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Q1) you are a project manager in the implementation phase, if the
project sponsor has told the functional manager that the project will
delay by two weeks, and the Functional Manager has told you to
document that, which type of organizational structure you are working
in?
A.Functional
B. Projectized
C. Matrix
D. Tight Matrix
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Q4) During the halfway of implementation phase you noticed that the
competitor will ready to put away the same product in marketplace.
What should you do next ?
A) Stakeholders analysis
B) Cost benefit analysis
C) Advice the sponsor to cancel the project
D) Update the project charter
Q5) who is the person can modify and make changes in the project
charter?
A.The project Manager
B. The project sponsor
C. The project customer
D. The project team
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Q7) You are a project manager, you requested others to help in
estimate duration, who is the best person can assist you?
A- Subject matter expert (SME)
B- Project sponsor
C- all stackholders
D- HR manger
Q9) You just assigned as a project manger at the initiation phase. The
sponsor guided you to collect the information from the same project
performed two years ago in the same organization. You searched for
data of last project but you can not obtain any information. What the
last project manger missed to do ?
A) Lessons learned
B) OPA update
C) administrative closure
D) obtain final acceptance of product
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Q10) As a project manager which of the following document will help
you to prevent "scope creep"?
A.Project management plan
B. Scope management plan
C. Change management plan
D. Project file
Q11) you are a project manager and during collect the requirements
for your project by group creativity technique you want to generate
and organize information . This technique called:
A.Brainstorming
B. Nominal group technique
C. Affinity diagram
D. Idea/mind mapping
Q12) After a major milestone release, one of the key stakeholders are
not happy and complain their requirements are not being met. In
which of the following processes should the project manager have
involved them to ensure their approval for the release?
A. Validate scope
B. Control Scope
C. Change management
D. Develop project charter
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Q13) You are reviewing your project where PV=5000 & AC=4000 &
EV=3000. What is the project situation:
A. Project is going normal and it will be managed and closed normally.
B. Project is under budget but ahead of schedule
C. Project is going slower than planned
D. Project should be terminated as no solution to fix it
Q15) On your project, you notice that an activity takes longer than
what was planned, you have told the project team that an activity does
not in the project scope, so you will review which document?
A.Project Scope statement
B. Scope management plan
C. project management plan
D. change management plan
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Q16) Feeding buffers and the project buffer are part of which of the
following Develop Schedule tools and techniques?
A. Critical path method
B. Schedule network analysis
C. Critical chain method
D. Applying leads and lags
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Q19) Sponsor know the information about the project as behind
schedule and over budget but he want more details about the
progress .. as PM What should you provide to the project sponsor
about STATUS of the project ?
1-work performance information
2- Earned value report
3- work performance report
4- work performance data
Q21) You are a project manager, and one of your project team
members informs you that the manufacturing environment of the
product is differ than the environment of use, and climate change will
be a factor. What tool will help you for this purpose?
A.Cause-and-effect diagrams
B. Pareto diagrams
C. Control Charts
D. Scatter diagrams
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Q22) While working on the project to assess and measure quality, you
are determining the number and type of tests and their impact on cost
of quality. What technique are you using?
A. Design of experiments
B. Analogous estimating
C. Benchmarking
D. Cost of quality
Q24) In your project, one of your project team leave the site early at
2:00 pm Friday you would like to establish clear expectations regarding
the acceptable behavior of the team member to avoid such situations
you should establish:
A. Team-building activities
B. Ground rules
C. Interpersonal skills
D. Management skills
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Q25) After completing some work required to develop your project
team members, such as training. what will you do next?
A. Team performance assessments
B. Team building activities
C. Staff assignments
D. WBS dictionary elements
Q26) Two team members on your project often disagree. You need a
conflict resolution method that provides a long-term resolution. You
decide to use which one of the following approaches?
a. Smoothing
b. Problem solving
c. Compromise
d. Withdrawal
Q27) You are a project coordinator from the buyer side. The supplier
side project manager reached out to you to recommend a change in
the proposal which will greatly benefit the end product. You believe
the same but your PM think otherwise. As per him it's a waste of time
and told you to continue with the existing project plan. What conflict
resolution technique did the project manager use?
A. Compromising
B. Smoothing
C. Direct/force
D. Avoid
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Q28) You have a virtual team is a multinational stakeholder, want to
take an approval for scope change. What is the communication
method for this purpose?
A) Push communication
B) interactive communication
C) Transmit message
D) Pull communication .
Q29) one of your project team do a lot of meeting with the sponsor &
customer , without inform you ... what shall you do as a project
manager ?
1-ensure ground rules
2-show/ review him communication management plan
3-advise him to the project team directory
4-refer him to the HR Management plan
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Q31) While completing your assessment of the risks on your project,
you begin to examine the ones with the greatest potential Risk to your
project. You are using a diagram to help you complete this task, and
you are currently looking at the high priority risks. What diagram
would best help you?
A. Control chart
B. Tornado Diagram
C. Pareto char
D. Risk register
Q32) A project has a duration of three years, at the midway the project
manger resigned. A new project manger assigned, at the first meeting
the project team told him that a flood may happened at the next few
month and will affect to the project equipment.
What is the project manger do next?
A) review a risk management plan
B) Using a management reserves
C) Using a workaround
D) Update the risk register
Q33) During executing phase, one of your project team has told you
that, the cement will delay, as a project what should you do next?
A. Workaround
B. A Workaround plan
C. contingency reserve
D. change Management plan
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Q34) You have decided to take out insurance on your project to cover
your project financially if a risk occurs. This is an example of what sort
of risk response?
A.Transference
B. Mitigation
C. Sharing
D. Avoidance
Q35) The project manager need to update existing status of the new
risk and close the outdate risk what is tools will use ?
1- Risk Audit
2- Risk Assessment
3- Risk reassessment
4- probability and impact matrix
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Q37) After several months of negotiations your organization is almost
ready to sign a contract. The contract will span multiple years and
allow for final price adjustments based on changing conditions. The
ideal contract type is:
A.Firm fixed price
B. Fixed price incentive fee
C. Fixed price with economic price adjustment
D. Time and materials
Q39) at the end of your project, you found that your team document
only the reasons of success only as lessons learned. What is the best
course of action in this situation?
A. The project team is correct
B. Meet with the project team and tell them that necessary to
document both success and failures reasons as lessons learned
C. Nothing to do
D. Escalate the problem to the sponsor
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Q40) Which of the following tools and techniques helping you to
classifying the identified stakeholders
A) Stakeholders register
B) Stakeholders assessment matrix
C) power/ interest grid
D) Focus groups
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Q43) Your customer always asking for a lot of changes of scope and
product features during the project execution. You accept all changes
to meet a customer satisfaction. After a distance of time of execution,
you noticed an inflation at project budget. What should have done to
prevent this situation?
A) Cost management plan
B) Control scope
C) change management plan
D) Scope management plan
Q45) During the design for a new mobile phone project, one of your
team members discovers an approach for increasing the stowage area
for phone without increasing the expenses of project. What is the best
risk response should you plan ?
A) Accept
B) Mitigate
C) Exploit
D) Transfer
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Q46) A project manager is using a method that not consider risk to
perform schedule network analysis ,which type of duration estimates is
being the project manager used?
A. Critical path method
B. Monte Carlo
C. Beta distribution
D. Triangular distribution
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Q49) You are a project manager. Working with an important client in a
constru tio uildi g for o ths’ duratio . IF the Custo er
requested you to finish the building in six months, as a project
manager what will you do next?
A- Fast-tracking
B- Negotiate with the client to provide additional funding, and submit
change request.
C- Crashing
D- What-if-scenario analysis
Q52) Your team is not directly reporting to you as PM and one serious
problem occurred. who will be responsible to solve it?
1. PM
2.Sponsor
3.HR manager
4.PMO
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Q53) Who should discuss the Strategic Direction during Kick of meeting
1.Project manager
2. Sponsor
3- Customer
4- PMO manger
Q54) A project manager is faced with two team members who have
conflicting opinions. One team member explains her side of the conflict.
The other tea e er respo ds sa i g, I k o ou’ll e er
really listen to my side, so let’s just go ith her opi io a d get a k to
ork. This is a e a ple of:
A. Compromise
B. Smoothing
C. Withdrawal
D. Forcing
Q55) You are a project manager of a large construction project for the
government. The customer is asking for multiple scope changes. You
are considering these requested changes and trying to determine their
true magnitudes. You are most likely to review what document?
A. The WBS
B. Cost management plan
C. The project charter
D. Scope management plan
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Q56) You are a buyer side project manager and have given a contract
to a small startup company. In the middle of the project, supplier
reported to you that he won't be able to deliver all the deliverables
which are required to be completed as a part of this project. What
could have been done differently to prevent this type of situation?
A. Giving the contract to more experienced vendor
B. Reviewing the agreement regularly.
C. Performing procurement reviews regularly
D. More Stringent/Strict Selection Criteria
Q58) Your project is going very well ahead of schedule and behind
budget, and near to complete. The one of very vital technical members
transferred to other project out of organization.and one of team
member told you that he can do his job and complete the project
without him .. What should you do next?
A) Do nothing, the project is near to completion.
B) Assign other member to take his duties.
C) negotiated with functional manger to assign a new member.
D) Evaluate the impact with team members
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Q59) You are a project manger in a new software project. during
managing a stakeholder expectations, at the end of design phase, you
found one of key stakeholders complain of a one of work package still
not complete.
You do not agree and review with him the WBS dictionary but the
stakeholder still unsatisfied.
What is the next document you should review ?
A) Scope Baseline
B) Requirement management plan
C) Scope management plan
D) WBS
Q60) During a study of benefit analysis the project sponsor require that
to submit a proposal for implementation strategy, what should you do
next :
A) Identify the key deliverable
B) Invite the stakeholder for discussions
C) Identify high level risk, constrains and assumptions
D) review the SOW.
Q16) You have just learned that your project's sole equipment supplier
has gone out of business. This is an unanticipated risk, and will cause a
delay in the project until a new vendor can be selected and contracts
put in place. What do you do?
A. Continue working on non critical path tasks.
B. Put out on RFP for new vendors.
C. Notify the project stakeholders.
D. Consult with legal counsel.
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Q12) You are managing the changes made to the scope baseline. The
causes of variances and the reasoning behind the corrective action
chosen should be included in:
A - Recommended corrective action
B - Project management plan
C. Scope management plan
D. Organizational process assets updates
Q63) Which of the following describe the reason why the project is
authorized ?
A.Project charter.
B. Business case.
C. Scope statement of work.
D. Project management plan
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Q65) At the end of the project kick-off meeting, what is the next
process?
A.Initiating
B. Planning
C. Executing
D. Closing
Q66) During the implementation phase for an IT project. You found the
budget of one of supplied software packages became much more than
you expected. What should have done to prevent this situation?
A) Make or buy decision
B) procurement audit
C) Independent estimate
D) inspection and audit
Q67) During the implementation phase, you know that one of the
suppliers who is working on your project has taken another project. As
a project manager, what should you do next?
A.Remove the supplier from you project
B. change management plan
C. Procurement Performance review
D. Procurement review
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Q68) You are a project manager in a construction project. IF one of the
subcontractors who is working with you usually gives you incorrect
reports, causing you to not send the correct status of the project to the
stakeholders. As a project manager, what should you do next?
A.Tell the project sponsor about the subcontractor
B. Remove him from the project
C. Review communications Management plan
D. Nothing to do as a project manager
Q70) A project manager is using a method that not considering the risks
on its estimate to perform estimate activity duration. Which type of
duration estimates is being the project manager used?
A- Triangular distribution
B- Beta distribution
C- Resource leveling
D- Monte Carlo
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Q71) You are a project manager. And one of your project team has told
you that, there are cost overruns. What could you have done to prevent
this situation?
A.Expert Judgment
B. Analogous Estimating
C. Forecasting
D. Reserve Analysis
Q74) Your project has a budget = $2,000. After two-thirds of the project
duration has been spent $1,500, your project could be best described as:
A. Under Budget
B. Over Budget.
C. Within the budget
D. Cannot be determined with the available information
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Q75) What is the correct sequence for these tools and techniques used
in Project Time Management?
1- Decomposition work packages into activities, allocate resources,
schedule task
2-Dependency determination, Decomposition, Bottom up
estimating, and Resource leveling
3-Variance analysis, Three point estimates, Dependency determination,
and Decomposition
4-Decomposition, Alternatives analysis, Variance analysis, and
Resource leveling
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Q77) Which of the following tools used to identify and analyze project
risks?
A-Simulation
B-Expert judgment.
C-Probability and impact matrix.
D. Reserve Analysis
Q78) You are project manger and you have been finished make or buy
analysis and bidder conference & applied source selection criteria for
your sellers, what you should have to do next?
A-Select seller.
B-Procurement negotiation.
C-Sign contract
D-Close contract
Q79) You are project manager for a systems integration effort and need
to procure the hardware components from external sources. Your
subcontracts administrator has told you to prepare a product
description, which is referenced in a—
A.Project statement of work
B. Contract scope statement
C.Request for proposal
D. Contract
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Q80) As a project manger, you have in your project a vendor delayed in
supplying some resources even the accounting system by hourly
rate. What should you refer for resolving this issue?
A) Procurement management plan
B) Procurement documents
C) Agreement
D) Arbitration
Q81) During the Kick- off meeting the stakeholders did not accept for
project management plan. What should you refer to persuade the
stakeholders?
A) Cost benefit analysis
B) Project charter
C) project management plan
D) SOW Bottom of Form
Q82) At the midway of the project, the project sponsor told you that the
project will terminated. You already signed a contract with a vendor and
the vendor already started for supplying materials.
What should you do next?
A) Follow the procedures of close procurement
B) Review the contract terms
C) Negotiating with vendor
D) Ask the vendor to stop supplying
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Q 83) What is the technique can be used to study a factor at the point of
greatest leverage to reduce design costs by speeding up the design
process, reducing late engineering design changes, and reducing product
material and labor complexity, eventually get a best product with
unique function.
A) Control chart
B) Benchmarking
C) Pareto chart
D) D.O.E
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Q86) One of the tasks that are completed at the start of a project is to
conduct the first project meeting, known as the project kick-off
eeti g. What’s the purpose of the proje t ki k-off meeting?
A. It introduces the project goals/objectives
B. The project manager gain the commitment from the key
stakeholders
C. Approved project charter
D. Discuss the project Schedule
Q55) The CV= -1.1 and the SV=1.2. How is your project doing?
1. Ahead of schedule, under budget
2. Ahead of schedule, over budget
3. Behind schedule, under budget
4. Behind schedule, over budget
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Q89) As a project manager of a construction project, you understand
the importance of contract documents and correspondence for future
references. Which of the following can be used to manage and store
contract documents and records?
A. Records management system
B. Lessons learned
C. Project file
D. Performance reports
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Q92) Your project in the planing phase, the project team commence
to estimating cost by using work breakdown structure. What is the tool
the project team use ?
A) Analogous estimating
B) Parametric estimating
C) Top-down estimating
D) Bottom-up estimating
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Q95) Based on the following table, as a project manager which risk are
you going to tell the project stakeholders is the greatest and is
therefore the biggest concern of the team right now?
A. Risk (A)
Risk Probability impact
B. Risk (B)
C. Risk(C) and Risk (D) A 0.1 7
D. Risk (E) B 0.2 12.5
C 0.4 5
D 0.5 4
E 0.4 3
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Q98) You are a project manger . you notice that the IT department
always late the deliverables and talked to the responsiple then
informed his manger but still there are delays . what you should do
next ?
A) Esclation as per Communication Management plan.
B) Do nothing
C) ask the Sponsor for help
D) Review Stakeholder managment plan
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Q101) Which of the following tools and technique can helping you
investigate the likelihood that each specific risk will occur.
A)Risk Probability and Impact Assessment
B) Monte carlo
C) Risk categorization
D) Probability and Impact matrix
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Q104) You are a project manager, and one of your project team
members informs you that the manufacturing environment of the
product is differ than the environment of use, and climate change will
be a factor. What tool will help you for this purpose?
A.Cause‐a d‐effe t diagra s
B. Pareto diagrams
C. Control Charts
D. Scatter diagrams
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Q107) Your project is going very well ahead of schedule and behind
budget, and near to complete. The one of very vital technical members
transferred to other project out of organization. What should you do
next?
A) Do nothing; the project is near to completion.
B) Assign other member to take his duties.
C) Negotiated with functional manger to assign a new member
D) Review the risk management plan
Q109) The change request approved by CCB ... what is the FIRIST thing
should you do as a project manger ?
1- Ask the sponsor for authorization
2- Rivised the plans and baselines
3- implement the change request
4- evaluate the imapact with team meamber
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Q110) During creating the Project charter , Sponsor tell you that the
government has been issued a new law and may be effect the project ,
this law will apply after 6 months ... what is the FIRIST thing should you
do as a project manger ?
1- Add new law in EEF
2- Ignore the new law
3- Ask your management what should you do
4- meeting with SH and evaluate the impact
Q111) You are a project manger for buyer organization ... you signed a
contract with a seller to finish a part of project scope . your financial
manager tell you that the contract must be increase 20 % and after the
meeting with the seller to discuss this increase, the seller have no
problem . What is the FIRST thing should you do as a project manger ?
1-Issue change request
2- evaluate the impact on project constraints
3- Reject the contract increase
4- Review the Procurement Management Plan
Q112) You are the manager of a new infrastructure project for a new
city. During the project implementation, the project team checked
some activities in the project. Then a team of the company audit the
results and measurements and confirmed that it according to the
company's policies and procedures, what inputs do you need for this
process?
1-Process improvement plan
2- Project management plan
3- Communication management plan
4- Risk register
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Q113) During the creating of the Project charter , the key Stakeholders
in several different locations, the Sponsor tell you that you should use
the telephone to communicate with the key Stakeholders . what inputs
do you need for this process?
1-EEF & OPA
2- Risk Register
3- Communication management plan
4- Project management plan
Q114) During the execution phase your project team found few defects
on the test product. These defects need a special focus from the team
to correct them. Team decided to focus on important defects and you
agreed with them. As a PM you have chosen which technique:
A. Affinity diagrams
B. Pareto chart
C. Tornado diagram
D. Histogram chart
Q115) You have received several proposals from vendors and you are
in the process to award the contract. While comparing two proposals
from bidders, you found that one is low and the other is significantly
high. Which tool you can choose to resolve this kind of scenario?
A. Bidder Conferences
B. Independent Estimates
C. Advertising
D. Procurement Negotiations
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Q116) Key stakeholder reject the deliverable and said the project
doesn't meet its objectives any more. what document you will review
with the key stakeholder?
A. Project management plan
B.Project charter
C. procurement management plan.
D.SH register
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Q119) You are at closure of your IT project when the PMO head called
you asking to communicate formal project closure. What should you do
to achieve PMO request ?
A) Obtain formal acceptance from Customer .
B) Prepare and share final project report.
C) Obtain administrative, legal and financial closure .
D) Collect lesson learned and update knowledge base.
Q120) You are working on a project and want to know how many
activities in the previous month were completed with significant
variances. You should use ?
A.Control chart
B. Inspection
C. Scatter diagram
D. Trend analysis
Q121) The project scope baseline should be used in the identify risks
process because it—
A. Identifies project assumptions
B. Identifies all work that must be done; therefore, it includes all risks
on the project.
C. Helps organize all work that must be done on the project.
D. Contains information on risks from prior projects
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