Which project management role is responsible for product integrity and ensures conformance to standards and specifications?
Developer/engineers
Business analyst
Testers/quality assurance specialists
Architect
Which of the following is not a communication trigger?
Project planning
Kickoff meeting
Milestones
Schedule changes
A potential future event that can have either a negative or positive impact on a project is known as which one of the following?
A risk
A deliverable
A requirement
An issue
What risk tolerance would a start-up in the technology industry likely have?
Risk taker
Risk avoider
Gambler
Moderate risk tolerance
As part of the preparation to begin work on a project, the project manager makes a list: (1) There can be no work on weekends and holidays, (2) overtime is not approved without steering committee consent, and (3) seventy-five percent of the project team must be union staff. This list represents which of the following?
Objectives
Requirements
Constraints
Assumptions
What does it mean to exploit a positive risk?
Assign the risk to a third party who is best able to bring about opportunity.
Monitor the probability or impact of the risk event to ensure benefits are realized.
Choose to accept the consequences of the risk.
Look for opportunities to take advantage of positive impacts.
A start-up company is constructing a new mobile home sharing app. Users of the service will be required to share their location data to be able to sign up for a trip using someone else's mobile home. Which of the following ESG factors would the company need to consider for this project?
Which authentication method requires the user to provide two or more pieces of verification evidence to log into their account?
Certificate-based authentication
Biometric authentication
Multifactor authentication
Token-based authentication
DewDrops has gone through a rapid growth cycle and now has several one-off systems for activities like the company's finances, supply, and human resources. The leaders of the company want to have a system that brings these activities together. What kind of system would meet these needs?
ERP
XaaS
LAN
CRM
What is a user story in the Agile methodology?
Customer survey results after product release
Key information about stakeholders and their jobs
A high-level definition of someone using the product or service
A visual representation of product burndown
What is the single role in a RACI matrix that can only be assigned once per task?
Consulted
Responsible
Informed
Accountable
Which of the following would not receive communication if there was an update to the risk register?
Project sponsor
Project team
PMO
Project manager
Dyan is applying for a job working on a defense project for a government agency. To help confirm her employment, what steps might be required for Dyan to be hired as the project manager? (Choose two.)
Service-level agreement
Background screening
Clearance requirements
Branding restrictions
A movie production facility has a secure door that can only be accessed through a retinal scan and an authorized badge being scanned. What security concept is being enacted in this scenario?
Branding restrictions
Scrum retrospective
Legal and regulatory impacts
Facility access
Once a change request is submitted, where should it be recorded and assigned an identification number for tracking purposes?
Risk register
Business process repository
Issue log
Change request log
The project charter has a filename of Projectcharter1. The project manager makes an update to the file, and it now is called Projectcharter2. This is an example of which one of the following?
Communicating changes
Version control
Change request logs
Risk register
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Process diagram
Histogram
Pareto chart
Fishbone diagram
An airline engineering company is forced to cut the project budget after poor financial results in the previous quarter. How would this most likely impact the project?
The project will take longer because the number of resources is cut.
The project team goes to the steering committee for more funds.
The project scope is cut back to operate within the new budget.
The project is postponed due to lack of financial resources.
A resource shortage means which one of the following?
There are too many resources, leading to underallocation.
There is a shortage of things for team members to work on.
There are not enough resources for the task, leading to overallocation.
There is an abundance of things for team members to work on.
Which of the following are ways to organize the WBS? (Choose three.)
Backlog and sprints
Project phases
Subprojects
Major deliverables
Prioritized by risk
A project team tasked with creating a new software application has discovered that the programming needed is twice as complex as they thought it would be, and they have informed the project manager that they will need more resources or will need to push the due date out by two months. Where would this topic get recorded in project documentation?
Project charter
Issue log
Action items
Risk register
A project sponsor or champion serves what role on a project?
Develops and maintains the schedule
Is the approval authority and removes roadblocks
Sets the standards and practices for projects in the organization
Performs cross-functional coordination
Which type of contract allows the seller to recover all allowable expenses associated with providing the goods or services?
Time and materials
Fixed-price contract
Statements of work
Cost-reimbursable contract
The comprehensive collection of documents that spells out communication, risk management, project schedule, and scope management is known as which one of the following?
Request for proposal
Dashboard information
Project management plan
Scope statement
Project team members are required to report to both the project manager and their functional manager, who share authority for the resources. What type of organization is this?
Weak matrix
Balanced matrix
Projectized
Strong matrix
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Run chart
Histogram
Pareto chart
Fishbone diagram
Which tool would be used to help find the distribution of issues (or other variable) from highest to lowest as bars on a chart?
Scatter chart
Histogram
Pareto chart
Run chart
What are major accomplishments of the project or key events known as?
Requirements
Deliverables
Milestones
Risks
The situation where the project team is stuck on the last piece of work, which prevents the project from completing, is known as which one of the following?
Pareto diagram
The 95 percent phenomenon
IRR
The 80/20 rule
Assessing the status of the budget, reviewing risks/issues logs, and measuring performance occurs in what project life cycle phase?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
All of the following are examples of categories that might be included in a resource breakdown structure EXCEPT:
External
Project management
Organizational
Probability and impact
Mark submits a purchase requisition to his company's procurement section. He must wait for a PO to be cut in order for the vendor to begin work. What is a PO?
Planned objective
Purchase office
Purchase order
Planned order
A project manager is having problems with one team member who is being insubordinate. The project manager approaches the team member and communicates how the behavior is inappropriate and how the team member will behave from now on. This is an example of which one of the following?
Forcing
Avoiding
Confronting
Smoothing
What are governance gates?
A checkpoint between project phases where approval is obtained to move forward
A checkpoint where quality is checked against a previously established criterion
Checkpoints at the beginning and end of the project only
After a project governor is appointed, unplanned interruptions from this project sponsor
Even though the project scope statement has been approved, the customer has routinely asked for more features to be added to the product, causing the due date and resources to be adjusted consistently. This is an example of which type of influence?
Change request
Constraint reprioritization
Schedule constraint
Scope creep
After establishing the product backlog, what tool would you use to determine the project's velocity?
Fishbone diagram
Burndown chart
Kanban board
Sprint speed
How should a project team record what was said and agreed to during project gatherings?
Create a scope statement.
Create a business case.
Create meeting minutes.
Create a project management plan.
Which risk response strategy attempts to minimize the impact or the probability of a negative risk?
Mitigate
Accept
Transfer
Avoid
At the conclusion of a defined work period, Belle got the project team together to figure out what went well, what did not go well, and what improvements could be made.
What type of meeting was this?
Scrum retrospective
Product backlog
Daily Scrum
Kickoff meeting
In what project life cycle phase are the majority of the processes and project documents created?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
Chase is a project manager, and they have released all of the team members from the project, closed vendor contracts, and archived project documents. In what life cycle phase is the project?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
Resource allocation, including assigned equipment, team members, and money to support a project, occurs in which project phase?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
Teams normally go through a similar development cycle. Which is the correct order of those stages?
Forming, norming, performing, storming, and adjourning
Norming, storming, forming, adjourning, and performing
Norming, forming, storming, adjourning, and performing
Forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning
The project team is ready to make a change to a web application already in use by an organization. Which artifact should the project manager refer to in rolling out the changes?
Tiered architecture
Downtime/maintenance window schedules
Data warehouse
Customer notifications
What are the three common constraints found in projects? (Choose three.)
Scope
Personnel
Working space
Quality
Budget
Time
Which of the following is both a serious risk management issue and a compliance/legal matter?
Branding restrictions
Anything as a service
Data security classification
Data privacy
Which information security concept addresses where and how your data is stored?
Application security
Digital security
Network and system security
Physical security
The commitment to keep a person's or organization's information private and protect unauthorized disclosure of information from being disclosed is known as which of the following?
Confidentiality
Data sensitivity
Privacy
Security clearance
Which project management tool helps determine whether a system, process, or program involving personal information raises privacy risks?
Multitiered architecture
Privacy impact assessment
Service-level agreement
Backlog prioritization
What is the definition of a work breakdown structure?
A deliverable-oriented decomposition of a project
A graphic representation of tasks and their sequence
A high-level outline of milestones on a project
A task-oriented decomposition of a project
What are project requirements?
A measure of the distance traveled on a project
Major events in a project used to measure progress
Checkpoints on a project to determine Go/No-Go
Characteristics of deliverables that must be met
Expenditures not expensed directly on a company's income statement and that are considered an investment are known as which of the following?
SOW
OpEx
TOR
CapEx
What does TOR stand for?
Time of reflection
Terms of reconciliation
Terms of reference
Time of reference
The calculation of the rate of return for a given investment for a given period of time is known as which of the following?
Payback period
Return on investment
Time value of money
Earned value
During a project meeting, a key stakeholder looks at a report and sees that the schedule now has a yellow setting when last week it was set at green. What kind of data is the stakeholder viewing?
Dashboard information
Project management plan
Ishikawa diagram
Risk register
A team that is geographically dispersed has the need to work on documents together and to have more tools than phone calls by which they can communicate. What is a good option for them to consider using?
Wiki pages
Intranet sites
Collaboration tools
Scrum retrospective
The team is working on a cutover to a new badge access system for an agency with a security component. During the planned outage, a problem is discovered that cannot be solved immediately. What should the project team do?
Continue to implement the change.
Implement the regression plan and reverse the changes.
Evaluate the impact and justification of an extended outage.
Identify and document the change.
A software development team is sharing their knowledge and progress by using a web browser to edit a common page. Which knowledge management tool are they using?
Intranet sites
Collaboration tools
Internet sites
Wiki knowledge base
A project team is working on building a new office complex in a remote area. The on-site office trailer has a telephone line, but internet connectivity is limited and mobile phone coverage is spotty. What would be the best method for team members at this location to participate in a status meeting?
Email
Video conferencing
Voice conferencing
Whiteboard
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Process diagram
Histogram
Pareto chart
Scatter chart
Which of the following is a simple time management technique where a fixed maximum amount of time for an activity is set in advance, and then the activity is completed within that timeframe?
Sprint planning
Parametric estimating
Timeboxing
Scrum
WigitCom is about to launch a new software product to the market. They are concerned about a new regulation that is being considered in a large state that may cause modification to the design, specifically around data privacy. It was suggested during a steering committee meeting that this issue get revisited after the final vote on the new law. What is this an example of?
Action item
Follow-up
Task setting
Refinement
We are here for you! has done work for DewDrops in the past and has begun to advertise and market that DewDrops is a current project client without DewDrops's consent. What ESG factor might cause DewDrops to issue a cease-and-desist letter to We are here for you! to correct this behavior?
Project impact to company brand value
Awareness of applicable regulations and standards
Awareness of company vision, mission statements, and values
Project impact to the local and global environment
Time, budget, and scope are considered the triple constraints to tactical project management. What are the three factors that influence sustainable project management from a strategic context?
Environmentally sound, viral social media, economically viable
Economically viable, environmentally should, return on investment
Which form of quality assurance for a software release would include team members following a checklist and performing actions such as data entry, validating functionality, and viewing reports?
Automated testing
Turing testing
User acceptance testing
Manual testing
Which type of change management focuses on service transitions such as moving from one vendor to another or getting all of your departments on board with a new financial system?
Organizational change management
On-premises change control
Cloud change control
Shift change management
A company has a large datacenter with nearly a thousand servers and a host of enterprise applications. To align with the company's mission statement, there is a project to move away high datacenter costs while keeping operational consistency. Which cloud environment should be pursued?
IaaS
PaaS
XaaS
SaaS
What best describes a request for information?
A meeting with prospective vendors prior to completing a proposal
Procurement method to obtain more information about goods and services
Procurement document that details the goods and services to be procured from outside the organization
Procurement method to invite bids, review, select, and purchase goods or services
What is fast tracking a project?
Removing critical path activities that are unnecessary
Moving later deliverables to earlier phases to appease stakeholders
Performing two tasks in parallel that were previously scheduled to start sequentially
Looking at cost and schedule trade-offs, like adding more resources
What indicates an individual's or organization's comfort level with risky situations or decisions?
Risk register
Risk tolerance
Risk avoider
Risk taker
An adaptive method would be preferable to a more rigid project management style in which situation?
In a mature organization with defined processes
When dealing with a rapidly changing environment
When the scope can be easily and thoroughly defined
Where small incremental improvements offer no value to stakeholders
What does a CCB do to support the project?
Helps vet and manage changes to the scope
Provides an accounting structure for tasks
Sets the standards and templates for the project
Sets the costs of quality for the project
A project schedule serves what function?
Determines the project cost accounting codes
Creates a deliverable-based decomposition of the project
Lists the actions that should be resolved to fulfill deliverables
Determines start and finish dates for project activities
When does an item move from the risk register to the issue log?
As soon as the risk as identified.
When the risk is triggered.
It never ends up on the issue log.
During the creation of the project plan.
The project sponsor receives a phone call letting her know that a major task has been completed successfully and that there were no safety issues to report. Which role has the project sponsor been assigned on this task?
Responsible
Accountable
Consulted
Informed
Which component of the project charter describes the characteristics of the product produced by the project?
Project objectives
Business case
Deliverables
Quality plan
The list of items that need to be monitored and/or escalated to minimize the impact on the project team is called which one of the following?
Scatter chart
Histogram
Pareto chart
Run chart
All of the following are advantages of using a PaaS EXCEPT:
Reduced complexity
Self-ramping up or down of infrastructure
Reduced control
Easier maintenance and enhancement of applications
Lashika is the project manager assigned to a project, and she is creating a graphic that shows the project leads for each subject area along with the resources assigned to them. What type of document is Lashika creating?
Communication plan
Pareto diagram
Organizational chart
Ishikawa diagram
Which tool provides a visual representation of all of the steps required in a process?
Process diagram
Business process repository
Gantt chart
Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) chart
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Process diagram
Histogram
Decision tree
Scatter chart
The sprint planning meeting is used to:
Get a head start on the work needed for the project.
Prepare the project charter and kickoff meeting.
Set a realistic backlog of items completed during this iteration.
Set the communication and quality plans for the project.
A building project requires the following steps: construction, purchasing the build site, blueprinting, and inspection. Construction has what relationship to purchasing the build site?
It is a successor task.
It is a mandatory task.
It is a predecessor task.
It is a discretionary task.
Danielle has been doing an analysis to compare any correlation between an independent and a dependent variable. She has created a regression line chart to forecast the changes. What has Danielle created?
Process diagram
Scatter chart
Pareto chart
Histogram
DewDrops is building a revolutionary new video streaming platform. A functional manager from the administrative division assigned one of his team members to the project and is curious about the project. They ask this team member about details of the project. To conform to the project's access requirements, what should the project team member say to the manager?
Share all of the project details with the functional manager.
Let the manager review all existing project artifacts.
Inform the manager they are unable to share details about the project.
Invite the manager into the secure project space and let them look around.
As a project manager, which plan would you establish to guide the creation of project files, how project documents are filed, where to archive project records, and when to destroy these documents?
Project plan
Records management plan
Project charter
Data capacity plan
Pete has been asked to determine the root cause of communication problems on a global project. Which tool should he use to help him with this analysis?
Pareto chart
Run chart
Wiki pages
Fishbone diagram
The list of items that need to be monitored and/or escalated to minimize the impact on the project team is called what?
Issue log
Action items
Risk register
Budget report
All of the following are characteristic of an Agile project management approach EXCEPT:
Each release is tested against the customers' needs.
It uses a flexible approach to requirements.
It follows a strict adherence to a change control process.
Team members work in short bursts, or sprints.
The project team has been asked to identify what will happen if a given IT change has a problem or causes a non-repairable outage. What has the project team been asked to create?
Rollback plan
Risk assessment
Automate tests
Validation checks
The customer site for a project is located in a rural part of a country, while the project headquarters is located in a metropolitan hub. What would be the biggest impediment to face-to-face communication?
Times zones
Geographical factors
Intraorganizational differences
Technological factors
About how much time should a project manager spend communicating?
Up to 90%
Up to 75%
Up to 50%
Up to 27%
During the Closing phase of the project, what two activities are conducted?
Accept project deliverables and perform quality assurance.
Finalize project work and close all vendor contracts.
Manage stakeholder expectations and close all vendor contracts.
Finalize project work and perform quality assurance.
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Project network diagram
Gantt chart
Project backlog
Project burndown chart
The preliminary scope statement should be included in which project document?