Parametric
C. Bottom-up
D. Analogous
24. In project management, the process of taking high-level project requirements and breaking them down into the tasks that will generate the deliverables is called what?
A. Analyzing
B. Decomposing
C. Process flow diagram
D. Documenting
25. Who is responsible for assembling the project’s team members?
A. Project sponsor
B. Project stakeholders
C. Project customer
D. Project manager
26. All of the following represent a category of contract most commonly used in procurement except for which one?
A. Time-and-materials
B. Cost-reimbursable
C. Fixed-price
D. Requests for proposal
27. This is a deliverables-oriented hierarchy that defines the work of the project.
A. Scope document
B. Work breakdown structure
C. Scope management plan
D. Project plan
28. Your project sponsor has expressed their need to have real-time project information at their fingertips. Which of the following is the best way to meet this need?
A. By creating a project dashboard with scope, cost, and time elements
B. By updating the project status report on a daily basis
C. By sending an email every morning to the sponsor describing the current project status
D. By meeting face to face with the sponsor every day to update them on status
29. Your project sponsor told you that the due date for the project is a key to its success and there is no chance of the date changing. What is this known as?
A. A constraint
B. An influence
C. A deliverable
D. A management directive
30. Risk analysis includes all of the following except for which one?
A. Identifying risk
B. Determining a risk response plan
C. Determining an order-of-magnitude estimate for responses
D. Determining probability and impact and assigning a risk score
31. Which of the following are project management phases? Choose three.
A. Scheduling
B. Planning
C. Executing
D. Communicating
E. Documenting
F. Budgeting
G. Closing
32. When taking over an incomplete project, what item should be of most interest to the new project manager?
A. Project concept statement
B. Project charter
C. Project scope statement
D. Project plan
33. This chart or diagram is a type of histogram that rank-orders data by frequency over time.
A. Run chart
B. Scatter diagram
C. Fishbone diagram
D. Pareto chart
34. These performance measurements are defined when you create the project management plan and are monitored and tracked during the Monitoring and Controlling phase to determine whether the project is meeting its goals.
A. SPI
B. Balanced score card
C. CPI
D. KPI
35. What key meeting is held after the project charter is signed and/or at the beginning of the Executing process?
A. Project kickoff
B. Project review
C. Project overview
D. Project status meeting
36. What is the best way to prevent scope creep?
A. Make sure the requirements are thoroughly defined and documented.
B. Put a statement in the charter that no additions to the project will be allowed once it’s underway.
C. Alert the sponsor that you will not be taking any change requests after the project starts.
D. Inform stakeholders when they sign the project scope statement that no changes will be accepted after the scope statement is published.
37. Which of these statements describes an assumption?
A. Our senior web developer will be available to work on this project.
B. The electrical capacity at the site of the project event may not be adequate.
C. The project’s due date is June 27.
D. There’s a potential for the server administrator to receive a promotion during the course of this project.
38. Your subject-matter expert tells you that her most likely estimate to complete her task is 40 hours. The task starts on Thursday, January 20, at 8 a.m. The team works 8-hour days, and they do not work weekends. Which day will the task end?
A. January 24
B. January 25
C. January 27
D. January 26
39. You are working for an organization and just learned that another organization with more power and influence is taking over your organization at the first of the year. What does this describe?
A. Business merger
B. Business demerger
C. Business venture
D. Business acquisition
40. What are the two types of
