During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?
The Project Management Process Group in which performance is observed and measured regularly from project initiation through completion is:
As the project progresses, which of the following is routinely collected from the project activities?
Which of the following is an input to Develop Human Resource Plan?
Types of internal failure costs include:
What is the most accurate rough order of magnitude (ROM)?
In which process might a project manager use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?
Monte Carlo is which type of risk analysis technique?
Which process involves identifying and documenting the logical relationships between project activities?
A weighting system is a tool for which area of Conduct Procurements?
What does a CPI value greater than 1.0 indicate?
Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?
The output that defines an approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders is the:
The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the:
Another name for an Ishikawa diagram is:
Which process determines the risks that might affect the project?
Analogous cost estimating relies on which of the following techniques?
Which of the following events would result in a baseline update?
Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?
Which of the following is a conflict resolution technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
Which written document helps monitor who is responsible for resolving specific problems and concerns by a target date?
In project management, a temporary project can be:
Completion of the product scope is measured against the product:
Which process is usually a rapid and cost-effective means of establishing priorities for Plan Risk Responses?
Which element does a project charter contain?
An input to the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
What is the critical path for the project?
Stakeholder communication requirements should be included as a component of:
Project management processes ensure the:
During which process does the project team receive bids and proposals?
The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
Specification of both the deliverables and the processes is the focus of:
The risk response strategy in which the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk is known as:
Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
Which Perform Quality Assurance tool or technique is used to identify a problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it, and develop preventative actions?
Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
Which quality tool incorporates the upper and lower specification limits allowed within an agreement?
Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
The component of the risk management plan that documents how risk activities will be recorded is called:
A project manager should communicate to stakeholders about resolved project issues by updating the:
What is the risk rating if the probability of occurrence is 0.30 and the impact if it does occur is moderate (0.20)?
A disadvantage associated with virtual teams is that they:
An input of the Control Schedule process is the:
What tool and technique is used to determine whether work and deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria?
The integrative nature of project management requires which Process Group to interact with the other Process Groups?
The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
An output of Control Schedule is:
Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
Which estimating technique uses the actual costs of previous similar projects as a basis for estimating the costs of the current project?
Which document includes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints?
When is a project finished?
Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
What is the definition of Direct and Manage Project Execution?
The Verify Scope process is primarily concerned with:
An input to the Create WBS process is a:
What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
What is the difference between the critical path and the critical chain?
Which tools or techniques will a project manager use for Develop Project Team?
The procurement process that documents agreements and related documentation for future reference is known as:
Which is an example of Administer Procurements?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
Who, along with the project manager, is supposed to direct the performance of the planned project activities and manage the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within the project?
While preparing the project management plan on a weekly basis, the project manager indicates the intention to provide an issues report to the staff via e-mail. In which part of the plan will this type of information be included?
An input of the Create WBS process is:
What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?
Which process requires implementation of approved changes?
Which baselines make up the performance measurement baseline?
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
When cost variance is negative and schedule variance is positive, the project is:
Using the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely duration is four months, the optimistic duration is two months, and the pessimistic duration is one year, how many months is the expected activity duration?
Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
A tool and technique used during the Collect Requirements process is:
Which of the following is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
What happens to a stakeholder's project influence over time?
The project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces, while in practice they:
The cost benefit analysis tool is used for creating:
Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
Who is responsible for initiating a project?
The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:
Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
Which of the following can be used as an input for Define Scope?
A project in which the scope, time, and cost of delivery are determined as early as possible is following a life cycle that is:
Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?
What are the Project Procurement Management processes?
An input to Conduct Procurements is:
Which process numerically analyzes the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives?
The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?
When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?
Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:
The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:
The ways in which the roles and responsibilities, reporting relationships, and staffing management will be addressed and structured within a project is described in the:
Which Control Quality tool is also known as an arrow diagram?
Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
The Identify Stakeholders process is found in which Process Group?
A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished is known as:
Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
Identify Risks is part of which Process Group?
The organization's perceived balance between risk taking and risk avoidance is reflected in the risk:
Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?
An input to the Plan Cost Management process is: