PMP Exam Set G – Q11

You are an expatriate working in a foreign country and have been asked to offer a cash payment gift to the procurement manager at a company you are bidding on work for. How BEST should you interpret this request?

A. Agree to provide the cash payment because the procurement manager controls whether your bid is accepted.
B. Inform the procurement manager that offering such a payment would violate your professional standards.
C. Base your interpretation of the request on an understanding of the norms of the country you are in.
D. Express your anger at the request and inform the procurement manager that this would never happen in your home country.

C. Base your interpretation of the request on an understanding of the norms of the country you are in.

PMP Exam Set G – Q10

You are in the midst of a major code roll out for a new software module. However, it has come to your attention that the resources promised for the roll out are not going to be available. As the Project Manager, what is the BEST thing to do?

A. Explain the impact of the lost resources to the stakeholders
B. Replan the project without the resources
C. Have the current staff work extra hours
D. Fast Track the schedule

A. Explain the impact of the lost resources to the stakeholders

PMP Exam Set G – Q8

Which of the following may help in ensuring that certain bidders in the procurement process do not receive preferential treatment that all prospective sellers have a clear and common understanding of the procurement?

A. Use of weighted criteria
B. Use of bidder conferences
C. Use of screening techniques
D. Use of expert judgement

B. Use of bidder conferences

PMP Exam Set G – Q7 ( PMBOK 6th edition )

You have your project team members record the time they spend on different activities during the day such as: programming, electrical, HVAC, etc. This is an example of a tool and technique in what process?

A. Manage Communications
B. Direct and Manage Project Work
C. Monitor and Control Project Work
D. Manage Team

C. Monitor and Control Project Work

PMP Exam Set G – Q6

Which process group corresponds to the “do” part of the plan-do-check-act cycle?

A. Closing
B. Monitoring and Controlling
C. Planning
D. Executing

D. Executing

PMP Exam Set G – Q5

You are managing a heavy equipment manufacturing project that involves many mechanical, electrical as well as IT staff. Your team prepared a schedule network diagram using duration estimates with dependencies and constraints. Your team also calculated the critical path for the project using late and early values. Today, your project office has indicated about the non-availability of some of the resources you planned for the project. Now, you explore the possibility of modifying the schedule to account for limited resources. What is your best possible step in such a situation?

A. Recalculate critical path using the critical chain method
B. Perform resource leveling to account for limited resources
C. Use crashing or fast tracking to level resources across the project
D. Apply leads and lags to develop a viable schedule

A. Recalculate critical path using the critical chain method

PMP Exam Set G – Q3

A group of people were discussing multiple alternatives during the Collect Requirements process. One of the individuals in the group made the decision for the group. This method of reaching a group decision would be termed as:

A. One Thinking Hat
B. Dictatorship
C. Plurality
D. Autonomy

B. Dictatorship

PMP Exam Set G – Q2

Jane is managing a complex industrial process reengineering project. She has identified all of her key project stakeholders and has conducted individual interviews with them to identify other project stakeholders as well. However, Jane is still not comfortable with her project’s stakeholders list as she believes there would be more key external stakeholders still missing from the list. What can help Jane in this situation?

A. Use stakeholder register templates from the organizational process assets.
B. Conduct more meetings with the key stakeholders.
C. Jane needs to get over her fear and finalize the project stakeholder register.
D. Seek expert judgment from subject matter experts.

D. Seek expert judgment from subject matter experts.