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In an organization a restructuring shift from weak matrix to strong matrix organization, the power is shifted from the:

Project Manager to the functional manager
Expeditor to the coordinator
Functional manager to the project manager
Functional manager to the sponsor

Which Analytical techniques are BEST suitable to check the performance of project /phase at the time of close project/ phase?

Reserve analysis and Variance analysis
Regression analysis and Trend Analysis
Reserve analysis and Trend Analysis
Variance analysis and regression analysis

You are working on a new project as the Project manager for mobile applications which is started with the objective to provide new easy to use features to the users. You and your team are working on the analysis that what features will be incorporated into the software. You are consulting with a SME group as well who can evaluate the features of the project going forward. The SME group along with quality team has the authority to suggest changes for the software for making it more useable. As a project manager which document will be impacted most in this scenario?

Change Management Plan.
Scope Management Plan
Do not continue with the project until all of the features are clearly defined in the scope statement and scope definition.
Communication management plan

You are a seasoned project manager and managing a project the project manager. In a conference call your client tells you about some federal changes that need you to meet an earlier deadline for the project as client cannot perform their business properly without the new product. After conference call you call for a team meeting and inform them about the early deadline. You tell your team that either crashing or fast-tracking the schedule can be done. You team members are not sure about these two ways and asks how these impact the project?

Crashing adds risk, while fast-tracking adds cost
When you crash a project, it always shortens the total duration of the project
Crashing the project adds cost, while fast-tracking adds risk
When you fast-track a project, it always shortens the total duration of the project

You are the project manager and working on a critical project that has strict deadline and no one can afford any schedule delay in completion. You are working on reducing the schedule duration of your project and decide to implement crashing for schedule reduction. Out of the following options can BEST describe your approach for implementing crashing?

Reallocation of existing resources or assigning additional resources to the project.
Try to overlap activities which were originally planned to be done in sequence.
Reduce development work by reducing the number of features
Apply pressure to the staff and reduce duration estimates for activities.

All of the following statements are true EXCEPT for which one?

Programs are groups of related projects.
Project life cycles are collections of sequential and occasionally overlapping project phases.
A project may or may not be part of a program.
Portfolios are collections of interdependent projects and programs

What is the BEST technique to determine project objectives?

Delphi technique
Earned value analysis
Expert interviews
Pareto

Your company manufactures small electric switches. It is introducing new product line of designer switches in various colors. These new products will be offered indefinitely starting with the spring catalog release. Which of the following is TRUE?

This is a project as this new product line never been manufactured and sold by this company before.
This is an ongoing operation because the company is in the business of manufacturing electric switches. Introducing it in various colors is simply a new twist on an existing process.
This is an ongoing operation as the new product line will be sold indefinitely and it is not temporary
This is not a project or ongoing operation. This is a new product introduction not affecting ongoing operations.

You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to record customer messages to an automated system in case of customer queue is very long and then if customer wants to continue, connect customer to call agent when his/her turn comes. You are in charge of media communication for this project. VP marketing will share responsibility with you for this project. Which organizational structure do you work in?

Functional organization
Weak matrix organization
Strong matrix organization
Balance matrix organization

Which of the following BEST describes what a project charter may be used for, when project is in Execution phase?

To make sure all team member are rewarded.
To help determine if a scope change should be approved
To assess the effectiveness of the change control system
To make sure all the documentation on the project is completed

What is the typical thing that critical chain project management deals with?

Management of buffers
Management of total floats and free floats
Management of leads and lags
Management of resource over-allocations

What are the inputs to the Develop Project Charter process?

Contract, Project SOW, Business case, Enterprise environmental factors, and Organizational process assets.
Project SOW, Business case, and Organizational process assets, project management plan, risk management plan.
Contract, Enterprise environmental factors, and Organizational process assets, project management plan.
Project SOW, Enterprise environmental factors, and Organizational process assets.

As a project manager, you receive an initial document of a project which states narrative description of product or service and results which required to be delivered by the project from the sponsor of the project. This document has the other references containing information that what are the needs of project depending on market demand or any government regulation and the scope characteristics of the product. What is the formal name of the document that you as Project manager have received?

Business Case
Project Charter
Statement of work
Project Scope statement

Out of all stakeholders, a stakeholder is voicing Negative opinions about part of project scope to other stakeholders. As a result now there is strong opposition to some deliverables even though everyone had agreed to the scope when it was defined. Which of the following is the BEST choice for the project manager?

Redistribute the project scope to all stakeholders
Solicit comments on the scope from all stakeholders
Discuss face to face with the stakeholder voicing opposition
Ask the project sponsor to meet with the stakeholder voicing opposition

Sam is the project manager and asked his team to come up with estimates of a new module need to be added in the current software. The team has come up with estimate of 25 weeks and informs you that it can be shortened by 2 weeks if everything goes good. But because of some dependencies on third party, project can be delayed by five weeks. How these numbers can help Sam to calculate three-point estimate for the project.

22.6 weeks
23.5 weeks
25.5 weeks
22.3 weeks

While planning for your project as the project manager, you realized that your project has 4 critical paths. Which of the following BEST describes how it is going to affects your project?

Critical path – means it needs more people
Critical path – means it makes project more expensive
Critical path – means it increases the project risk
Critical path – means it makes it easier to manage

While planning for a critical project delivery, you want to give yourself a few extra hours from budgeted time for a construction and testing phase to account for problems with unavailability of team resources for any reasons or delays in delivery. This scenario can be BEST described as ___

Padding
Risk acceptance
Reserve time or contingency
Mitigation

Project charter is the initial document which is created by inputs such as SOW, business cases, organizational process assets and in contains information which includes?

Business needs, Project purpose, High level requirements, assumptions and constraints, stakeholder list , summary budget, High level risk
Business needs, Project purpose, Detailed requirements, assumptions and constraints stakeholder list, High level risk
Business needs, Project purpose, , assumptions and constraints, project management plan, stakeholder list, summary budget, assumptions and constraints
Business needs, Project purpose, High level requirements, Work Authorization System , assumptions and constraints, assumptions and constraints

When as project manager you have given choice to select project you can undertake out of three projects available, Out of following factors which you will NOT consider while taking decision

Net Present Value (NPV)
Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR)
Payback period
Law of Diminishing returns

In projects, expert judgment will often be used throughout the project integration processes. Which of the following does not provide expert judgment?

Professional and technical associations
Competitors
Consultants
Other groups and units within the organization

Out of all the following listed contract types, which has got the highest risk for the seller?

Cost Reimbursement
Time and materials
Fixed Price
All contract types have similar risk for the seller

. ‘Sam’ the project manager is holding a team meeting and stakeholders to discuss and learn that what has hindered and what has helped the project and project team’s performance. All the following statements are true regarding this situation except for which one? Choose the least correct answer

These meetings are called lesson learnt meeting and the documentation for lessons learnt is used to distribute information. These meetings are good team building activity.
The information gathered from these meetings concerns processes and activities which have already occurred, so it can be most useful only for the future projects as lessons learnt.
The project reports component of the organizational process assets updates output includes status meetings and lessons learned.
These meetings should be documented and should always include the cause of the issue, the reasons for the corrective actions, and the other appropriate information about the issues.

You want one of your team lead to be trained for project management activities and have asked him to drive cost estimates for a new module of the project. He is an experienced and expert of the technology which needs to be used for this module. He is taking each activity, assigning its cost, and then aggregating it to a final cost estimate. Which type of costing estimation is he using?

Top down
Bottom up
Analogous
Parametric

You are happy project manager of a project and in planning phase, everything is going great. On one fine day, you get the information from higher management that your customer has decided to terminate the project as the need for the product does not exist anymore. As a project manager, what step would you take FIRST?

Call a meeting with the customer
Verify the request against the procurement documents
Enter Close Procurements process
Seek project sponsor’s advice

You are the project manager of the project which is in planning phase. You are done with scope, time, cost, human resource and quality planning and now working at risk response planning. In the process you realize that there is a very critical risk which may have a high cost impact on the project completion. So, you create a fallback plan, which of the following looks LEAST appropriate for fallback plan?

Developing Alternative options
Look for some outside vendor to subcontracting the project
Allocate contingency reserves
Change in project scope

You are attending training on project management and the trainer had just started defining WBS. You are also a relatively new project manager and trying to learn about WBS. In the training break, you and other team members started discussing about what they have understood about WBS. Sam says that ‘WBS contains work packages that are described in a linear, unstructured list’. Joe says ‘Each item in the WBS represents a feature in the product scope’ and As per Lena ‘The WBS represents all of the work that must be done on the project’. Julie says that ‘WBS is created by the product sponsor and stakeholders’. Who defines WBS in most correct form?

Sam
Joe
Lena
Julie

Which of the following is NOT input to the Identify Risk process?

Lessons learned
Stakeholder Register
Risk management plan
Risk threshold

For a multi-phased project, when does the Close Project or Phase process needs to be done and what all need to be done?

The Close Project or Phase process needs to be done at the end of each phase of the project; however, it is left to the project manager's opinion on whether he/she wants to perform this process in between phases. It necessarily needs to be done at the end of the project.
The Close Project or Phase process is done at the end of the project in case the work is contracted out to external performing organizations.
The Close Project or Phase process needs to performed at the end of the project and involves closing out the entire project scope.
The Close Project or Phase process needs to be performed at the end of each phase of the project and involves closing out the portion of project scope applicable to that phase.

You have completed your project and performing project closure activities. What should you do LAST in this process?

Creating final product, service, or result transition
Releasing project resources working on the project
Updating organizational process assets
Accepting deliverables

Which of the following is NOT required as input for Close project / phase process

Project Management Plan
Accepted Deliverables
Work Performance Information
Organizational process assets

‘Sam’ the project manager is working towards clearly describes the level of involvement expected from everyone involved in the project. The main purpose is to prevent rework, conflicts and coordination issues. Which of the following BEST describes the Sam’s efforts?

Develop Project Management plan and quality planning
Problem solving, control and preventing gold plating
Scope validation and quality control
Develop project team

You are considering hiring service of some vendors regarding a utility development in your project. You have started with Plan procurement process, as a seasoned project manager in your opinion which of the following statements is true regarding the procurement management plan?

The procurement management plan defines the statement of work which contains the details of the procurement item/ service in specific terms
The procurement management plan explains how multiples vendors should be managed
The procurement management plan is an output of the plan Contracting process
None of the statements are true

As the project manager you have been asked to calculate the internal rate of return (IRR) of a project? What do you calculate to find out IRR or what represents IRR?

The discount rate or inherent investment yield rate produced by the project's deliverables over a pre-defined period of time.
The time period needed to pay back the investment from a project.
Percentage of the original investment over a specified time period from the project’s deliverables.
None of the above

As a project manager, you know that stakeholders can impact project success. To manage stakeholder expectations is an important priority. Out of the following which statement on project stakeholders is NOT correct?

For project successful completion of project, ignore negative stakeholders
Stakeholders have varying levels of responsibility and authority when participating on a project and these can impact project life cycle.
Some key stakeholders include project manager, project team, operations manager, customer and sponsor
Stakeholders often have very different or conflicting objectives and their expectations are difficult to manage.

You have started with a new project as the project manager which has 10 stakeholders and 15 team members. Moving forward two stakeholders and three team members are also added. How many more communication channels will this add to the project?

Who issues the Project Charter ?

Sponsor
Project Manager
Project Team
Stakeholders

You are assigned to a new project that has been attempted, but unsuccessful several times in last few years. The reason for unsuccessful attempts was ‘Politics’ (differing views and directions by key stakeholders). This is an example of:

Stakeholder analysis
Scope Management
Historical information
Risk Identification

Sam has given commitment to the client that project will be completed on day 30. The project has 10 activities and 15 resources are assigned to it. The critical path has duration 25 days and 12 activities. What is the project slack?

5 Days
0 Days
3 Days
6 Days

As a project manager, you have assigned communication distribution task to your team lead Ray as you are preparing him for the better roles now. You have told him to send project’s weekly status report to all stakeholders via email after reviewing the reports. What kind of communication delivery model you are suggesting to Ray for information distribution?

Interactive communication
Pull Communication
Push Communication
Paralingual communications

You are planning to buy a house and went to a builder to get some idea of how much a house that fits in your requirement will cost you. Builder provides you estimation for the construction of a residential home based on cost a certain amount per square foot of living area. This is an example of what type of estimating?

Analogous estimating
Three Point estimating
Bottom-up estimating
Parametric estimating

Joe has been assigned as the project manager of a project which is in execution phase as the project manager who used to manage it left the company. And in the first meeting introduction with the customer his complaints Joe about the poor visibility of the project as the last manager was keeping customer informed. In this scenario what Joe should do first thing to resolve the issue?

Talk to customer to find out the reasons behind why he feels the project lack visibility.
Talk to team members who are part of projects from beginning to know customer’s communication needs.
Go through the communication management plan to know customer communication requirement and whether they are addressed as documented.
Before any other step, Joe should go through project management plan first to understand the project.

Sam is the project manager and plans to involve his team for risk identification session. During the session Sam and his team have identified 130 risks. Sam realizes that 130 is quite big number and to evaluate each of these risks can cost enormous amount of his time as well as team’s time. And the effort may not be worth enough as not all of these risks are relevant and important. What Sam should do next?

Identify risk triggers where possible. Analyze only those risks quantitatively for which no trigger could be found.
Use qualitative risk analysis in order to prioritize risks for further action by doing risk probability and impact assessment.
Evaluate risk analysis in order to prioritize risks for further action, such as quantitative risk analysis.
Evaluate potential impact of each risk qualitatively and further analyze only those risks with high impact.

Two project managers were debating on whole purpose of project charter. As per project manager ‘A’, project charter is required to authorize start of a project formally and this is the whole purpose of it. As per project manager ‘B’, project charter is required to authorize a project to start and provide authority to project manager to apply organization resources to the project which as per project manager A, project manager already have authority to use any organizational resource. Who is correct in their thinking here?

Project Manager A
Project Manager B
Neither A nor B
Both are correct

During which process the project manager review prior phase documentation and customer acceptance documentation from the Verify Scope process?

Close Project or Phase
Control Scope
Perform Quality Control
Perform Quality Assurance

You are the project manager of project which is at the closure stage. For administrative closure of the project what steps you will follow: Step 1 – Activities and actions required to transfer project’s products, services or result to the next phase or to production or operations. Step 2 – Actions and activities required to update risk plan and scope management plan. Step 3 – Actions required collecting project or phase records, audit results and lessons learned. Step 4 – Actions and activities required to satisfy completion or exit criteria for the phase or project

Step1 , step 2 , step 3
Step4 , step 1, step 3
Step 2, step 3, step 4
Step 1, step2, step 4

Sam is looking for 2 Java Programmers for his project which he is managing as project manager. He had worked with Raymond who is an expert Java programmer in project which is completed year back now. He has met with Joe who is just out of school and Sam liked his attitude and would like to take him in his team even if he is lesser effective what he is looking for. Where can Sam, the project manager, find the information for the availability of Raymond and Joe so that he can put both on the project and get the work started?

Resource pool.
Historical information
Activity duration estimates
The scope statement

You are the project manager of a small project. Recently assigned to manage another project also . As both projects are ongoing, you need to divide your time among these two. The second project seems to be growing in size every day. With time passes, you feel more and more need of help. You have heard about a project manager in your organization who had managed project similar to second project. As project manager what should you do?

Contact the other project manager and ask for assistance.
Get historical data and guidance from the project management office (PMO)
Wait and watch, if the project is impacted by the growth in scope
Try to get node of all stakeholders on the scope for the project

You are creating your authorized Cost Baseline of your project. What process are you in?

Determine Budget
Control costs
Estimate costs
Cost Baseline

While working on Close procurement process, the project manager is responsible to complete each project procurement to complete Close project / phase. In this context, the final settlement of all outstanding issues, claims and disputes (if any) by negotiations is done through:

Contract closure
Procurement audits
Claims documentations
Negotiated settlements

You are just promoted as the Project Manager and trying to learn all about project management. The project which is assigned to you is in planning process and you are trying to be sure to follow the entire set of core planning processes as they should be. You have started developing WBS, and realize activity definition is next. You are slightly confused about the difference between the two. How would the difference between two can be described?

The WBS is focused on deliverables, whereas activity definition is focused on the tasks to create those deliverables.
The WBS is focused on scope definition, and activity definition is focused on planning.
Project managers don’t really use the WBS, and it is essentially the same as the activity definition.
WBS is focused on the project, whereas activity definition is related to the project management activities that must take place to ensure the project is well executed.

As a project manager, you are performing administrative closure of the project. At the end of the process, you will have formal acceptance, project archives and ____

Project P&L statement
Lessons learned
Statement of work updates
Performance measurement documents

You are a project manager of an information technology project in an investment bank. While developing the project charter, you realize that there are several regulatory requirements which are not addressed in the business case. And failure to meet these regulatory requirements can lead to legal actions against the company. The implementation of these requirements will increase the project’s scope and budget, which may result in cancellation of the project. What should you do?

Let project be complete by 25% and then re-evaluate what resources and funding could be allocated for these requirements.
Log and track it as a risk.
Disclose the discovery to the project sponsor and stakeholders.
Write up a scope change for the work.

You and your team are involved in cost estimation of your project which is in planning phase and in the process of project cost management. Which of the following tools and techniques is NOT applicable for your project’s cost estimation.

Cost Benefit Analysis
Reserve Analysis
Cost of Quality
Vendor Bid Analysis

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