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Questions 1-20
1) If a stakeholder has any questions about project deliverables, as the PM, you should direct him to the:
a) WBS
b) Project plan
c) Preliminary Scope statement
d) None of the above
2) Your construction project was damaged by an earthquake. Your contractor says that he cannot fulfil the
terms of the contract due to a specific clause you both had signed in the contract. He is referring to the:
a) Force majeure clause
b) Fixed price clause
c) Contract obligation terms
d) None of the above
3) Your vendor has confirmed in writing that he will not be able to provide the products contracted to him,
in the time mentioned in the contract. You can terminate the contract and sue for damages. This is a type
of:
a) Minor breach
b) Anticipatory breach
c) Material breach
d) Fundamental breach
4) As a PM, you manage multiple projects. One of your projects is over budget while the other is under
budget. You decide to transfer money from the latter to the former and report both projects as within
budget. This is against the PMI code of ethics and is called:
a) Unethical management
b) Budget tampering
c) Fraudulent reporting
d) Cost leveling
5) Your brother can influence bids in the vendor company that has been contracted for your project. You
should:
a) Disclose the bid price that is most likely to make him win
b) Reject other vendors and award him the contract
c) Refrain from the decision-making process and make a full disclosure to stakeholders and wait for their
decision before you proceed
d) Pretend during meetings that you don't know your brother
6) A project you are managing is about to be completed. But there is a minor defect in the work produced
by the contractor. You should:
a) Neglect the defect if it is trivial
b) Ask the contractor to fix according to SOW
c) Submit a change request
d) None of the above
7) As a PM, you have identified some low priority risks. You should:
a) Neglect them as they will mostly not occur
b) Add them to a watch list and add to the risk register
c) Plan detailed response plans
d) None of the above
8) One of your team members' A's father was sick when you were in the planning stage of your project. A
had informed you that he might have to leave to visit his father if the situation arose. You had planned for
this and spoke to the functional manager of your group to provide a back-up resource, B to be used if
necessary.
Now, A has left to see his father and B is filling in for him. But B is taking more than expected time to get
up to speed and this impacts project cost and schedule.
This is an example of a:
a) Residual risk
b) Secondary risk
c) Contingency plan
d) None of the above
9) To motivate your team, you decided to reward a team member who performed well. This hurt cohesion
in the team. You should:
a) Reset award criteria
b) Modify reward strategy to be win-win for the team
c) Award only two people
d) Declare that there will be no rewards going forward
10) Your project uses a vendor who has completed 50% of the contracted work. You are unsure of how
much to pay the vendor. You should refer to the:
a) Request for proposal
b) Contract
c) Response to bid
d) Statement of work
12) When there are people from different countries and cultures in a team, the PM should:
a) Neglect the cultural differences
b) Deal with everyone with an iron hand
c) Recognize that there are cultural differences
13) If your business sponsor has an important but minor change to the scope, and he requests that you
make the change without having to process a change request:
a) Accomodate the change
b) Refuse to make the change
c) Sneak the change in when no one is looking
d) Request the client that the change management process has to be followed
14) If a stakeholder directly asks a team member to make changes and the team member accomodates
it:
a) Admonish the team member during the team meeting so that other team members are also aware
b) Inform the stakeholder that he should not talk to your team member
c) Talk to the stakeholder and team member in private, and emphasise gently that the Integrated Change
Control process should be followed
d) Pretend to not know about the change and let it happen
15) When your client is ready to accept the product your project has produced, you should:
a) Refer to the quality plan to see if the product meets specifications
b) Refer to project management plan
c) Obtain client sign off and follow administrative closure process
d) Let go off the project resources and assign them to other projects
16) Appreciating a team member's good work in front of the team results in:
a) Jealousy among other team members and should be avoided
b) Encouragement for the team member and motivation for other team members
c) Shouldn't be done as it shows preference
d) None of the above
17) As the project manager of an important project, you learnt many helpful tools and tips. What should
you do?
a) Keep them to yourself
b) Archive your learning in the project folder and share with other PMs
c) Sign a non-disclosure agreement
d) None of the above
18) You just found out that the company that you were planning to use in your project is known for being
late in delivering their products that can lead to losses to the project. You decide to go with a different
company to ______ the risk.
a) Mitigate
b) Reject
c) Transfer
d) Avoid
19) You are the project manager of a project that involves sensitive information. You are inviting bids from
vendors for some tasks on this project. Since the winning vendor will have access to the sensitive
information, you should:
a) Decide to drop the vendor and instead do the tasks using an internal team
b) Swear the vendor to secrecy
c) Ask the vendor to sign a non-disclosure agreement
d) Threaten to take the vendor to court
20) A project is behind schedule. Two senior resources are added to help speeden work. The result is:
a) Project will be completed on time
b) Project cost will not increase
c) Project may not be completed on time due to increased number of communication channels
d) None of the above
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21) Project scope statement is the output of:
a) Scope planning
b) Scope definition
c) Both a and b
d) None of the above
22) Requested changes to scope and recommended corrective action belong to which process:
a) Scope verification
b) Scope definition
c) Scope control
d) All of the above
23) Scope planning takes place:
a) After requirements are gathered
b) Early in the project
c) After scope is finalized
d) None of the above
24) Project charter is
a) An output of Scope planning
b) Input to scope planning
c) Created after preliminary project scope statement
d) All of the above
25) An example of organizational process asset is:
a) Company policy document
b) Organizational culture
c) Organization structure
d) Organization type
56) Earned value=100, Planned value=110, the schedule performance index is:
a) 1.1
b) 0.91
c) -10
d) 10
57) Earned value=100, Actual cost=120, the cost performance index is:
a) 0.01
b) 20
c) 0.833
d) -20
58) The four stages in team development are:
a) Forming, storming, norming, performing
b) Forming, storming, norming, reforming
c) Forming, norming, reforming, performing
d) Planning, forming, storming, performing
59) Theory Y assumes employees:
a) Are self-motivated
b) Have to be micro-managed
c) Work only for money
d) Are not ambitious
60) Low-priority risks should be:
a) Added to a watch list and the risk register updated
b) Removed from the watch list
c) Removed from the risk register
d) Informed to the customer
Questions 61-80
61) A technique used in Expert Judgement to determine probability of risk is:
a) Interviews with experts
b) Risk ranking
c) Risk register updates
d) Risk response plan
62) Monte Carlo simulation is a technique used to perform:
a) Qualitative risk analysis
b) Quantitative risk analysis
c) Decision tree analysis
d) Risk response
63) Inputs to Perform Quantitative Risk analysis process are:
a) Risk register
86) A tool/rechnique used in the Develop Human Resource plan process is:
a) Political factors
b) Organization chart
99) A room used for project planning, and where team members work on issue resolution is called:
a) Conference room
b) Resolution room
c) War room
d) Video conferencing room
100) 'Estimate to Completion' can be calculated as:
a) EAC-AC
b) BAC-EAC
c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
Questions 101-120
101) An average PM spends 50% of her time on:
a) Meetings
b) Issue resolution
c) Managing stakeholders
d) Risk analysis
172) At what stage of your current project should you use the techniques you learnt on your previous
projects as PM?
199) Using which of the below can you predict future performance of team:
a) Trend analysis
b) EMV
c) Control limits
d) Risk analysis
200) Salary of full-time employees and cost of hardware bought specially for your project count as:
a) Direct costs
b) Indirect costs
c) Project costs
d) None of the above
201) A Request for Proposal:
a) May invite suppliers to submit a proposal for a product
b) Indicates what product/service is required
c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
203) Payback period is the time it takes to get back money invested in a project. Hence:
a) The longer the payback period, the better it is for the project
b) The shorter the payback period, the better it is for the project
c) Not enough information to decide
d) Depends on the present value of money invested
204) Change control board is:
a) Board of directors
b) Group of stakeholders, team leads, executives who decide on which changes to accept/reject
c) Team of project managers
d) None of the above
205) Variance/trend analysis is done during:
a) Risk monitoring and control
b) Risk response
c) Risk analysis
d) Risk mitigation plan
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