CPM Study guide
Leadership - correct answer ✔Which interpersonal skill is displayed by
developing a vision and strategy, and inspires people to achieve that vision
and strategy?
Monitoring and Controlling - correct answer ✔Control procurements is
performed as part of which process group?"
A project expediter position. - correct answer ✔A manager and the head of
engineering discuss a change to a major work package. After the meeting, the
manager contacts you and tells you to complete the paperwork to make the
change. This is an example of
Executing - correct answer ✔During a team meeting, a team member asks
about the measurements that will be used on the project to judge
performance. The team member feels that some of the measures related to
activities assigned him are not valid measurements. The project is BEST
considered in what part of the project management process?
Ask management how the new project will affect your project - correct answer
✔Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months
and is valued at 2m USD. You are the project manager for an existing project.
What is the FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new project?
Historical information - correct answer ✔You are a new project manager who
has never managed a project before. It would be BEST in this situation to rely
on _____ during planning in order to improve your chance of success.
WBS Dictionary - correct answer ✔During project executing, a team member
comes to the project manager because he is not sure of what work he needs
, to accomplish on the project. Which of the following documents contain
detailed descriptions of work packages?
Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added. - correct answer ✔During
a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked
to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to
correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and
remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope
mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to
do is to:
Crash the project. - correct answer ✔Your project management plan results
in a project schedule that is too long If the project network diagram cannot
change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to
do?
Is not on the critical path. - correct answer ✔An activity has an early start
(ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an early finish (EF) of day 9, and a
late finish (LF) of day 19. The activity:
Agree to analogous estimating, as it is a form of expert judgment - correct
answer ✔Early in the life of your project, you are having a discussion with the
sponsor about what estimating techniques should be used. You want a form
of expert judgment, but the sponsor argues for analogous estimating. It would
be BEST to
Project is progressing at 75% of the rate originally planned - correct answer
✔A schedule performance index, SPI, of 0.75 means:
Quality Audits - correct answer ✔You are the program level manager with
several project activities underway. In the executing process group, you begin
Leadership - correct answer ✔Which interpersonal skill is displayed by
developing a vision and strategy, and inspires people to achieve that vision
and strategy?
Monitoring and Controlling - correct answer ✔Control procurements is
performed as part of which process group?"
A project expediter position. - correct answer ✔A manager and the head of
engineering discuss a change to a major work package. After the meeting, the
manager contacts you and tells you to complete the paperwork to make the
change. This is an example of
Executing - correct answer ✔During a team meeting, a team member asks
about the measurements that will be used on the project to judge
performance. The team member feels that some of the measures related to
activities assigned him are not valid measurements. The project is BEST
considered in what part of the project management process?
Ask management how the new project will affect your project - correct answer
✔Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months
and is valued at 2m USD. You are the project manager for an existing project.
What is the FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new project?
Historical information - correct answer ✔You are a new project manager who
has never managed a project before. It would be BEST in this situation to rely
on _____ during planning in order to improve your chance of success.
WBS Dictionary - correct answer ✔During project executing, a team member
comes to the project manager because he is not sure of what work he needs
, to accomplish on the project. Which of the following documents contain
detailed descriptions of work packages?
Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added. - correct answer ✔During
a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked
to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to
correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and
remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope
mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to
do is to:
Crash the project. - correct answer ✔Your project management plan results
in a project schedule that is too long If the project network diagram cannot
change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to
do?
Is not on the critical path. - correct answer ✔An activity has an early start
(ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an early finish (EF) of day 9, and a
late finish (LF) of day 19. The activity:
Agree to analogous estimating, as it is a form of expert judgment - correct
answer ✔Early in the life of your project, you are having a discussion with the
sponsor about what estimating techniques should be used. You want a form
of expert judgment, but the sponsor argues for analogous estimating. It would
be BEST to
Project is progressing at 75% of the rate originally planned - correct answer
✔A schedule performance index, SPI, of 0.75 means:
Quality Audits - correct answer ✔You are the program level manager with
several project activities underway. In the executing process group, you begin
