PMP Exam Prep Questions and Answers

In the process of reviewing the status of your team's work assignments, you learn the project has fallen behind schedule by one week. The project finish date is still two months out and you think you can recover the time over the next month or so. What is the BEST course of action for reporting the project status? A. Report the project one week behind schedule and include recommended corrective actions. B. Report the project on schedule. Most project management plans are not accurate to less than one or two weeks anyway. C. Report the project on schedule. this is not a significant slippage and there is still time to recover. D. Report the project one week behind schedule and then issue a new report next week showing the problem fixed. - ANSWER-A. Report the project one week behind schedule and include recommended corrective actions. Reporting that the project is on schedule is unethical. It is best to report the true status of the project and your plan of action to resolve the problem. During project executing, a major problem occures that was not included in the risk register. What should you do FIRST? A. Look for any unexpected effects of the problem. B. Create a workaround. C. Tell management. D. Teevaluate the Identify Risk process. - ANSWER-B. Create a workaround. Following the right process is part of professional and social responsibility. Because an unidentified problem or risk occurred, it is important to reevaluate the Identify Risks process as well as to look for unexpected effects to the problem. However thay are not your fist choices. You might need to inform management, but this is reactive, not proactive, and not the first thing you should do. Since this is a problem that has occured, rather than a problem that has just been identified, the first thing you must do is address the risk by creating a workaround. A large project is underway when one of the team members reviews the project status report. He sees the project is currently running late. As he looks at the report further, he notices the delay will cause one of his activities to be scheduled during a time he will be out of the country and cannot work on the activity. This is of great concern because he is very committed to the success of the project and he does not want to be the cause of the project being further delayed. What is the BEST thing for him to do? A. Request that the issue be added to the project issue log. B. Contract the project manager immediately to provide the project manager wiht his schedule. C. Recommend preventive action. D. Include the information on his next report. - ANSWER-C. Recommend preventive action. Notice that this question asks what the team member should do. It is important for the project manager to understand the team member's role and possibly even instruct team members on how to work on projects and what is expected of them. Providing the project manager with his schedule, including the information in a report, and requesting that the issue be added to the issue log have one thing in common. They involve the team member asking the project manager to do something. In reality, it may very well be the team member who will com up with a solution (such as decreasing the scope of the activity, fast tracking, or specific suggestions about changes to predecessor activities). Therefore, recommending preventive action is the best choice for the team member. Note that recommended corrective or preventive actions can come from the team or stakeholders in addition to the project manager. (p.239) All technical work is completed on the project. Which of the following remains to be done? A. Create a staffing management B. Plan Risk Responses C. Complete lessons learned D. Validate Scope - ANSWER-C. Complete lessons learned Did you pick Validate Scope? Than you have forgotten that Validate Scope is done during project monitoring and controlling, not project closing. Planning risk responses and creating the stamming management plan are done earlier in the project. The lessons learned can only be completed after the work is completed. PMI: Validate Scope. The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables (Process Group M&C, Knowledge area Project Scope Management) A new employee of the company is assigned to work on a project that is in the early planning processes. She has to decide today if she will accept the assignment to the project or wheter she wants to be assigned to a different project. However, the proeject manager is not at work and is not reachable. Where can the team member look to help her determine what work she is given on the project? A. Activity definitions B. Project management plan C. Job descriptions D. Responsibility assignment matrix - ANSWER-D. Responsibility assignment matrix