Sample Exam Questions & Answers 6

1. Market demand, business needs and technological advances are all potentially reasons for conducting a project. This basis is captured in which document?

A. Enterprise environmental factors.

B. Preliminary project scope statement.

C. Project selection criteria.

D. Project charter

2. Seeking group consensus, even at the expense of the project leader’s point of view, is characteristic of which leadership style?

A. Democratic

B. Permissive

C. Consultative

D. Participative

3. The estimate at completion (EAC) can be calculated by

A. summing the original estimates for completed activities.

B. adding the estimate-to-complete to the actual costs incurred to-date.

C. dividing the total project budget by the number of weeks in the project and multiplying the result by the average hourly staff rate.

D. multiplying the cost performance index (CPI) by the total budgeted costs (BAC).

4. All of the following are true about lag except

A. the successor task must start later relative to the predecessor task.

B. the successor task should start later relative to the predecessor task but this can be altered by other aspects of network logic.

C. it can be used with all of the dependency relationship types.

D. it is represented in network logic tables and diagrams with a plus (+) sign.

5. Which of the following is not part of the communications management plan?

A. A description of the methods used to gather and store various types of information.

B. Earned value analysis

C. Description of the information to be distributed.

D. Methods for accessing information between scheduled communications.

6. Which of the following is not part of the project archive process?

A. Ensuring that all project documents are retained and indexed in a standard manner to facilitate later retrieval.

B. Updating the lessons learned database.

C. Updating the experience and skill records of all project team members.

D. Ensuring that all financial records are properly archived, especially if the project was done under contract.

7. The procurement documents to be used, the supplier management processes and the types of contracts that will be used are to be found in which document?

A. Solicitation management plan.

B. Contracting management plan.

C. Organizational policies.

D. Procurement management plan.

8. Which of the following would not suggest that the task could be completed sooner by adding more resources?

A. A programming task includes screen development and data modeling.

B. A telephone installer must connect ten new telephone lines into the trunk line array (a 0,6 x 0,4 meter metal box).

C. A three by four meter room must be painted.

D. Several experiments must be conducted in which the response of mice to various dosages of a new drug will be assessed.

9. Work results include what information concerning tasks which have been started and completed as well as the degree of conformance to established quality standards. Work results are

A. an output of performance reporting and an input to Integrated Change Control.

B. an output of Information Distribution and an input to Performance Reporting.

C. an output of Project Plan Execution and an input to Performance Reporting.

D. an output of Project Plan Execution and an input to Integrated Change Control.

10. Assuming that the phases in a project are concept, development, implementation and termination, which phase typically has the highest degree of uncertainty?

A. Concept

B. Development

C. Implementation

D. Termination


ANSWERS:

1.D(Projects are usually chartered and authorized as a result of one or more of the following: Market demand, business need, customer request, technological advance, legal requirement or social need. [4.1]
2.A(The characteristics of the Democratic leadership style are 1) using less authority and giving more freedom to subordinates than the participative leaders, 2) regularly soliciting group consensus and 3) allowing the group to override the manager’s decision. Frame, pp 141-149
3.B(Answer A gives the Earned Value for the project at this point in time. Answer C is meaningless. Answer D is wrong because EAC can be calculated by dividing the CPI into the BAC. [7.3.2.3]
4.B(A lag refers to a desired delay in the start of a successor task relative to the predecessor task and can be used with any dependency type as FS+, SS+ or FF+ the amount of the desired delay. However, if other predecessor tasks in the network require longer than this delay period to complete, the successor task will start later than the specified delay period. [6.2.2.5]
5.B(Earned Value Analysis is part of project control. [10.1.3.1]
6.A(Temporary documents of only transient value as well as those whose content have been incorporated into a final format should be discarded before archiving. [10.4.3.1]
7.D(Key elements in the procurement management plan are enumerated here. [12.1.3.1]
8.B(Duration compression is only feasible when the work can be meaningfully divided into smaller, largely independent pieces. Screen development and data modeling are clearly distinct. One painter can paint two walls and another painter can paint the other two walls. Different researchers can each be responsible for one of the experiments. It is probably not feasible to have more than one person working in a 60 x 40 centimeter area. [6.5.2.3]
9.C(“Information on work results - which deliverables have been completed and which have not, to what extent quality standards are being met, what costs have been incurred or committed, etc. - is collected as part of project plan execution and fed into the performance reporting process.” [4.2.3.1, 10.3]
10.A(The first phase in a project always has the greatest degree of uncertainty because at this point in time the product is the least well defined. [2.1.2]