PMP CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Change Control Board - Answers -Group whose function is to review, approve or reject
changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Change Control System - Answers -Used to asses the impact and consequnces of
requested changes on the project
Contraints - Answers -Factors that limits project options such as the number of people
available, amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or
assest issues
1. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors
2. Deliver any required reports assoc. w/ closure (Opa updates)
3. Complete any Close Project of Phase activites
4. Performed Lessons Learned
5. Complete Archives of any project Files (OPA updates)
6. Release resources for other projects - Answers -General Closing Order of itmes for a
project (6)
Opportunity that allows the team to learn from past experience and improve on the
project as the complete it. LL can come along before the end on the project . If they
come at the end administrative procedures come into play - Answers -What are
Lessons Learned?
1. To develop a consistent process to evaluate changes
2. To create an environment in which you can review and approve appropiate changes
to modify the project for the better.
3. To set communication standards so the project team can communicate those
changes to the appropiate stakeholders - Answers -3 main goals of a configuration
mgmt system
Project Managment Plan - Answers -A cumulative document that contains all the
documents used in the project mgmt apporach on the project. It describes the steps
associated w/ executing, monitoring and controlling and closing
Product Verification Lesson Learned
Updating records - Project files, contract files
Reporting Archiving Formal Acceptance - Answers -Closing a Project Includes the
Following (3)
When you perform project mgmt part of the concept of planning is to deal with items
unkown, here you must make assumptions for scheduling and budgeting. In most cases
,as the project evolves you learn more about it - Answers -Know Assumptions as they
relate to a Project
PMIS - Answers -Used for communication and information distribution on the project not
necessarily a high tech system but whatever is used for project communication on the
project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.
Project Scope is built - Answers -What is the result of Executing?
Project Charter and Stakholders are Identified - Answers -What is the result of
Initiating?
Corrective Action - Answers -What is the result of Monitoring and Controlling?
results in the product, service or result transition of the project - Answers -What is the
result of Closing?
Characteristics of the PMO (3)
A centralized area for all 1.PM personnel to and be assigned. 2. for documentation a
process support 3. For Project mgmt support and auditing of projects. - Answers -
Characteristics of the PMO (3)
Mgmt by Projects - Answers -Performing day to day operations by a project Mgmt
approach...
Project Initiation - Answers -The process that result in the authorization of a project..
Planning Process - Answers -The process required to develop the activites to attain
objective..
Project Mgmt - Answers -Emcompasses project of similar work or correlated activites
managed in a coordinated way to attain benefits that could not achieved separately
Enterprise Environmental Factors - Answers -Inputs to many processes because they
deal w/ variables external to the project such as gov't regulations and market conditions.
Examples are org structures gov't standards, personnel policies, business market.
RC- request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
AC - Request that have been made through the change control system and approved.
They are appart now part of the project w/ any potential impact now affecting the
project. - Answers -Difference between Requested changes and approved changes?
Project Mgmt plan - Answers -What is the result of Planning?
, Run Chart - Answers -Used to track technical performance such as how well something
works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or
budget, respectively
Team Member - Responsible for the quality of their own work.
PM- Responsible for quality standards for the project
Senior Exe - Responsible for the quality standards at the company - Answers -Who is
responsible for quality and at what level?
Population Testing - you test every item
Sample testing - you determine how much of something must be tested to ensure that
defects are caught - Answers -Difference between Sample and Population Testing?
Design of Experiments - Answers -Statistical process used to determine the factors that
can influence variables associated with a process or product
Variable - Answers -Characteristic that the Perform Quality Control process is to
measure. It is a generic characteristic or property, such as capacity or height.
Attribute - Answers -A specific measurement being recorded - for example square ft.,
inches or meters.
ISO 9000 (International Organization - Answers -Standard is associcated with
companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes.
Document what you do
Do what you document
Document any variance (from the normal process) - Answers -ISO 3 Steps
Is the likelihood that something will occur. It can be expressed in a percentage (1% 75%
100%) or (0.01, 0.75, 1.0) The sum of all probabilities equals 100% or 1.0 - Answers -
What is Probabilities?
Sigma is also know as Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard.
1 Sigma - 68.26%
2 Sigma - 95.45%
3. Sigma - 99.73% - Answers -What is Sigma?
Quality - Answers -The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill
requirements. Compliance with compliance
Variable - Answers -A quality characteristic measured in increments
Attribute - Answers -A quality charateristic that either is classified as conforming or non-
conforming
Change Control Board - Answers -Group whose function is to review, approve or reject
changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Change Control System - Answers -Used to asses the impact and consequnces of
requested changes on the project
Contraints - Answers -Factors that limits project options such as the number of people
available, amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or
assest issues
1. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors
2. Deliver any required reports assoc. w/ closure (Opa updates)
3. Complete any Close Project of Phase activites
4. Performed Lessons Learned
5. Complete Archives of any project Files (OPA updates)
6. Release resources for other projects - Answers -General Closing Order of itmes for a
project (6)
Opportunity that allows the team to learn from past experience and improve on the
project as the complete it. LL can come along before the end on the project . If they
come at the end administrative procedures come into play - Answers -What are
Lessons Learned?
1. To develop a consistent process to evaluate changes
2. To create an environment in which you can review and approve appropiate changes
to modify the project for the better.
3. To set communication standards so the project team can communicate those
changes to the appropiate stakeholders - Answers -3 main goals of a configuration
mgmt system
Project Managment Plan - Answers -A cumulative document that contains all the
documents used in the project mgmt apporach on the project. It describes the steps
associated w/ executing, monitoring and controlling and closing
Product Verification Lesson Learned
Updating records - Project files, contract files
Reporting Archiving Formal Acceptance - Answers -Closing a Project Includes the
Following (3)
When you perform project mgmt part of the concept of planning is to deal with items
unkown, here you must make assumptions for scheduling and budgeting. In most cases
,as the project evolves you learn more about it - Answers -Know Assumptions as they
relate to a Project
PMIS - Answers -Used for communication and information distribution on the project not
necessarily a high tech system but whatever is used for project communication on the
project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.
Project Scope is built - Answers -What is the result of Executing?
Project Charter and Stakholders are Identified - Answers -What is the result of
Initiating?
Corrective Action - Answers -What is the result of Monitoring and Controlling?
results in the product, service or result transition of the project - Answers -What is the
result of Closing?
Characteristics of the PMO (3)
A centralized area for all 1.PM personnel to and be assigned. 2. for documentation a
process support 3. For Project mgmt support and auditing of projects. - Answers -
Characteristics of the PMO (3)
Mgmt by Projects - Answers -Performing day to day operations by a project Mgmt
approach...
Project Initiation - Answers -The process that result in the authorization of a project..
Planning Process - Answers -The process required to develop the activites to attain
objective..
Project Mgmt - Answers -Emcompasses project of similar work or correlated activites
managed in a coordinated way to attain benefits that could not achieved separately
Enterprise Environmental Factors - Answers -Inputs to many processes because they
deal w/ variables external to the project such as gov't regulations and market conditions.
Examples are org structures gov't standards, personnel policies, business market.
RC- request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
AC - Request that have been made through the change control system and approved.
They are appart now part of the project w/ any potential impact now affecting the
project. - Answers -Difference between Requested changes and approved changes?
Project Mgmt plan - Answers -What is the result of Planning?
, Run Chart - Answers -Used to track technical performance such as how well something
works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or
budget, respectively
Team Member - Responsible for the quality of their own work.
PM- Responsible for quality standards for the project
Senior Exe - Responsible for the quality standards at the company - Answers -Who is
responsible for quality and at what level?
Population Testing - you test every item
Sample testing - you determine how much of something must be tested to ensure that
defects are caught - Answers -Difference between Sample and Population Testing?
Design of Experiments - Answers -Statistical process used to determine the factors that
can influence variables associated with a process or product
Variable - Answers -Characteristic that the Perform Quality Control process is to
measure. It is a generic characteristic or property, such as capacity or height.
Attribute - Answers -A specific measurement being recorded - for example square ft.,
inches or meters.
ISO 9000 (International Organization - Answers -Standard is associcated with
companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes.
Document what you do
Do what you document
Document any variance (from the normal process) - Answers -ISO 3 Steps
Is the likelihood that something will occur. It can be expressed in a percentage (1% 75%
100%) or (0.01, 0.75, 1.0) The sum of all probabilities equals 100% or 1.0 - Answers -
What is Probabilities?
Sigma is also know as Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard.
1 Sigma - 68.26%
2 Sigma - 95.45%
3. Sigma - 99.73% - Answers -What is Sigma?
Quality - Answers -The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill
requirements. Compliance with compliance
Variable - Answers -A quality characteristic measured in increments
Attribute - Answers -A quality charateristic that either is classified as conforming or non-
conforming
