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PMI-SP Exam Questions
- Topic 1: Collect resource information and updates via reports, timesheets, meetings, inspections/ Develop the project resource breakdown structure (RBS)
- Topic 2: Identify critical and near-critical path(s) using techniques such as Critical Path Method/ Establish scheduling policies and procedures regarding methodology
- Topic 3: Define activities and milestones through communication with subject matter experts/ Develop the scheduling-related components for project management plans
- Topic 4: Perform schedule analysis and audit, on in-house and subcontractor schedules/ Provide information about project scheduling objectives and goals
- Topic 5: Establish project schedule configuration management policies and procedures incorporating best practices/ Align schedule with the overall program plan or integrated master plan (IMP)
- Topic 6: Obtain a consensus of the project customer, sponsor, project manager/ Update the schedule model and document schedule baseline changes
- Topic 7: Develop schedule approach, based on the unique characteristics of the project/ Incorporate approved risk mitigation activities into the schedule
- Topic 8: Collect activity status at defined intervals from activity owners via reports, meetings, inspections/ Sequence activities, incorporating defined dependencies Perform schedule risk analysis using quantitative tools or techniques/ Analyze major milestones against statement of work (SOW)
- Topic 9: Adjust schedule model based upon resource availability/ Establish the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
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Which of the following statements best describes an activity in a project?
An activity is the effort needed to complete a work package. The activities are linked to the work
packages in the WBS.
An activity is the element of work performed throughout the various stages of a project. It is a group
of people, communications, processes,
and work items that correspond to a joint effort to achieve a goal. An activity is a way to manage the
work collectively with others in any
organization. The create WBS process identifies the deliverables at the lowest level in the WBS,
called the work package. Project work
packages are divided into smaller elements known as activities, which correspond to the work
required to complete the work package.
Answer option D is incorrect. This is a definition of all the work that the project team and manager
must complete in order to complete the
total activity list.
Answer options A and C are incorrect. These are not valid definitions of an activity.
You have been assigned to a project that centers on a discipline you are only topically aware of. While you do have years of experience as a project manager, but you have never worked with the technology, as is in this project. During the define activities process, you rely on your project team and two consultants to coach you and identify the type of activities the project will include. Which tool and technique are you using in the define activities process in this scenario?
When the project manager relies on consultants or the project team (or both), it is an example of expert judgment. Expert judgment is a technique based on a set of criteria that has been acquired in a specific knowledge area or product area. It is obtained when the project manager or project team requires specialized knowledge that they do not possess. Expert judgment involves people most familiar with the work of creating estimates. Preferably, the project team member who will be doing the task should complete the estimates. Expert judgment is applied when performing administrative closure activities, and experts should ensure the project or phase closure is performed to the appropriate standards. Answer option C is incorrect. This is not an example of decomposition. Answer option B is incorrect. This is not an example of rolling wave planning. Answer option A is incorrect. This is not an example of using a project template.
You are the project manager of the NHGQ project for your company. You must create and distribute performance reports every week to your key project stakeholders. What communication technique do you normally use to distribute reports?
Performance reports are distributed through the push technique. This means that the project manager distributes the reports regularly through a mechanism, such as email. Answer option C is incorrect. One-to-one technique describes a conversation between two people. Answer option B is incorrect. Many-to-many technique describes a conversation between many people. Answer option D is incorrect. A pull technique describes the recipients of the report 'pulling' the information, such as from a Website.
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?
Cost performance index (CPI) is used to calculate performance efficiencies. It is used in trend analysis
to predict future performance. CPI is the
ratio of earned value to actual cost. The CPI is calculated based on the following formula:
CPI = Earned Value (EV) / Actual Cost (AC)
If the CPI value is greater than 1, it indicates better than expected performance, whereas if the value
is less than 1, it shows poor
performance. The CPI value of 1 indicates that the project is right on target. In this instance it's
$350,000 divided by $425,000 for a CPI
of .82.
Answer option B is incorrect. $350,000 is the earned value of the project.
Answer option A is incorrect. -$75,000 is the cost variance for the project.
Answer option D is incorrect. -$187,500 is the predicted variance at the completion of the project.
Tom works as the project manager for Blue Well Inc. He is working with his project to ensure timely and appropriate generation, retrieval, distribution, collection, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. What is the process in which Tom is working?
Tom is working with the project communication management process, as it is required to ensure the
timely disposition of project information. Project Communications Management is one of the nine
Knowledge Areas. It employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation,
collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information. The
following processes are part of Project Communications Management:
Identify Stakeholders
Plan Communications
Distribute information
Manage Stakeholder Expectations
Report Performance
The Project Communications Management processes provide the critical links among people and
information that are necessary for successful
communications. These processes interact with each other and with the processes in the other
Knowledge Areas as well.
Answer option B is incorrect. Managing stakeholder expectation is the process of working and
communicating with the stakeholders to meet
their requirements.
Answer option A is incorrect. Work performance measurement uses the information to create
project activity metrics to evaluate actual
progress compared to planned progress.
Answer option D is incorrect. Stakeholder analysis is the process of gathering and analyzing
quantitative and qualitative information to
determine the interest of the stakeholders.
You are the project manager for your organization. Management has asked you to document the
holidays, weekends, and other corporate
working hours, which will supersede the project timings for your schedule. Which calendar will
communicate to the project stakeholders, when
the project work will take place within the organization?
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