1. What are two defining characteristics of a project? (Choose two.)

1. Reworking an existing project
2. An organized effort to fulfill a purpose
3. Has a specific end date
4. Routine activities to an organization
5. Blueprints needed to construct a building

2. Why would a buyer issue a purchase order?

1. To describe the quantity of goods and services needed and what price will be paid.
2. To outline the intent or actions of both parties before entering a contract.
3. To stop another company from using their intellectual property and to inform them not to do it again.
4. The situation requires more flexibility and simplicity than a contract.

3. To which project-centric document would you refer to get a description of the project, find out the key deliverables, and gain an understanding of the success and acceptance criteria for the project?

1. Project charter
2. Project schedule
3. Scope statement
4. Meeting minutes

4. All of the following are forms of organizational change, EXCEPT

1. Relocation
2. Business demerger
3. Organic shifts
4. Business merger

5. When the schedule slips on a project because the work is taking longer than planned, what type of common project change does this represent?

1. Funding change
2. Timeline change
3. Risk event
4. Requirements change

6. Scrum is which one of the following?

1. A phrase referring to the overcomplication of a project
2. An Agile technique where backlogs are used
3. Creating better, more detailed explanations for senior management
4. The continuous modification and detailing of the project plan

7. The process of assigning numerical probabilities to each risk and the impacts on project objectives is known as which one of the following?

1. Identify risk
2. Quantitative risk analysis
3. Qualitative risk analysis
4. Risk categorization

8. What type of project management tool is depicted here?

1. Fishbone diagram
2. Gantt chart
3. Collaboration tools
4. Process diagram

9. Which project role promotes the need and urgency of a project, as well as advertising the project’s success?

1. Project scheduler
2. Project manager
3. Project sponsor or champion
4. Project coordinator

10. The EV for a project is 800, and the AC is 1200. The CPI for the project would be which one of the following?

1. 1.5
2. 400
3. .667
4. 2000

11. As a part of a daily scrum meeting, the team seeks to share information in three areas. Which set of questions represents the topics of this knowledge sharing?

1. What did I accomplish today? Who will you be working with today? What obstacles are preventing progress?
2. What did I accomplish yesterday? What will I do today? What are the necessary next steps?
3. What did I accomplish yesterday? What will I do today? What obstacles are preventing progress?
4. What did I accomplish yesterday? Who will you be working with today? What obstacles are preventing progress?

12. Which document describes the goods or services an organization is interested in procuring from outside the organization?

1. RFI
2. SOW
3. RFP
4. RFQ

13. Members of a project team were recently replaced with consultants with more expertise in the subject matter. What type of organizational change disrupted this project?

1. Internal reorganization
2. Business split
3. Outsourcing
4. Relocation

14. What does SWOT stand for?

1. Situation, work, open source, traceability
2. Strengths, work, opportunities, traceability
3. Situation, weaknesses, open source, threats
4. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats

15. All of the following are common types of project changes, EXCEPT

1. Scope changes
2. Requirement changes
3. Organizational changes
4. Timeline changes

16. When considering the base communication model, what are the basic elements that are needed? (Choose three.)

1. Transmission
2. Receiver
3. Inbox
4. Sender
5. Nonverbal communication
6. Decoder
7. Message

17. Cheryl is a technical lead on a project that is wrapping up remote work at a customer site. What is the best method to communicate the work efforts and next steps with the customer?

1. Closure meeting
2. Virtual meeting
3. Kickoff meeting
4. In-person meeting

18. The approved budget for given work to be completed within a specific timeframe is called which one of the following?

1. Planned value
2. Cost variance
3. Earned value
4. Actual costs

19. In what step would the make-or-buy decision occur?

1. During the kickoff meeting
2. During the design of the product or service
3. In the execution of the project plan
4. In the creation of the procurement plan

20. When should an employee’s performance expectations be set for a project?

1. When the functional manager sets annual goals
2. During the first meeting with a new team member
3. During the stakeholder identification meeting
4. During the employee performance review

21. When a project team is assigned to work solely on a project, it is an example of what type of resource?

1. Dedicated
2. Collocated
3. Shared
4. Physical

22. Developing contingency reserves to deal with risks, should they occur, is known as which one of the following?

1. Active acceptance
2. Passive acceptance
3. Exploit
4. Transfer

23. A project team based in Europe needs to conduct a job interview with a candidate in India. What is the best communication method to conduct the interview?

1. In-person meeting
2. Virtual meeting
3. Social media
4. Email

24. What are milestones?

1. Characteristics of deliverables that must be met
2. Major events in a project used to measure progress
3. Checkpoints on a project to determine go/no-go decisions
4. A measure of the distance traveled on a project

25. What type of project management tool is depicted here?

1. Pareto chart
2. Project schedule
3. Histogram
4. Gantt chart

26. At the beginning of a work period, or sprint, there is a sprint planning meeting. What does this meeting accomplish?

1. Set a realistic backlog of items to be completed during this iteration
2. Set the communication and quality plans for the project
3. Prepare the project charter and kickoff meeting
4. Get a head start of the work needed on the project

27. Which vendor solicitation method is best to use when more data is needed about the goods and services that need to be procured?

1. Request for proposal (RFP)
2. Request for quotation (RFQ)
3. Request for information (RFI)
4. Statement of work (SOW)

28. A large company is struggling with inconsistent results in hiring and retention because of a decentralized HR model. What type of organizational change could help this problem?

1. Business split
2. Outsourcing
3. Relocation
4. Internal reorganization

29. A systematic and independent examination of project procedures, documentation, spending, statutory compliance, and reporting is known as which one of the following?

1. Audit
2. Gate review
3. SCRUM retrospective
4. Project change

30. All of the following are examples of deliverables, EXCEPT

1. Blueprints
2. User documentation
3. Finished product
4. Signoff on the project charter

31. Which of the following are types of mutually binding documents? (Choose three.)

1. SCRUM retrospective
2. Agreements/contract
3. Memorandum of understanding
4. Issues log
5. Purchase order
6. Histogram

32. A company is struggling with timely billing of their customers, so they hire a consultant to help determine all of the steps and workflow needed to send a bill. Which tool would the consultant most likely use?

1. Pareto chart
2. Process diagram
3. Project charter
4. Project scheduling software

33. A company has procurement teams at each of their 22 locations, leading to potentially purchasing the same products from 22 different suppliers. To help save money, the company decides to centralize and standardize the reporting function. What type of business change is this?

1. Internal reorganization
2. Staff turnover
3. Business process change
4. Outsourcing

34. Once a change request is submitted, where should it be recorded and assigned an identification number for tracking purposes?

1. Change request log
2. Risk register
3. Business process repository
4. Issue log

35. Which of the following factors present challenges for a global project team located on different continents? (Choose three.)

1. Language barriers
2. Level of report detail
3. Technological factors
4. Time zones
5. Cultural differences
6. Criticality factors

36. All of the following would be updates to the risk register following the qualitative risk analysis, EXCEPT

1. Watch list of low-priority risks
2. Risks requiring near-term responses
3. Causes of risks
4. Numerical evaluation of each risk

37. What type of project management tool is depicted here?

1. SCRUM retrospective
2. Fishbone diagram
3. Process diagram
4. Risk register

38. What are project assumptions?

1. Factors considered to be true for planning purposes
2. Factors considered to be true for control purposes
3. Internal or external factors affecting the project team
4. Factors that restrict the project

39. Your friend has hinted that she would like a special gift for her birthday. The following steps are needed for the gift exchange:

• Enjoyment of her gift
• Put card on the gift
• Wrap present
• Choose gift
• Give her the present
• Make purchase
• Fill out the card

What is the correct sequence for project Happy Birthday?

1. Choose gift; Make purchase; Put card on gift; Wrap present; Fill out card; Enjoyment of her gift; Give her the present
2. Give her the present; Put card on gift; Wrap present; Make purchase; Fill out card; Enjoyment of her gift; Choose gift
3. Put card on gift; Give her the present; Fill out card; Make purchase; Enjoyment of her gift; Choose gift; Wrap present
4. Choose gift; Make purchase; Wrap present; Fill out card; Put card on gift; Give her the present; Enjoyment of her gift

40. A vendor is very strict on insisting upon formal change control on a project for a customer and few changes are actually getting approved. Which contract vehicle would cause a vendor to behave in this way?

1. Fixed-price
2. Request for proposal
3. Time and materials
4. Cost-reimbursable

41. The project team is required to attend a daily stand-up meeting to discuss the project activities and roadblocks. Which document lets the project team know that they need to attend this meeting?

1. Project schedule
2. Scope statement
3. Communication plan
4. Project charter

42. The joining of two businesses to come together and operate as one, single entity is known as which one of the following?

1. Business acquisition
2. Business merger
3. Business process change
4. Business split

43. A local cable company accidentally cuts the fiber-optic cables going into the project site, thereby disrupting communication. The team requests technicians from the company to repair the damage quickly. What is the trigger for this communication?

1. Incident response
2. Task initiation
3. Risk register updates
4. Business continuity response

44. An offshore team has issued a holiday schedule consistent with their customs to the project manager. The holiday schedule issued by the team differs from the company’s established holiday schedule. This is an example of which one of the following?

1. Criticality factors
2. Language barriers
3. Time zones
4. Cultural differences

45. A government agency has hired a firm to perform work on its sewer system. As a part of the RFP, the agency requires the successful vendor to carry insurance for errors and omissions. What type of risk strategy is this?

1. Transfer, negative risk strategy
2. Exploit, positive risk strategy
3. Accept, negative risk strategy
4. Share, positive risk strategy

46. In what stage of team development do team members begin to confront each other and vie for position and control?

1. Adjourning
2. Norming
3. Forming
4. Storming
5. Performing

47. A project stakeholder has which of the following responsibilities?

1. Documentation and administrative support, estimation of task duration, solicit task status from resources, expertise
2. Documentation and administrative support, provides input and requirements, project steering, expertise
3. Vested interest, provides input and requirements, project steering, expertise
4. Vested interest, provides input and requirements, cross-functional coordination, expertise

48. What aspect of project management is shared with Agile and a traditional waterfall approach?

1. Iterative approach
2. Adaptive to new/changing requirements
3. Sprint planning
4. Self-organized and self-directed teams

49. What type of dependency is the obtaining of sign-off on the design of a product?

1. Mandatory
2. Discretionary
3. External
4. This is not a dependency

50. At the beginning of a movie project at a production facility, what document would an employee likely be asked to sign?

1. Cease and desist letter
2. Service-level agreement
3. Nondisclosure agreement
4. Request for proposal

51. What is the best tool for sharing information across an entire organization but shielding that information from those outside the organization?

1. Collaboration tools
2. Intranet sites
3. Wiki pages
4. Internet sites

52. What is the entity that reviews change requests, evaluates impacts, and ultimately approves, denies, or defers such requests?

1. CAB
2. MOU
3. NDA
4. CCB

53. A project coordinating the event for a product launch suffered a setback when a plumbing problem flooded the convention hall. Five thousand people are expected to be in attendance at the event, which is scheduled to start in four hours. What factor would influence the communication method?

1. Relationship building
2. Criticality factors
3. Language barriers
4. Time zones

54. Measuring the spending to date, determining the burn rate, and accounting for purchases is known as which one of the following?

1. Expenditure tracking
2. Expenditure reporting
3. Estimate to Complete (ETC)
4. Cost accounting

55. Which parts of a SWOT analysis are focused on issues external to the organization?

1. Strengths and weaknesses
2. Opportunities and weaknesses
3. Strengths and threats
4. Opportunities and threats

56. A large, well-established organization that has been in business for many decades would likely have which organizational structure?

1. Weak-matrix
2. Strong-matrix
3. Functional
4. Projectized

57. Which conflict resolution technique produces win-lose results for the parties?

1. Forcing
2. Attacking
3. Avoiding
4. Confronting

58. There is a question about a project decision made earlier in a project. Where should the project manager look to help recall the decision and the circumstances that were discussed?

1. Meeting minutes
2. Project charter
3. Action items list
4. Meeting agenda

59. The architectural design team has completed the blueprints for a new building and communicates this to the project manager. What type of communication trigger is this?

1. Incident response
2. Resource changes
3. Task completion
4. Task initiation

60. The activity that involves determining the usefulness of data gathered to evaluate risk is called which one of the following?

1. Impact and probability matrix
2. Risk urgency assessment
3. Risk data quality assessment
4. Risk categorization

61. Which project role is responsible for arranging resources between multiple projects?

1. Project management office
2. Project scheduler
3. Project manager
4. Project coordinator

62. In which document would a project manager refer in order to review the high-level scope, high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints, and to find out who the key stakeholders are?

1. Project charter
2. Scope statement
3. Project management plan
4. Meeting agenda

63. The project manager just completed a meeting with the steering committee and announces to the team that the project can move forward to the next phase. Which of the following initiated the communication?

1. Milestones
2. Business continuity response
3. Resource changes
4. Gate reviews

64. In which project phase would the brainstorming, evaluation, and impact of risk be assessed?

1. Execution
2. Closing
3. Monitor and Control
4. Initiation
5. Planning

65. Which type of document would be given to a committee during a gate check?

1. Pareto chart
2. Communications plan
3. Status report
4. Change control plan

66. Which document will ensure the capture of all needed change request information so that it can receive proper consideration?

1. SIPOC-R
2. Project charter
3. Template
4. Meeting minutes

67. Interpersonal conflicts are starting to develop on a project. What is the best communication method to use when confronting the problem?

1. Instant messaging
2. Face-to-face meetings
3. Email
4. Videoconferencing

68. What are the two forms of acceptance when considering risk response strategies?

1. Active
2. Unintentional
3. Deliberate
4. Passive

69. Who is responsible for high-level risk identification?

1. Project team
2. Project champion
3. Project manager
4. Key stakeholders

70. The types of organizational structures include which of the following? (Choose three.)

1. Functional
2. Agile
3. Co-location
4. Projectized
5. Matrix

71. The Closing phase includes all of the following, EXCEPT

1. Monitoring the risks and issues log
2. Release of project members
3. Archiving of project documents
4. Review of lessons learned

72. What are the three types of estimates used in three-point estimates?

1. Fastest-Schedule, Least Resources, Most Desirable
2. Fastest-Schedule, Optimistic, Most Desirable
3. Most Likely, Least Resources, Fastest Schedule
4. Most Likely, Optimistic, and Pessimistic

73. An animated movie project requires the following ordered steps: story idea, script, storyboard, voice talent, models, and sets construction, to name just a few. Storyboard has what relationship to script?

1. It is a predecessor task.
2. It is a discretionary task.
3. It is a successor task.
4. It is a mandatory task.

74. After a change in leadership, the new project manager wants to get a sense of the structure and reporting relationships of the project. Which document would give the manager this information?

1. Lessons learned
2. Project chart
3. Meeting minutes
4. Organizational chart

75. Which of the following are used to conduct virtual meetings? (Choose two.)

1. Voice conferencing
2. Face-to-face
3. Videoconferencing
4. Impromptu visits

76. What is the activity that determines how soon potential risks might occur and determines responses for those risks?

1. Risk categorization
2. Risk urgency assessment
3. Impact and probability matrix
4. Risk data quality assessment

77. A project manager has been asked to report on all expenditures to date on the project. What has the project manager been asked to provide?

1. Expenditures and receipts
2. Balanced scorecard
3. Actual cost
4. Cost variance

78. What factors should be considered when scheduling a video or telephone conference?

1. Determining whether team members are introverted or extroverted
2. Recognizing the different time zones and schedules being used
3. Ensuring writing materials are available in the room
4. Ensuring that the meeting room has sufficient seating

79. All of the following are cost-estimating techniques, EXCEPT

1. SIPOC-R
2. Bottom-up estimating
3. Parametric estimating
4. Analogous estimating

80. The work breakdown structure is created during which project phase?

1. Monitor and Control
2. Closing
3. Execution
4. Initiation
5. Planning

81. In what organizational structure does a project manager have limited authority over people’s time and what they are assigned?

1. Strong-matrix
2. Weak-matrix
3. Functional
4. Projectized

82. A scope management plan contains which of the following elements? (Choose three.)

1. Process for creating, maintaining, and approving the WBS
2. Process for creating the budget
3. Definition of how the deliverables will be verified
4. Process for creating the schedule
5. Process for creating the scope statement

83. Crashing is a project management technique involving which one of the following?

1. Moving later deliverables to earlier phases to appease stakeholders
2. Looking at cost and schedule trade-offs, such as adding more resources
3. Removing critical path activities that are unnecessary
4. Performing two tasks in parallel that were previously scheduled to start sequentially

84. The communication plan calls for weekly status updates to be emailed, monthly status meetings, and semiannual printed newsletters. This plan is laying out which one of the following?

1. Criticality factors
2. Level of report detail
3. Tailor communication style
4. Types of communication

85. Total expenditures for completed project work within a specific timeframe is known as which one of the following?

1. Earned value
2. Planned value
3. Cost variance
4. Actual cost

86. A major car company just completed the launch of a new vehicle. They have discovered a major safety flaw in the new product, and they need to communicate with the general public regarding a product recall. The following methods would be appropriate methods to use. (Choose two.)

1. Text messaging
2. Social media
3. Instant message
4. Distribution of printed media
5. Fax

87. In what project phase is the influence of stakeholders the least effective?

1. Execution
2. Monitor and Control
3. Initiation
4. Planning

88. A construction company is in the middle of a project to build a bridge. The earned value for the project is $9,500, and the actual cost for the project is $7,000. Select the correct cost variance for the project and its meaning:

1. $2,500 and the project is under budget
2. $–2,500 and the project is over budget
3. $2,500 and the project is over budget
4. $–2,500 and the project is over budget

89. What is the indication of how fast a project is spending its budgeted money?

1. Planned value
2. Burn rate
3. Cost variance
4. Expenditure tracking

90. All of the following are phases of a project, EXCEPT

1. Planning
2. Closing
3. Development
4. Execution