Sample Exam Questions & Answers 7

1. If the project is experiencing increasing levels of conflict due to poor communication, which of the following is least likely to improve the situation?

A. Encouraging the team to socialize outside of work.

B. Moving the project status meetings from morning to afternoon.

C. Working with the team members to identify the source(s) of the conflict.

D. Scheduling an off-site team building workshop.

2. When full and complete pricing together with all design details is desired from a potential seller, the proper procurement document is a

A. Delivery Specifications Document.

B. Request for Proposal.

C. Invitation for Bid

D. Purchase Order

3. The process of measuring the value or attractiveness to the project owner or sponsor of a possible project is a key input to which process?

A. Cost Benefit Analysis

B. Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement

C. Develop Project Charter

D. Develop Project Management Plan

4. A finish-to-finish relationship means

A. the successor task and the predecessor task must finish at the same time.

B. the successor task should not finish earlier than the predecessor task but no logical relationship is implied.

C. the predecessor task cannot finish until the successor task has finished.

D. the successor task cannot finish until the predecessor task has finished.

5. The buyer is impressed with the seller’s interest and enthusiasm but concerned that the seller has no experience in this market area. If the seller can claim that the buyer is one of their customers, they might have many more sales opportunities. An appropriate contract type might be

A. Cost reimbursement.

B. Cost sharing.

C. Cost plus a percentage of cost.

D. Cost plus an incentive fee.

6. Which of the following tasks is not part of communication requirements definition?

A. Assessing the type and format of information required.

B. Determining if the necessary communication technology is available in the project environment.

C. Assessing the stakeholder responsibility relationships

D. Performing a benefit/cost analysis on the value of each element of information.

7. A resource calendar

A. is a component of the project calendar.

B. deals with the work times applicable for all human and equipment resources.

C. is not appropriate for use with resource pools.

D. contains information regarding vacation and training time.

8. You are working on a project with multiple key stakeholders with some conflict with regard to the proper scope of the project. You therefore realize that you must give careful attention to integrated change control. Stated in a different way, this means you are concerned with

A. Creating an effective change control board with well defined procedures.

B. Influencing the factors that create changes, determining if a change has occurred, and managing the actual changes that do occur.

C. Identifying the precise nature of the stakeholder conflicts and developing an appropriately detailed documentation of acceptable compromises.

D. Carefully managing the primary baselines of scope, time and cost throughout project execution.

9. Which of the following statements about administrative closure is false?

A. Lessons learned should be limited to causes of variance and the reasoning behind the corrective action chosen.

B. Administrative closure may occur at the end of a phase or at the end of a project.

C. Even though the project records are complete, administrative closure is not complete until other relvant databases have been updated.

D. Administrative closure has a shared objective with scope verification.

10. Which of the following is not true about bottom-up estimating?

A. The WBS must be accurate and complete before this process can be used.

B. Its accuracy increases if the activities are smaller.

C. Since the cost is largely independent of the desired accuracy it is the methodology of choice.

D. It is not a useful methodology in the early project planning phase.


ANSWERS:

1.B(Answers A and D are likely to help because they will encourage the team members to become more comfortable with each other and to understand each others strengths and weaknesses. Answer C is likely to help as this is the first step recommended for dealing with conflict. Answer B will help only in the unlikely event that there is a problem with morning meetings for one or more team members. [9.4.2.3]
2.C(When the desired acquisition is a commercial or standard item where the source selection process will be based primarily on price, a bid or quotation is the desired document. Purchase orders are generally used for off-the-shelf items not requiring any design details. A proposal is generally used when consideration of factors other than price, such as technical skills and approach, are paramount. Answer A can be a component of any of the other three documents. [12.2.3.1]
3.C(Answer A is not a defined process. Developing the preliminary project scope statement and project management plan takes place after the decision to undertake the project as documented in the project charter. [4.1]
4.D(“Finish-to-finish means “the completion of the successor activity depends upon the completion of the predecessor activity.” [6.2.2.1]
5.B(Where the seller will receive additional value beyond the current project it may be acceptable for the buyer to share in this additional value through a sharing of costs on the current project. [12.1.2.3]
6.B(Answer B is part of the communications technology assessment. [10.1.2]
7.D(Answer B refers to PROJECT calendars which are distinct from RESOURCE calendars which provide an override capability with regard to resource availability in the project calendars for such things as vacation and training time. [6.3.3.4]
8.B(“Integrated change control is the process necessary for controlling factors tht create changes to make sure those changes are beneficial, determining whether a change has occcurred, and managing the approved changes, including when they occur.” [4.6]
9.A(Although the causes of variation and the reasoning behind the corrective action chosen are important elements of the lessons learned document, other types of lessons learned are not excluded (examples: the reasons why an alternative corrective action was not chosen, communication inadequacies with the customer, effective new methodologies, etc.) D is true because both are concerned with the formal acceptance of the project’s product. [4.7.3.4]
10.C(The cost and accuracy of bottom-up estimating is driven by the size and complexity of the individual activity or work package: smaller activities increase both cost and accuracy of the estimating process. [7.1.2.3]