What are two defining characteristics of a project? (Choose two.)
Reworking an existing project
An organized effort to fulfill a purpose
Has a specific end date
Routine activities to an organization
Blueprints needed to construct a building
Why would a buyer issue a purchase order?
To describe the quantity of goods and services needed and what price will be paid.
To outline the intent or actions of both parties before entering a contract.
To stop another company from using their intellectual property and to inform them not to do it again.
The situation requires more flexibility and simplicity than a contract.
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?
Project charter
Project schedule
Scope statement
Meeting minutes
At the completion of a government project requiring security clearance, what document would a vendor likely be asked to sign?
Nondisclosure agreement
Service-level agreement
Warranty
Request for proposal
Which of the following data sources are considered SPII? (Choose two.)
Social Security number (SSN)
Political party
First name
City
Driver’s license number
When the schedule slips on a project because the work is taking longer than planned, what type of common project change does this represent?
Funding change
Timeline change
Risk event
Requirements change
The process of assigning numerical probabilities to each risk and the impacts on project objectives is known as which one of the following?
Identify risk
Quantitative risk analysis
Qualitative risk analysis
Risk categorization
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Fishbone diagram
Gantt chart
Collaboration tools
Process diagram
Which project role promotes the need and urgency of a project, as well as advertising the project’s success?
Project scheduler
Project manager
Project sponsor or champion
Project coordinator
The EV for a project is 800, and the AC is 1200. The CPI for the project would be which one of the following?
1.5
400
2000
.667
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?
What did I accomplish today? Who will you be working with today? What obstacles are preventing progress?
What did I accomplish yesterday? What will I do today? What are the necessary next steps?
What did I accomplish yesterday? What will I do today? What obstacles are preventing progress?
What did I accomplish yesterday? Who will you be working with today? What obstacles are preventing progress?
Which document describes the goods or services an organization is interested in procuring from outside the organization?
SOW
RFI
RFP
RFQ
What is a software application that manages back-office activities such as accounting, human resources, supply chain, operations, and procurement called?
Database management system (DBMS)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Content management system (CMS)
Customer relationship management (CRM)
What does SWOT stand for?
Situation, work, open source, traceability
Strengths, work, opportunities, traceability
Situation, weaknesses, open source, threats
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
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?
Closure meeting
Virtual meeting
Kickoff meeting
In-person meeting
Which cloud model is a software licensing and delivery model where software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted?
XaaS
PaaS
SaaS
IaaS
What does MFA stand for?
Multifactor architecture
Multifactor authentication
Mid-tier form architecture
Middle factor authentication
The approved budget for given work to be completed within a specific timeframe is called which one of the following?
Cost variance
Planned value
Earned value
Actual costs
A change manager supports a large transportation agency. In support of an upcoming project change, she has established emails to be sent two weeks in advance, a week in advance, and the day of the changes so that users can expect an outage and a new layout when the service comes back online. What is she working on?
Maintenance windows
Rollback plan
Validation checks
Notifications
Which law established protected health information and the rules governing its release?
HIPPA
OSHA
DoCRA
PgMP
A company is considering opening a store in a new country in which it has never done business before. This new country has laws called the consumer bill of rights that outline a company’s responsibility to collect private data as well as a consumer’s ability to see and/or restrict the collection of this data. Which ESG factor would influence this project’s activities?
Project impact to the local and global environment
Awareness of company vision, mission statements, and values
Awareness of appliable regulations and standards
Project impact to company brand value
Developing contingency reserves to deal with risks, should they occur, is known as which one of the following?
Active acceptance
Passive acceptance
Exploit
Transfer
The project team has been asked to include a data validation module with the software they are developing, and this will add an additional three weeks to the project. This is an example of which one of the following?
Issue
Risk
Change
Milestone
What are milestones?
Checkpoints on a project to determine Go/No-Go decisions
A measure of the distance traveled on a project
Characteristics of deliverables that must be met
Major events in a project used to measure progress
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Pareto chart
Project schedule
Histogram
Gantt chart
At the beginning of a work period, or sprint, there is a sprint planning meeting. What does this meeting accomplish?
Sets a realistic backlog of items to be completed during this iteration
Sets the communication and quality plans for the project
Prepares the project charter and kickoff meeting
Gets a head start on the work needed on the project
Which vendor solicitation method is best to use when more data is needed about the goods and services that need to be procured?
Request for proposal (RFP)
Request for quotation (RFQ)
Request for information (RFI)
Statement of work (SOW)
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) address the handling and management of payment card data. It covers all aspects of payment card data handling, including acquiring, transmitting, storing, and processing the data. What is the PCI DSS an example of?
Personally identifiable information
Industry-specific compliance
Regulatory impacts
Country-specific privacy stipulation
A systematic and independent examination of project procedures, documentation, spending, statutory compliance, and reporting is known as which one of the following?
Audit
Gate review
Scrum retrospective
Project change
A team is being assembled for a financial company that looks for the highest standards in ethical behavior. The project manager is excited by a candidate’s skills, attitude, and experience, but a background check reveals the candidate misrepresented their education and work experience. Which ESG factor likely influenced the decision to move away from this candidate?
Project impact to the local and global environment
Awareness of applicable regulations and standards
Awareness of company vision, mission statements, and values
Project impact to company brand value
All of the following are examples of deliverables EXCEPT:
Blueprints
User documentation
The finished product
Sign-off on the project charter
Which of the following tools is used for entering data to generate a Gantt chart, WBS, or activity sequence automatically?
Process diagram
Scrum retrospective
Collaboration tools
Project scheduling software
What is a special form of a bar chart that visually displays the central tendency, dispersion, and distribution for statistical data?
Kanban board
Histogram
Pareto chart
SIPOC-R
Once a change request is submitted, where should it be recorded and assigned an identification number for tracking purposes?
Change request log
Risk register
Business process repository
Issue log
In which project life cycle phase would the issues log generally be developed?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
A meeting has just been conducted on a project where the expectations, goals, and objectives of the project have been explained, including the milestones and timelines of the project. Project sign-off is also likely to occur during this meeting. What type of meeting was this?
Lessons learned
Kickoff meeting
Status meeting
Gate check
What is the project artifact that breaks down resources by category and type?
Resource breakdown structure
Organizational breakdown structure
Equipment breakdown structure
Work breakdown structure
Liberty in purchasing needs you to create an SOW prior to the releasing an RFP. What does SOW stand for?
Service of workforce
Statement of work
Statement of workforce
Support of work
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?
Choose gift; make purchase; put card on gift; wrap present; fill out card; enjoyment of her gift; give her the present.
Give her the present; put card on gift; wrap present; make purchase; fill out card; enjoyment of her gift; choose gift.
Put card on gift; give her the present; fill out card; make purchase; enjoyment of her gift; choose gift; wrap present.
Choose gift; make purchase; wrap present; fill out card; put card on gift; give her the present; enjoyment of her gift.
A vendor is very strict on insisting on 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?
Fixed-price
Request for proposal
Time and materials
Cost-reimbursable
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?
Project schedule
Scope statement
Communication plan
Project charter
The joining of two businesses to come together and operate as one, single entity is known as which one of the following?
Business acquisition
Business merger
Business process change
Business split
What does the acronym RACI stand for?
Responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed
Responsibility, authority, consult, and inform
Responsible, authority, consulted, and inform
Responsibility, accountable, consult, and informed
What are the three common constraints found in projects? (Choose three.)
Inventory
Personnel
Environment
Time
Budget
Scope
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?
Transfer, negative risk strategy
Exploit, positive risk strategy
Accept, negative risk strategy
Share, positive risk strategy
In what stage of team development do team members begin to confront each other and vie for position and control?
Adjourning
Norming
Forming
Storming
Performing
In which project life cycle phase would the brainstorming, evaluation, and impact of risk be assessed?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
What elements are explained in a business case?
Justification by identifying the organizational benefits
Alternative solutions
Alignment to the strategic plan
All of the above
A and C
In what project life cycle phase is the influence of stakeholders the least effective?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
When is a project considered to be a success?
Stakeholder expectations have been met.
The phase completion has been approved.
All project phases have been completed.
The vendor has been released from the project.
Which tool would you use to create a visual representation of timelines, start dates, durations, and activity sequence?
Histogram
Gantt chart
Process diagram
Pareto chart
What is the comprehensive collection of documents that spells out communication, risk management, project schedule, and scope management?
Request for proposal
Project management plan
Dashboard information
Scope statement
What type of agreement should organizations use to ensure their trade secrets are not revealed or used by other companies?
NDA
MOU
RFP
SLA
What is the purpose of a data warehouse?
To handle extremely large data environments
To separate the data’s physical location from other applications
To bring various data sources together for the purpose of analysis and decision-making
To bring all the company’s unstructured data together in a central location
A project is seeking a third party to handle hardware and software tools for the application development team to complete a project. Which cloud model should the project team look to use?
SaaS
IaaS
XaaS
PaaS
In a multitiered architecture, which tier is where information is stored, sorted, and indexed?
Data
Processing
Application
Presentation
A new U.S. state law gives customers the ability to request what data a company is storing about their users and how the company is using this information. A global company is having to adjust their product design to conform with this requirement. Which ESG factor can cause the project to change in this manner?
Awareness of applicable regulations and standards
Awareness of company vision, mission statements, and values
Project impact to company brand value
Project impact to the local and global environment
A list of steps undertaken to undo a release and restore a system to its original state is known as what?
Risk assessment
Anything as a service
Continuous integration process
Rollback plan
What is a licensed professional who oversees the design of a project known as?
Subject matter expert
Scrum master
Architect
Project manager
During a regular check-in meeting with stakeholders, the project manager presents information on all task areas. Each task area has a column for time, cost, resources, risks, issues, and changes, and each item shows a red, yellow, or green indication representing the condition of each task in each area. What project-centric document is being presented?
Project dashboard
Gantt chart
Process diagram
Run chart
What kind of tool would automate the creation of critical path, float, WBS, and activity sequence?
Project management plan
Project scheduling software
PERT
Run chart
Which tool would be used to display observed data in a time sequence?
Pareto chart
Histogram
Run chart
Scatter diagram
Which knowledge management tool would be used for a team to communicate instantly, share information on task ownership and status, and see events for an entire work group?
Wiki pages
Intranet sites
Vendor knowledge bases
Collaboration tools
A subject matter expert on a project has been monitoring the distribution of support calls received each hour during the day to determine staffing needs for a project. Which tool is this person most likely using?
Gantt chart
Histogram
Run chart
Process diagram
After establishing the product backlog, what tool would you use to determine the project’s velocity?
Burndown chart
Kanban board
Fishbone diagram
Sprint speed
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Process diagram
Histogram
Pareto chart
Gantt chart
Which office productivity tool would be best to record spending so far on a project so that the project team can keep track of where money has been spent and how much budget is remaining?
Word processing
Spreadsheets
Presentation
Charting/diagramming
What are the two forms of acceptance when considering risk response strategies?
Unintentional
Active
Deliberate
Passive
The Closing phase includes all of the following EXCEPT:
Review of lessons learned
Release of project members
Archiving of project documents
Monitoring the risks and issues log
What is the process used to document, identify, and authorize changes in an IT environment?
Change control
Executive oversight
Organizational change management
Promote to production
The project team has been asked to add some additional functionality to an existing application. A business analyst sits down with the stakeholders to be walked through what the application needs to do, how it needs to look, and what other applications or reports the data needs to be shared with. What part of the change control process is the business analyst performing?
Customer notifications
Requirements definition
Release management
Rollback planning
At a gate check meeting, the committee is presented with a report that shows health in different areas of a project: Schedule = Green, Budget = Yellow, Scope = Green, Risk = Yellow, and Publicity = Red. What type of tool is the committee looking at?
Pareto chart
Scatter chart
Collaboration tool
Balanced scorecard
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?
It is a predecessor task.
It is a discretionary task.
It is a successor task.
It is a mandatory task.
All of the following are cost-estimating techniques EXCEPT:
SIPOC-R
Bottom-up estimating
Parametric estimating
Analogous estimating
The work breakdown structure is created during which project life cycle phase?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
What is the indication of how fast a project is spending through its budgeted money?
Planned value
Burn rate
Cost variance
Expenditure tracking
Which of the following is the best definition of a capital expense, or CapEx?
Money spent on running the business operations of a company
Money spent on long-term physical or fixed assess used in a business’s operations
Debt accrued on travel expenses needed to run a business
Debt accrued through the issuing of long-term bonds
Which of the following is the best definition of an operational expense, or OpEx?
Money spent on long-term physical or fixed assess used in a business’s operations
Debt accrued through the issuing of long-term bonds
Money spent on running the business operations of a company
Debt accrued on travel expenses needed to run a business
A seller that has passed through a first phase of onboarding through evaluation using a standard criterion to determine a seller’s ability to supply a good or service is known as what?
Bidder’s conference
Prequalified vendor
Terms of reference
Statement of work
The characteristics of the lower-level WBS include all of the following EXCEPT:
WBS components are a further decomposition of project deliverables.
WBS components should always happen concurrently with determining major deliverables.
WBS components should be tangible and verifiable.
WBS components should be organized in terms of project organization.
When breaking down project deliverables, what is the lowest level that is recorded in a WBS?
Daily work schedules
High-level requirements
Work package
Major milestones
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) chart
Gantt chart
Project dashboard
Budget burndown chart
In which project life cycle phase would you develop a transition or release plan?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
A Sprint backlog is composed of which of the following? (Choose three.)
Action plan
Gate review
Run charts
Product backlog items
Milestone chart
Sprint goal
Why is it important to validate deliverables when a project starts to conclude?
To confirm the project has satisfied the objectives
To accept deliverables to the scope
To verify timeliness and completeness to pay a vendor
All of the above
A and C
As a project concludes, the project manager meets with the project team to review expenditures for the project and signs off on the project budget. This is known as which of the following?
Return on investment analysis
Budget reconciliation
Current state analysis
Updating the project budget
The project charter is prepared and agreed to in which project life cycle phase?
Discovery/concept preparation
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Closing
A team has set guidance that project communication can only take place through the company-issued collaboration platform or through company-issued devices. This is an example of which of the following?
Identify and assess stakeholders.
A responsibility assignment matrix.
Establish accepted communication channels.
Establish communication cadence.
What type of communication method would make sense for routine status meetings on a project where the team is spread out to different cities on the same continent?
In-person meetings
Virtual meetings
Closure meetings
Kickoff meetings
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:
$2,500 and the project is under budget
$–2,500 and the project is under budget
$2,500 and the project is over budget
$–2,500 and the project is over budget
All electronic communications and meetings notes are stored with the project file at the conclusion of the project. This is an example of:
Communication security
Communication integrity
Communication archiving
Communication planning
What type of project management tool is depicted here?
Fishbone/Ishikawa diagram
Burndown chart
Requirements traceability matrix
Run chart
In the development of a project schedule, setting governance gates are important. All of the following are examples of governance gates EXCEPT:
Daily stand-up meetings
Client sign-off
Management approval
Legislative approval
When a meeting agenda sets a fixed time on a schedule where a task must be completed within that time, what technique is being used?
Soft timeboxing
Hard timeboxing
Brainstorming
Action items
Total expenditures for completed project work within a specific timeframe is known as which one of the following?