PMP 2

You recently took over the assignment for a project. The project charter has been developed. What is

an appropriate next step for you

You scheduled a kick-off meeting in order to announce the start of your project, present the plan and
develop consensus on it. Another topic will be explanation of each team member’s role. In addition,
you planned some time for discussions.
You published the agenda of the kick-off meeting some weeks ago to all invited attendees.
Now, short term before the event, you receive various cancellations by team members, who say that
they cannot join the meeting. But they will be with you when project work will start

During a meeting, a discussion came up: To which degree does your project have to be compliant to
the processes enumerated in the PMBOK® Guide? What should be the guiding principle to answer this
question

Your project team is complaining that the acceptance criteria of their work result are unclear and ask
you to provide clarification with the customer. You arrange a meeting, and several criteria are
identified.
The product acceptance criteria should now be laid down in which documents? Choose 2

During project execution you found out that work is often not performed at the right time and in the
right order. Deliverables are made by one team member that cannot be processed by another one.
This already leads to timely rework and bad morale among team members.
Which project management tool is most appropriate to deal with problems like this

Your management is applying the 10 percent solution: It has requested that you reduce the budget
for the project which you are currently initiating by 10%. What will this probably mean for your
project

While applying procurement management processes in your project, you identified the need to gain a
more objective understanding of sellers’ capabilities in order to rank proposals and develop a
negotiating sequence.
Which technique may help avoid bias and subjective decisions best

During code inspection in a major software development project, a project management team
identified frequent occurrences of critical programming errors. These errors are scattered across the
code and occur without a discernible pattern.
Which tool is most likely to help the team identify areas of error concentration in order to develop a
prioritized response strategy

The term baseline is used in both disciplines project management and configuration management.
Which statement is not true

The scope baseline includes

During human resource planning you identified that your team members are not sufficiently qualified
for their tasks. Which may be an appropriate solution to this problem

You are performing a customer project for a customer in a high-context cultural environment, while
you and your team are in a low context country. Different communication styles and contents
repeatedly led to conflicts between the organizations.
What is typical for high-context cultures

In general, processes of configuration management do not include

The ________ is a document which describes how the project management team will implement the

performing organization’s quality policy

What do you expect when you are submitting an invitation for bid to sellers

What is important for quality auditors

Your agile team is uncertain for which elements of the project what methods should be applied. A
recommendation was to follow the stages of uncertainty
Which are these stages

You are running a major project with four sub-projects. Each of the sub-project managers has

developed a risk management plan, identified many risks, analyzed them and planned for risk

response

It is now two months later. What should you not do

What is true for statistical sampling

A project team was asked by a customer to shorten the cycle time of an iterative-incremental
approach
What benefits may the customer hope to achieve

What is not true for change requests

A project manager’s PDM network schedule gets audited by a scheduling expert. The expert tells the
project manager to focus more on nodes with “path convergence”, also known as “sinks”. What is the
person referring to

The members of your project team have been assigned to your project with general availability levels
of 50%
Yesterday, they reported to you that significant variances occurred during project execution. You
have noted that the team members have been spending less than 50% of their time working on your
project. Your project schedule is about to become heavily delayed, and deadlines are in jeopardy.
What should you do

What is the meaning of the acronym CSOW

Crashing describes a technique to speed up a project by

During risk identification sessions, you and your team identified more than 150 risks for your project.
You are afraid that evaluating each of these risks quantitatively will cost you an enormous amount of
time, while not all of them are really relevant and important enough to justify such a measure. What
should you do next

During execution of a project, you observe that the performance of some of your team members is
dropping, while others are doing a consistently good job. This is endangering overall project progress.
What should you try first to bring the team as a whole back to performance

Your management announced that they want to put you on a stretch assignment. In this situation,
you should consider that

Following the cultural approach of the corporation for which you are starting to manage a project,
you are guiding your project team through the first life-cycle phase of conceptualization. Your next
step is to call for a team meeting to let ideas emerge in an unrestricted creative process. What exactly
should that look like

In configuration management, which of the following is necessary to maintain the integrity of
baselines

A representative of your customer approached you this morning referring to a part of your team that
works on customer’s premises. She complained that your team members do not fully blend with her
staff and that there are conflicts originating in different corporate cultures of your organization and
hers. She demanded that you motivate them to display more stewardship
What is she referring to? Choose 3

Which is not a point used for three-point estimation

Which of the following are not common barriers to project team building

While executing a project, you sense a slightly negative attitude in your team. Which type of
document do you now need, among others, to better understand and then be able to improve the
situation

The sales representative of your company recently contacted you. You made some estimates on
direct costs for an offer on a firm fixed-price contract. According to company policies, indirect costs
(overheads) are to be calculated as a percentage of the direct costs, the sum of both cost types
caused him to calculate a far too high price. How should you not react

A project charter is a document that

You identified a technical risk in your project and assigned a contingency for that. Planning
contingency reserves is part of which risk response strategy

Which concept of locating team members can help them best to enhance their performance as a
team

In a lawsuit between your organization and a project contractor, the term “Constructive change” is
discussed
Which statements on constructive changes are true

You are assigned as a project manager for an internal project. During cost planning and budgeting you
discovered that there are peak times of costs during the project and other times when costs are fairly
low. What could this mean for the project

You are going to take over a new project as the project manager in an enterprise unknown to you.
What should you investigate during the chartering process

An organization is considering various contract types in order to motivate sellers and to ensure
preferential treatment. What should they consider before deciding to use an award fee contract

What is least important when it comes to archiving project records

 are not necessarily used to establish the cost baseline of a project_____

You took over a customer project for your company. From the inputs available, including contract,
statement of work and project charter, you have developed a project management plan
You already presented that plan in a meeting with key stakeholders including your project sponsor
and some representatives from the customer organization. During the meeting you sensed a high
level of dissatisfaction by the customer executives, who signaled that the project might not produce
the results that their company had expected. In your understanding, all necessary actions have been
planned to meet the customer’s requirements
What should you do next

What is not true for project deliverables

Your project, performed for a customer, is coming to an end. The customer has been contractually
granted a three years warranty period for the product of the project. What should you do first

Being the project manager in a high-risk electronics project with a lot of new technologies, you
developed a risk management plan and identified risks which you documented in a risk register.
Then, the risks were analyzed and response was planned
During risk control meetings, it gets obvious that the documents you created are not very helpful.
What have you probably done wrong

Which is generally not regarded as one of the three categories of culture that managers should
master

Post-mortem analysis after scheduled finish date of a project shows a CPI of 0.8 and an SPI of 1.25.
What is a plausible explanation for that

Some colleagues told you that they are planning, executing, monitoring and controlling a project by
use of milestones only with durations between 1 and 4 weeks. What do you think

Together with your team, you applied three-point estimation on a cost item using a Beta distribution.
The estimates (in USD) were made as
 Optimistic: 15,000
 Most likely: 30,000
 Pessimistic: 75.000
What is the PERT value you would use

You are just leaving a meeting during which you have been assigned as the manager of a project to
build a sub-station that is part of a major electric power distribution system. The decision to run the
project has been made before your assignment and without your involvement. Some basic decisions
on deliverables, staffing, budgeting and on the completion date have already been made as well
What should you do first

Which is not a goal in both project management and quality management

You created a baseline of your system configuration and added several changes to that as
amendments. Meanwhile you are afraid that the big number of Deltas may cause inconsistencies and
make you unable to understand the current system configuration
What should you do

A request, demand or assertion of a contract partner for consideration, compensation or payment
under a legally binding contract, such as a disputed change, is often referred to as a

Projects may be initiated by all of the following except

During planning processes, you used Monte Carlo simulation to quantitatively assess cost and
schedule risks of your project. During risk control, you repeat the technique, and it leads to different
results. What should not be the reason for that

As a project manager you can assign any one of two team members to a highly coveted task. Both are
equally capable, but one of them is a member of your in-group. To the other one, you have far more
distance
How should you behave

For your agile product development to build a food processing plant, you need a batch of 100
identical valves which will be custom made for your project. There is a risk of deterioration of the
valves during processing; therefore you placed requirements on the quality of the raw materials for
them, which will make production very expensive
To cover the risk of costly production failure, you add more testing to the backlog. What should this
altered backlog version be referred to

?Which statements are correct
Progressive elaboration of project scope

You are managing an internationally dispersed project team. The members of your team have
different cultural backgrounds and primary languages, but all are educated and able to communicate
eloquently in English. You should nevertheless bear in mind that

When finishing a project, which factors that influence customer satisfaction the most should you be
aware of

When identifying the basis of the business need for a project all of the following can be considered
except

You are discussing with your project team to implement a “hybrid” approach
In a hybrid approach to perform a project, what will you do

You finished your project for a customer to implement a business software solution. All deliverables
have been handed over and are already in use by the company. There is a minor last payment to be
made by the customer on contract closure. You believe that it is now getting time to finally close the
contract with the customer and then administratively close down the project
You approached the customer this morning and found that they are reluctant to finally close the
contract. But you do not exactly understand why. What should you not do

At the end of an internal project, you find several key stakeholders including the sponsor reluctant to
finally accept all deliverables and then close the project. What should not be your next step in this
situation

When running a project as a project manager, what should you focus on during the executing
processes

A review of your project team member’s most recent performance reports shows a major drop in
output. Which is the best approach to raise team productivity in a project

A project customer and a contractor agreed on regular quality audits during execution by a third
party audit team, which is working on an assignment for the customer A project customer and a contractor agreed on regular quality audits during execution by a third
party audit team, which is working on an assignment for the customer.
What should the contractor have prepared for the audits

What should the contractor have prepared for the audits

Your team is complaining that requirements against which it is going to work are not sufficiently
clarified
Which are criteria that well-defined requirements should meet? Chose 305

What should you focus on when managing the stakeholders of your project

What should not be your thoughts when you are organizing documents as lessons learned

You are identifying key stakeholders for your project. Which of the following groups is least likely to
be included

You are using a phase gate approach for your project. What do you need to consider

Post mortem earned value analysis of a project showed the following data
SPI: 0.78
CPI: 1.00
What is this telling you

A project has undergone a major scope change, which increased cost and work levels. What does this
mean for earned value data

Which statement describes best the meaning of servant-leadership

As a project manager, you must demonstrate transparency regarding

Who should always issue the project charter

You are planning quality management for your project. How can a process flowchart help you

A difference between a statement of work and a scope statement is

You are the manager of a project for a company that is known to make heavy use of extrinsic
motivators in order to boost morale and team performance. What does that mean? The motivators
used

When should a time and material contract with a contractor been chosen instead of a fixed price
contract

You are the manager of a major project to develop a system of barriers to prevent a seaside city from
flooding. Together with your team you created a code of conduct stating that the change control
board must be immediately notified of gifts when the value exceeds $90. The same applies to
invitations when the value exceeds $150
Today, a contractor executive sent you an invitation for a night at an opera with a value of $95. It is a
one-time event and you tried to obtain tickets by yourself without success. The person told you that
he would so much wish to join you, but he will not be available on that day, and he could get hold of
only one ticket anyway
What do you have to do

You found that colocating team members from different cultures in one place is not possible in your
project
What should you focus on to ensure that the dispersed team works well? select 2

You are running a project to develop the production process for a future electronic component.
Evaluating some first test batches, you found out that the precision is generally quite good, but that
you have some irregular outliers in an increasing frequency. You believe that motivators in use for
workers making the batches are losing their effectiveness and complacency creeps in
According to D. Pink. which motivators are least likely to lose effectiveness

As a leader, how should you deem ethical conduct

You have recently been named as the manager of a new project under contract. The sponsor of the
project gave you the contract signed by the customer and a statement of work. He asked you to go on
with initiation. Which document should you develop next

When is passive risk acceptance an appropriate approach

You are running a project to engineer and implement a set of business processes and a software
solution for customer relationship management. The project involves a big number of performing
organizations―a major corporation and many suppliers of different sizes
During the project you observed a restraining effect of differences between the companies’
corporate cultures. This leads to different expectations on how such a project should be handled and
to frequent misunderstandings between stakeholders. Another effect is a growing degree of distrust
and skepticism
What should you try first to integrate the diverse stakeholder groups

During execution of your project you have observed that a team member is getting isolated by
other team members. Which is a wrong approach in such a situation

In an organization, project managers report directly to the head of a project management office
PMO). In this case, which statement is probably not true)

During a project, you applied a series of measurements relating to team performance and product
performance. You were warned that the act of measurement may influence the outcomes
What is this measurement pitfall referred to

The use of scarce resources must be decided upon with functional managers before it causes delays
in your project. Which is probably your most important skill right now

Which question is not appropriate for a weighting system to evaluate seller’s performance according
to weighted criteria

Which is not an example of a correctly handled contract closure procedure

You gathered a lot of knowledge on project management in your business life. What is an appropriate
use for that

Respect is

During a post-mortem meeting, discussion arises about who has to take responsibility for some major
failures. It has become obvious that the attendees of the meeting will not come to a jointly accepted
conclusion
What is not an appropriate strategy for such a situation

Understanding cultural key similarities and differences is especially important for

Your project team is on its way to finish work on the project, while you have the impression that a
staff member is already negotiating the next assignment in another project. You are afraid that the
person may come under pressure to start working on the other job before she has finished her work
for your project. Her task is very complex, and it would be hard for someone else to take up the
partial results and finish them
What action is most likely to resolve the situation

When control charts are used, outliers are

You are running a project which was budgeted based on some rough order of magnitude (ROM)
estimates with a precision of -50% /+100%. Meanwhile, with new estimates made on detail level and
some work already finished, you found out that these estimates were consistently too low and the
budget will not be sufficient to successfully run and finish the project. What should you do

Which is typically not specified in a document referred to as activity attributes

In a country with high level of violence in public, a local police officer requires a private money
transfer to ensure the safety of your team. How do you react

Which is not a type of project review meeting

You are performing integrated change control. Which of the following will not be part of what you
do

You are project manager for a strategic project with a multi-million dollars value assigned by a
company that is listed at a US stock exchange
Recent Earned Value Analysis after app. 25% completion told you that your project has a CPI of 0.76.
What should you do right now

A management point in a work breakdown structure (WBS) used to consolidate and process work
package data and forward the results to the project manager is called

You are the project manager supervising several Scrum teams that work concurrently in your project.
While you are planning the work items for your team members for the next three-months sprint,
which criticism is should you expect your team to come up with

When you perform quality assurance in your project, which technique could you typically use

The _______ can be used to assess outlays and funding requirements

Your organization has the choice between several internal projects it could run. In order to select
projects, the organization assessed their strategic importance, investment requirements, and
expected cash inflow from the projects’ products, services and results. What should the organization
assess in addition

Which of the following is not a forecasting method

Processes of configuration management commonly include all of the following except

A project manager tracks the work of team members using a network logic diagram. Which effect will
the presence of an actual finish date have on the calculation of float for the finished activity

Your project work has generally been finished and you want to commence a solid closing process for
the project. What must have been attained to begin this process

The situational leadership model as defined by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard consists of the
stages

A Pareto chart helps focusing on