Baseline Quiz (50)

Midway through a project, senior management decides to remove funding and eliminate the project from the existing portfolio. Which of the following is the most unlikely and unjustified reason driving the decision?

A project manager who is working on a custom house project has been asked by the customer to make a change to the dining room size. What is the best way of communicating with the customer on this issue?

Within which process in the Executing process group are the risk responses that were selected during the Plan Risk Responses process, put into action to achieve the risk response result?

You are a project manager going through the Conduct Procurements process. The solicited prospective sellers’ proposals have a significant price difference. What should you do?

After obtaining sponsor support for the charter, identifying the project stakeholders, and planning for the project you held a project kick-off meeting. The meeting was attended by both key stakeholders and the project team and lead by both the Project Sponsor and yourself. You were pleased with the enthusiasm that the Project Sponsor was able to generate in speaking directly to the group and emphasizing the importance that the project would play in the growth of the company. In the days after the meeting, you acknowledge that maintaining high levels of support from the stakeholders is paramount to the project’s success. Which of the following processes will you use throughout the project’s lifecycle to maintain the current level of support?

Your current project has experienced a history of product quality problems. Which of the following tools would be most helpful in investigating and representing the causes of these problems?

As a project manager, you aim to drive your team to be logical and analytical in their approach, focusing on facts and results to help inform every decision. What type of leadership style do you embody?

Acknowledging and thanking team members for positive work performance is an example of what type of tool and technique commonly used in the Develop Team process?

The functional manager in a department that will be moderately impacted by the project you are completing has expressed enthusiasm and support for the project. Additionally, she has frequently sent you emails with ideas and requests for changes to the project. She often includes multiple other department managers on her emails. While the enthusiasm of the functional manager is clear, the team has found most of her recommendations irrelevant. Which of the following describes the best approach the project manager should use to manage this situation?

You have recently been promoted from a functional manager to a project manager. As you adjust to the new role, you quickly realize the depth and variety of responsibilities your new position requires. After obtaining Sponsor approval of the project charter, you direct your team to quickly select the most appropriate stakeholders for the project and then start developing the project management plan. What logical mistake have you made in your direction to the team?

Which of the following best describes the form and contents of a stakeholder register?

You have been challenged as to the necessity and value of the project initiation, what two documents would you explain will be created during the Initiating process group?

Which of the following is not an output of the initiating process group?

You were managing a pharmaceutical project when suddenly the project sponsor, who was the head of the laboratory, resigned from the company. Management immediately assigned his duties to another person who became the new head of the laboratory and, by default, became the project sponsor. What is the most effective thing you can do?

Choose a technique used in the Monitor Communications process.

What is the proper frequency at which the Monitor Risks review meetings should be held?

Which method would a project leader not use to increase the amount of project risk resilience?

The project team has completed all deliverables defined in the statement of work. Despite your strong belief that the deliverables produced meet the unambiguous statement of work and well-defined deliverables, the buyer expresses displeasure and states that he is unhappy with the product. How should the contract be treated in such a case?

A buyer has rejected a deliverable that was submitted for acceptance by the seller. The buyer has cited the specific term of the contract under which the deliverable has been rejected. On a closer review, the seller’s project manager agrees with the buyer. What is the most appropriate action for the seller’s project manager to take?

What is the Controlling process in the Project Stakeholder Management knowledge area?

Numerous changes arise during the course of the project which necessitates multiple meetings with senior management and the sponsor to review the changes and their impact. After a few meetings, the sponsor directs the project manager to skip the future meetings and simply enact the changes as they arise. Which of the following would be the best way to respond to the sponsor?

A change has been requested for a project requirement. What actions should the project manager take next?

Your project coordinator confirms that the team has completed work on a deliverable after having incorporated the findings of tests / inspections. What action should be taken next?

Your team is using the critical path methodology to help optimize the schedule efficiency of the required activities. Which of the following options defines a limitation of the critical path method that must be considered?

Your project is scheduled to be completed in 6 months at a total cost of $1,000,000. Three months have passed, $620,000 has been spent, and 40% of the total work has been completed. What is the project’s current cost variance?

The project sponsor recently approved changes to the time-phased project budget. What is being referred to?

There is intense pressure on your business-division to release a product that will compete with a new product your competitor has invented. Since the introduction of the competitor’s product, your company has seen a significant erosion of market share. The director of engineering has challenged you to get a product on the market quickly and to operate in a structure that will allow the product to be methodically improved and refined throughout the next year. Based on his direction, which of the following project lifecycles best meets your needs?

Which document, created by the Identify Stakeholders process, is a key input to the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process that helps to provide detailed information on each stakeholder?

Clyde is a senior stakeholder who constantly talks about the benefits of your project and regularly asks about project progress. He even goes out of his way to resolve impediments to project execution. At what level of engagement would you categorize Clyde to be?

A project team is analyzing its needs for an upcoming long-term contract. They need to have a system analyzed and fixed, but they do not have the expertise to tell the seller exactly what should be done. What type of contract should they use?

John is a project manager who has determined that some of the required work necessary to meet the objectives of the project cannot be conducted with existing internal resources. He has engaged the project team to define the parameters of the work they need to obtain from an outside party. The team has defined the deliverables, along with quality requirements, quantities, and work location. In what document should the team record this information so that sellers can determine if they can perform the work?

You, along with the project team, are currently planning and assessing various approaches to project communications. Which of the following would not be an organizational asset that you’d consider while planning communications management?

You are a project manager of a three million dollar project. Your project is well into execution and remains on time, on budget, and on specification. This morning your project sponsor called to explain that he does not know the current status of the project. You remind the sponsor that your team produces a detailed status report weekly and distributes it via email. The sponsor says email is too impersonal, and verbal updates are preferred. This situation suggests problems with which of the following project management processes?

Which part of the risk management process receives input from risk owners?

In the rush to complete project planning, the project team discovered a situation that if realized, could severely impact the project’s ability to meet the projected completion date. As a result, the team is developing alternative activity sequences to be implemented if the situation materializes. This is an example of:

The project team wishes to solicit proposals from prospective sellers. The following are bid documents except:

Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?

Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?

There are three documents that make up the scope baseline. Which of the following document is not part of the scope baseline?

Which term is used to describe the lowest level of the WBS and the smallest amount of work for which “cost” and “duration” can be estimated and managed?

A project team member is finding it difficult to distinguish between the project charter and the project scope statement. Which of the following defines components contained in the project scope statement?

Three-point estimating is a mathematical equation that uses three types of estimates to incorporate risk and uncertainty into the estimate. Which of the following is not one of the estimate types used in the calculation?

While planning a project, the project manager notices that the planned expenditures exceed the project’s funding limits. What is the most appropriate action for the project manager to take next?

While estimating costs for your current project, a member of the finance department approaches you and asks for your assistance in helping him find information regarding the labor hours, incurred costs, and budgets of a past project. Which of the following is the most appropriate location within which the information will be stored?

Your team has taken the time to evaluate the multiple scenarios that could impact your project’s success. They have identified multiple scenarios that if realized would cause your project to be delayed significantly. Each of these scenarios has a different probability of occurrence. What action should the project manager take next?

Which of the following best describes why you would prefer quality to be planned into project work, rather than have deliverables and processes inspected later?

Your sponsor has requested that you reduce the cost of nonconformance to the highest degree possible. After working with your team to define a plan to accomplish the request, you respond that in order to reduce the cost of nonconformance you must increase the amount spent on the cost of conformance by 10%. Which of the following activities is the most likely area where you would spend the additional resources on cost of conformance?

Which type of resource estimating involves aggregating estimates following the WBS?

The Plan Resource Management process is the first of two processes conducted during the Planning Process Group. Which of the following does not describe an activity that is normally completed during this process?

While you are planning for communications, a senior stakeholder comes to you and advises you not to forget to consider the contents of the stakeholder engagement plan. What could be the most likely reason to consider the stakeholder engagement plan while planning project communications?