Question: What are two purposes of project closeout?

Answer Choices:
• To keep the project on schedule
• To modify scope to meet client needs
• To derive lessons learned and best practices
• To make sure the project remains within budget
• To ensure completion of the project

Answer: To derive lessons learned and best practices
To ensure completion of the project

 

Question: A project team discusses what went well and what could be improved. Which closeout process is this?

Answer Choices:
• Lessons learned review
• Team building session
• Formal acceptance of deliverables
• Releasing of project team members

Answer: Lessons learned review

 

Question: Which two scope baseline tools are completed prior to publishing the schedule baseline?

Answer Choices:
• Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
• Work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Project team directory
• Resource breakdown structure (RBS)
• Project business case
• Project scope statement

Answer: Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Project scope statement

 

Question: Which tool would a project team use to indicate the rate of resource usage per work period?

Answer Choices:
• Risk breakdown structure
• Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)
• Network diagram
• Resource histogram

Answer: Resource histogram

 

Question: Which activity is accomplished as part of the closing process of a project?

Answer Choices:
• Writing the lessons learned
• Managing the stakeholders
• Monitoring the schedule
• Finalizing the project schedule

Answer: Writing the lessons learned

 

Question: Which activity is accomplished as part of the monitoring and controlling process?

Answer Choices:
• Developing the work breakdown structure (WBS)
• Delivering the completed project to the customer
• Keeping the project activities coordinated
• Establishing the budget for subject matter experts (SMEs)

Answer: Keeping the project activities coordinated

 

Question: Which risk represents high severity and low probability?

Answer Choices:
• A thunderstorm is predicted
• Some team members have arrived late
• A customer has filed a complaint
• There has been a short circuit in the switchbox
• The accounting system has failed

Answer: The accounting system has failed

 

Question: What does a calendarized budget report generate?

Answer Choices:
• Release of resources
• Project closure
• Contract closure
• Cost flow requirements

Answer: Cost flow requirements

 

Question: Which activity is accomplished as part of the executing process of a project?

Answer Choices:
• Assessing budget performance
• Acquiring project team members
• Paying the outstanding vendor invoices
• Creating the network diagram

Answer: Acquiring project team members

 

Question: What can the contractor do to mitigate the risk of a guest getting injured?

Answer Choices:
• Purchase an Insurance policy
• Require guests to sign a non-liability form
• Replace the stairs with an elevator
• Install lighting, signs and handrails

Answer: Install lighting, signs and handrails

 

Question: What can the project manager do to avoid cost overruns from enhancements?

Answer Choices:
• Authorize overtime
• Outsource development
• Gain approval to reduce the scope
• Hire additional programmers

Answer: Gain approval to reduce the scope

 

Question: Which approach can a project manager use for developing a calendarized budget?

Answer Choices:
• Expert
• Three-point
• Bottom-up
• Top-down

Answer: Bottom-up

 

Question: What is the documentation that provides assurance that products or services have been delivered on time and as ordered?

Answer Choices:
• Procurement voucher
• Vendor invoice
• Vendor closing checklist
• Vendor account statement

Answer: Vendor invoice

 

Question: Which strategy is the wedding planner using to address the risk of rain?

Answer Choices:
• Risk Avoidance
• Risk Mitigation
• Risk Transference
• Risk Acceptance

Answer: Risk Mitigation

 

Question: The customer has validated that scope has been completed for a beta test. Which closure phase is this?

Answer Choices:
• Stage completion
• Deliverable completion
• Iteration completion
• Phase completion

Answer: Deliverable completion

 

Question: When does a negative cost variance (CV) occur in earned value management?

Answer Choices:
• When the actual cost is more than the earned value
• When cost variance is more than schedule variance
• When schedule variance is more than cost variance
• When the earned value is more than the actual cost

Answer: When the actual cost is more than the earned value