Provides the project manager with authority to manage the project
E. All of the above
8. Project managers may spend up to 90 percent of their time doing which of the following?
A. Interacting with the project stakeholders
B. Interacting with the project sponsor
C. Interacting with the project team members
D. Communicating
9. This is a temporary way of resolving conflict and is considered a lose-lose technique. It emphasizes the areas of agreement over the areas of disagreement.
A. Smoothing
B. Forcing
C. Avoiding
D. Confronting
10. Which of these is not an example of a project selection method?
A. Cost-benefit analysis
B. Expert judgment
C. Top-down estimating
D. Scoring model
11. You’re the project manager on a project where the scope has expanded. The change has been approved by the change control board (CCB). What steps must you take to acknowledge the new scope? Choose two.
A. Update the project management plan.
B. Update the SOW.
C. Communicate the change to stakeholders and team members.
D. Submit a change request.
E. Log the request on the change request log.
12. Some team members on your team are driving each other crazy. They have different ways of organizing the tasks they are both assigned to, and the disparity in styles is causing them to bicker. Which of the following describes this situation?
A. This is a constraint that’s bringing about conflict on the team.
B. This should be escalated to the project sponsor.
C. This is a common cause of conflict.
D. This is a team formation stage that will pass as they get to know each other better.
13. Fishbone diagrams, Pareto diagrams, process diagrams, Gantt charts, and run charts are examples of which of the following?
A. Examples of various project management tools used to plan the work of the project
B. Examples of various project management tools used to monitor and control project work
C. Examples of various scope management tools to control the quality of deliverables
D. Examples of various scope management tools used to manage and control scope creep
14. Which of the following project documents created in the project Closing process group describes what went well and what didn’t go well on the project?
A. Project close report
B. Postmortem
C. Lessons learned
D. Post-project review
15. This document authorizes the project to begin.
A. Project request
B. Project concept document
C. Project charter
D. Project scope statement
16. Which of these can convey that you’ve achieved the completion of an interim key deliverable?
A. Completion criteria
B. Milestone
C. Gantt chart
D. Project sign-off document
17. All of the following are factors that influence communication methods except which one?
A. Language barriers
B. Technological barriers
C. Task completion
D. Cultural differences
E. Intraorganizational differences
F. A, B, D
G. All of the above
18. This person is responsible for removing obstacles so the team can perform their work, assisting the product owner in defining backlog items, and educating the team on Agile processes.
A. Project manager
B. Scrum master
C. Functional manager
D. Subject-matter expert
19. This project management methodology uses self-organized, self-directed teams; it uses an iterative approach; and it is highly interactive.
A. PRINCE2
B. PMI®
C. Agile
D. Waterfall
20. This is often added to the project schedule to determine whether the work is correct.
A. Approval gate
B. Quality gate
C. Milestone gate
D. Governance gate
21. This is the final, approved version of the project schedule. All of the following are true regarding this term except for which of the following?
A. It will prevent future schedule risk.
B. It’s approved by the stakeholders, sponsor, and functional managers.
C. It’s used to monitor project progress throughout the remainder of the project.
D. This describes a schedule baseline.
22. A well-written change control process should include which of the following components? Choose two.
A. A description of the type of change requested
B. The amount of time the change will take to implement
C. The cost of the change
D. How to update the affected project planning documents
E. The stages at which changes are accepted
23. Which cost-estimating technique relies on estimating work packages and then rolling up these estimates to come up with a total cost estimate?
A. Top-down
B.
