CAPM QUESTIONS COVERING ALL TPICS WITH THEIR
CORRECTIVE ANSWERS
1. The 80/20 rule is called? - Answer✔️
✔️Pareto principle
2. What are the three costs of quality? - Answer✔️
✔️Pevention, Appraisal, and Failure
3. Project Managers spend <> amount of time communicating? - Answer✔️
✔️90 percent
4. You are the project manager on a software project in the requirements phase. The project team
consists of you, two business analysts (BA's), a UX architect and a database architect. At the end
of the requirements phase, you replace the two BA' with four developers and two testers. How
many more communication channels do you have? - Answer✔️ ✔️ 26
5. What information should the business case contain? - Answer✔️
✔️Market demand, business
need, customer request, legal requirements
6. Elizabeth is working to justify her project and has chosen payback periods as the method of
showing value. Her project is expected to cost $100,00 and save the company $18,000 a quarter.
How long will it take this project to payback? - Answer✔️ ✔️ 5.55 quarters
7. Pitch and tone is what aspect of communication? - Answer✔️
✔️Paralingual
8. Greg is a project manager with a global team across 15 time zones. Greg posts a daily status
update to an internal Wiki and a weekly recap to a file server. Each stakeholder is responsible for
going out to these tools to receive the project status. Why type of communication is this? -
Answer✔️ ✔️ Pull
, 9. If your company wants to be +/- 3 sigma, what percent of your tests are correct? -
Answer✔️ ✔️99.73 percent
10. The Japanese concept of continuous improvement is? - Answer✔️
✔️Kaizen
11. The Communications Management Plan consists of? - Answer✔️
✔️Plan Communications
Management, Manage Communication, control communication
12. Which of the following are learning techniques? - Answer✔️
✔️All of the above
13. Scrap and Rework are examples of? - Answer✔️
✔️Failure costs
14. Projects are which one of the following: - Answer✔️
✔️temporary, unique and create a new
product or service
15. You have a globally diverse team, including team members where English is their second
language. Which type of noise could block your communication with the team? -
Answer✔️ ✔️ Syntax
16. Your lifecycle requires a high-level definition of the project at the beginning, and more detailed
scope and cost is documented and you gather more information and better understand the
project deliverable. Which life cycle are you working in? - Answer✔️ ✔️ Iterative life cycle
17. Andy's budget has been cut and his project team has been cut from 16 people to 9 people How
many fewer communication channels does Andy have? - Answer✔️ ✔️ 84
18. What percent of communication is based on the pitch and tone of your voice? - Answer✔️
✔️38
percent
19. Andy is reviewing the control chart from the previous shift. He notices ten consecutive
inspection points were above the mean but under the UCL. What is Andy seeing? -
Answer✔️ ✔️ rule of seven
CORRECTIVE ANSWERS
1. The 80/20 rule is called? - Answer✔️
✔️Pareto principle
2. What are the three costs of quality? - Answer✔️
✔️Pevention, Appraisal, and Failure
3. Project Managers spend <> amount of time communicating? - Answer✔️
✔️90 percent
4. You are the project manager on a software project in the requirements phase. The project team
consists of you, two business analysts (BA's), a UX architect and a database architect. At the end
of the requirements phase, you replace the two BA' with four developers and two testers. How
many more communication channels do you have? - Answer✔️ ✔️ 26
5. What information should the business case contain? - Answer✔️
✔️Market demand, business
need, customer request, legal requirements
6. Elizabeth is working to justify her project and has chosen payback periods as the method of
showing value. Her project is expected to cost $100,00 and save the company $18,000 a quarter.
How long will it take this project to payback? - Answer✔️ ✔️ 5.55 quarters
7. Pitch and tone is what aspect of communication? - Answer✔️
✔️Paralingual
8. Greg is a project manager with a global team across 15 time zones. Greg posts a daily status
update to an internal Wiki and a weekly recap to a file server. Each stakeholder is responsible for
going out to these tools to receive the project status. Why type of communication is this? -
Answer✔️ ✔️ Pull
, 9. If your company wants to be +/- 3 sigma, what percent of your tests are correct? -
Answer✔️ ✔️99.73 percent
10. The Japanese concept of continuous improvement is? - Answer✔️
✔️Kaizen
11. The Communications Management Plan consists of? - Answer✔️
✔️Plan Communications
Management, Manage Communication, control communication
12. Which of the following are learning techniques? - Answer✔️
✔️All of the above
13. Scrap and Rework are examples of? - Answer✔️
✔️Failure costs
14. Projects are which one of the following: - Answer✔️
✔️temporary, unique and create a new
product or service
15. You have a globally diverse team, including team members where English is their second
language. Which type of noise could block your communication with the team? -
Answer✔️ ✔️ Syntax
16. Your lifecycle requires a high-level definition of the project at the beginning, and more detailed
scope and cost is documented and you gather more information and better understand the
project deliverable. Which life cycle are you working in? - Answer✔️ ✔️ Iterative life cycle
17. Andy's budget has been cut and his project team has been cut from 16 people to 9 people How
many fewer communication channels does Andy have? - Answer✔️ ✔️ 84
18. What percent of communication is based on the pitch and tone of your voice? - Answer✔️
✔️38
percent
19. Andy is reviewing the control chart from the previous shift. He notices ten consecutive
inspection points were above the mean but under the UCL. What is Andy seeing? -
Answer✔️ ✔️ rule of seven
