PMP Exam Set C – Q41 ( PMBOK 6th edition )

In an underground highway construction project, the project stakeholders have suggested many changes to the project scope. As you have already defined the cost baseline in your project, you would like to revisit the baseline to see how these changes impact the overall cost of the project. So, you have started an impact analysis to determine the impact, and inform the concerned stakeholders of all approved changes and the corresponding costs. You must use the following to carry out such process:

A. Control Scope
B. Monitor Risks
C. Control Costs
D. Monitor Communications

C. Control Costs

PMP Exam Set C – Q40

Peter’s project is in execution. Peter has a monthly stakeholder update meeting set up where he presents the project’s progress and current issues to the key stakeholders. During the last stakeholder update meeting, the stakeholders requested Peter to provide bi-weekly project updates instead of monthly updates. The communication management plan has been broadly framed and it doesn’t restrict Stanley from doing bi-weekly updates. What should Peter do?

A. Start providing bi-weekly updates instead of monthly updates.
B. Update the communication management plan prior to providing the bi-weekly updates.
C. Disregard the stakeholders’ request and continue with the monthly updates.
D. Request the stakeholders to submit a change request.

A. Start providing bi-weekly updates instead of monthly updates.

PMP Exam Set C – Q39

You have been assigned as the project manager for a software development project. You are currently communicating with stakeholders and addressing their issues and expectations. Which of the following documents help carrying out this effort?

A. The Issue log, Project charter, and Configuration management system
B. The stakeholder management plan, communications management plan, and the change log
C. The Project risk register, Work performance information, and Accepted deliverables
D. Business case, change requests, and control charts

B. The stakeholder management plan, communications management plan, and the change log

PMP Exam Set C – Q38

During the Conduct Procurements process, the procuring organization found that there were significant differences in the pricing by different sellers. What is the best course of action in such a scenario?

A. Award the project to a supplier who is already on the procuring organization’s preferred supplier list.
B. Cancel the procurement activity.
C. Investigate whether the project statement of work was defective or ambiguous.
D. Award the project to the highest bidder.

C. Investigate whether the project statement of work was defective or ambiguous.

PMP Exam Set C – Q37

Emily has recently taken over a project as the project manager. The project is early in the executing phase. Although, the project scope statement was signed off by all key stakeholders, Emily finds out that some of the key stakeholders do not fully understand the project scope. Stakeholders’ continuous support is very critical for the success of the project. What must Emily do?

A. Email the copy of the scope management plan to the key project stakeholders.
B. Don’t do anything as the scope statement has already been signed by all the key project stakeholders.
C. Email the copy of the scope statement to the key project stakeholders.
D. Conduct one-to-one meeting sessions with these key stakeholders to ensure that they understand the project scope.

D. Conduct one-to-one meeting sessions with these key stakeholders to ensure that they understand the project scope.

PMP Exam Set C – Q36

A project uses rounding of activity estimates data to the nearest $100, uses staff hours as the unit of measure for resources, and has a variance threshold of 10% deviation from the baseline plan. These would be typically documented in the:

A. Cost management plan
B. Scope Statement
C. WBS
D. Project charter

A. Cost management plan

PMP Exam Set C – Q35

You are a Project Manager for a company that has a composite organization structure. The current project you are managing is coming to an end. There are a number of activities that need to be completed including releasing project resources. All of the following statements are examples or true statements related to releasing project resources in this company EXCEPT?

A. Documenting the release date for project resources in the project management plan
B. Transferring project equipment to the regular operations of the company
C. Reassigning project team members to a new project within the company
D. Transferring the documented lessons learned into the lessons learned database

D. Transferring the documented lessons learned into the lessons learned database

PMP Exam Set C – Q34

A project team is trying to solve a moderately complex problem. The have generated data using affinity diagrams. That data possess intertwined logical relationships. Which of the following tool can help the team analyze these intertwined relationships?

A. Interrelationship digraph
B. Fishbone diagram
C. Histogram
D. Tree diagram

A. Interrelationship digraph

PMP Exam Set C – Q33

You are working as a project manager for a wind-powered vehicle manufacturing project, which is in its planning phase. You carefully gathered all your requirements from your key stakeholders and prepared a system requirements specification and project requirements specification documents. While presenting your documents to the project team, a project team member who is very enthusiastic about the project started talking about the duration estimates for each activity. Which of the following statements indicate your response to your team member?

A. WBS creation and Schedule development must be done after estimating durations
B. Schedule development and Costs estimation must be done before estimating durations
C. Scope definition, WBS creation, Quality planning, and Communication planning must be done before estimating durations
D. Scope definition, WBS creation, Activity definition, and Activity sequencing must be done before estimating durations

D. Scope definition, WBS creation, Activity definition, and Activity sequencing must be done before estimating durations
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PMP Exam Set C – Q32

A project manager is giving a project update to the key stakeholders. During the meeting, he finds out that most of the stakeholders are busy checking and replying to their emails. Which of the following is the best action that could have eliminated this issue?

A. A meeting ground rule on active listening
B. Providing snacks to the stakeholders during the meeting
C. Including the company’s code of conduct in the presentation handouts
D. Asking sudden unexpected questions outside the scope of the project

A. A meeting ground rule on active listening