Tag: Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1852

Of the following, which one is NOT true concerning a contract?


A. It is a legal relationship subject to remedy in the courts.
B. It can take the form of a complex document or a simple purchase order.
C. It is a mutually binding legal relationship that obligates the seller to provide specific products, services, or results and obligates the buyer to pay the seller.
D. It includes a specific contract management plan.

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
A contract management plan is not part of a contract. It is used to identify how the contract will be administered.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1851

You are working on a project that management has decided to terminate early, because the product was rendered obsolete by the introduction of new technology by a competitor. You have awarded a contract for part of the project that will be terminated, and
fortunately have a clause that enables you to terminate it for convenience at any time. This means that______________


A. Your contractual obligations are complete once you issue the termination for convenience
B. You may need to compensate the seller for seller preparations and for any completed or accepted work
C. You need to compensate the seller only for accepted work that was completed prior to the termination order
D. Specific rights and responsibilities are determined once the termination order is issued

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
Early termination of a contract is a special case of procurement closure. The rights and responsibilities of the parties are contained in a termination clause of the contract. Typically such a clause allows the buyer to terminate the whole contract or a portion of it for
cause or convenience at any time. In doing so, the buyer may need to compensate the seller for seller’s preparations and for any completed and accepted work related to the terminated part of the contract.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1850

You are managing a major international project that involves multiple performing organizations.
To establish the guiding rules for the project regarding quality, you and your project team must develop a______________


A. Improvement management plan
B. Configuration management plan
C. Quality policy
D. List of quality metrics for the project

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
The quality policy includes the overall intentions and the direction of the organization regarding quality and as formally expressed by top management. When the performing organization lacks a formal quality policy or when the project involves multiple performing
organizations, as in a joint venture, the project management team must develop a quality policy for the project as an input to its quality planning.
PMI, PMBOK Guide, 2013, 234

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1849

The plan quality management process includes all the following techniques EXCEPT______________


A. Benchmarking
B. Design of experiments
C. Process analysis
D. Control charts

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
Process analysis is used as a tool and technique in perform quality assurance. The tools and techniques used during plan quality management are the seven basic quality tools (cause-and-effect diagrams, flowcharts, check sheets, Pareto diagrams, histograms,
control charts, and scatter diagrams), cost-benefit analysis, cost of quality, benchmarking, design of experiments, statistical sampling, additional quality planning tools (brainstorming, force field analysis, nominal group technique, and quality management and
control tools, [affinity diagrams, process decision program charts interrelationship diagraphs, tree diagrams, prioritization matrices, activity network diagrams, and matrix diagrams]), and meetings.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1848

Based on a recent quality audit of your project, your organization's quality assurance department is supportive of your approach as it notes the following characteristics of quality that are being followed consistency. They include all of the follow
EXCEPT______________


A. Cost of quality
B. Customer satisfaction
C. Management responsibility
D. High-performing team

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
This high-performing team is covered in develop project team and obviously is important and necessary. However, regarding quality management other key concepts are prevention over inspection and continuous improvement.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1847

As a project manager, you recognize the importance of actively engaging key project stakeholders on a project. You have prepared an analysis of your stakeholders early in your project and classified them according to their interest, influence, and involvement in
your project.
You want to now______________


A. Focus on relationships necessary to ensure success
B. Assess stakeholder legitimacy
C. Determine the urgency that each stakeholder requires when he or she requests information about the project
D. Focus on each stakeholder's power relevant to the project

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
The project manager has limited time on a project, and his or her time should be used as efficiently and effectively as possible. Therefore, by performing a stakeholder analysis, the project manager can identify the stakeholder relationships that can be leveraged
to build coalitions and potential partnerships to enhance project success and to determine relationships that need to be influenced differently at different stages of the project or phase

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1846

Assume you are managing an international project. Your team is located in Atlanta, Georgia, US; Berlin, Germany; and Melbourne, Australia. You and your sponsor are located in Paris, France, and your customer is located in Athens, Greece. Recognizing the
different locations of the stakeholders in your project in its initial stages, a best practice to follow in terms of working toward project success is to______________


A. Determine who decides the project is a success
B. Aligning the personal inputs of different project participants with a vision focused on success
C. Establishing the project culture during the initiating stage of the project
D. Identifying basic cultural characteristics and selecting one to follow

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
Project approval criteria should be documented in the project charter. These criteria include determining what constitutes success, who decides the project is successful, and who signs of on the project.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1845

You are working on a project that needs approval from your City Council and the courts, because the project is one with significant environmental and social impacts. Although many consumer groups are advocates of this project, others are opposed to it.
Hearings are scheduled to resolve these issues and to obtain the needed permits to proceed. In preparing your human resource plan, you decide to designate a person as the court liaison, which is an example of a______________


A. Role
B. Responsibility
C. Required competency
D. Ability of the team member to make appropriate decisions

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
The human resource plan documents roles and responsibilities on the project. A role is the function assumed by or assigned to a person in the project. The court liaison is an example of such a role on a project.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1844

Change requests include a group of potential changes to a project. Types of change requests include all the following EXCEPT______________


A. Defect repairs
B. Maintenance requests
C. Corrective actions
D. Preventive actions

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
Defect repairs, corrective actions, and preventive actions are types of change requests that occur on a project. Maintenance requests typically would be outside the scope of the project itself.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1843

You completed your stakeholder analysis. How do you want to manage those stakeholders that have a high interest in your project and high power over decisions affecting your project?


A. Manage them closely
B. Keep them satisfied
C. Keep them informed
D. Monitor them occasionally

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
You must manage them closely. High-power/high-interest stakeholders who do not support your project could have a devastating effect on your project.