PMP EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
80/20 rule - Answer✔️ ✔️ A general guideline with many applications; in terms of controlling processes,
it contends that a relatively large number of problems or defects, typically 80%, are commonly due to a
relatively small number of causes, typically 20%.
AB testing - Answer✔️ ✔️ A marketing approach used to determine user preferences by showing
different sets of users similar services with one independent variable.
AC*
(Actual Cost) - Answer✔️
✔️The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a
specific time period.
accept - Answer✔️ ✔️ A strategy for managing negative risks or opportunities that involves
acknowledging a risk and not taking any action until the risk occurs.
acceptance criteria - Answer✔️
✔️A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are
accepted.
active listening - Answer✔️✔️ A communication technique that involves acknowledging what you hear,
and clarifying the message to confirm that what you heard matches the message that the sender
intended.
activity attributes* - Answer✔️ ✔️
Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be
included within the activity list.
activity dependency - Answer✔️ ✔️ A logical relationship that exists between two project activities. The
relationship indicates whether the start of an activity is contingent upon an event or input from outside
the activity.
,activity duration estimates* - Answer✔️ ✔️ The quantitative assessments of the likely number of time
periods that are required to complete an activity.
activity list* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity
description, activity identifier, and a sufficiently detailed scope-of-work description so project team
members understand what work is to be performed.
activity* - Answer✔️
✔️A distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
administrative closure - Answer✔️
✔️Involves verifying and documenting project results to formalize
project or phase completion.
Affinity diagram* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A technique that allows large numbers of ideas to be classified into
groups for review and analysis.
agile life cycles* - Answer✔️✔️A project life cycle that is iterative or incremental. Also referred to as
change- driven or adaptive, they work well in environments with high levels of change and ongoing
stakeholder involvement in a project.
Agile project management - Answer✔️ ✔️A project management methodology that uses an iterative and
incremental approach that focuses on customer value and team empowerment. In agile project
management, the product is developed in iterations by small and integrated teams.
Agile release planning - Answer✔️✔️ A process in which you determine the number of iterations or
Sprints that are needed to complete each release, the features that each iteration will contain, and the
target dates of each release
agreements* - Answer✔️ ✔️ Any documents or communication that defines the initial intentions of a
project. Examples include contracts, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), service level agreements
(SLAs), letters of agreement, letters of intent, verbal agreements, email, or other written agreements.
analogous estimating* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity on a
project using historical data from a similar activity or project.
,approved change requests - Answer✔️ ✔️ Change requests that have been reviewed and approved by
the change control board (CCB) and are ready to be scheduled for implementation.
assumption and constraint analysis - Answer✔️ ✔️ A process that explores the validity of the project
assumptions within the constraints and identifies risks from any incompleteness or inaccuracy of these
project assumptions.
attribute sampling data - Answer✔️
✔️Data that is counted such as the number of product defects or
customer complaints.
auditing - Answer✔️ ✔️ An examination of a project's goals and achievements, including adequacy,
accuracy, efficiency, effectiveness, and the project's compliance with applicable methodologies and
regulations. It tends to be a formal, one-sided process that can be extremely demoralizing to team
members.
autocratic - Answer✔️ ✔️ Using this group decision-making method, one member of the group makes
the decision. In most cases, this person will consider the larger group's ideas and decisions, and will then
make a decision based on that input.
avoid - Answer✔️ ✔️ A strategy for managing negative risks or threats that involves changing the project
management plan to remove the risk entirely by extending the schedule, changing the strategy,
increasing the funding, or reducing the scope.
BAC*
(Budget at Completion) - Answer✔️
✔️The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
bar chart* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A graphic display of schedule-related information. In the typical bar chart,
schedule activities or WBS components are listed down the left side of the chart, dates are shown across
the top, and activity durations are shown as date-placed horizontal bars.
benchmarking* - Answer✔️ ✔️ The comparison of actual or planned products, processes, and practices
to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and
provide a basis for measuring performance.
, benefit cost analysis - Answer✔️
✔️A financial analysis tool used to determine the benefits provided by a
project against its costs.
benefits management plan - Answer✔️ ✔️ The documented explanation defining the processes for
creating, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project or program.
bidder conferences* - Answer✔️ ✔️The meetings with prospective sellers prior to the preparation of a
bid or proposal to ensure all prospective vendors have a clear and common understanding of the
procurement. Also called vendor conferences, pre-bid conferences, or contractor conferences.
bottom-up estimating* - Answer✔️ ✔️A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating
the estimates of the lower- level components of the WBS.
brainstorming - Answer✔️ ✔️ A technique that involves a facilitator to help a group identify project risks
in a free-form session where ideas are generated, built on, and recorded.
Burndown Chart - Answer✔️ ✔️ A tool that is used to track the progress of the project by plotting the
number of days of Sprint against the number of hours of work remaining.
business case* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A documented economic feasibility study used to establish the validity of
the benefits of a selected component lacking sufficient definition and that is used as a basis for the
authorization of further project management activities.
business risk - Answer✔️ ✔️ The inherent risk in any business endeavor that carries the potential for
either profit or loss. Types of business risks are competitive, legislative, monetary, and operational.
business value - Answer✔️ ✔️ The net quantifiable benefit derived from a business endeavor. The benefit
may be tangible, intangible, or both.
CCB*(Change Control Board) - Answer✔️ ✔️ A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing,
evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project, and for recording and
communicating such decisions.
80/20 rule - Answer✔️ ✔️ A general guideline with many applications; in terms of controlling processes,
it contends that a relatively large number of problems or defects, typically 80%, are commonly due to a
relatively small number of causes, typically 20%.
AB testing - Answer✔️ ✔️ A marketing approach used to determine user preferences by showing
different sets of users similar services with one independent variable.
AC*
(Actual Cost) - Answer✔️
✔️The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a
specific time period.
accept - Answer✔️ ✔️ A strategy for managing negative risks or opportunities that involves
acknowledging a risk and not taking any action until the risk occurs.
acceptance criteria - Answer✔️
✔️A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are
accepted.
active listening - Answer✔️✔️ A communication technique that involves acknowledging what you hear,
and clarifying the message to confirm that what you heard matches the message that the sender
intended.
activity attributes* - Answer✔️ ✔️
Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be
included within the activity list.
activity dependency - Answer✔️ ✔️ A logical relationship that exists between two project activities. The
relationship indicates whether the start of an activity is contingent upon an event or input from outside
the activity.
,activity duration estimates* - Answer✔️ ✔️ The quantitative assessments of the likely number of time
periods that are required to complete an activity.
activity list* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity
description, activity identifier, and a sufficiently detailed scope-of-work description so project team
members understand what work is to be performed.
activity* - Answer✔️
✔️A distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
administrative closure - Answer✔️
✔️Involves verifying and documenting project results to formalize
project or phase completion.
Affinity diagram* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A technique that allows large numbers of ideas to be classified into
groups for review and analysis.
agile life cycles* - Answer✔️✔️A project life cycle that is iterative or incremental. Also referred to as
change- driven or adaptive, they work well in environments with high levels of change and ongoing
stakeholder involvement in a project.
Agile project management - Answer✔️ ✔️A project management methodology that uses an iterative and
incremental approach that focuses on customer value and team empowerment. In agile project
management, the product is developed in iterations by small and integrated teams.
Agile release planning - Answer✔️✔️ A process in which you determine the number of iterations or
Sprints that are needed to complete each release, the features that each iteration will contain, and the
target dates of each release
agreements* - Answer✔️ ✔️ Any documents or communication that defines the initial intentions of a
project. Examples include contracts, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), service level agreements
(SLAs), letters of agreement, letters of intent, verbal agreements, email, or other written agreements.
analogous estimating* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity on a
project using historical data from a similar activity or project.
,approved change requests - Answer✔️ ✔️ Change requests that have been reviewed and approved by
the change control board (CCB) and are ready to be scheduled for implementation.
assumption and constraint analysis - Answer✔️ ✔️ A process that explores the validity of the project
assumptions within the constraints and identifies risks from any incompleteness or inaccuracy of these
project assumptions.
attribute sampling data - Answer✔️
✔️Data that is counted such as the number of product defects or
customer complaints.
auditing - Answer✔️ ✔️ An examination of a project's goals and achievements, including adequacy,
accuracy, efficiency, effectiveness, and the project's compliance with applicable methodologies and
regulations. It tends to be a formal, one-sided process that can be extremely demoralizing to team
members.
autocratic - Answer✔️ ✔️ Using this group decision-making method, one member of the group makes
the decision. In most cases, this person will consider the larger group's ideas and decisions, and will then
make a decision based on that input.
avoid - Answer✔️ ✔️ A strategy for managing negative risks or threats that involves changing the project
management plan to remove the risk entirely by extending the schedule, changing the strategy,
increasing the funding, or reducing the scope.
BAC*
(Budget at Completion) - Answer✔️
✔️The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
bar chart* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A graphic display of schedule-related information. In the typical bar chart,
schedule activities or WBS components are listed down the left side of the chart, dates are shown across
the top, and activity durations are shown as date-placed horizontal bars.
benchmarking* - Answer✔️ ✔️ The comparison of actual or planned products, processes, and practices
to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and
provide a basis for measuring performance.
, benefit cost analysis - Answer✔️
✔️A financial analysis tool used to determine the benefits provided by a
project against its costs.
benefits management plan - Answer✔️ ✔️ The documented explanation defining the processes for
creating, maximizing, and sustaining the benefits provided by a project or program.
bidder conferences* - Answer✔️ ✔️The meetings with prospective sellers prior to the preparation of a
bid or proposal to ensure all prospective vendors have a clear and common understanding of the
procurement. Also called vendor conferences, pre-bid conferences, or contractor conferences.
bottom-up estimating* - Answer✔️ ✔️A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating
the estimates of the lower- level components of the WBS.
brainstorming - Answer✔️ ✔️ A technique that involves a facilitator to help a group identify project risks
in a free-form session where ideas are generated, built on, and recorded.
Burndown Chart - Answer✔️ ✔️ A tool that is used to track the progress of the project by plotting the
number of days of Sprint against the number of hours of work remaining.
business case* - Answer✔️ ✔️ A documented economic feasibility study used to establish the validity of
the benefits of a selected component lacking sufficient definition and that is used as a basis for the
authorization of further project management activities.
business risk - Answer✔️ ✔️ The inherent risk in any business endeavor that carries the potential for
either profit or loss. Types of business risks are competitive, legislative, monetary, and operational.
business value - Answer✔️ ✔️ The net quantifiable benefit derived from a business endeavor. The benefit
may be tangible, intangible, or both.
CCB*(Change Control Board) - Answer✔️ ✔️ A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing,
evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project, and for recording and
communicating such decisions.
