Pmp Exam 1 - Missed Questions

Front 1

What document requires the most extensive approval process

Back 1

Contract

Front 2

The principle that states work expands as to fill the time available for its completion

Back 2

Parkinson's Law

Front 3

What are some important modern quality management approaches? (5)

Back 3

(1) Customer Satisfaction

(2) Prevention over inspection

(3) Continuous Improvement

(4) Management Responsibility

(5) Cost of Quality

Front 4

What process should be completed prior to the Validate Scope Process?

Back 4

Control Quality (quality = internal validate scope = external)

Front 5

If Path Duration is Given, do you need to add +1?

Back 5

No, go back and watch that lecture you fool

Front 6

Do preventative actions and corrective actions affect project baselines?

Back 6

No, but defect repairs may. PA and CA affect the performance against baselines. But are meant to keep work in line with the PM Plan

Front 7

What process are you performing if you are gathering lessons learned and using the to improve the future execution of the project?

Back 7

If the project is still in the execution phase, Direct and Manage Project Work

Front 8

What process is needed to determine if any unapproved scope has been added to the process?

Back 8

Perform the Control Scope Process

Front 9

What tasks are performed as part of the Manage Stakeholder Engagement Process?

Back 9

(1)Addressing stakeholder concerns

(2)Resolving Stakeholder Issues

(3) Communicating with stakeholders

Front 10

What Does RACI acronym stand for?

Back 10

R=Responsible

A=Accountable

C=Consulted

I=Informed

Front 11

What should be reviewed at Project Closure?

Back 11

Project Baselines (among others)

Front 12

Precision

Back 12

Values of Repeated measurements are clustered and have little scatter

Front 13

Accuracy

Back 13

The measured value is very close to the true value

Front 14

What is the cost of quality?

Back 14

The sum of costs incurred on prevention and appraisal. It includes training, rework, review, quality planning, etc

-Cannot include other tasks if they aren't specifically spelled out

Front 15

What is payback?

Back 15

The payback is the time it takes to pay back an investment *want it to be short

Front 16

What is the Perfromance Measurement Baseline?

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The Total PV. It is also known as the Budget at Completion (BAC)

Front 17

What helps project team members group potential causes of risk that may be encountered on a project?

Back 17

Risk Breakdown Structure - it is a hierarchical representation of risks according to their risk categories

Front 18

What are the 2 processes of the initiating phase?

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(1) Develop Project Charter (Integration Management)

(2) Identify Stakeholders (Stakeholder Management)

Front 19

The value of work performed (expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to it)

Back 19

Earned Value

Front 20

What is a forecasting method used on projects?

Back 20

Simulations

Front 21

Where can acceptance criteria for requirements be found?

Back 21

Requirements Documentation

Front 22

What is the range of an estimate called?

Back 22

Confidence Interval

Front 23

What are the knowledge specific to an organization regarding how to approach performing wok, methods acceptable for performing work, and who is influential of the work known as?

Back 23

Cultural Norms

Front 24

What is a structured analysis of the seller's progress to deliver a product or service within cost, schedule, and quality req's reffered to as?

Back 24

Procurement Performance Review

Front 25

What are the 4 outputs of the Perform Quality Assurance process?

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(1) Change Requests

(2) PM Plan Updates

(3) Proj Document Updates

(4) Quality Control Measurements

Front 26

What are some of the outputs of the Plan Procurement Management Process?

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(1) Procurement Documents

(2) Source selection criteria

(3) Make-or-buy decisions

Front 27

What things can resource leveling influence? (3)

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(1) Change in critical path

(2) Activity Duration

(3) Ativity Attributes

Front 28

What procurement processes use procurement negotiation?

Back 28

Conduct Procurements and Close Procurements

Front 29

What is another term for Budgeted Cost of Work Performed

Back 29

Earned Value

Front 30

A set of interrelated actions and activities performed to achieve a pre-specified product, result or service

Back 30

Processe

Front 31

A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result

Back 31

Project

Front 32

Work Performance Data is an output of what process?

Back 32

Direct and Manage Project Work

Front 33

The ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of of information at a given moment

Back 33

Situational Awareness

Front 34

Where are risk register updates performed?

Back 34

The Control Risks Process

Front 35

What is the relationship between Early Start and Late Finish?

Back 35

It is equal to the Activity Duration plus Activity Float

Front 36

What term describes the essence of Knowledge Management (Stewart)

Back 36

Connection, not collection

Front 37

When are scope changes approved or rejected?

Back 37

Perform Integrated Change Control

Front 38

4 inputs into the Identify Stakeholders Process

Back 38

(1) Project Charter

(2) Procurement Documents

(3) EEFs

(4) OPAs

Front 39

What process is focused on tracking, reviewing, and regulating the progress to meet performance objectives defined in the PM plan?

Back 39

Direct and Manage Project Work

Front 40

What is a common clause in contracts that frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance prevents the parties from fulfilling their obligations

Back 40

Force Majuere Clause

Front 41

Requirements documentation for non-functional requirements and functional requirements (technology, support/training, quality, and reporting documents) are part of what types of requirements?

Back 41

Solution Requirements

Front 42

What document gives the information about how often Risk Management processes should be performed?

Back 42

Risk Management Plan

Front 43

Taking an existing process and making it fit current project needs

Back 43

Process tailoring

Front 44

What are outputs of the cost estimate process?

Back 44

Activity Cost Estimates

Work Package Cost Estimates

Basis of Estimates

Front 45

When is a Cost Baseline Created?

Back 45

Determine Budget

Front 46

Is groupthink a benefit?

Back 46

No

Front 47

What are the tools and techniques of Develop Project Charter? (2)

Back 47

Expert judgement and Facilitation Techniques

Front 48

What are some techniques to employ if a project is behind schedule?

Back 48

Schedule compression

Adjusting leads and lags

What-if Scenario analysis to ID if alternate sequences can be used to compress schedule

Front 49

What is the only communication model?

Back 49

Sender-Receiver Model

Front 50

What are communication methods? (3)

(hint: there is only one communication model)

Back 50

Push

Pull

Interactive

Front 51

Who declares formal closure of a procurement contract?

Back 51

The Buyer (must notify seller)

Front 52

What is contained in the Lessons Learned Database? (4)

Back 52

Project records and documents

Project closure info and documenatation

Info on results of previous decisions/project performance

Info on Risk Management Activities

Front 53

What is the first step in processing any change request?

Back 53

Fully analyze and understand its impact to the project. This allows for the change request to be properly filled out and presented to the CCB

Front 54

What process uses the change log?

Back 54

Manage Stakeholder Engagement

Front 55

Which project baseline are project deliverables documented?

Back 55

Scope Baseline

Front 56

Represents the uncertainty in values such as schedule activities and costs of components

Back 56

Continuous Distributions

Front 57

Used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario

Back 57

Discrete Distribution

Front 58

Used when no obvious value that is more likely than any other between specified high and low bounds

Back 58

Uniform distribution

Front 59

What process uses an issue log?

Back 59

Control Communications (it is an output of Manage Communications)

Front 60

Duration buffers are non-work schedule activities

Back 60

true

Front 61

Where are strategies for complying with gov't regulations, union contracts, and other HR policies contained?

Back 61

Staffing Management Plan

Front 62

What is the biggest advantage of centralized contracting?

Back 62

Increase company expertise in dealing with contracts

Front 63

What term is defined as:

A quality WBS is a WBS constructed in such a way that it satisfies all of the requirements for its use in a project -

Back 63

WBS Quality Principle 1

Front 64

What process is performed to protect against gold plating?

Back 64

Control Scope

Front 65

What parts of the PM plan are part of the Control Costs Process

Back 65

Cost Baseline and Cost Management Plan (all other subsidiaries are just general project documents)

Front 66

Kanban

Back 66

A pull system used in Agile PM. Born in Lean Manufacturing and means signal.

Front 67

What should be done first if unethical behavior is detected?

Back 67

Report the issue to management

Front 68

What is the ideal action for low priority risks?

Back 68

Keep them on a watch list

Front 69

If NPV is given, and a project is to be selected based on only NPV, what should you do?

Back 69

Select the highest NPV

Front 70

Who is associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle?

Back 70

Deming (developed by Shewhart)

Front 71

What should someone do with allegations before escalating?

Back 71

Carry out detailed investigations

Front 72

The administration of procurement relationships defined by terms agreed to by two or more parties in a legally binding document is referred to as....

Back 72

Contract Management

Front 73

What method is used to compare the amount of buffer remaining vs amount of buffer needed to protect a project delivery date?

Back 73

Critical Chain Method

Front 74

Difference between scope creep and gold plating?

Back 74

Gold plating is typically scope that is added by the project team who perceives it to be a positive addition

Front 75

Who develops the project charter

Back 75

The project sponsor (no matter if they are internal or external. If they are the sponsor they do it)

Front 76

If terms of the contract are met, what must the subcontractor be considered?

Back 76

Completed

Front 77

What activity ensures that the composition of a project's configuration item is correct and corresponding changes are registered, assessed, approved, tracked, and correctly implemented?

Back 77

Configuration Verification and Audit

Front 78

What are the 4 group decision making techniques?

Back 78

Unanimity

Majority

Plurality

Dictatorship

Front 79

What are considered Level of Effort activities in the WBS?

Back 79

Support-type activities

Front 80

What are the 5 tools and techniques of Acquire Project Team

Back 80

Acquisition

Pre-Assignment

Negotiation

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Virtual Teams

Front 81

What process is actual performance against the PM plan analyzed?

Back 81

Monitor and Control Project Work

Front 82

What helps with developing the project charter?

Back 82

Business Case

Contracts

OPAs

Front 83

Where are project approval requirements listed?

Back 83

The Project Charter

Front 84

What does NPV = 0 represent?

Back 84

Break-Even or Zero

Front 85

What does not require an approved change request when it is changed?

Back 85

The Project Charter

Front 86

What is the main reason meetings do not meet their intended goal?

Back 86

Necessary participants did not attend

Front 87

Procurement audits are conducted in Close Procurements. What similar process is done in Control Procurements?

Back 87

Procurement Performance Reviews - focused on compliance with contract requirements

Front 88

Example: If concrete must be cured for 3 days before flooring can be added.

Back 88

Lag time for flooring

Front 89

What are some methods used to calculate depreciation? (3)

Back 89

Straight Line

Double Declining Balance

Sum-of-Years Digits

Front 90

What is the first thing to be initiated to bring identified quality defects back in line with the specifications?

Back 90

Change Request

Front 91

A procedure in operations management for analysis of all potential points of failure and the impact they may have

Back 91

Failure mode and effects analysis

Front 92

Where are the status of change requests kept?

Back 92

Change Log

Front 93

Where are communication issues from stakeholders kept?

Back 93

Issue Log

Front 94

What are the 2 outputs of Close Project/Phase

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(1) Final Product, service, or result

(2) OPA updates

Front 95

What skill is often paired with Situational Awareness, where you have to be persuasive in expressing your point and position in order for your project team and stakeholders to react quickly to changing project priorities

Back 95

Influencing

Front 96

Which process uses variance and trend analysis techniques?

Back 96

Control Risks

Front 97

What process creates the issue log?

Back 97

Manage Stakeholder Engagement

Front 98

What gives you a better understanding of a business' day to day operations?

Back 98

Operational Awareness