Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Preparation Pre/Post Assessment Exam

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* 1. Please confirm your contact information:

Name *

Company

ZIP/Postal Code *

Email Address *

Phone Number

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* 2. What best describes your role?

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* 3. If you do not have a four-year baccalaureate degree, how many hours of professional experience leading project do you need?

6,000

4,500

9,000

7,500

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* 4. Which of the following best describes a contact hour?

Contact hours are the same as PDUs

Contact hours represent hours of formal instruction or education in the field of project management

Contact hours represent hours spent reading about or training in the field of project management

None of the above

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* 5. Which of the following is not a basic belief of PMI?

All roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined.

A project plan is not a Gantt Chart.

A WBS is not an org chart but is a wonderful and key element of successful project management.

All of the above are PMI beliefs

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* 6. Which of the following is a common reason why people fail the PMP exam?

Belief that they can pass the test from their experience (not studying)

A lack of PM experience

Failure to read the questions

All of the above

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* 7. A project coordinator takes a new position and she is concerned about the amount of work it will take to communicate with all of the stakeholders. The organization employs more than 30,000 people in 12 different locations. Her project team is a strong matrix organization. In her previous job, her resources were projectized. As a general rule, what can she expect the communication to be?

Complex

Simple

More structured

Hard to automate

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* 8. Two project managers are arguing over who is the more senior in a weak matrix organization. Eventually, they determine that one of them is actually a project manager and the other is a project expeditor. How is the expeditor different than the project manager?

The manager cannot spend money

The expeditor cannot make decisions

The manager reports to a higher level authority

The expeditor can spend money

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* 9. Linda is a project manager for a major engineering project. She is in the third year on the project and has been in charge since project inception. Her boss, the Vice-President of Engineering, one day walks into Linda’s office to inform Linda that her project is likely going to be postponed because several of the project’s major stakeholders are unhappy with the project. Which of the following is likely the cause of Linda’s problems?

Linda has been late with deliverables

Linda’s project is over-budget

Changes in the triangle have caused a reduction in project scope

Any of the above

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* 10. Which of the following best represents the definition of a program?

A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service

A group of related efforts managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them separately

A collection of efforts or groups of efforts and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives

None of the above

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* 11. You are taking over a project that has had issues. After examining the project documentation, you determine that a hard-to-obtain resource is tasked with completing a deliverable that has an early start of day 21, and a later start of 27. The project currently has a CPI of .99, and SPI of .79, and an ETC of US $127,000. Based on this information, which of the following would be most concerning to you?

Resources

Budget

Schedule

Scope

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* 12. You are a project manager within a large PMO. At present, the PMO is at about 75% capacity, when your company wins a new very large contract that will require significant organizational resources to execute. What is the first thing you should do once you hear about the new project?

Ask management whether you can lead the new effort

Ask management how the new project will use organizational resources

Fast-track your project

Ask management how the new project will affect your project

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* 13. You are the project manager on a major project within your organization. You think you have done pretty well. The project had a budget of several million dollars, a CPI of .94, and SPI of .92. The major stakeholders have signed off of the scope verification process at the end of each phase. All issues have been resolved and a majority of your resources have already been released to other projects, when one of your primary stakeholders approaches you and wants to make dramatic change to the project scope. What should you do?

Meet with your remaining team to see whether the change is possible

Inform your sponsor

Ask the stakeholder to describe the change

Tell the stakeholder that they must use the change management process

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* 14. You are the project manager for a very important public works project in your community. The project is nearing completion and will be entering the final phase in the next week. What should you be focused on most before moving on to the final phase?

Project safety

Verifying the scope

Losing project resource to other projects

Variance analysis

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* 15. You are the project manager for a large mechanical engineering project. You have completed your scope statement, the WBS, the resource estimate, duration estimates, and the network diagram. Which of the following is the thing you should do next?

Create the schedule

Complete the cost estimates

Define the project budget

Solicit purchase

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* 16. As the project manager, you estimate the time that is needed for each activity, assign tasks to specific resources, and then add the estimates to create the project estimate. You then use this value to establish the project delivery date that you provide to the project sponsor. What is incorrect with this process?

The project manager created the estimates without the team. In addition, summing the tasks will lead to a significantly longer project duration.

Project duration estimates should be developed by the project sponsor.

The project manager created the estimates without the project resources and did not use a network diagram to define the Critical Path.

The project completion date should be derived from an evaluation of the triple constraints.

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* 17. Which of the following cost estimating techniques involves calculating the costs of individual tasks or activities or work packages by determining the relationship between them, historical data, and other variables?

Parametric estimating

Bottom-up estimating

Analogous estimating

Monte Carlo estimating

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* 18. Considering the effect, project decisions have on the cost of using, maintaining, and supporting the product of the project is more commonly referred to as what?

Project costing

Ethical cost management

Lifecycle costing

Professional cost responsibility

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* 19. You are the project manager on a project that has struggled with the quality of the deliverables throughout the entire project. Your boss, the Senior Vice-President, has come to you and stated that quality is the most important project constraint. On Monday morning, you come into the office and find that another problem with quality has occurred. What is the best thing for you to do?

Absorb a cost increase to fix the root cause of the problem

Fix the problem immediately

Cut project costs and allow the schedule to slip

Allow project risks to increase by allowing the schedule to slip

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* 20. When planning your project, which would in general have the highest priority: schedule, cost, or quality?

Quality

Schedule

Cost

It should be determined for each project

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* 21. According to McClelland’s Theory of Needs, which of the following is not a behavioral style associated with the primary need for affiliation?

People working best when cooperating with others

People seeking approval rather than recognition

People seeking to organize and influence others

All of the above

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* 22. Which of the following is not a motivating agent according to Hertzberg’s Theory?

Responsibility

Self-actualization

Status

Recognition

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* 23. Which of the following is the first process found in the Communications Management Knowledge Area?

Plan communications

Identify stakeholders

Distribute information

Report performance

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* 24. Which of the following is the last process of the Communications Management Knowledge Area?

Identify stakeholders

Distribute information

Manage stakeholder expectations

Report performance

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* 25. Which of the following risk strategies is represented by insurance?

Avoidance

Acceptance

Transfer

Mitigation

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* 26. Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the monitor and control risks process?

Data gathering and representation techniques

Variance and trend analysis

Risk data quality assessment

Planning meetings and analysis

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* 27. You are the project manager on a project that is part of a large space program. Another project manager on the program has just come to you for advice. Their project currently has limited scope definition and she is very concerned about protecting the organization from financial risks. Which is the best contract type to choose?

Firm fixed price

Cost plus fixed fee

Cost plus percentage of cost

Cost plus incentive fee

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* 28. Which of the following best explain the purpose of incentive clauses in contracts?

Reduce risks for the buyer by shifting them to the seller

Synchronize objectives

Help the seller control costs

Help the buyer control costs

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* 29. As a project manager, you build your project plan and schedule based upon a commitment from senior management that you will have several senior-level resources completely dedicated to your project. When it actually comes time to do the work, you are provided with much less skilled resources. The best thing to do is:

Remind management that you were promised senior-level resources

Show management the impact of having the less experienced resources assigned to your project

Rework the project schedule with the new, less experienced resources

Crash the project

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* 30. You are the project manager for a project that is entering the Closing Process Group. As you attempt to close the project, your sponsor informs you that they have been approached by several stakeholders who are not happy with the project deliverables. Which of the following processes could have prevented this problem?

Verifying scope

Define scope

Scope monitoring

Integrated change control

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* 31. You work as a project manager for an IT consulting organization. Your boss has promised you a percentage of a major contract bonus if you achieve specific contractually based performance incentives. You are on target to achieve the incentive target, but your team has discovered that meeting the letter of the contract will not meet the customer’s functional requirements. What should you do?

Continue the project as planned

Inform your boss

Inform the customer of the situation and work out a mutually agreeable solution

Add as much functionality as you can while maintaining the incentive

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* 32. You are taking over a project for a large manufacturing organization. The project was originally scheduled to take 22 months and is currently 14 months into the schedule. The previous project manager consistently reported the project as both on time and on budget. However, after a careful review of the project documentation and interviews with the project team, you have discovered that the project is significantly over budget and behind schedule. In fact, the project is now likely to cost twice the original budget and will likely take 36 months to complete. What should you do?

Decline to accept the project

Move forward with the original schedule and report the missed targets

Meet with the team to restructure the project to meet the project deadline

Report your assessment to the project sponsor