High Importance Category
The customer has accepted the project scope. However, the lessons learned required by the project management office have not been completed. What is the status of the project?
A. The project is incomplete because it needs to be replanned.
B. The project is incomplete until all project and product deliverables are complete and accepted.
C. The project is complete because the customer has accepted the deliverables.
D. The project is complete because it has reached its due date.
B. The project is incomplete until all project and product deliverables are complete and accepted.
The agreed upon schedule, including the start and stop of dates for each activity, and schedule milestones are part of what Performance Measurement Baseline?
Schedule Baseline
The time-phased cost budget is part of what Performance Measurement Baseline?
Cost Baseline
You are a project manager who was just assigned to take over a project from another project manager who is leaving the company. The previous project manager tells you that the project is on schedule, but only because he has constantly pushed the team to perform. What is the FIRST thing you should do as the new project manager?
A. Check risk status
B. Check cost performance
C. Determine a management strategy
D. Tell the team your objectives
C. Determine a management strategy
All of the following would occur during the Close Project or phase process EXCEPT:
A. Creating lessons learned
B. Formal acceptance
C. Reducing resource spending
D. Performing benefit cost analysis
D. Performing benefit cost analysis
Integration is done by the:
A. Project manager
B. Team
C. Sponsor
D. Stakeholders
A. Project manager
The project scope statement, WBS, and the WBS dictionary are part of what Performance Measurement Baseline?
Scope Baseline
Which of the following BEST describes a project management plan?
A. A printout from project management software
B. A bar chart
C. Risk, staffing, process improvement, and other management plans
D. The project scope
C. Risk, staffing, process improvement, and other management plans
You are assigned as the project manager in the middle of the project. The project is within the baselines, but the customer is not happy with the performance of the project. What is the FIRST thing you should do?
A. Discuss it with the project team
B. Recalculate baselines
C. Renegotiate the contract
D. Meet with the customer
D. Meet with the customer
Which of the following is included in a project charter?
A. A risk management strategy
B. Work package estimates
C. Detailed resource estimates
D. The business need for the project
D. The business need for the project
Which of the following BEST describes the project manager's role as an integrator?
A. Help team members become familiar with the project
B. Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole
C. Put all the pieces of a project into a program
D. Get all team members together into a cohesive whole
B. Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole
Which of the following BEST describes what a project charter may be used for when the work is completed?
A. To make sure all the team members are rewarded.
B. To help determine if a scope change should be approved.
C. To assess the effectiveness of the change control system.
D. To make sure that all the documentation on the project is completed.
B. To help determine if a scope change should be approved.
Which of the following is TRUE about the development of a project charter?
A. The sponsor creates the project charter, and the project manager approves it.
B. The project team creates the project charter, and the PMO approves it.
C. The executive manager creates the project charter, and the functional manager approves it.
D. The project manager creates the project charter, and the sponsor approves it.
D. The project manager creates the project charter, and the sponsor approves it.
The client demands changes to the product specification that will add only two weeks to the critical path.
Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?
A. Compress the schedule to recover the two weeks
B. Cut scope to recover the two weeks
C. Consult with the sponsor about options
D. Advise the client of the impact of the change
C. Consult with the sponsor about options
You have created the project charter, but could not get it approved. Your manager and his boss have asked that the project begins immediately. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?
A. Set up an integrated change control process
B. Show your manager the impact of proceeding without approval
C. Focus on completing projects that have signed project charters
D. Start work on only the critical path activities
B. Show your manager the impact of proceeding without approval
What does the project charter do for the project and the organization?
A. Describes project goals
B. Describes project objectives
C. Defines how success will be measured
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
True/False
Management plans look forward in time and there are management plans for all the project management categories.
True
A project management plan should be realistic in order to be used to manage the project. Which of the following is the BEST method to achieve a realistic project management plan?
A. Sponsor creates the project management plan based on input from the project manager
B. Functional manager creates the project management plan based on input from the project manager
C. Project manager creates the project management plan based on input from senior management
D. Project manager creates the project management plan based on input from the team
D. Project manager creates the project management plan based on input from the team
A functional manager wants to make a change to the project, in what order should these next steps be done?
A. Get the change request approved internally through the Change Control Board
B. Evaluate the impactC. Get customer buy-in
D. Identify Options
B, D, A, C
All technical work is completed on the project.
Which of the following remains to be done?
A. Validate Scope
B. Plan Risk Responses
C. Create a staffing management plan
D. Complete lessons learned
D. Complete lessons learned
True/False
The process of creating the charter uncovers the assumptions recorded at the start of the project management plan
False. The process of creating the charter uncovers the assumptions recorded at the start of the assumption log
Name 5 of the integrated categories of the Project Management Plan. (There are 10)
Scope, requirements, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risk, procurement, stakeholder engagement
The project manager has just received a change from the customer that does not affect the project schedule and is easy to complete. What should the project manager do FIRST?
A. Make the change happen as soon as possible
B. Contact the project sponsor for permission
C. Go to the change control board
D. Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints
D. Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints
An output of the Close Project or Phase process is the creation of:
A. Project archives
B. A project charter
C. A project management plan
D. A risk analysis plan
A. Project archives
Which of the following BEST reflect the phrase "influencing the factors that affect change"?
A. Telling people that changes are not allowed after planning is complete.
B. Determining the sources of changes and fixing the root causes.
C. Adding more activities to the work breakdown structure to accomodate risks
D. Calculating the impact of changes to date on the project.
B. Determining the sources of changes and fixing the root causes.