Tag: Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1352

Validate scope______________


A. Improves cost and schedule accuracy, particularly on projects using innovative techniques or technology
B. Is the last activity performed on a project before handoff to the customer
C. Documents the characteristics of the product or service that the project was undertaken to create
D. Differs from perform quality control in that validate scope is concerned with the acceptance-not the correctness-of the work results

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
Documentation that the customer has accepted completed deliverables is an output of validate scope.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1351

You are leading a project team to identify potential new products for your organization. One idea was rejected by management because it would not fit with the organization's core competencies. You need to recommend other products using management's
guideline as______________


A. An assumption
B. A risk
C. A specification
D. A technical requirement

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
Assumptions are factors that, for planning purposes, are considered to be true, real, or certain without proof or demonstration. They are listed in the project scope statement.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1350

Assume that you are a major subcontractor doing work for a prime contractor on a major project. Your change control system should______________


A. Be identical to that of the prime contractor
B. Follow the rigor of international configuration management standards
C. Comply with relevant contractual provisions
D. Only consider approved change requests

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
In addition to complying with any relevant contractual provisions, scope change control must be integrated with the project’s overall change control system and with any systems in place to control project and product scope.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1349

You have been appointed project manager for a new project in your organization and must prepare a project management plan. You decide to prepare a WBS to show the magnitude and complexity of the work involved. No WBS templates are available to help
you. To prepare the WBS, your first step should be to______________


A. Determine the cost and duration estimates for each project deliverable
B. Identify and analyze the deliverables and related work
C. Identify the components of each project deliverable
D. Determine the key tasks to be performed

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
Identifying and analyzing the deliverables and related work is the first step in the decomposition of a project. The deliverables should be defined in terms of how the project will be organized. For example, the major project deliverables may be used as the second
level.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1348

To assist your software development team in collecting requirements from potential users and to ensure that agreement about the stakeholders' needs exists early in the project, you decide to use a group creativity technique. Numerous techniques are available,
but you and your team choose a voting process to rank the most useful ideas for further prioritization. This approach is known as______________


A. Brainstorming
B. Nominal group technique
C. Delphi technique
D. Affinity diagram

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
The nominal group technique enhances brainstorming with a voting process, which is used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming or for prioritization.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1347

In scope control it is important to determine the cause of any unacceptable variance relative to the scope baseline. This can be done through______________


A. Root cause analysis
B. Control charts
C. Inspections
D. Project performance measurements

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
Variance analysis is a tool and technique for control scope. Project performance measurements are used to assess the magnitude of variance, to determine the cause of the variance, and to decide whether corrective or preventive action is required.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1346

Each WBS component should be assigned a unique identifier from a code of accounts to______________


A. Link the WBS to the bill of materials
B. Enable the WBS to follow a similar numbering system to that of the organization's units as part of the organizational breakdown structure
C. Sum costs, schedule, and resource information
D. Link the WBS to the project management plan

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
The key document generated from the create WBS process is the actual WBS. Each WBS component is assigned a unique identifier to provide a structure for hierarchical summation of costs, schedule, and resource information.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1345

Change is inevitable on projects. Uncontrolled changes are often referred to as______________


A. Rework
B. Scope creep
C. Configuration items
D. Emergency changes

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
Project scope creep is typically the result of uncontrolled changes. Scope control works to control the impact of any project scope changes.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1344

On the WBS, the first level of decomposition may be displayed by using all the following EXCEPT______________


A. Phases of the project life cycle
B. Subcomponents
C. Major deliverables
D. Project organizational units

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
The WBS includes all work needed to be done to complete the project. The organizational breakdown structure (OBS) includes the organizational units responsible for completing the work.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1343

Quality function deployment is one approach for collecting requirements. Assume that you have studied the work of numerous quality experts, such as Deming, Juran, and Crosby, and your organization has a policy that states the importance of quality as the key
constraint of all project constraints. You and your team have decided to use quality function deployment on your new project to manufacture turbines that use alternative fuels. The first step you should use is to______________


A. Determine the voice of the customer
B. Build the house of quality
C. Address the functional requirements and how best to meet them
D. Hold a focus group of prequalified stakeholders

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:

Quality function deployment is an example of a facilitated workshop used in the manufacturing industry as a tool and technique to collect requirements. It helps to determine the critical characteristics for new product development and starts by collecting customer
needs, known as the voice of the customer.