PMP Exam Questions Answered Correct

Acceptance Criteria - ANSWER A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted. Accepted Deliverables - ANSWER Products, results, or capabilities produced by a project and validated by the project customer or sponsors as meeting their specified acceptance criteria. Accuracy - ANSWER Within the quality management system, blank is an assessment of correctness. Acquire Project Team - ANSWER The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities. Acquisition - ANSWER Obtaining human and material resources necessary to perform project activities. Blank implies a cost of resources, and is not necessarily financial. Activity - ANSWER A distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during a course of a project. Activity Attributes - ANSWER Multiple blank associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. Blank include activity codes, predecessor activities, successor activities, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, imposed dates, constraints, and assumptions. Activity Code - ANSWER One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports. Activity Cost Estimates - ANSWER The projected cost of the scheduled activity that include the cost of all resources required to perform and complete the activity, including all cost types and cost components. Activity Duration - ANSWER The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity. Activity Duration Estimates - ANSWER The quantitative assessments of the likely number of time periods that are required to complete an activity. Activity Identifier - ANSWER A short, unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other activities. Typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram. Activity List - ANSWER A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description, activity identifier, and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed. Activity Resource Requirements - ANSWER The types and quantities of resources required for each activity in a work package. Actual Cost (AC) - ANSWER The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period. Actual Duration - ANSWER The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete. Adaptive Life Cycle - ANSWER A project life cycle, also known as change-driven or agile methods, that is intended to facilitate change and require a high degree of ongoing stakeholder involvement. Blank are also iterative and incremental, but differ in that iterations are very rapid (usually 2-4 weeks in length) and are fixed in time and resources. Additional Quality Planning Tools - ANSWER A set of tools used to define the quality requirements and to plan effective quality management activities. They include, but are not limited to: brainstorming, force field analysis, nominal group techniques and quality management control tools. Adjusting Leads and Lags - ANSWER A technique used to find ways to bring project activities that are behind into alignment with plan during project execution. Advertising - ANSWER The process of calling public attention to a project or effort. Affinity Diagram - ANSWER A group creativity technique that allows large numbers of ideas to be classified onto groups for review and analysis. Agreements - ANSWER Any document or communication that defines the initial intentions of a project. This can take the form of a contract, memorandum of understanding (MOU), letters of agreement, verbal agreements, email, etc. Alternative Analysis - ANSWER A technique used to evaluate identified options in order to select which options or approaches to use to execute and perform the work of the project. Alternatives Generation - ANSWER A technique used to develop as many potential options as possible in order to identify different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project. Analogous Estimating - ANSWER A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project using historical data from a similar activity or project. Analytical Techniques - ANSWER Various techniques used to evaluate, analyze, or forecast potential outcomes based on possible variations of project or environmental variables and their relationships with other variables. Examples are Regression Analysis, Earned Value Management, and Time Series Forecasting methods. Application Area - ANSWER A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects, but are not needed or present in all projects. Blanks are usually defined in terms of either the product (i.e. by similar technologies or production methods) or the type of customer (i.e. internal versus external, government versus commercial) or industry sector (i.e. utilities, automotive, aerospace, information technologies, etc.) Blanks can overlap. Applying Leads and Lags - ANSWER A technique that is used to adjust the amount of time between predecessor and successor activities. Apportioned Effort - ANSWER An activity where effort is allotted proportionately across certain discreet efforts and not divisible into discreet efforts. (Note: blank is one of three earned value management (EVM) types of activities used to measure work performance). Approved Change Request - ANSWER A blank has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved. Approved Change Requests Review - ANSWER A review of the change requests to verify that these were implemented as approved. Assumption - ANSWER A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true, real, or certain, without proof or demonstration. Assumptions Analysis - ANSWER A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy, inconsistency, or incompleteness of assumptions. Attribute Sampling - ANSWER Method of measuring quality that consists of noting the presence (or absence) of some characteristic (attribute) in each of the units under consideration. After each unit is inspected, the decision is made to accept a lot, reject it, or inspect another unit. Authority - ANSWER The right to apply project resources, expend funds, make decisions, or give approvals. Backlog - ANSWER A listing of product requirements and deliverables to be completed, written as stories, and prioritized by the business to manage and organize the project's work. Backward Pass - ANSWER A critical path method technique for calculating the late start and the late finish dates by working backward through the schedule model from the project end date.