Choose the Correct Option from General PMP Questions Flashcards

In which document will you find the code of account identifier, description of work, responsible organization, and list of schedule milestones?
1. WBS 2. WBS Dictionary 3. PERT/CPM Charts 4. Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

When referring to inputs for Develop Schedule process, responsibility (i.e., who will perform the work), activity type (i.e., summary or detailed), and WBS classification are :
1. Constraints 2. Activity attributes 3. Resource pool description 4. Activity duration estimates

In your project, you are estimating schedule activity costs by determining the unit cost rates, e.g., staff costs per hour. All the following could be used to determine resource cost rates EXCEPT:
1. Statistical relationship between historical data and other variables 2. Gathering quotes 3. Standard rates with escalation factors (for contracts) 4. Commercial databases or seller published price lists

You are the project manager responsible for manufacturing a particular variety of soap. You decide to do a statistical sampling for this project, because surveying the entire population involves all the following problems EXCEPT:
1. Inaccurate data 2. Very expensive 3. Longer time 4. More resources

When you started creating a work breakdown structure for your project, you realized that it was too complicated to be done on a single piece of paper. You then started using a work breakdown structure numbering system to: 1. Determine the complexity of the project 2. Determine the level at which individual WBS elements are found 3. Help in automating the WBS using appropriate software 4. Present justification for the project

Please refer to the diagram given below (all units are in days):


What is the project float if management wants to complete this project within 13 days? 1. 0 days 2. - 3 days 3. 2 days 4. Cannot be determined, because information given in the question is incomplete

In your project, you are using cost aggregation, expert judgment, and historical relationships to establish a cost performance baseline. This is performed during:
1. Control Costs 2. Determine Budget 3. Estimate Costs 4. Create WBS

You are a project manager. At the executing stage of the project, all the following statements are correct EXCEPT:
1. Most of the project budget will be expended in project plan execution. 2. The project manager and the team implement the planned methods and standards. 3. The project manager will review all information from the current phase closures. 4. The project manager and the team manage risks and implement risk response activities.

Determining and delivering the required levels of quality for the project is the responsibility of:

1, Project sponsor 2. Project manager/project management team 3. Project team 4. All stakeholders in the project

In your project, you need to verify whether deliverables meet requirements and product acceptance criteria. For this purpose, which of the following would you rely on?
1. Inspection 2. Expert judgment 3. Observations 4. Focus groups

Withdrawal: Retreating or withdrawing from a potential disagreement. Smoothing: De-emphasizing or avoiding areas of differences and emphasizing areas of agreement. Compromising: Bargaining and searching for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to the parties in a dispute. Characterized by a "give and take" attutude. Forcing: Exerting one's viewpoint at the potential expense of another. Often characterized by competitveness and a win-lose situation. Confrontation: Facing conflict directly, which involves a problem solving approach, whereby affected parties work through their disagreements.

You are creating a cost performance baseline for your project. In this context, all the following statements related to cost performance baseline are correct EXCEPT:
1. It is a time - phased budget. 2. To measure disbursements, a spending plan can be used as a cost-baseline. 3. It is used to measure, monitor, and control overall cost performance. 4. In the earned value management technique it is also known as cost measurement baseline.

You have been managing a project to construct a flyover on Interstate 10. You have divided the project into phases to provide better management control. Which of the following is a characteristic of a project phase?

1. Formal phase completion necessarily includes authorization for the subsequent phase. 2. A project phase can be closed with a decision not to initiate the subsequent phase. 3. A project phase should not be divided into sub-phases even in complex projects, because it will be difficult to manage. 4. All deliverables in the project phase should correspond to the project management process.

In your new project, you have to provide a critical deliverable within five months and do not have time to go through the Conduct Procurements process. You decide to sign a contract with a supplier with whom your company has done some work in the past. The risk you are accepting in this situation is:
1. The ability of the supplier to deliver the goods 2. Collusion between the supplier and your team 3. Lack of proper scope definition 4. Lack of a legally binding agreement

In your project, you are using Report Performance process to organize and summarize the information gathered. Later, you present the results of the analysis as a comparison to the performance measurement baseline. Some common formats for performance reports that you could use are:

1. S-curves, histograms, Pareto diagrams 2. S-curves, responsibility assignment matrices ,histograms 3. Bar charts, S-curves, histograms 4. Bar charts, control charts, histograms