PMP® Exam Practice Test

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1. Which of the following statements is not true about a Project Management Office (PMO)?

PMO is an organizational body responsible for centralized and coordinated management of the projects.

PMO conducts periodic project audits to monitor compliance with project management standards.

PMO can also be responsible for the direct management of the projects.

In order to be managed together, the projects supported by a PMO should be related.

2. What is the difference between a project baseline and a project plan?

Project plans change as needed, while baselines change only at milestones

Project plans and baselines do not change—they are amended

Project plans change as needed, while baselines are snapshots of the project plan

Baselines are control tools, while project plans are execution tools

3. A project manager, who works in a weak matrix organization, has a role of communication coordinator and has little power to make decisions. He reports to a high level manager. He is probably fulfilling the role of a:

Project Coordinator

Project Expeditor

Project lead

Lead Coordinator

4. You have just taken over a project to overhaul the company’s telecommunications network. During your first week, you determine that the engineers spend at least 80% of their time responding to unexpected requests for information from different project stakeholders. Because of these interruptions, your engineers cannot focus on their assigned project activities, which is resulting in frequent network outages. What should you do first?

Ask the engineers to forward all stakeholder inquiries to you so that they can focus on their originally planned tasks

Immediately tell the engineers to stop responding to unexpected requests since it is not their responsibility

Review the communications management plan to understand how stakeholder requests should be handled

Push the engineers to respond to all the requests faster so that they can perform their assigned project activities

5. You are a project manager working in a weak matrix organizational structure. The project is in execution when the functional manager informs you that he will be pulling out a few critical resources from your project. How should you respond to the situation?

Inform senior management, highlighting the effects on the project in a matrix environment

Refer to the resource histogram of the project to evaluate the impact on the project

Renegotiate terms and conditions with functional manager to allocate the new resources

Create options and work around by reassigning the work packages to the remaining team

6. Which one of the following best describes the risk register?

It documents all of the outcomes of the other risk management processes.

It’s a document that contains the initial risk identification entries.

It’s a system that tracks all negative risks within a project.

It’s part of the project’s PMIS for integrated change control

7. As a project manager, you have decided that each team member will report progress by effort and cost expended. After collecting this information at the status meeting, you review it; perform an analysis discovering that the project is within budget, and on schedule. What should you do next with the results of your analysis?

Nothing, since the project is on schedule

Nothing, since the project is within budget

Nothing, since the project is within the variance thresholds

Distribute the results to project stakeholders

8. You are a project manager taking over a project midway. The project is in the execution stage. You would like to know more about the project deliverables, work required to complete those deliverables, project constraints, assumptions, etc. Which of the following documents would be most useful?

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and WBS dictionary

Requirements Documentation

Activity List

Project Scope Statement

9. Which of the following is an output of scope validation?

WBS template

Rework

Formal acceptance

SOW acceptance

10. A project manager is in the final closure phase of the project. Which of the following should he do first as part of the project closure activity?

Get formal sign off from the customer to confirm customer acceptance of final deliverable

Measure customer satisfaction as a key performance indicator of project’s success

Hand off completed project deliverables to operations and management

Measure completed work (deliverables) against the scope statement

11. A memo has been sent to you, the project manager, project team members, and the project customers from the project sponsor. In this instance, who is the encoder?

Project sponsor

Project manager

Project team members

Project customers

12. You are a project manager planning a project to develop a new payroll system, and you are currently in the process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives. A project stakeholder has suggested that it would be helpful to have a visual depiction showing how people and other systems will interact with the new payroll system. You like the idea and want to address it. What is the best way to implement the stakeholder’s suggestion?

Design an affinity diagram

Create a fishbone diagram

Build a matrix diagram

Develop a context diagram

13. A project manager working in an iterative model of the product development life cycle expects many changes during the course of the project. He wants to establish a robust configuration management system and also wants to make his team aware of the process. Which of the following statements is not true about configuration management?

The purpose of configuration management is to maintain integrity of the work product.

Configuration management includes configuration audits, configuration control, configuration status accounting and configuration identification.

Configuration management focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a product’s requirements.

Configuration management involves measuring project performance with baselines and taking corrective action when necessary.

14. A project manager is leading the construction of a new office building. The project sponsor asks the project manager to email him a project document that was presented during the last project status meeting. The project sponsor states that he has forgotten the name of the document, but he remembers it contained the description, owner, source, priority, and status of product requirements. Which project document is the project sponsor requesting?

The work breakdown structure (WBS)

The scope management plan

The requirements management plan

The requirements traceability matrix

15. You are managing a software upgrade project for your company. Your project sponsor has a great deal of authority regarding project decisions, but you recently discovered that he doesn’t have much interest in your project. To complete the project successfully, you need your project sponsor’s continuous support. What stakeholder management strategy should you use with your project sponsor?

Keep the sponsor satisfied

Keep the sponsor informed

Manage the sponsor closely

Monitor the sponsor’s actions

16. Your project is moving ahead of schedule. Management elects to incorporate additional quality testing into the project to improve the quality and acceptability of the project deliverable. This is an example of which one of the following?

Scope creep

Change control

Quality assurance (QA)

Integrated Change Control

17. You are a project manager for your organisation. Sarah, a project manager in training, wants to know which project documents can stem from templates? Your answer should be…

Risk policies

Organisational policies

Scope management plans

Historical information

18. You are managing a project in Alaska to extend an existing oil pipeline, and you are about to start project planning. Due to the large size of the project along with the regulatory and environmental considerations, the development of a detailed project management plan will be critical. As a starting point for initial project planning, what is the first thing you should do?

Review the project charter to understand the high-level information about the project

Begin the process of identifying stakeholders so they can be engaged as necessary for project planning

Conduct a project kick-off meeting to inform and engage stakeholders and gain commitment

Share the project scope statement with the project team for a common understanding of project deliverables

19. You are the project manager for the HGD Project and will need as many inputs to the scope planning as possible. Of the following, which one is not an organisational process asset?

Organisational procedures

Organisational policies

WBS

Historical information

20. During project execution activities, a project sponsor’s role in a functional organisation can best be described as doing which one of the following?

Acting as a sounding board for the project stakeholders

Helping the project manager and stakeholders resolve any issues ASAP

Deflecting change requests for the project manager

Showing management the project progress and status reports

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