CAPM : Certified Associate in Project Management (PMI-100) : Part 50

CAPM : Certified Associate in Project Management (PMI-100) : Part 50

1. One of the outputs of the project schedule is a detailed plan. What is the main purpose of that detailed plan?

   • It represents how and when the project will deliver the products, services, and results defined in the project scope
   • It creates a formal record of the project and shows the organizational commitment to the project
   • It describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and validated
   • It provides the needs of a stakeholders or stakeholder group

2. In which organizational structure would the project manager have most authority?

   • Matrix-weak
   • Matrix-balanced
   • Matrix-strong
   • Organic or simple

   Explanation:

   Reference: https://www.project-management-skills.com/organizational-structure-types.html

3. What are the objectives of initiation processes?

   • Initiation processes are performed in order to develop the project charter and identify stakeholders.
   • Initiation processes are performed in order to obtain budget approval for a project or phase and approve scope with customers.
   • Initiation processes are performed to identify business objectives for a project or phase and identify stakeholders’ goals.
   • Initiation processes are performed to map initial requirements for a project or phase and prioritize them with stakeholders.
   Explanation:
   Reference: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/initiating-process-project-management-36001.html

4. A construction project is underway, and during the progress review the painter complained that the task could not be started because the mason has not finished the plastering job. What kind of relationship between the tasks impacted the painting work?

   • Finish-to-Finish (FF)
   • Start-to-Finish (SF)
   • Finish-to-Start (FS)
   • Start-to-Start (SS)
   Explanation:
   Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_(project_management)

5. A project manager has just completed several brainstorming sessions and has gathered the data to show commonality and differences in one single place. What technique was followed?

   • Collective decision making
   • Multicriteria decision analysis
   • Mind mapping
   • Affinity diagram
   Explanation:
   Reference: https://mosaicprojects.com.au/WhitePapers/WP1068_Data_Gathering.pdf

6. Which of these is true of a project schedule?

   • Project Schedule Management processes are discrete and don’t overlap
   • Project schedules should typically allow for flexibility during the project
   • Project schedules must always contain milestone lists and activity attributes
   • Project schedules which are iterative can extend longer than four weeks

7. How can a project manager determine if the project activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and procedures?

   • Look at the quality metrics
   • Validate the scope
   • Review the quality checklist
   • Conduct a quality audit

8. For the given information:

   

   Activity A, duration 5 days, predecessors: none
   Activity B, duration 3 days, predecessors: none
   Activity C, duration 6 days, predecessors: A and B
   Activity D, duration 7 days, predecessors: B
   Activity E, duration 4 days, predecessors: C and D
   Activity F, duration 2 days, predecessors: E and B

   Which of the following shows the project’s critical path?

   • Start, B, F, Finish
   • Start, B, C, E, F, Finish
   • Start, B, D, E, F, Finish
   • Start, A, C, E, F, Finish

9. The primary purpose of the stakeholder register is to:

   • Record stakeholder issues on the project
   • Maintain lessons learned earlier in the project
   • Maintain a list of all project stakeholders
   • Document change requests and their status
   Explanation:
   Reference: https://pmstudycircle.com/2012/06/stakeholder-register-project-management/

10. Work performance information is an input to which of the following processes?

    • Direct and Manage Project Work
    • Monitor and Control Project Work
    • Control Scope
    • Validate Scope
    Explanation:
    Reference: https://pmstudycircle.com/2013/10/work-performance-data-wpd-and-work-performance-information-wpi/

11. Why is tailoring in a project necessary?

    • Requirements keep changing
    • An artifact must be produced
    • A tool or technique is required
    • Each project is unique
    Explanation:
    Reference: https://www.greycampus.com/opencampus/project-management-professional/project-lifecycle-and-tailoring

12. The project team is brainstorming on approaches to deliver the upcoming product launch for which the project has been chartered. The project manager is laying out hybrid, adaptive, iterative methods. What is the team trying to address?

    • Co-location
    • Life-cycle
    • Diversity
    • Management
    Explanation:
    Reference: https://blog.iil.com/project-management-life-cycles-explained-based-on-the-pmbok-guide-sixth-edition/

13. Which of the following is used to classify stakeholders based on their assessments of power, urgency, and legitimacy?

    • Power interest grid
    • Stakeholder cube
    • Salience model
    • Directions of influence
    Explanation:
    Reference: https://pmstudycircle.com/2015/09/salience-model-to-analyze-project-stakeholders/

14. What can the project manager find among the factors that could lead a project to be tailored?

    • Company culture
    • Return on investment
    • Earned Value
    • Schedule Performance Index

15. What is the order of the stages of project team development?

    • Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning
    • Storming, Forming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning
    • Adjourning, Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing
    • Forming, Storming, Performing, Norming, and Adjourning
    Explanation:
    Reference: https://project-management.com/the-five-stages-of-project-team-development/

16. Project managers play a key role in performing integration on a project. What are the three different levels of integration?

    • Process, cognitive, and context
    • Complexity, understand, and change
    • Interact, insight, and leadership
    • Communication, knowledge, and value
    Explanation:
    Reference: https://4squareviews.com/2017/10/28/6th-edition-pmbok-guide-the-pmi-talent-triangle/

17. Using the following information and assuming that the project team will work a standard 40-hour work week:

    Activity A has a duration of 10 days.
    Activity B has a duration of 10 days and its predecessor is Activity A.
    Activity C has a duration of 15 days and its predecessor is Activity A.
    Activity D has a duration of 10 days and its predecessor is Activity B and C.
    Activity E has a duration of 10 days and its predecessor is Activity D.
    Activity F has a duration of 15 days and its predecessor is Activity D.

    What is the critical path of the project?

    • ABDE
    • ACDF
    • ABDF
    • ACDE

18. When should Project Risk Management be conducted?

    • Project Planning
    • Monitoring and Controlling
    • Quality Planning
    • Throughout the project lifecycle
    Explanation
    Reference: https://bia.ca/risk-management-the-what-why-and-how/

19. What communication methods would a project manager use for overall effective project communication?

    • Interactive communication, push communication, interpersonal communication
    • Interactive communication, push communication, pull communication
    • Push communication, pull communication, interpersonal communication
    • Pull communication, interactive communication, interpersonal communication
    Explanation:
    Reference: https://www.simplilearn.com/interactive-vs-push-vs-pull-communication-in-project-management-article

20. The document that guides project execution, monitoring and control, and closure is called:

    • The project charter
    • The project management plan
    • The integration plan
    • The execution plan
    Explanation:
    Reference: https://projectmanagementacademy.net/articles/five-traditional-process-groups/