PMTI exams with complete questions
and correct answers
Explain the revised status to management - Correct Answer: You have taken over a project that is
currently in the executing phase and it comes to your attention that the previous project manager
reported milestones as complete that you now realize are not yet complete. Management is unaware of
this. What should you do?Read More,
The management and control desired by the organization - Correct Answer: The number of phases in a
project life cycle is determined by:Read More,
Functional organization - Correct Answer: In which one of the following organizational structures does
the project manager act as a project expediter?Read More,
Initiating - Correct Answer: You are assigned a project that requires the manufacturing of
pharmaceutical equipment for one of your company's current clients. Your company has successfully
executed similar projects in the past. During which process group would you consider referring to
previous project documents of similar projects?Read More,
constraints are limiting factors that affect project execution - Correct Answer: Which one of the
following statements is most accurate regarding constraints?Read More,
Develop project charter - Correct Answer: You have completed a two-week economic feasibility study
and presented your observations to the client. The client realizes the value of your study and approves
the business case for the project. This business case document is used as an input to which process?
Read More,
Risk - Correct Answer: A construction company is building a house for a customer. However; rain has
delayed the finish date by two weeks. The Project Manager is evaluating options to make up the lost
time. After discussing the various options with senior management; the project manager has decided to
fast track the project. By doing so; the project manager would most likely be adding what to the project?
Read More,
,Develop Project Charter - Correct Answer: You have been chartered to build a bridge on Saskatchewan
River connecting two large cities. The project has taken a long time to get approved since the negative
stakeholders were concerned with the structural integrity; environmental damage; and increase in
traffic in both cities. Your reputation in leading projects of similar nature is well known. 50% into the
project; the project status is healthy. In this situation; stakeholder risk tolerance was first considered
during:Read More,
"Work Authorization System (WAS)" - Correct Answer: Jim enthusiastically told his director that the state
agency has selected their company for outsourcing the staff augmentation of about 30 consultants. His
director was happy but advised Jim to get an agreement from the agency to formally start the work. The
agreement provided by the agency can be referred to as any of the following except:Read More,
Mitigation - Correct Answer: Taking action early to reduce the probability of a risk occurring and its
impact on the project is more effective than trying to repair the consequences after the risk has
occurred. Which one of the following risk response approaches uses this strategy?Read More,
Reduce project duration - Correct Answer: A project manager is managing several projects. Three of
those projects are not performing well. The project manager has looked at the charts that show how
much availability exists with each of the team member in a project. Finally; the project manager decided
to fast track a project. The objective of fast tracking a project is to:Read More,
"Opportunity Cost" - Correct Answer: After the unpredictable grand success of their child safety door
knobs for homes; SaveChildLife; the company has been inundated with proposals from many
automobile manufacturers to implement similar technology. They could only pick one of those proposals
and forego all others due to the limited number of resources available in the field. They referred to the
economic value of the next best alternative they gave up as _______________________.Read More,
Scope Baseline - Correct Answer: As a result of a specification modification request from a project
stakeholder; you have gone through the change control process. After approving these changes; you
need to update the:Read More,
The project management team missed identifying some project statkehodlers - Correct Answer:
Functional managers in a project are complaining that their employees cannot cope with the new
requirements that keep cropping up. Which of the following is the most likely cause of your project's
problems?Read More,
,Requirments traceability matrix; control scope - Correct Answer: Sara is a project manager who is
concerned about uncontrolled expansion of project or product scope. What document and process will
help Sara ensure all requested changes and recommended corrective actions to scope are integrated
with integrated change control and scope baseline?Read More,
Direct - Correct Answer: Only desirable behavior of team members should be rewarded. Rewards are
usually effective only if it satisfies a need which is valued by the team member. Resolving team member
differences is initially the responsibility of the team members themselves. Which one of the following
conflict resolution techniques involves a win-lose situation?Read More,
Besides acknowledging; receiver agrees with the senders message. - Correct Answer: Projects include
stakeholders; both positive and negative. Conflicting stakeholder needs are documented in
requirements documentation but elaborated in scope statement. The project manager has vast
experience and knows that 90% of the work constitutes developing a good communications
management plan; scaling it to the needs of the project; and following it diligently. Humans intrinsically
communicate a certain way. The PM intends to manage it to an optimal level to achieve success in the
project. All the following are true about the basic model of communication in this scenario except:Read
More,
Concept; planning; executing; controlling; and closing - Correct Answer: A management consulting firm
puts Grant; a low-key project manager in charge of a 10-million-dollar project. To get the project
successfully completed; Grant decides to outsource most of the work on the project to single source
vendors. The project manager is busy administering and managing the interfaces among the various
providers. To properly document project success; Grant recognizes he would need to go through the
entire project management life cycle which involves:Read More,
Discuss the situaton with your project management team and develop alternatives to the problem -
Correct Answer: Your project will take another year to complete. You know that the type of technology
you are currently using has changed and that if you continue to use this old technology it will impact the
outcome of your project. Your best response is to:Read More,
"Organic/Simple" - Correct Answer: Which one of the following organization structure has the owner or
operator in charge of budget management and is marked by the project manager having little or no
authority?Read More,
Project Charter - Correct Answer: A project management team and the project team must complete
several tasks before defining the scope which involves developing documents that assist in making
, future project decisions. As part of this effort; which one of the following documents is used to develop
detailed description of the project and product?Read More,
Define scope - Correct Answer: In iterative life cycle projects such as Agile projects; a high-level vision
will be developed for the overall project (product backlog); but the detailed scope is determined one
iteration at a time (sprint backlog); and the detailed planning for the next iteration is carried out as work
progresses on the current project scope. What process is being described?Read More,
"Verified deliverables" - Correct Answer: The project team is implementing the project management
plan and wants to be certain they are maximizing benefits from quality audits. Which of the following
would not be a goal of the quality audit effort?Read More,
"The purpose of documenting assumptons is to help identify true; real; or certain factors for the sake of
planning. The team identifies them" - Correct Answer: You are a consultant to the Michigan Nuclear
Plant (MNP) conducting a study to build another nuclear plant for MNP. During your study; you have
made some observations and have documented them in your project assumptions document so that the
construction company can use them to follow the rules and regulations recently spelled out by the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). What is the purpose of an assumptions document and who
is responsible for identifying and documenting assumptions throughout the project?Read More,
"Use KanBan system based on theory-of-constraints" - Correct Answer: A project manager intends to
use a pull-based on-demand scheduling where work is pulled from a large backlog of work to balance
work demand against the team's delivery throughput. What would the PM do next?Read More,
Benchmarking - Correct Answer: You have industry-wide test results for the past four years on
automobile bumper quality. You are comparing the quality of your project's automobile bumper to the
bumpers rated the best in the industry. This is an example of:Read More,
Mearuable project objectives and related success criteria - Correct Answer: A project manager has been
asked to create an outline of a project charter and include items that may be necessary for the project
to document in the charter. The project manager is likely to include at least one of the following items in
the charter:Read More,
Internal mandatory dependency - Correct Answer: A team member looked at a schedule and corrected
it; stating; "testing can only be completed after the module software development". What is the team
member referring to?Read More,
and correct answers
Explain the revised status to management - Correct Answer: You have taken over a project that is
currently in the executing phase and it comes to your attention that the previous project manager
reported milestones as complete that you now realize are not yet complete. Management is unaware of
this. What should you do?Read More,
The management and control desired by the organization - Correct Answer: The number of phases in a
project life cycle is determined by:Read More,
Functional organization - Correct Answer: In which one of the following organizational structures does
the project manager act as a project expediter?Read More,
Initiating - Correct Answer: You are assigned a project that requires the manufacturing of
pharmaceutical equipment for one of your company's current clients. Your company has successfully
executed similar projects in the past. During which process group would you consider referring to
previous project documents of similar projects?Read More,
constraints are limiting factors that affect project execution - Correct Answer: Which one of the
following statements is most accurate regarding constraints?Read More,
Develop project charter - Correct Answer: You have completed a two-week economic feasibility study
and presented your observations to the client. The client realizes the value of your study and approves
the business case for the project. This business case document is used as an input to which process?
Read More,
Risk - Correct Answer: A construction company is building a house for a customer. However; rain has
delayed the finish date by two weeks. The Project Manager is evaluating options to make up the lost
time. After discussing the various options with senior management; the project manager has decided to
fast track the project. By doing so; the project manager would most likely be adding what to the project?
Read More,
,Develop Project Charter - Correct Answer: You have been chartered to build a bridge on Saskatchewan
River connecting two large cities. The project has taken a long time to get approved since the negative
stakeholders were concerned with the structural integrity; environmental damage; and increase in
traffic in both cities. Your reputation in leading projects of similar nature is well known. 50% into the
project; the project status is healthy. In this situation; stakeholder risk tolerance was first considered
during:Read More,
"Work Authorization System (WAS)" - Correct Answer: Jim enthusiastically told his director that the state
agency has selected their company for outsourcing the staff augmentation of about 30 consultants. His
director was happy but advised Jim to get an agreement from the agency to formally start the work. The
agreement provided by the agency can be referred to as any of the following except:Read More,
Mitigation - Correct Answer: Taking action early to reduce the probability of a risk occurring and its
impact on the project is more effective than trying to repair the consequences after the risk has
occurred. Which one of the following risk response approaches uses this strategy?Read More,
Reduce project duration - Correct Answer: A project manager is managing several projects. Three of
those projects are not performing well. The project manager has looked at the charts that show how
much availability exists with each of the team member in a project. Finally; the project manager decided
to fast track a project. The objective of fast tracking a project is to:Read More,
"Opportunity Cost" - Correct Answer: After the unpredictable grand success of their child safety door
knobs for homes; SaveChildLife; the company has been inundated with proposals from many
automobile manufacturers to implement similar technology. They could only pick one of those proposals
and forego all others due to the limited number of resources available in the field. They referred to the
economic value of the next best alternative they gave up as _______________________.Read More,
Scope Baseline - Correct Answer: As a result of a specification modification request from a project
stakeholder; you have gone through the change control process. After approving these changes; you
need to update the:Read More,
The project management team missed identifying some project statkehodlers - Correct Answer:
Functional managers in a project are complaining that their employees cannot cope with the new
requirements that keep cropping up. Which of the following is the most likely cause of your project's
problems?Read More,
,Requirments traceability matrix; control scope - Correct Answer: Sara is a project manager who is
concerned about uncontrolled expansion of project or product scope. What document and process will
help Sara ensure all requested changes and recommended corrective actions to scope are integrated
with integrated change control and scope baseline?Read More,
Direct - Correct Answer: Only desirable behavior of team members should be rewarded. Rewards are
usually effective only if it satisfies a need which is valued by the team member. Resolving team member
differences is initially the responsibility of the team members themselves. Which one of the following
conflict resolution techniques involves a win-lose situation?Read More,
Besides acknowledging; receiver agrees with the senders message. - Correct Answer: Projects include
stakeholders; both positive and negative. Conflicting stakeholder needs are documented in
requirements documentation but elaborated in scope statement. The project manager has vast
experience and knows that 90% of the work constitutes developing a good communications
management plan; scaling it to the needs of the project; and following it diligently. Humans intrinsically
communicate a certain way. The PM intends to manage it to an optimal level to achieve success in the
project. All the following are true about the basic model of communication in this scenario except:Read
More,
Concept; planning; executing; controlling; and closing - Correct Answer: A management consulting firm
puts Grant; a low-key project manager in charge of a 10-million-dollar project. To get the project
successfully completed; Grant decides to outsource most of the work on the project to single source
vendors. The project manager is busy administering and managing the interfaces among the various
providers. To properly document project success; Grant recognizes he would need to go through the
entire project management life cycle which involves:Read More,
Discuss the situaton with your project management team and develop alternatives to the problem -
Correct Answer: Your project will take another year to complete. You know that the type of technology
you are currently using has changed and that if you continue to use this old technology it will impact the
outcome of your project. Your best response is to:Read More,
"Organic/Simple" - Correct Answer: Which one of the following organization structure has the owner or
operator in charge of budget management and is marked by the project manager having little or no
authority?Read More,
Project Charter - Correct Answer: A project management team and the project team must complete
several tasks before defining the scope which involves developing documents that assist in making
, future project decisions. As part of this effort; which one of the following documents is used to develop
detailed description of the project and product?Read More,
Define scope - Correct Answer: In iterative life cycle projects such as Agile projects; a high-level vision
will be developed for the overall project (product backlog); but the detailed scope is determined one
iteration at a time (sprint backlog); and the detailed planning for the next iteration is carried out as work
progresses on the current project scope. What process is being described?Read More,
"Verified deliverables" - Correct Answer: The project team is implementing the project management
plan and wants to be certain they are maximizing benefits from quality audits. Which of the following
would not be a goal of the quality audit effort?Read More,
"The purpose of documenting assumptons is to help identify true; real; or certain factors for the sake of
planning. The team identifies them" - Correct Answer: You are a consultant to the Michigan Nuclear
Plant (MNP) conducting a study to build another nuclear plant for MNP. During your study; you have
made some observations and have documented them in your project assumptions document so that the
construction company can use them to follow the rules and regulations recently spelled out by the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). What is the purpose of an assumptions document and who
is responsible for identifying and documenting assumptions throughout the project?Read More,
"Use KanBan system based on theory-of-constraints" - Correct Answer: A project manager intends to
use a pull-based on-demand scheduling where work is pulled from a large backlog of work to balance
work demand against the team's delivery throughput. What would the PM do next?Read More,
Benchmarking - Correct Answer: You have industry-wide test results for the past four years on
automobile bumper quality. You are comparing the quality of your project's automobile bumper to the
bumpers rated the best in the industry. This is an example of:Read More,
Mearuable project objectives and related success criteria - Correct Answer: A project manager has been
asked to create an outline of a project charter and include items that may be necessary for the project
to document in the charter. The project manager is likely to include at least one of the following items in
the charter:Read More,
Internal mandatory dependency - Correct Answer: A team member looked at a schedule and corrected
it; stating; "testing can only be completed after the module software development". What is the team
member referring to?Read More,
