PMP Mock Exams Set1
PMP Mock Exams Set1
PMP Mock Exams Set1
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Hint: Distance isn't among the criteria for interpreting a message received
(7) How much time does the typical project manager spend communicating both
formally and informally?
1. 40-60%
2. 50-70%
3. 60-80%
4. 75-90%
Answer: D
Hint: with and among all the stakeholders including sponsor, customers, vendors,
project team, PMO and upper management.
(8) Group brainstorming encourages all of the following except:
1. Team building A project manager facilitates communication
2. Analysis of alternatives
3. Convergent thinking
4. Uninhibited verbalization
Answer: C
Hint: The objective of Brainstorming is to generate diverse ideas.
(9) The critical element in a project's communication system is the:
1. Progress report
2. Project directive
3. Project manager
4. Customer
Answer: C
Hint: A project manager facilitates all project-related communication
(10) System integration consists of:
1. Assuring that the pieces of a project come together at the right time
2. Planning for contingencies that may occur throughout the life cycle of the
project
3. The pieces of the project function as an integration unit
4. a and c
Answer: D
Hint: Integration means bringing together of the components.
(11) Performance reviews are held to:
1. Correct the project manager's mistakes.
2. Provide for answers for upper levels of management
3. To assess project status or progress
4. To apprise the project costs and cost trends of the project
Answer: C
Hint: Definition of Performance reviews, Page 549, PMBOK 5
(12) A complex project will fit best in what type of organization?
1. Functional
2. Cross-functional
3. Matrix
4. Balanced
Answer:C
Hint: A matrix organization is best for complex projects because of the mix of
functional expertise and project management focus.
(13) Which of the following could be an appropriate WBS code for a work package at
the fourth level in a WBS where the top level code is 1.0?
1. 1.4
2. 1.1.1.1
3. 1.2.3.4
4. a and c
5. b and c
Answer:E
Hint: Both B and C follow the correct format
(14) Which of the following Project Scope Management processes involves subdividing
the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components?
Answer:D
Hint: PMBOK 5, Project Management Process Groups
(29) ___________ must be measured regularly to identify variances from the plan.
1. Stakeholder requirements
2. Project performance
3. Schedule progress
4. Cost
Answer:B
Hint: Project performance must be measured at regular intervals.
(30) A project kick off meeting is usually conducted to:
1. Setup project team and announce the PM assignment
2. To draft project charter
3. Build up team spirit
4. Define project scope and develop WBS
Answer:A
Hint: A kick-off meeting gets the project team onboard and announces the manager
(31) Which of the following is not an external-unpredictable risk?
1. Changes in government regulations
2. Natural hazards
3. Unexpected environmental side effects
4. Inflation
Answer:D
Hint: Inflation rate is known and predictablen
(32) Maslow ranked Human needs from the highest to lowest:
1. Self actualization; self promotion; social; security and physiological needs
2. Self esteem; self actualization; social; security and physiological
3. Self actualization; self esteem; social; security and physiological
4. Self fulfillment; self esteem; social; security and physiological
Answer:C
Hint: Refer Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
(33) Which of the following statements concerning contract type is correct?
1. A fixed price contract contains the most risk for the buyer.
2. Cost reimbursable contracts offer sellers the highest profit potential.
3. Time and materials contracts are hybrid of cost reimbursable and fixed-price
contracts..
4. Unit price contracts are illegal in many jurisdictions.
Answer:C
Hint: PMBOK 5, Page 364 Time and Material Contracts
(34) Herzberg identified factors, which, if present, will lead to increased motivation. A
typical factor would be:
1. Good supervision
2. Job security
3. Regular promotions
4. Good salary
5. A dental plan
Answer:C
Hint: Refer to Herzberg's Two Factor Theory
(35) Your customer ask for a small change in the project, which was not budgeted in
the project. It is a small effort as compared to the total project and you need the
goodwill for a multimillion dollar on the pipeline. You will
1. Refuse to do the work
2. Agree to do the work at no charge
3. Do the work and bill him later
4. Assess the cost and schedule impact and tell them you will formalize the change
request
Answer:D
Hint: Impact of every change must be assessed and should go through change control
(36) You are responsible for ensuring that your seller's performance meets contractual
1. Get the list of the changes and estimate all of them. If the total cost is still within
the baseline, you will do it
2. Estimate the costs and send this to your customer requesting contract
modification
3. Ask the customer to file a change request
4. Sit with the customer to review the product specs and tell him/her that you have
completed the project.
Answer:C
Hint: All the change requests must be made formal
(40) The delphi Method is best suited for:
1. Decision-making
2. Cost Control
3. Overhead rate estimating
4. Team discussions
Answer:A
Hint: It can be used to vote for a decision.
(41) Which of the following methods is least likely to be used for explaining project
planning guidelines to the team?
1. Project Office Memo
2. Project office directive
3. Project team meeting
4. Formal project report
Answer:D
Hint: A report gives information about what happened and doesn't talk about
planning or give guidelines or directives.
(42) Projects are initiated in response of:
1. Stakeholder's pressure
2. Business needs
3. Technological obsolescence
4. All of the above
Answer:D
Hint: All those factors contribute towards project initiation.
(43) The party that needs the change resulting from the project, and who will be its
custodian on completion is the:
1. Owner
2. Sponsor
3. Customer
4. Client
Answer:A
Hint: Project owner is the custodian
(44) A document or tool which describes when and how human resources will be
brought onto and taken off the project team is called a:
1. Staffing Management Plan
2. Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM ).
3. Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS).
4. Resource Assignment Chart
Answer:A
Hint: PMBOK 5, Page 265, Staffing Management Plan
(45) In which type of organization is team building likely to be most difficult?
1. Functional
2. Projectized
3. Matrix
4. Project expediter
5. Project coordinator
Answer:C
Hint: The team members report to multiple managers in matrix organizations.
(46) A tool which links the project roles and responsibilities to the project scope
definition is called:
1. Scope Definition Matrix
Answer:B
Hint: PMBOK 5, Page 293, Sec 10.1.2.3 Communication Models
(50) The three major types of communication are:
1. Written and oral, and verbal and nonverbal.
2. Verbal, formal documentation, informal documentation.
3. Verbal, written, and graphic.
4. Verbal, written, and electronic.
Answer:A
Hint: PMBOK 5, Page 287