PMP06 – Process Group assessment

The project manager should be assigned to a project in its early stages. This permits the project manager to participate in the _______ conducted by the _______.

Which of the following is a ground rule for project team building?

Adjusting the timing of tasks so that resources are not overcommitted is called:

The decomposition process is a technique used to construct a:

Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include:

Due to cuts in funding, your project has been terminated. The scope verification process:

The project manager leads a project team that is comprised of many different skills and disciplines. S/he must use an exceptional number of negotiating skills because s/he-

All the following are objectives of the kickoff meeting except:

Which of the following factors contributes the most to team communication?

A project loses a contractor in the middle of a project. A new project team is formed to replace the role of the lost contractor and his/her team. As a project manager, what is the FIRST topic to address to the team in the kick-off meeting?

It is critical for your company to offer its products on the Internet to increase its market share. The company has no previous experience in this area, but it believes that knowledge is needed rapidly. As you have shown an interest in the Internet, you are invited to manage this project. What is the first action you should do?

During the contract closure, the project manager needs to document the:

Most project managers are promoted to form the __________ without having prior education and training in managerial functions.

One purpose of the communications management plan is to provide information on the:

The peak point of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is called:

Constructive team roles include:

Effective stakeholder management includes all of the following project elements EXCEPT:

You are a project manager for a large installation project when you realize that there are over 300 potential stakeholders on the project. Which of the following would be the BEST course of action for you to take?

The matrix organization reduces the part-time (functional) employee’s anxiety about job security, but it has the adverse effect of giving the employee-

The first requirement for effective risk management is:

In general, disagreements among stakeholders should be resolved in favor of the:

A project schedule completion date will change if:

A likely result of using “compromise” to resolve a two-party conflict is:

A KEY activity in closing out a project is to:

The indipendent project organization provides stability for the staff during execution of the project. From a personal viewpoint, the major concern of the staff is-

A person estimates that a commute home will most likely take 1 hour. On further questioning, she estimates that the trip could take as little as 45 minutes, best case, or 1 hour and 45 minutes, worst case. What is the standard deviation based on the estimation?

The existence of communication barriers is likely to produce:

Your project is behind schedule due to conflict between team members. Having resolved the conflict, to get the project back on schedule, you should consider:

As part of the quality audit, the scope statement is checked against the work results to ensure the conformance to the customer requirements. The results should be documented and used for:

You’ve been engaged to manage a project. The estimated cost of the project is $1,000,000. The project sponsor has approved this amount. Your earned value calculations indicate that the project will be completed on time and under budget by $200,000. Based on this information you should:

A project organization may be higly structured to achieve benefits of efficency. Two major contributors to the definition of a higly structured project organization are-

Most of the project budget is spent during:

Project are particularly susceptible to risk because:

Risk quantification includes:

A generally accepted method to confirm accuracy of task progress is through:

You are building a water treatment facility. Routine tests reveal that there are contaminants in the water but that they have an extremely low risk for causing any sickness. As the project manager, you should:

The purpose of project management plan development is to:

Assumptions generally involve some risks because

An appropriate sequence for risk management activities is:

In which project phase do you have the GREATEST influence on project risk?

Which of the following techniques is used to control the project schedule?

A KEY activity for achieving customer satisfaction is to define:

As applied to projects, temporary means that

Integrate change control is primarily concerned with:

The document that describes the objectives, work contents, deliverables, and end product of a project is the:

Ending a contract before the objectives have been met by either mutual agreement or breach is called:

A precise description of a deliverable is called a:

Pareto analysis, cause and effect, and flow charts are all tools used in quality:

When it appears that a design error will interfere with meeting technical performance objectives, the PREFERRED response is to:

A project management process and a product oriented mangement process

Which statement about customer expectations is not true?

When an organization chooses a project selection model, the most important criterion is:

With a _______ contract it is essential for the seller to maintain control of scope, schedule, and other changes

The objective of fast tracking a project is to:

Elements of changing a project schedule include all of the following EXCEPT:

The disorientation experienced by people who suddenly find themselves living and working in a different environment is known as:

The purpose of review of deliverables and project performance at the conclusion of a project phase is to –

The WBS is an input to scope control because it:

Ideally , resource leveling would be limited to activities:

The MAJOR processes for project integration management are:

When a project manager places a purchase order for a piece of equipment, it represents which of the following?

An individual’s willingness to take a risk can be determined by:

What is the MOST effective process to ensure that cultural and ethical differences do not impede success of your multi-national project?

Ideally, the project manager should be selected and assigned

The most important element necessary for project control is:

Milestone are not:

Project sponsors have the GREATEST influence on the scope, quality, time, and cost of the project during the:

Which of the following are frequently used tools in procurement planning?

All of the following assist in determining the impact of a scope change EXCEPT:

Negotiating across international cultures involves mutual interdependence between parties. The negotiating MUST be conducted in an atmosphere of:

The greatest degree of uncertainty is encountered during which phase of the project life cycle?

A precedence diagram and an arrow diagram are both examples of networks. Which statement describes the primary difference between them?

Using the following information BCWS = $2.200, BCWP = $2.000, ACWP = $2.500, BAC = $ 10.000, the CV is:

Ideally, communication between the project manager and the project team members should take place:

You have just taken control of a project in the middle of execution and need to learn who has approval authority for revisions in scope. Which document provides this information?

A project was estimated to cost $1.5 million and scheduled to last six months. After three months, the earned value analysis shows the following:
BCWP = $650,000
BCWS = $750,000
ACWP = $800,000
What are the schedule and cost variances?

In general, disagreements among stakeholders should be resolved in favor of the

Using the following information BCWS = $2.200, BCWP = $2.000, ACWP = $2.500 BAC = $ 10.000, the SV and status of the project is:

All the following statements about analogous estimating are true except:

A project’s payback period ends when:

Of the following conflict management approaches, which is believed to lead to the LEAST enduring positive results?

Configuration management is a technique for:

In which form of project organization would the project manager be likely to exercise the most control over project resources?

Which of the following is the primary objective of establishing a quality assurance process?

Using the following information BCWS = $2.200, BCWP = $2.000, ACWP = $2.500, BAC = $ 10.000, what is the EAC for this project, and what does it represent?

A scope statement is important because it:

Complex projects, involving cross-disciplinary efforts, are MOST effectively managed by:

Scope Verification outputs are:

Most of the project’s budget is expended during –

Traditional thinking (before Crosby, Juran, Deming, …) on quality performance standards said that errors are:

Rework is:

A project management professional can compare earned value performance data to all of the following project management tools EXCEPT:

The measure used to forecast project cost at completion is:

Reviewing work products and results to ensure that all were completed satisfactorily and formally accepted is part of:

The purpose of a project planning methodology is to-

In which form of project organization would the project manager be likely to exercise the most control over project resources?

Which of the following is not one of the seven quality control tools made popular by Karou Ishikawa?

During the create WBS process, the work breakdown structure should be developed to:

A contractor’s deliverable has been delayed 30 days. The process of determining how this event will affect the project schedule is called risk:

Risk response development is intended to: