PMP Sample Exam 1 PMP Sample Exam 1 1 / 40 At what point does the project have the most stakeholder influence, the highest probability of failure, and the lowest cost and staffing levels? At the beginning of the project After the initial project plan is approved While the actual work is being done Just before the end of the project 2 / 40 The forecasted amount of project spending for the remainder of the project is: The cost variance The estimate to complete The estimate at completion The variance at completion 3 / 40 Jane is expressing concern about one of the team members’, john’s, work on the project. she says that john is not making action items a priority or returning emails and phone calls. what is your best action? Revise the communications management plan Hold John accountable for his actions Meet with the team and seek out ways to increase the communication channels Nothing; team members are responsible for their work and need to resolve this problem themselves 4 / 40 You have distributed the preliminarily agreed schedule for the CrM implementation project to stakeholders. After your presentation to senior management, the development team involved in your project informs you of a few substantial activities that are necessary for the project, which unfortunately were left out of the schedule plans. how should you handle this situation? Schedule another presentation with senior management to get their input on the additional tasks Repeat the Estimate Activity Durations process to determine the durations of the activities and update the project schedule and other project plans Conduct the Control Schedule process to approve or deny the requested changes Continue with the approved project schedule and accommodate the additions through schedule reserves, keeping the tasks off the critical path 5 / 40 Your project management team is determining the requirements for a project. your team includes sMEs and others who can be very vocal and a bit controlling. you want to hold a productive session to collect initial requirements and arrive at a group consensus without the opinions of a few dominating the session. which group creativity technique is your best option? Brainstorming Delphi Technique Nominal Group Technique Focus Group 6 / 40 At a regular status meeting, team members are blaming each other for the delays. The project is running well behind schedule. someone bursts out that it is your fault—as project manager— for not properly planning and for providing unclear, incomplete direction. you are offended. what is your best course of action? Recognize the frustrations of the project team End the meeting to give everyone time to calm down Reprimand the team member for personally attacking you Defend your role as project manager 7 / 40 What are the most common sources of conflict within a project? Cost, schedule, personality clashes, and resources Resources, project priorities, cost, and personality clashes Resources, project priorities, schedule, and technical opinions Schedule, technical opinions, cost, and administrative decisions 8 / 40 Regardless of its size, cost, and impact, every project needs a project management plan to be able to deliver the project to the customer. It is the responsibility of a project manager to pull together this plan. what type of analytical skills does a project manager require to accomplish this task successfully? Stakeholder management and conflict resolution Cost and benefit analysis and performance metrics techniques Problem solving, people and negotiation skills Expert judgment and group decision making 9 / 40 A project activity has a three-point estimate of thirty-two days. The next scheduled activity must start on Day 30. what should you do? Add additional resources to the first activity Present the finding to the Change Control Board Determine the sequence relationship between the activities Push back the start date 10 / 40 Larry works for a firm that has an IT system. The system requires continuous updating and maintenance. he is handling this ongoing activity, in addition to other responsibilities. his assignment is best described as An unnecessary project that may interfere with his output An operation within the company An excellent opportunity to request the title of Project Manager One phase of a project of continuous maintenance 11 / 40 As a project manager for a small telecommunications project, you notice a flaw in the requirements document. You have a solution, which can resolve this flaw. What action should you take next? Evaluate the change in terms of schedule and budget Call the customer and sponsor to inform them of your work Procure the parts necessary Stop all project work until the change is implemented 12 / 40 You are hired as a project manager. What approach should you take in managing your first project? The accepted PMBOK standard way The way you have done projects in the past Applying knowledge, tools, and techniques from past projects and documented best practices The way suggested by the project’s sponsor and customer 13 / 40 The project’s EV is $295,000. The AC is $340,000 and the PV is $308,000. What is the cost variance for the project? $340,000 –$13,000 –$45,000 –$32,000 14 / 40 What can you tell from the following Pareto Chart? More quality errors are occurring over time Cracked tiles are causing more than 90% of the errors Dirty marks and non-fitting doors are causing 75% of the quality defects During the Plan Quality process, four major standards need to be repaired to ensure high-quality deliverables 15 / 40 While working on a project, sponsor requested a change, provided details of the new request and identified the work package, which can be replaced. However, due to project management standards, you still need to put in a change request. Change management plan should include the following activities, except: How to maintain the integrity of baselines? How to coordinate changes across the entire project Continue to make project payments Documenting the impact of change requests 16 / 40 The operations manager informs you of defects occurring on the assembly line. She presents a flowchart of the current process aligned to the portion your team is redesigning. Her suggestion is to speed up production to control the defect rate. What action should you take next? Speed up production to limit defects Perform a Design of Experiments (DOE) to determine the error rate Schedule a meeting with the quality manager and the operations manager to discuss the change Schedule a meeting with the Emergency Change Advisory Board (ECAB) to control the high error rate 17 / 40 The Genesis project is complete and you are compiling your final performance report. The budget was $842,000 and your actual costs were $839,000. Which statement is most accurate? Your variance at completion is positive You have a positive schedule variance Your estimate at completion is negative Your variance at completion is negative 18 / 40 Which one of the following statements is true for the graph below? At the start, the project was ahead of schedule; now it is behind schedule At the start, the project was behind schedule; now it is ahead of schedule There has been no change since the project started At the start, the project was –0; now it is +0 19 / 40 What is a project manager’s primary role while executing a project or phase? Doing project work Enforcing accountability for missed targets Reducing third-party influence Manage task execution 20 / 40 The iDoodle project is six months into production. A team member notices during a brainstorming session that the procedure other project team members are using is very inefficient. He informs you about this and you agree that the procedure should change to make it more efficient. How should you proceed? You should add this item in the next team meeting Work with the project team, not operations, to determine ways to improve the process Submit change control paperwork to improve the process Implement Kaizen quality techniques to incrementally improve the process 21 / 40 As a project manager, Arnold has decided to add an additional four days to one of the tasks, if the shipment is delayed as part of the risk response activity. Adding additional time to a task is called: Contingency Padding Mitigation Collateral time 22 / 40 You have completed all of the project deliverables as defined within the project scope statement. As you are working to close the project, and distribute the lessons learned with the final project report, your manager assigns you to another project. Which statement is most accurate? The project is considered closed because of the reassignment and the completed deliverables The project is open until all requirements are met The sponsor is able to consider the project closed The PMO would take over the responsibility of the project 23 / 40 It is the responsibility of the project manager and the project team to validate the project constraints and assumptions from time to time. Which of the following is not an example of a project assumption? The doctors are able to perform the tests with current equipment The cost of steel will continue to rise The project deliverable is expected prior to the July 1 press conference The sponsor should have time to attend monthly update meetings 24 / 40 Coco is managing a project with an international team in South Africa. A supplier offers her two tickets to a highprofile and very expensive sporting event. Coco’s most appropriate action is to: Accept the offer to retain rapport Politely accept the gift, but reciprocate with a gift to the vendor Refuse the gift, as it is against the PMI’s Code of Ethics Offer the tickets to the project team 25 / 40 Your company is working on a new project. The company has completed similar projects successfully in the past. During which performance domain would you most consider referring to documents of similar previous projects? Closing Initiating Mitigation Verify Scope 26 / 40 Motivating team members is an important part of project management. Jamal is managing a project consisting of many team members from various departments and divisions that do not work together. Jamal’s only recognition/reward tool is a Team Member of the Month (TMM) program. Why should Jamal consider other recognition systems beyond or in addition to TMM? According to McGregor’s Theory, team members need to be rewarded often and near the actual work. Once a month is too long to wait for recognition. More frequent awards are needed. Zero-sum rewards, such as TMM, limit who can be recognized and can hurt team cohesiveness Choosing his favorite team member every month always hurts team morale and reduces trust Jamal must follow variations in a project staffing management plan. 27 / 40 A project manager shows you the S Curve of the Planned Values (PV) for her project. What does this curve most likely represent? Expected Monetary Value (EMV) Performance report Sunk Cost Cost baseline 28 / 40 As the schedule is being developed, the team notices that a resource is not available when the corresponding activity is scheduled. How should you, as the project manager, respond? Ignore the resource conflict and request additional time and funds for the project Schedule the activity and work towards securing the resource by the time the activity is to start Alter the schedule to accommodate the resource’s availability and the project activities’ sequence dependencies Continue with the plan and demand that the resource be made available 29 / 40 A Request for Proposal (RFP) was published for a stadium project by the city government. Your company was selected as the seller for the project. Your company’s steering committee informed you that you are to be the project manager for the project. For the project to begin, the project charter requires sign-off. Who must approve the project charter? A member of the City Council An executive on the steering committee You as the Project Manager Your immediate manager 30 / 40 Your construction project was damaged by flood. Your supplier says that they cannot fulfill the terms of the contract due to an unexpected event clause, both parties had signed at the beginning of the project. This is also called: Force majeure clause Fixed price clause Contract obligation terms Cost-plus-award-fee 31 / 40 As project manager for a large public project, you are expected to respond to media inquiries. A reporter asks about the financial stability of your company. How should you respond? Give the reporter publicly released financial data Produce and share an Earned Value Report for the project Make sure all information is shared with all project stakeholders Provide full disclosure for better public relations and favorable media attention 32 / 40 Team members on your project are determining some of the activities that need to be accomplished in order to meet the deliverable requirements you laid out for them. They are planning to identify all the steps in the value stream and eliminate those steps that do not add value. Which principle does this action most represent? Kanban Lean Scrum PMBOK 33 / 40 You are the project manager on a new technology project. There are many risks and unknowns. You want to choose a methodology that is suitable for this type of project. Which methodology is best suited for this project? Outsource to a contractor with a fixed price with incentive contract, and let them choose the methodology Follow PMBOK without an exception PRINCE2 Methodology One of the agile methodologies 34 / 40 Your project is the physical construction of a building. You gather all of the project’s stakeholders to record requirements. Which of the following is least considered a valid requirement gathered from the stakeholder analysis? The schedule cannot have greater than 5% variance at any time The project team must do better than they have on other projects The building must conform to the state’s environmental standards The budget cannot exceed one million dollars 35 / 40 Impact assessments are formal, evidence-based procedures that assess any type of the economic, social, regulatory and environmental implications of policy, standard, or regulations. Following is the result of impact assessment, which helps to improve the project results, except: Improving transparency so that contributions to sustainability and better regulation are disclosed Increasing enterprise wide participation in order to reflect a range of considerations Clarifying how the project or program helps achieve its goals and objectives Understanding the customer’s role in project success. The project manager’s relationship with the customer is pivotal in providing quality service 36 / 40 In selecting a project, which is not an economic consideration? Economic value added Stakeholder dividends Opportunity costsv Net present value 37 / 40 Your project has just launched. You need to gather the requirements and define the scope in greater detail. Which of the following would not be considered a best practice in accomplishing this effort? Brainstorming with subject matter experts Reviewing recently completed projects associated with this customer Facilitating an informational session around the project’s kick-off Arranging a facilitated workshop to assess the project’s prototype 38 / 40 The project manager is reviewing the responsibility Gantt Chart and Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM/RACI) report. Which statement is true regarding a RACI chart? It is only used in organizations with matrix structures Only one person can be responsible for a deliverable Tasks must be listed in order of the expected completion date Only one person can be accountable for a deliverable 39 / 40 Kanban is an approach for software development based on the principles of Lean processes with an emphasis on Justin- Time (JIT) delivery. Which of the following describes the Kanban process? It is set of potentially competing principles whose goal is cost reduction by the elimination of waste It is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects It is a visual process management system that tells what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce It is a method of performance measurement, which varies according to the project environment and type of project 40 / 40 Daisy wants to estimate the probability and impact of conditions that may affect achieving the project’s cost and time objectives using numerical data. What method should she use? Condition estimation Qualitative risk analysis Cost-benefit analysis Quantitative risk analysis Your score is 0% For more Sample papers, refer the links below: CAPM SAMPLE EXAM 1 CAPM SAMPLE EXAM 2 PMP Self-Certification PMP Sample 2 PMP Sample 3 PMP Sample 4 PMP Sample 5 PMP Pre-assessment
