PMP Test Prep questions and answers 2024\2025
Risk Register
- correct answer A risk register is a repository in which outputs of risk management processes are
recorded. Information in a risk register can include the person responsible for managing the risk,
probability, impact, risk score, planned risk responses, and other information used to get a high-level
understanding of individual risks.
Configuration Management Plan
- correct answer Describes how the information about the items of the project (and which items) will be
recorded and updated so that the product, service, or result of the project remains consistent and/or
operative.
Nonfunctional Requirements
- correct answer Reliability, security, performance, safety, level of service, retention, etc.
Functional Requirements
- correct answer Action, processes, data and interactions that the product should execute.
Quality Management Plan
- correct answer How the organization's quality policy, methodologies, and standards are implemented
on the project.
Project Life Cycle
- correct answer The project life cycle determines the series of phases that a project passes through
from its inception to the end of the project.
Development Approach
- correct answer Defines whether waterfall, iterative, adaptive, agile, or a hybrid development approach
will be used.
Variance Analysis
- correct answer A method for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline
and actual performance.
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,Project Manager
- correct answer The visionary leader for the project. Educates the team and other stakeholders about
project value delivery. Promotes teamwork and collaboration. Removes roadblocks. Promotes the
project's mission and value to inspire the team, keep them focused, and feel part of the organization's
mission.
Servant Leadership
- correct answer The practice of leading through service to the team, by focusing on understanding and
addressing the needs and development of team members in order to enable the highest possible team
performance.
6 Key Principles of Servant Leadership
- correct answer 1. Enable, don't direct
2. Coach, don't teach
3. Empower, don't lead
4. Seek to understand
5. Build conditions for team's success
6. Team's success defines leader's success
RACI Matrix
- correct answer Used to better define roles and responsibilities: R: Responsible A: Accountable C:
Consult I: Inform
Management by Objectives (MBO)
- correct answer a process of setting mutually agreed upon goals and using those goals to evaluate
employee performance
Project Management Process Groups
- correct answer "Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing"
Initiating - processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project by
obtaining authorization to start the project or phase
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, Planning - processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the
course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve
Executing - processes to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project
requirements
Monitoring and Controlling - processes required to track, review, and regulate the progress nd
performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the
corresponding changes
Closing - processes performed to formally complete or close the project, phase, or contract
Benchmarking
- correct answer Comparison of actual or planned project practices/quality standards to comparable
projects to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and provide a basis for measuring
performance.
Performance Reports
- correct answer Output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process. The physical or electronic
representation of work performance information compiled in project documents, intended to generate
decisions, actions, or awareness.
Earned Value Management (EVM)
- correct answer A project performance measurement technique that integrates scope, time, and cost
data
Throughput Metric
- correct answer A measure of the average rate at which data moves through the system
Cycle Time (CT)
- correct answer A measure of the time to produce a product or service, which is the sum of process
time, inspection time, move time, and wait time; also called throughput time.
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Risk Register
- correct answer A risk register is a repository in which outputs of risk management processes are
recorded. Information in a risk register can include the person responsible for managing the risk,
probability, impact, risk score, planned risk responses, and other information used to get a high-level
understanding of individual risks.
Configuration Management Plan
- correct answer Describes how the information about the items of the project (and which items) will be
recorded and updated so that the product, service, or result of the project remains consistent and/or
operative.
Nonfunctional Requirements
- correct answer Reliability, security, performance, safety, level of service, retention, etc.
Functional Requirements
- correct answer Action, processes, data and interactions that the product should execute.
Quality Management Plan
- correct answer How the organization's quality policy, methodologies, and standards are implemented
on the project.
Project Life Cycle
- correct answer The project life cycle determines the series of phases that a project passes through
from its inception to the end of the project.
Development Approach
- correct answer Defines whether waterfall, iterative, adaptive, agile, or a hybrid development approach
will be used.
Variance Analysis
- correct answer A method for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline
and actual performance.
1|Page
,Project Manager
- correct answer The visionary leader for the project. Educates the team and other stakeholders about
project value delivery. Promotes teamwork and collaboration. Removes roadblocks. Promotes the
project's mission and value to inspire the team, keep them focused, and feel part of the organization's
mission.
Servant Leadership
- correct answer The practice of leading through service to the team, by focusing on understanding and
addressing the needs and development of team members in order to enable the highest possible team
performance.
6 Key Principles of Servant Leadership
- correct answer 1. Enable, don't direct
2. Coach, don't teach
3. Empower, don't lead
4. Seek to understand
5. Build conditions for team's success
6. Team's success defines leader's success
RACI Matrix
- correct answer Used to better define roles and responsibilities: R: Responsible A: Accountable C:
Consult I: Inform
Management by Objectives (MBO)
- correct answer a process of setting mutually agreed upon goals and using those goals to evaluate
employee performance
Project Management Process Groups
- correct answer "Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing"
Initiating - processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project by
obtaining authorization to start the project or phase
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, Planning - processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the
course of action required to attain the objectives that the project was undertaken to achieve
Executing - processes to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project
requirements
Monitoring and Controlling - processes required to track, review, and regulate the progress nd
performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the
corresponding changes
Closing - processes performed to formally complete or close the project, phase, or contract
Benchmarking
- correct answer Comparison of actual or planned project practices/quality standards to comparable
projects to identify best practices, generate ideas for improvement, and provide a basis for measuring
performance.
Performance Reports
- correct answer Output of the Monitor and Control Project Work process. The physical or electronic
representation of work performance information compiled in project documents, intended to generate
decisions, actions, or awareness.
Earned Value Management (EVM)
- correct answer A project performance measurement technique that integrates scope, time, and cost
data
Throughput Metric
- correct answer A measure of the average rate at which data moves through the system
Cycle Time (CT)
- correct answer A measure of the time to produce a product or service, which is the sum of process
time, inspection time, move time, and wait time; also called throughput time.
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