1.

Development is a critical aspect in a project with large size and regulatory and environmental
considerations. What is the first thing you should do as a starting point for initial project planning?

1. Start identifying stakeholders so that you can engage them as required for project planning
2. Hold a project kick-off meeting with the aim to inform and engage stakeholders and obtain
commitment
3. Review the project charter to get high-level information about the project
4. Share project scope with the involved team to establish common understanding about project
deliverables

2. While monitoring the baseline cost of a project, it is noted that the project expenses are higher than
expected at this point. What is the most likely cause of this?

1. An incomplete milestone list

2. Overestimated material costs
3. Lack of stakeholder support
4. Excess inventory

3. Recently, you promoted your star programmer, Pam, to lead the agile development team. Pam was
a fantastic software coder, and you thought the promotion would mean that she could now share her
expertise with the other development team members. But, you observe that Pam’s performance in her
new role is underwhelming and not at par with your expectations. Which empirical rule have you
ignored or forgotten while considering Pam’s promotion?

1. Pareto concept
2. Murphy's law
3. Expectancy theory
4. Halo effect

4. While reviewing a requirements management plan of a project, you notice that one of the
components does not belong there. Which among these is the odd one?

1. A process that describes how the project requirements will be prioritized

2. How requirement activities will be planned, tracked, and reported
3. The metrics that will be used and the rationale for using them
4. A process that specifies how a project scope statement will be prepared

5. As part of a process improvement project for a factory operation, the project and team are
performing the process of monitoring and controlling project work. Which of the following is done
during this process?

1. Drawing an actual comparison of project performance against the project management plan
2. Gaining formal acceptance of the deliverables by the customer or sponsor
3. Implementing approved change requests to achieve the project's objectives
4. Analyzing change requests and either approving or rejecting them

6. A company sets up a change control board (CCB) dedicated to the purpose of reviewing and
evaluating the changes submitted for all projects. Which of the following best describes an individual
or group that can request a change on a project in a situation where the project sponsor is a member
of the CCB?

1. Project sponsor
2. Project team
3. Project manager
4. Any stakeholder
7. You want to replace a contractor because they are not performing to the agreed-upon standards
and engage another contractor for the same job. You need to determine the specific legal procedure
for the early termination of the contract. What should you do?

1. Check the procurement management plan

2. Review the risk register
3. Consult the contract
4. Look at the scope statement

8. In a project divided into four phases in sequence, what should the project manager do when the
second phase is over and the third one is about to begin?

1. Begin the process of directing and managing the project work

2. Start the process of monitoring and controlling the project work
3. Perform the process of identifying the project stakeholders
4. Begin the process of developing the project management plan

9. The project management office (PMO) of an organization ensures all project management
processes and all relevant project documents conform to the established best practices. What is the
first thing that the project manager should review to identify stakeholders for a new project?

1. The stakeholder engagement plan to identify what management strategies and actions can work best
to effectively engage the stakeholders
2. The business documents to obtain information about the stakeholders
3. The requirements documentation to know more about potential stakeholders
4. The communications management plan to learn about the project's stakeholders

10. Using an agile framework, you are to lead a product development project. You want to bring
together stakeholders and SMEs to discuss risk, success criteria and other topics. What is the best way
for you to accomplish this objective?

1. Facilitate an iteration retrospective

2. Conduct interviews with the identified individuals
3. Schedule a focus group
4. Invite the relevant participants to the daily scrum meetings

11. As part of preparing the communications management plan for a project in construction, you
want to determine the needs of the project stakeholders with respect to information. Your focus is on
the type and format of information required to pass on to them. What is your best course of action?

1. Conduct a communication requirements analysis

2. Consult the stakeholder engagement plan
3. Develop the stakeholder register
4. Review the requirements documentation

12. To reduce the defect rate of a manufacturing process, a project is carried out. The project team is
carrying out QA activities to analyze and improve the process. Which of the following would be the
most beneficial for this project?

1. Utilizing rolling wave planning for the project

2. Introducing the use of a kanban board into the manufacturing process
3. Adopting a just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing process
4. Consulting with a certified Six Sigma Black Belt expert
13. You are the head of a software development project where the developers involved are working
within a rented office space. It’s taking longer than anticipated to write the code. You have requested
the landlord to rent the office for another week. Unfortunately, the landlord informs you that the
office is booked for that period. You capture the problem in the project documents. What should you
do next?

1. Makes updates in the risk register

2. Request more funds
3. Enter the issue in the issue log for record
4. Make revisions in the resource management plan

14. You are part of a project team that’s designing a new type of vehicle. You are on the brink of
getting started with working on a set of tasks (work package) for the braking system of the vehicle.
You would like to assess the acceptance criteria before beginning the work. Where should you look in
order to find this information?

1. Requirements documentation
2. The WBS dictionary
3. Project management plan
4. Activity attributes

15. A project to construct an assembly line is nearly complete. The project manager has closed
procurements, submitted the final project report, updated the lessons learned register, and acquired
feedback from the relevant stakeholders. What should be the next step of the project manager?

1. Send a summary of how the final product fulfilled the business needs
2. Transfer the completed assembly line to operations
3. Send formal writing to the vendors notifying them that the contracts have been completed
4. Make the final payment to the suppliers

16. A project team is weighing two risk responses to include in the risk register. The first risk
response must meet two criteria and costs $5,000. The second risk response must meet four criteria,
but only costs $2,000. Which action is least likely to be taken by the project team to select the best risk
response?

1. Conduct a cost-benefit analysis

2. Use multicriteria decision analysis
3. Run a Monte Carlo simulation
4. Perform an alternatives analysis

17. Your project team members are writing code in pairs and assessing each other's work to review
and determine if the code follows the requirements documentation. Which of the following results will
be obtained from this process?

1. Work performance data

2. Verified deliverable
3. Accepted deliverable
4. Acceptance criteria

18. The construction project has many people and specialized teams at the work site every day.
Frequent and seamless communication between the team leads is vital to ensure safe and efficient
progress. Which agile ceremony can be incorporated in this project to boost timely cross-functional
communication?

1. Retrospectives
 2. Daily standups
3. Iteration reviews
4. Risk-based spikes.

19. The organization’s leadership wants to include more agile methodologies in their projects. Before
starting to take any agile approaches in a project, what is the first thing to be done?

1. Evaluate the organizational culture and transformation readiness

2. Conduct a survey of employees to find those willing to participate in agile projects
3. Conduct agile training for those in the team assembled for the pilot project
4. Put current projects on hold to readjust them to the new agile cadence

20. You need to establish the relative priorities of risks recognized in a project. Which of the following
tasks is the most likely to not affect this prioritization?

1. Researching the stakeholder register

2. Making a review of the assumption log
3. Generating the risk report
4. Examining the risk register

21. A project manager, while developing the stakeholder register, lists down the potential stakeholders
and chooses to use a data gathering method known as brain writing. What is the first thing to do when
using this method?

1. Share a set of questions with participating members ahead of the the creativity session
2. Convene a data gathering meeting with the participants
3. Develop your own template for a stakeholder register
4. Refer to the stakeholder engagement plan to get an understanding of how to identify stakeholders

22. A project manager communicates primarily through email with her team members, internal and
external project stakeholders. Certain techniques are incorporated to ensure there are no
misunderstandings. Which of the following is not considered one of these techniques?

1. Controlled flow of words and ideas

2. Concise expression
3. Clear purpose directed at meeting the needs of the reader
4. Communications register
1. Review the project charter to get high-level information about the project

2. Excess inventory - Failing to manage and control resources efficiently can be a source of increased costs in a
project.

3. Halo Effect

4. A process that specifies how a project scope statement will be prepared

5. Drawing an actual comparison of project performance against the project management plan

6.Any stakeholder

7. Consult the contract

8. Perform the process of identifying the project stakeholders

9. The business documents to obtain information about the stakeholders

10.Schedule a focus group

11. Conduct a communication requirements analysis

12. Consulting with a certified Six Sigma Black Belt expert

13. Make revisions in the resource management plan

14. The WBS dictionary

15. Transfer the completed assembly line to operations

16. Run a Monte Carlo simulation

17. Verified Deliverable

18. Daily standups. Daily standups refer to time-boxed meetings of short duration that the project team and relevant
stakeholders attend

19.Evaluate the organizational culture and transformation readiness

20. Generating the risk report

21. Send a list of questions to participants ahead of the the creativity session

22. Communication register