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Click on the timer to restart it

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  1. A project manager is preparing two documents for risk management. One

contains sources of overall project risk and also summary information on
individual risks. The second describes individual risks identified. What name
should the project manager give to the first document?
 
Risk register

Risk report

Risk management plan

Requirements traceability matrix

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  2. A company has to make a choice between two projects, because the available
resources in money and kind are not sufficient to run both at the same time.
Each project would take 12 months to complete and cost $250,000. The
company wants to make a decision based on a 3-year prediction after final
delivery.

1. The first project is a process optimization which would result in a cost

reduction of $300,000 per year. This benefit would be achieved in the first
year after the end of the project and then again in each following year.
 
2. The second project would be the development of a new product which
could produce incremental income already during the project:
 
During the first 6 project months:       $ 15,000
During the second 6 project months: $ 55,000
In the 1st year after project finish: $ 230,000
In the 2nd year after project finish: $ 300,000
In the 2nd year after project finish: $ 300,000

From a perspective of financial value, which project is more attractive?

 
Both projects are equally attractive.

One cannot say based on the numbers.

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The first project is more attractive.

The second project is more attractive.

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  3. A project manager in an agile software development project finds it hard to

leave decision processes to the team. As the project is under time pressure, the
person makes decisions for and then tries to sell them to the team. While this
approach indeed accelerates the project, there is growing dissatisfaction among
the team members.

Which behavior by the project manager would have been more appropriate?
 
Command and control

Servant-leadership

Top-down leadership

Use of control accounts

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  4. Your project management team includes two external consultants each from a
different company. You found that repeated conflicts between the two
consultants already slow down project progress and jeopardize achievement of
objectives.

Which stage of team development can be difficult to overcome in such a

situation?
 
Storming from Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

Panic from Enthusiasm, Panic, Hope, Solution

Kickoff from Assignment, Kickoff, Training, Communicating

Frustration from Direction, Frustration, Cooperation, Collaboration

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  5. During a project, earned value analysis is performed, resulting in the following

numbers:

EV: 523,000; PV: 623,000; AC: 643,000.

Which results are correct?

The project is ahead of baseline schedule and under budget.

The project is ahead of baseline schedule and over budget.

The project is behind baseline schedule and under budget.

The project is behind baseline schedule and over budget.

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  6. A project manager spent some days to create a multi-page document, which he

called project charter. The document should have been issued by the project
sponsor. The sponsor found the document outsized and asked for a condensed
document.

Which of the following is usually not an element of the project charter and can
therefore removed from the document?
The authority level of the project manager

Detailed control account and work package descriptions

The business need that the project was undertaken to address

High-level risks

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  7. A document called ____________ is created by decomposing the project scope

into smaller, more manageable elements.
 
Scope Statement

Network Logic Diagram

WBS

Requested Change

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  8. A project management team decided to develop a risk management plan. What

would be an appropriate occasion to create it?

A specific planning meeting

During a documentation review

When data precision is ranked

After selection of diagramming techniques

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  9. In order to speed up a project, you made a decision to fast-track a phase

currently performed with five team members, and another one which was
planned to begin in four weeks time with another five team members.

Which of the following activities should you do first?

 
Make sure that all exit criteria of the consecutive phase have been met to
ensure the flow of communications in a team situation which is more
complex by a factor of 2.
Make sure that all entry criteria of the previous phase have been met by
planning and performing a phase gate meeting to assess technical aptness.
Make sure that all exit criteria of the previous phase have been met by
planning and performing a phase gate meeting to assess technical
performance.
Restructure your team and delegate tasks in order to ensure the effective
flow of communications in a combined team that requires increased
coordination efforts.

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  10. A project manager has been asked to support an internal project request by
developing a business case.

What kind of information is the person expected to provide in the document?

 
The detailed information from a business standpoint to determine whether
bidding for the customer project will be successful.
The detailed information from a project management standpoint to
determine whether the project will be successful.
The detailed information from a technical standpoint to determine whether
the project will be successful.
The necessary information from a business standpoint to determine
whether the project is worth the investment.

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  11. You found the following earned value analysis information for a project that
was recently closed-out:

SPI = 0.7, CPI = 1.0

The project has been cancelled while it was executed. At that time the
project was behind schedule and on budget.
The project's deliverables have all been finished. The project came in
behind schedule but on budget.
The project's deliverables have all been finished. The project came in
ahead of schedule but on budget.
The project's deliverables have all been finished. The project came in on
schedule but over budget.

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 12. Which should be included in a requirements management plan?

The document should trace requirements to project scope / WBS

deliverables.
It should describe how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and
reported.
It should trace high-level requirements to more detailed requirements.

It should trace requirements to business needs, opportunities, goals, and

objectives.

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 13. In a traditionally drawn decision tree, a circle represents ___________.

a chance to which no expected monetary value can be assigned so that a
likely pay-off of a number of options can not be shown.
a decision to which no expected monetary value can be assigned so that
the pay-off can be shown ignoring uncertainties.
a chance to which an expected monetary value may be assigned to
calculate the average pay-off of two or more options.
a decision to which an expected monetary value may be assigned to
calculate the most likely pay-off of consequential uncertainties.

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 14. A project management team has subcontracted work to a service company. 

Which of the following tools is the best choice to assure that the contractor will
adhere to the customer's policies, processes and procedures and will be able to
meet the quality requirements of the project?

Quality audit

Deliverable inspection

Fixed price contract

Service level agreement

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 15. With your team you are using judgment from subject matter experts early
during initiation to discuss perceived project risks. There is a number of experts
from different disciplines available. You want to create a conversational setting
to allow them to discuss their different views on the project and its risks.

Which of the following techniques can ensure best that the different
perceptions and opinions are contributing to the expert discussion?
 
Peer review

SWOT analysis

Focus group

Monetary value calculation

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 16. You are managing a project for a customer based on a cost-reimbursable target
cost contract with the following terms:
 
Target costs:     $ 1,000,000
Fixed fee: $ 100,000
Benefit/cost sharing: 80% / 20%
Price ceiling: $ 1,200,000

Which is the PTA (= point of total assumption, break point) of the project?
 
$1,300,000

$1,500,000

$80,000

$1,125,000

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 17. During execution of a project which is performed for a customer on a T&M

(time and material) contract base, a new project manager is taking over the
assignment. 

She discovers that two members assigned to the project have charged time
without performing any work for the project customer. Upon further
investigation, she determines that this occurred because there have been no
other project assignments open for these employees and that her company
wanted to keep their time billed to a customer. The customer is unaware of
these facts. 

What should the project manager do?

Try to find some productive work for these staff members in the project and
leave them on the team.
The best thing is to do nothing. The customer will not realize the problem
anyway.
Try to find a responsible person for the over-assignment who can be made
accountable.
Take the two people off the team immediately and arrange for the refund of
the excess charges to the customer.

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 18. Start dates in the following network logic diagram are defined as early
morning, finish dates are evening.

If tasks are scheduled to begin at early start date, what is true?

     

Activity B has a free float of 10 d.

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Activity B has a total float of 10 d.

Activity A has a free float of 10 d.

Activity A has a total float of 10 d.

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 19. Your project is executed with a globally spread virtual team. Colocation is not
possible. The project progress has been found to be too slow due to
communication impediments among the team members.

Which measure is most likely to help team members act as one team and
speed up the project?
 
Technical training for all team members

Arranging daily phone conferences and detailed reporting

Holding a team meeting at a location convenient to all team members

Establishing a fishbowl window for simple and quick communications

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 20. A project management team wants to procure customized products which can
be specified easily and are available in identical grade and quality from several
vendors.

The procurement documents will probably have to support what main

intention?
 
Describing the needs of the project in sufficient detail to enable vendors to
make suitable proposals based on each one's specific strengths
Specifying attributes of the requested deliverables in detail to get identical
bids from vendors and allow selection using the "Least cost method".
Helping to clarify the approved project scope statement and giving
guidelines to break it down into the WBS and the WBS dictionary of the
project
Developing the risk management plan and the risk reports from those risk
management reviews which have been made so far eith the vendors

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 21. Which of the following becomes increasingly important in a virtual team

environment?
Requirements engineering

Communication planning

Formal procurements closure

Network diagramming

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 22. You are assigned as the project manager to a project which is executed for a
customer under FP contract. Your customer informed you this morning that
they insist on certain "refinements" of the project scope. They consider them
clearly part of the contractual price and require implementation without extra
costs or delays.

You agree that the requested actions will be beneficial to the project, but
believe that they constitute a major change increasing the project scope. What
should you do next?

Accept the request of the customer. Diligently document the additional

costs and working hours spent by yourself and the team on the
implementation of the change and invoice these to the customer at
appropriate rates.
Perform earned value analysis to assess the current status of the project
and get all the numbers you need to communicate the case to the change
control board which then will have to make the best decision regarding the
customer request.
Check the contract, the project charter, the scope statement and other
documents related to the project and the legal relationship. Implement ADR
(alternative dispute resolution) procedures if the conflict cannot be resolved
otherwise.
Talk to the project sales department and find a joint solution with them how
to best reject the request considering the commercial and strategic value of
the customer to the organization you are working for.

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 23. A prime contractor in a customer project under CPFF contract has run into
unexpected technical problems through no fault of their own. Fixing these
problems will require a lot of additional work to be done.

The company made a decision to book more productive staff and equipment
from their subcontractors in order to increase productivity and adhere to the
agreed timeline. The overhead work for the project will remain unchanged. The
customer agreed to this decision.

What will most likely happen?

 

The contractor‘s indirect costs will increase and the customer‘s payment for
them will increase, too.
The contractor‘s indirect costs will increase, but the customer‘s payment for
them will not increase.
The contractor‘s indirect costs will not increase, but the customer‘s
payment for them will.
Both the contractor's indirect costs and the customer‘s payment for them
will not increase.

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 24. During a project using agile methods, the project manager must replace all
developers short term with different people of similar qualification.

The project manager is afraid that the knowledge transfer from the existing
staff to the new developers may be incomplete.

Which is a working solution to the issue that the project manager may
consider?
 
Stop the development process immediately and direct the developers to
document the status and next steps in detail for the new team members.
Give the "old" and the new developers time to work together in pairs to
communicate the status of the software and the upcoming challenges in
face-to-face.
Outsurce the entire development work and use contractual terms that hold
the contractor liable for all troubles that originate from the handover of
work.
Terminate the project.
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 25. The Project Management Office (PMO) of your company is performing a "health
check" (project management audit) in your company and finds that most of the
various plans in the project are neither consistent nor up-to-date.

Which of the following statements is true?

Projects can easily be executed without a valid, updated and working
project management plan as things are going to change anyway.
The consistency of the various plans is secondary because it is only the
results that matter.
The lack of systematic planning leads to reactive behavior,
miscommunications, conflicts, and often a need for continuous fire fighting.
Poor planning and insufficient updating of project management plans are
rather uncommon as reasons for cost and time overruns.

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 26. Together with your project management team in a project to build a state-of-
the-art power station, you want to perform active risk acceptance in your
project.

What should you do?

 
Create contingency reserves in resources, money and time.

Develop a plan to minimize impact in case that an identified risk occurs.

Develop a plan to minimize the probability of occurrence for identified risks.

Make additional resources available to speed up the project.

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 27. Which of the following is a Scrum event?

Time boxing

Sprint retrospective

Product backlog

Sprint backlog

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 28. When do bidder conferences normally take place?

 
After the contract has been awarded to keep alternatives open.

After submission of bid or proposal, but before contract award.

Prior to the submission of a bid or proposal by the bidder.

After technical meetings with bidders to discuss contract requirements.

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 29. In a discussion, the term "Simplicity" in connection with an agile project has
turned up.

What does it stand for here?

Performing a project without a project manager.

Concurrently optimizing a system and its components.

Maximizing the work that is not done.

Avoiding system development.

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 30. The scope baseline is used to ídentify variance on the scope during the project.
It consists of what?
Scope statement, WBS with work packages and planning packages, WBS
dictionary
Cost baseline, quality baseline and schedule baseline

Configuration management plan and configuration identification document

Procurement statement of work and project scope statement

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 31. Activity 1 has a duration of 20 days, activity 2 of 10 days, activity 3 of 5 days

and activity 4 of 6 days.

What is the minimum total duration between the milestones A and B?

36 days

37 days

39 days

42 days

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 32. An essential limitation used while performing the agile Kanban method in a
project is _____.
 
Team size

Human resources assigned

Sprint duration

Work in progress

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 33. What kind of behavior do project managers refrain from?

a. Theft, embezzlement
b. Fraud
c. Corruption
d. Bribery

a, b, c, d

b, c, d

b, c

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 34. An organization with a rigid command-and-control structure wishes to

implement agile mindsets and methods.

What should the organization do first to allow for the implementation?

Increase the frequency of inspections.

Increase the frequency of audits.

Create an environment of safety.

Buy Kanban board software.

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 35. Which statement describes best why you should document assumptions?
 
Assumptions might later prove wrong. Knowing which assumptions were
incorrect allows baseline adjustments in case of project crisis.
Assumptions recorded in the assumptions log may help identify individual
project risks during risk identification.
Assumptions limit the project management team's options for decision
making because they can not be controlled by the team.
In case of schedule or budget overruns, the documentation of assumptions
supports a clear assignment of responsibility.

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 36. Which is normally not regarded as an element of cost of quality?

 
Prevention costs

Maintenance cost

Appraisal costs

Failure costs

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 37. An Scrum team had a discussion whether it should use a Burnup chart or a
Burndown chart.

Which statement on the two chart types is true?

 

You can use neither of the two chart types to do variance analysis during a
sprint in Scrum.
Only burn-down charts are appropriate to do variance analysis against a
baseline during a sprint.
A burn-down chart reflects open work, a burn-up chart work performed.

A burn-down chart reflects work performed, a burn-up chart open work.

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 38. A project is managed by departments of an organization and expedited by a

project coordinator. Which of the following statements is most likely to be true?
 
The performing organization is a weak to balanced matrix.

The performing organization is doing "management by projects".

The performing organization is a strong matrix.

The performing organization is projectized.

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 39. You are project manager in a global project with a team consisting of people
from various countries. What can you try to prevent misunderstandings due to
cross-cultural differences?
 
Use all communication methods available that are suitable for the team and
follow up in writing when communicating verbally. Remember that cultural
and individual diversity may help project teams solving unforeseen
problems during the course of the project.
When you are about to form a team for your project, keep in mind that
some cultures are developed, others are more primitive. Some have values,
some not. You should consequently avoid choosing members from countries
with cultures that are not similar to your own.
Cultural dilemmas can prevent any project from being successful. They
should therefore be smoothed or suppressed so as to make sure that they
cannot disrupt project work. Your effort should concentrate on
communication that can help reach that goal.
As norms regarding communication habits differ significantly across various
cultures, communicating between people from different countries should
only be done using written or verbal language. The nonverbal dimension
simply bears too many risks.

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 40. Which statement on conflicts is most helpful in a project?

Conflict resolution should focus on people, not issues.

A project manager should resolve conflicts in a timely and constructive

manner.
Conflict should always be resolved in private and not in the team.

Too much openness to stakeholders is a common cause of conflict.

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 41. A change request in a project has been rejected some weeks ago. Yesterday,
the project manager found out that it nevertheless has been implemented by
team members, who knew of it, but not of the rejection.

In order to avoid such a situation, rejected change requests should be

consistently communicated to stakeholders through which process?

Report performance

Verify scope

Perform integrated change control

Monitor and control risks

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 42. What is a trigger in project risk management? 

 
An expected situation causing an unidentified risk to occur

A warning sign that a previously identified risk might be occurring or has

occurred
An unexpected situation causing an identified risk to occur

An unexpected situation causing an unidentified risk to occur

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 43. According to the project plan, a contractor is scheduled to deliver some

software components today afternoon. A regular monthly payment is due to be
made to this contractor tomorrow.

You and your project team received a note this morning informing you that the
software delivery will be delayed by 2 weeks.

What should you do right now?

You should delay the payment also for 2 weeks.

You must immediately find and change to a different contractor.

You should consult with the contractor to understand and possibly resolve
the delivery issues. This may influence further payments.
You should make the payment and reschedule the project incorporating the
delay. 

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 44. In a software company a large number of simultaneously performed projects

utilize the same groups of human and other resources from a corporate
resource directory.

What is the term commonly used for the resources inside the directory?

Unassigned staff

Project team

Resource pool

Program team

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 45. What does the acronym RACI commonly stand for in project management?
 
Responsible, Accountable, to be Consulted, to be Informed

Remote, Attached, Connected,

Integrated

Risk Analysis and Caution Initiative

Randomly Accessible Cashflow Information

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 46. You have used estimates made by your team members and applied the critical
path method to compute a network logic diagram for your project. Then you
found out that it cannot be sufficiently optimized for scarce resources and fast
progress towards a given deadline. What should you do next?
 
Apply resource leveling and smoothing heuristics to uncritical activities
only.
Reduce estimates on duration and work efforts by an adequate percentage.

Search for opportunities to compress the schedule without jeopardizing the

project.
Remove physical ánd legal constraints and replace hard logic with soft
logic.

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 47. In an agile project, __________ is an example of the incremental approach.

planning a grand opening

penalizing the contractor for late completion

providing a single feature

focusing on a deadline

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 48. Together with your team, you are writing a risk management plan. In the team,
discussions are occurring what should be covered by the plan and what not.

Finally, the team found out that _______ should NOT be covered by a risk
management plan?

Roles and responsibilities for managing project risks

Timing of project risk management processes and activities

The methodological approach used for risk management

Individual risks and potential responses to them

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 49. You are assigned as the project manager to a project which had a one-time
cost variance in the past caused by unexpected rework which has meanwhile
been finished and paid. You expect future costs of the project to remain as
originally planned

You perform earned value analysis and get the following results:
- EV: 250,000;
- PV: 200,000;
- AC 275,000,

- BAC is 500,000,
- EAC is 525,000.

What is right?

The project is expected to come in under budget.

The project is expected to come in over budget.

The project is expected to come in on budget.

Based on tha data, you cannot comment on expectations.

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 50. An estimation has been made for a construction project that the construction of
a residential home will cost a certain amount per square foot of living area.

This is an example of what type of estimating?

 
Story-point estimating

Bottom-up estimating

Top-down estimating

Parametric estimating

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 51. What is true for prototypes?

Prototyping causes significant costs and should be avoided wherever
possible.
Protoypes are tangible and allow for early feedback on requirements by
stakeholders.
Prototypes are mostly developed toward the end of a design or build phase.

Prototypes increase the risk of misunderstandings between developers and

users.

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 52. Constructive changes are a common source for conflicts between customers
and contractors in projects under contract. What is a constructive change?

A change request that helps improving the project and its product, service,
or result and could be generally discussed in a friendly style.
A direction by the buyer or an action taken by the seller that either party
may post hoc consider an undocumented change.
A field change or ad-hoc change mandated by the project customer in a
public construction project.
A change request which will lead to the re-construction of an older version
of the project performance baseline by the contractor.

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 53. Which of the following is generally not regarded to be a motivator according to

Frederick Herzberg?
 
Working conditions and interpersonal relations

Responsibility for enlarged task

Interest in the task

Recognition for achievement

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 54. What is true for modern project management? Project managers should...
 
... have a strict standing in negotiating.

... show experience in tricking business partners.

... be team players and facilitators instead of "bosses".

... be strongly linked to local traditions.

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 55. You are the project manager in an engineering project for production
equipment. For the project, you must subcontract software development of a
complicated control solution.

The software will be used to control machinery which your project team is
currently designing. However, following standing operational procedures, the
procurement department requires that subcontractors submit offers based on a
lump-sum contract. The vendors already submitted bids which seem rather low
to you.

Which of the following statements is true for this situation?

It will be the contractors' problem if their bid is too low. It is best to not
discuss your conserns with them.
Fixed price contracts should only be chosen when all requirements on the
contractor's product are well-understood by all parties involved.
You may possibly prefer contracts using variable models such as time-and-
material or fixed-price increments, but the SOP must always take
precedence.
As per contract, your organization will have to assume any unexpected
additional costs for the software development that occur.

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 56. A review to determine, whether the intended execution of project activities will
comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and procedures is
commonly called
 
Quality audit

Inspection

Quality testing

Reject screening

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 57. Which of the following is true regarding the code of accounts?

 
It allows a project manager to easily identify the breakdown level of the
item in the resource structure.
It describes the coding structure used by the performing organization to
report financial information in its general ledger.
It is the collection of unique identifiers generally assigned to WBS items.

It defines ethical behavior in the project and the responsibilities to the

customer and the profession.

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 58. You are the manager of your company's project management office. The
company is running many concurrent projects; most of them share a portfolio-
wide resource pool of technical staff. Understanding how resources are utilized
across projects has been found essential to overall project performance,
including cost effectiveness and profitability.

This morning you received a message that the resource pool members will be
unable to perform as planned for the next months because the overall work
load has grown too high and while delays are adding up, the morale of the staff
is going down.

What should you do next?

 
Ensure that quantitative information for all projects is made available in a
uniform and reliable fashion and verify that the project management
methodology is adhered to. Then consolidate the information to get an
understanding of the problems and communicate them to management.
Implement an enterprise project management software solution which is
able to  level the human resources across the various projects and which
has the capability to model resource assignment on a percentage level thus
optimizing resource utilization for the overall organization.
Do nothing related to the described problem unless you are explicitly
requested by the organizations upper management. Supporting decision
making on the level on which project portfolio management is done, is not
the project management office's business.
Evaluate project management software which supports planning and
scheduling across enterprise-wide project portfolios. Avoid managing the
availability of shared enterprise resources for the projects run by an
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 59. Your Scrum project uses sprints that are timeboxed and end with a Sprint
retrospective.

What should you do after the retrospective before the project enters the next
sprint?
Refine objectives and specify in detail what is necessary for successful
sprint execution.
Define new OKRs (objectives and key results) for the next sprint.

Define sprint results that should be ready for formal recognition by the
project sponsor.
Nothing. A time-boxed sprint starts immediately after the end of the
previous one.

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 60. You have been assigned as a project manager to a bridge construction project.
While you and your team are still working on a WBS (work breakdown
structure), estimates for activity durations are already made. These are based
on an activity list from a previous project and vary significantly, obviously as
the team members have different concepts of the work that needs to be done.

Which additional documents may help you clarify work requirements in this
situation?
Final project schedule.

Project schedule network diagrams and human resource plan.

Activity cost estimates and scope baseline.

Activity attributes and project scope statement.

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 61. You are performing earned value technique on your project.

After BAC approval, an additional and unexpected cost item has been
identified, which made the project more expensive some weeks ago. The item
has meanwhile been paid by the project, and it is expected that for the
remaining duration of the project, costs will be as budgeted.

In this case, which is the best formula to calculate EaC (Estimate at

Completion)?
 
EaC = BaC - CV

EaC = BaC / CPI

EaC = AC + EtC / CV

EaC = AC + ((BAC - EC) / (CPI x SPI))

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 62. During a company event, you had the opportunity to talk to a colleague project
manager. He told you that in his current project actual costs are 15% under
cumulated costs budgeted for today.

What do you think?

The information given to you by the colleague is not sufficient to assess

project performance.
The project will probably be completed with total costs remaining under
budget until the end.
A significant cost increase during the further course of the project will
probably bring the costs back to baseline level.
Original cost forecasting and budgeting for the project must have been
poor to allow this variance.

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 63. A team in an agile project feels disrupted by requests from operational

management to provide information on details on the project, its progress and
the influence it will have on operations.

The team decides to place a bulletin board at an easily accessible location with
information from the Kanban board, diagrams, and other project details.

This is an example of what?

Information condenser

Team war room

Information radiator

Team reporting system

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 64. Which of the following statements describes best the relationship between
project phases and the project life cycle?
 
The project life cycle includes the time when the project is performed and
the expected product lifespan after that.
In project management, a sequence of project phases and phase gates is
often referred to as project life cycle.
The project life cycle is regarded as a sequence of project activities while
phases are defined to control overlapping activities.
The project life cycle describes how iterations of project management
processes are used when a project schedule is developed. 

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 65. Which is an appropriate order in most project situations for the development of
scope-related documents?
 
1. Project SOW (statement of work),
2. Project charter,
3. Project scope management plan,
4. Project scope statement,
5. WBS (work breakdown structure) and WBS dictionary.
1. Work breakdown structure,
2. Scope statement,
3. Project charter,
4. CSOW (contractual statement of work),
5. Contractual work breakdown structure
1. Feasibility study
3. Contract,
4. CWBS (contractual work breakdown structure),
5. Scope of work descriptions,
6. PID (project initiation document).
1. BOM (Bill of materials),
2. CAP (control account plan),
3. Project charter
4. Change management plan,
5. Scope baseline.

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 66. What is the S-curve in project management?

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A graph that is generated if a normal curve is integrated.

A graph that is to be integrated to generate a normal curve.

A metaphoric description of the short term uncertainties that are present in

every project.
The graph that describes the typical growth of earned value during the
course of the project.

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 67. An agile software development project lost time while it had to comply with
privacy legislation that is valid in certain parts of the world. At the same time,
conflicts in the team further slowed down progress.

In the language of agile project management, what would this second, team
related, obstacle be called to separate it from the first, technical related issue?

Team obstacle

Impediment or blocker

Non-legal constraint

Organizational constraint

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 68. What is not the purpose of configuration control when configuration

management is applied in a project?

Verification that the configuration identification for a configuration item is

accurate, complete, and will meet specified program needs.
Ensuring that proposed and approved changes to configuration items are
fully analyzed.
Ensuring that proposed and approved changes to configuration items are
fully documented.
Managing and controlling the frequently requested changes to a project by
applying agreed upon rules.

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 69. Which statement describes best the meaning of the term cost baseline?
A cost baseline is always created by translating time-phased cost
information into cost data on activity or work-package level.
A cost baseline is an approved time-phased budget that will be used to
measure and monitor cost performance on the project.
Data to draw a cost baseline can be easily generated and updated as
necessary from information related to actual project cost.
A cost baseline is usually displayed in the form of an inverse S-curve drawn
from the beginning of the project until data date.

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 70. A company is interviewing different individuals to join an agile project as a

team member. The person is expected to have broad general interests,
knowledge, and skills and one area of specialization.

What is a term commonly used in agile environments for a person with such a
skillset?
 
User-story driven

Timeboxed

I-shaped

T-shaped

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 71. A project sponsor requested reports on two concurrent software projects from
the project managers. Both projects are regarded as equally important and
strategically beneficial and have been finished by over 80%.

The sponsor considers to shift some resources from the first project to the
second to accelerate the second project, which is currently behind schedule.

What is the most likely outcome of such a measure?

 
Changing team assignments during late course of a project typically
increases cost efficiency.
Changing team assignments during late course of a project typically
increases time efficiency.
Project A will become slower. According to Brooks's law, Project B will also
lose pace.
According to the law of diminishing returns, the consolidated cost variance
of the two projects will increase.

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 72. Which of the following statements describes best the relationship of quality and
grade?
 
Low grade is always a problem; low quality may be overcome by a good
rework and repair process.
Grade is a category or rank given to entities having different functional
requirements but the same need for quality.
Both quality and grade can often be improved through intelligent
measuring, testing and examining.
Low quality is always a problem as it bears on the ability of an item to meet
requirements; low grade may be acceptable.

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 73. A project management team intends to develop a lifecycle for its new software
development project on a continuum between the extremes of highly agile and
highly predictive methods. What is a typical signal that the lifecycle chosen is
located between the two extremes?
 
Requirements are elaborated repeatedly.

Requirements are developed upfront and kept static.

Requirements are developed during the course of the project.

Change is constrained as much as possible.

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 74. You have been asked to calculate the internal rate of return (IRR) of a project?
What will you assess?
 
The time period needed to pay back the investment from a project when
future income is discounted.
The inherent discount rate or investment yield rate produced by the
project's deliverables over a pre-defined period of time.
The rate of negative risk that can be accepted for a project without turning
the expected net present value negative.
The expected benefit from a project’s deliverable calculated as a
percentage of the original investment over a specified time period.

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 75. You have just created the following network logic diagram to describe the
planned flow of activities for your project which will start tomorrow:

Which potential inconsistency in the diagram should you solve right now to
ensure that the activities and the milestones "Start" and "A-F finished" are
correctly linked?
 
Activity E is open ended (a "dangle") in relation to the finish milestone path
convergence.
Activity F is open ended in relation to the path divergence after the start
milestone.
You cannot calculate a critical path when lags and/or leads are calculated in
percent.
  Activities E to F need another task drawn as a hammock to calculate level
of effort.

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 76. A project management team identified negative risks (threats) that cannot be
responded to by avoidance or mitigation. An alternative risk response would be
active acceptance. What would the team do to implement that?
 
Plan more risk management.

Monitor risks.

Allocate contingency reserves.

  Identify further risks.

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 77. A project manager travels to a country whose culture is unknown to her. She
realizes that her direct way of communicating creates discomfort for some
people she interacts with. What could she consider improving?
 
The communications management plan

Her cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity

Her predisposition to culture shocks

  The stakeholder responsibility matrix

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 78. A project manager is approached by a team of software programmers who

work for her project.

The team requests a certain person to be released from other work to enhance
the team with specific technical skills and enhance its productivity. The team
also offers to introduce the person to the progress of development achieved so
far and to the tasks that the person should take over in order to get the project
work done.

Which management principle is applied by the project manager and the team?
 
Self-organizing teams

Norming teams

Micro-managed teams

  Competing teams

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 79. A project manager ensures that a team of development engineers is freed from
operational tasks, so that the team members can focus on self-organization
and on getting the project work done. The person listens to the team’s
concerns and removes obstacles and impediments whenever they occur.
What
is the best description for the leadership style of the project manager?

 
Autocratic leadership

Benevolent leadership

Responsible leadership

  Servant leadership

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 80. A company’s management is discussing a project request created by one of its

managers. but its managers are uncertain, whether the project is worth the
investment. A project manager has been assigned to develop a document to
describe the potential benefits in monetary and other aspects. After acceptance
of the project request, this document will to be used to track the realization of
those benefits.

Which title will the project manager probably give to the document?
 
Project business case

Benefits management plan

Project charter

  Project statement of work

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 81. A project manager is performing a project with contract partners in different

countries. What should the person be aware of?
 
It is the seller’s responsibility to ensure that the procurement meets the
specific needs of the project.
All differences in local laws can be overcome with clear contract language.

Local culture and laws may have influence upon the enforceability of a
contract.
  The use of contracts with appendices and annexes should generally be
avoided for projects.

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 82. A project management team consolidates a number of planning documents to a

collection called “project management plan” and ensures that these documents
are consistent among each other.

What documents could become part of the project management plan?

 
Resource calendars and project schedule

Management plans and baselines

Lessons learned register and quality report.

  Resource management plan

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 83. When does a project manager perform the integrated change control process to
make sure the effects of change requests are under control?
 
During the course of the project

When baselines need to be altered

While the cost baseline is being created

  When the configuration management plan is developed

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 84. During execution of a construction project to build a new bridge, it turns out
that severe weather conditions are threatening adherence to the project
schedule and overall project success.

What kind of risk is this?

 
Complexity risk

Ambiguity risk

Variability risk

  Event-related risk

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 85. A project was planned to take 5 months. The team is currently 3 months into it
and has completed half of the work.

Applying Earned schedule technique, what are the performance data of the
project?
 
SV: -0.5 months, SPI: 0.83

SV: 1.5 months, SPI: 1.5

SV: -2,5 months, SPI: 0.83

  SV: 0.5 months, SPI: 1.83

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 86. A software development team works with a product owner, who routes
influence by stakeholders on the software product. The product owner keeps a
list of the work to be done in order to build the desired product.

What is this list referred to as?

 
Activity attributes

Increment

Iteration

  Product backlog

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 87. A project management team identified the need to remove over-allocations of

resources and optimize their usage. They are discussing whether to apply
resource leveling or resource smoothing.

Which of the following statements is correct?

 
Resource leveling does not change the project schedule

Resource smoothing commonly changes the critical path

Resource smoothing may delay the completion date

  Resource smoothing may not optimize all resources

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 88. A project management team has identified a large number of risks during its
risk identification sessions. It noticed that it would not have the time and
resources to quantitatively analyze all of them. The team also agreed that not
all of these risks would justify the effort necessary to digg deeply into them.

What should the team do next?

 
Implement agreed upon risk response plans.

Plan risk responses for each of the identified risks.

Perform qualitative risk analysis to prioritize the risks.

  Perform quantitative risk analysis to numerically analyze risks.

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 89. A project management team has identified, analyzed and prioritized a great
number of individual project risks and also some overall risks. The team
discusses strategies to respond to them.

What is true for strategies that can be used for individual risks?
 
They differ fundamentally from those used for overall risk.

They will be implemented by the team; overall risk will be escalated.

Only responses for threats can also be used for overall risk.

  Only responses for opportunities can also be used for overall risk.

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 90. In a Scrum project, it was decided to use the project manager concurrently in
the role of the Scrum master?

In this second role, what is the person expected to do?

 
Making key decisions to enable the team to focus on progress.

Mediating between target stakeholders and Scrum team.

Documenting progress made by the Scrum team.

  Coaching the team in Scrum practices and rules.

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 91. A project has been given into the hands of a contractor and will be performed
against payments by the customer.

During contract development, it has been agreed that the buyer’s procurement
statement of work (SOW) would become an appendix to the contract (CSOW),
turning it into a part of the agreement.

From the contractor’s perspective, which should be among the next steps to
initiate and plan the customer project?
 
The contractor can mostly disregard the SOW, because the language in the
contract’s main document is the binding one for the project.
The contractor should ensure that the project management team
understands how the CSOW becomes a key input to many of the seller’s
processes.
The contractor should regard the requirements laid down in the CSOW as
the only binding ones and focus solely on meeting them during the project.
  The contractor-side’s project team can do the project without knowledge of
the contract and the SOW just by clarifying requirements directly with the
customer.

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 92. A project management team prepares contract development for a project that
has major parts of the work outsourced to a number of contractors.

A question turns up, which risks should be assumed by contractors and which
should remain the responsibility of the customer.

What would be good decision?

 
All risks should be agreed upon to be managed by the contractor, who after
all gets paid for managing them.
Risks should generally remain with the customer to reduce the costs of
outsourcing for the project.
Each risk should be accurately allocated to the respective party that is most
capable of managing it.
  The allocation of a risk should not be decided during contract development,
but after it has occurred.

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 93. A Product owner in a Scrum project is adding user stories arbitrarily to the
product backlog in order to please a major number of target stakeholders. The
Development team finds it difficult to select items for the Sprint backlog and
ask the Proiduct owner to create a shortlist.

Which principle may lead the Product owner when she builds the shortlist?
 
A Product owner should focus on the easier stories.

A Product owner should maximise the value of the end product.

The Product owner can simplify the backlog by combining stories to epics.

  The Product owner should assign story points to help the team select tasks.

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 94. A project management team in a major infrastructure project is facing growing

resistance from people living nearby. These people believe that they are
stakeholders. They perceive that they will be affected by the execution of a
project and/or by its results.

Should a project management team consider these people as actual

stakeholders?
 
If they can influence the project, yes. The team should engage them as
stakeholders.
No. Only people with vested interests should be regarded as stakeholders.

No. It is the decision of the team, who is regarded as a stakeholder and

who is not.
  No. Stakeholders are limited to people that provide tangible input to the
project.

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 95. A project management team has decided to use an assumptions log for lower-
level tasks and activities in a project to refurbish and modernize an old
business building that should be rented out for upmarket customers.

The actual project work will mostly be done by contractors, and the task of the
project team will be mainly contract development and management and the
coordination of the contractors regarding technical and schedule matters.

In addition to assumptions, what other content may the team capture in the
assumptions log?
 
Project contractors

Summary risks

Technical risks

  Constraints

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 96. An agile project team has identified a number of stakeholders for a project to
develop and implement a new software solution that would come with far-
reaching changes inside the organization. They listed them up in a stakeholder
register.

What is an appropriate next step?

 
Develop ground rules for meetings with these stakeholders.

Monitor the engagement of stakeholders through surveys and polls.

Actively engage stakeholders by taking them out for dinner.

  Engage stakeholders by listening to their concerns and user stories.

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 97. A project manager is discussing with the project management office the
implementation of risk audits in the project.

What should be the purpose of a risk audit?

 
A risk audit gives the opportunity to verify the completeness of the risk
register and risk report.
A risk audit gives the opportunity to validate the existence of a risk
management plan.
A risk audit gives the opportunity to consider the effectiveness of the risk
management response strategy.
  A risk audit gives the opportunity to consider the effectiveness of the entire
risk management process.

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 98. A project is performed as project business by a company for another

organization. The latter organization pays the first for the work performed and
deliverables provided.

What kind of agreement is used between the two companies?

  
Project contract

Internal agreement

Memorandum of understanding

  Gentlemen agreement

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 99. A company is writing a job advert to look for a project manager to lead and
direct an urban development project.

The mission of the project is to implement a bold architectural vision. It will be

the project manager’s task to ensure that project work is accomplished through
the project’s team members and other stakeholders.

What skills should the advertisement focus on?

 
Legal skills.

Technical skills.

Interpersonal skills.

  Engineering skills.

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100. An organizational change project is accompanied by a set of business

documents, including a business case and a benefits management plan.

When a project manager has been assigned to the project, what should be the
first step to get chartered for the project?
 
Collect requirements on the project to prepare the development of the
project scope statement and the work breakdown structure.
Review the business documents to understand the project’s objectives and
how it is expected to contribute to the business goals.
Develop a backlog of product components, features, functions, and
develop a bill of materials from them for the project.
  Develop a human resource plan to capture team members assigned and
their availability for the project.

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