Mcqs project mgmt.

Chapter 4

1. Which process formally authorizes the project?

a. Receive project approval
b. Identify Project Manager
c. Develop preliminary project statement
d. Develop project charter
e. Develop project management plan
2. Which of the following is true about change requests that result in corrective or preventive
actions?
a. They result in changes to scope
b. They result in changes to the project plan
c. They significantly increase risk
d. They do not usually affect project baselines
3. The project management plan is complete and is ready to be baselined. However, a key
stakeholder just discovered a critical omission and requests an adjustment to the PM plan.
What should you do next as the project manager?
a. Implement a formal CR
b. Make the adjustment
c. Consult the change control board
d. Inform the stakeholder that this constitutes scope creep and refuse to make the change
4. All of the following actions occur in the Direct and Manage Project Work process except
which of the following?
a. Adapt approved changes into the project’s plans
b. Collect and document lessons learned
c. Determine the project life cycle for the project
d. Staff, train, and manage project team members assigned to the project
5. The difference between a configuration management system and a change control system is?
a. The configuration management system is part of the PMIS - the change control system is
not
 b. The change control system is part of the key PMIS - the configuration management system
is not
c. The change control system feeds into the configuration management system and is part of
the configuration management system
d. Both the change control system and a configuration management system are organizational
process assets
6. Which of the following is not a process in the Project Integration Management process group?
a. Develop project charter
b. Close project or phase
c. Identify Project Manager
d. Monitor and Control Project work
7. Which of the following is not included in a project charter?
a. Resource management plan
b. Risks and constraints
c. Business case
d. Budget limits
8. The key output of Direct and Manage Project Work Process is which one of the following:
a. Creating the WBS
b. Deliverables
c. Enterprise environmental factors
d. Performance reports
9. Your project team is well underway with the construction of the product of the project. Some
of the work has progressed and some deliverables have been reviewed by key stakeholders.
During a deliverables review, one of the stakeholders found a discrepancy in one of the
deliverables that needed to be addressed immediately. The team reviewed the stakeholder’s
issue and agreed that some action needed to be taken to bring the deliverable back into
compliance. The best definition for this activity is called:
a. Defect repair
b. Corrective action
c. Quality control
d. Preventive action
10. Which of the following is not true about project charter?
a. Project charter is written by the Project Manager.
b. Project charter defines the purpose of the project
c. Identify and authorizes the Project Manager
d. Project charter is authorized by Executive Management

Answers:
1. D - Develop project charter process formally authorizes the project and identifies the project
manager.
2. D – One of the defined uses of a work authorization system is for the control of scope creep
3. B – Prior to baseline, the PM plan can be adjusted without a CR, consulting the change
control board, or addressing a scope creep issue. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition p. 78.
4. D – While the upgrade represents a change that must be tracked, it ultimately impacts the
configuration of the product
5. C – A and B are deliberate misdirection. D is incorrect. The change management system is
subsumed within the configuration management system
6. C - Identify Project Manager
7. A - The resource management plan is a detail of planning and not of initiation, which is where
the charter is created
8. B – Deliverables. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition, p. 65
9. A - Did you think it was a corrective action? Corrective actions are taken to bring the project
into line at some future point. Defect repairs address immediate concerns

A - Please refer Develop Project Charter Process. Different tools and technique are used to
develop project charter such Expert Judgement, Meeting and Analytical techniques
CHAPTER 5

Questions:
1. All of the below are inputs to Define Scope process EXCEPT:
a. Project Charter
b. Requirements Document
c. Organizational process assets
d. Project Management Plan
2. Project Charter is an input to all of the following processes EXCEPT:
a. Collect requirements
b. Define Scope
c. Create WBS
d. Develop Project Management Plan
3. Which of the following can be BEST described as a characteristic of Work Package?
a. May or may not be cost estimated
b. Can be scheduled
c. Can be further decomposed into work packages
d. May be monitored subject to nature of the project
4. Validate Scope can be BEST described as the process of
a. Validating that the project quality requirements have been met
b. Obtaining stakeholder's formal acceptance of the project deliverables
c. Controlling changes to the scope of the project
d. Validating that all of the project's objectives have been met
5. Work Performance Measurement is an output of which process:
a. Define Scope
b. Create WBS
c. Validate Scope
d. Control Scope
6. Validate Scope defines a process that:
a. Allows the customer to verify what was built against the requirements
b. Occurs at the end of the project prior to closing
c. Formalizes acceptance of completed project deliverables
d. Verifies the scope management plan is aligned with the project management plan
7. What is scope decomposition?
a. Breaking down the work into increments of less than 40 hours each
b. Breaking down the work to the work package level
c. Breaking down the work to the lowest level of detail possible
d. Breaking down the work by functional area
8. Who creates the scope baseline?
a. The project team
b. The project manager
c. All the stakeholders
d. Senior management
9. The validate scope process can occur at the end of the project or at the end of a project phase.
What is used to validate the scope of the deliverables?
a. Variance Analysis
b. Expert judgment
c. Technical performance measurement
d. Inspection
10. When performing the scope control process, which of the following statements is correct?
a. Scope control validates the delivered scope for the project
b. The work performance measurements produced are part of the PMIS
c. The inspection process is a key tool and technique used in scope control
d. Scope control is performed in concert with other control processes
Answers:
1. D. Please refer Define Scope process
2. C. Project Charter is input to all these processes except Create WBS.
3. B. Work Package is the lowest level in the WBS, and is the point, at which it can be reliably
scheduled, cost estimated, monitored and controlled.
4. Validate Scope is the process of obtaining the stakeholders' formal acceptance of the
completed project scope and associated deliverables. [PMBOK Pg. 123]
5. D. Work performance measurement is an output of Control Scope
6. C – Formalizes acceptance of completed deliverables via a sign-off
7. B – Breaking the work down to the work package level
8. A – Stakeholders have input but the actual scope baseline is created by the project team
9. D – Inspection is a tool and technique of validate scope. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition, p 133.
10. D – Scope control is performed simultaneously with the other control processes in the other
knowledge areas. “Project scope control…is integrated with other control processes”
PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition p 125.

CHAPTER 6

Questions:
1. The blueprints for the new construction projects have been completed and construction is
ready to begin. While the organization was thinking about erecting a modular structure, they
decided on a more traditional approach. The foundation will be poured and cured before the
 framing begins. This is an example of:
a. Discretionary dependency
b. Mandatory dependency
c. External dependency
d. Internal dependency
2. Your project is experiencing resource constraints at certain times in the project timeline,
requiring you to adjust start and finish dates on the schedule. What tool is best to use in this
situation?
a. Resource leveling
b. Feeding buffer
c. Critical Path method
d. Resource smoothing
3. The project optimistic estimate is 10 weeks and the pessimistic estimate is 40 weeks. What is
the standard deviation of the estimate?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6.7
d. 7.5
4. Crashing a network schedule works only when________________________.
a. A complete risk assessment is performed
b. The project team and the project manager agree on the course of action
c. It is the best alternative to overtime
d. Adding resources shortens activity durations
5. Your project has produced an optimistic estimate of 25 weeks, a pessimistic estimate of 95
weeks, and a calculated PERT of 40 weeks. What is the range of completion of the project
with a 95% confidence factor?
a. Between 20 weeks and 60 weeks
b. Between 23.7 weeks and 57.3 weeks
c. Between 16.7 weeks and 63.3 weeks
d. Between 16.3 weeks and 63.7 weeks
CHAPTER 3
Questions:
1. Validate Scope is part of what process group?
a. Planning
b. Executing
c. Closing
d. Monitoring and Controlling
2. The Planning process group touches all ten of the key knowledge areas in that planning has to
occur in each of these areas. Which of the following is not part of the planning process?
a. Creating the WBS
b. Develop the project management plan
c. Estimate activity durations
d. Identify stakeholders
3. You are just initiating a project for your organization. Which of the following is a true
statement regarding the Initiating process?
a. Risk is low but stakeholder influence is high
b. Staffing level is high while chance of success is low
c. Risk is high but the chances of success are also high
d. Stakeholder influence is high while costs are low
4. There are many reasons for creating a lessons learned document in a project. All of the
following represent reasons why you would create a lessons learned document with the
exception of:
a. Creates an archive to advise future project teams about types of projects and resources they
should avoid when initiating similar projects
b. Serves as a historical record for what worked and what did not work in your project so that
future project teams can make use of the information
c. Used as a phase-end review tool so the team can implement incremental process
improvement activities for the subsequent phases
d. Gives all project stakeholders a chance to input what issue resolution approaches were most
effective for them on the project
5. You are a project manager in an organization with a strong PMO. One of the newly hired
project managers told you that he has been a PMP® since 1998. While perusing the PMI
 website looking for some standards documentation, you happen to do a lookup on this person
and find out that they are not in the PMI repository of PMP®s in good standing. What do you
do?
a. Call law enforcement and report the individual
b. Report the individual to PMI
c. Report the individual to his senior manager
d. Report the individual to the PMO
6. Raw observations and measurements taking during the performance of project activities is
defined by PMI as _____________________?
a. Work performance information
b. Work performance data
c. Work performance report
d. Work performance criteria
7. Processes that provide the project team with insight into the health of the project and
identifies any area requiring additional attention are performed in _______________.
a. Planning
b. Initiating
c. Executing
d. Monitoring and Controlling
8. What is a synonym for 'progressive elaboration’?
a. Cyclical planning
b. Quantified elaboration
c. PERT estimates
d. Rolling wave planning
9. All the following happen in the Initiating process with the exception of:
a. Choose the project team
b. Determine stakeholders
c. Identify processes and standards
d. Create the project charter
10. The team has completed all design work and is ready to start creating a product of the project.
There are construction and IT elements in this project, and the project manager has leaned
 heavily on the subject matter experts in the organization for their technical expertise and
know-how. You have determined that some of the work needs to be contracted to an external
vendor who has the necessary expertise to deliver what is needed for the project. You are in
the process of selecting a vendor. What process group are you in?
a. Planning
b. Initiating
c. Monitoring and Controlling
d. Executing
11. In the Monitoring and Controlling process group, one of the primary goals of that group is to
monitor and control the project work. What is the second equally important, major goal of the
monitoring and control process?
a. Quality control
b. Change control
c. Scope control and verification
d. Corrective action

Answers:
1. D – Monitoring and controlling is the only correct answer. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition, p.
61
2. D – Identify stakeholders is part of the Initiating process
3. D – This is the only correct answer. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition, p. 54
4. A – Lessons learned are not used to torpedo resources you had issues with or steer you away
from uncomfortable projects. They usually focus on performance and process improvement
5. B – Report the individual to PMI. The PMP® credential is issued by PMI, not your
organization. Answer A is a red herring. Answers C and D, while seemingly appropriate, miss
the point: the credential comes from PMI
6. B - This is the definition of work performance data. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition p 59
7. D - This identifies a monitoring and controlling process. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition p 57
8. D – Rolling wave planning is the correct answer. A and B are non-existent terms and PERT is
used for schedule estimating
9. A – Choosing the project team is an Executing group activity. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition,
p. 267
10. D – Vendor identification and selection occurs in the Executing process group. PMBOK®
Guide, 5th edition, p. 356
11. B – Integrated Change Control is the only correct answer. PMBOK® Guide, 5th edition, p.
57