lnformation Systern Lessons Learned Knowledge BaseQ16, You are new project manager in the PMO department of the company. The organization heavily follows the PMI processes and methodologies and you are excited since you have never worked in such an environment before. This will be a good chance for you to learn and grow. Your colleagues often talk about the organization process assets and enterprise environmental factors and you are confused which one is what? Which of the following is part of enterprise environmental factors? ‘Standard processes, policies and process definitions. Change Control procedwes Project Management lnformation Systern Lessons Learned Knowledge Base EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, project management information system is part of enterprise environmental factors. Rest all are organization process assets,17. Frank is a project manager in the company. The project he is managing involves 5 different components. He has assigned a team lead for all of these 5 components who are taking care of their respective components. Bill who is a team lead for one of the component has setup a meeting to discuss an important deliverable where he has invited all the major stakeholders involving the CTO, CEO, sponsor and the customer. Bill did not invite Frank to the meeting and Frank is not very happy about this. Which should be Frank's first step? (Checking with the team lead why he was missed Checking the communieation management plan. Checking RACI Checking stakeholder management plan17. Frank is a project manager in the company. The project he is managing involves 5 different components. He has assigned a team lead for all of these 5 components who are taking care of their respective components. Bill who is a team lead for one of the component has setup a meeting to discuss an important deliverable where he has invited all the major stakeholders involving the CTO, CEO, sponsor and the customer. Bill did not invite Frank to the meeting and Frank is not very happy about this. Which should be Frank's first step? (Checking with the team lead why he was missed Checking the communication management plan. Checking RACI Checking stakeholder management plan EXPLANATION: The purpose of the communication management plan is to send the right information to the right people 4n the right format. Frank frst needs to check the communication management plan to see if he is required to get that information or not. Once he checks, his next step should be to reach out to the team Jead.Q18. One of the largest cell phone manufacturing company bagged a new contract. Higher management specifically made it very clear that the reason to pick this contract was to increase their market value, What is the company looking into to enhance by choosing such a contract? Select the best option Business Need ‘More advantage over competitors. More Sale Strategic ValueQ18. One of the largest cell phone manufacturing company bagged a new contract. Higher management specifically made it very clear that the reason to pick this contract was to increase their market value, What is the company looking into to enhance by choosing such a contract? Select the best option Business Need ‘More advantage over competitors. More Sale Strategic Value EXPLANATION: The question talles about the reason why the project was picked. Refer to PMBOK, it is actually referring to ‘the business need for the project.Q19. You are managing a project which has 3 software developers, 2 quality assurance specialist and 1 human resource professional. All these stakeholders are involved with phase I of the project. Phase Il involves complete different team with 2 business analyst, 2 data analyst, 1 quality assurance specialist and 1 software developer, What is the total number of communication channel if all the stakeholders communicate with each other? 6 a 7BQ19. You are managing a project which has 3 software developers, 2 quality assurance specialist and 1 human resource professional. All these stakeholders are involved with phase I of the project. Phase It involves complete different team with 2 business analyst, 2 data analyst, 1 quality assurance specialist and 1 software developer. What is the total number of communication channel if all the stakeholders communicate with each other? 6 a 7 EXPLANATION: There are total of 13 members. 1 PM + (3SD +2. QA+1HR)+(2BA+2DA+1QA+1SD).Number of communication channels= NX (N-1)/2 where N is the number of people. 13 X (13-1)/2= 78 © Richtanswers — Z Wronganswers Skipped answersQ.20. You are working on a project where you have determined the project scope, time and cost required to deliver the scope as early in the life cycle. The project is going through series of sequential or overlapping phases where each phase is focusing on specific project activities. What type of life cycle is explained in the question? Predictive Life Cycle erative ifeeycle Incremental life cycle Adaptive Life cycleQ.20. You are working on a project where you have determined the project scope, time and cost required to deliver the scope as early in the life cycle. The project is going through series of sequential or overlapping phases where each phase is focusing on specific project activities. What type of life cycle is explained in the question? Predictive Life Cycle erative ife eyele Incremental life cycle Adaptive Life cycle EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, chapter two organizational influence and project life cycle, itis predictive life cycl Projects in this type of life cycle normally use rolling wave planning and normally performed where the product to be developed is well understood. © Bight answers J Wronganswers Skipped answersQ21. You are in the closure phase of one of the project and documenting the lessons learned. This project has very bad performance end all stakeholders were unhappy due to bad experience and are not willing to work again. You being the project manager, how will you document this? ‘Ask team members to Ignore it ‘Meet with the stakeholders to document only bad experience as it was due to bad experience the project didn't go well ‘Meeting with the stakeholders to document only bad experience as this will bea lesson learned for you to not to repeat for future projects ‘Meeting with the stakeholders to document bad and good experienceQ21. You are in the closure phase of one of the project and documenting the lessons learned. This project has very bad performance end all stakeholders were unhappy due to bad experience and are not willing to work again. You being the project manager, how will you document this? WB Askctcam members to ignore it WB Meet withthe stakeholders to document only bad experience a it was die to bad experience the project didn't go well WB Meeting with the stenoiders to document only bad experience as this willbe a lesson learned for yo to not to repeat for future jects 2) Mectng with ime stakenoiders to document bad and good expetience EXPLANATION: Irrespective of whether the project went good or bad. It is your job as @ project manager to make sure you document both good and bad experience.Q.22, You are a project manager and your PMO director requested you for transition a project from another project manager who is leaving the organization. The project has recently begun and you notice that project kick off meeting has not been scheduled yet, You area highly respectable project manager and you have a different management style. You think that the best thing on the project would be to setup the kick off meeting Which of the following is not a primary purpose of such kind of meeting? ‘To notify stakeholders that project work has officially begun ‘To make sure project stakeholders have common understanding ofthe project and their roles, ‘To discuss the project management procedures. ‘Tocollect the detailed project requirements.Q.22, You are a project manager and your PMO director requested you for transition a project from another project manager who is leaving the organization. The project has recently begun and you notice that project kick off meeting has not been scheduled yet, You area highly respectable project manager and you have a different management style. You think that the best thing on the project would be to setup the kick off meeting Which of the following is not a primary purpose of such kind of meeting? ‘To notify stakeholders that project work has officially begun ‘To make sure project stakeholders have common understanding ofthe project and their roles, ‘To discuss the project management procedures. ‘Tocollect the detailed project requirements. EXPLANATION: Kick off meeting is not the place to collect detailed requirements. For this you generally have requirement ‘gathering sessions.23, Rahul is a senior project manager who works in a banking industry. Since the project budget is more than $Lmillion, the PMO department has assigned many resources on this project. Rahul has a project coordinator Joshua who make sure to complete all the admin work related to the project. The CPI of the project is .75 and ‘SPlis 80. Simon who is the sponsor on the project is not happy with the progress on the project. The project has reached the closure stage now. Who should be responsible for project closure document which will talk about the lessons learned on the project? Joshua Simon PMO23, Rahul is a senior project manager who works in.a banking industry. Since the project budget is more than $Lmillion, the PMO department has assigned many resources on this project. Rahul has a project coordinator Joshua who make sure to complete all the admin work related to the project. The CPI of the project is .75 and ‘SPlis 80. Simon who is the sponsor on the project is not happy with the progress on the project. The project has reached the closure stage now. Who should be responsible for project closure document which will talk about the lessons learned on the project? Rahul Joshua Simon PMO EXPLANATION: Itis the responsibility of the PM to make sure the lessons learned are drafled for the project. So the correct, choice is Rahul who is the project manager on the project.Q24. Kane and Martin are project managers in the company. Senior manager has requested both of them to help him on a critical project. Company is trying to get a new contract which can prove to be a good venture for the growth of the company. They have completed the business case document and the client has decided to go with them on this project. What is the next step on this project? Start working on high level project schedule Complete the project statement of work Create the project charter ‘Meniify the stakeholders on the project,Q24. Kane and Martin are project managers in the company. Senior manager has requested both of them to help him on a critical project. Company is trying to get a new contract which can prove to be a good venture for the growth of the company. They have completed the business case document and the client has decided to go with them on this project. What is the next step on this project? Start working on high level project schedule Complete the project statement of work Create the project charter ‘Meniify the stakeholders on the project, EXPLANATION: The keyword in the question is that they have given the contract to Kane and Martin's company. Agreement, business case are inputs to process Develop Project charter and the output is the project charter itself. You can ‘assume that project statement of work is already completed that is why the contract has been given.Q25. You are in the closing stage of the project. The project is considered to be success as you have met all the requirements which were documented in the requirements document. Which of the following may not be part of closing process group? Conduct phase end review Perform team members’ assessment Obtain customers’ initial acceptance on deliverable Document impacts of tailoring to any process.Q25. You are in the closing stage of the project. The project is considered to be success as you have met all the requirements which were documented in the requirements document. Which of the following may not be part of closing process group? Conduct phase end review Perform team members’ assessment Obtain customers’ imitial acceptance on deliverable Document impacts of tailoring to any process. EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, chapter three project management processes, all of the options except c is part of closing Process group. Customer acceptance is done in validate scope process which io part of monitoring and controlling process group. © Aightansirers — B wrongansivers Skipped answersQ.26. Alison, a project manager for a contracting company is currently working with her team to fix issues found in acceptance testing. After fixing some of the critical issues, Myra, sponsor on the project comes up to Alison for one change which she thinks is very important for the project. However, this change is not part of the signed contract. Alison explains to Myra that any change at this time will increase the budget and timeline on the project. Myra is not happy with the response from Alison. Since contracting company is not agreeing to. increase the budget, what should be done? ‘Reject the change as there is no funding Incorporate the change because it will enhance the project features. ‘Incorporate the change because Sponsor has asked for it and its their product and not the consulting companies. Myra should escalate the matter to Alison's bossQ.26. Alison, a project manager for a contracting company is currently working with her team to fix issues found in acceptance testing. After fixing some of the critical issues, Myra, sponsor on the project comes up to Alison for one change which she thinks is very important for the project. However, this change is not part of the signed contract. Alison explains to Myra that any change at this time will increase the budget and timeline on the project. Myra is not happy with the response from Alison. Since contracting company is not agreeing to. increase the budget, what should be done? Reject the change as there is no funding Incorporate the change because it will enhanee the project features Incorporate the change because Sponsor has asked for it and itis their product and not the consulting companies. Myra should escalate the matter to Alison's boss. EXPLANATION: Remember the contract should always be win-win for both buyer and seller. Few keywords in the question: a) The change was not part of contract b) They are not agreeing to increase the budget clearly shows that there is no funding for such a change and the contracting company should reject the change.27. You are a project manager working on a project to manage an internal application for the company. On this project, the SPI is 60 and the sponsor is not happy with the current progress of the project. Sponsor has requested you to shorten the schedule duration and make sure that the project is back on track. However, sponsor is adamant that he will not shorten the project scope and also will not assign additional budget. What can be done? Apply erashing technique ‘Apply fast tracking technique Apply resource levelling technique Apply resource smoothing technique27. You are a project manager working on a project to manage an internal application for the company. On this project, the SPI is 60 and the sponsor is not happy with the current progress of the project. Sponsor has requested you to shorten the schedule duration and make sure that the project is back on track. However, sponsor is adamant that he will not shorten the project scope and also will not assign additional budget. What can be done? Apply erashing technique ‘Apply fast tracking technique Apply resource levelling technique Apply resource smoothing technique EXPLANATION: The questions talks about reducing the project duration without increasing the project budget. This is @ ‘typical example of fast tracking technique where multiple things are done at the same time.Q28, Taylor is quality manager for the company who manages a team of 15 testers. Ross, a project manager needs to borrow two resources on his project from Taylor's team. These two resources will be required full time for 2-month duration. in which category will you keep these two resources keeping in mind that it is up to ‘Taylor whether he wants to assign the resources or not? High Power, High Interest High Power, Low Interest Low Power, Hioh Interest Low Power, Low InterestQ28, Taylor is quality manager for the company who manages a team of 15 testers. Ross, a project manager needs to borrow two resources on his project from Taylor's team. These two resources will be required full time for 2-month duration. in which category will you keep these two resources keeping in mind that it is up to ‘Taylor whether he wants to assign the resources or not? High Power, High Interest High Power, Low Interest Low Power, Hich Interest Low Power, Low Interest EXPLANATION; definitely the power is in the hands of Taylor and Ross. The resources have low power; however, they ‘would want to make sure that in order to do good work their interest level should be kept high.Q29. Taylor is quality manager for the company. Whenever somebody requires a tester resource on the project they reach out to Taylor to fulfill the project resource demands. He is normally not aware about the project requirements and is not concemed about the project success or failure. His main job is to provide resources when a project manager requests for it. Ross, a project manager needs to borrow two resources on his project from Taylor's team. These two resources will be required full time for 2-month duration. In which category will you keep Taylor keeping in mind that it is up to Taylor whether he wants to assign the resources or not? High Power, High Interest High Power, Low Interest Low Power, High Interest Low Power, Low InterestQ29. Taylor is quality manager for the company. Whenever somebody requires a tester resource on the project they reach out to Taylor to fulfill the project resource demands. He is normally not aware about the project requirements and is not concemed about the project success or failure. His main job is to provide resources when a project manager requests for it. Ross, a project manager needs to borrow two resources on his project from Taylor's team. These two resources will be required full time for 2-month duration. In which category will you keep Taylor keeping in mind that it is up to Taylor whether he wants to assign the resources or not? High Power, High Interest High Power, Low Interest Low Power, High Interest Low Power, Low interest EXPLANATION: Definitely the power is in the hands of Taylor to make a decision. So he has high power. However, since he is not concerned about project success or failure, his interest level is low.Q30, Work performance data is an input to many processes of monitor and control process group. Which of the following is an example of work performance data? ‘Start and finish dates of schedule activities ‘Status of deliverables Information notes Electronic dashboardsQ30, Work performance data is an input to many processes of monitor and control process group. Which of the following is an example of work performance data? ‘Start and finish dates of schedule activities ‘Status of deliverables Information notes Electronic dashboards EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, chapter three project management processes, start and finish date of schedule activities is part of work performance data. Rest all are example of work performance information or reports.Q31, Collin is a project manager who is managing a security project from the buyer side. They have outsourced the work to a company which is considered to be a leader in development of security related solutions. Collin has planned to do a surprise audit to the seller side and is surprised to see that the quality of the work is not as per his company's standards. This is something which he clearly stated before awarding the contract to the seller organization. What should Collin do now? ‘Terminate the contract as this was something which was already tol to the seller organization Give final warning to them and make sure he does more frequent audits, Do as per the contract ‘each out to the contracting company and ask why the quality is not met.Q31, Collin is a project manager who is managing a security project from the buyer side. They have outsourced the work to a company which is considered to be a leader in development of security related solutions. Collin has planned to do a surprise audit to the seller side and is surprised to see that the quality of the work is not as per his company's standards. This is something which he clearly stated before awarding the contract to the seller organization. What should Collin do now? ‘Terminate the contract as this was something which was already tol to the seller organization Give final warning to them and make sure he does more frequent audits, Do as per the contract Reach out tothe contracting company and ask why the quality is not met. EXPLANATION: This is a thumb rule and always keep in mind that you will do as per the contract, Option D is a good ‘option but ack this question from yourself that isi finding a solution to the problem described in the question? If your ‘answrer is no, then this cannot be the option.Q32 You are a project manager and you manage a very large virtual team. Your project team members are located across different parts of the world. In spite of such a large team, the project is going fine as you are following very strict communication guidelines. Recently the customer has requested for a change and you want to document the impact of this change request on the triple constraint triangle Which communication method would you use in such a scenario? Interactive Push, Pull Para lingual or left a voicemail to the team. But what if itis not received or the team did not ratacebookcomn Since my team is international. las a project manager would give a link to the repo! —Q32 You are a project manager and you manage a very large virtual team. Your project team members are located across different parts of the world. In spite of such a large team, the project is going fine as you are following very strict communication guidelines. Recently the customer has requested for a change and you want to document the impact of this change request on the triple constraint triangle Which communication method would you use in such a scenario? Interactive Push, Pull Para lingual EXPLANATION: PMP exam is all about finding keywords in the question and accordingly selecting the right answer option. ‘There are many keywords in this question like many stakeholders, document changes. If there are multiple stakeholders, then interactive is not considered to be good communication because information may be lost, Second and the major reason is that interactive communication is normally verbal and not documented which is asked in the question. ‘Document can be push or pull and since there are many stakeholders you will go for pull. If you are selecting interactive, ‘then you are thinking from a real world scenario. However, wear your PMI hat and think from PMP nerspective that all the ‘important things should be documented and which is pull technique. Elimination Facebook different countries, 20 it is practically not possible to do this type of comm Hemel ebiot or eft a voicemail to the team, But what if it is not received or the team did not I ratacbookcotn Since my team is international. las a project manager would give a link to the repo!Q33, An activity has an early start of 14, early finish of 20 and late finish of 32, Calculate the late start of the activity? 20 26 28 4Q33, An activity has an early start of 14, early finish of 20 and late finish of 32, Calculate the late start of the activity? 20 26 28 2 EXPLANATION: Float = LF - EF or LS- ES which is 32 - 20 = 12 s0 the difference between LS and ES should also be 12 so LS = 14412 =2634. An activity has an early start of 14, early finish of 20 and late finish of 32. Calculate the duration of the activity?34. An activity has an early start of 14, early finish of 20 and late finish of 32. Calculate the duration of the activity? EXPLANATION: Duration = EF -ES +1 which is 20-14+1=7Q35. You have recently been made a project manager where lot of different modules are present. As part of the project, you have to coordinate with multiple resources from multiple teams. Which of the following activities may not be done by project management team? Develop, review and understand the scope ‘Transform the project information into different project plans. ‘Measure and monitor project's progress. ‘Market the deliverable created in the projectQ35. You have recently been made a project manager where lot of different modules are present. As part of the project, you have to coordinate with multiple resources from multiple teams. Which of the following activities may not be done by project management team? Develop, review and understand the soope ‘Transform the project information into different project plans. ‘Measure and monitor project's progress. ‘Market the deliverable created in the project EXPLANATION: Refer to PMEOK, chapter four project integration management, marketing the product/deliverable may be done by a separate team and not the project management team.Q36, You are working on big enterprise project which requires you to travel overseas, The team is virtually located and you are stationed at the head office of the country. Since you are new to this country, you want to make sure that you follow strict labor laws of the country. You have identified many risks on the project and simultaneously you are finding the positive and negative impacts of these risks on the project. What type of technique are you using? Expected Monetary Value ‘Monte Carlo Analysis Tornado Diagram ‘Modelling and SimulationQ 36. You are working on big enterprise project which requires you to travel overseas. The team is virtually located and you are stationed at the head office of the country. Since you are new to this country, you want to make sure that you follow strict labor laws of the country. You have identified many risks on the project and simultaneously you are finding the positive and negative impacts of these risks on the project. What type of technique are you using? Expected Monetary Value ‘Monte Carlo Analysis ‘Tomado Diagram Modelling and Simulation EXPLANATION: Tornado diagram normally has the list of risks in the y axis and positive and negative impacts on x axis. Refer to PMBOK, risk knowledge area for more details.Q87. Your sponsor has requested you to make sure you identify all the potential risks on the project. The sponsor does not like unknown risks and has warmed the project manager that if any unknown risks converts into an issue, he will take back the funding. In order to comply to it, you are using an analytical technique to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it and accordingly develop a preventive action You are confident that you will be able to execute the project without any significant issues. Which tool and technique did you use? Fighbone or Ishikawa Root Cause Analysis Fault Tree Analysis Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.Q87. Your sponsor has requested you to make sure you identify all the potential risks on the project. The sponsor does not like unknown risks and has warmed the project manager that if any unknown risks converts into an issue, he will take back the funding. In order to comply to it, you are using an analytical technique to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it and accordingly develop a preventive action You are confident that you will be able to execute the project without any significant issues. Which tool and technique did you use? Fighbone or Ishikawa Root Cause Analysis Fault Tree Analysis Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.38. You are working on a project which is likely to be complete in next 30 working days. Your sponsor is planning to compress the project schedule to 26 working days by providing an additional resource to the project. Unfortunately, at the same time, two of your critical resources decided to leave the company. You analyze the impact of this on the project schedule and find out that project duration needs to be pushed to 40 days, Calculate the estimated timeline using PERT? 32 29 30 at38. You are working on a project which is likely to be complete in next 30 working days. Your sponsor is planning to compress the project schedule to 26 working days by providing an additional resource to the project. Unfortunately, at the same time, two of your critical resources decided to leave the company. You analyze the impact of this on the project schedule and find out that project duration needs to be pushed to 40 days. Calculate the estimated timeline using PERT? 32 29 30 at EXPLANATION: PERT = (P+ 4XM + 0)/6 where P is pessimistic time, Mis most likely time and 0 is optimistic time. P = 40 days, M=30 days and O =26 days, PERT = (40 + 4 X 30 + 26)/6 = 186/6 = 31 daysQ39, You are working on a project which is likely to be complete in next 30 working days, Your sponsor is planning to compress the project schedule to 26 working days by providing an additional resource to the project. Unfortunately, at the same time, two of your critical resources decided to leave the company. You analyze the impact of this on the project schedule and find out that project duration needs to be pushed to 40, days. Calculate the estimated timeline using Beta distribution? 32 2 20 aQ39, You are working on a project which is likely to be complete in next 30 working days, Your sponsor is planning to compress the project schedule to 26 working days by providing an additional resource to the project. Unfortunately, at the same time, two of your critical resources decided to leave the company. You analyze the impact of this on the project schedule and find out that project duration needs to be pushed to 40 days. Calculate the estimated timeline using Beta distribution? 32 2 20 a EXPLANATION: Beta Distribution and PERT is the same thing, so Beta distribution = (P+4XM+0)/6 where P is, pessimistic time, M is most likely time and O is optimistic time, P= 40 days, M = 30 days and 0 = 26 days. PERT/Beta Distuibution = (40 + 4X30 + 26)/6 =186/6 = 31 daysQ.40. An airline company has reached out to your company to do a project for them. The main purpose of the ploject will be to develop electronic tickets instead of the paper based tickets initially done by the airline company. On what basis may the business case be most likely created? Market Demand Organizational need Technological advance Social needQ.40. An airline company has reached out to your company to do a project for them. The main purpose of the ploject will be to develop electronic tickets instead of the paper based tickets initially done by the airline company. On what basis may the business case be most likely created? Market Demand Otganizational need Technological advance Social need EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOX, chapter four project integration management, the primary reason of the project could be that technology has changed from old paper based structure to more advance electronic tickets system.Q41 Corey is a new project manager who has recently joined the organization. His project is not doing good and there are lot of escalations form his stakeholders. Team is also not motivated as there is no reward system setup by him on the project. His project is hit by lot of risks lately. He identified the risks and then prioritized the risks based upon the probability and impact of the risks. He again re-prioritized the risks after calculating the impact of those risks on the cost and schedule of the project. Now he is making sure that he is controlling the risks and try to bring more ideas to motivate the entire team. What is the main cause of the problem or what did Corey missed? He is a new PM he should have been given a simple project instead af a complex ons He did not plan the responses for the identified risks He did not perform quantitative risk analysis. He should have planned a team dinner for motivating the teamQ41 Corey is a new project manager who has recently joined the organization. His project is not doing good and there are lot of escalations form his stakeholders. Team is also not motivated as there is no reward system setup by him on the project. His project is hit by lot of risks lately. He identified the risks and then prioritized the risks based upon the probability and impact of the risks. He again re-prioritized the risks after calculating the impact of those risks on the cost and schedule of the project. Now he is making sure that he is controlling the risks and try to bring more ideas to motivate the entire team. What is the main cause of the problem or what did Corey missed? He is a new PM; he should have been given a simple project instead of a complex one. He did not plan the responses for the identified risks He did not perform quantitative risk analysis. He should have planned a team dinner for motivating the team EXPLANATION: He identified the risks, then he performs the qualitative and quantitative risks analysis. After completing ‘that, he directly moved to control risks process. He forgot to find the risk responses for the riskQ.42, You are working for the seller organization. The buyer project manager is a theory X type of project manager who constantly follows up with you and your team on every minute details. You are frustrated because of buyer's attitude and is working overtime to complete the project as soon as possible. The buyer project manager planned a surprise audit to make sure that the work is being done as per the process. Which process did the buyer perform? Plan Quality Management Perform Quality Assurance Control Quality Conduct ProcurementQ.42, You are working for the seller organization. The buyer project manager is a theory X type of project manager who constantly follows up with you and your team on every minute details. You are frustrated because of buyer's attitude and is working overtime to complete the project as soon as possible. The buyer project manager planned a surprise audit to make sure that the work is being done as per the process. Which process did the buyer perform? Plan Quality Management Perform Quality Assurance Control Quality Conduct Procurement EXPLANATION: Audit is a tool for perform quality assurance process. Refer to PMBOK.Q.43, Mitchell is a software developer who is widely respected across the organization, She is an excellent resource and is due for promotion. Her manager is planning to promote her to a project manager position and to begin with he gave her a small project to manage. Unfortunately, Mitchell who was excellent in her technical work is not able to manage the project properly. People are not listening to her and the project is hit with lot of negative risks on the project. What is the situation called? There is nothing in the situation, her manager should give her litle more time Fault Tee Etfeot Failure Mode Effect Hallo EtfectQ.43, Mitchell is a software developer who is widely respected across the organization, She is an excellent resource and is due for promotion. Her manager is planning to promote her to a project manager position and to begin with he gave her a small project to manage. Unfortunately, Mitchell who was excellent in her technical work is not able to manage the project properly. People are not listening to her and the project is hit with lot of negative risks on the project. What is the situation called? ‘There is nothing in the situation, her manager should give her litle more time Fault Tee Effect Failure Mode Effect Hallo Etfect EXPLANATION: When a technical resource is promoted to manager position because the resource was excellent in his/her ‘technical work and is not performing well is considered to be Hallo Effect.Q.44, You are working with your team to plan risk responses on your project. You have created a separate plan for each of the identified risks including the risks which by default will be accepted. One of the critical risks on your project was realized and you checked the response strategy. In the plan it is mentioned that the risk will be accepted. The present response strategy was not fully effective and you created a new plan to overcome this situation. Which of the following plan can help you in such a scenario? Quality Control Measurement Plan Fallback Plan Management Plan Risk Configuration Management PlanQ44. You are working with your team to plan risk responses on your project. You have created a separate plan for each of the identified risks including the risks which by default will be accepted. One of the critical risks on your project was realized and you checked the response strategy. In the plan it is mentioned that the risk will be accepted. The present response strategy was not fully effective and you created a new plan to overcome this situation. Which of the following plan can help you in such a scenario? Quality Control Measurement Plan Fallback Plan Management Plan Risk Configuration Management Plan ‘EXPLANATION: Fallback plan is used if the selected strategy is not fully effective. GZ Fiohtanowers — Wronganowers J Skipped answersQ45. You have recently joined a company where the company has very strong project management office. All the projects in the organization has to go through the project management office. The PMO often uses documents stored on the organizational process assets. Which of the following is not an organizational process asset? Performance measurement criteria Project Closure guidelines Configuration management knowledge base Organizational structure.Q45. You have recently joined a company where the company has very strong project management office. All the projects in the organization has to go through the project management office. The PMO often uses documents stored on the organizational process assets. Which of the following is not an organizational process asset? Performance measurement criteria Project Closure guidelines Configuration management knowledge base Organizational structure. EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, chapter four project integration management, organizational structure is an example of enterprise environmental factors and not organizational process assets. GZ Fishtanswers | Wronganowers Skipped answersQ.46, Adam has been assigned a new project to implement critical features for the education management software which the company has developed. The project is very important as lately there have been lot of complaints regarding the software. Adam is planning to setup a kick of meeting which will involve most of the key stakeholders. When do you think Adam should conduct the kick off meeting? Initiation Stage Planning Stage Before every important milestone ‘Atthe time of quality management discussion.Q.46, Adam has been assigned a new project to implement critical features for the education management software which the company has developed. The project is very important as lately there have been lot of complaints regarding the software. Adam is planning to setup a kick of meeting which will involve most of the key stakeholders. When do you think Adam should conduct the kick off meeting? Initiation Stage Planning Stage Before every important milestone Atthe time of quality management discussion EXPLANATION: Kick off is normally done in the planning stage because at this stage, project objectives and stakeholders list is already identified and now it will make more sense for project managers to direct with the next steps.Q.47. Mindy is a senior project manager who is presently performing the earned value analysis. The project's CPI is 12 and the total amount spent till now is $10,000. The total amount she planned to spend till now was ‘$12,200. How is the project doing? Project is well under budget; Mindy can use this money asa performance incentive to motivate the team. ‘You don't have any real concems about the project. ‘You are under budget and ahead of schedule ‘Schedule is delayed by 2-daysQ.47. Mindy is a senior project manager who is presently performing the earned value analysis. The project's CPI is 12 and the total amount spent till now is $10,000. The total amount she planned to spend till now was $12,200. How is the project doing? Project is well under budget; Mindy can use this money asa performance incentive to motivate the team. ‘You don't have any real concems about the project ‘You are under budget and ahead of schedule ‘Schedule is delayed by 2 days EXPLANATION: CPI=12, this means you are under budget AC= $10,000 PV= $12,200 CPI = EV/AC1.2= EV/10,000 EV =1.2" 110,000 = 12,000 SPI = EV/PV SPI = 12,000/12,200 = 98 , this means you are slight behind schedule which is manageable, So no real concems at the momentQ 48, You are managing a project which has 3 software developers, 2 quality assurance specialist and 1 human resource professional. All these stakeholders are involved with phase I of the project. Phase Il involves complete different team with 2 business analyst, 2 data analyst, 1 quality assurance specialist and 2 software developer. What is the total number of communication channel for phase I and phase II combined? 2 49 oQ 48, You are managing a project which has 3 software developers, 2 quality assurance specialist and 1 human resource professional. All these stakeholders are involved with phase I of the project. Phase Il involves complete different team with 2 business analyst, 2 data analyst, 1 quality assurance specialist and 2 software developer. What is the total number of communication channel for phase I and phase II combined? 2 49 o 3 ‘EXPLANATION: There are total of 7 members for phase 1PM + (3. SD+2.QA +1 HR) and there are 8 members for phase I ‘PM is common in both the phases:1 PM+(2BA+2DA+1QA +2 SD). Number of communication channels=N X (N-1)/2 ‘where N is the number of people. For Phase [it is 7X (7-1)/2= 21. For Phase Il itis 8X (€-1)/2= 28. So combined ‘communication channel is 21 +28 = 4948, You are in the process where you are creating the deliverable as per the requirements documented in the requirements document. Which of the following activities you will not do as a part of direct and manage project work? Provide, train and manage the team members Obtain, manage and use resources Providing information to support status reporting Collect and document lessons leamed48, You are in the process where you are creating the deliverable as per the requirements documented in the requirements document. Which of the following activities you will not do as a part of direct and manage project work? Provide, train and manage the team members Obtain, manage and use resources Providing information to support status reporting Collect and document lessons leamed EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, chapter four project integration management, providing information to support status reporting isan example of monitor and control project work.Q50. Luke is a project manager. In his performance evaluation his manager told him that he will not be promoted to a senior position until he delivers a project with three sigma quality requirement. So Luke is making sure that the project he is handling presently achieves the three sigma quality requirement. One of his activity on the project has an optimistic estimate of 10 days, realistic estimate of 15 days and pessimistic estimate of 20 days. In order to meet the three sigma quality requirement, what is the estimated duration range? days to 19 days days to 21 days 10 days to 20 days 12 days to 22 daysQ50. Luke is a project manager. In his performance evaluation his manager told him that he will not be promoted to a senior position until he delivers a project with three sigma quality requirement. So Luke is making sure that the project he is handling presently achieves the three sigma quality requirement. One of his activity on the project has an optimistic estimate of 10 days, realistic estimate of 15 days and pessimistic estimate of 20 days. In order to meet the three sigma quality requirement, what is the estimated duration WE aeys to cays WE 2eays to 21 cays todays to 20 days a 12 days to 22 days EXPLANATION: First thing you need to calculate is PERT which is (P + 4*2d + 0)/6 = (20 + 4°15 + 106 = (20+ 60+10/6= 90/6 =15. Next you need to calculate is SD (Standard Deviation) which is (P - 0)/6 = (20 -10/6 = 10/6 =1.66, Sof the requirement is 3 sigma then the range should be from PERT -3°SD to PERT + 3°SDQ51 You are a project manager managing a critical project for the company. The sponsor is not happy with the current progress. The team is demotivated as the customer is requesting for lot of changes which is eventually impacting the project schedule. Sponsor has requested you to shorten the schedule duration and make sure that the project is back on track. He is willing to provide additional funding and also performance increments to deserving candidates. However, sponsor is adamant that he will not shorten the project scope and project's quality needs to be maintained. What can be done? Apply crashing technique Apply fast tracking technique ‘Apply resource levelling technique Apply resource smoothing technique.Q51 You are a project manager managing a critical project for the company. The sponsor is not happy with the current progress. The team is demotivated as the customer is requesting for lot of changes which is eventually impacting the project schedule. Sponsor has requested you to shorten the schedule duration and make sure that the project is back on track. He is willing to provide additional funding and also performance increments to deserving candidates. However, sponsor is adamant that he will not shorten the project scope and project's quality needs to be maintained. What can be done? Apply crashing technique ‘Apply fast tracking technique Apply resource levelling technique Apply resource smoothing technique. EXPLANATION: The questions talks about reducing the project duration by increasing the project budget. This is a typical ‘example of crashing technique where additional resources are added to bring the budget back on track.Q52. Taylor is quality manager for the company who manages a team of 15 testers. Ross, a project manager needs to borrow two resources on his project from Taylor's team. These two resources will be required full time for 2-month duration. In which category will you keep these two resources keeping in mind that it is up to Taylor whether he wants to assign the resources or not? Monitor Keep Informed Keep Satisfied Manage CloselyQ52, Taylor is quality manager for the company who manages a team of 16 testers. Ross, a project manager needs to borrow two resources on his project from Taylor's team. These two resources will be required full time for 2-month duration. In which category will you keep these two resources keeping in mind that it is up to Taylor whether he wants to assign the resources or not? Monitor Keep Informed Keep Satisfied Manage Closely EXPLANATION: definitely the power is in the hands of Taylor and Ross. The resources have low power; however, they would want to make sure that in order to do good work their interest level should be kept high. So it slow power and high {interest which falls under keep informed category.Q53. Taylor is quality manager for the company who manages a team of 15 testers. Whenever somebody requires a tester resource on the project they reach out to Taylor to fulfill the project resource demands, He is normally not aware about the project requirements and is not concemed about the project success or failure. His main job is to provide resources when a project manager requests for it. In which category will you keep ‘Taylor keeping in mind that it's up to Taylor whether he wants to assign the resources or not? Monitor ‘Keep Informed Keep Satisfied ‘Manage CloselyQ53, Taylor is quality manager for the company who manages a team of 15 testers. Whenever somebody requires a tester resource on the project they reach out to Taylor to fulfill the project resource demands He is normally not aware about the project requirements and is not concemed about the project success or failure His main job is to provide resources when a project manager requests for it. In which category will you keep ‘Taylor keeping in mind that it's up to Taylor whether he wants to assign the resources or not? @ voaitor WB Keep informed Keep Sotistedt a Manage Closely EXPLANATION: definitely the power is in the hands of Taylor to make a decision. Se he has high power. However, since he ig not concemed about project success or failure, his interest level is low. So itis high power and low interest which falls ‘under keep satisfied category.Q54. Henry is a project manager who works for a manufacturing plant The team is not happy and there is a significant risk that the labor prices will increase. The labor union which comprise of all the laborers in his manufacturing plant are planning to halt the project work until their demands are met. Henry is planning to evaluate the project risk of increased labor cost on alll the different variables by creating a bar chart. What tool is Henry using? Root Cause Analysis Ishikawa ‘Tornado Diagram HistogramQ54. Henry isa project manager who works for a manufacturing plant. The team is not happy and there isa significant risk that the labor prices will increase. The labor union which comprise of all the laborers in his manufacturing plant are planning to halt the project work until their demands are met. Henry is planning to evaluate the project risk of increased labor cost on all the different variables by creating a bar chart, What tool is Henry using? Root Cause Analysis Ishikawa ‘Tornado Diagram Histogram EXPLANATION: Tomado diagram is bar chart used in sensitivity analysis for comparing the relative importance of the variables, Refer to PMBOK, risk management knowledge area.Q55. Meetings is one of the most common tool used in project management. PMBOK has characterized meetings into different types. Which of the following is not a type of meetings? Priositization Information exchange Brainstorming Decision makingQ55. Meetings is one of the most common tool used in project management. PMBOK has characterized meetings into different types. Which of the following is not a type of meetings? Priositization Information exchange Brainstorming Decision making EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, chapter four project integration management, prioritization is not a type of meeting. ‘Though you may have a meeting where you are prioritizing the project activities.Q56. You are working on a project which is likely to be complete in next 30 working days. Your sponsor is planning to compress the project schedule to 26 working days by providing an additional resource to the project, Unfortunately, at the same time, two of your critical resources decided to leave the company. You analyze the impact of this on the project schedule and find out that project duration needs to be pushed to 40, days, Calculate the estimated timeline using Triangular distribution? 2 0 aQ56. You are working on a project which is likely to be complete in next 30 working days. Your sponsor is planning to compress the project schedule to 26 working days by providing an additional resource to the project, Unfortunately, at the same time, two of your critical resources decided to leave the company. You analyze the impact of this on the project schedule and find out that project duration needs to be pushed to 40, days, Calculate the estimated timeline using Triangular distribution? 2 2 0 a EXPLANATION: Triangular distribution = (P + M + 0)/3 where P is pessimistic time, M is most likely time and 0 is ‘optimistic time. P = 40 days, M-= 30 days and O = 26 days. Triangular Distribution = (40 + 30 + 26)/3 = 186/6 = 32 daysQ57. You are working for the buyer organization. You are not happy with the current progress of the project as the project is behind schedule. The seller organization is following progressive elaboration technique where when a deliverable is complete, it is sent to the buyer for approval. Based upon the feedback they receive; they continue working on the implementation. One of an important deliverable is complete, however before sending it to the buyer, the seller organization PM is working with the testing team to inspect all the functionalities of the deliverable. Which process is the seller project manager performing? ‘Validate Scope Perform Quality Assurance Control Quality Control ScopeQ57. You are working for the buyer organization. You are not happy with the current progress of the project as the project is behind schedule. The seller organization is following progressive elaboration technique where when a deliverable is complete, it is sent to the buyer for approval. Based upon the feedback they receive; they continue working on the implementation. One of an important deliverable is complete, however before sending it to the buyer, the seller organization PM is working with the testing team to inspect all the functionalities of the deliverable. Which process is the seller project manager performing? Validate Scope Perform Quality Assurance Control Quality Control Scope EXPLANATION: Inspection is a tool for control quality process. Refer to PMBOKQ58, You work as a project manager. Recently your company's reputation has been severely damaged with the number of attempts being made to hack your systems. Your sponsor is worried about the existing customer on your project and he instructed you to create a response plan which will only be executed under certain predefined conditions. This plan should also include events that triggers the contingency response and he also wanted you to make sure that they are well defined and are being properly tracked. What type of document is, he asking you to develop? Quality Control Measurement Plan. Fallback Plan Risk Management Plan Configuration Management PlanQ58, You work as a project manager. Recently your company's reputation has been severely damaged with the number of attempts being made to hack your systems. Your sponsor is worried about the existing customer on your project and he instructed you to create a response plan which will only be executed under certain predefined conditions. This plan should also include events that triggers the contingency response and he also wanted you to make sure that they are well defined and are being properly tracked. What type of document is, he asking you to develop? (Quality Control Measurement Plan Fallback Plan Risk Management Plan Configuration Management Plan EXPLANATION: Risk responses that are identified using this type of technique are often called as contingency or fallback plans.Q'59. You area business analyst whose main job responsibility is to collect the requirements from stakeholders. You have been given a very complex project which involves stakeholders from diverse background. It is very difficult for you to bring everybody in the same room due to diverse background. You plan to setup a quality function deployment (QFD) meeting to discuss the characteristics of the product which will be delivered as a part of this project. Which tools and technique are you planning to use to collect the requirements? Focus groups Mind Mapping Facilitated Workshops ‘Atinity DiagramQ'59. You area business analyst whose main job responsibility is to collect the requirements from stakeholders. You have been given a very complex project which involves stakeholders from diverse background. It is very difficult for you to bring everybody in the same room due to diverse background. You plan to setup a quality function deployment (QFD) meeting to discuss the characteristics of the product which will be delivered as a part of this project. Which tools and technique are you planning to use to collect the requirements? Focus groups Mind Mapping Facilitated Workshops ‘Atinity Diagram ‘EXPLANATION: QFD is an example of facilitated workshops. Refer to PMBOK, scope management knowledge area.60. Work performance information is an output to many processes of monitor and control process group. Which of the following is an example of work performance information? ‘Start and finish dates of schedule activities, Status of deliverables Information notes Electronic dashboards60. Work performance information is an output to many processes of monitor and control process group. Which of the following is an example of work performance information? ‘Start and finish dates of schedule activities, Status of deliverables Information notes Electronic dashboards ‘EXPLANATION: Refer to PMEOK, chapter three project management processes, status of deliverables is part of work ‘performance information. Rest all are example of work performance data or reports.Q6l. You are in the process of estimating the project costs. One of a critical activity on the project is to transport the material to the manufacturing plant and you are not sure how to estimate for this particular activity. You teach out to your supervisor and told him that you will use historical data and also calculate based upon the number of miles the truck will travel in I-hour time frame. Which technique are you using to estimate for the project? Analogues Estimating Parametric Estimating Bottom Up Estimating ‘Three Point EstimatingQ 61. You are in the process of estimating the project costs. One of a critical activity on the project is to transport the material to the manufacturing plant and you are not sure how to estimate for this particular activity. You teach out to your supervisor and told him that you will use historical data and also calculate based upon the number of miles the truck will travel in I-hour time frame. Which technique are you using to estimate for the project? Analogues Estimating Parametric Estimating Bottom Up Estimating ‘Three Point Estimating EXPLANATION: The keywords in the question is historical data and number of miles per hour which is an example of parametric estimation.Q62. You are project manager in a marketing company. The project is to review all the process which are being currently used in the organization and come up with an improvement mechanism which will eventually help the organization in a long run. Which of the following is not part of the document which has been described in the question? Process Boundaries Process Configuration Process Metrics Process ChecklistQ 62. You are project manager in a marketing company. The project is to review all the process which are being currently used in the organization and come up with an improvement mechanism which will eventually help the organization in a long run. Which of the following is not part of the document which has been described in the question? Process Boundaries Process Configuration Process Metrics Process Checklist EXPLANATION: The question is talking about process improvement plan. Refer to PMBOK, option A, B and Care part of, process improvement plan.Q.63. George is managing a new project. He has acquired several resources from different functional managers for a period of next 6 months. One day, in cafeteria he overheard that two functional managers are not happy with the progress of the project and they are confused about the potential impacts they may have on their respective departments. George believes that it is due to the change and the functional managers are resistant about it. What should George do in such a scenario? George should not do anything as initially people are always resistant to change ‘Talk tothe functional managers and let them know that sponsor has already considered the impact and the project has been given higher priority. Itis George responsibility to analyze the impact ofthe project and provide correct information to functional managers, Inform about this to your team and gather inputs from them.Q.63. George is managing a new project. He has acquired several resources from different functional managers for a period of next 6 months. One day, in cafeteria he overheard that two functional managers are not happy with the progress of the project and they are confused about the potential impacts they may have on their respective departments. George believes that it is due to the change and the functional managers are resistant about it. What should George do in such a scenario? WE eoige should not do anything a initially people are always resistant to change G_Tetcto te functional managers andet them know that sponsor has alseady considered the impact and the project hasbeen given higher pont. @_ Wis eorge sesponsiility to analyze tie impacto the projet and provide comect information to functional manages Ginter shout this to your team and gather inputs rom them, EXPLANATION: As a project manager itis George's responsibility to convert the stakeholders from resistant category to ‘supporter category and this can be done by discussing the project impacts with them,Q 64, You are working on a project to implement a mapping tool for the organization. Your company has hired a vendor to do this implementation and after reviewing the SOW, it is determined that the funding would be done ona milestone basis. You are closely working with the finance group to set limits on the invoices as large amount of capital will be involved. You are not in favor of single large invoice as it may impact the organization asa whole. What type of technique is being used by you in such a scenario? ‘To Complete Performance Index Forecasting Funding Limit Reconcilistion Project Funding RequirementsQ 64. You are working on a project to implement a mapping tool for the organization. Your company has hired a vendor to do this implementation and after reviewing the SOW, it is determined that the funding would be done ona milestone basis. You are closely working with the finance group to set limits on the invoices as large amount of capital will be involved. You are not in favor of single large invoice as it may impact the organization asa whole. What type of technique is being used by you in such a scenario? ‘To Complete Performance Index Forecasting Funding Limit Reconcilistion Project Funding Requirements EXPLANATION: The question talks about technique, option D is not a technique instead itis an output. Out of the ‘remaining three options, Cis the best choice ast is funding limit reconciliation when you compare the project. ‘expenditure with the funding limits an organization may have.65, Because of the high risk associated with your project, the sponsor has explicitly mentioned that the project should run as smooth as possible. If the project is not completed within the specified timeline then the organization will lose millions of dollars. Which of the following is not an example of monitor and control project work process? ‘How to maintain integnty of project baselines ‘Tracking project work to make eure that zisk response plan is being executed. Providing information to support status reporting Providing forecasts to update current cost and schedule information,65, Because of the high risk associated with your project, the sponsor has explicitly mentioned that the project should run as smooth as possible. If the project is not completed within the specified timeline then the organization will lose millions of dollars. Which of the following is not an example of monitor and control project work process? ‘How to maintain integnty of project baselines “Tracking project work to make eure that zisk response plan is being executed. Providing information to support status reporting Providing forecasts to update current cost and schedule information, ‘EXPLANATION: Refer to PMBOK, chapter four integration management, how to maintain integrity of project baselines is, ‘part of project management plan and not moniter and control project work.66. You are a project scheduler where you help the project managers to develop the project schedule. You show them step by step to define the activities, how to sequence them and finally completing the project schedule by estimating the activity resources and durations. One of the project managers reaches out to you to. determine the critical path of the project. He is not sure on the term which will help him to determine the early start and early finish of the activities. What should be your response to him? Activity On Node Gantt Chart Avbackward pass ‘A forward pass66. You are a project scheduler where you help the project managers to develop the project schedule. You show them step by step to define the activities, how to sequence them and finally completing the project schedule by estimating the activity resources and durations. One of the project managers reaches out to you to. determine the critical path of the project. He is not sure on the term which will help him to determine the early start and early finish of the activities. What should be your response to him? Activity On Node Gantt Chart Avbackward pass ‘A forward pass EXPLANATION: Forward pass determines the early start and early finish and backward pass determines the late start and late finish.Q67. Trent is a project manager who is replacing Doug on one of the projects. Trent starts working on the project by reviewing the project SharePoint site where all the project information/documents are stored. On one of the documents the following text is mentioned: WBS number 1.2.11- System Integration: The purpose of this work package is to integrate the system A with system B. Which document did Trent review? wes Scope Baseline Control Account Document wesDictionary