Peter is the project manager of an external project for a customer. The project is expected to take about a year to complete. Six months into the project, the customer informs Peter that the project needs to be scrapped. During which of the following processes would procedures be developed to handle early termination of a project?
A. Develop Project Charter
B. Close Project or Phase
C. Define Scope
D. Control Procurements
Jane is currently populating her project’s stakeholder register with the names and details of the people identified during the Identify Stakeholders process. Some of these people are not supporting the project but they can directly influence the project. Jane is adding these people to her project’s stakeholder register because?
A. These people are negative stakeholders and they have to be closely managed.
B. Although these people are not stakeholders, they have influence over the project.
C. Jane is adding them to the stakeholder register as they are potential project stakeholders.
D. Although these are not stakeholders, their names were identified during the Identify Stakeholders process.
Which of the following is not accurate about the initial phase of a project?
A. The highest uncertainty is at this stage of the project
B. The cost associated at the beginning of the project is highest
C. Stakeholders have maximum influence during this phase
D. Staffing levels are the highest at this stage
Which of the following is not an enterprise environmental factor influencing the Develop Project Management Plan process?
A. Project management body of knowledge
B. Governmental or industry standards
C. Project Management Plan template
D. Project management information system
Which of the following is not an appropriate method for dealing with a negative risk?
A. Avoid
B. Exploit
C. Transfer
D. Mitigate
Variance analysis refers to cost performance measurements used to assess the magnitude of variation in comparison to the original cost baseline. What is the trend on the percentage range of acceptable variances as the project progresses?
A. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to decrease as the project progresses.
B. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to increase as the project progresses.
C. The percentage range of acceptable variances will tend to decrease first and then increase as the project progresses beyond 50% completion.
D. The percentage range of acceptable variances remain the same as the project progresses.
Which of the following is not an example of parametric estimating?
A. Activity duration estimated based on the number of drawings multiplied by the number of labor hours per drawing.
B. Activity duration estimated based on the number of labor hours per meter for cable installation.
C. Activity duration estimated based on the square footage in construction.
D. Activity duration estimated based on the actual duration of a similar, previous project.
A project manager is planning out the availability of resources as part of the Acquire Resources process. He needs to acquire resources that report to a functional manager. What technique will he likely use to obtain these resources?
A. Pre-assignment
B. Authority
C. Negotiation
D. Coercion
In the procurement process, the seller may be viewed initially as a bidder, then as the selected source and then as the contracted supplier. The seller will typically manage the work as a project. In such an instance, which of the following is not true?
A. The Buyer becomes the customer and is thus a key project stakeholder for the seller.
B. Terms and conditions of the contract become key inputs to many of the seller’s management processes. (ex: major deliverables, key milestones, cost objectives)
C. There need not be a contractual relationship between the buyer and the seller
D. The Seller’s project management team is concerned with all the processes of project management and not just Procurement management.
Emily works for a Federal agency that manages mission critical projects. As a project manager, she is responsible for all communication needs in her data center project, which has started recently. This project involves many stakeholders, customers, external vendors and team members. Since conflicts are inevitable in such a huge project, she has decided to provide her project team the details of the issue escalation process including the names of the chain of command to escalate the issues that cannot be resolved at a lower level. Emily must use the following document to store this information:
A. The project charter
B. The communication management plan
C. The issue log
D. The project scope document