Chapter 5
Practice Test 1

  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. At the completion of a government project requiring security clearance, what document would a vendor likely be asked to sign?
    1. Nondisclosure agreement
    2. Service-level agreement
    3. Warranty
    4. Request for proposal
  5. Which of the following data sources are considered SPII? (Choose two.)
    1. Social Security number (SSN)
    2. Political party
    3. First name
    4. City
    5. Driver’s license number
  6. 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
  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?
    Schematic illustration of a type of project management tool.
    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. 2000
    4. .667
  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. SOW
    2. RFI
    3. RFP
    4. RFQ
  13. What is a software application that manages back-office activities such as accounting, human resources, supply chain, operations, and procurement called?
    1. Database management system (DBMS)
    2. Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
    3. Content management system (CMS)
    4. Customer relationship management (CRM)
  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. 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
  16. Which cloud model is a software licensing and delivery model where software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted?
    1. XaaS
    2. PaaS
    3. SaaS
    4. IaaS
  17. What does MFA stand for?
    1. Multifactor architecture
    2. Multifactor authentication
    3. Mid-tier form architecture
    4. Middle factor authentication
  18. The approved budget for given work to be completed within a specific timeframe is called which one of the following?
    1. Cost variance
    2. Planned value
    3. Earned value
    4. Actual costs
  19. 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?
    1. Maintenance windows
    2. Rollback plan
    3. Validation checks
    4. Notifications
  20. Which law established protected health information and the rules governing its release?
    1. HIPPA
    2. OSHA
    3. DoCRA
    4. PgMP
  21. 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?
    1. Project impact to the local and global environment
    2. Awareness of company vision, mission statements, and values
    3. Awareness of appliable regulations and standards
    4. Project impact to company brand value
  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. 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?
    1. Issue
    2. Risk
    3. Change
    4. Milestone
  24. What are milestones?
    1. Checkpoints on a project to determine Go/No-Go decisions
    2. A measure of the distance traveled on a project
    3. Characteristics of deliverables that must be met
    4. Major events in a project used to measure progress
  25. What type of project management tool is depicted here?
    Bar chart depicts Most Reworked Items.

    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. Sets a realistic backlog of items to be completed during this iteration
    2. Sets the communication and quality plans for the project
    3. Prepares the project charter and kickoff meeting
    4. Gets a head start on 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. 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?
    1. Personally identifiable information
    2. Industry-specific compliance
    3. Regulatory impacts
    4. Country-specific privacy stipulation
  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. 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?
    1. Project impact to the local and global environment
    2. Awareness of applicable regulations and standards
    3. Awareness of company vision, mission statements, and values
    4. Project impact to company brand value
  31. All of the following are examples of deliverables EXCEPT:
    1. Blueprints
    2. User documentation
    3. The finished product
    4. Sign-off on the project charter
  32. Which of the following tools is used for entering data to generate a Gantt chart, WBS, or activity sequence automatically?
    1. Process diagram
    2. Scrum retrospective
    3. Collaboration tools
    4. Project scheduling software
  33. What is a special form of a bar chart that visually displays the central tendency, dispersion, and distribution for statistical data?
    1. Kanban board
    2. Histogram
    3. Pareto chart
    4. SIPOC-R
  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. In which project life cycle phase would the issues log generally be developed?
    1. Discovery/concept preparation
    2. Initiation
    3. Planning
    4. Execution
    5. Closing
  36. 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?
    1. Lessons learned
    2. Kickoff meeting
    3. Status meeting
    4. Gate check
  37. What is the project artifact that breaks down resources by category and type?
    1. Resource breakdown structure
    2. Organizational breakdown structure
    3. Equipment breakdown structure
    4. Work breakdown structure
  38. Liberty in purchasing needs you to create an SOW prior to the releasing an RFP. What does SOW stand for?
    1. Service of workforce
    2. Statement of work
    3. Statement of workforce
    4. Support of work
  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 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?
    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. What does the acronym RACI stand for?
    1. Responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed
    2. Responsibility, authority, consult, and inform
    3. Responsible, authority, consulted, and inform
    4. Responsibility, accountable, consult, and informed
  44. What are the three common constraints found in projects? (Choose three.)
    1. Inventory
    2. Personnel
    3. Environment
    4. Time
    5. Budget
    6. Scope
  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. In which project life cycle phase would the brainstorming, evaluation, and impact of risk be assessed?
    1. Discovery/concept preparation
    2. Initiation
    3. Planning
    4. Execution
    5. Closing
  48. What elements are explained in a business case?
    1. Justification by identifying the organizational benefits
    2. Alternative solutions
    3. Alignment to the strategic plan
    4. All of the above
    5. A and C
  49. In what project life cycle phase is the influence of stakeholders the least effective?
    1. Discovery/concept preparation
    2. Initiation
    3. Planning
    4. Execution
    5. Closing
  50. When is a project considered to be a success?
    1. Stakeholder expectations have been met.
    2. The phase completion has been approved.
    3. All project phases have been completed.
    4. The vendor has been released from the project.
  51. Which tool would you use to create a visual representation of timelines, start dates, durations, and activity sequence?
    1. Histogram
    2. Gantt chart
    3. Process diagram
    4. Pareto chart
  52. What is the comprehensive collection of documents that spells out communication, risk management, project schedule, and scope management?
    1. Request for proposal
    2. Project management plan
    3. Dashboard information
    4. Scope statement
  53. What type of agreement should organizations use to ensure their trade secrets are not revealed or used by other companies?
    1. NDA
    2. MOU
    3. RFP
    4. SLA
  54. What is the purpose of a data warehouse?
    1. To handle extremely large data environments
    2. To separate the data’s physical location from other applications
    3. To bring various data sources together for the purpose of analysis and decision-making
    4. To bring all the company’s unstructured data together in a central location
  55. 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?
    1. SaaS
    2. IaaS
    3. XaaS
    4. PaaS
  56. In a multitiered architecture, which tier is where information is stored, sorted, and indexed?
    1. Data
    2. Processing
    3. Application
    4. Presentation
  57. 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?
    1. Awareness of applicable regulations and standards
    2. Awareness of company vision, mission statements, and values
    3. Project impact to company brand value
    4. Project impact to the local and global environment
  58. A list of steps undertaken to undo a release and restore a system to its original state is known as what?
    1. Risk assessment
    2. Anything as a service
    3. Continuous integration process
    4. Rollback plan
  59. What is a licensed professional who oversees the design of a project known as?
    1. Subject matter expert
    2. Scrum master
    3. Architect
    4. Project manager
  60. 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?
    1. Project dashboard
    2. Gantt chart
    3. Process diagram
    4. Run chart
  61. What kind of tool would automate the creation of critical path, float, WBS, and activity sequence?
    1. Project management plan
    2. Project scheduling software
    3. PERT
    4. Run chart
  62. Which tool would be used to display observed data in a time sequence?
    1. Pareto chart
    2. Histogram
    3. Run chart
    4. Scatter diagram
  63. 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?
    1. Wiki pages
    2. Intranet sites
    3. Vendor knowledge bases
    4. Collaboration tools
  64. 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?
    1. Gantt chart
    2. Histogram
    3. Run chart
    4. Process diagram
  65. After establishing the product backlog, what tool would you use to determine the project’s velocity?
    1. Burndown chart
    2. Kanban board
    3. Fishbone diagram
    4. Sprint speed
  66. What type of project management tool is depicted here?
    Bar chart depicts Product Test Results.
    1. Process diagram
    2. Histogram
    3. Pareto chart
    4. Gantt chart
  67. 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?
    1. Word processing
    2. Spreadsheets
    3. Presentation
    4. Charting/diagramming
  68. What are the two forms of acceptance when considering risk response strategies?
    1. Unintentional
    2. Active
    3. Deliberate
    4. Passive
  69. The Closing phase includes all of the following EXCEPT:
    1. Review of lessons learned
    2. Release of project members
    3. Archiving of project documents
    4. Monitoring the risks and issues log
  70. What is the process used to document, identify, and authorize changes in an IT environment?
    1. Change control
    2. Executive oversight
    3. Organizational change management
    4. Promote to production
  71. 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?
    1. Customer notifications
    2. Requirements definition
    3. Release management
    4. Rollback planning
  72. 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?
    1. Pareto chart
    2. Scatter chart
    3. Collaboration tool
    4. Balanced scorecard
  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. All of the following are cost-estimating techniques EXCEPT:
    1. SIPOC-R
    2. Bottom-up estimating
    3. Parametric estimating
    4. Analogous estimating
  75. The work breakdown structure is created during which project life cycle phase?
    1. Discovery/concept preparation
    2. Initiation
    3. Planning
    4. Execution
    5. Closing
  76. What is the indication of how fast a project is spending through its budgeted money?
    1. Planned value
    2. Burn rate
    3. Cost variance
    4. Expenditure tracking
  77. Which of the following is the best definition of a capital expense, or CapEx?
    1. Money spent on running the business operations of a company
    2. Money spent on long-term physical or fixed assess used in a business’s operations
    3. Debt accrued on travel expenses needed to run a business
    4. Debt accrued through the issuing of long-term bonds
  78. Which of the following is the best definition of an operational expense, or OpEx?
    1. Money spent on long-term physical or fixed assess used in a business’s operations
    2. Debt accrued through the issuing of long-term bonds
    3. Money spent on running the business operations of a company
    4. Debt accrued on travel expenses needed to run a business
  79. 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?
    1. Bidder’s conference
    2. Prequalified vendor
    3. Terms of reference
    4. Statement of work
  80. The characteristics of the lower-level WBS include all of the following EXCEPT:
    1. WBS components are a further decomposition of project deliverables.
    2. WBS components should always happen concurrently with determining major deliverables.
    3. WBS components should be tangible and verifiable.
    4. WBS components should be organized in terms of project organization.
  81. When breaking down project deliverables, what is the lowest level that is recorded in a WBS?
    1. Daily work schedules
    2. High-level requirements
    3. Work package
    4. Major milestones
  82. What type of project management tool is depicted here?
    Schematic illustration of a type of project management tool.
    1. Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) chart
    2. Gantt chart
    3. Project dashboard
    4. Budget burndown chart
  83. In which project life cycle phase would you develop a transition or release plan?
    1. Discovery/concept preparation
    2. Initiation
    3. Planning
    4. Execution
    5. Closing
  84. A Sprint backlog is composed of which of the following? (Choose three.)
    1. Action plan
    2. Gate review
    3. Run charts
    4. Product backlog items
    5. Milestone chart
    6. Sprint goal
  85. Why is it important to validate deliverables when a project starts to conclude?
    1. To confirm the project has satisfied the objectives
    2. To accept deliverables to the scope
    3. To verify timeliness and completeness to pay a vendor
    4. All of the above
    5. A and C
  86. 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?
    1. Return on investment analysis
    2. Budget reconciliation
    3. Current state analysis
    4. Updating the project budget
  87. The project charter is prepared and agreed to in which project life cycle phase?
    1. Discovery/concept preparation
    2. Initiation
    3. Planning
    4. Execution
    5. Closing
  88. 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?
    1. Identify and assess stakeholders.
    2. A responsibility assignment matrix.
    3. Establish accepted communication channels.
    4. Establish communication cadence.
  89. 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?
    1. In-person meetings
    2. Virtual meetings
    3. Closure meetings
    4. Kickoff meetings
  90. 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 under budget
    3. $2,500 and the project is over budget
    4. $–2,500 and the project is over budget
  91. All electronic communications and meetings notes are stored with the project file at the conclusion of the project. This is an example of:
    1. Communication security
    2. Communication integrity
    3. Communication archiving
    4. Communication planning
  92. What type of project management tool is depicted here?
    Schematic illustration of a type of project management tool.
    1. Fishbone/Ishikawa diagram
    2. Burndown chart
    3. Requirements traceability matrix
    4. Run chart
  93. In the development of a project schedule, setting governance gates are important. All of the following are examples of governance gates EXCEPT:
    1. Daily stand-up meetings
    2. Client sign-off
    3. Management approval
    4. Legislative approval
  94. 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?
    1. Soft timeboxing
    2. Hard timeboxing
    3. Brainstorming
    4. Action items
  95. 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
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