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

1. Histogram
2. Gantt chart
3. Pareto chart
4. Process diagram

2. Which of the following is not a communication trigger?

1. Project planning
2. Kickoff meeting
3. Milestones
4. Schedule changes

3. A community has a 125-year-old bridge, and a project has been created to restore the bridge and give it historical status. However, the project is in need of funding and support. The bridge is located in a rural area with a large retirement community. What would be the best way to get project information to the community?

1. Instant messaging
2. Text message
3. Distribution of printed media
4. Email

4. What risk tolerance would a startup in the technology industry likely have?

1. Risk taker
2. Risk avoider
3. Gambler
4. Moderate risk tolerance

5. How do stakeholders, sponsors, and management exert influence on a project? (Choose all that apply.)

1. They do not work on project deliverables.
2. They lose interest in this project as a newer project begins.
3. They shift the priorities of the project as it progresses.
4. They do not attend all meetings.

6. 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?

1. Objectives
2. Requirements
3. Constraints
4. Assumptions

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

1. It is a part of ongoing operational activities.
2. It is assigned to a portfolio.
3. It has a definitive start and end date.
4. It creates a unique product or service.
5. It is part of an organization’s strategic plan.

8. Where should work produced from the high-level risk assessment be documented?

1. Risk register
2. Work breakdown structure
3. Project charter
4. Quality control plan

9. Which type of cost estimation uses a mathematical model to compute costs?

1. Three-point estimating
2. Bottom-up estimating
3. Top-down estimating
4. Parametric estimating

10. What is a user story in the Agile methodology?

1. Customer survey results after product release
2. Key information about stakeholders and their jobs
3. A high level definition of someone using the product or service
4. Visual representation of product burndown

11. Which type of contract is riskiest for the buyer?

1. Cost-reimbursable contract
2. Key performance parameter
3. Fixed-price contract
4. Time and materials

12. Which of the following are a means of communication on the current conditions of a project? (Choose three.)

1. Project charter
2. Status report
3. Meeting agenda
4. Meeting minutes
5. Communication plan
6. Dashboard information

13. What is the single role in a RACI matrix where it can only be assigned once per task?

1. Consulted
2. Responsible
3. Informed
4. Accountable

14. New processes and leadership are introduced to a project after their company joined forces with another company. What type of organizational change disrupted this project?

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

15. Which of the following would not receive communication if there was an update to the risk register?

1. Project sponsor
2. Project team
3. PMO
4. Project manager

16. All of the following are true regarding kickoff meetings EXCEPT

1. They represent the first time that the project team is introduced to each other.
2. They happen in the initiation phase.
3. They occur when project planning is complete.
4. They communicate the goals, objectives, schedule, and milestones to the team.

17. A risk response plan would most likely be activated in which project phase?

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

18. 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?

1. The project will take longer because the number of resources is cut.
2. The project team goes to the steering committee for more funds.
3. The project scope is cut back to operate within the new budget.
4. The project is postponed due to lack of financial resources.

19. A resource shortage means which one of the following?

1. There are too many resources, leading to underallocation.
2. There is a shortage of things for team members to work on.
3. There are not enough resources for the task, leading to overallocation.
4. There is an abundance of things for team members to work on.

20. A company is located in multiple cities across a continent, and the project will be staffed with team members from various cities. The decision is made to bring the project team to a single location. This is an example of which one of the following?

1. Insourcing
2. Collocation
3. Layoffs
4. Outsourcing

21. In what type of organizational structure would resources report solely to the functional manager?

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

22. Which of the following are ways to organize the WBS? (Choose three.)

1. Backlog and sprints
2. Project phases
3. Subprojects
4. Major deliverables
5. Prioritized by risk

23. A project sponsor or champion serves what role on a project?

1. Develops and maintains the schedule
2. Serves as the approval authority and removes roadblocks
3. Sets the standards and practices for projects in the organization
4. Performs cross-functional coordination

24. Which type of contract allows the seller to recover all allowable expenses associated with providing the goods or services?

1. Cost-reimbursable contract
2. Fixed-price contract
3. Statements of work
4. Time and materials

25. A popular theme park is doing a major expansion on their property to capitalize on a popular movie franchise. This project has thousands of individuals assigned to the project. The project manager needs to find out which individuals are working on the theming design. Which project-centric document would help give her this information?

1. RACI matrix
2. Project charter
3. Organizational chart
4. Fishbone diagram

26. As a project is being considered, the steering committee asks to know what environmental variables exist, both internal and external to the company. What is the best tool to complete this scan?

1. SWOT analysis
2. Vendor knowledge bases
3. Process diagram
4. Histogram

27. What type of organizational change has occurred when a company decides to spin off, or sell off, one of its business units?

1. Business merger
2. Business split
3. Business acquisition
4. Internal reorganization

28. The documentation strategy for a project calls for each change to be logged at the beginning of each document. This is known as which one of the following?

1. Risk register updates
2. Version control
3. Communication plan
4. Change request logs

29. A government agency in charge of transportation has completed emergency project work three days earlier than the target they previously communicated. What is the best method to communicate this success to the general public?

1. Distribution of printed media
2. Fax
3. Impromptu media
4. Social media

30. Which of the following describes a portfolio?

1. A collection of the sample work a project manager has done that the manager should bring to an interview
2. A collection of programs, subportfolios, and projects that support strategic business goals or objectives
3. A group of related projects that are managed together using shared resources and similar techniques
4. A group of project investments that are maintained to help finance projects

31. What document would be created to outline specific performance criteria or other actions between two parties?

1. Nondisclosure agreement
2. Request for proposal
3. Service-level agreement
4. Memorandum of understanding

32. The comprehensive collection of documents that spells out communication, risk management, project schedule, and scope management is known as which one of the following?

1. Project management plan
2. Dashboard information
3. Request for proposal
4. Scope statement

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

1. Fishbone diagram
2. Process diagram
3. Pareto chart
4. Histogram

34. An organization decides to stop requiring travel receipts and instead will issue per diems. What does this represent for the organization?

1. A business acquisition
2. A business merger
3. A business split
4. A business process change

35. When considering a change, which role would be responsible for analyzing the schedule, budget, and resource allocations to determine how the change impacts the project?

1. Project sponsor
2. Change control board
3. Subject matter expert
4. Project manager

36. Stress testing of a load-bearing bridge has been going on for two weeks. The test completed successfully, and the project manager informs all local departments concerning transportation that the road is ready for painting and final touches. What is the trigger for this communication?

1. Project planning
2. Schedule changes
3. Milestone
4. Task completion

37. A project manager is managing a team located in multiple cities of the same continent. The communication plan calls for weekly status updates. What is the appropriate method for this communication?

1. Virtual meeting
2. In-person meeting
3. Instant messaging
4. Email

38. What are the standard project phases?

1. Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitor and Control, and Closing
2. Initiation, Preparing, Building, Monitor and Control, and Wrap-up
3. Discovery, Planning, Building, Quality Check, and Closing
4. Discovery, Preparing, Execution, Quality Check, and Wrap-up

39. About how much time should a project manager spend communicating?

1. Up to 27%
2. Up to 90%
3. Up to 75%
4. Up to 50%

40. 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?

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

41. A computer electronics company is building a computer chip. The CPI for the project is 0.77, which means which of the following?

1. The project is over budget.
2. The project is behind schedule.
3. The project is under budget.
4. The project is ahead of schedule.

42. Which of the following are characteristics of an Agile project management approach? (Choose three.)

1. Up-front, comprehensive requirements gathering
2. Formally organized teams
3. Self-organized teams
4. Sprint planning
5. Feedback based primarily in lessons-learned meetings
6. Continuous requirements gathering

43. Teams normally go through a similar development cycle. Which is the correct order of those stages?

1. Forming, norming, performing, storming, and adjourning
2. Norming, storming, forming, adjourning, and performing
3. Norming, forming, storming, adjourning, and performing
4. Forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning

44. As a project manager, you tend to create a plan of the steps to go on vacation. Here are the steps you have decided on:

• Check into resort
• Travel to airport
• Relax and enjoy
• Choose vacation spot
• Take bus to resort
• Book reservation
• Plane ride

What is the correct sequence for project Relaxing Vacation?

1. Relax and enjoy; choose vacation spot; travel to airport; take bus to resort; plane ride; check into resort; book reservation
2. Choose vacation spot; book reservation; travel to airport; plane ride; take bus to resort; check into resort; relax and enjoy
3. Plane ride; relax and enjoy; take bus to resort; choose vacation spot; travel to airport; check into resort; book reservation
4. Book reservation; relax and enjoy; take bus to resort; travel to airport; check into resort; choose vacation spot; plane ride

45. What is the activity of determining and documenting any potential risks called?

1. Risk avoidance
2. Risk planning
3. Risk identification
4. Risk mitigation

46. A government agency has issued a request for quotation (RFQ) for a new fleet of snowplows. What other procurement method is comparable to an RFQ?

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

47. Which of the following components is not included in the communication plan?

1. Report on status of deliverables and schedule
2. How information will be delivered
3. When information should be distributed
4. Stakeholder information needs

48. Primarily used in the federal government and utility industry, what is the performance attribute of a system that is considered critical or essential to the development of an effective capability?

1. Service-level agreement
2. Letter of intent
3. Intergovernmental agreement
4. Key performance parameter

49. A company is struggling with a lack of flexibility for specialized needs using a centralized model for purchasing and receiving goods. What type of organizational change could help this problem?

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

50. The original project plan for the uptime of a network to be available is 98 percent of the time. The customer does not want many hassles for their online customers and changes this to 99.5 percent of the time. What type of project change does this represent?

1. Risk
2. Quality
3. Scope
4. Timeline

51. Who is the target audience, and what is the rationale behind conducting a gate review?

1. Project governance, to ensure accountability and objective alignment
2. Project sponsor, to see if they picked a good project
3. Project manager, to ensure resource availability
4. Project team, to find out what they are doing wrong

52. Pete is the CEO of a company, and there is an update on a security breach at a customer site. He needs to be notified immediately but is in a meeting off-site. What is the best method to notify him of the problem?

1. Face-to-face conversation
2. Text message
3. Fax
4. Social media

53. A project is entering the Execution phase, and the project plan has been completed. It is time to introduce the project team members to one another and lay out the objectives, deliverables, and milestones of the project. What is the appropriate form of communication for the next step?

1. Kickoff meeting
2. Impromptu meeting
3. Video conference
4. Email

54. What do you call the consequence or opportunity that a risk poses to the project?

1. Risk register
2. Risk probability
3. Risk impact
4. Risk response plan

55. The scope of a project is expanded through the formal change control process, causing the schedule to be extended beyond the original due date. This is an example of which type of influence?

1. Interaction between constraints
2. Environmental factors
3. Constraint reprioritization
4. Stakeholders, sponsors, and management

56. In what stage of team development do things begin to calm down because the team members become more comfortable with one another?

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

57. A project management office (PMO) has which of the following responsibilities? (Choose two.)

1. Provides governance for projects
2. Markets the project across the business
3. Establishes key performance indicators and parameters
4. Manages the team, communication, scope, risk, budget, and time of the project

58. During the Planning phase, all of the following are created, EXCEPT

1. Change management plan
2. Lessons learned
3. Communications plan
4. Project schedule

59. Cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio is known as which one of the following?

1. AC
2. CPI
3. SPI
4. EV

60. The project schedule development should include which critical elements?

1. Develop schedule, determine completion date, check stakeholder assumptions, conduct feasibility assessment
2. Budget activities, estimate resources, determine milestones, estimate completion
3. Define activities, budget activities, estimate resources, estimate completion
4. Define activities, sequence activities, estimate resources, estimate duration

61. After establishing the product backlog, what tool would you use to determine the project’s velocity?

1. Burndown chart
2. Fishbone diagram
3. Kanban board
4. Sprint speed

62. In terms of resource assignments, which best describes how resources are assigned in a projectized environment?

1. Resources are assigned on an ad hoc basis.
2. Resources must not be collocated.
3. Resources are assigned from a functional area to the project.
4. Resources must be outsourced.

63. Which type of contract is riskiest for the seller?

1. Purchase order
2. Time and materials
3. Cost-reimbursable contract
4. Fixed-price contract

64. How should a project team memorialize what was said and agreed to during project gatherings?

1. Create meeting minutes
2. Create a business case
3. Create a scope statement
4. Create a project management plan

65. The dynamite blasting phase of a mountain tunnel project has completed and there were no safety accidents to report. This triggers a call to the project sponsor to report the current status. Which role does the project sponsor have assigned to them on this task?

1. Accountable
2. Informed
3. Responsible
4. Consulted

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

1. Pareto chart
2. Process diagram
3. Scatter chart
4. Histogram

67. An organization decides to use an external firm for their hiring, firing, payroll, and tax functions instead of their internal staff. This is an example of which one of the following?

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

68. Which risk response strategy attempts to minimize the impact or the probability of a negative risk?

1. Mitigate
2. Accept
3. Transfer
4. Avoid

69. What are the three common constraints found in projects? (Choose three.)

1. Scope
2. Personnel
3. Working Space
4. Quality
5. Budget
6. Time

70. An organization needs to add vendor resources to a project, but they do not have the physical space to house the team. What approach should the organization use for their personnel management?

1. Use remote teams
2. Deploy functional teams
3. Use in-house teams
4. Deploy projectized teams

71. All of the following are characteristic of an Agile project management approach, EXCEPT

1. Each release is tested against the customers’ needs.
2. It uses a flexible approach to requirements.
3. Team members work in short bursts, or sprints.
4. It follows a strict adherence to a change control process.

72. What is another name for analogous estimating?

1. Three-point estimating
2. Top-down estimating
3. Parametric estimating
4. Bottom-up estimating

73. What is the definition of a work breakdown structure?

1. A graphic representation of tasks and their sequence
2. A task-oriented decomposition of a project
3. A high-level outline of milestones on a project
4. A deliverable-oriented decomposition of a project

74. A team is not going to finish a project within the allowed budget, and it has asked for several requirements that are not essential to be moved to a later date. This is an example of which one of the following?

1. Change
2. Milestone
3. Risk
4. Issue

75. Sharing a positive risk means what will happen?

1. The project team looks for opportunities to take advantage of positive impacts.
2. The project team chooses to accept the consequences of the risk.
3. The project team assigns the risk to a third party who is best able to bring about opportunity.
4. The project team monitors the probability or impact of the risk event to ensure that benefits are realized.

76. A project team is assigned two individuals who are both approaching or are already on performance improvement plans. The two team members require explicit instruction, require much supervision to accomplish menial tasks, and are often not where they are supposed to be. This is an example of which one of the following?

1. Resource shortage
2. Benched resources
3. Shared resources
4. Low-quality resources

77. What is the correct formula for schedule variance?

1. EV – AC
2. EV – PV
3. EV / AC
4. EV / PV

78. The pouring of a foundation for a new building took three days longer than planned. What type of project change would this represent?

1. Timeline change
2. Funding change
3. Quality change
4. Scoping change

79. An external group has completed an investigation and made recommendations for process improvement to a project team. What type of communication trigger is this?

1. Business continuity response
2. Audit
3. Schedule change
4. Gate review

80. What best describes a request for information?

1. A meeting with prospective vendors prior to completing a proposal
2. Procurement method to obtain more information about goods and services
3. Procurement document that details the goods and services to be procured from outside the organization
4. Procurement method to invite bids, review, select, and purchase goods or services

81. A startup company is attempting to compete in an emerging product market. There are constant disruptive technology changes, and the market is shifting in their product tastes. This type of environment would be best served by which one of the following?

1. Functional environment
2. Traditional, or waterfall
3. Agile approach
4. Projectized environment

82. What is fast tracking a project?

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

83. The customer site for a project is located in a rural part of a country, while the project headquarters is located in metropolitan hub. What would be the biggest impediment to face-to-face communication?

1. Geographical factors
2. Times zones
3. Intra-organizational differences
4. Technological factors

84. What indicates an individual or organization’s comfort level with risky situations or decisions?

1. Risk register
2. Risk tolerance
3. Risk avoider
4. Risk taker

85. A large organization has a finance project that will change purchase requisitions, invoicing, and financial reporting for the entire company. They set up a listserv that emails project updates and allows receivers to set the frequency to daily, weekly, or monthly. This is an example of which one of the following?

1. Personal preferences
2. Cultural differences
3. Criticality factors
4. Rapport building

86. Which of the following is not a common potential risk to a project?

1. Scope will change after the project begins.
2. The costs will exceed the budget.
3. The budget is left unattended.
4. Schedule is optimistic, “best case,” rather than realistic, “expected case.”

87. A project team is located in three different continents. Which of the following would be the biggest factor in scheduling recurring status meetings?

1. Language barriers
2. Interorganizational differences
3. Time zones
4. Intraorganizational differences

88. All of the following activities are included in risk planning, EXCEPT

1. Creating a response to each risk
2. Analyzing the potential impact of each risk
3. Measuring the SPI and CPI
4. Identifying all potential risks to the project

89. What is a potential future event that can have either a negative or positive impact on a project called?

1. A hope
2. An issue
3. A requirement
4. A risk

90. An adaptive method would be preferable to a more rigid project management style in which situation?

1. In a mature organization with defined processes
2. When dealing with a rapidly changing environment
3. When the scope can be easily and thoroughly defined
4. Where small incremental improvements offer no value to stakeholders