1 You are in the process of establishing a knowledge management system for your project.

Which of the
following actions will be the least beneficial in this process?

Monitoring stakeholder engagement

2 The project management plan specifies that a predictive development approach has been selected to
produce the project deliverables. Where in the project life cycle will the overall project risk be the
lowest?

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

Submit a change request to revise the project management plan to eliminate the requirement for
retrospectives

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

Consult the contract

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

Backlog refinement and retrospectives

6 What should be your goal while negotiating with the seller?

Press for a lower price

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

Handed over to the manufacturing team

8 You want to recognize the contributions of some of the high performing team members so far in the
project. Which of the following do you need to guide you through this process? Organizational process
assets
9 The project manager is managing the research and development of a new cancer screening test. The
project manager would like to determine whether the processes currently in use in the project are
effective in meeting the quality requirements specified by the customer. What does the project manager
need to obtain first to make this determination?

Quality control measurements

10 You are the Project Manager of a project involving building a computer. Your team members follow
what you tell them because you have the authority to provide negative feedback in their performance
appraisal. This is an example of which type of power?

Coercive

11 You are the Project Manager of ABC project. There was a conflict between two key project members.
The three of you meet and decide to use compromise as the conflict resolution technique. Compromise
generally leads to

Lose-Lose situation

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

Technology support

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

Submit a change request

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

Compromise or reconcile

15 You are the Project Manager of ABC project. The project is being executed in an earthquake-prone
area. To take care of this you buy insurance for earthquakes. This is an example of

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

Mandate that all project team members update the information radiators after each ceremony

17 In your project, you identify a risk that, due to the lossibility of the entrance of a new supplier, may
provide some components at a cheaper price. What kind of risk is this?

Opportunity

18 If an unidentified risk occurs:

You will use the management reserve to manage it

19 A project manager is wrapping up the hardware development phase of a product development

project. The project will now transition to the software development phase. How might the project
manager's role change with respect to integration management?

Delegate the control of the detailed project work planning and product delivery to the project team
members

20 Whenever you receive a change request, what will be your next step?

Investigate it

21 A Risk that is caused by the response of another risk is known as:

Secondary Risk

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

Assess organizational culture and readiness for the transformation

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

Transfer the completed assembly line to operations

24 Before committing to a larger portion of the project scope, the buyer of a product or service will
frequently implement a ...?

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

Daily standups

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

Consider what might be included in a change request

27 Your customer ask for a small change in the project, which was not budgeted in the project. It is a
small effort as compared to the total project and you need the goodwill for a multimillion dollar on the
pipeline. You will

Assess the cost and schedule impact and tell them you will formalize the change request

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

Post a copy of the team's social contract in the meeting room and review the contents at the start of the
next iteration planning meeting

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

Have the team attend a workshop on Kanban

30 What is the difference between precision and accuracy?

Accuracy measures correctness; precision measures exactness

31 During project planning, the project team rigorously defined the project scope. During project
execution, a senior engineer calls the project manager and suggests a simpler and more efficient design
which could benefit the project. What should the project manager do next?

Ask that the engineer submit a change request

32 In which process of Project Risk Management knowledge area are numeric values assigned to
probabilities and impact of risks?
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

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

Testing the welding before the customer walkthrough

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

Review the requested change against all project constraints

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

Have the defective unit replaced

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

Determine what tools and data provide the appropriate oversight

37 The three major causes of change on a project are: Replacement

Errors in the initial assessment of how to achieve the goal of the project; new information about the
project deliverable; and a new mandate

38 The client inspects the deliverables with you and finds that it meets the acceptance criteria. He
signed off and formally approves the deliverables. Which process is this?

Validate Scope

39 Which one is an example of Crashing?

Adding more resources

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

No, before assigning risk responsibility to team members, you need to assess each risk's probability of
occurrence and its impact.

41 Which of the following best describes Plan Stakeholder Management process?

Creation and maintenance of relationships between the project team and stakeholders

42 Which of the following best describes Plan Stakeholder Management process? Preventing negative
stakeholders

Creation and maintenance of relationships between the project team and stakeholders

43 Which of the following is an output of the Identify Risks process?

RiskRegister

44 System integration consists of:

a and c

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

Any stakeholder

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

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

Make sure their work progress is reflected in the burndown chart

48 You are the project manager of ABC project. One of the risks that has been identifies is attrition of
team members. Mid-way through the project you notice that the morale and motivation of the team
members is going down. You think that this is a precursor to people leaving the organization. For this
risk, low motivation is an example of

trigger
49 Senior leadership has returned from a conference where they have learned about the agile practice
of retrospectives. Even though the organization does not manage any

The project team determines a location that is accessible for relevant stakeholders to view and track

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

There was little or no action taken to manage the known risks

51You are leading a project to build an oil pipeline in a foreign country. You want to outsource some of
the construction work to local contractors and are in the process of preparing the bid package for
prospective sellers. Which of the following documents would you leav out of the package?

Independent cost estimates

52 During project planning of a large, complex project, project management best practices were
rigorously and thoroughly followed. During project execution, the project experienced several critical
risks,

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

Accept the added functionality, but ask the programmer to build only what has been designed going
forward

54 You are leading a project to develop a new web application. Together with your project team you
reprioritize the product backlog, determine velocity for the past iterations, and adapt your 58 work
plans accordingly. Additionally, you facilitate retrospectives every two weeks. Which of the following
processes describes the work you are performing?

Control Schedule

55 During a daily stand-up meeting, one of the programmers mentions that she had some extra time
and added functionality, which was not included in the original design. She believes the customer will
appreciate the added functionality What is your
56 You are assigned to a software development project, and you are conducting a product review with
an important client. Although the deliverables were previously verified, the client detects a defect and
rejects one of the deliverables. What should you do?

Submit a change request to fix the deliverable

57 Most common cause of conflicts in a project is

Schedule

58 You are the project manager of ABC project. Mid-way through the project a key component was
found defective. This was not planned for. The team met after the event and managed to make the
product work without the defective component. This is an example of -

Transfer of risk

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

60A multi-phase project has reached a phase gate. The key project stakeholders want to determine if
the phase has met its success criteria and if the project should proceed to the next phase. In addition to
the project management plan, which documents will be required?

Business documents and project charter

61You are the project manager of ABC project. Mid-way through the project a key component was
found defective. This was not planned for. The team met after the event and managed to make the
product work without the defective component

62You are establishing the relative priorities of individual risks identified in the project. Which of the
following tasks is the least likely to impact this prioritization?

Creating the risk report

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

Certified

64 You are the Project Manager of the XYZ project. You want to find the planned expenses for next
month. Which document do you need to refer to?

Cost Baseline
65 You are managing the project of planning a party for your company employees. There is a risk that
the employees will not come to the party. You decide to not take any action against this as the likely-
hood of this is low. Which risk response strategy are you following?

66 How will you deal with the stakeholders with High Interest but Low Power?

Keep them informed

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

Determine quality matric

68 You are managing the project of planning a party for your company employees. There is a risk that
the employees will not come to the party. You decide to not take any action against this as the likely-
hood of this is low. Which risk response strategy are you following?

Acceptance

69 You are leading a project to design a high-efficiency solar cell. The project needs copper, silver, and
silicon among other materials. You have ordered custom-built manufacturing equipment, secured
permission to install a solar array on the roof for testing and reserved a conference

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

Discuss the issue with the team member

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

Lack of a detailed procedure

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

Physical resource assignments

73 A team member volunteered to provide the project status update in a weekly presentation to the
key stakeholders. After the first meeting
74 Your project has been plagued with numerous change requests. What is the most likely reason?

Incomplete stakeholder register

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

Develop approaches to involve stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests, and potential
impact on the project

76 An organization is to undertake a multi-phased project. The sponsor wants to pursue the project
objectives as they have been planned but also wants to accommodate and adjust to new information
and changes in the environment as the project progresses. Which project management approach should
the project manager select for this project?

Hybrid

77 Which of the following is not an external-unpredictable risk?

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

Review the communications management plan to understand how stakeholder requests should be
handled

79 Which of the following methods is least likely to be used for explaining project planning guidelines to
the team?

Formal project report

80 Who contributes, develops, and updates the Lessons Learned document?

Management

81 Which of the following is not an external-unpredictable risk?

Inflation

82 During a bidder conference, you see that one bidder is your close friend. What should your next step
be?
You will disclose this relationship to your management

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

Review the stakeholder register with the new team members

84 The authority to approve or deny change request lies with

Board

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

Excess inventory

86 You are leading a software development project where the developers are colocated within rented
office space. Writing the code is taking longer than anticipated, and you have contacted the landlord

Revise the resource management plan

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

Comparing actual project performance against the project management plan

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

Look at the resource calendars

89 A project manager is leading a process improvement project for a factory operation. Currently, the
project manager and the team are performing the Monitor and Control Project Work process .Which of
the following activities might he.

90