PMP Exam Set A – Q71

You are in the Validate Scope process of your electronic goods manufacturing project. While reviewing some products, you have noticed that the tolerance for one product is 0.01% less than what was listed in the requirements documentation. This deviation may not be a problem for the customers and it may not negatively impact the operations. What is your best immediate action in such a situation?

A. Notify the customers about thedeviation
B. Change the project management plan to allow for small deviation
C. Reject all products and restart the project
D. Discuss with your team about the quality testing

A. Notify the customers about thedeviation

PMP Exam Set A – Q70

As part of the Define Scope process, a project manager documented the specific project assumptions associated with the project scope in the project scope statement. While reviewing this document, an experienced project manager pointed out that the project manager should also document:

A. The date on which the assumption becomes invalid.
B. The assigned responsibility for each of the assumptions.
C. The potential impact of the assumptions if they proved to be false.
D. An Assumption Management Plan.

C. The potential impact of the assumptions if they proved to be false.

PMP Exam Set A – Q69

What is the traditional way to display a reporting structure among project team members?

A. Text-oriented role description
B. Flowchart
C. Hierarchical-type charts
D. Matrix based responsibility chart

C. Hierarchical-type charts

PMP Exam Set A – Q67

A Project manager estimates the work to be accomplished in the near term in detail, at a low level of the Work Breakdown structure (WBS); while he estimates work far in the future as WBS components, that are at a relatively high level of the WBS. What is this technique called?

A. Decomposition
B. Rolling wave planning
C. Scope Creep
D. Earned value planning

B. Rolling wave planning

PMP Exam Set A – Q66

Your company has temporarily assigned you to serve as a project manager at a company location outside your home country. While meeting with a vendor your first day on the job, you are presented with a gift. The corporate policy at the headquarters in your home country prohibits employees from accepting these types of gifts. However, as you are new to this location, you believe- but are not sure-that the local policy, as well as local custom may differ. How should you respond?

A. Provide a gift of similar value to the vendor at your next meeting.
B. Accept the gift but do not tell anyone.
C. Respectfully tell the vendor you are not sure of corporate policy, and will need to ask your management before you can accept gifts of any size.
D. Accept the gift this time, but ask your manager about the local policy afterwards.

C. Respectfully tell the vendor you are not sure of corporate policy, and will need to ask your management before you can accept gifts of any size.

PMP Exam Set A – Q65

A large network hardware upgrade project was scheduled to take place over a weekend. During the course of the implementation, several previously unidentified dependencies for additional materials were discovered. The project manager gave approval for the tech staff doing the implementation procure with corporate credit cards several hundred dollars worth of additional equipment required to complete the implementation. However these additional expenses caused the project to exceed its budget. How should the project manager handle this?

A. Ask the IT Director to cover those expenses from his budget.
B. Advise the staff to submit expense reports for the purchases. Because the cost is relatively small, it can be categorized as miscellaneous purchases that are not associated with the project.
C. Notify the project stakeholders immediately of the additional expenses incurred and follow project and or company procedures for budget variances.
D. Do nothing- that’s what reserves are for.

C. Notify the project stakeholders immediately of the additional expenses incurred and follow project and or company procedures for budget variances.

PMP Exam Set A – Q64

Risk identification checklists are usually developed based on historical information and knowledge accumulated from previous similar projects. Which of the following statements about risk identification checklists is wrong?

A. It is impossible to build an exhaustive checklist.
B. The lowest level of the Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) cannot be used as a risk checklist
C. Quick and simple risk checklists are the least effective ones.
D. Risk checklists should be reviewed during project closure.

B. The lowest level of the Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) cannot be used as a risk checklist

PMP Exam Set A – Q63

While developing the project schedule, you find that the completion of a successor activity depends on the completion of its predecessor activity. What is this dependency called?

A. Start-to-Finish
B. Start-to-Start
C. Finish-to-Start
D. Finish-to-Finish

D. Finish-to-Finish