PMI-001 Project Management Professional v5 Question and Answers

A stakeholder expresses a need not known to the project manager. The project manager most likely missed a step in which stakeholder management process?

In which type of organizational structure are staff members grouped by specialty?

Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?

An input of the Create WBS process is:

What component of the project scope definition defines project exclusions?

The only Process Group that comprises processes that typically occur from the beginning to the end of the project life cycle is:

Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?

One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:

Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?

Which tool or technique of Plan Quality involves comparing actual or planned practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and provide a basis by which to measure performance?

The processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project has been undertaken to achieve are grouped within which Process Group?

Which action should a project manager take to ensure that the project management plan is effective and current?

The following is a network diagram for a project.

The free float for Activity H is how many days?

The following is a network diagram for a project.

The critical path for the project is how many days in duration?

Which tool or technique can a project manager use to select in advance a team member who will be crucial to the task?

A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?

The process of identifying the stakeholders' information needs is completed during:

During what process is the quality policy determined?

A project team attempts to produce a deliverable and finds that they have neither the expertise nor the time to complete the deliverable in a timely manner. This issue could have been avoided if they had created and followed a:

Units of measure, level of precision, level of accuracy, control thresholds, and rules of performance measurement are examples of items that are established in the:

Which quality management and control tool is useful in visualizing parent-to-child relationships in any decomposition hierarchy that uses a systematic set of rules that define a nesting relationship?

What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?

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

What is the responsibility of the project manager and the functional manager respectively?

What is an objective of the Develop Project Team process?

Changes to formally controlled documentation, plans, etc. to reflect modified or additional ideas or content are known as:

Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Duration?

Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?

In the Define Activities process, the schedule management plan is used to:

Which tools or techniques will the project manager use for developing the project team?

When does the project team determine which dependencies are discretionary?

A project manager builds consensus and overcomes obstacles by employing which communication technique?

Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?

Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:

The cost benefit analysis tool is used for creating:

Conflict should be best addressed in which manner?

The links between the processes in the Process Groups are often:

Which is the correct formula for calculating expected activity cost for three-point estimating?

Which tools or techniques are used during the Close Project or Phase process?

During which process would stakeholders provide formal acceptance of the completed project scope?

The individual or group that provides resources and support for a project and is accountable for success is the:

What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?

If the most likely duration of an activity is five weeks, the best-case duration is two weeks, and the worst-case duration is 14 weeks, how many weeks is the expected duration of the activity?

Retreating from an actual or potential conflict or postponing the issue to be better prepared or to be resolved by others describes which of the five general techniques for managing conflict?

When a backward pass is calculated from a schedule constraint that is later than the early finish date that has been calculated during a forward pass calculation, this causes which type of total float?

Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?

When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?

At the end of the project, what will be the value of SV?

Lessons learned documentation is gathered during which of the following Project Management Process Groups?

Types of internal failure costs include:

At the completion of a project, a report is prepared that details the outcome of the research conducted on a global trend during the project. Which item did this project create?

Which degree of authority does a project manager have on a project in a strong matrix organizational structure?

Which technique should a project manager use in a situation in which a collaborative approach to conflict management is not possible?

When is a project finished?

Exhibit A is an example of which of the following types of Sequence Activities?

Which of the following is an output of Close Procurements?

Completion of the product scope is measured against the product:

Which of the following choices is a contract closure tool or technique?

What type of planning is used where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while work in the future is planned at a higher level?

What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?

What happens to a stakeholder’s project influence over time?

The following chart contains information about the tasks in a project.

Based on the chart, what is the schedule performance index (5PI) for Task 4?

How is quality control performed?

A given schedule activity is most likely to last four weeks. In a best-case scenario, the schedule activity is estimated to last two weeks. In a worst-case scenario, the schedule activity is estimated to last 12 weeks. Given these three estimates, what is the expected duration of the activity?

Which of the following outputs from the Control Schedule process aids in the communication of schedule variance (SV), schedule performance index (SPI), or any performance status to stakeholders?

A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:

Forecasts, requested changes, recommended corrective actions, and organizational process asset updates are all outputs of which process?

The Monitoring and Controlling Process Group includes processes that:

Which tool or technique is used in validating the scope of a project?

An output of the Perform Integrated Change Control process is:

Which Activity Duration Estimating technique incorporates additional timing for contingency purposes?

Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?

Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?

Labor, materials, equipment, and supplies are examples of:

Which of the Project Time Management processes analyzes activity sequencing, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints?

Which group is formally chartered and responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying, or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating decisions?

Configuration identification, configuration status accounting, and configuration verification and audit are all activities in which process?

The approaches, tools, and data sources that will be used to perform risk management on a project are determined by the:

Cost baseline is an output of which of the following processes?

Ensuring that projects and programs are reviewed to prioritize resource allocation is a focus of which of the following?

Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is used to document changes that occur during the project?

The Perform Integrated Change Control process occurs in which Process Group?

An output of the Plan Quality Management process is:

Schedule milestones and a predefined budget are examples of:

Which Control Quality tool is also known as an arrow diagram?

Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?

Which schedule development technique modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources?

Which of the following statements is true regarding project and product lifecycles?

Which cost estimate technique includes contingencies to account for cost uncertainty?

Which characteristic is unique to project work and does not apply to operational work?

Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?

Using the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely duration is four months, the optimistic duration is two months, and the pessimistic duration is one year, how many months is the expected activity duration?

Which Process Group typically consumes the bulk of a project's budget?

Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?

Variance and trend analysis is a tool and technique used in which process?

The project manager for XYZ stationers is sequencing the activities for the project to set up a new office. It is known from knowledge of best practices that it is better to wait for the painters to finish painting the walls before the new floors are installed. This is an example of which of the following types of dependency?

A procurement management plan is a subsidiary of which other type of plan?

In a typical project, project managers spend most of their time:

Which of the Perform Quality Assurance tools and techniques may enhance the creation of the work breakdown structure (WBS) to give structure to the decomposition of the scope?

The most appropriate project life cycle model for an environment with a high level of change and extensive stakeholder involvement in projects is:

Which of the following is developed from the project scope baseline and defines only that portion of the project scope that is to be included within a related contract?

Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes, and procedures?

Which tool or technique is used to develop the human resource management plan?

What is a deliverable-oriented, hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?

Which activity involves ensuring that the composition of a projects configuration items is correct?

What is a tool and technique used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?

To which process is work performance information an input?

Change request status updates are an output of which process?

Which tool and technique is used in Conduct Procurements?

Which schedule development tool and technique produces a theoretical early start date and late start date?

Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?

Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?

A project manager at a publishing company decides to initiate the editing phase of the project as soon as each chapter is written. Which type of Sequence Activities tool and technique is involved, considering that there was a start-to-start relationship with a 15-day delay?

Which of the following is an example of schedule compression?

Decomposition, rolling wave planning, and templates are all tools and techniques for which of the following?

What is one of the objectives of Project Risk Management?

Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process provides guidance on how stakeholders can best be involved in a project?

Which of the following is a project constraint?

Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?

When a project is undertaken to reduce defects in a product or service, the objective of the project is to create a/an:

High-level project risks are included in which document?

Identify Risks is part of which Process Group?

Which type of tool would be used for the quality planning activity?

A project manager seeking insight on previous stakeholder management plans and their effectiveness should evaluate:

Which is a tool or technique used in Define Scope?

Through whom do project managers accomplish work?

Within a matrix organization, dual reporting of team members is a risk for project success. Who is responsible for managing this dual reporting relationship factor?

What are the components of the “triple constraint”?

Which element does a project charter contain?

A tool and technique used in the Develop Project Charter process is:

In which Knowledge Area is the project charter developed?

Plan Communications Management develops an approach and plan for project communications based on stakeholders' needs and requirements and:

A Project Management Office (PMO) manages a number of aspects, including what?

What name(s) is (are) associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle?