PMI Review 2024 Flashcards

Who is responsible for overseeing the daily activities of a project from start to finish?

Project Manager

The project team is arguing about the start date of an important task in the project. The project sponsor intervenes and sets the start date. Which type of conflict resolution technique is the project sponsor using?

Forcing

Recent feedback from a client requires adjusting the scope of a project as well as something additional funding. Who needs to provide the approval to move forward with the changes?

Project Manager

You need to select project management approach for your team. The considerations include the team has worked on similar projects, the deliverable must comply with standards and regulations, project tasks are well defined, the project deliverable is clear. What project management approach should you choose?

Predictive

The Community Center Director hires your project team to build a playground for the families in the community. Upon completion of the playground, who is responsible for the acceptance on the project?

Your client

You are managing a project that is experiencing significant scope creep. What is the impact of the project?

The project will take additional time to complete

What is a Vendor?

An external supplier who provides goods and services to a project.

Which action signifies the formal acceptance of the final project?

Approval by the project sponsor and customer

You are an event coordinator for an upcoming party. The customer changes the party date. You know that this change will result in an increase in cost. What should you do to resolve the budget?

Determine the cost difference and discuss options with the customer

You have received a request to add a new scope item to your project and need to follow the change management process. Move the four actions in the answer area and place them in the correct order

1. Identify the change

2. Assess the change impact

3. Approve or deny the change

4. Implement the approved change

What is Project Procurement?

The purchasing of external goods and services needed to complete a project

What is the purpose of following a change management process?

To document a change in scope and any impact to the project

You are the project manager for a small construction project. You receive an update. Which stage of change management process are you beginning?

Assess the change impact

Your project team is using an agile project delivery method. In preparation for an upcoming meeting, your manager asks you to review the prioritized list of deliverables. What should you review?

WBS- Work Breakdown Structure

As a project manager, how should you encourage your team to be focuses, energized, and positive for the duration of the project?

Discover what personally motivates each team member

Which scenario demonstrates a schedule dependency?

Team members must wait to start a task until another task has completed

You are evaluating the skills needed in your project team to successfully complete a project. Which component of the project management plan are you working on?

Resource management plan

What is the primary goal of creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?

To decompose the project work into assignable work activities

As a project manager, which activity should you perform when using a predictive project management approach?

Create a detailed project plan that includes all of the project activities

You are estimating the cost of a project by using the budget from a similar project last month. Which type of budget estimation technique are you using?

Analogous historical estimation

You are one of the team members planning a small community event. The project manager assigns you the task of planning for the event at a specific location. You find a better location and you want to alert your team to the change of the location. What responsibility and authority do you have regarding your assigned task?

You need to speak with the project manager about changing the location and wait for approval

As project manager, what information do you need to include in a status update to your boss?

Project work that has been completed

What is a deliverable?

A unique output of a project

You are part of a project team that is working on developing a new app. Never suggest that you add a feature to the app. Project manager says that the feature is beyond the scope. What should you do if the product feature is out of scope?

You should add the feature to the scope statement

What is the benefit of creating a lessons learned document?

Sharing best practice approaches among the team members

What impact does gold plating have on an object?

The scope increases and the cost to the customer increases

What is a key characteristic of an adaptive project management approach?

Continuous refinement of the product based upon stakeholder feeback

Which component of the project management plan outlines the work needed to meet project objectives and deliverables?

Scope management plan

Reliance on customer input throughout the project.

Adaptive

Increased flexibility to make project adjustments

Adaptive

Completion of project according to the project management plan created at the beginning of a project

Predictive

Which project document authorizes the project manager to begin working on a project?

Project charter

Your manager explains that the project team starts every new project with a design stage where they create a design, test the sign, make updates to the design, return final design after the design stage. They create follow a detailed project plan for all the project deliverables. Which project management approach are they using?

Scrum

You have contracted an external supplier to provide a tool needed for the development phase in the project. The tool has been delivered and the project team find the tool acceptable and they are using it. Why should you now close the contract with the supplier?

To inform the procurement team that the new tool has been delivered

Project purpose

Summarizes the business case for the project

Objective

Outlines the expected end result or outcome of the project

Milestone

Defines a key point in time that means the project is progressing

What role does Quality Assurance play in the project development process?

It ensures procedures are followed to meet standards for performance

In a project, what describes work that should be included and work that should be excluded?

Scope statement

What is a Project Life Cycle?

The series of phases that a project passes through from its start to its completion

You were one of the event planners for a large town festival you are in. Reviewing a list of potential bakeries that will supply the desserts for the festival. When you review the list, you notice your favorite aunt owns one of the bakeries, but no one else on your team knows this information. According to project management ethical guidelines, what should you do?

Notify your supervisor that you aunt’s bakery is on the list

Which project characteristics suggests that a predictive project management approach should be used?

Define deliverables and deadlines

Why should you archive project documents and processes?

To keep historical record of project activities

The customer states that the packaging for the new product being developed must be easy for everyone to open. During product testing, only 60% of the people were able to open the package easily. What should the project manager do at this point?

Request a team meeting to decide on corrective action