PMP Exam Questions
________ is typically not referred to as a buffer type in critical chain project
management.
A. Resource buffer
B. Free buffer
C. Feeding buffer
D. Project buffer - Answer B. Free buffer
An accepted deadline for a project approaches. However, the project manager
realizes only 75% percent of the work has been completed. The project manager then
issues a change request.
What should the change request authorize?
A. Additional resources using the contingency fund
B. Escalation approval to use contingency funding
C. Team overtime to meet schedule
D. Corrective action based on causes - Answer D. Corrective action based on causes
The project manager develops a process improvement plan to encourage continuous
process improvement during the life of the project.
Which of the following is a valid tool
or technique to assist the project manager to assure the success of the process
improvement plan?
A. Change control system
B. Process analysis
C. Benchmarking
D. Configuration management system - Answer B. Process analysis
The project manager meets with the project team to review lessons learned from
previous projects.
In what activity is the team involved?
A. Performance management
B. Scope identification
C. Risk identification
D. Project team status meeting - Answer C. Risk identification
Which should be included in a requirements management plan?
,A. The document should trace requirements to project scope / WBS deliverables.
B. It should describe how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported.
C. It should trace high-level requirements to more detailed requirements.
D. It should trace requirements to business needs, opportunities, goals, and objectives.
- Answer B. It should describe how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and
reported.
In a traditionally drawn decision tree, a circle represents ___________.
A. a chance to which no expected monetary value can be assigned so that a likely pay-
off can not be shown.
B. a decision to which no expected monetary value can be assigned so that a likely pay-
off can not be shown.
C. a chance to which an expected monetary value may be assigned to calculate the
most likely pay-off.
D. a decision to which an expected monetary value may be assigned to calculate the
most likely pay-off. - Answer C. a chance to which an expected monetary value may be
assigned to calculate the most likely pay-off.
A project management team has subcontracted work to a service company. Which of
the following tools is the best choice to assure that this company will be able to meet the
quality requirements of the project?
A. Quality audit
B. Deliverable inspection
C. Fixed price contract
D. Service level agreement - Answer A. Quality audit
During execution of a project which is performed for a customer on a T&M (time and
material) contract base, a new project manager is taking over the assignment.
He discovers that two members assigned to the project have charged time without
performing any work for the project customer. Upon further investigation, he determines
that this occurred because there have been no other project assignments open for
these employees. The customer is unaware of these facts.
What should the project manager do?
A. Try to find some productive work for these staff members in the project and leave
them on the team.
,B. The best thing is to do nothing. The customer will not realize the problem anyway.
C. Try to find a responsible person for the over-assignment who can be made
accountable.
D. Take the two people off the team immediately and arrange for the refund of the
excess charges to the customer. - Answer D. Take the two people off the team
immediately and arrange for the refund of the excess charges to the customer.
Your project is executed with a globally spread virtual team. The project progress has
been found to be too slow. Which measure is most likely to immediately speed up the
project?
A. Technical training for all team members
B. Daily phone conferences and detailed reporting
C. A team meeting at a location convenient to all team members
D. Collocation of team members at a suitable place - Answer D. Collocation of team
members at a suitable place
A project management team wants to procure some customized products which are
available in identical grade and quality from many vendors. What should be included in
the procurement package to ensure that their offers will be comparable?
A. A statement of work describing the needs of the project in sufficient detail to enable
vendors to make suitable proposals
B. A statement of work specifying attributes and metrics of the requested deliverables in
detail to allow vendors submission of bids
C. The approved project scope statement, the WBS which should be broken down to
work package level and the WBS dictionary
D. The risk management plan and the reports from those risk management reviews
which have been made so far - Answer B. A statement of work specifying attributes and
metrics of the requested deliverables in detail to allow vendors submission of bids
Which of the following becomes increasingly important in a virtual team environment?
A. Requirements engineering
B. Communication planning
C. Formal procurements closure
D. Network diagramming - Answer B. Communication planning
, You are assigned as the project manager to a project which is executed for a customer
under FP contract. Your customer informed you this morning that they insist on certain
"refinements" of the project scope.
You agree that the requested actions make really sense to the project, but believe that
they constitute a major change increasing the project scope. What should you do next?
A. Accept the request of the customer. Diligently document the additional costs and
working hours spent by yourself and the team on the implementation of the change and
invoice these to the customer at appropriate rates.
B. Perform earned value analysis to assess the current status of the project and get all
the numbers you need to communicate the case to the change control board which then
will have to make the best decision regarding the customer request.
C. Check the contract, the project charter, the scope statement and other documents
related to the project and the contract. Implement ADR (alternative dispute resolution)
procedures if the conflict cannot be resolved otherwise.
D. Talk to the project sales department and find a joint solution with them how to best
reject the request considering the commercial and strategic value of the customer to the
organization you are working for. - Answer C. Check the contract, the project charter,
the scope statement and other documents related to the project and the contract.
Implement ADR (alternative dispute resolution) procedures if the conflict cannot be
resolved otherwise.
A prime contractor in a customer project under CPFF contract has run into unexpected
technical problems. Fixing them will require a lot of additional work to be done.
The company made a decision to book more staff and equipment from their
subcontractors in order to adhere to the agreed timeline. The customer agreed to this
decision.
What will most likely happen?
A. The contractor's indirect costs will increase and the customer's payment for them will
increase, too.
B. The contractor's indirect costs will increase, but the customer's payment for them will
not increase.
C. The contractor's indirect costs will not increase, but the customer's payment for them
will.
________ is typically not referred to as a buffer type in critical chain project
management.
A. Resource buffer
B. Free buffer
C. Feeding buffer
D. Project buffer - Answer B. Free buffer
An accepted deadline for a project approaches. However, the project manager
realizes only 75% percent of the work has been completed. The project manager then
issues a change request.
What should the change request authorize?
A. Additional resources using the contingency fund
B. Escalation approval to use contingency funding
C. Team overtime to meet schedule
D. Corrective action based on causes - Answer D. Corrective action based on causes
The project manager develops a process improvement plan to encourage continuous
process improvement during the life of the project.
Which of the following is a valid tool
or technique to assist the project manager to assure the success of the process
improvement plan?
A. Change control system
B. Process analysis
C. Benchmarking
D. Configuration management system - Answer B. Process analysis
The project manager meets with the project team to review lessons learned from
previous projects.
In what activity is the team involved?
A. Performance management
B. Scope identification
C. Risk identification
D. Project team status meeting - Answer C. Risk identification
Which should be included in a requirements management plan?
,A. The document should trace requirements to project scope / WBS deliverables.
B. It should describe how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported.
C. It should trace high-level requirements to more detailed requirements.
D. It should trace requirements to business needs, opportunities, goals, and objectives.
- Answer B. It should describe how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and
reported.
In a traditionally drawn decision tree, a circle represents ___________.
A. a chance to which no expected monetary value can be assigned so that a likely pay-
off can not be shown.
B. a decision to which no expected monetary value can be assigned so that a likely pay-
off can not be shown.
C. a chance to which an expected monetary value may be assigned to calculate the
most likely pay-off.
D. a decision to which an expected monetary value may be assigned to calculate the
most likely pay-off. - Answer C. a chance to which an expected monetary value may be
assigned to calculate the most likely pay-off.
A project management team has subcontracted work to a service company. Which of
the following tools is the best choice to assure that this company will be able to meet the
quality requirements of the project?
A. Quality audit
B. Deliverable inspection
C. Fixed price contract
D. Service level agreement - Answer A. Quality audit
During execution of a project which is performed for a customer on a T&M (time and
material) contract base, a new project manager is taking over the assignment.
He discovers that two members assigned to the project have charged time without
performing any work for the project customer. Upon further investigation, he determines
that this occurred because there have been no other project assignments open for
these employees. The customer is unaware of these facts.
What should the project manager do?
A. Try to find some productive work for these staff members in the project and leave
them on the team.
,B. The best thing is to do nothing. The customer will not realize the problem anyway.
C. Try to find a responsible person for the over-assignment who can be made
accountable.
D. Take the two people off the team immediately and arrange for the refund of the
excess charges to the customer. - Answer D. Take the two people off the team
immediately and arrange for the refund of the excess charges to the customer.
Your project is executed with a globally spread virtual team. The project progress has
been found to be too slow. Which measure is most likely to immediately speed up the
project?
A. Technical training for all team members
B. Daily phone conferences and detailed reporting
C. A team meeting at a location convenient to all team members
D. Collocation of team members at a suitable place - Answer D. Collocation of team
members at a suitable place
A project management team wants to procure some customized products which are
available in identical grade and quality from many vendors. What should be included in
the procurement package to ensure that their offers will be comparable?
A. A statement of work describing the needs of the project in sufficient detail to enable
vendors to make suitable proposals
B. A statement of work specifying attributes and metrics of the requested deliverables in
detail to allow vendors submission of bids
C. The approved project scope statement, the WBS which should be broken down to
work package level and the WBS dictionary
D. The risk management plan and the reports from those risk management reviews
which have been made so far - Answer B. A statement of work specifying attributes and
metrics of the requested deliverables in detail to allow vendors submission of bids
Which of the following becomes increasingly important in a virtual team environment?
A. Requirements engineering
B. Communication planning
C. Formal procurements closure
D. Network diagramming - Answer B. Communication planning
, You are assigned as the project manager to a project which is executed for a customer
under FP contract. Your customer informed you this morning that they insist on certain
"refinements" of the project scope.
You agree that the requested actions make really sense to the project, but believe that
they constitute a major change increasing the project scope. What should you do next?
A. Accept the request of the customer. Diligently document the additional costs and
working hours spent by yourself and the team on the implementation of the change and
invoice these to the customer at appropriate rates.
B. Perform earned value analysis to assess the current status of the project and get all
the numbers you need to communicate the case to the change control board which then
will have to make the best decision regarding the customer request.
C. Check the contract, the project charter, the scope statement and other documents
related to the project and the contract. Implement ADR (alternative dispute resolution)
procedures if the conflict cannot be resolved otherwise.
D. Talk to the project sales department and find a joint solution with them how to best
reject the request considering the commercial and strategic value of the customer to the
organization you are working for. - Answer C. Check the contract, the project charter,
the scope statement and other documents related to the project and the contract.
Implement ADR (alternative dispute resolution) procedures if the conflict cannot be
resolved otherwise.
A prime contractor in a customer project under CPFF contract has run into unexpected
technical problems. Fixing them will require a lot of additional work to be done.
The company made a decision to book more staff and equipment from their
subcontractors in order to adhere to the agreed timeline. The customer agreed to this
decision.
What will most likely happen?
A. The contractor's indirect costs will increase and the customer's payment for them will
increase, too.
B. The contractor's indirect costs will increase, but the customer's payment for them will
not increase.
C. The contractor's indirect costs will not increase, but the customer's payment for them
will.
