Domain 1 Practice Qs

Ram is a new project manager leading the development of a new inventory management system. He just completed project management training and plans to follow a step-by-step planning process. Which sequence represents the correct project planning process?

Scope, Schedule, Cost

The project team is reviewing the project charter and is creating a work breakdown structure (WBS). They subdivided the project scope into smaller and more manageable parts. Which process are they performing?

Decomposition - is defined as dividing and subdividing the project scope into smaller and more manageable parts.

A work breakdown structure is organized as follows:

Level 1 - 1 activity

Level 2- 4 activities

Level3-18activities

The project team is preparing to create a project network diagram. How many activities should be represented in the network diagram?

18

Only Level 3 activities are represented in a project network diagram.

The project has entered the executing process group. The team performs periodic audits to ensure the project is executed using prescribed processes and meeting the mandatory standards. The primary objective is to avoid problems. Which process is being performed?

Quality assurance - uses audits to ensure the project is executed using the prescribed processes and meeting the mandatory standards.

Risk metalanguage is a common method to document a risk. What is the correct risk metalanguage sequence?

Cause, Event, Impact

Risk metalanguage uses a cause-event-impact structure to define a risk.

The project management team wants to ensure they are following best practices while planning the communication management of the project. What two areas must be included in a project communications management plan? (2 Choices)

1. The communications medium is defined in a project communications management plan.

2. Owner

Each communication item is assigned an owner who manages the item.

A number of deliverables for a project are completed: Work performance reports are used to inform the stakeholders of progress and monitor scope, schedule, cost, and risks. Who is accountable for ensuring work performance reports meet the project's requirements?

The project manager is responsible for ensuring that the status reports meet the organization's requirements.

The team is reviewing the standard change management form they will use to manage the project. The stakeholder requesting the change is responsible for which sections of the report?

The requestor provides the proposed change and the reason for the change.

The project team is trying to find the optimal solution to respond to a critical management directive. There are two solutions, both of which are feasible. This solution impacts four different groups. The team has decided that the largest group most impacted by the final solution should make the decision. Which voting method was used?

Plurality

Plurality gives voice to the largest group.

A project manager appreciates the value of lessons learned. The organization has set up a SharePoint site where all project managers file lessons learned reports after completing each project. Which method is used to document the lessons learned?

Lessons Learned Register

All project lessons learned reports are filed in an Enterprise Lessons Learned register that all stakeholders have access to.

The team is preparing to participate in a retrospective. Who facilitates a retrospective, and when is it required?

Scrum Masters facilitate retrospectives at the end of a Scrum or Agile project.

A Project Management Office is involved in selecting initiatives that best enable the achievement of key organizational goals. A final report will be published and distributed to stakeholders in the next week. What is the organization engaged in?

Portfolio Management

Portfolio management consists of selecting initiatives that best achieve key organizational goals.

The Project Management Office (PMO) is reviewing project work for the next month. They hope to complete the initial project manager assignments by next week. Which two projects would be an appropriate assignment to a project manager? ( Select 2)

1. Simplify the accounts receivable process.

Projects are temporary, unique, and have distinct start and end dates. Simplifying an accounts receivable process fulfills this definition.

2. Add functionality to a business app

Projects are temporary, unique, and have distinct start and end dates. Adding functionality to a business application fulfills this definition.

A project coordinator discusses various life cycles and systems. Introduction, growth, maturity, and decline/retirement are phases of which system?

The product life cycle phases are introduction, growth, maturity, and decline/retirement.

The project manager received a newly approved project charter from the project initiator. They want to review the artifacts that led to the creation of the project charter. Which documents should the project manager review?

A business case and benefits management plan are referred to as business documents. Agreements include contracts, memorandums of agreements, service-level agreements, and so on.

Meetings are an important means of engaging the project team and stakeholders. During the course of a project, many meetings are required to achieve the project objectives successfully. Which meetings are likely to be scheduled or organized by the project manager?

Bidder conference and project kick-off

A bidder conference and project kick-off meeting will be planned and managed to support a predictive project.

The project team is documenting the attributes of each work package to review the overall project scope and ensure that all work packages can be successfully completed. Which document is being created?

WBS Dictionary

The WBS Dictionary breaks down the WBS into tasks and attributes.

Stakeholder identification and engagement is a critical project management activity. What is true about the Identify Stakeholders process of project management?

Occurs in Project Initiating / Accomplished after signing project charter

The stakeholder register is completed in the initiating process group. It is finalized once the project charter is signed.

A project manager uses the salience model to classify and manage the stakeholders listed in the stakeholder register. Which three characteristics are considered in this model?

The salience model categorizes stakeholders by power, urgency, and legitimacy.

Project management is a critical competency that can make or break an organization. Projects add value to an organization in a number of pertinent ways. In what two ways can a project add value? (Select 2)

1. Sustained benefits enabled by previous programs, projects or business operations

2. Create positive social and environmental conditions.

There are several potential events that can occur on an IT security upgrade project that may impact the project negatively or positively. The project team is creating a central document for the entire project risk management process that will be continually updated as the project progresses. What document is the team creating?

Risk Management Plan

A top project in the LND InC: is completing the renovation of the seventh floor of an office complex to accommodate an additional server farm and IT personnel to manage it. The team worked to an accelerated schedule and completed the Performance Measurement Baseline. What components are included as part of the Performance Measurement Baseline?

The performance measurement baseline includes the scope, schedule, and cost baselines.

Two project team members discuss the difference between management and leadership. Which project management responsibilities fall under management responsibilities?

Maintain, rely on control, and focusing on the bottom line are management responsibilities. (Develop, inspire trust, and focus on the horizon are leadership responsibilities.)

A project manager is consistently focusing on the growth, learning, development, autonomy, and well-being of others. They focus on relationships, community, and collaboration. What leadership style is this project manager displaying?

Servant leadership includes focusing on the growth, learning, development, autonomy, and well-being of others.

A project manager is acknowledged in the organization as an influential leader. Which two behaviors is this project manager likely to display? (Select 2)

1. Innovate

A leader asks "what and why," not "how and when." Leaders also innovate rather than manage.

2. Ask what and why

A leader asks "what and why," not "how and when." Leaders also innovate rather than manage.

A project team is scattered throughout North America and Europe. It is not a co-located team and must rely on virtual communication to be successful. Which two tools can it use to improve the effectiveness of communication? (Select 2)

1. Video conferencing

2. Instant messaging