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An output of Close Project of Phase is the creation of...
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Project Files
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Budget costs for project is $800K; latest estimated cost at completion is $900K. What is the variance at completion?
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$100K
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You are negotiating a contract and want to includea ceiling price and point of total consumption. You document this in the contract. What type of contract did you negogiate?
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Fixed Price plus Incentive Fee
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Monitoring and Controlling project work includes all of the following except...
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Contract Documentation
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You will document good practices that should be implemented across the orgization and identify areas that need to be addressed. This is known as a...
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Quality Audit
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Project teams all need to have some type of structure. typically, this is documented by...
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An Organizational Chart
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Which of the following is not from the Control Schedule process?
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Schedule Compression
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Of the following, which is not an input to Cost Budgeting?
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Cost Aggregation
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Requirements are the foundation of all the following except...
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The Communication Plan
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In most project life cycles, all but the following are truce except...
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The risk and uncertainty are highest at the end of the project.
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You and your team are working on the risk register and a member brings up the possibility of disappointing the client. What step should be taken to avoid this?
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Ensure that the client understands the benefits and risks involved in the project.
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A project life cycle phase...
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has a distinct focus that is different from any other phase.
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The purpose of Change Control is to...
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All of the above
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The most likely reason for having to acquire team members during the execution process would be...
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Variance analysis leading to the Human Resource requirement
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The Change Control Board consists of...
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Appropriate stakeholders and Subject Matter experts
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Collecting requirement is a member of which process group?
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Planning
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The process concerned with making sure scope creep does not occur is...
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Control Scope
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What are some of the ways that issues can be mitigated as your team finalizes delivery of interim products?
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Actively use communication to influence expectations.
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Monitoring and Controlling Project work includes all but...
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Contract Documentation
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Which of the following is not an input to the Develop Human Resource Plan process?
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Project Scope Statement
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For an activity that is now completed, with a planned value of $5K, Actual Cost of $6K, what is the Schedule Variance in terms of earned value?
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0
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Demming, Juran, and Cosby were quality gurus who did the following...
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Develop proprietary approach to quality management
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Often project manager do not have position power, so they need to rely on...
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influencing
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Which of the following is not an input to Cost Control?
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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
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You work for a security firm, and your current project is to assure personal safety of the CEO of an investment firm and his entourage during an upcoming visit to your client's facilities. In conducting an examination of the meeting rooms, your team discovers concealed listening devices and transmitters. What are you going to do about it?
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Describe the team's findings in a written report and deliver it promptly to you client.
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For a particular work package, the planned value is $4K, Actual cost is $5K and earned value is $4.5K. What is the Schedule Variance?
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+$500K
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How can you most effectively identify those stakeholders you should manage actively?
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Use of the Stakeholder Management Plan
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Decomposition of the project work involves all of the following except for...
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Determining resource assignment at the work package level.
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One of the first steps to quantify a project risk can be...
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Interview major stakeholders and subject matter experts
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What insures that systems are in place to meet requirements and standards?
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Perform Quality Assurance
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There are a number of decision making techniques that can be used to generate, classify, and prioritize requirements. Which one uses the largest block in a group to decide, even if it is not the majority?
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Plurality
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What percent of results fall within the area of less than one standard deviation from the norm?
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16%
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Which is the most common type of relationship between activities?
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Finish to Start
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True of False. Assumptions limit the project team options?
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False
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A technique that adjusts schedule dates based on resource constraints.
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Resource Leveling
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To effectively manage your project team, you will need to engage in ...
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Conflict Resolution
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Changing schedule based on possibility of a work strike is a technique known as...
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What if Scenerio
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Team members of a project are more often collocated in which type of organization?
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Projectized
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If the definition risks impacts, you develop a matrix that converts subjective terms of potential cost, schedule, or performance impacts to numerical values. The numerical values...
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Can be restated seperately for each objective.
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True or False. Oranganizational structure does not impact procurement process?
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True
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The features and functions that characterize a product, service, or a result are known as...
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Product Scope
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The process of formally authorizing an existing project to continue in to it's next phase is t he_________ process.
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Initiating
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Templates for risk management plan and the risk breakdown structure become part of the...
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Organizational Process Assett updates
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What is the purpose of a procurement audit?
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Identify the success and failures that warrant recognition.
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Reviewing, approving, or denying preventative and corrective actions are part of which process?
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Perform Integrated Change Control
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True or False? The Regulatory agency regional director is a major stakeholder?
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False
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Effective communication is a key element of your ability to get your team and the project to the final deliverable. What are the elements of communication you will have to manage?
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Sender-Receiver-Message-Mode-Coding
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What process is used to determin the aggregage effect of all risks affecting the project?
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Perfom Quantative Risk Analysis
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Information about activities such as WBS ID, imposed dates, resource requirements, and logical assumptions is documented as...
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Activity Attributes
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You need to accelerate your schedule so you decide to start one activity before the predecessor is complete. How do you show this on your network schedule?
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Finish to Start -1 Week
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You are documenting the methods you will use to integrate staff on to the team and how you will release staff. You are also noting training needs and safety requirements for the team. Which document compiles this information?
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Staffing Management Plan
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The initiating process is defines as...
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Those processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of a project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase.
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The points of Management Control referred to as Control Account Plans (CAPS) integrate...
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The project's scope, schedule, and cost
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Your project has a tight budget and schedule. There is one major risk item that threatens your success. You negotiate this threatening portion of scope into a subsequent delivery phase to eliminate the threat. This is an example of...
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Risk avoidance by revising the project plan to eliminate the risk condition.
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The company PMO tells the project manager to create lessons learned. What do lessons learned include?
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Information on issues and risks
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True or False. Risk Response Plans are inputs to the Cost Budgeting Process??
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False
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Performance Reports should be comprehensive for projects that...
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Exhibit a level of complexity or length that the team is not used to
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True or False? Develop Project Scope Management Plan in part of Project Scope Management?
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False
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A strike has caused delays on your project, but your company policy is to honor labor contract commitment even during strikes, so you didn't hire non-union replacement workers. You had some contingency time, and you anticipate that the new labor agreement will change the project costs. What technique can you use to determine if your plan will require corrective action?
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Variance Analysis
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Your team has taken in several new members as the project deliverables are starting to roll out to the client. There have been some unusually high levels of conflict/confrontation. What management steps would have best mitigated this problem?
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Creating an environment that encourages high levels of trust and mutual respect.
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The basif framework for managing the project is defined by the...
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Project Lifecycle
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Assuring that the information available on your project is timely and accurate is an example of...
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Monitoring and Controlling
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Which document is used to describe how you will analyze, document, and track stakeholder needs and expectations?
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Requirements Management Plan
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Deliverables that have been validated are an input to which process?
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Verify Scope
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Historical relationships can be used to develop mathematical models for total project costs. These historical relationships help in developing parametric and analogous estimates for the project. Which processes would you see this used for?
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Determine Budget
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As part of the Verify Scope process, the project manager has enlisted a team of individulas to measure, examine, and test the project's product to determine whether the results conform to the requirements. These activities are performed as part of which technique?
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Inspection
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This process group involves re-work, process adjustments, rescheduling, and reallocating resources as required?
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Executing
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You are in the process of closing procurements. The procurement is considered closed when you have...
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Sent formal notice to the sellar that the project is completed
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Recognizing that durations can be subjective and have an element of risk are accounted for by employing...
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Reserve Analysis
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Project managers use process analysis to...
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Identify activities that do not have value
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In order to effectively manage stakeholder expectations, what must have happened prior to the project entering the execution stage of the project lifecycle?
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Preliminary stakeholder identification
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How would you describe the main difference between a matrix organization and a functional organization?
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In a strong matrix organization, project managers are typically assigned to a project full time.
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True or False? Cost Aggregation is an input to cost budgeting?
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False
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A technique to confirm implementation of approved change request is...
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Quality Audit
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Project or phase closure guidelines are part of the ...
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Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)
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The process that is concerned with Continuous Process Improvement is...
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Perform Quality Assurance
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On a normal distribution, what is the probability that a result will be greater than the mean?
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50%
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Data regarding the extent to which quality standards are being satisfied on a contract are inlcuded in the...
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Work Performance Information
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You are establising the Lower Control Limits (LCL) and the Upper Control Limit (UCL) for a process as part of your quality assurance efforts. Which statement is true about the Upper Control Limit (UCL)?
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It should be less than the USL
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The following documents provide information used to identify requirments...
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Project Charter and Stakeholder Register
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Your team is installing a pipeline for local distribution of gas to a new residential development. There is urgency to complete the project, as families are anxious to move into their new houses. When the pipeline is finally pressurized for testing, it is discovered that there is a leak somewhere in it's 25-mile length. As a project manager, your best choice is to...
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Do not turn on the gas until the line passes all presure tests.
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If you Earned Value (EV) is $650,000 and your Actual Cost (AC) is $639,000, and your Budget at Completion (BAC) is $1,200,000; what is you TCPI using the BAC equation?
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.98
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Professional and Social responsibilities for a project manager includes the knowledge of...
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Legal Requirements
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Project Scope Management includes all of the following process steps except for...
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Initation
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Contract adminisration output docmentation on a contract should include all of the following except?
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Procurement Audits
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Inputs to the cost budgeting process does not include...
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Risk Response Plans
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Two of your technical leads are starting to behave in ways that are counterproductive during project meetings and testing sessions. Your best course of action would be to...
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Put agenda item for next meeting and discuss collaboratively
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The outputs of Control Scope include...
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Change requests, project document updates, and work performance measurements
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Communications Management can be characterized best as a tool to...
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Manage stakeholders and all nine knowledge areas through the life of the project.
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The project management office in your organization requires you to use the critical path technique to build your project schedule. This requirement is part of...
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The project scheduling methodology
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Performance recognition is most motivating to your team when it is done in a timely fashion. This supports team relationships that contribute to the productivity of the overall team and can be even more important when you schedule is extremely constrained. Which of the following reports would be best used for this purpose.
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Significant Achievement Reports
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A project team member is having a hallway conversation with another team member and says, "Frankly, off the record, I am concerned about the validation meeting next week." What kind of communication is that?
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Unofficial
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What is your objective as the project leader in your activities to develop your team?
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Improve the level of trust and agreement among team members and stakeholders
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Communications has many dimensions. Which is not one of the dimensions the PMBOK guide identifies?
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Relevant and Irrelevant
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Your organziation is devloping a chip that can be put on cars that can track their location and send a text alert if the car goes outside a certain radius. This is an exmple of...
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Technological Advance
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Project Scope Management does not include...
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Develop Project Management Plan
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A TCPI that is greater than 1.0 indicates?
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Your Cost Performance is worse than planned.
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Which of the following types of information would be BEST for the project Manager to use to evaluate performance?
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CPI
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True or False. Inspection Reports are outputs of the quality control process?
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False
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In order to mitigate any misunderstandings on the project team, you document your authority level with regard to decision making, prioritization, conflict resolution and escalation. This is likely to be recorded in which document?
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The Process Charter
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The schedule performance index is a function of...
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Earned Value and Planned Value
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The outputs from Verify Scope include:
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Accepted Deliverables
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The competing demands in project management are at least...
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- Scope
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The process of formally authorizing an existing project to continue into it's next phase is the...
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Initiating Process
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Which is an output from the Administer Procurements Process?
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Change Requests
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Your project is about to get behind schedule. Any of the following techniques would be appropriate for getting back into alignment except...
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Scope Base Line Change
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You have a number of risk events that require youre attention. You decide to prioritize them by probability and impact as well as how soon they are likely to occur. This is an example of...
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A Risk Urgency Assessment
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You are developing the first estimate on a project and you have completed the WBS. What type of estimate would you then use?
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Analogous
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Requirements documentation takes the high level requirements that are documented in the ________ and progressively elaborates them.
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Charter
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Which is a primary input to activity definition?
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Scope Baseline
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Durations that can be quantitatively determined are ______.
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Parametric Estimates
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You and your sponsor are in disagreement over the best way to handle a discrepency in the latest procurement audit. You decide that since this iss not a really big deal and the sponsor outranks you; that you should emphasize the areas of the audit that you agree on and downply the differences. This is an example of........
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Smoothing
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Closing the projct includes...
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Conducting a post-project review
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You have performed a quantative risk analysis on your project. The output of this analysis shows...
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The probability of achieving your project schedule and cost objectives
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Projects are typically authorized for one or more of the following reasons
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Project requests
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On your engineering project that has a cost performance index of 0.8 and a cumulative schedule performance index of 0.6, you and your team have determined that the current variances are atypical and they expect that similar variances will not occur in the future. Which formula should you use to establish your project's estimated cost at completion (EAC)?
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Actual Cost to Date + Budgeted Costs - Earned Value = Estimated Cost at Completion
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Typical conflict resolution techniques that you as a project manager may use on a project include...
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- Smoothing
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Communication methods are a tool in which project communications management process?
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Distribute information
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Perform Quality Assrance uses data created during...
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Perform Quality Control
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You are posting an internal advertisement for a position for a technical writer for yoru team. You get several applications, from both qualified and unqualified candidates. How should you handle the situation with the unqualified candidates?
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Give them the position description and them interview. Anyone who is authorized, should have access to that information.
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Which type of contracts shifts the risk to the seller?
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Firm Fixed Price
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For an activity that is now completed with with Budgeted Cost of $5K and Final Actual Cost of $6K, what is the Cost Variance in earned value terms?
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Negative $1000
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The procurement document is used when technical capability and approach are most important to the buyer is...
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Request for Proposal
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You discover only while testing of a deliverable is underway, that a design error will prevent it from performing as specified. What is the ethical thing to do?
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Report the error and correct it
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True or False. Project Management Software is a tool and technique for the Develop Human Resource Plan Process?
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False
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The HR Chief of your firm handed you a resume that had just arrived and asked if you know the individual. You not only know her, but you also know she was defrocked by PMI, yet she still has PMP on her resume. What is your appropriate action?
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Tell the HR Chief wht you know and also the matter to PMI
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Organizational Process Assets that are used to help identify stakeholders include...
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Lessons Learned
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You are using a control table to monitor the dollar value of variances on your project. The quantities entered into the process are are examples of...
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Variable Samples
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A portion of a network that is used over and over is called a...
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Subnet
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Reserve analysis is used to establish both contingency and management reserves. Which is true of the management reserves?
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They are not included in the baseline.
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You are the project manager for your comanpy, and you interact daily with the project manager for a contractor who is installing some new industrial equipment at your site. The two of you have differing ideas about how to install a new piece of machinery. What is the best approach?
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Approach the project manager directly and try to come to a resolution.
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If you want your deliverable to have to meet very specific precise measurements, you want to make sure...
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There is little scatter
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A project or product attribute, and how the qaulity control process will measure it, is contained in the operational definition of...
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Quality Metrics
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During a recent team meeting your newest member is at a loss for how to integrate into the team. What actions can you take to support a more rapid integration of the newest member of the team?
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Creating and maintaining a culture that promotes achievement and mutual respect.
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The project management office in your organization requires you to use the critical path technique to build your project schedule. This requirement is part of...
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The project scheduling methodology.
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What describes project scope as compared to program or portfolio scope?
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Scope is progressively elaborated
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True or False. Benchmarking is not an input to the Plan Quality Process.
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True
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Your project requires considerable amount of various types of equipment and human resources. You will be using different categories of equipment and various roles and skill sets. What is one way to get an overview of the various types of resources you are using each month?
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Resource Breakdown Structure
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Requirement documentation needs to be clear and complete. There are many elements of requirements that should be documented. One way of categorizing requirements is by documenting functional requirements and non-functional requirements. What is an example of a functional requirement?
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Physical interaction with the product
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You need to accelerate your schedule so you decide to start one activity before the predecessor is complete. How do you show this on your schedule?
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Finish to Start minus one week or FS-1Wk
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At the close of the development phase of your project you review the risk register to determine if the risk responses were effective and accomplished the intended result. This is called a...
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Risk Audit
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True or False. Performance Measurement Baseline is an output from the Cost Estimating Process?
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False
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Project management processes are...
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iterative and repeat during the project
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Which of the following is an enterprise environmental factor?
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Infrastructure
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True or False. Obtaining customer validation on the final deliverable is not part of the Control Scope Process?
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True
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Complete of the project scope is measured against the...
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Project Management Plan
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All projects should support the organizaton's goals. Therefore, the _______________ should be referrenced in the
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Strategic Plan
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True or False. When amending a procurement contract, it must be mutually beneficial.
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False
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Which is t he least common type of relationship between activities?
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Start-to-Finish
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Your client terminates your contract for convenience. This means you are now implementing which process?
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Close Project Phase
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True or False. Final result or product is not an output from the Close Project or Phase process?
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True
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True or False. Scenerio Analysis is included in Product Analysis?
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False
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Precedence diagraming method is used to construct a networt diagram. Which is true about this method?
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It uses noes connected by arrows to show logical relationships.
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What is a common name for a seller of goods?
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Vendor
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Media choice is based on...
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Stakeholder Analysis
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This process group involves re-work, process adjustment, rescheduling, and reallocating resources as required.
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Executing
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You are assigned as the project manager and three months in to the project you discover there are multiple scope statements being used by different project teams. What should you do?
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Insure that the configuration management systems is being used.
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Certain risks are involved in all project activities. When acquiring project team members, which of the following represents the greatest risk probability and impact during the execution stage of the project's life cycle?
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The original assignment replaced with someone of lesser competency
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