QUESTION 41
Mary is the project manager for her organization. She is working with the project team to define the project activities. She is concerned about some of the dependencies of the project work, which may affect the project schedule. Which one of the following is the best example of a project constraint that will likely affect the project’s ability to finish by a given deadline?

A. The project must use internal team members to complete the project work.
B. The project must adhere to several regulations.
C. The project must use the BGH company to deliver the software portion of the project.
D. The project must not exceed $1,250,000.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 42
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. According to you, which of the following is an output of the Sequence Activities process?

A. Project scope statement
B. Project schedule network diagram
C. Activity list
D. Organizational process assets

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 43
Holly is the project manager of the NDS project and she is 85 percent complete with her project though she should be 95 percent complete. Her project has a BAC of $9,850,400 and she has spent $8,011,221 to date. What is Holly’s schedule variance for this project?

A. $163,626
B. $130,901
C. -$985,040
D. 0.16

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 44
Gary is the project manager of the GHY project. He has elected to use a previous, but similar, project to guide him and the project team through the estimate activity duration process. The previous project schedule could best described as which one of the following?

A. Organizational process asset
B. Lessons learned documentation
C. Process input
D. Predecessor project

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 45
Anna is the project manager of the NHQ project. Her project has 1,500 stakeholders, some of which are external to her organization. In this project, Anna wants to create a method to classify the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes. This model will help Anna determine the communication demands and when information should be distributed. What does Anna want to create in this instance?

A. Power/interest grid
B. Salience model
C. Power/influence grid
D. Communications matrix

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 46
You work as the project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are reviewing and regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan. Mark, a trainee, has a doubt related to the inputs of monitor and control project work. Which of the following is the input to monitor and control project work?

A. Project document updates
B. Expert judgment
C. Performance report
D. Project management plan updates

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION 47
You are the project manager of the NAA Project for your organization. You are exploring the possibility of fast tracking in your project. Which of the following statements is most accurate about fast tracking the project?

A. Fast tracking only works if activities can be overlapped to shorten duration.
B. Fast tracking only works if the activities are effort-driven.
C. Fast tracking only works if the activities are resource-driven.
D. Fast tracking only works if activities can have start-to-start relationships.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 48
Tom is the project manager for the ABC Construction Company. As part of the project scheduling for the construction of a new office building, he has allotted time for the inspectors of the building structure, as well as electrical, plumbing, and safety into the project’s schedule. These inspectors can be considered what type of dependency in the project?

A. Mandatory dependencies
B. Required dependencies
C. Discretionary dependencies
D. External dependencies

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 49
Tom works as the project manager for BlueWell Inc. He spends the majority of his time communicating with team members and the project stakeholders. Various communication skills are involved in the communication processes. Which communication skills are involved in this process? Each correct answer represents a part of the solution. Choose all that apply.

A. Internal and External
B. Vertical and Horizontal
C. Confronting and problem solving
D. Formal and Informal

Correct Answer: ABD

QUESTION 50
Frank is the project manager of a construction project. In this project, Frank has elected to allow the interior design phase of the project to overlap with the pool construction phase of the project. Normally, Frank would not allow these two phases to overlap, but for this project, he has elected to do so in order to compress the project schedule. What is this schedule compression technique called?

A. Resource leveling heuristic
B. Lead time
C. Fast tracking
D. Crashing

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 51
You are the project manager of a project that has a budget of $875,000 and you have completed 40 percent of the project work. Due to some errors, however, you have actually spent $425,000 of the budget. Management wants to know what the project’s cost performance index is. What value do you report?

A. -$75,000
B. $350,000

C. .82
D. -$187,500

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 52
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Which of the following techniques will you use to determine whether particular work can best be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from the outside sources?

A. Contract Types
B. Expert Judgment
C. Procurement Negotiations
D. Make-or-Buy Analysis

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 53
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You have to identify the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables. For this, you have to explain the three inputs for the define activities process to your project team. Which of the following is NOT a valid input?

A. Work Breakdown Structure
B. Enterprise Environmental Factors
C. Scope baseline
D. Organizational Process Assets

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 54
Joseph works as the project manager of the NHQ Project. He has created the project network diagram as shown in the figure: critical path. These results allow managers to prioritize activities for the effective management of project completion, and to shorten the planned critical path of a project by pruning critical path activities, by “fast tracking” (i.e., performing more activities in parallel), and/or by “crashing the critical path” (i.e., shortening the durations of critical path activities by adding resources).

Based on the network diagram, find out which path is the critical path for this project?

A. ABEHJ
B. ABDIJ
C. ABDHJ
D. ACFIJ

Correct Answer: D

QUESTION 55
Ned is the project manager of the HYQ Project. In Ned’s project, the management has requested that he enforce resource leveling so that the maximum amount of hours in the project per worker will not exceed 25 hours per week. Ned’s pay is based on how quickly he can complete the project work. What must Ned do to accommodate the change in the resource allotment if he has to finish the project on time?

A. Crash the project.
B. Add more risk mitigation.
C. Reduce the amount of labor.
D. Reduce the project scope.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 56
Which of the following processes fall under the Project Integration Management knowledge area? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

A. Quality Assurance
B. Project Plan Development
C. Integrated Change Control
D. Project Plan Execution

Correct Answer: BCD

QUESTION 57
Don is the project manager of the NQP project for his organization. This project is scheduled to last for 18 months and will have several elements of the project that have government regulations. Management is concerned with the regulations and would like Don to report on the activities that will be affected by the regulations. Which of the following documents should Don refer to, for the information on the activities and the regulations?

A. Risk management plan
B. Activity list
C. Activity list and attributes

D. Risk register

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 58
You are the project manager for your organization. You have been recording the actual results of activity duration for your project. Many of the results are late and this is causing your project to be late on reaching its milestones. What tool and technique can you use as a part of controlling the schedule to help you review various scenarios to bring the schedule into alignment with the plan?

A. What-if scenario analysis
B. Root cause analysis
C. Schedule analysis
D. Resource leveling

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION 59
You are the project manager of a software development project. Your project team will be creating a web-based software application that will allow your company’s customers to browse your website, search inventory, and place orders among other things. Your project team will, on a regular basis, need to update their computer virus prevention software, update their operating systems, and perform other maintenance on their computers in order to complete the project. This maintenance work is not directly tied to the project deliverables, but it is needed in order for the project to be completed. What term best describes this maintenance work?

A. Project management overhead
B. Discrete effort
C. Level of effort
D. Cost of conformance to quality

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 60
You are the project manager for the GHB Organization. Management has asked that you review your recent SPI to determine why there was a schedule variance. They’d also like you to explain what approach you’ll do to counteract the SPI going forward in the project. You complete the variance analysis and report to management that you’ll be fast tracking a portion of your project work. What will be the management’s concern with, when it comes to fast tracking the project?

A. Added costs for the additional project labor
B. Added risk
C. Continued variances in the SPI
D. Slippage in the project quality

Correct Answer: B