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PMtutor Classroom Questions
Framework
1. In a matrix organization, which of the following is not a responsibility of the
project manager?
A. Complete task definitions
B. Resource requirement definitions
C. Major timetable milestones
D. Personnel performance measurements
Answer D
2. Which of the following are not considered as enterprise environmental factor?
A. Stakeholder risk tolerance
B. Organization communication requirements
C. Marketplace condition
D. Work authorization system
Answer B
3. Adaugo is having trouble, securing programmers for her project. Every time
she asks the programming manager for resources for her project, he says
they’re all assigned to other work. So she constantly has to go over his head to
overrule him. Which type of organization is she working for?
A. Functional
B. Weak Matrix
C. Strong Matrix
D. Projectized
Answer C
4. In which of the following project management process group can stakeholders
be identified?
a. Planning, monitoring and controlling
b. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and control and closing
c. Initiating, planning and executing
d. Initiating only
e. Initiating and planning
Answer B
Scope
1. Which of the following
breakdown structure?
is
the
MOST
valuable
result
of
creating
the
work
A. Resource requirements
B. Team buy-­­in
C. Activity attributes
D. Activity list
E. Schedule baseline
Answer B
2. Which of the following statement are false regarding Delphi’s technique:
A. Delphi technique can be used to elicit feedback without physically
assembling the contributors
B. The Delphi technique helps prevent anyone person from unduly influencing
the outcome
C. None of the choices are correct
D. Delphi technique provides a way to reach the consensus among experts and
allow the experts to participate anonymously
Answer B
3. Uduak at a cable and networking company is gathering requirements for a
project to build a new version of their telecommunications equipment. Which
of the following is NOT something that she will use?
A. Specific descriptions of work packages that will be developed
B. One-­­on-­­one interviews with the senior executives who need the new equipment
for their teams
C. An early working model of the telecommunications equipment to help get
feedback from stakeholders
D. Notes that she took while being “embedded” with the team that will eventually
use the equipment being developed
Answer A
4. Lola is a project manager managing the ‘Online Banking’ project. The project
has completed phase 1 and is moving into the next phase of the project. What
is the process Lola has to plan for, to ensure that the project requirements
have been met in phase 1 and the project can move to the next phase?
A. Control Scope
B. Verify Scope
C. Define Scope
D. Create WBS
Answer B
Time
1. You’re managing a project to build a new project management information
system. You work with the team to come up with an estimate of 27 weeks. In
the best case, this could be shortened by two weeks because you can reuse a
previous component. But there’s a risk that a vendor delay could cause the
project to be delayed by five weeks. Use PERT to calculate a three-­­point
estimate for this project.
A. 25.83 weeks
B. 26 weeks
C. 27.5 weeks
D. 28.3 weeks
Answer C
2. You’re managing a software project. You’ve created the
need to figure out which activities absolutely cannot slip.
path analysis, identifying the critical path and calculating
early finish for each activity. Which activities cannot slip
project late?
A. The
B. The
C. The
D. The
schedule, and you
You’ve done critical
the early start and
without making the
ones with the biggest difference between ES and LF
activities on the critical path
activity with the most lag
last activity in the project, because it has no float
Answer B
3. You have decided to apply Resource Leveling to a project due to a critical
required resource being available only at certain times. Which of the following
will likely be true?
A. Resource Leveling is usually applied to a schedule model that has already been
analyzed by the Critical Path Method
B. Resource Leveling and analysis of the schedule model by the Critical Path
Method can be done in parallel.
C. Fast tracking and not Resource Leveling needs to be applied in this case.
D. Resource Leveling is usually done before a schedule model has been analyzed by
the Critical Path Method
Answer A
Cost
1. Ranti needs to analyze the project
would be BEST if Ranti looks at:
A. Variable costs and fixed
B. Fixed costs and indirect
C. Direct costs and variable
D. Indirect costs and direct
costs
to
find
ways
to
decrease
costs.
It
costs.
costs.
costs.
costs.
Answer C
2.
Ebube is working on a large construction project. His plan says that the
project should end up costing $1.5 million, but he’s concerned that he’s not
going come in under budget. He’s spent $950,000 of the budget so far, and he
calculates that he’s 57% done with the work, and he doesn’t think he can
improve his CPI above 1.05. Which of the following BEST describes the current
state of the project?
A. The project is likely
B. The project is likely
C. The project right on
D. There is no way to
to come in under budget
to exceed its budget
target
determine this information
Answer B
3. Contingency Reserves are estimated costs to be used at the discretion of the
project manager to deal with:
A. Inadequacies in the original estimate
B. Anticipated but not certain events
C. Unanticipated events
D. Anticipated and certain events
Answer B
4. During which
created?
project
management
A. Monitoring and controlling
B. Planning
C. Initiating
D. Executing
process
group
are
budget
forecasts
Answer C
Quality
1. All of the following are examples of quality metrics EXCEPT:
A. Test coverage
B. Checklists
C. Defect density
D. Reliability
E. Failure rate
Answer B
2. Which of the following tools/ technique of the quality planning process can
be used to identify the project variables that will have the greatest impact on
overall project outcomes and results?
A. Flowcharting
B. Design of experiments
C. Benefit/ cost analysis
D. Benchmarking
Answer B
3. Which of the following is NOT a part of quality?
A. Fitness for use
B. Conformance to requirements
C. Value to the sponsor
D. Customer satisfaction
Answer C
4.
You are managing a software project with limited development resources.
The QA department has discovered a large number of defects in the product,
and the project sponsor is very concerned about this. You want to get the
maximum number of defects repaired with minimal effort. Which quality-­­
control tool are you going to use before you direct the efforts of the project
team to fix specific problems?
A. Control chart
B.Cause and effect diagram
C.Pareto diagram
D. Scatter diagram
Answer A
Risk
1.Which of the following processes involves developing necessary procedures
to mitigate threats to the project from the project risks?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Risk
Risk
Risk
Risk
management planning
identification
monitoring and control
response planning
Answer D
2.Which of the following is a valid statement about SWOT?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It
It
It
It
is an
refers
is a
is a
analysis technique to identify risks.
to the analysis of scope, work, options, and timing.
technique used to plan a risk response.
technique used to perform quantitative risk analysis.
Answer A
3. Consider the following figure. Assume that the risk has a 50% probability of
occurrence. If the risk does occur, it could have a positive or a negative
impact in
equivalent to $200,000 or $50,000, respectively, with the probabilities shown in
the figure. What is the EMV for the risk?
Possible
Impact
Risk
A.
B.
C.
D.
$25,000.
$55,000.
$110,000.
$50,000.
Answer B
Opportunity
worth
$200,000
loosing
$50,000
4.
If a risk has a 20 percent chance of happening in a given month, and
project is expected to last five months, what is the probability that this risk
event will occur during the fourth month of the project?
A. Less than 1 percent
B. 20 percent
the
C. 60 percent
Answer B
Threat of
D. 80 percent
Procurement
1. Which of the following would LEAST likely to be found as part of a contract?
A. Warranty, limitation of liability
B. Independent estimates, evaluation criteria
C. Roles of responsibilities, pricing and payments
D. Inflation adjustments, acceptance criteria
E. Statement of work, schedule
Answer B
2. Which of the following types of contracts requires the greatest amount of time
to monitor and audit?
A. T&M
B. Fixed price
C. CPFF
D. FPIF
Answer C
3. You’re looking for a seller to do work for your project. When do you send
out an RFP?
A. After you create the procurement documents, but before you select the seller
B. Before you plan contracting, but after you Plan Procurements
C. After the bidder conference, but before you select the seller
D. During Administer Procurements
Answer A
4. You’re managing a project that might have to contract out work, and you’re
comparing the relative advantages and disadvantages of finding a seller
versus having your company do the work itself. Which process are you in?
A. Plan Procurements
B. Plan Contracting
C. Conduct Procurements
D. Request Seller Responses
Answer A
Human Resources
1. You are the project manager for a manufacturer of children’s toys. Your
project team is in process of designing a new children toy for next year’s
Christmas season.
Your team meets and learns about the opportunity, agrees on goals and
resources necessary to tackle the task. Although your team is highly
motivated, they are relatively uninformed of the issues and objectives
of the project. Which of the following stages of Develop Project
Team
best describes your team?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Performing
Forming
None of the choices are correct
Storming
Norming
Answer B
2. You are a project manager at a biotech company where you are responsible
for developing treatment for diabetes. You are in functional organization,
where you have little formal authority within the organization. Which of the
following describes the type of power you have in organization?
A. Expert power
B. Referent power
C. Punishment power
D. Legitimate power
E. Coercive power
Answer A
3. You are evaluating several different motivational strategies to motivate your
project team. You subscribe to the belief that pay and salary may prevent job
dissatisfaction, but will not lead to long term job satisfaction. You believe that
over the long run pay and salary are NOT motivators. Which of the following
motivational theories are you applying?
A. Expectancy theory
B. Achievement theory
C. Maslow hierarchy of needs
D. Hertzberg hygiene theory
Answer C
Communication
1. The project team is working on an important and complex project that
requires a lot of coordination.
Under these circumstances, the BEST strategy
is to:
A. Have
B. Hire
C. Hold
D. Gain
Answer D
a war room.
a contractor.
more meetings to get the word out.
extra assistance from management.
2.
In communication, the receiver filters messages based on all but which of
the following?
A. Culture.
B. Semantics.
C. Language.
D. Distance.
Answer D
3. You have just been assigned as project manager for a large manufacturing
project. This one-­­year project is about halfway done. It involves five different
sellers and 20 members of your company on the project team. You want
quickly review where the project now stands. Which of the following reports
would be the MOST helpful in finding such information?
A. Work status
B. Progress
C. Forecast
D. Communications
Answer B
4. You have five people working on your team, a sponsor within your company,
and a client, all of whom need to be kept informed of your project’s progress.
How many lines of communication are there?
A. 28
B. 21
C. 19
D. 31
Answer A
to
Integration
1. Which of the following is NOT an output of Direct and Manage Execution?
A. Work performance information.
B. Deliverables.
C. Implemented change request.
D. Forecasts.
Answer D
2. You’re on the project selection committee. You’re reviewing a document
that describes the strategic value of a potential project and its benefits to the
company. What’s this document called?
A. Project Charter
B. Business Case
C. Benefit measurement method
D. Contract
Answer B
3. Your company can accept one of three possible projects. Project A has a net
present value (NPV) of $30,000 and will take six years to complete. Project B
has an NPV of $60,000 and will take three years to complete. Project C has an
NPV of $90,000 and will take four years to complete. Based on this
information, which project would you pick?
A. They all have the same value.
B. Project A
C. Project B
D. Project C
Answer D
4. The project management team has determined that there are some changes
to the Scope of the project. Who would be responsible for reviewing,
evaluating and approving documented changes to the project?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Change Control Board (CCB)
Change Configuration Board (CCB)
Scope Control Board (SCB)
Configuration Control Board (CCB)
Answer A