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Why should the project feasibility study include a project timeline?
To determine what will be done, when, and by whom
A project timeline is not essential for the project feasibility study.
In order to correctly estimate how many resources are needed for the project.
So that an accurate cost can be determined.
What is the technical feasibility of a project?
A project is technically feasible if your project budget covers the cost of the project.
A project is technically feasible if you have all requisite technical skills, resources and logistical requirements.
This is whether you have enough people with the correct skill-sets to complete the project.
If a project is logistically possible, then the project must be technically feasible.
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1. Which of the following is TRUE about a work breakdown structure?
A. It contains work packages that are described in a linear, unstructured list
B. Each item in the WBS represents a feature in the product scope
C. The WBS represents all of the work that must be done on the project
D. The WBS is created by the product sponsor and stakeholders
2. Which is NOT an output of a scope management process?
A. Business Case
B. WBS Dictionary
C. Requested changes
D. Accepted deliverables
3. Which of the following is NOT TRUE
about a work breakdown structure?
A. It describes processes to define the scope, verify work, and manage scope changes
B. It contains a graphical, hierarchical list of all work to be performed
C. It can be broken down by project phase or deliverable
D. It is an important element of the scope baseline
4. What is the correct order of the scope management processes?
A. Define Scope, Create WBS, Collect Requirements, Scope Verification
B. Collect Requirements, Control Scope, Create WBS, Scope Verification
C. Collect Requirements, Define Scope, Create WBS, Scope Verification
D. Collect Requirements, Scope Baseline, Define Scope, Control Scope
5. You are managing a software project. Your team has been working for eight weeks, and so far the project is on track. The lead programmer comes to you with a problem: there is a work
package that is causing trouble. Nobody seems to know who is responsible for it, the accounting department does not know what cost center to bill it against, and it's not even clear exactly what work should be performed. Which of the following would BEST help this situation?
A. Alternatives Analysis
B. WBS Dictionary
C. Scope Management Plan
D. Scope Verification
6. The goal of Verify Scope is:
A. To inspect the scope statement for defects so that it is correct
B. To gain formal acceptance of the project deliverables from the sponsor and stakeholders
C. To get everyone in the project working together towards a common goal
D. To verify that all PMBOK® Guide processes are complied with
7. Historical information and lessons learned are part of:
A. Organizational process assets
B. Enterprise environmental factors
C. Project management information system (PMIS)
D. Work performance information
8. You've taken over as a project manager on a highway construction project, and the execution is already underway. Your sponsor tells you that moving forward, all asphalt should be laid down with a 12" thickness. The scope statement and the WBS call for 9" thick asphalt. What is the BEST course of action?
A. Look for a cheaper supplier so the cost impact is minimized
B. Tell the sponsor that the work is already underway, so you can't accommodate his request
C. Refuse to alter the plans until the change control system has been used
D. Tell the team to accommodate the request immediately
9
. Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of a traceability matrix?
A. It describes how WBS Dictionary entries are traced to work packages, and how work packages are decomposed
from deliverables
B. It's used to make sure that all of the sub-plans of the Project Management Plan have been created
C. It helps you understand the source of each requirement, and how that requirement was verified in
a later deliverable
D. It's used to trace the source of every change, so that you can keep track of them through the entire Control Scope process and verify that the change was properly implemented
10. It's the end of execution for a large highway construction project. The work has been done, and the workers are ready to pack up their equipment. The project manager and project sponsor have come by with specialists to check that each requirement has been met, and that all of the work in the WBS has been performed. What process is being done?
A. Control Scope
B. Verify Scope
C. Scope Testing
D. Define Scope
11. You have just been put in charge of a project that is already executing. While reviewing the project documentation, you discover that there is no WBS. You check the Scope Management Plan and discover that
there should be one for this project. What is the BEST thing for you to do:
A. Immediately alert the sponsor and make sure the project work doesn't stop
B. Stop project work and create the WBS, and don't let work continue until it's created
C. Make sure you closely manage communications to ensure the team doesn't miss any undocumented work
D. Mark it down in the lessons learned so it doesn't happen on future projects
12. A project manager on an industrial design project finds that the sponsor wants to make a change to the
scope
after it has been added to the baseline,
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and needs to know the procedure for managing changes. What is the BEST place to look for this information?
A. WBS
B. Scope management plan
C. Change request form template
D. Business Case
13. You have just started work on the Project Scope Statement. You are analyzing the expected deliverables, when you discover that one of them could be delivered in three different ways
. You
select the best method for creating that deliverable. What is the BEST way to describe what you
are doing?
A. Alternatives Analysis
B. Decomposition
C. Define Scope
D. Stakeholder Analysis
14. You're the project manager on a software project. Your team has only completed half of the work,
when
the sponsor informs you that the project has been terminated. What is the BEST action for you to take?
A. Verify the deliverables produced by the team against the scope, and document any place they do not match
B. Call a team meeting to figure out how to spend the rest of the budget
C. Work with the sponsor to see if there is any way to bring the project back
D. Tell the team to stop working immediately
15. You are managing an industrial design project. One of your team members comes to you with a suggestion that will let you do more work while at the same time saving the project 15% of the budget. What is the BEST way for you to proceed?
A. Tell the team to make the change because it will deliver more work for less money
B. Refuse to make the change until a change request is documented and change control is performed
C. Refuse to consider the change because it will affect the baseline
D. Do a cost-benefit analysis and then make sure to inform the sponsor that the project scope changed
16. You are the project manager for a telecommunications project. You are working on the project scope statement. Which of the following is NOT included in this document?
A. Authorization for the project manager to work on the project
B. Requirements that the deliverables must meet
C. A description of the project objectives
D. The list of deliverables that must be created
17. Which of the following is NOT an input to Control Scope?
A. WBS Dictionary
B. Approved change requests
C. Requested changes
D. Project scope statement
18. Which of these processes is not a part of Scope Management?
A. Scope Identification
B. Collect Requirements
C. Control Scope
D. Scope Verification
19. You are the project manager for a new project, and you want to save time creating the WBS. Which is the BEST way to do this?
A. Make decomposition go faster by cutting down the number of deliverables
B. Use a WBS from a previous project as a template
C. Don't create the WBS Dictionary
D. Ask the sponsor to provide the work packages for each deliverable
20. The project manager for a design project is using the Define Scope process. Which BEST describes this?
A. Creating a document that lists all of the features of the product
B. Creating a plan for managing changes to the scope baseline
C. Creating a document that describes all of the work the team does to make the deliverables
D. Creating a graphical representation of how the phases or deliverables decompose into work packages
21. You are the project manager for a construction project. You have completed project initiation activities, and you are now creating a document that describes processes to document the scope, decompose deliverables into work packages, verify that all work is
complete, and manage changes to the baseline. What process are you performing?
A. Develop Project Management Plan
B. Define Scope
C. Create WBS
D. Develop Project Charter
22. You are a project manager working on a project. Your sponsor wants to know who a certain work package is assigned to, what control account to bill it against, and what work is involved. What document do you refer her to?
A. Scope Management Plan
B. WBS
C. WBS Dictionary
D. Scope Statement
23. You are the project manager for a software project. One of the teams discovers that if they deviate from the
plan, they can actually skip one of the deliverables because it's no longer necessary. They do the calculations, and realize they can save the customer 10% of the cost of the project without compromising the features in the product. They take this approach, and inform you the following week what they did during the status meeting. What is the BEST way to describe this situation?
A. The project team has taken initiative and saved the customer money
B. A dispute is resolved in favor of the customer
C. The team informed the project manager of the change, but they should have informed the customer too
D. The team did not follow the Control Scope process
24. Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of the project scope statement?
A. It describes the features of the product of the project
B. It is created before the scope management plan
C. It decomposes deliverables into work packages
D. It describes the objectives, requirements, and deliverables of the project, and the work needed to create them
25. Answer: A
The question asked about the tools and techniques for Collect Requirements, and answer A is the only answer that has to do with the Create WBS process. The rest of the answers were descriptions of Collect Requirements tools and techniques: Interviews (answer B), Prototypes (answer C), and Observations (answer D).
25. A project manager at a cable and networking company is gathering requirements for a project to build a new version of their telecommunications equipment. Which of the following is NOT something
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that she will use?
A. Specific descriptions of work packages that will be developed
B. One-on-one interviews with the senior executives who need the new equipment for their teams
C. An early working model of the telecommunications equipment to help get feedback from stakeholders
D. Notes that she took while being "embedded" with the team that will eventually use the equipment being
developed
26. Which of the following is NOT an output of Collect Requirements?
A
. Requirements Observations
B. Requirements Traceability Matrix
C. Requirements Documentation
D. Requirements Management Plan
Chris and his project team are setting up focus groups to determine which direction the company should go with their latest software update. In Project Scope Management, this is part of which process?
Collect Requirements: Tools and Techniques
Collect Requirements: Inputs
Collect Requirements: Outputs
General Scope
Which of the following is a valid input to the collect requirements process?
Project Charter
Prototype
Requirements Management Plan
Focus Groups
As project manager, you are about to start the define scope process. You have the project charter, what other input do you need?
answer choices
Requirements documentation
Updates to project documents
Stakeholder Register
Observations
What does a project scope statement document?
answer choices
What work is to be completed during the project
What deliverables need to be produced by the project
What work is to be completed during the project and What deliverables need to
be produced by the project
A detailed project schedule
. You conducted several brainstorming sessions with client stakeholders and used the Delphi technique. You also intend to conduct focus groups. Which process are you most probably doing?
answer choices
Collect Requirements: Tools and Techiques
Collect Requirements: Inputs
Requirements Documentations
Requirements Management Plan
You’ve been put in-charge of a project. Which document should you read to identify the project constraints and the acceptance criteria?
answer choices
Scope Statement
Requirements Documentation
Project Charter
Stakeholder Analysis
After delivery, the client is adamant that certain features of the software do not provide any business value. Which document can you share with the client to
show how the features directly correspond to business needs and requirements
stated at the being of the project?
answer choices
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Charter
Scope Statement
Prototype
During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope mentioned by the stakeholders’. The BEST thing for the project manager to do is to :
answer choices
Let the sponsor know of the stake holder’s request
Evaluate the impact of adding the scope.
Tell the stakeholder the scope cannot be added.
Add the work if the time is available in the project schedule.
What should be done by the project manager to ensure that all work in the project is included?
answer choices
Create a contingency plan
Create a risk management plan
Create a WBS
Create a scope statement
Q. You’ve been put in-charge of a project that is in its first release. Which document should you read to identify the project constraints and the acceptance criteria?
answer choices
Scope Statement
Project Charter
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Stakeholder Analysis
After delivering a release, the client is adamant that certain features of the software do not provide any business value. Which document can you share
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with the client to show how the features directly correspond to business needs and requirements stated at the being of the project?
answer choices
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Stakeholder Analysis
Collect Requirements
Develop Project Charter
You’ve just completed the Collect Requirements process. Which Scope Management process would you implement next?
answer choices
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Define Scope
Create WBS
Project Charter
In your project, you want to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives. This also provides a means to track requirements throughout the project life cycle, helping to ensure that requirements approved in the requirements documentation are delivered at the end of the project. The document that helps to achieve this is called:
answer choices
Requirements Documentation
Brainstorming
Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Q. The Work Breakdown Structure can BEST be thought of as an effective aid for __________ communications.
answer choices
Project manager
Team
Customer
Stakeholder
Q. During project executing, a team member comes to project manager because he is not sure of what work needs to be accomplished on the project. Which of the following documents contains the detailed description of work packages?
answer choices
WBS dictionary.
Activity List.
Project scope statement.
Scope management plan.
Q. Completion of a product scope is measured against:
answer choices
Product Management Plan
Project Management Plan
WBS & WBS Dictionary
Product Requirements
Q. You are creating your WBS and find that you keep decomposing tasks into smaller and smaller units. How can you tell when you are done?
answer choices
Keep decomposing tasks until you reach an amount of work that is small enough to reliably estimate required resources and duration.
Keep decomposing tasks until you reach an amount of work that can be accomplished in one hour.
Keep decomposing work until you reach an amount of work that can be accomplished in your organization’s basic work unit.
Keep decomposing work until you reach a predetermined number of hierarchy levels to keep the WBS balanced.
Q. Decomposition is an important tool used to
answer choices
Control Scope
Detail Scope
Validate Scope
Create WBS
Q. What is the lowest level of WBS components known as?
answer choices
Work Package
Activity
Deliverable
Final
Q. Which of the following is the KEY output of Verify Scope process?
answer choices
A more complete Scope management plan.
Customer acceptance of project deliverables.
Improved Schedule estimates.
An improved Project management information system
Q. You are a new project manager that is replacing a previous project manager. You want to know more about the scope baseline of the project. Which three documents will be most useful to you?
answer choices
Project Management Plan, Scope Management Plan, WBS
Scope Management Plan, WBS, WBS Dictionary
Project scope statement, WBS, WBS Dictionary
Project scope statement, Scope Management Plan, WBS
Q. What tool or technique would a project manager use to control scope?
answer choices
Variance analysis
Inspection
Expert judgment
Product analysis
Q. Which of the following individuals in most crucial in validating scope?
answer choices
Program manager
Project manager
Project sponsor or customer
Quality assurance manager
Q. The Scope Baseline is:
answer choices
the original description of the project's end results
a summary description of the project's original content and end product, including basic budget and timeline data
the original project budget and schedule
the project charter
Q. Which of the following is not used as an input for the Validate Scope process?
answer choices
Scope Baseline
Verified Deliverables
Project Management Plan
Work Performance Data
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Q. What is the correct order of the Scope Management processes?
answer choices
Define Scope, Plan Scope, Verify Scope, Create WBS
Collect Requirements, Define Scope, Create WBS, Verify Scope
Plan Scope, Define Scope, Verify Scope, Create WBS
Scope Planning, Collect Requirements, Scope Definition, Create WBS
Q. Which of the following is a tool and technique used in controlling scope of a project?
answer choices
Variance Analysis
WBS
Scope Baseline
Project Charter
. Which one of the following estimating techniques uses mathematical models based on historical records from other projects and can produce higher levels of accuracy?
answer choices
One-point estimating
Analogous estimating
Parametric estimating
Three-points estimating
While working with your team members on activity sequencing, a team member
identifies that even though a series of activities are planned to be completed in a specific sequence, they can be performed in parallel. What type of activity sequencing method may be utilized in this situation?
answer choices
Critical path
Resource leveling method
Monte Carlo simulation
Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
Which one of the following analysis methods usually uses Monte Carlo simulation to simulate the outcome of a project by making use of three-point estimates (Optimistic, Pessimistic, Most Likely) for each activity, a huge number
of simulated scheduling possibilities, or a few selected scenarios that are most likely, and the network diagram
answer choices
Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
What-if scenario analysis
Critical chain method
Resource leveling
While reviewing your project resource histogram, you notice several peaks and valleys, as resources are not evenly distributed in your project. In order to evenly utilize resources as much as possible, you decide to move some activities from the week when you are using a lot of resources to the week when you are hardly using any. Which technique are you using in this case?
answer choices
Resource leveling
Overtime
Schedule compression
Schedule control
You are the project manager overseeing the implementation of a new computer
infrastructure at the local hospital. Your sponsor has informed you that all the existing applications must work in the new infrastructure, and the project should
be completed in three months. These are examples of:
answer choices
A lag
A lead
An estimation
A constraint
A project manager is managing a web-based application project to automate the accounting processes of his organization. The project has an estimated budget of $120,000 and a duration of nine months. While reviewing the project, the project manager notices that activities were scheduled in sequential order but coding work was initiated twelve days earlier than planned. What type of relationship represents the start of the coding work to the completion of the design work?
answer choices
Finish-to-start relationship with a twelve-day lag
Finish-to-start relationship with a twelve-day lead
Start-to-finish with a twelve-day lag
Start-to-finish with a twelve-day lead
teve is the project manager for a construction project to convert an old nursing home into a new multistory office complex. The architectural design and site surveys are completed, and Steve is now waiting for the clearance and permit from the city to start the construction. This is an example of which kind of dependency?
answer choices
Mandatory dependency
Internal dependency
External dependency
Discretionary dependency
our IT project has ten team members, and recently you have hired three more database developers. You are using a time- phased graphical display of activity
start dates, end dates, and durations for tracking progress and reporting to the team. Which chart are you using?
answer choices
Milestone Chart
Work breakdown Structure
Network Diagram
Gantt Chart
Steve has just been assigned as a project manager for a newly approved software development project. The sponsor is interested in knowing a high-
level estimation on the total duration of the project and asks Steve to send him the information by the end of the day. What kind of estimate should Steve use in this kind of situation?
answer choices
An analogous estimate
A heuristic estimate
A three-point estimate
A bottom-up estimate
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You have recently been assigned as a program manager to implement an ERP solution in your organization. Initially, the team will only work on five key modules in the first phase of the project. The second phase of the project has not been approved yet. You have estimated that three of the modules will take ten days each, and the remaining two will be completed in fifteen days each. It is not possible to work on these modules in parallel. What would be the approximate duration for the first phase of your project?
answer choices
Fifty-five to sixty-five days
Fifty days
Ten days
Ninety days
Q. Which of the following is FALSE about analogous estimating?
answer choices
It measures the project parameters such as budget, duration, size, complexity, and duration based on the parameters of a previous similar project and historical information.
It is usually done during the early phase of the project when not much information is available
It uses a bottom-up approach
It usually is the overall project estimate given to the project manager from
management or the sponsor
You recently took over a project from another project manager. While reviewing the network diagram, you find that there are four critical paths and three near-
critical paths. What can you conclude about the project?
answer choices
The project will likely be completed on time and within budget
The project is at high risk
The project will require more people and additional budget
The project should be terminated.
You are overseeing a project to implement a web-based traffic monitoring system. You have requested three programmers, three database developers,
and two testers; senior management only approved five team members for your project. Which one of the following may you use to produce a resource-
limited schedule by letting the schedule slip and cost increase in order to deal with a limited amount of resources, resource availability, and other resource constraints?
answer choices
Resource Leveling
Fast-Tracking
Crashing
Critical Path Method
Your IT project is progressing well and is on schedule when a vendor sends you an e-mail stating that the equipment delivery will be delayed by a week due
to severe snow storm on the East Coast. Which of the documents would best capture the impact of the delay on the project schedule?
answer choices
Risk Register
Issue Log
Network Diagram
Work Breakdown Structure
Which one of the following takes the progressive elaboration approach and plans the work in the near term in detail and future work in a higher level?
answer choices
Scope definition
Rolling wave planning
Decomposition
SWOT analysis