PMP: The Planning Domain
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Includes questions from the following tasks:     Task 1 Review and assess detailed project requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders based on the project charter and lessons learned and by using requirement-gathering techniques in order to establish detailed project deliverables.     Task 2 Develop a scope management plan, based on the approved project scope and using scope management techniques, in order to define, maintain, and manage the scope of the project.     Task 3 Develop the cost management plan based on the project scope, schedule, resources, approved project... Show more
PMP: The Planning Domain
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1. You have been asked to perform the quality planning for a project. One of the first actions you take is to clarify what some of the measurements on the project are and how the Control Quality process measures these. This action is known as:
2. Given the planning data for your project, SEMAJ, you have identified the need to use several contractors for three parts of the multiyear project. As you determine specific procurement strategies after analyzing the involved WBS elements, your next step is to:
3. A team member is following the steps outlined in the process improvement plan. This is needed to improve organizational and project performance. What reference document would the team member use to help with this activity?
4. You are discussing your role as a project manager with your peers. In the conversation, another team member describes the process of defining and controlling what is, and what is not, included in the project. What are these activities called?
5. A new member of your project team suggests that you should quantify risks using the lowest, highest, and most likely costs of the WBS elements in the project plan. What is the name for the technique being suggested?
6. You are identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships for a project, as well as creating a staffing management plan for a project. In terms of project management, these activities are known as:
7. A project manager is stepping in as a take-over role and has been given a completed project scope statement prepared by the previous project manager. What is the first action she should take at this point?
8. Your contract and procurement consultant recommends that you establish source selection criteria for each of your sellers’ proposals. What part of the procurement process will this assist?
9. You are a construction project manager working on a new office building in the outskirts of your city. You are developing your project management plan that assumes a dedicated project team. The plan for the project forecasts a two-year schedule. As part of the plan, you need to consider:
10. In your project to set up a new production line for innovative gadget gifts for techies, you have decided to use two contractor companies for the work: one for the software and one for the hardware. You have developed the procurement management plan, and you have created a WBS. You recently met with the software contract officer and she had an issue to discuss with you, and in thinking about it, you realized it also affected the hardware contractor team. You should immediately:
11. If the EMV of a risk is $200,000 and this risk exposure has been documented in the project business case, what is the maximum you could spend to remove the risk completely and be better off?
12. As you prepare your project management plan, you decide to attach your subsidiary plans, one of which is the:
13. One tool of project management is a table that identifies and describes the types and quantities of each resource required to complete all project work packages. What is this table known as?
14. As you prepare your quality plan, it is important to understand:
15. When you prepare your project schedule, you focus on identifying those activities that are on your critical path and that you intend to manage aggressively. As a part of the project schedule, it is also important for you to:
16. The document that contains a list of identified risks and, against each a list of potential responses, the root cause of the risk, and the risk category is called the:
17. You just graduated from a prestigious university and you have been appointed to your first job as a project manager. Your project charter has been approved, and you now have a dedicated team who is working with you in planning the project. So far, you have prepared your scope and quality management plans and now are beginning to work on other plans that will be included in your project management plan. In the project management plan, you need to describe how performance reports will be prepared and distributed. Your program manager pointed out that she wanted regular updates, but she did not want to see many metrics collected that did not add value. You and your team have decided that the best approach is to choose metrics that:
18. You have been working on a project in the planning stage, developing the likely costs. The project sponsor expects a narrower estimate of the costs because more information is now known. Which of the following is considered a suitable range for this request?
19. Having been a PM for three years, you realize that a collective understanding of the success of the project among the project stakeholders can assist you in managing stakeholder expectations. Such a mutual understanding is best documented as part of the:
20. The contract you are negotiating with a subcontractor involves a set price for a well-defined requirement and incentives for meeting selected objectives. This type of contract is:
21. You have asked a team member to perform many actions on a project plan. These actions are decomposing the work packages into smaller components and activities that are to be the basis for estimating, scheduling, and running the project. What is this team member’s activity called?
22. The process of project planning that involves developing options, determining actions to enhance opportunities, and reducing threats to project objectives is called:
23. You are involved in a project and regularly receive work packages to complete from the project manager. The project manager describes some of the results of your work as project deliverables. The processes that describe project deliverables from your work are defined in which of the following?
24. The project has produced a requirements traceability matrix that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle. Which statement describes the purpose of the requirements traceability matrix?
25. You and your team are estimating the duration of the coding/unit testing phase. Your optimistic estimate is 1,200 hours, your most likely estimate is 1,700 hours, and your pessimistic estimate is 2,000 hours. The resource rate is $150 per hour. What is your cost estimate of the coding/unit test phase using the PERT estimating technique?