Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1722

Assume that your actual costs are $1,000; your planned value is $1,200; and your earned value is $1,500. Based on these data, what can be determined regarding your schedule variance?


A.
At -$300, the physical progress is being accomplished at a slower rate than is planned, indicating an unfavorable situation.
B. At +$300, the situation is favorable, as physical progress is being accomplished ahead of your plan.
C. At +$500, the situation is favorable, as physical progress is being accomplished at a lower cost than was forecasted.
D. At -$300, you have a behind-schedule condition, and your critical path has slipped.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
Schedule variance is calculated as EV -PV, or $1,500 -$1,200 = +$300. Because the SV is positive, physical progress is being accomplished at a faster rate than planned.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1721

The key management skills required during the adjourning stage of team development include all but which one of the following?


A.
Evaluating
B. Reviewing
C. Celebrating
D. Improving

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
During the adjourning stage of team development, the emphasis is on tasks and relationships that promote closure and celebration. There is recognition and satisfaction as the theme is moving on and separation. Management skills involve evaluating, reviewing,
and improving, while leadership qualities are celebrating and bringing closure.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1720

Although your company's project life cycle does not mandate when a project review should be conducted, you believe it is important to review performance at the conclusion of each phase. The objective of such a review is to______________


A.
Determine how many resources are required to complete the project according to the project baseline
B. Adjust the schedule and cost baselines based on past performance
C. Obtain customer acceptance of project deliverables
D. Determine whether the project should continue to the next phase

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
The review at the end of a project phase is called a phase-end review. The purpose of this review is to determine whether the project should continue to the next phase for detecting and correcting errors while they are still manageable and for ensuring that the
project remains focused on the business need it was undertaken to address.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1719

An approach to provide insight into the health of the project and to identify any areas that require special attention is to______________


A.
Conduct periodic status reviews
B. Prepare regular status and progress reports
C. Prepare forecasts of the project's future
D. Continuously monitor the project

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
The monitor and control project work process is performed throughout the project and includes collecting, measuring, and disseminating performance information and assessing measurements and trends to effect process improvement. Continuous monitoring is
important because it provides insight into the project’s health, highlighting areas requiring special attention.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1718

Tools and techniques used to perform quality assurance include______________


A.
Tools from control quality and plan quality management
B. Tools from performance reporting
C. Variance analysis
D. Direct and manage project execution

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
The tools used from plan quality management and control quality are used in perform quality assurance. The perform quality assurance process also uses affinity diagrams, process decision program charts, interrelationship digraphs, tree diagrams, prioritization
matrices, activity network diagrams, matrix diagrams, quality audits, and process analysis.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1717

Although there are various tools and techniques to consider as you collect requirements on your project, one approach that supports the concept of progressive elaboration is______________


A.
Idea/mind mapping
B. Affinity diagrams
C. Prototypes
D. Joint Application Design sessions

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
Prototypes are used to obtain early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before it is built. Stakeholders then can experiment with this model rather than discussing abstract representations of requirements. This
approach supports progressive elaboration, because it is used in iterative cycles of mock-up creation, user experimentation, feedback generation, and prototype revision.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1716

The project scope baseline should be used in the identify risks process because it______________


A.
Identifies project assumptions
B. Identifies all work that must be done; therefore, it includes all risks on the project
C. Helps organize all work that must be done on the project
D. Contains information on risks from prior projects

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
Project assumptions, which should be enumerated in the project scope baseline in the scope statement, are areas of uncertainty, and therefore, potential causes of project risk.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1715

You are in the process of performing quality assurance on your product and find that some requirements are not as complete as they should be, which causes rework and adds costs to your overall project. The term for all costs incurred over the life of the product
by investing in appraising and inspecting the product for conformance and nonconformance to requirements is called______________


A.
Life-cycle costs
B. Expected value
C. Cost of conformance
D. Cost of quality

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
Cost of quality involves both the cost of conformance and the cost of non-conformance. Examples of the cost of conformance are divided into two categories prevention costs and appraisal cots (includes inspections). Costs of non-conformance include internal
failure costs and external failure costs.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1714

Consider a company that sells products to consumers: as one product begins the deterioration and death phases of its life cycle (or the divestment phase of a system), new products or projects must be established. This means that______________


A.
The company requires a continuous stream of projects to survive
B. The company is not at a high level of maturity
C. The company is in a period of overall decline
D. The company definitely lacks a balanced portfolio

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
Organizations that rely on products for their revenue must constantly be introducing new products into the marketplace as old products are removed. Ideally, this should be an overlapping process to maintain balanced or increasing revenue over time. The closure
phase evaluates the efforts of the total system and serves as input to the conceptual phase for new projects and systems. It also has an impact on other ongoing projects with regard to identifying priorities.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1713

All of the following statements concerning validate scope and control quality are true EXCEPT______________


A.
The processes can be performed in parallel
B. Both processes use inspection as a tool and technique
C. Validate scope is concerned with the acceptance of deliverables, and control quality is concerned with meeting quality requirements for the deliverables
D. Validate scope verification typically precedes control quality

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
Validate scope focuses on accepting project deliverables, and to be accepted, they must meet the requirements. Control quality is one way to ensure that the requirements have been met, which is why control quality typically is done before validate scope.