CIS 348 UCERTIFY questions and Answers 3
You have received the following estimates for a complex activity that is critical to the success of your
project. The three-point estimates are as follows: The most likely estimate is $42, the optimistic estimate
is $35, and the pessimistic estimate is $54. What is the expected activity cost of this activity using the
beta distribution formula (rounded to the nearest dollar)?
43
Which of the following are examples of interactive communication?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Phone call, Video conferencing
Which of the following estimating techniques is less accurate and allows you to use the cost estimates
from the previous similar project to help you quickly determine estimates for the current project?
Analogous
The documentation of a project planning states that there are 25 stakeholders with the project. What
will be the number of communication channels for the project?
A 600
B 25
C 50
D None of the Above
You are the project manager for the ABC organization. Your current project has 75 internal stakeholders
and 245 external stakeholders. Many of the risks within your project will only affect internal
stakeholders, but several of the identified risk events will affect external stakeholders. Management
would like to know the total number of communication channels in the project. How many
communication channels exist in this project?
A 102,080
B 320
C 245
D None of the Above
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Harry is working on a project that will upgrade the phone system in their customer service center. He has
used the bottom-up estimating technique to assign amounts to the project activities and has determined
the cost baseline. Which of the following statements is true regarding the project?
He has completed the Determine Budget process, and the cost baseline will be used to measure future
project performance.
You are the Project Manager for a new large-scale project, which involves the development of new
software to conduct data analytics on population data. As part of the estimation of costs process, you
realize that you will probably have to estimate the costs for the use of an LCD projector during your
project, which is shared by all other project teams. Since the usage is difficult to quantify, you are
directed by your PMO to include the cost as a fixed percentage. What is such a cost called?
Indirect Cost
All of the following are true regarding Plan Communications Management except for which one?
Data gathering, communication technology, communication methods, and expert judgment are some of
the tools and techniques of this process.
Ria is working on a project that will upgrade the phone system in their customer service center. She is
considering analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point estimating techniques to determine
activity costs. Which process does this describe?
Estimate Costs
Your project sponsor has requested a cost estimate for the project on which you're working. This project
is similar in scope to a project you worked on last year. She would like to get the cost estimates as soon
as possible. Accuracy is not her primary concern right now. She needs a ballpark figure by tomorrow. You
decide to use
analogous estimating techniques.
Which of the following is displayed as an S-curve?
Cost baseline
You are the project manager of a large construction project. In this project, you've assigned a project
team to create a project website that will allow stakeholders to retrieve project information, check
project status, and read reports about the project. Your site will even have a camera that will stream a
live video feed to the website. What type of communication is this website?
A Web-based communication
B Interactive communication
C Push communication
D None of the Above
Nancy is the project manager of a project with 78 stakeholders. This is a high-profile project and she has
to express the importance of communication in this project to her project team and to the management.
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She would like to show the number of stakeholder communication channels in the project. Based on this
information, how many communication channels exist within this project?
3,003
Brad works as a project manager for a prominent law firm. His latest project involves an office move that
will accommodate a 10 percent growth in staff over the two years. Because of the unexpected increase
in infrastructure costs, he calculates that he will be $2,000 over budget. What document can Brad refer
to determine whether this falls within the allowable threshold for budget overages?
Cost management plan
During a weekly project management luncheon, a project manager confides with the group that he is
struggling with the most critical stakeholders on his project. With the busy season underway, his greatest
challenge has been getting engagement from the core group of leaders that he relies on to acquire
resources. When asked if he had thought about it and captured strategies for engaging his stakeholders,
he admits that he has not completed that task. What did the project manager fail to do?
Develop a stakeholder engagement plan
You are the project manager for your organization and you're working on a new project. In this project
you'll need to define the subsidiary plans to help direct and manage the project work. Which of the
following subsidiary plans cannot be used to direct and manage the project work?
Communications Management Plan
The documentation of a project planning states that there are twenty-five stakeholders with the project.
What will be the number of communication channels for the project?
300 Total number of communications = n (n-1)/2
Beth is the project manager of the GHB Project for her company. She has been working on the project
for the past six months and there are still three months of work scheduled. In this project she can
creates lots of project communications, reports, memos, emails, and other documentation. As part of
the PMI approach to managing project communications Beth may have three project document types
that need to be updated. Which one of the following project documents will not be updated as an
output of managing project communications?
Project Scope Changes
You are the project manager for your organization and you've just taken over a project that has been
failing on time and costs. As you begin the project work you learn that the previous project manager
ignored a group of stakeholders that would likely be opposed to the project. You learn that this group of
stakeholders haven't even heard of the project and they're upset about being left out of the
conversation. How would you classify the group of stakeholders?
Unaware
You are about to start a project. You have made rough estimates of both time and cost. Which of the
following is the correct term to represent such estimates?
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Rough order of magnitude
Vicky is the project sponsor of Robert's project. She has requested several changes for the project scope
and these changes have, of course, been approved. Robert needs to incorporate the project scope
changes into the activity list. Where else should Robert reflect these project changes?
Scope Baseline
You are the project manager of the NGH Project for your company. This company will create and deploy
new software for 1,456 customers. The project scope has been defined but you and the project team
now need to create the scope baseline. What is the scope baseline?
It is the combination of the created project scope statement, the WBS, and the WBS
dictionary
You are the project manager of a large construction project. In this project, you've assigned a project
team to create a project Website that will allow stakeholders to retrieve project information, check
project status, and read reports about the project. Your site will even have a camera that will stream live
video feed to the Website. What type of communication is this Website?
Pull communication
Hank is a project manager for the NHY Project. His project has a very tight budget with little room for
project overruns on costs. Hank needs to control costs and reduce expenses as much as possible within
the project in order for the project to be deemed successful in the organization. On the NHY Project,
Hank is using many contractors that are integrated into the project team. What can Hank do to keep
project costs down in this scenario?
Release the project contracted employees as soon as they have fulfilled their project
obligations
You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your organization and you're working with some
project team members and stakeholders who are in an argument about the project work. While you've
tried to help the stakeholders to resolve the differences, they are being obstinate about the work and
don't want to work with you or the project team to really resolve the difference. You've decided that you
need to escalate the problem onto management. Which plan defines the escalation process?
Communications management plan
You're the project manager for the ABC organization. Your current project has 75 internal stakeholders
and 245 external stakeholders. Many of the risks within your project will only affect internal
stakeholders, but several of the identified risk events will affect external stakeholders. Management
would like to know the total number of communication channels in the project. How many
communication channels exist in this project?
51,040 - Total Number of Communication Channels = n (n-1)/2
Nancy is the project manager of a project with 78 stakeholders. This is a high-profile project and she
needs to express to her project team and to the management the importance of communication in this
You have received the following estimates for a complex activity that is critical to the success of your
project. The three-point estimates are as follows: The most likely estimate is $42, the optimistic estimate
is $35, and the pessimistic estimate is $54. What is the expected activity cost of this activity using the
beta distribution formula (rounded to the nearest dollar)?
43
Which of the following are examples of interactive communication?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Phone call, Video conferencing
Which of the following estimating techniques is less accurate and allows you to use the cost estimates
from the previous similar project to help you quickly determine estimates for the current project?
Analogous
The documentation of a project planning states that there are 25 stakeholders with the project. What
will be the number of communication channels for the project?
A 600
B 25
C 50
D None of the Above
You are the project manager for the ABC organization. Your current project has 75 internal stakeholders
and 245 external stakeholders. Many of the risks within your project will only affect internal
stakeholders, but several of the identified risk events will affect external stakeholders. Management
would like to know the total number of communication channels in the project. How many
communication channels exist in this project?
A 102,080
B 320
C 245
D None of the Above
,CIS 348 UCERTIFY questions and Answers 3
Harry is working on a project that will upgrade the phone system in their customer service center. He has
used the bottom-up estimating technique to assign amounts to the project activities and has determined
the cost baseline. Which of the following statements is true regarding the project?
He has completed the Determine Budget process, and the cost baseline will be used to measure future
project performance.
You are the Project Manager for a new large-scale project, which involves the development of new
software to conduct data analytics on population data. As part of the estimation of costs process, you
realize that you will probably have to estimate the costs for the use of an LCD projector during your
project, which is shared by all other project teams. Since the usage is difficult to quantify, you are
directed by your PMO to include the cost as a fixed percentage. What is such a cost called?
Indirect Cost
All of the following are true regarding Plan Communications Management except for which one?
Data gathering, communication technology, communication methods, and expert judgment are some of
the tools and techniques of this process.
Ria is working on a project that will upgrade the phone system in their customer service center. She is
considering analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point estimating techniques to determine
activity costs. Which process does this describe?
Estimate Costs
Your project sponsor has requested a cost estimate for the project on which you're working. This project
is similar in scope to a project you worked on last year. She would like to get the cost estimates as soon
as possible. Accuracy is not her primary concern right now. She needs a ballpark figure by tomorrow. You
decide to use
analogous estimating techniques.
Which of the following is displayed as an S-curve?
Cost baseline
You are the project manager of a large construction project. In this project, you've assigned a project
team to create a project website that will allow stakeholders to retrieve project information, check
project status, and read reports about the project. Your site will even have a camera that will stream a
live video feed to the website. What type of communication is this website?
A Web-based communication
B Interactive communication
C Push communication
D None of the Above
Nancy is the project manager of a project with 78 stakeholders. This is a high-profile project and she has
to express the importance of communication in this project to her project team and to the management.
,CIS 348 UCERTIFY questions and Answers 3
She would like to show the number of stakeholder communication channels in the project. Based on this
information, how many communication channels exist within this project?
3,003
Brad works as a project manager for a prominent law firm. His latest project involves an office move that
will accommodate a 10 percent growth in staff over the two years. Because of the unexpected increase
in infrastructure costs, he calculates that he will be $2,000 over budget. What document can Brad refer
to determine whether this falls within the allowable threshold for budget overages?
Cost management plan
During a weekly project management luncheon, a project manager confides with the group that he is
struggling with the most critical stakeholders on his project. With the busy season underway, his greatest
challenge has been getting engagement from the core group of leaders that he relies on to acquire
resources. When asked if he had thought about it and captured strategies for engaging his stakeholders,
he admits that he has not completed that task. What did the project manager fail to do?
Develop a stakeholder engagement plan
You are the project manager for your organization and you're working on a new project. In this project
you'll need to define the subsidiary plans to help direct and manage the project work. Which of the
following subsidiary plans cannot be used to direct and manage the project work?
Communications Management Plan
The documentation of a project planning states that there are twenty-five stakeholders with the project.
What will be the number of communication channels for the project?
300 Total number of communications = n (n-1)/2
Beth is the project manager of the GHB Project for her company. She has been working on the project
for the past six months and there are still three months of work scheduled. In this project she can
creates lots of project communications, reports, memos, emails, and other documentation. As part of
the PMI approach to managing project communications Beth may have three project document types
that need to be updated. Which one of the following project documents will not be updated as an
output of managing project communications?
Project Scope Changes
You are the project manager for your organization and you've just taken over a project that has been
failing on time and costs. As you begin the project work you learn that the previous project manager
ignored a group of stakeholders that would likely be opposed to the project. You learn that this group of
stakeholders haven't even heard of the project and they're upset about being left out of the
conversation. How would you classify the group of stakeholders?
Unaware
You are about to start a project. You have made rough estimates of both time and cost. Which of the
following is the correct term to represent such estimates?
, CIS 348 UCERTIFY questions and Answers 3
Rough order of magnitude
Vicky is the project sponsor of Robert's project. She has requested several changes for the project scope
and these changes have, of course, been approved. Robert needs to incorporate the project scope
changes into the activity list. Where else should Robert reflect these project changes?
Scope Baseline
You are the project manager of the NGH Project for your company. This company will create and deploy
new software for 1,456 customers. The project scope has been defined but you and the project team
now need to create the scope baseline. What is the scope baseline?
It is the combination of the created project scope statement, the WBS, and the WBS
dictionary
You are the project manager of a large construction project. In this project, you've assigned a project
team to create a project Website that will allow stakeholders to retrieve project information, check
project status, and read reports about the project. Your site will even have a camera that will stream live
video feed to the Website. What type of communication is this Website?
Pull communication
Hank is a project manager for the NHY Project. His project has a very tight budget with little room for
project overruns on costs. Hank needs to control costs and reduce expenses as much as possible within
the project in order for the project to be deemed successful in the organization. On the NHY Project,
Hank is using many contractors that are integrated into the project team. What can Hank do to keep
project costs down in this scenario?
Release the project contracted employees as soon as they have fulfilled their project
obligations
You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your organization and you're working with some
project team members and stakeholders who are in an argument about the project work. While you've
tried to help the stakeholders to resolve the differences, they are being obstinate about the work and
don't want to work with you or the project team to really resolve the difference. You've decided that you
need to escalate the problem onto management. Which plan defines the escalation process?
Communications management plan
You're the project manager for the ABC organization. Your current project has 75 internal stakeholders
and 245 external stakeholders. Many of the risks within your project will only affect internal
stakeholders, but several of the identified risk events will affect external stakeholders. Management
would like to know the total number of communication channels in the project. How many
communication channels exist in this project?
51,040 - Total Number of Communication Channels = n (n-1)/2
Nancy is the project manager of a project with 78 stakeholders. This is a high-profile project and she
needs to express to her project team and to the management the importance of communication in this
