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PMP Practice Exam 5You are assisting Benjamin, another project manager, to interview candidates for a resource position
on his project. While reviewing your interview notes together, you notice that he sorts the candidate's
resumes into two piles: One pile for further interviews, the other for candidates that did not meet the
requirements for the position. You also notice that he has placed several of the highly qualified
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candidates in the second pile, stating that those interviewees "did not fit the corporate profile." Upon
further review, you discover that all these candidates are of the same ethnic group. What do you do? -
✔✔Report this to the appropriate management immediately. Discrimination based on nationality is
prohibited by the PMI Code of Ethics and may also be illegal, depending on local laws. PMI requires
project managers to report discriminatory behavior to the appropriate management; not doing so is a
violation of the Code of Ethics
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A statement of work (SOW) is a narrative description of the products or services to be delivered by
the project. It usually references all of the following except: - ✔✔The statement of work (SOW) does
not usually reference the business case. The business case may contain cost sensitive information
that may not be made available to a wider audience. Note that the business case also includes the
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business need
Which one of the following tools and techniques is NOT part of the Develop Project Team process? -
✔✔Conflict management is a tool and technique used in Human Resource Management. However, it
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is associated with the Manage Project Team process, not with the Develop Project Team process.
Which of the following is not a valid instance of risk transference? - ✔✔A cost-reimbursable contract
does not transfer risk to the seller; rather, the risk is with the buyer. Risk transference involves shifting
the negative impact of a risk, along with the ownership of the response, to a third party. Risk
transference nearly always involves payment of a premium to the party taking on the risk. Examples
include performance bonds, warranties, and fixed price contracts.
You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting, where you presented the
requested changes to the employee move project. Five changes were approved but one was denied.
You are now updating the project management plan to incorporate the changes. In which project
management process would this be done? - ✔✔Making changes to the project management plan is
part of the Direct and Manage Project Work process
Two of your team members in your software development project are not performing well. The initial
assessment from your project leader indicates a lack of skills as the main reason for their poor
performance. To enable them to complete their tasks on time, you plan to improve their skills by
online training. Since you are in the execution phase of the project, you must document the training
requirements in which document? - ✔✔A human resource management plan is a part of the project
,management plan. All training needs, types of rewards, and types of disciplinary actions are
documented in the human resource plan. During execution, additional training requirements can be
added to this plan as a result of team performance assessments. Hence, in this case you must use
the human resource management plan to document the additional training requirements
As project manager, you find you are constantly dealing with conflict among your team members.
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Everyone argues over sharing available project resources, so you plan to use a conflict resolution
method to alleviate the tension among team members. What conflict resolution method is not
recognized by the Project Management Institute? - ✔✔Elaboration is not one of the five
conflict-resolving methods that are recognized and endorsed by the Project Management Institute
(PMI). The five methods recognized and endorsed by PMI include Forcing, Smoothing,
Compromising, Collaborating and Withdrawing
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You are the project manager in your organization. You have little authority over the projects you
manage, and you are primarily engaged in project coordination activities. You report to the PMO
manager while your project team reports to various functional managers. Your organization can be
best described as: - ✔✔The presence of the PMO indicates that the organization is not strictly
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functional . In a weak matrix organization, a project manager's role is that of a project coordinator or
expeditor. In a projectized organization, a project manager has high authority and complete control. In
a balanced matrix organization, the project manager does not have complete authority over the
project and funding, but the organization recognizes the need to have a dedicated project manager.
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Your are working for a project-based organization. The organization has a procedure to report minor
ethical issues and the ethics committee reviews them at the month end. Only major violations are
escalated for in-depth scrutiny. This month, a minor violation of PMI's code of ethics has been
reported by a project team member. The project manager, who's a also a member of PMI, has taken
on some of the projects activities for which he wasn't qualified. The project manager was offered an
opportunity to receive training which he refused. When the project manager is called for his
comments, he says that this rule comes under 'Aspirational standards' of PMI's code of ethics and is
not covered under 'Mandatory standards'. Has he violated the code? - ✔✔He has violated the PMI
Code. Project managers must adhere to all standards in the Code; none are optional
You are a project manager who is in charge of an important project for your company. The project is
40% complete after 3 months and has cost $350,000. The budget for the project is $950,000 and is
scheduled to last 8 months. How is the project performing? - ✔✔CPI=EV/AC. CPI =
(950000*40%)/350000 = 380000/350000 = 1.09 (under budget). SPI=EV/PV. SPI =
380000/(950000*0.375) = 380000/356,250 = 1.07 (ahead of schedule)
Stakeholder analysis is an important technique in the Identify Stakeholders process. One of the steps
involved is to identify the potential impact of each stakeholder and classify him or her appropriately.
, Which of the following is not a valid model used for this purpose? - ✔✔A tolerance model is not a
valid classification model. The other three models are valid approaches, and classify stakeholders
based on power/interest, influence/impact, or power/urgency and legitimacy as in the case of the
salience model.
You are working as a project manager for a high-yield crop development project. Data from the
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weather agency shows an unfavorable weather pattern for the next few months. As a senior project
manager, you want to assess the feasibility of the schedule under adverse conditions and provide
some insights to your team. In this way, your team can prepare some reserves and plan risk
responses if unfavorable conditions exist during execution. Which of the following techniques should
you use to assess the feasibility of the schedule? - ✔✔Modeling techniques are used to prepare a
schedule under various scenarios. These techniques help assess the feasibility of the project
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schedule if adverse conditions exist. The Monte Carlo technique employs simulation to calculate
multiple project durations, each with a different set of activity assumptions using a probability
distribution.
When a negative unplanned risk occurs in a project, a response to it would be called: - ✔✔A
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workaround is a response to a negative unplanned risk that has occurred. It differs from a
contingency plan in that a workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event
In a ship design project, a project manager is in the process of negotiating with a consulting company
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to ensure that the project receives certified and specialized consultants for creating the hull design.
The project manager wants to make certain that the consultants will be able to work until their
assignments are completed. He is using all his negotiation skills and interpersonal skills to get
competent staff on time. Based on the scenario described above, the project manager is engaged in:
- ✔✔Negotiation skills are used by project managers throughout the project. In this scenario, the
project manager is negotiating with vendors to get talented consultants in sufficient number within the
scheduled time. This process ensures the availability of scarce resources during critical phases of the
project. This effort is done during the Acquire Project Team process
An employee, working as senior project coordinator, and a member of the PMI, has requested that
performance appraisals should be shared with the employees. This is in the best interest of
transparency. He also refers to the transparency clause of the PMI code of ethics. What must you do?
- ✔✔Follow the organizational human resource policies for employee reviews.
A team member in your project is constantly providing incomplete deliverables and not performing
well. What should you do first? - ✔✔Discuss the issue with the team member in private
A manager asked to see a list of milestones in the project. This would be available as an output from
the - ✔✔The list of milestones is available as an output from the Define Activities process
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