Scope
When the change management process results in approval of a change, what part of a project plan is always affected?
Quality
Scope
Budget
Schedule
Scope
A project manager is tasked with building a WBS. What does a WBS contain?
Statement of work.
Deliverables.
Scope.
Tasks.
Deliverables
As part of change management, who is responsible for implementing approved change requests?
Project Manager
Project Sponsor
Team Member
Change Control Board
Project Manager
Assuming a task is on the critical path, what can change to affect the path? (Choose two)
Start Date
Number of resources
Work Hours
End Date
Start Date
End Date
Which group of stakeholders benefits the most from documenting lessons learned on a project plan?
Customers
Team members
Project managers
Project sponsors
Team members
What is the purpose of a scope statement?
Provides formal authorization
Defines the work to be performed
A list of products and services to complete
The breakdown of deliverables and tasks
Defines the work to be performed
A new project manager is learning the role of documents within the planning phase. What purpose does a project charter serve?
The definition of the work to be done on a project.
The definition of a project's deliverables.
The definition of the work required to complete a project's deliverables.
The formal authorization for a project.
The formal authorization for a project.
Which stakeholders make the largest contributions to ensuring the project plan objectives are met?
Team members
Managers
Vendors
Project managers
Team members
Which types of external resources receive contracts to perform work or provide materials necessary to complete project tasks?
Focus Groups
Team Members
Customers
Vendors
Vendors
In which project management organization type does a project manager function more as a coordinator?
Functional
Strong matrix
Projectized
Weak matrix
Functional
When tasks that are out of scope are added to a project, what is the end result?
Scope creep
Gold plating
Schedule variance
Cost variance
Scope creep
A project manager finds for a park irrigation project the normal supplier for pipes may not have the ones needed. Another supplier has the pipes but at a higher cost. Which components of the project management plan should be updated? (Choose two)
Schedule.
Scope.
Risk.
Budget
Risk
Budget
A project manager needs to conduct peer reviews with team members as part of closing a project. Which communication method should the project manager use?
Feedback
Pull
Push
Interactive
Interactive
A new project manager is trying to understand the differences between a task and similar events in a project. What does a task consist of? (Choose two)
A verifiable product or service that needs to be produced as part of an overall project.
Start and end dates.
A significant event in a project.
Work assigned to a resource.
Start and end dates.
Work assigned to a resource.
A project manager tries to update a sponsor on a project's status, but the sponsor does not seem to focus on what the project manager says. What type of listening is taking place?
Information gathering
Cynical listening
Offensive listening
Active listening
Offensive listening
As part of a bathroom remodel a project manager notices the shower doors a customer wants are not available from the vendor that typically provides them. The same doors are available from another vendor but will take a week longer to arrive, and cost 20% more than what was originally quoted to the customer. What should the project manager do first to resolve the problem?
Consult with the customer to reach a possible solution.
Accept the increase in price and pass the cost onto the customer.
Pause the project.
Accept the delay in scope.
Consult with the customer to reach a possible solution.
What is the range of activities reported on within a status update for a project plan?
An update for each project phase
Within a given time period
An update for each deliverable
An update for the entire project
Within a given time period
A project manager is looking for ways to motivate staff, to help ensure projects are completed on time and within budget. What should they use as a starting point for motivation?
The project manager should have monetary gift cards ready.
The project manager should learn what motivates team members.
The project manager should promise team members extra time off.
The project manager should give non-monetary bonuses, such as gym memberships.
The project manager should learn what motivates team members.
Which roles describe a vendor within a project plan for developing a database to interact with a customer-facing website? (Choose two)
Internal testers for the website.
A cloud hosting provider.
The project sponsor
A design consultant for the website.
A cloud hosting provider.
A design consultant for the website.
A hospital wing construction project is behind schedule. The project manager is looking to fast-track the project to bring it back in line. What is the project manager looking to do?
Take tasks that are normally done sequentially and do them in parallel.
Reduce project scope to bring a project back on schedule.
Add to the budget to bring a project back on schedule.
Add more resources to tasks to shorten their duration.
Take tasks that are normally done sequentially and do them in parallel.
In a project plan, what is scope variance?
The amount of gold plating
The difference between planned scope and the actual scope
The amount of scope creep
The amount of schedule variance and cost variance
The difference planned scope and the actual scope
A project manager is looking for a place to document objectives. In which project document should objectives be located?
Project Deliverables
Lessons Learned
Project Charter
Project Scope
Project Charter
A project team member notices another member downloading confidential information to a USB drive. He also finds out the employee is about to quit the company and work for a competitor. What should the team member do?
Report the team member with the USB drive to the project manager.
Take the USB drive from the employee when the employee is not looking and turn the USB drive into the manager.
Confront the employee committing the potential ethics violation.
Report the team member with the USB drive to the immediate manager for the team.
Report the team member with the USB drive to the immediate manager for the team
In a project plan to build new fences for an elementary school, which tasks will have their durations affected based on the number of resources assigned to them? (Choose two)
Adding a cement mixer to the existing group of cement mixers
Including more people in the project status meetings
The ribbon cutting ceremony
Adding people to add bricks to fences
Adding a cement mixer to the existing group of cement mixers
Adding people to add bricks to fences
During a lessons learned meeting near the end of a project, a manager claims that gold plating took place during the executing phase. What happened within the project to warrant that claim?
A higher project cost due to more items being delivered than promised.
More deliverables than what was promised were delivered and the project scope did not change.
A longer schedule due to more items being delivered than promised.
More deliverables than what was promised were delivered and the project scope changed.
More deliverables than what was promised were delivered and the project scope did not change.