QUESTION 1
Allen works as a project manager of the NHY project. This project is scheduled to last for two years and has a BAC of $5,400,000. He is currently 45 percent complete with this project, though he is supposed to be at his second milestone, which accounts for half of the project completion. There have been some errors in the project, which have caused Allen to spend $2,093,754. What is this project’s schedule variance?

A. $210,000
B. $720,000
C. $250,000
D. $270,000

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 2
Which of the following is an output of the Identify Stakeholders process?

A. Scope baseline
B. Project scope statement
C. Project charter
D. Stakeholder register

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 3
Examine the figure given below:
You are the project manager of this project. Tom, a project team member, reports that Activity D will be delayed by 12 days due to the unavailability of the resources from the vendor. What will this delay do to your project completion, if you allow the delay to enter into the project?

A. The project will be one day late.
B. The float for activity D will be consumed.
C. The project can still finish on time.
D. The project will be seven days late.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 4
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You would like to crash your project to help the project schedule to get back on track. What is the primary danger of crashing?

A. Crashing increases project costs.
B. Crashing is a top-down approach to project completion.
C. Crashing restricts resource utilization.
D. Crashing always increases project risks.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 5
You are working with your project team to identify the project activities within your project. Which of the following is NOT a tool and technique that will be useful in defining the project activities?

A. Decomposition
B. Rolling wave plan
C. Precedence diagramming method
D. Templates

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 6
You are the project manager for your organization. You are managing a project to create new software for your clients. During the project execution, there have been some unforeseen delays that will require your attention. You will need four inputs to the control schedule process. Which of the following documents would not be an input for the control schedule process?

A. Project schedule
B. Work performance information
C. Project management plan
D. Earned value management results

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 7
You work as a Project Manager for Dreams Unlimited Inc. You are looking for performance efficiencies of a project. The related key values are provided in the table below: MeasurementsValues BCWP (or EV)325 BCWS (or PV) 300 ACWP (or AC)410 What is the schedule variance (SV) of the project at the current point of time?

A. +110
B. -25
C. -110
D. +25

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 8
You are the project manager of the NHQ project. You are working with your project team to create the project schedule and the project network diagram. In order to start the sequencing of the project activities, you will need a document to identify the result of project phases, key project deliverables, and significant, timeless events in the project. Which of the following documents will you need to help sequence the project work?

A. Activity attributes
B. Activity list
C. Project scope statement
D. Milestone list Correct Answer: D QUESTION 9

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Management has asked you to communicate with them whenever your project is about to reach a milestone so that they can review your project performance to date. Where can you find a list of the project milestones to anticipate management’s request?

A. Scope baseline
B. Milestone list
C. Project charter
D. Project Schedule Management Plan

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 10
Beth works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Which of the following tools and techniques of Administer Procurements process will Beth use to manage contracts, and procurement documentation and records?

A. Records Management System
B. Performance reporting
C. Inspection and Audit
D. Payment System

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 11
Billy is the project manager of the PQW Project and she has an assigned project budget of $655,000. Currently she is 80 percent complete with the project though she was scheduled to be 90 percent done by this date. She has spent $490,000 to date. What should Billy report as her cost performance index (CPI) for this project?

A. .07
B. 1.07
C. $34,000
D. .89

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 12
Wendy is the project manager for the NHQ project. She is working with her project to begin creating the project duration estimate. Her organization is in weak matrix and several of the project team members are scheduled to complete work on other projects. What input will most likely be of the biggest assistance as Wendy and the project team begin creating the duration estimate for this project?

A. Project charter
B. Project scope statement
C. Project communications management plan
D. Resource calendar

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 13
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Which of the following plans will you use to define how resources are brought onto the project team, how they are managed while on the project team, and how they may be released from the project team?

A. Project Schedule Management Plan
B. Project Staffing Management Plan
C. Project Human Resources Management Plan
D. Project Communications Management Plan

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 14
Bonnie is the project manager for her organization. She is developing a strategy to manage the project stakeholders. She wants to identify the key stakeholders, their influence over the project, their interest in project, and an assessment of methods. What can Bonnie create to gain support from the stakeholders in her project?

A. Stakeholder identification tools
B. Expert judgment
C. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
D. Communications management plan

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 15
You are the project manager for your organization. Your project will need four electrical engineers for the project though there are no electrical engineers within your department. This scenario is best described as which one of the following terms?

A. Assumption
B. Risk
C. Resource requirement
D. Resource constraint

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 16
Vicky is the project sponsor of Robert’s project. She has requested several changes for the project scope and these changes have, of course, been approved. Robert needs to incorporate the project scope changes into the activity list. Where else should Robert reflect these project changes?

A. Project final report
B. Scope baseline
C. Quality control mechanism
D. Cost baseline

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 17
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are calculating the performance indexes of your project. The cost variance (CV) of your project is 30. What does this figure depict?

A. Project is behind the schedule.
B. Costs are higher than planned.
C. Costs are right on target.

D. Costs are lower than planned.

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 18
You are the project manager for your organization. You are working with your project team to define the project network diagram. Several of the activities in the project schedule appear to have external constraints. Who among the following determines which dependencies are external to the project?

A. Project team
B. Project sponsor
C. Project manager
D. Project management team

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 19
You are the project manager of the GHQ Project. You have to prioritize activities for the effective management of project. For this, you have created a network diagram to schedule a set of project activities as shown in the figure:

Based on this figure, what is the critical path of this project?

A. ABEHJ
B. ACFIJ
C. ADGJ
D. ACFGJ

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 20
You are the project manager for your organization. Management has offered you a bonus if you can complete the project work two months earlier than what your schedule predicts. You can use a schedule compression technique, but management does not want to increase costs in the project. What approach would you recommend to condense the project duration?

A. Fast tracking
B. Crashing
C. Effort-driven activity analysis
D. Rewards and recognition for the project team

Correct Answer: A