Transcript AAPM Exam Review 100 Questions

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Which of the following is NOT a
Project Cost Management process?

Cost Estimating

Cost Control
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Cost Budgeting
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Resource Leveling ☺
Which of the following processes are
included in the planning process?
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Scope Definition, Project Plan Development,
Quality Assurance, Cost Estimating
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Scope Planning, Staff Acquisition, Stakeholder
Identification, and Cost Estimating
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Project Closure, Cost Estimating, Risk
Management, Schedule Development, and Team
Development
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Scope Planning, Schedule Development, Project
Plan Development, Risk Response Development ☺
A goal of portfolio management is:
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Manage content of the project
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Timely exclusion of projects not meeting the
portfolio’s strategic objectives ☺
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Leveling heuristics across the organization’s
projects
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Project cost leveling
Project Integration Management
ensures:
The project is completed within schedule
and budget
 The proper scope has been identified for
the project
 All elements of the project are properly
coordinated ☺
 The project will satisfy all the
stakeholders

Determining the method and timing of releasing team
members, benefits both the project and: Best answer
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Team Sponsor
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Project Leader
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Team Members ☺
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Departing Team Member
Formal acceptance is an output of
which of the following processes?
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Scope definition
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Scope planning
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Scope verification ☺
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Scope change control
Gantt charts help determine?
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A task’s starting and stopping point ☺
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Accountability matrix
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Decomposition
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Amount of effort it takes to complete a
task
Providing for reimbursement of allowable costs, plus a
fixed fee paid proportionately as the contract progresses
is defined as:
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Cost Plus Percentage of Cost (CPPC)
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Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) ☺
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Contract Evaluation
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Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF)
Which of the following response is not a Strategy
for Both Threats and Opportunity Acceptance?
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Can be either passive or active
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May be adopted for either threats or
opportunities
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A strategy that is adopted because it is seldom
possible to eliminate all risk from
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Project scope statement ☺
A ____ is a structured, independent review to determine
whether project activities comply with organizational
policies and procedures.
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Quality Audit ☺
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Quality Metrics
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Quality Analysis
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Quality Planning
Constraints that can limit flexibility in the Human
Resources Planning process are all of the following,
except:
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Organizational Structure
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Resource Availability ☺
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Economic Conditions
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Collective Bargaining Agreements
Who should contribute to the
development of the project plan?
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The entire project team ☺
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The project coordinator
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The planning department
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The senior management
A lump-sum contract under which the seller
furnishes goods or services at a fixed price is:
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Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF)
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Contract Initiation
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Firm Fixed Price (FFP) ☺
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Fixed Price Incentive Fee (FPIF)
Cost _____ is a time-phased budget that is used to
measure, monitor and control overall cost performance on
the project.
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Baseline ☺
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Aggregation
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Performance
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Management
Of the following, which is not true
about bottom-up estimating?
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Its accuracy increases if the activities are
smaller
 The WBS must be accurate and complete
before this process can be used
 It is not a useful methodology in the early
phases using project planning processes
 The cost is largely independent of the desired
accuracy, so it is the methodology of choice ☺
What is a PMIS?
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Performance Measurement Independent
System
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Project Matrix Informal System
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Project Management Information System ☺
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Project Management Inter-related system
Policies and procedures that protect team members from
safety hazards are included in the staff management plan
and:
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Organizational Chart
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Resource Breakdown Structure
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Risk Register ☺
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Position Descriptions
Which of the following is not a use of
the Work Breakdown Structure?
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Configuration Management
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Focusing attention on the project
objectives ☺
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Funding
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Integrated logistic support
Why should constructive changes be uniquely identified
and documented by project correspondence?
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Changes may be disputed by one party and
lead to a claim against the other party ☺
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Changes can include direction provided by the
buyer
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Changes should never be documented
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Changes are processed for review and
approval through Integrated Change Control
process
_____ are factors that can limit the
project management team’s options.
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Logistics
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Methodologies
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Constraints ☺
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Assumptions
Which of the terms below is not a stage of
contract negotiation?
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Closure
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Weighting system ☺
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Probing
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Scratch bargaining
What is the responsibility of the sender in the
communications process? Best Answer
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Ensuring the right person gets the right
information
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Making sure that the information is received in
its entirety and understood correctly
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Making the information clear and complete so
the receiver can receive it correctly and
confirming that it is properly understood ☺
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Manage stakeholder requirements
The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics
fulfills requirements is know as:
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Quality ☺
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Grade
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Performance
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Scope
An output of Risk Identification is:
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Plan for mitigation
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Corrective actions
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A risk register ☺
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Expected monetary value of the risk
events
Which of the following is not a scenario
considered in a Three-point estimate?
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Optimistic
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Most likely
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Analogous ☺
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Pessimistic
The Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) is a _____ of
identified resources by resource category and resource
type.
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Activity Attribute
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Requested Change
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Activity Resource Requirement
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Hierarchical Structure ☺
A statistical method that may identify factors which
influence specific variables of a product or process under
development or in production is known as:
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Benchmarking
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Design of Experiments ☺
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Cost of Quality
What are the five processes of project
management?
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Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling,
Closing ☺
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Concept, Planning, Development, Execution,
Termination
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Planning, Verifying, Development, Controlling,
Termination
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Initiating, Planning, Facilitating, Executing,
Closing
A bar chart illustrating the number of hours that a person
is needed each week or month over the course of the
project is called?
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Gantt Chart
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Staffing Management Plan
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Histogram ☺
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Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Activities such as measuring, examining and
verifying describe which of the following?
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Flow chart legend
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Project risk management
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Activity duration estimating
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Inspection ☺
Which of the following is not an advantage of
centralized contracting?
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More economical
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Easier to control overall contracting efforts
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Less attention to the special needs of
individual projects ☺
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Orders can be consolidated across several
projects
What is Activity Resource Estimating?
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Estimating the type and quantities of
resources required to perform each scheduled
activity ☺
 Controlling changes to the project schedule
 Analyzing activity sequences, durations,
resource requirements, and schedule
constraints to create the project schedule
 Identifying and documenting dependencies
among scheduled activities
A _____ is a component that does not meet its
requirements or specifications, and needs to be repaired
or replaced.
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Corrective Action
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Preventive Action
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Defect ☺
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Change
Changes to the Information Distribution process should trigger
changes to project management plan and the _____ management
plan.
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Human Resources
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Quality
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Communications ☺
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Risk
Cost budgeting is the process of
allocating:
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The project budget to the various identified work
activities in order to establish a basis for the project
contingency reserve
The overall cost estimate to individual work activities
to establish the basis for the project contingency
reserve
The overall cost estimate to individual work activities
to establish a cost baseline for measuring project
performance ☺
The project budget to the various identified work
activities in order to establish a basis for the project
estimate
Which of the following is not true concerning
project stakeholders? Best answer
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They may actively support the project ☺
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They may exert influence over the projects
objectives and outcomes
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They are actively involved in the project
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Their interest may be affected by the projects
execution or completions
Which Human Resources Management process
addresses coordinating change?
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Human Resource Planning
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Acquire Project Team
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Manage Project Team ☺
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Develop Project Team
A numbering system used to uniquely identify each
component of the work breakdown structure is the:
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Project Code
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Chart of Accounts
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Error Code
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Code of Accounts ☺
Of the following, which is not a theme or issue
within Project Procurement Management?
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Delphi Technique ☺
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Contract Administration
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Procurement Planning
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Solicitation Planning
Which involves choosing part of a
population of interest for inspection?
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Pareto Chart
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Run Chart
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Scatter Diagram
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Statistical Sampling ☺
Which of the following is not a tools and
techniques of Information Delivery?
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Communication skills
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Requested changes ☺
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Information distribution method
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Lessons learned process
Parametric estimating is most reliable when all of
the following occur except:
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The model works for large projects as well as
small projects
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The historical data used to develop the model
is accurate
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Estimates are predictions of conditions in the
project’s future are forecasted ☺
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The parameters of the project life cycle are
readily quantifiable
What defines when and how often the risk management process will
be performed throughout the project life cycle, and establishes risk
management activities to be included in the project schedule?
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Risk Management
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Budgeting
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Timing ☺
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Definitions of risk probability and impact
Overall project duration is calculated as an
output of the _____.
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Schedule Development Process ☺
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Activity Cost Estimates
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Organizational Process
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Enterprise Environmental Factors
The Project Quality Management process
includes all of the following except:
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Quality Planning
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Quality Assurance
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Quality Control
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Quality Variance ☺
What is Information Distribution?
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Collecting and distributing performance
information
 Making needed information available to project
stakeholders in a timely manner ☺
 Determining the information and
communications needs of the project
stakeholder
 Managing communications to satisfy the
requirements of and resolve issues with
project stakeholders
Cost _____ are generally expressed in
units of currency.
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Budgets
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Variances
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Estimates ☺
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Controls
To have a successful project, the team must do
all of the following except:
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Select process within the Project Management
Process Groups which require meeting the
project objectives
 Apply the processes of the Project
Management Process Group which requires
meeting the project objectives ☺
 Balance time, scope, cost, quality, resources
 Meet stakeholder needs, wants and
expectations
Matrix-based charts are used to illustrate the
connections between work that needs done and:
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Stakeholders
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Work Breakdown Structure
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Responsibilities
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Team Members ☺
The sum of the products, services, and results to
be provided as a project is:
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Planned Value
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The Scope ☺
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S-Curve
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Schedule Variance
Which of the terms is generally used when the seller’s
selection decision will be based on price (as when buying
commercial or standard items):
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Technical Approach
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Proposal
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Tender ☺
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Technical Skills
Identification, response development, assessment and
documentation are major processes of risk management. Which of
the responses listed below is not a major process?
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The project’s change control system ☺
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Planning, Identification, Documentation, and
Assessment
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Identification, Planning, Evaluation, Response
Development, Mitigation, and Documentation
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Planning, Identification, Qualitative Analysis,
Response Planning, and Monitoring and
Control
A thorough review of the _____ will
help identify potential project risks.
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Project’s mission statement
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Project’s budget
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Project’s change control system
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Risk identification checklists ☺
Resource calendars are known inputs under
which two time management processes?
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Activity Sequencing and Scheduled
Development
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Activity Duration Estimating and Scheduled
Development ☺
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Activity Resource Estimating and Scheduled
Development
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Activity Sequencing and Scheduled
Development
Process Analysis examines all of the
following except:
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Problems Experienced
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Constraints Experienced
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Work Performance ☺
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Non-Value-Added Activities
A specific type of histogram, ordered by frequency of
occurrence, which shows the number of defects
generated by category or identified cause is known as a:
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Flowchart
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Scatter Diagram
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Pareto Chart ☺
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Run Chart
Which of the following is not an input
of Communication Planning?
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Project management plan
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Communications management plan ☺
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Project scope statement
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Enterprise environmental factors
_____ information on the completion status of the deliverables and
what has been accomplished is collected as part of the project
execution, and is fed in the Performance Reporting process.
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Performance measurement
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Change request
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Work performance ☺
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Quality control
Cost variance is computed as:
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Actual cost – planned value
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Planned value – actual cost
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Actual cost – earned value
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Earned value – actual cost ☺
Identifying relevant quality standards and how to
address them should occur in which phase?
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Planning process phase ☺
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Quality control phase
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Risk phase
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Project Life Cycle phase
Identifying relevant quality standards and how to
address them should occur in which phase?
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Planning process phase ☺
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Quality control phase
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Risk phase

Project Life Cycle phase
The Staffing Management Plan is an output of
which Human Resource Management process?
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Develop Project Team
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Acquire Project Team
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Human Resource Planning ☺
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Manage Project Team
Scope Definition involves:
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Developing a scope management plan
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Developing a detailed project scope statement
as the basis for future decisions on the project
☺
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Controlling the project scope

Formalizing acceptance of the project
deliverables
Indirect costs are:
Also known as risk management
(contingency) cost
 Cost not arising out of the performance
of work on the project ☺
 Project costs that were not specifically
accounted for in the project budget
 Costs other than the salary of project
team members such as sick and
vacation leave

A project is:

An ongoing activity undertaken to meet a
market requirement

A set of activities preformed in a system

A temporary activity to create a unique product
result or service ☺
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Linked by the results they produce
The following formats exist to document team
member roles and responsibilities, except:

Text Oriented Format
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Matrix Responsibility Chart

Hierarchical-type Organization Chart

Work Breakdown Structure ☺
Scope Definition involves:

Developing a detailed project scope statement
as the basis for future decisions on the project
☺

Controlling the project scope

Formalizing acceptance of the project
deliverables

Developing a scope management plan
Enterprise environmental factors are one input of plan,
purchases and acquisitions. Which of the following is not
an input?
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Project Time Management ☺
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WBS Dictionary
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Project Scope Statement
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Organizational Process Assets
Which of the following is not true about risk
identification?
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It is an interactive process
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It determines which risks might affect the
project and documents their characteristics

It describes the content and format of the risk
register ☺
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All project personnel should be encouraged to
identify risks
Which of the following is a risk monitoring
and control tool and technique?
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Exploit
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Risk Register
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Prioritized list of quantified risks

Reserve Analysis ☺
Project Time Management includes
the processes required to:

Control changes to the project schedule

Accomplish the timely completion of the
project ☺
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Estimate the number of work periods

Schedule Activities
Monitoring specific project results to determine
relevance to quality standards is known as:

Quality Variance
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Quality Assurance
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Quality Control ☺

Quality Planning
Which is not part of the Project
Communications Management process?
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Cost of Quality ☺
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Information Distribution
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Performance Reporting

Manage Stakeholders
Influencing the factors that create cost variances and
control changes to the project budget is defined as:

Cost Budgeting
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Cost Benefit
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Cost Control ☺
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Cost Variance
Of the following, which is not related to
cost recognition?
The point in time when costs are
charged to the project
 The allocation of contractor earned
bonuses to project costs
 The way in which performance
incentives are integrated into project
costs
 The point in time when costs are
budgeted to the various activities ☺

What is the use and purpose of project
planning methodology?
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Maximize the value of the project phases

Any structured approach to help prepare the
project plan ☺

Project phases within a project cycle

Implementation of and inclusion of the portfolio
What are the two major types of
evaluation?

Change process and status reports

Work satisfaction and midpoint
evaluation

Midproject and final evaluation ☺

Customer satisfaction and survey
A subset of the project team responsible for activities
such as planning, controlling, and closing is known as:

Stakeholders
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Staffing Management Team
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Sponsor(s)
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Project Management Team ☺
The _____ shows the time periods that team members are expected
to work on the project, along with information such as training plans,
certification requirements, and compliance issues.
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Project Management Plan
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Staffing Management Plan ☺
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Resource Histogram
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Gantt Chart
Which of the following are outputs of
the Scope Change Control process?
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Corrective action and schedule updates
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Scope changes and formal acceptance
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Scope changes, corrective action, and
lessons learned ☺
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Lessons learned and scope definition
Milestone charts primarily are used to:

Show significant events in the project ☺
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Show the start and stop of a task

Show the critical path
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Demonstrate constraints
What is the primary concern of a
procurement audit?

Maintaining the project

A numbering system

Work Breakdown Structure

Identifying successes and failures that
warrant recognition ☺
Which of the following is a
constructive change?

Viewing as negative, quantified and tabulated

Postponing as long as possible to protect the
budget

Identifying and documenting project
correspondence ☺

Submitting bids to relevant vendor list
The Delphi Technique is a way to reach consensus.
Which of the statements listed below is a characteristic of
the Delphi Technique?
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Does not help to reduce bias in the data

Project risk experts participate anonymously
☺

Consensus may be reached in many rounds of
this process

Ensures that one person may have a greater
influence on the outcome
Constructing a project schedule network diagram that
uses nodes to represent activities and connect them with
arrows that show dependencies is known as:

Gantt Chart

Arrow Diagramming Method

Precedence Diagramming Method ☺
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Work Breakdown Structure
The project management team determines the
dependencies that may require a _____ to accurately
define the logical relationship.

Mandatory or External

Discretionary or External

Discretionary or Mandatory

Lead or Lag ☺
Of the following, which is not a benefit of
meeting quality requirements?

Increased Costs ☺

High Productivity

Increased Stakeholder Satisfaction

Less Rework
The quality _____ records the
quality objectives of the project.

Checklists

Metrics

Measurements

Baseline ☺
A flowchart is a graphical representation of
a process which shows:

Various factors linked to potential problems

Activities, decision points and the order of
processing ☺

Predictable performance

Whether a process is stable
Which of the following is not an output
of Performance Reporting?

Resolved Issues ☺

Performance Reports

Forecasts

Requested Changes
All of the following resources are included
in activity cost estimating, except:

Information Technology

Time Shortages ☺

Facilities

Materials
The cost management plan:

Is a formal document integrated into the
overall project management plan

Should be highly detailed and describe how all
cost variances are to be managed

May be omitted if the integrated change
management plan is sufficiently detailed ☺

Is a tool that is used to adjust cost estimated
to reflect the realities of the project budget
Communication skills are related to, but are
not the same as _____.

Information distribution

Communication planning

Project management communications ☺

Performance reporting
Which of the following is not an input
to cost budgeting?

Project Schedule

Risk Management Plan

Cost Variances ☺

Work Breakdown Structure
In estimating the total of material resources required for a project, you
must first estimate the amount of waste to be expected. You will most
likely find this information in which process?

Supporting detail

Parametric modeling

Resource requirements

Historical information ☺
The set of processes required to ensure the various
elements of the project that are coordinated are called:

Project Charter Management

Project Quality Control Management

Project Integration Management ☺

Project Communications Management
Organization recognition dinners, certificates of appreciation,
newsletters, bulletin boards, Web sites, and other organizational
perquisites should be available to the _____ as part of the process.

Staffing Management Team

Sponsor (s)

Project Management Team ☺

Stakeholders
If project team members do not possess required
competencies, performance can be jeopardized. When
should competencies first be addressed? Best answer

When Acquiring Project Team

When defining Roles and
Responsibilities ☺

In the Project Management Plan

In the Staffing Management Plan
What ensures that all work within the project is identified
and defined within a common framework?

Project Plan

Risk Analysis

Work Breakdown Structure ☺

Cost/Benefit Analysis
Make-or-Buy Analysis should consider
which of the following?

Foreign Currency Exchange

EV minus PV

Project team directory

Direct and Indirect costs of a prospective
procurement ☺
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