PMI PMP Exam simulator 1

A recently appointed project manager takes charge of a project initiated last year focused on renovating a bustling airport terminal.

Even though the project uses a hybrid development approach—making incremental updates to the terminal—it has encountered many issues, especially creating conflicts with airport operations. The recently appointed project manager inquires with the project team about their usual approach to managing problems and risks, but none of the team members provide a definite response.

What should the project manager do first?

• Modify the risk register

• Switch to a predictive approach for better risk management

• Start to identify potential risks

• Update the risk management plan

Luna is working on a construction project that spans over 12 months. She reviews the schedule and notice that there are times when certain team members on her project team are severely over allocated, which means she might need to bring on extra resources to help handle the extra load.

However, at other times during her project the team is under-allocated, which means she may have to lay off some team members.

Which of the following should she does to rearrange her resources so that a priority given to constant number of resources are used in the project?

• Crashing

• Resource Smoothing

• Fast Tracking

• Resource Leveling

April is a project manager at her organization. She is currently assigned to work on a project to migrate a large number of servers from an on-site data center at her organization to an off-site data center that is monitored 24/7 by a third party vendor. The company believes this offloading will increase efficiency and reduce work requirements in areas where the company is not specialized.

April is putting together the project requirements, constraints, and assumptions. Which document is April likely working on?

• April is gathering the project requirements so she is probably working on the Project Management Plan

• The Project Scope Statement is the document that contains the project requirements, the constraints on the project, and the assumptions used

• April is drafting the Project Charter so that she can start work on her project

• April is most likely drafting the Communications Management Plan since the project constraints usually deal with the project communications and when everyone is unavailable for meetings

Niclole is the project manager of the Raffles MIS Project. This project is to create a new software package for a client. She is working with the client, business analysts, software developers, business developers, and the sales team to create the vision and requirements of the newly initiated project.

Of the following, which one determines the scope of the project?

• The customer and the stakeholders

• The project sponsor

• The performing organizations management

• The project manager

Which of the following is a method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model?

This schedule network analysis technique calculates the early start, early finish, late start, and late finish dates for all activities without regard to any resource limitations by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network.

• Schedule Compression

• Critical Chain Method

• Critical Path Method

• PERT

Angie is a project manager for her organization. Her current project assignment is with a team that is working to construct a component that will be used in a shuttle that will be launched by a commercial space travel organization.

The client corporation has stringent quality requirements that must be adhered to, otherwise the component could endanger the lives of the passengers on the shuttle.

Angie should be concerned with the quality attributes of the product her team is building.

Which statement best describes quality attributes in this context?

• The quality attributes of the component Angie’s team is build are the acceptance criteria that are to be met mandatorily

• The quality attributes of that Angie is concerned about provide a basis for judging a project's success or failure

• The quality attributes that Angie is referencing in this situation provide a basis for determining how effectively Angie’s organization supports the project

• The quality attributes are the specific characteristics for which Angie’s team`s product is designed and tested

Elements of the project that are well known or have fixed requirements follow a predictive development life cycle, and those elements that are still evolving follow an adaptive development life cycle. Which of the following project life cycle types does this statement refer to?

• Iterative Life Cycle

• Adaptive Life Cycle

• Predictive Life Cycle

• Hybrid Life Cycle

A municipal waste management project that merges several administrative tasks with minor public works is referred to as a hybrid project. An agile track makes good progress on key objectives, but small tasks are accumulating in the backlog. These tasks are typically short and can be completed within a day, but they are dependent on different unpredictable triggering events.

Which approach would be most effective to clear out these minor tasks faster?

• To align the story sizes with the primary objectives, group various small tasks together.

• Prioritize the backlog by favoring the smallest stories, and assign them daily.

• Reorder the backlog regularly, so that recently triggered events increase the priority of the stories.

• Incorporate the small tasks into either the Definition of Done or the acceptance criteria for those dependent stories.

For a project to streamline processes, a product team has finished eight of the ten scheduled iterations. The product owner discovers a significant, company-wide budget adjustment while adjusting the backlog for iteration nine and writes the following email:

Dear Project Team for Streamlining,

Our project will be impacted by yesterday's budget modification. I might have to reprioritize some of our scheduled tasks.

How ought the team captain to react?

• Respond with any suggestions for limiting the scope while still doing two more iterations

• Watch and wait for the product owner to revise the backlog's priorities and provide any suggestions as required

• To learn more about the budget reduction, get in touch with the sponsor on the approach ahead

• The team should be disbanded to give everyone time to locate new role in different project with budget

David is a project manager for Cambridge university. Currently, he is developing schedule for a project. As he was performing the critical path method on the project, he encountered three different types of float.

Map the correct float statement in the following:

• Total Float: Amount of type an activity can be delayed without delaying the project end date

• Free Float: Amount of type an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of its successor

• Project Float: Amount of type an activity can be delayed without delaying the externally imposed project completion date required by the customer or management

• All floats are right