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Sunday, 15 January 2012

PMP Practice Exam Integration Management

1.      Which of the following is not an important aspect of configuration management :
a)      use of CCB ( change control board)
b)      establish of baseline
c)      Verify conformance to requirements
d)     tracking BCWO(Budget cost of work performed)
2.      During which of the following processes is the majority of the project budget usually spent:
a)      Initiation
b)      Planning
c)      control
d)     execution
3.      Which of the following is not an important purpose of progress measurement?
a)       Assist with feasibility analysis
b)       Determine whether project performance is on track
c)       Identify problems so corrective action can be taken
d)       Provide information to facilitate forecasting of future performance
4.      The three-step process of establishing clear objectives, measuring their achievement and adjusting performance if necessary is known as:
a)      Goal programming
b)      Management by objectives
c)      Strategic planning
d)     Analytical hierarchy process
5.      Which of the following is not a common problem of project evaluation?
a)      They can be threatening to the project team
b)      They can be disruptive and time consuming
c)      Upper management using an evaluation for political reasons
d)     The process frequently uses observers from outside the project team
6.      Your organization has the opportunity to collaborate with a foreign company to develop and market a new biomedical product for worldwide sales. You have been appointed by management to determine whether this project should be initiated. You should prepare a:
a)      Feasibility study
b)      Project charter
c)      Make-or-buy analysis
d)     Scope verification analysis

7.      Post-project evaluation should be used to:
a)      Identify and weed out poor performers
b)      Determine whether the objectives of a project are still relevant
c)      Keep the project management plan up to date
d)     Document lessons learned

8.      A periodic document covering cost, time and resource performance is called:
a)      A status report
b)      An engineering change proposal (ECP)
c)      Mid-project evaluation
d)     The project charter

9.      Project management plans are usually developed by:
a)      The project manager
b)      The project team
c)      Engineering
d)     Marketing

10.  Which of the following is not a common project selection mechanism?
a)      Peer review
b)      Scoring model
c)      System requirements review
d)     Benefit-cost analysis

11.  Your team has completed the project management plan. The plan should be distributed to:
a)      The project team and all project stakeholders
b)      The project and the customer
c)      The project team
d)     People designated by the communications management plan

12.  Your project has been officially authorized though the signing of a written project charter. From an integration management perspective, your step should be to _____________.
a)      Assemble the key members of your project team
b)      Develop a project management plan
c)      Direct and manage execution of the project
d)     Manage any changes suggested by key stakeholders

13.  The project manage has just received a change from the customer that doesn’t affect the project schedule and is easy to complete, preventive actions and defect repairs?
a)      Make the change as soon as possible
b)      Inform the project sponsor and ask for permission
c)      Go to the change control board
d)     Evaluate the effect on the triple constraint

14.  During the [process to monitor and control the project, which outputs tracks any recommendations for corrective actions, preventive actions and defect repairs?
a)      Project management plan updates
b)      Project document updates
c)      Change management plan
d)     Expert judgment

15.  Approved changes should be reflected in the:
a)      Project management plan
b)      Production readiness reviews
c)      Change management plan
d)     Quality assurance plan

16.  Integrated change control:
a)      Is concerned entirely with managing actual changes when they occur
b)      Uses change requests that are not legal unless written
c)      Uses the project management plan as a baseline against which changes is controlled
d)     Has no relationship to the lessons learned process

17.  The tools of develop project charter include:
a)      expert judgment
b)      contract and statement of work
c)      expert judgment and constraints
d)     project management methodology and expert judgment

18.  A charter is a key document in the approval process for any project. Which statements about project charters are true?
A Project charter ____________.
I.                    Authorizes the project and gives the PM the authority to acquire and expend resources
II.                  Identifies work packages and includes resource estimates
III.                Identifies the business need and project objectives
IV.                Provides a definitive cost estimate for the project or phase
a)      i, ii, and iii
b)      i, iii, and iv
c)      I and iii
d)     none of the above statements are true

19.  Change control systems sometimes permit automatic approval or approval without prior review tot for types of changes. An example would be:
a)      the need to incorporate a necessary design feature
b)      the result of an emergency
c)      a change suggested by the project sponsor
d)     a change identified by the lead engineer

20.  Which statement about integrated change control is not true?
a)      The integrity of the performance baseline must be maintained
b)      The effect of changes across all knowledge areas must be coordinated
c)      Change requests is an output of integrated change control
d)     Approved changes often result in updates to the project management plan

21.  Activities such as team building, accomplishing work packages, developing the prolect team, and quality assurance typically occur during which phase of the project life cycle?
a)      initiating
b)      executing
c)      controlling
d)     closing

22.  Project variances identify deviations from the project management plan. A variance is most significant if it:
a)      requires corrective action
b)      jeopardizes project objectives
c)      is identified as a project risk
d)     becomes a lesson learned i,

23.  A work authorization system is a:
a)      work breakdown structure
b)      formal procedure for sanctioning work so it is done in the and at the right time
c)      method to assign responsibility for specific tasks to team
d)     system to measure work completed versus work planned

24.  The technique known as pair wise comparisons is useful for:
a)      choosing prospective members of the project team
b)      identifying potential project constraints
c)      selecting projects
d)     narrowing down the project scope

25.  Project selection using constrained optimization includes:
a)      integer programming
b)      pair wise comparisons
c)      scoring models
d)     peer reviews

26.  You are the project manager for a major renovation of the processes for the ecological disposal of turkey by-products in a well-known city in central Texas. you have been on-site for development and testing for six months, the local drinking water smells and tastes "suspicious", and you have been ready to go home for about five and a half months. Testing is almost complete when your nemesis, Annabeth Tyson, suggests a significant change to the process. The change would probably delay project completion by at least one month. Your first step should be:
a)      take the matter to the project sponsor who you know does not wish to incorporate any more changes
b)      ask your primary customer contact what she thinks
c)      suggest that members of your team take Annabeth out for a drink and try to talk her out of the change
d)     refer the request to the change committee and assess the potential impact

27.  Which of the following is not accurate with regards to a project change control system?
a)      A change control board should be established
b)      Provisions to handle emergency changes should be established
c)      A change control system should establish the basic requirements for the  project
d)     A change control system should include paperwork, tracking, and approval procedures

28.  Your PMO recently indicated to all project managers that project closure activities within the company were being performed inconsistently. The office stated that project closure should ALWAYS accomplish the following objectives: verify and document all project deliverable, coordinate and assure the formal acceptance of those deliverables, and investigate the reasons in the event that any project is terminated before its completion. The PMO also described the desired outputs of closing any project. Which of the following is one of those outputs?
a)      accepted deliverable
b)      final product, service, or result transition
c)      organizational process assets
d)     work performance information

29.  Historical records are best used for:
a)      developing the project charter
b)      identifying and assigning the project manager
c)      developing the quality assurance system
d)     estimating costs and schedules

30.  You have never managed a project before and have just been assigned to plan a new project. Under the circumstances, it would be best to rely on order to improve your chances of success.
a)      your training
b)      historical records
c)      responsibility charts
d)     your intuition

31.  Project management would apply the least to which of the following situations?
a)      when a specific deliverable must be produced by a given deadline
b)      when a team must provide a cross-functional effort to produce a deliverable
c)      when the work is unique
d)     when the work is familiar and repetitive

32.  As applied to projects, temporary means,
a)      doing something that has not been done before
b)      the project is relatively short in duration
c)      the project has a definite beginning and end
d)     that uncertainty will be a problem

33.  Rolling wave planning involves progressive detailing of the work that must be done
a)      the current Phase of the Project
b)      subsequent phases of the project
c)      the current phase and subsequent phases of the project
d)     all phases of the Project

34.  Which statement about configuration management and change control is true?
a)      configuration management is a subset of change control
b)      the chairperson of the CCB is usually the project sponsor
c)      the CCB audits project results to verify conformance to requirements
d)     configuration management identifies characteristics of the product and establishes baselines

35.  Which of the following is not part of stakeholder management?
a)      identify the stakeholders
b)      determine stakeholder's needs and expectations
c)      provide "extras" for stakeholders
d)     manage stakeholder's expectations

36.  In which phase of a project are the project scope and objectives determined?
a)      concept
b)      planning
c)      executing
d)     closing

37.  In which phase of a project are feasibility studies performed?
a)      concept
b)      planning
c)      executing
d)     closing

38.  Integrated change control recognizes that projects always evolve and change. A system that accommodates but controls these changes must exist, i.e., a, changes must be managed using a consistent process. Change control must also______.
a)      Provide effective communication so that stakeholders are aware of ail
b)      allow baselines to remain flexible
c)      allow informal changes to be accommodated
d)     Operate with one change contort board

39.  One of the initiating processes for projects, charter is a written document that authorizes a new project. Which of the following statements about the project charter is true?
                                                                          i.      The charter leads to the assignment of a project manager; the PM should never be assigned later than the start of project execution.
                                                                        ii.      The charter may be signed by the project manager
                                                                      iii.      The charter is usually developed and distributed as part of the planning phase.
                                                                      iv.      Expert judgment is an input to developing the project charter
a)       I and ii
b)       ii and iii
c)       i and iv
d)       None of the above statements are true

40.  Project management processes are organized into five process groups. They are the fundamental building blocks for how to conduct project management. Which of the following statements about process groups is incorrect?
a)      The process groups occur in all phases of a project.
b)      One of the process groups is directing.
c)      One of the process groups is monitoring and controlling.
d)     Process groups may be iterative in that feedback may cause certain process groups, or portions thereof, to be repeated-

41.  The matrix organizational structure:
a)      Is used to manage multiple projects simultaneously when the organization does not have the resources to staff each project on a full-time basis
b)      Ensures less conflict when compared to other organizational structures
c)      Is used when an organization decides to undertake a single, large project
d)     Allows a stronger focus on cost and schedule objectives than other organizational structures

42.  In which organizational approach is the PM likely to have the most authority?
a)      Expediter
b)      Coordinator
c)      Strong matrix
d)     Proselytized

43.  You have just been assigned as project manager for the development of a new pharmaceutical product. Which organizational structure would make managing the human resources the most difficult?
a)      functional
b)      weak matrix
c)      strong matrix
d)     projectized

44.  As a new project manager, Susan has been assigned to a project in a matrix organization. She can expect communication to be:
a)      simple
b)      complex
c)      highly automated
d)     horizontal

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