01. A project manager prepared a project closeout report for stakeholders, clients, and team members. Which of the following describes the benefits of the project closeout report?
a) It allows the project manager to explain and justify poor outcomes.
b) It helps the project manager to determine what worked well and what can be improved.
c) It shows the project manager's perspective on the project.
d) It highlights team members who underperformed.
02. The PMO has just reduced a project's priority from 4 to 12 out of 22. As a result of the project prioritization change, the highly skilled resources have been reassigned to higher priority projects. The issue has been recorded on the issue log, and the change in resources has been included on the change control log.
Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?
a) Encourage the project sponsor to use referent power to get the project's priority elevated.
b) Inform the project team that mandatory overtime is required for the remainder of the project.
c) Accept the change and cite the resource reduction whenever there is a schedule slippage.
d) Conduct an impact assessment to determine the effects on the project baselines.
03. A project manager has been assigned to a new project and is informed that a similar issue was resolved on another project last year. Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?
a) Determine the solution design.
b) Define the preliminary scope statement.
c) Review existing artifacts.
d) Identify the stakeholders.
04. Which of the following would be the MOST important consideration for call center personnel accepting customer orders and payments on a website?
a) Multifactor authentication
b) Personally identifiable information security
c) Intellectual property protection
d) Branding restrictions
05. A project manager is performing the initial risk assessment on a risk that has been highlighted. Which of the following steps should be executed as part of this assessment?
a) Determining the impact of risks
b) Defining key project resources
c) Rewriting the scope of work
d) Identifying project communication methods
06. Before the final product is launched, the marketing team suggests presenting the product to a predefined set of customers who may be able to provide relevant insight for improvement. Which of the following would the project manager MOST likely conduct?
a) Workshop
b) Stand-up
c) Focus group
d) Brainstorming
07. A project manager wants to know the billable hours an employee has spent on a project. Which of the following can the project manager use?
a) Time-tracking tools
b) Calendaring tools
c) Project status report
d) Task board
08. You create a scatter diagram that shows dots in a line going from upper left to lower right in the grid. What should this tell you?
a) Not enough data is tracked to determine the relationship between the two variables.
b) There is a negative correlation between the two variables.
c) There is a positive correlation between the two variables.
d) There is no direct correlation between the two variables.
09. A project manager experiences issues that may delay the project from moving toward production release due to the stakeholder's refusal to sign off. The stakeholder thinks this step should be done by someone else. Which of the following should the project manager review?
a) RBS
b) CCB
c) WBS
d) RACI
10. A risk that equipment may be delayed was identified earlier in the project, and the equipment has now been delayed. The project team is experiencing:
a) scope creep.
b) a work-around.
c) an issue.
d) a change.