66 Free PMP Practice Exam Based on PMBOK 5th Edition

Standardize your knowledge according to the current PMBOK Guide with the 66 free PMP practice exam based on PMBOK 5th edition. The following effective PMP practice questions test will check whether you understand terms and concepts in the same way as in the PMBOK. They are, decomposition, Validate Scope, Control Quality, work package, Variance analysis, An approved change request, inputs to the Create WBS process, and more others. Specially, the friendly format promotes effectiveness of this sample test. To bring you a refreshing exam practice experience, the multiple choice questions are accessibly laid out with instant answers and score following your hitting submit at the bottom of page 2. There’re two pages, each of which contains more 30 questions. After you select your best response to each quiz, don’t forget to have your results checked and marked automatically. That way, you will find your weak areas, reinforce knowledge and determine whether you have a real grip of the PMBOK Guide. Let’s work hard and your results will bear fruit!

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You are teaching a class about project scope management. One of your students raises his hand and asks you why this is important to carry out in the "real world." Your BEST response would be:

A To explain to the student that scope management MUST be done, because it is mentioned in the PMBOK®.
B To explain to the student that it would be considered best practice to conduct project scope management on the job in order to ensure that the project team has formal guidance on how the project's requirements and scope will be defined, documented, verified and controlled.
C To ask the student to tell the class what he thinks the right answer is.
D To explain to the student that it is important to do so the critical path of the project can be defined and entered into the project management information system.

All of the following are NOT true EXCEPT:

A Validate Scope must precede Control Quality.
B Control Quality must precede Validate Scope.
C Validate Scope may be performed in parallel with Control Quality.
D Validate Scope and Control Quality must be performed concurrently.

The product scope description describes:

A The configuration of the expected product.
B The work package listed in the work breakdown structure.
C The characteristics of the product, service, or result described in the project charter and requirements documentation.
D The work and only the work required to complete the project. The product scope description progressively elaborates the characteristics of the product, service, or result described in the project charter and requirements documentation. PMBOK® 5.3.3.1, pg 123

A work breakdown structure is typically used to:

A Give authority to the project manager.
B Organize and define the total scope of work for the project.
C Assign work to the project sponsor.
D Provide a hierarchical depiction of the project organization arranged so that the work packages can be related to the performing organizational units

You have just signed on with a pharmaceutical company as a new employee. As the project manager for a new project, you learn that project charters are not used in your new company. You discuss this with your boss and inform her that in your former company, you always had a project charter for every new project. She suggests that you and the project team gather comparable information that can then be used to develop the detailed ________________.

A Work breakdown structure
B Project scope statement
C Project plan
D Project cost estimate

Caroline and Fred executed all their work according to the documented requirements and generated work performance data that made them realized a scope change was required. Of course, the project management plan had to be update. Updating the project management plan because of this scope change means:

A Approving deliverables.
B Approving change requests.
C Re-baselining the activities.
D The project management plan is being progressively elaborated.

You are the project manager responsible for your company's most expensive R&D project. The current SPI for your project is 1.06, and the current CPI for your project is 1.05. Your boss enters your office and informs you that the executive governance committee has decided to terminate your project due to recent market changes. You are surprised, but understand the importance of the business decision. During this conversation, your boss requests that you to set up a meeting with your contracted vendor to agree upon and document all of the work that has been completed up to this point. Your boss has just asked you to conduct _______________.

A Validate Scope.
B Define Scope.
C Conflict resolution.
D Contract administration.

Define Scope techniques include:

A Alternatives generation.
B Inspection.
C Decomposition.
D Configuration management.

Which of the following is a tool and technique of Control Scope?

A Change control system.
B WBS dictionary updates.
C Variance analysis.
D Configuration management system.

All of the following are NOT true about requested changes EXCEPT:

A They are processed for review and disposition through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.
B They are an input to the Validate Scope process.
C They are necessary to complete Validate Scope.
D They are rarely used because the scope on every project remains relatively constant.

In the event that a stakeholder does not accept a completed deliverable, the NEXT action that the project team should take is to:

A Close out the contract and accept payment only for those deliverables that were accepted.
B Correct the deliverables that were not accepted.
C Correct the process used for generating the deliverables.
D Document the deliverables that have not been accepted along with the reasons for non-acceptance.

Configuration management activities for requirements are most likely specified in which of the following?

A Requirements management plan
B Requirements documentation
C Quality management plan
D Requirements traceability matrix 0

All of the following are inputs to the Create WBS process EXCEPT:

A Work breakdown structure.
B Project scope statement.
C Requirements documentation.
D Organizational process assets.

The approved detailed project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary are the __________ for the project.

A Accepted deliverables
B Scope baseline
C Organizational process assets
D Requirements

All of the following are NOT used to assess the magnitude of project scope variation as part of the Control Scope process EXCEPT:

A Chart of accounts.
B Gantt chart.
C Pareto chart.
D Variance analysis.

Systems analysis, systems engineering, value engineering and value analysis are techniques used in __________ analysis.

A Project
B Product
C Critical path
D Stakeholder

All of the following are NOT the result of collecting requirements EXCEPT:

A Stakeholder register.
B Documentation and prioritization of the project stakeholders' business needs.
C Documentation of the specialized knowledge or training from the most experienced individuals within the performing organization.
D Organizational process assets.

Which of the following CANNOT be an output of Control Scope?

A Lessons learned
B WBS updates
C Variance analysis
D Scope variances and causes

All of the following are NOT true about decomposition EXCEPT:

A WBS components represent verifiable products, services, or results.
B Major deliverables and subprojects should comprise the last level of decomposition.
C To ensure proper control, subprojects should not be developed by organizations outside the project team.
D The project team should always decompose to the maximum amount of detail possible.

Approved change requests can mandate updates to all of the following EXCEPT:

A Work breakdown structure and WBS dictionary.
B Enterprise environmental factors.
C Scope baseline.
D Project management plan.

Organizational process assets could be inputs to how many of the six Project Scope Management processes?

A 3
B 4
C 5
D All of them

All of the following are outputs of Create WBS EXCEPT:

A Work breakdown structure.
B WBS dictionary.
C Scope baseline.
D Project scope statement.

Inspection is a technique that includes:

A Identifying early and late start dates, as well as early and late finish dates, for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities.
B Directing, managing, performing and accomplishing the project work, providing the deliverables and providing work performance information.
C Examining or measuring to determine whether an activity, component, product, result, or service conforms to specified requirements.
D The assurance that a product, service, or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders.

Which of the following is NOT true about a work package?

A Can be subdivided into lower level WBS components
B Can be cost estimated
C Can be scheduled
D Can be monitored and controlled

An authorized modification to the agreed-upon project scope baseline, as defined by the approved project scope statement, WBS and WBS dictionary is:

A A requested change.
B An approved change request.
C A corrective action.
D An error.

The work breakdown structure is __________ -oriented.

A Decomposition
B Risk
C Deliverable
D Action

Validate Scope differs from __________ in that Validate Scope is primarily concerned with the acceptance of deliverables, rather than with fulfilling the quality requirements specified for the deliverables.

A Perform Quality Assurance
B Control Quality
C Quality metrics
D Control Scope

You have been assigned as a new project manager for a multi-phase project that is midway through phase 3 of 5 phases. While the overall work of the team seems pretty good, you feel that phase 3 is starting to drift from the original plan as it appears that extra work is being performed. You set up a meeting with the project sponsor to discuss your concerns. The sponsor is surprised and agrees that phase 3 now includes work that was not documented in the original agreement. To prove this, the sponsor reaches into her file cabinet and pulls out a folder titled:

A Project scope statement.
B Schedule baseline.
C Initial project scope statement.
D Project charter.

Which of the following is NOT a component of the scope baseline?

A WBS dictionary
B Project scope statement
C WBS
D Change requests

All of the following are true about the work breakdown structure EXCEPT:

A It is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.
B It is an output of Collect Requirements.
C Each descending level of the WBS represents an increasingly detailed definition of the project work.
D The planned work within the lowest levels can be scheduled, cost estimated, monitored, and controlled.

Which of the following is NOT an input to Define Scope?

A WBS dictionary
B Requirements documentation
C Project charter
D Organizational process assets

An input to Validate Scope is:

A Define Scope.
B Inspection.
C Requirements traceability matrix.
D Accepted deliverables.

Jim, the project manager for a large merger integration project, is in the process of defining his scope. He has leveraged consultants, subject matter experts and members of professional organizations. He is using what type of tool or technique?

A Alternatives generation
B Nominal group
C Expert judgment
D Focus groups

66 Free PMP Practice Exam Based on PMBOK 5th Edition

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