Question 1

Your project sponsor has asked for an update so she can advise her executive team on the project progress. What will you tell her if your project has an EV of $98,000, PV of $90,000 and AC of $85,000? You are:

A)  Ahead of planned schedule and under budget
B)  Behind planned schedule and under budget
C)  Ahead of planned schedule and over budget
D)  Behind schedule and over budget

Question 2

The Estimate at Completion (EAC) is the forecast cost of the project once finished. Your project has a budget of $100,000, and 30% of the work has been completed against 40% planned. You have spent $40,000 so far. If future work will be accomplished at the planned rate, Estimate At Completion (EAC) would be:

A)  $90,000
B)  $140,000
C)  $70,000
D)  $110,000

Question 3

You have gathered the requirements and scope for your project, broken them down into work packages for your project teams and then into activities that need to be completed and scheduled. What will you use to find the minimum duration for your project, and any flexibility you have between activities?

A)  Qualitative analysis
B)  Critical path method
C)  Resource leveling
D)  Variance analysis

Question 4

You are in charge of a new building project where the project plan is in place and work is currently in progress. A critical concreting task is coming up in the next three months. Your company employs concreters specifically for this type of work. When asking them about their availability they do not wish to commit and cannot give a straight answer. What should you do next?

A)  Review the project milestone list and put concreting later in the project to allow you time to get the right people.
B)  Review the issue register and raise the lack of resources in the issue log.
C)  Review the project scope and remove concreting for now to avoid the conflict.
D)  Review the project resource calendars regarding their availability, then have the right conversation with their leader to bring them on board at the right time.

Question 5

You are working through the schedule for your project after gathering the requirements, scope, breaking them down into work packages and then activities. You now need to estimate how long each activity will take, so you can place them in your Gantt Chart. What should you do next?

A)  Use your best guess for each and estimate for each activity so you can complete your Gantt Chart quickly
B)  Involve people who will be doing the work to get estimates
C)  Ask your boss to estimate, that way they will have to explain if it’s wrong
D)  Write down each activity time without buffers – it will look more accurate this way

Question 1

You have just validated the last piece of scope for the product you are delivering, with your stakeholders and gained their sign off. You have released the resources working with you back to their normal areas. What will you do next?

A)  List all the stakeholders for your project
B)  Create a project management plan
C)  Oversee the testing of the product to ensure its quality
D)  Write a Final Report summarising the performance of the project

Question 2

As a project manager, you are working on an activity that develops a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project. What will you do next?

A)  Identify the Stakeholders and list them in the stakeholder register
B)  Gather and acquire the Project Team
C)  Plan the costs of your project in detail
D)  Plan the schedule of your project

Question 3

A project management plan is a formal approved document that defines how the project is executed, monitored and controlled. Who is responsible for the project management plan?

A)  The Program Manager
B)  The Project Manager
C)  The Project Sponsor
D)  The Project Team

Question 4

You are working on your project management plan and quality management plan with your quality team leader. Your quality team leader wants to review the Cost of Quality (CoQ), and asks you for advice on what to include. Out of his list, which costs would you NOT consider?

A)  The cost of your project team (resources)
B)  The cost of preventing defects
C)  Appraisal costs
D)  Failure costs

Question 5

The To Complete Performance Index is the rate that future project work must be performed at. Your current project has a BAC of $100,000, EV of $50,000, and AC of $40,000. What is the rate of work we must achieve (To Complete Performance Index)?

A)  0.55
B)  0.83
C)  0.44
D)  1.16

Question 1

Communication Channels are the number of communication paths among the team members working on the project. For a project with a team of 3 people, the total number of communication channels would be:

A)  3
B)  5
C)  2
D)  4

Question 2

You are scheduling a meeting with your project team to share their viewpoints and expertise in the project work. Which of the following is NOT one of the rules of effective Meetings?

A)  Schedule recurring meetings in advance
B)  Set a time limit and keep to it
C)  Ensure flexible time limits
D)  Stick to the agenda

Question 3

You need to make a decision with your project team on how to move forward with a particular feature. You decide to take a vote, but you need to know how to ensure the outcome is valid. Which of the following is NOT one of the types of Group Decision Making Techniques?

A)  Unanimity
B)  Majority
C)  Plurality
D)  Duopoly

Question 4

You have hired a Business Analyst specifically for your project, and have asked them to create a plan of how the project will document, record and manage all the requirements. What are you asking them for?

A)  Scope Management Plan
B)  Requirements Management Plan
C)  Integration Management Plan
D)  Resource Management Plan

Question 5

The Scope Statement of your project provides a baseline of the project’s scope and deliverables and the work required for all stakeholders to see. Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of a Project Scope Statement?

A)  Project scope description
B)  Acceptance criteria
C)  Project Selection
D)  Project Assumptions

Question 1

As a project manager, you understand the importance of interpersonal skills to enhance the probability of project success. Which of the following is NOT one of the types of project manager’s interpersonal skills?

A)  Team building
B)  Dictating
C)  Leadership
D)  Communication

Question 2

You are working on a new feature in your project and need to estimate the cost to complete it. You have the work packages from the lowest level of your work breakdown structure and the teams have all given their estimate to complete their parts. What estimation technique will you use for the total feature estimate?

A)  Parametric estimating
B)  Bottom-up estimating
C)  3 point estimating
D)  Analogous estimating

Question 3

You are working with a project sponsor who has a thorough understanding of motivating individuals. What is the third-level need of Maslow’s Hierarchy after physical needs and security?

A)  Social Needs
B)  Self-Actualization
C)  Business Need
D)  Personal Needs

Question 4

You are a project manager working in manufacturing and you need to estimate the resources you will need for the next phase of your project. What is a fast estimation technique that uses data from past projects for an activity that is very similar in nature for cost or duration?

A)  Related Estimating
B)  Parallel Estimating
C)  Analogous Estimating
D)  Comparable Estimating

Question 5

As an effective project manager, you understand the importance of actively communicating with your team members. What would be something you will do above everything else when communicating to others?

A)  Speaking
B)  Listening
C)  Mentoring
D)  Helping

Question 1

You are identifying the stakeholders in your project and need to analyse their engagement with a stakeholder engagement matrix. Which of the following is one of the types of Stakeholders?

A)  Executive
B)  Resistant
C)  Sensitive
D)  Passive

Question 2

You are working on managing stakeholder relationships in a project and identifying the stakeholders. What is something you will use as an input to this work?

A)  Work performance reports
B)  Change requests
C)  Approved change requests
D)  Agreements

Question 3

You have taken over a software development project 10 months after it started, and need to find out project stakeholders and roles. Which one of the following documents will provide the list of the project stakeholder to you?

A)  Project Management Plan
B)  Stakeholder List
C)  Stakeholder Register
D)  Identify Stakeholders

Question 4

There are many stakeholders in your project and you need to find out who is most likely to go above and beyond to help you. In your stakeholder analysis, what type of stakeholder are you looking for?

A)  Mature
B)  Saturated
C)  Superficial
D)  Leading

Question 5

You are working on a new project where the team is not working well together. You understand this as one of the five stages of team development that you will have to work through. Which of the following is NOT one of the stages of Team Development?

A)  Forming
B)  Initiating
C)  Storming
D)  Adjourning

Question 1

You are arranging a third party to perform work for your project. You are creating a document outlining the details of the work to be completed and the time-frame it needs to be delivered in. This is called the procurement:

A)  Obtainment Of Work
B)  Recovery Of Work
C)  Statement of Work
D)  Executive Work

Question 2

What is the type of contract when an expert is hired to complete a particular portion of the project for $120 per hour, plus their materials?

A)  Fixed fee
B)  Time and materials
C)  Cost plus fixed fee
D)  Cost plus incentive fee

Question 3

You are a project manager working on a telecommunications project where a portion of the work has been completed by a vendor outside your project. What is it called when your team makes a review of the procurement process?

A)  Audits
B)  Inspection
C)  Quality Check
D)  Review

Question 4

You are starting a project with a project charter and the next major process is to identify all the relevant stakeholders for your project. Which one of the following is used to perform stakeholder analysis?

A)  Stakeholder Analysis Model
B)  Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
C)  Salience Model
D)  SWOT Analysis

Question 5

You are working as a project manager in the health sector where a stakeholder raises a proposal for modification to the scope of the project. What should you tell them to do?

A)  Raise an issue in the issue log
B)  Go head and change the scope themselves
C)  Raise a change request that will go through the CCB
D)  Raise their idea at the next retrospective

Question 1

You are analysing your project and have found there is a Cost Variance of -$40,866. What type of report is needed to report this to management?

A)  Progress report
B)  Exception report
C)  Forecasting report
D)  Trends report

Question 2

Delphi technique, Sensitivity analysis, and Monte Carlo Analysis are tools and techniques used as a part of which project task?

A)  Expert Judgement
B)  Reserve analysis
C)  Schedule Compression
D)  Quantitative Risk Assessment

Question 3

You are working in Risk Management and identifying the risks for a project. What document will be used to maintain and record information about risks identified and form appropriate responses?

A)  Risk Register
B)  Project Management Plan
C)  Tornado diagram
D)  Prompt lists

Question 4

You are working with the risk team in your project and are in the process of ranking risks for further analysis or action by assessing their probability of occurrence and impact. What is this called?

A)  Deep-dive Risk Analysis
B)  Subjective Risk Analysis
C)  Qualitative Risk Analysis
D)  Quantitative Risk Analysis

Question 5

You are wanting to brainstorm with your team to find and prepare a comprehensive list of risks in the project. Which of the following is not one of the types of information gathering techniques?

A)  Brainstorming
B)  Delphi technique
C)  Interviewing
D)  Sensitivity analysis

Question 1

A vendor is hired for your project and will charge you $30 per hour, plus materials. What is this type of contract called?

A)  Cost plus fixed fee
B)  Time and materials
C)  Task and materials
D)  Cost plus incentive fee

Question 2

Your project has had most of its products delivered by a third party. The project sponsor who will own these products in their functional area is not happy with the resulting products. The vendor believes they are suitable. What process will you go through to arrange a suitable outcome for both parties?

A)  Quality Administration
B)  Contract Administration
C)  Project Administration
D)  Claims Administration

Question 3

You are working within the procurement department of a company and a project has approached you for a template for formal documents they can use to collect information, quotes or proposals from potential vendors. What are these documents called?

A)  Bid Documents
B)  Vendor Documents
C)  Audit Documents
D)  Advertising Documents

Question 4

As a project manager you are aware that communication can become more complex, the more people there are to communicate to. How many different communication channels would there be with a project team of 19 people?

A)  380
B)  190
C)  171
D)  19

Question 5

You are working on a project with many different stakeholders and it is vital to communicate project updates early and often. What is the best type of communication method for passing information to stakeholders?

A)  Telephone
B)  Face to face
C)  Emails
D)  Formal report

Question 1

You are working as a project manager with a business analyst and a tester on your team. You need to rank the issues occurring during testing from the most occurring to the least occurring, to see where to focus on first. What will you use?

A)  Control chart
B)  Pareto Diagram
C)  Flow Chart
D)  Check Sheet

Question 2

You are working through the quality management process of a project in the finance sector, and need to select the most appropriate option from a variety of options. What technique will you use?

A)  Group activities
B)  Agreements
C)  Decision Making
D)  Meetings

Question 3

You are working with a project manager in the Quality area of a project, with the aim of improving the end to end life-cycle of the project’s development. You will need to identify the problem, discover the underlying causes that lead to it, and develop preventive actions. What is this called?

A)  Flow chart Analysis
B)  Root Cause Analysis
C)  Risk Cause Analysis
D)  Corrective Analysis

Question 4

What would be the total of the Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) type of contract with a target cost of $421,000 plus a fixed fee of $45,000, if the project actual spent costs at the end is $251,000?

A)  $45,000
B)  $421,000
C)  $296,000
D)  $121,000

Question 5

You are working with a third party vendor to deliver a part of your project, and needing to ensure they will deliver what you need and on time. Price has been agreed, but other things are still to be negotiated. Which of the following is one of the items that can be negotiated as part of a procurement contract?

A)  The type of software used
B)  Your bonus
C)  Size of the project
D)  Project Management process to be used

Question 1

You would like to motivate and align your team towards the project goals using a team building activity. Which of the following is one of the types of Team Building Activities?

A)  Performing repetitive tasks
B)  Following the agenda
C)  Documenting meeting minutes
D)  Creating the WBS

Question 2

Interpersonal Skills have the power to directly or indirectly impact the outcome of a project. Which of the following is NOT one of the types of Interpersonal Skills a project manager might use?

A)  Leadership
B)  Creating a scatter plot
C)  Team building
D)  Motivation

Question 3

You are working on a project and need to create a document that has compiled information about project performance in a report format to enable decisions, actions and project communications?

A)  Work Performance Report
B)  Project Management Plan
C)  Agreements
D)  Verified deliverables

Question 4

Your project needs to hire resources from outside the organisation, and the vendor has provided a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) type of contract with a target cost of $280,000 plus a fixed fee of $29,000. What is the total cost if the project costs at the end is $250,000?

A)  $309,000
B)  $280,000
C)  $279,000
D)  $149,000

Question 5

You are a project manager working in a company and you have been asked to compile the business case and benefits management plan. What are these types of documents called?

A)  Executive Documents
B)  Business Documents
C)  Project Documents
D)  Project Charter