Pmp Exam Practice Test - 1A Project Integration Management

You work for a software development company that has followed the waterfall development model for more than 20 years. Lately, a number of customers have complained that your company is taking too long to complete its projects. You attended a class on agile development methods and believe that if the company used the agile approach, it could provide products to clients in a shorter time period. However, it would be a major culture change to switch from the waterfall methodology to the agile approach and to train staff members in this new approach. You mentioned this idea to the director of the PMO, and although she liked the idea, she would need approval from the company’s portfolio review board to move forward with it. She suggested that you document this idea in a—

a. Business need
b. Product scope description
c. Project charter
d. Business case

You are managing a large project with 20 key internal stakeholders, eight contractors, and six team leaders. You must devote attention to effective integrated change control. This means you are concerned primarily with—

a. Reviewing, approving, and controlling changes
b. Maintaining baseline integrity, integrating product and project scope, and coordinating change across knowledge areas
c. Integrating deliverables from different functional specialties on the project
d. Establishing a change control board that oversees the overall project changes

You plan to hold a series of meeting as you execute the project plan. While different attendees will attend each meeting, a best practice to follow is to:

a. Group stakeholders into categories to determine which ones should attend each meeting
b. Not mix the types of meetings on your project
c. Be sensitive to the fact that stakeholders often have very different objectives and invite them to determine the meeting’s agenda
d. Recognize that roles and responsibilities may overlap so focus on holding meetings primarily for decision making

You are the project manager in charge of developing a new shipping container for Globus Ocean Transport, which needs to withstand winds of 90 knots and swells of 30 meters. In determining the dimension of the container and the materials to be used in its fabrication, you convene a group of knowledgeable professionals to gather initial requirements, which will be included in the—

a. Project charter
b. Bill of materials
c. WBS
d. Project Statement of Work

You have assembled a core team to develop the project management plan for the next generation of fatigue fighting drugs. The science is complex, and the extended team of researchers, clinicians, and patients for trials exceeds 500 people. The content of your project management plan will be directed primarily by two factors. They are—

a. Project complexity and the capability of resources
b. Number of resources and project schedule
c. Team member experience and budget
d. Application area and complexity

When you established the change control board for your avionics project, you established specific procedures to govern its operation. The procedures require all approved changes to baselines to be reflected in the—

a. Performance measurement baseline
b. Change management plan
c. Quality assurance plan
d. Project management plan

You are beginning a new project staffed with a virtual team located across five countries. To help avoid conflict in work priorities among your team members and their functional managers, you ask the project sponsor to prepare a—

a. Memo to team members informing them that they work for you now
b. Project charter
c. Memo to the functional managers informing them that you have authority to direct their employees
d. Human resource management plan

The purpose of economic value added (EVA) is to—

a. Determine the opportunity costs associated with the project
b. Determine a non–time-dependent measure of profit or return
c. Assess the net operating profit after taxes
d. Evaluate the return on capital percent versus the cost of capital percent

Facilitation techniques are used throughout project management. Your company is embarking on a project to completely eliminate defects in its products. You are the project manager for this project, and you are developing your project charter. To assist you, which of the following facilitation techniques did you use?

a. Surveys
b. Delphi approach
c. Meeting management
d. Focus groups

The direct and manage project work process truly is important in project management. It affects many other key processes and uses inputs from others. Working with your team at its kickoff meeting, you explain the key benefit of this process is to—

a. Implement approved changes
b. Provide overall management of the project work
c. Lead and perform activities in the project management plan
d. Perform activities to accomplish project objectives

You are managing a project in an organization is characterized by with rigid rules and policies and strict supervisory controls. Your project, sponsored by your CEO who is new to the company, is to make the organization less bureaucratic and more participative. You are developing your project management plan. Given the organization as it now is set up, as you prepare your plan, you can use which of the following organizational process assets—

a. Guidelines and criteria
b. Project management body of knowledge for your industry
c. Organizational structure and culture
d. The existing infrastructure

You are fairly new to managing a project but have been a team member for many years. You are pleased you were selected to manage your company’s 2015 model line of hybrid vehicles. You are now planning your project and have been preparing the subsidiary plans as well. You realize some project documents also are required to help manage your project. An example of one that you believe will be especial helpful is the—

a. Business case
b. Key performance indicators
c. Project management information system
d. Project statement of work

You work for a telecommunications company, and when developing a project management plan for a new project, you found that you must tailor some company processes because the product is so different than those products typically produced by your company. To tailor these processes, you will follow—

a. Standardized guidelines and work instructions
b. Stakeholder risk tolerances
c. Expert judgment
d. Structure of your company

You are implementing a project management methodology for your company that requires you to establish a change control board. Which one of the following statements best describes a change control board?

a. Recommended for use on all (large and small) projects
b. Used to review, evaluate, approve, delay, or reject changes to the project
c. Managed by the project manager, who also serves as its secretary
d. Composed of key project team members

An automated tool, project records, performance indicators, data bases, and financials are examples of items in—

a. Organizational process assets
b. Project management information systems
c. Project management planning approaches
d. The tools and techniques for project plan development

You realize that projects represent change, and on your projects, you always seem to have a number of change requests to consider. In your current project to manage the safety of the nation’s cheese products and the testing methods used, you decided to prepare a formal change management plan. An often overlooked type of change request is—

a. Adding new subject matter experts to your team
b. Updates
c. Work performance information
d. Enhancing the reviews performed by your project’s governance board

You have been directed to establish a change control system for your company, but must convince your colleagues to use it. To be effective, the change control system must include—

a. Procedures that define how project documents may be changed
b. Specific change requests expected on the project and plans to respond to each one
c. Performance reports that forecast project changes
d. A description of the functional and physical characteristics of an item or system

You are working on the next generation of software for mobile phones for your telecommunications company. While time to market is critical, you know from your work on other projects that management reviews can be helpful and plan to use them on your project. You are documenting them as part of your—

a. Governance plan
b. Change management plan
c. Performance reviews
d. Project management plan

Your cost control specialist has developed a budget plan for your project to add a second surgical center to the Children’s Hospital. As you analyze cash flow requirements, you notice that cash flow activity is greatest in the closing phase. You find this unusual because on most projects the largest portion of the budget spent during—

a. Initiating
b. Monitoring and Controlling
c. Controlling
d. Executing

You are project manager for a systems integration effort and need to procure the hardware components from external sources. Your subcontracts administrator has told you to prepare a product description, which is referenced in a—

a. Project statement of work
b. Contract scope statement
c. Request for proposal
d. Contract

Because your project is slated to last five years, you believe rolling wave planning is appropriate. It provides information about the work to be done—

a. Throughout all project phases
b. For successful completion of the current project phase
c. For successful completion of the current and subsequent project phases
d. In the next project phase

You want to minimize the impact of changes on your project, yet you want to ensure that change is managed when and if it occurs. This can be done through each of the following ways EXCEPT—

a. Rejecting requested changes
b. Approving changes and incorporating them into a revised baseline
c. Documenting the complete impact of requested changes
d. Ensuring that project scope changes are reflected in changes to product scope

You are managing a project to introduce a new product to the marketplace that is expected to have a very long life. In this situation, the concept of being temporary, which is part of the definition of a project,—

a. Does not apply because the project will have a lasting result
b. Does not apply to the product to be created
c. Recognizes that the project team will outlive the actual project
d. Does not apply because the project will not be short in duration

When closing a project, it is a best practice to—

a. Update the project documents
b. Prepare a sustainment plan for the project’s benefits
c. Measure product scope against the project management plan
d. Review the scope baseline

All the following are project baselines that are generally part of the project management plan EXCEPT—

a. Technical
b. Scope
c. Time
d. Cost

You are responsible for a project management training curriculum that is offered throughout the organization. In this situation, your intangible deliverables are—

a. Employees who can apply the training effectively
b. Training materials for each course
c. Certificates of completion for everyone who completes the program
d. The training curriculum as advertised in your catalog

Working on your project management training curricula project, you decided it would be beneficial to you to become an active member of the Project Management Institute as part of the objectives of your project is to ensure it is aligned with PMI®’s best practices. To complement PMI®’s Work Breakdown Structure Practice Standard, you learned PMI® was requesting volunteers to participate in development of a similar standard on the Scope Statement. You volunteered, and now the Standard is issued. This is an example of:

a. Improving your own competency as a project manager
b. Corrective action
c. Preventive action
d. A requirement for you to immediately update your project management plan

Ideally, a project manager should be selected and assigned at which point in the project life cycle?

a. During the initiating processes
b. During the project planning process
c. At the end of the concept phase of the project life cycle
d. Prior to the beginning of the development phase of the project life cycle

Closing a project phase should not be delayed until project completion because—

a. Useful information may be lost
b. The project manager may be reassigned
c. Project team members may be reassigned by that time
d. Sellers are anxious for payments

As you are working on your telecommunications project, even though you are using agile methods, you realize you are preparing an extensive amount of data and information. You regularly share data with your project team. Your last team meeting focused on the number of change requests and also the start and finish dates of activities in your schedule. They are examples of—

a. Key performance indicators
b. Work performance reports
c. Work performance data
d. Work performance information

Project management processes describe project work, while product-oriented management processes specify the project’s product. Therefore, a project management process and a product-oriented management process—

a. Overlap and interact throughout the project
b. Are defined by the project life cycle
c. Are concerned with describing and organizing project work
d. Are similar for each application area

The close project or phase process addresses actions and activities concerning all of the following EXCEPT—

a. Completion or exit criteria for the project or phase have been met
b. Stakeholder approval that the project has meet their requirements
c. Review of the project and/or phase information for potential future use
d. Documentation that completed deliverables have been accepted

You are a personnel management specialist recently assigned to a project team working on a team-based reward and recognition system. The other team members also work in the human resources department. The projectcharter should be issued by—

a. The project manager
b. The client
c. A sponsor
d. A member of the PMO who has jurisdiction over human resources

Your project is proceeding according to schedule. You have just learned that a new regulatory requirement will cause a change in one of the project’s performance specifications. To ensure that this change is incorporated into the project management plan, you should—

a. Call a meeting of the change control board
b. Change the WBS, project schedule, and project plan to reflect the new requirement
c. Prepare a change request
d. Immediately inform all affected stakeholders of the new approach to take on the project

Different types of project phases are used on projects, and each phase culminates in the completion of at least one deliverable. The high-level nature of these phases means they are an element of the project life cycle. Some phases start before others complete. If this approach is followed, it may result in—

a. An increase in the number of issues
b. Increasing the schedule
c. The need for a CCB
d. More rework

Assume your company is a leader in the market in production of cereal products. It has been in this market for over 50 years. You are the project manager for a new product that is a derivative from the company’s core product. As you determine a life cycle for this project, you believe you should follow one that is—

a. Incremental
b. Predictive
c. Iterative
d. Adaptive

Oftentimes when a project is terminated, senior managers will replace the project manager with an individual who is skilled in closing out projects. If this is done, the first step for the termination manager should be to—

a. Notify all relevant stakeholders of the termination
b. Complete the lessons learned report
c. Conduct an immediate review of the work packages
d. Review the status of all contracts

On your project you want to avoid bureaucracy, so you adopt an informal approach to change control. The main problem with this approach is—

a. There is no “paper trail” of change activity
b. Regular disagreements between the project manager and the functional manager will occur
c. There are misunderstandings regarding what was agreed upon by stakeholders
d. There is a lack of sound cost estimating to assess the change’s impact

Projects are supposed to succeed, not fail. However, termination is an option to consider when all but which one of the following conditions exist?

a. The customer’s strategy has changed.
b. There are new stakeholders.
c. Competition may make the project results obsolete.
d. The original purposes for the project have changed.

All projects involve some extent of change, because they involve work that is unique in some fashion. Therefore, it is important that a project management plan includes a—

a. Description of the change request process
b. Configuration management plan
c. Methodology for preventive action to avoid the need for excessive changes
d. A work authorization system