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GIAC GCPM GIAC Certified Project Manager Certification Practice Test Exam Practice Test

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GIAC Certified Project Manager Certification Practice Test Questions and Answers

Question 1

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to measure the potential risks on the two dimensions of a graph. Which of the following charts will you use to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Gantt chart

B.

Risk probability and impact matrix

C.

Pareto chart

D.

Control chart

Question 2

Which of the following components of EVA is described in the statement below?

"It is a measure of how much of the project value has been earned so far through completed work, that is, the budgeted cost of the work that has been performed through the project status date."

Options:

A.

PV

B.

AC

C.

SV

D.

EV

Question 3

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on directing and managing the execution of your project. Which of the following is the most likely outcome as part of this phase of the project?

Options:

A.

Deliverables

B.

Quality metrics

C.

Quality control measurements

D.

Organizational process assets update

Question 4

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Which of the following techniques will you use to determine whether particular work can best be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from the outside sources?

Options:

A.

Expert Judgment

B.

Make-or-Buy Analysis

C.

Contract Types

D.

Procurement Negotiations

Question 5

You are the project manager of the HJU project for your company. This project will last for 18 months and has a project budget of $567,000. Robert, one of your stakeholders, has introduced a scope change request that will likely have an impact on the project costs and schedule. Robert assures you that he will pay for the extra time and costs associated with the risk event. You tell Robert that the change request may affect more areas of the project than just time and cost and that you are worried about the additional risks the change request will bring. What project management component is responsible for evaluating a change request and its impact on all of the project management knowledge areas?

Options:

A.

Integrated change control

B.

Configuration management

C.

Project change control system

D.

Risk analysis

Question 6

You are in need of procuring several tons of pea gravel for a construction. You'll need the vendor to provide a bid for the pea gravel on a specific date and time and that's one of the requirements included in the procurement document package you are reviewing. Who creates the procurement document package?

Options:

A.

The project sponsor

B.

Both parties contribute

C.

The seller

D.

The buyer

Question 7

You are the program manager for your project. You are working with the project managers regarding the procurement processes for their projects. You have ruled out one particular contract type because it is considered too risky for the program. Which one of the following contract types is usually considered to be the most dangerous for the buyer?

Options:

A.

Cost plus incentive fee

B.

Time and materials

C.

Cost plus percentage of costs

D.

Fixed fee

Question 8

You are the project manager of a project to create a network inside of a building. You need to hire an electrician to run network cable throughout the building. Based on your experience, you create an estimate for the work that you'll measure all of the bids against. This is an example of what type of procurement seller selection?

Options:

A.

Seller rating system

B.

Independent estimate

C.

Weighting system

D.

Screening system

Question 9

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on the Plan quality process for your project. Which of the following are inputs of the Plan quality process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Scope baseline

B.

Stakeholder register

C.

Project document updates

D.

Cost performance baseline

Question 10

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are performing a task to generate a hierarchical list of resources related by function and resource type that is used to facilitate planning and controlling of project work. Which of the following components of project management will you use to accomplish the above task?

Options:

A.

PERT chart

B.

RBS

C.

Gantt chart

D.

WBS

Question 11

Which of the following are the essential qualities of an HR manager?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Excellent communication skills and leadership qualities

B.

Excellent technical skills in the field of project management

C.

Strong presentation abilities

D.

Creative thinker and excellent team player

Question 12

You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a software development project that is in progress. A sub-contracting company has been doing the development work on this project.

Which of the following processes do you not need to work on, as part of the procurement management?

Options:

A.

Closing

B.

Planning

C.

Initiation

D.

Executing

Question 13

Which of the following processes formally permits the initiation of a project and marks the kickoff for all consequent development activities to begin?

Options:

A.

Develop project charter

B.

Develop project management plan

C.

Develop project scope statement

D.

Develop project team

Question 14

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are in the project kickoff meeting. Which of the following documents are reviewed during the project kickoff meeting?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Project budget

B.

Project WBS

C.

Project charter

D.

Project scope

Question 15

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to include a budget contingency to accommodate the risk of incurring unidentifiable but normally occurring costs within the defined scope. Which of the following processes will help you to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Cost controlling

B.

Cost budgeting

C.

Cost baselining

D.

Cost estimation

Question 16

You are the project manager for your organization. Your project is doing fine on time and cost, but management wants to address the project performance for future accomplishment. Management has asked you to begin reporting and forecasting your project's health based on a moving average, extrapolation, trend estimation, and growth curve. What type of forecasting method is management asking you to use?

Options:

A.

Estimate at completion method

B.

Time series methods

C.

Causal/econometric methods

D.

Judgmental methods

Question 17

Which of the following are inputs of the Control Scope process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Project management plan

B.

Work performance information

C.

Change request

D.

Requirements documentation

Question 18

Which of the following are outputs of the Perform Quality Control process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Quality metrics

B.

Validated deliverables

C.

Validated changes

D.

Project document updates

Question 19

Which of the following activities are involved in the Team Development process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Managing opportunities and risks

B.

Enhancing the ability of stakeholders to contribute as individuals

C.

Enhancing the ability of the team to function as a team

D.

Motivating to resolve conflict on a long-term or short-term basis

Question 20

Rick is the project manager for TTM project. He is in the process of procuring services from vendors. He makes a contract with a vendor in which he precisely specify the services to be procured, and any changes to the procurement specification will increase the costs to the buyer.

Which type of contract is this?

Options:

A.

Fixed Price Incentive Fee

B.

Cost Plus Fixed Fee Contract

C.

Firm Fixed Price

D.

Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment

Question 21

You are the project manager for your organization and would like to use a time and materials contract for a small project. What must a time and materials contract have to safeguard the project?

Options:

A.

Terms for payment

B.

A not-to-exceed clause

C.

An approved vendor by a leading trade organization

D.

Approval from the project sponsor

Question 22

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on several projects. Your projects vary in size and budget. You have to calculate the ratios of schedule and cost compared to plan, so that you can compare relative schedule and cost performance of each project. Which of the following components of EVM provide measures of schedule and cost performance that are not affected by the size of the project?

Options:

A.

CPI and SPI

B.

BAC and EAC

C.

PV and EV

D.

CV and SV

Question 23

You are the project manager of TRT project. During execution phase of your project, Rick, a team member, complains that other team members are isolating him and this isolation is bothering him.

Which of the following is not a recommended step in order to resolve the issue?

Options:

A.

Get feedback on Rick from other team members.

B.

Get more feed back from Rick.

C.

Shift Rick to another project.

D.

Apply team building measures to improve the team's effectiveness.

Question 24

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______involves the implementation of strategies to reduce the negative aspects of conflict and to increase the positive aspects of conflict at a level equal to or higher than where the conflict is taking place.

Options:

Question 25

You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves development of a new interface for your existing time management system. You know that developers are available in your organization, and would like to use them. However, your program manager thinks that an outside company needs to be engaged to complete this development. Which of the following will help you to convince your project manager to use the internal resources?

Options:

A.

Expert Judgment

B.

Make or buy analysis

C.

Survey Questionnaire

D.

Issue log

Question 26

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to determine the seller for the project. You have received proposals from five vendors and they are all very good proposals, and the value is worth the same. You have to build a method of ranking each vendor. You have allocated 35 points to experience and 15 points for all the other categories to judge the vendors. Which of the following types of source selection process is used in the above scenario?

Options:

A.

Screening system

B.

Benefits-cost analysis

C.

Weighting system

D.

Seller rating system

Question 27

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Management has selected the team members for your team in advance. Which of the following techniques of the Acquire project team has been used in the above scenario?

Options:

A.

Pre-assignment

B.

Acquisition

C.

Virtual team

D.

Negotiation

Question 28

You are the project manager of the HJK project for your organization. You and the project team have created risk responses for many of the risk events in the project. A teaming agreement is an example of what risk response?

Options:

A.

Mitigation

B.

Transference

C.

Acceptance

D.

Sharing

Question 29

You are the project manager for your organization. Your organization manages projects for other companies. You will be soon managing a project for the JUH Company. What document do you need first to help to develop the project charter?

Options:

A.

Business requirements

B.

Functional requirements

C.

Preliminary project scope statement

D.

Contract

Question 30

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on the control schedule process. Which of the following techniques will you use to find ways to bring project activities that are behind into alignment with the plan?

Options:

A.

Resource leveling

B.

What-if scenario analysis

C.

Adjusting leads and lags

D.

Schedule compression

Question 31

Which of the following are inputs of the Control Scope process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Change request

B.

Requirements documentation

C.

Project management plan

D.

Work performance information

Question 32

Which of the following techniques is used to identify risks, ideas, or solutions to issues by using a group?

Options:

A.

Brainstorming

B.

Checklist analysis

C.

Delphi technique

D.

Root cause analysis

Question 33

You are the project manager for your organization. The resources that you'll be using on your project are part of a union. The union representatives inform you that you may only utilize union labor on your project for a maximum of 25 hours per week. What approach will you need to do to reveal over utilization of the union resources?

Options:

A.

Critical path method

B.

Fast tracking

C.

Critical chain method

D.

Resource leveling

Question 34

You are the program manager for the HGQ Program in your organization. Your program has eight constituent projects including a small project which you've assigned to Beth a new project manager in your organization. Part of your assignment is to coach Beth on project management in your program. You are telling Beth about the five process groups of project management and how they map to the progression of the project. Which process group would you tell Beth is where she'll likely spend the bulk of the project time and the project budget?

Options:

A.

Executing

B.

Planning

C.

Monitoring and Controlling

D.

Procurement

Question 35

You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a project to develop a machine which produces auto components. You have put together a realistic and achievable timeline for all your project activities after consulting with your project team members and reaching an agreement.

However, you observe that one of your team members is working overtime because of his poor prioritization of project activities. Should you reward this team member for his behavior?

Options:

A.

No, because there is no budget for incentives in your project cost.

B.

Yes, because you can compel the other team members to work over time as well.

C.

Yes, because he is committed to work over time.

D.

No, because this is a result of poor planning by the team member.

Question 36

Nancy is the project manager of the JJJ Project. This project has recently been approved by the project customer as complete so Nancy must now finalize the administrative closure. Nancy needs to create the final project report to report the successes and failures in the project. Who should Nancy deliver this final project report to if she is participating in a projectized structure?

Options:

A.

Functional Management

B.

Project customer

C.

Project sponsor

D.

Whomever the communications management plan directs her to

Question 37

Which of the following are outputs of the Control Scope process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Work performance measurement

B.

Project management plan update

C.

Change request

D.

Requirement documentation

Question 38

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to reduce the affective conflicts at all levels, and also attain and maintain a reasonable amount of substantive conflict. Which of the following processes will you use to accomplish the above task?

Options:

A.

Change management

B.

Conflict management

C.

Risk management

D.

Quality management

Question 39

Sam is the project manager for his organization. His project is not doing well on project schedule performance, and management wants him to predict how the project schedule and cost will end.

Management has asked Sam to report and forecast his project's performance based on the Delphi Method, scenario building, technology forecasting, and to forecast by analogy. What forecasting method is management asking Sam to use?

Options:

A.

Judgmental methods

B.

Earned value management method

C.

Time series methods

D.

Causal/econometric methods

Question 40

Which of the following techniques is described in the statement below?

"It is an early warning project management tool that allows managers to discover and control errors before they become unmanageable."

Options:

A.

Resource leveling

B.

Earned Value Analysis

C.

What-if scenario analysis

D.

Variance analysis

Question 41

You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your company. You have completed qualitative and quantitative analysis of your identified project risks and you would now like to find an approach to increase project opportunities and to reduce threats within the project. What project management process would best help you?

Options:

A.

Monitor and control project risks

B.

Create a risk governance approach

C.

Create the project risk register

D.

Plan risk responses

Question 42

You are the project manager of the GHY Project for your functional organization. Another project manager that uses some of your project resources has asked that you allow the resources you both share to always be available for her project on every Thursday. The only conflict you have with this request that on Thursday mornings you have a regularly scheduled status meeting. You agree to the request and decide to move the status meeting to Tuesday morning going forward in your project.

What project plan must you update to reflect this change?

Options:

A.

Human Resources Management Plan

B.

Scope Management Plan

C.

Communications Management Plan

D.

Staffing Management Plan

Question 43

What does CPI value less than 1.0 indicates?

Options:

A.

Cost underrun of performance to date

B.

Cost for completed work is as per estimate

C.

Scheduled performance is great

D.

Cost overrun for work completed

Question 44

Which of the following is built by aggregating the costs of the individual work elements and then joining them at time intervals where meaningful actual cost information will be available?

Options:

A.

Cost baseline

B.

Cost estimation

C.

Cost controlling

D.

Cost budgeting

Question 45

Which of the following documents refers specifically to the input output mechanism that serves the purpose of providing a narrative description of the sum of the scope of the project?

Options:

A.

Project scope statement

B.

Project WBS

C.

Project WBS dictionary

D.

Project charter

Question 46

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to illustrate how various factors might be linked to the potential problems or effects. Which of the following tools of the Perform Quality Control process will help you to accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Scatter diagram

B.

Control chart

C.

Pareto chart

D.

Cause and Effect diagram

Question 47

Which of the following are outputs of the Plan Quality process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Stakeholder register

B.

Process improvement plan

C.

Quality management plan

D.

Quality metrics

Question 48

Which of the following are outputs of the Develop Project Team process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Team performance assessment

B.

Project management plan

C.

Enterprise environmental factors update

D.

Project staff assignment

Question 49

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to standardize your department's personnel resources to facilitate planning and controlling of project work. Which of the following components of project management will help you accomplish the task?

Options:

A.

Gantt chart

B.

Project network diagram

C.

RBS

D.

WBS

Question 50

Which of the following are the characteristics of the project life cycle?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Stakeholders influences, risk, and uncertainty are at peak in the beginning of the project.

B.

It is limited by constraints, including resource constraints.

C.

Cost and staffing are low at the start, are high as the work is carried out, and decrease as the project comes towards the end.

D.

Skills to influence the final characteristics of the project's product, without much impact on cost, is at peak in the beginning of the project and reduces as the project progresses towards completion.

Question 51

You are a Project Manager in your organization who is managing a considerably huge budget project to develop new software. Considering the varied nature of your stakeholder group, you would like to put together a plan as to what information the stakeholders need, and how to provide that information. What is the document that you would need, and as part of which process group would you achieve this?

Options:

A.

Project Management Plan, Planning Process Group

B.

Project Management Plan, Initiating Process Group

C.

Communications Management Plan, Execution Process group

D.

Communications Management Plan, Planning Process Group

Question 52

You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves deployment of a new software application to all your organization's users. The timeline is aggressive, and this software is being deployed on your company's architecture for the first time. In addition, your project steering committee has specified an allowable budget for your project. You plan to use an outside company for this deployment. Which of the following contract types is BEST suited for you to negotiate?

Options:

A.

Time and material

B.

Cost reimbursable

C.

Fixed price

D.

Lowest bid

Question 53

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to share the organization strategic ideas, tasks, dependencies, and associations with team members. Which of the following will help you to achieve the above task?

Options:

A.

Stakeholders register

B.

Project charter

C.

Organizational chart

D.

Risk register

Question 54

Charlie has just completed the project according to the terms of the contract. She and the customer are completing a walk through of the project deliverables, and the customer is asking for changes to the deliverables before she'll accept the product. What project management Mprocess should manage the documented change request that may come from scope verification?

Options:

A.

Perform integrated change control

B.

Control Scope

C.

Control change control

D.

Scope management

Question 55

Which of the following processes is described in the statement below?

"It is the process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities."

Options:

A.

Sequence Activities

B.

Define Scope

C.

Create WBS

D.

Define Activities

Question 56

Which of the following management skills is described in the statement below?

"It is a strategy of sharing power and relying on interpersonal skill to get others to cooperate towards common goals."

Options:

A.

Communication

B.

Motivation

C.

Influencing

D.

Negotiation

Question 57

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It means that feedback regarding performance is provided to the person being evaluated from many sources, including superiors, peers, and subordinates."

Options:

A.

360-degree evaluations

B.

Goal review

C.

Team-led project reviews

D.

Organizational performance appraisals

Question 58

Which of the following documents is described in the statement below?

"It is an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do an act which is enforceable in the court of law."

Options:

A.

Resource calendar

B.

Risk register

C.

Project calendar

D.

Contract

Question 59

Tom works as the project manager for BlueWell Inc. He spends the majority of his time communicating with team members and the project stakeholders. Various communication skills are involved in the communication processes. Which communication skills are involved in this process?

Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. Choose all that apply.

Options:

A.

Formal and Informal

B.

Vertical and Horizontal

C.

Internal and External

D.

Confronting and problem solving

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