Sample Exam Questions & Answers 5

1. Items such as tools, personnel policies and marketplace conditions are examples of which input into Scope Planning?

A. Organizational Process Assets.

B. Project management plan.

C. Enterprise environmental factors.

D. Project charter.

2. Which of the following is not considered to be part of project integration management?

A. Making choices about where to concentrate resources.

B. Anticipating potential issues and dealing with them before they become critical.

C. Setting the format and establishing criteria for developing and controlling the project schedule.

D. Making tradeoffs among competing objectives and alternatives.

3. The document that shows the number of staff assigned over the life of the project is called

A. a resource histogram.

B. the staffing management plan

C. a responsibility assignment matrix

D. the resource assignment schedule.

4. The objective of the activity definition process is to

A. identify the specific activities that must be performed in order to achieve the various project objectives.

B. identify the specific activities that should be included in the Work Breakdown Structure.

C. identify the specific activities that must be performed to produce the various deliverables and subdeliverables.

D. identify the specific activities that need to be defined such that the project objectives will be met.

5. Estimating a task duration by extrapolating from one or more similar activities completed in the past is called

A. parametric estimating.

B. estimating by extension.

C. history based estimating.

D. analogous estimating.

6. Which of the following is generally not considered to be a part of the team development process?

A. Developing and finalizing the project staffing plan.

B. Meeting with the team members’ managers during the project.

C. Holding regular team meetings to discuss progress and possible problems.

D. Coaching a programmer on structured programming techniques.

7. The transitional actions at the end of a project which links the project to the ongoing operations of the performing organization is defined in

A. the project management methodology.

B. the closing phase templates.

C. the project life cycle definition.

D. the organizational business plan.

8. The organizational form in which the project manager has informal authority over team members and little or no input to team member’s performance appraisal is called

A. weak matrix.

B. functional.

C. strong matrix.

D. composite.

9. If the cost variances to date are believed to be temporary, the estimate at completion (EAC) should be calculated as

A. Actuals To Date + Remaining Budget

B. Actuals To Date + New estimate for remaining work

C. Actuals To Date + Remaining Budget/CPI

D. Actuals To Date + Actual Cost/CPI

10. What is true about proposals?

A. They always contain a separate section giving the price for the proposed solution.

B. They represent the mutual agreement on the structure and requirements of the contract prior to its actual execution.

C. They must represent the entire and complete offer and cannot be orally modified until contract negotiations begin.

D. They are seller prepared documents that describe the seller’s ability and willingness to provide the requested product.


ANSWERS

1.C(“Enterprise environmental factors include items such as the organization’s culture, infrastructure, tools, human resources, personnel policies and marketplace conditions that could affect how project scope is managed.” [5.1.1.1]
2.C(Answer C is one of the objectives of project time management. [4.0]
3.A(A Resource Historgram is “a bar chart showing the amount of time that a resouce is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.” [Glossary]
4.C(“Activity definition involves identifying and documenting the work that is planned to be performed. … Implicit in this process is defining and planning the schedule activities such that the project objectives will be met.” [6.1]
5.D(“Analogous duration estimating means using the actual duration of a previous, similar schedule activity as the basis for estimating the duration of a future schedule activity.” [6.4.2.2]
6.A(Answer A belongs to 9.1 Human Resource Planning and must be largely completed before the various team development activities. [9.1.3.3, 9.3]
7.C
8.A(“Weak matrices maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization, and the project manager role is more that of a coordinator or expediter than that of a manager.” [2.3.3]
9.A(The formula EAC = AC + (BAC - EV) “is most often used when current variances are seen as atypical and the project management team expectations are that similar variances will not occur in the future.” [7.3.2.3]
10.D(“Proposals ... are seller-prepared documents that describe the seller’s ability and willingness to provide the requested product.” [12.3.3.3])