Which tool or technique is an examination of industry and specific vendor capabilities?
Typical outcomes of a project include:
When a backward pass is calculated from a schedule constraint that is later than the early finish date that has been calculated during a forward pass calculation, this causes which type of total float?
The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:
Which Collect Requirements output links the product requirements to the deliverables that satisfy them?
A tool or technique used in the Control Procurements process is:
Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
Which input to the Identify Stakeholders process provides information about internal or external parties related to the project?
Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
Which process involves subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable portions?
Which process identifies whether the needs of a project can best be met by acquiring products, services, or results outside of the organization?
An output of the Validate Scope process is:
Which item is an input to the Define Activities process?
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 process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action is known as:
External organizations that have a special relationship with the enterprise and provide specialized expertise are called:
Which item is an example of personnel assessment?
Which process develops options and actions to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to project objectives?
Reserve analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?
Which tool or technique is used in the Estimate Costs process?
The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is known as:
Project Stakeholder Management focuses on:
Which schedule method allows the project team to place buffers on the project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties?
Which action is included in the Control Costs process?
A projects purpose or justification, measurable project objectives and related success criteria, a summary milestone schedule, and a summary budget are all components of which document?
Outputs of the Control Communications process include:
The risk response strategy in which the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk is known as:
Organizational process assets, a lessons-learned database, and historical information are all inputs to which process?
A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The shortest non-critical path for the project is how many days in duration?
Plan Communications Management develops an approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholders' needs and requirements and:
Skills necessary for project management such as motivating to provide encouragement; listening actively; persuading a team to perform an action; and summarizing, recapping, and identifying next steps are known as:
Those who enter into a contractual agreement to provide services necessary for a project are:
The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.
Based on the chart, what is the cost performance index (CPI) for Task 2?
Which project risk listed in the table below is most likely to occur?
Which stakeholder approves a project's result?
An output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:
Which quality tool may prove useful in understanding and estimating the cost of quality in a process?
Stakeholders can be identified in later stages of the project because the Identify Stakeholders process should be:
Project management processes ensure the:
Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of:
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
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 Control Scope input is compared to actual results to determine if corrective action is required for the project?
In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
An input to the Estimate Activity Resources process is:
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
An input of the Create WBS process is:
Which baselines make up the performance measurement baseline?
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
Which tool or technique can a project manager use to select in advance a team member who will be crucial to the task?
The staffing management plan is part of the:
The risk shared between the buyer and seller is determined by the:
Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
The three processes of Project Cost Management are:
During project selection, which factor is most important?
Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to:
Which of the following is an estimating technique that uses the values of parameters from previous similar projects for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project?
The diagram below is an example of a:
Which of the following is an output of Close Procurements?
The technique of subdividing project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work and deliverables are defined to the work package level is called:
At which stage of team development do members begin to work together, adjust work habits, and trust each other?
Which technique is used in Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?
Which component of the human resource management plan describes when and how project team members are acquired and how long they will be needed?
In an organization with a projectized organizational structure, who controls the project budget?
What is the function of a Project Management Office (PMO)?
A procurement management plan is a subsidiary of which other type of plan?
What is one of the objectives of Project Risk Management?
Which document includes the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints?
Which Process Group's purpose is to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes?
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?
A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:
An input of the Plan Procurement Management process is:
Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?
The CPI is .92, and the EV is US$172,500.What is the actual cost of the project?
Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
Which type of managers do composite organizations involve?
Managing ongoing production of goods and services to ensure business continues efficiently describes which type of management?
The scope of a project cannot be defined without some basic understanding of how to create the specified:
Which of the following is TRUE about most project life cycles?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
Taking out insurance in relation to risk management is called what?
Labor, materials, equipment, and supplies are examples of:
One of the tools and techniques of the Manage Project Team process is:
Which is used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers?
Which is an input to the Verify Scope process?
Which of the following outputs from the Control Schedule process aids in the communication of schedule variance (SV), schedule performance index (SPI), or any performance status to stakeholders?
The process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline is:
Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?
Ensuring that both parties meet contractual obligations and that their own legal rights are protected is a function of:
What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
Which of the following are outputs of Develop Project Team?
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
In the Estimate Activity Durations process, productivity metrics and published commercial information inputs are part of the:
A method to manage stakeholder expectations in the scope statement is to clearly:
Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?
In which Process Group are lessons learned documented?
Analogous cost estimating relies on which of the following techniques?
Managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance are part of which process?
Which category of contracts are sellers legally obligated to complete, with possible financial damages if the project objectives are not met?
Which type of analysis is used as a general management technique within the Plan Procurements process?
The risk management team of a software project has decided that due to the lack of adequate talent in the company, development of a specific part of the system is under high risk, so the team has decided to outsource it. This is an example of which risk response?
The project manager at an organization has just realized that some of the engineering staff has been allocated to project Y and will not be available to finish task X. The project manager has also discovered that at the current pace, it will not be possible to complete the project on time. Due to cost constraints, hiring more work force is not a viable option. Which tools are at the manager's disposal?