PMP Full-length Prep Test (200 questions)This is a full-length preparation test for the PMP Exam with 200 questions. This test needs to be attempted and completed in 4 hours (including any time taken for breaks) to simulate the experience of the actual

As part of its organisational process assets, an organisation may have lists of potential sellers who have been previously approved and that can be used during the time of planning procurement management. What are these lists called? Pre-qualified Seller Lists. Seller Priority Lists. Seller Evaluation Lists. Hamish is a project manager who is working on creating the Requirements Management Plan for his project and this document will be an input to the ‘Collect Requirements’ process. In a project that follows an adaptive lifecycle, when is this process performed? At the beginning of each iteration. Twice – once in the planning and once in the executing phase. Once, at the beginning of the project only. Once at the beginning and also when any Change Requests are raised. Factors that originate from outside the project or the organisation, and which are not under the control of the project team but influence, constrain, or direct the project are called: Governance Framework. EEF. Organisational culture. OPA. A project manager needs to consider staff motivation when estimating activity durations. The project manager also needs to remember that work expands to fill the time available for its completion – this is also known as: Procrastination. Parkinson’s law. Law of diminishing returns. Student syndrome. Following an inspection activity on a set of deliverables, the Quality Team has identified over 100 defects that need to be addressed. You ask the Quality Team lead to produce a diagram that shows the root cause of these defects. This diagram is called: Pareto chart. Ishikawa diagram. Histogram. Scatter diagram. You are taking over as the new Project Manager for an ongoing project and the Project Manager who is leaving sends you a document that captures the details of the planned start and end dates of each activity on the project along with the various milestones on the project and the resources required for those activities. The document also captures the dependency between activities and thereby gives you clear insight on how a delay in one activity can impact others and the overall project completion date. Which project document did you receive from the leaving Project Manager? The Project Management Plan The Project Calendar The Resource Management Plan The Project Schedule Atul is a project manager who has an agreement with a third-party organisation for developing and delivering a part of his ongoing project. However, Atul and the third-party company’s project manager are not able to reach an agreement on the compensation for a requested change. What are these contested changes called? Disputes. Contracts. Claims. Appeals. Joseph publishes a project newsletter that is emailed to all team members every Friday. What kind of project communication method is Joseph using? Pull communication. Interactive communication. Push communication. None; newsletters are not considered project communication. You get an unexpected call from the sponsor of your current project and he informs you that he has resigned from his post and from now on all his responsibilities will be taken over by his successor, Randy, whose details he has just shared in an email. Your sponsor also reassures you that Randy is aware of all details of the ongoing project and the project will continue as usual without any other impact. What should you do next? Update schedule baseline. Update resource plan. Update scope baseline. Update stakeholder engagement plan. A project manager is in the process of sequencing the various activities in one of his projects. One of the activities on the project is the writing of the user manual and a second activity is the printing and binding of the user manual. The printing and binding of the user manual cannot start until the time the user manual is completely written and dispatched to the third-party printer. What kind of logical relationship has been described here? Finish to finish. Finish to start. Start to finish. Start to start. You just received a call from your program manager who wants to know the project resources allocated to work on the individual work packages in the project you are managing. Which of the following would contain the details your program manager is asking for? The RAM. The Project Plan. The WBS. The Team Charter. A company needs to choose between three projects. Project A has an IRR of 10% and is expected to complete in a year, Project B has an IRR of 15% and is expected to complete in 2 years, and Project C has an IRR of 13% and is expected to complete within 18 months. Which one should the company choose? Choose the best option. Project C. There is not enough information to decide Project A. Project B. What purpose does an assumption and constraint analysis serve? It helps explore the validity of the assumptions and constraints to determine which pose a risk to the project. It helps in assessing the effectiveness of potential risk responses for the identified risks. It helps in identifying the root cause of various risks. It helps in the identification of historical information for risk analysis. Your project sponsor gives you a call and tells you that as per the information he has received, the project you are managing is behind schedule and over budget at this point. You inform him that you will be doing an earned value analysis shortly to verify this information. When you carry out earned value analysis for your project, you find that the SPI of the project is 1.2 and the CPI of the project is 0.9. What does this imply? The sponsor was correct in stating that the project is behind schedule and over budget. The sponsor’s statement was only partially true – even though the project is behind schedule, it is within budget. The sponsor’s statement was only partially true – even though the project is over budget, it is ahead of schedule. The sponsor’s statement was completely incorrect since the project is ahead of schedule and within budget at this point. A frequent issue you are facing on your software delivery project is that of the work not being carried out at the right time and in the right order. In one example, when the development of a piece of code was ready, there was nobody available to test it readily. This has led to rework at times and also conflicts between the testing and development resources. Which of the following tools will be the most useful to deal with this problem? Work authorisation systems. RACI matrix. Communications management plan. Stakeholder engagement plan. In the project you are managing you are expecting high levels of change. Therefore, you have adopted an approach in which deliverables are developed over multiple iterations and detailed scope is defined and approved for each iteration as it begins. This implies that: Your project is a high-risk project. Your project is likely to fail since because of the high levels of change. You are following a predictive life cycle. You are following an adaptive life cycle. Which of the following statements regarding the Project Management Plan is true? It is an input to the Project Charter. It contains the scope, schedule, and cost baselines. It is created by the project sponsor. Once baselined, it cannot be modified. Which of the following costs is considered the most important when procuring a product or service? Development cost. Maintenance cost. Life cycle cost. Product cost. A project manager finds that his ongoing project has an CPI of 1.1 and an SPI of 0.95. He decides to use a schedule compression technique less likely to add to the existing project risk to ensure the project completes on time. Which schedule compression technique would he use in the given situation? Fast-tracking. Resource smoothing. Crashing. Resource Levelling. The PMO exists to shepherd business value through an organisation. It may also have significant authority in an organisation and can be a key stakeholder in projects. However, which of the following is not a function of the PMO? Standardising the project related governance process. Directly managing projects in certain organisations. Creating the Project Charter on its own. Providing the necessary tools and templates to the project manager.