What is the meaning of the acronym CSOW ?

Crashing describes a technique to speed up a project by…........

During risk identification sessions, you and your team identified more than 150 risks for your project. You are afraid that evaluating each of these risks quantitatively will cost you an enormous amount of time, while not all of them are really relevant and important enough to justify such a measure. What should you do next ?

During execution of a project, you observe that the performance of some of your team members is dropping, while others are doing a consistently good job. This is endangering overall project progress. What should you try first to bring the team as a whole back to performance?

Your management announced that they want to put you on a stretch assignment. In this situation, you should consider that…

Following the cultural approach of the corporation for which you are starting to manage a project, you are guiding your project team through the first life-cycle phase of conceptualization. Your next step is to call for a team meeting to let ideas emerge in an unrestricted creative process. What exactly should that look like?

In configuration management, which of the following is necessary to maintain the integrity of baselines?

A representative of your customer approached you this morning referring to a part of your team that works on customer’s premises. She complained that your team members do not fully blend with her staff and that there are conflicts originating in different corporate cultures of your organization and hers. She demanded that you motivate them to display more stewardship What is she referring to? (Choose 3)

Which is not a point used for three-point estimation?

Which of the following are not common barriers to project team building?

During project planning, you are presented with the following diagram that depicts a cumulative likelihood distribution for the duration of a project:

While executing a project, you sense a slightly negative attitude in your team. Which type of document do you now need, among others, to better understand and then be able to improve the situation?

The sales representative of your company recently contacted you. You made some estimates on direct costs for an offer on a firm fixed-price contract. According to company policies, indirect costs (overheads) are to be calculated as a percentage of the direct costs, the sum of both cost types caused him to calculate a far too high price. How should you not react?

A project charter is a document that…

You identified a technical risk in your project and assigned a contingency for that. Planning contingency reserves is part of which risk response strategy?

Which concept of locating team members can help them best to enhance their performance as a team?

In a lawsuit between your organization and a project contractor, the term “Constructive change” is discussed. Which statements on constructive changes are true?

You are assigned as a project manager for an internal project. During cost planning and budgeting you discovered that there are peak times of costs during the project and other times when costs are fairly low. What could this mean for the project?

You are going to take over a new project as the project manager in an enterprise unknown to you. What should you investigate during the chartering process?

An organization is considering various contract types in order to motivate sellers and to ensure preferential treatment. What should they consider before deciding to use an award fee contract?

What is least important when it comes to archiving project records?

_____________are not necessarily used to establish the cost baseline of a project.

You took over a customer project for your company. From the inputs available, including contract, statement of work and project charter, you have developed a project management plan. You already presented that plan in a meeting with key stakeholders including your project sponsor and some representatives from the customer organization. During the meeting you sensed a high level of dissatisfaction by the customer executives, who signaled that the project might not produce the results that their company had expected. In your understanding, all necessary actions have been planned to meet the customer’s requirements. What should you do next?

What is not true for project deliverables?

Your project, performed for a customer, is coming to an end. The customer has been contractually granted a three years warranty period for the product of the project. What should you do first?

Being the project manager in a high-risk electronics project with a lot of new technologies, you developed a risk management plan and identified risks which you documented in a risk register. Then, the risks were analyzed and response was planned. During risk control meetings, it gets obvious that the documents you created are not very helpful. What have you probably done wrong?

Which is generally not regarded as one of the three categories of culture that managers should master?

Post-mortem analysis after scheduled finish date of a project shows a CPI of 0.8 and an SPI of 1.25. What is a plausible explanation for that?

Some colleagues told you that they are planning, executing, monitoring and controlling a project by use of milestones only with durations between 1 and 4 weeks. What do you think?

Together with your team, you applied three-point estimation on a cost item using a Beta distribution.

You are just leaving a meeting during which you have been assigned as the manager of a project to build a sub-station that is part of a major electric power distribution system. The decision to run the project has been made before your assignment and without your involvement. Some basic decisions on deliverables, staffing, budgeting and on the completion date have already been made as well. What should you do first?

What is the purpose of the following diagram?

Which is not a goal in both project management and quality management?

You created a baseline of your system configuration and added several changes to that as amendments. Meanwhile you are afraid that the big number of Deltas may cause inconsistencies and make you unable to understand the current system configuration. What should you do?

A request, demand or assertion of a contract partner for consideration, compensation or payment under a legally binding contract, such as a disputed change, is often referred to as a____.90

Projects may be initiated by all of the following except____.

During planning processes, you used Monte Carlo simulation to quantitatively assess cost and schedule risks of your project. During risk control, you repeat the technique, and it leads to different results. What should not be the reason for that ?

As a project manager you can assign any one of two team members to a highly coveted task. Both are equally capable, but one of them is a member of your in-group. To the other one, you have far more distance. How should you behave?

For your agile product development to build a food processing plant, you need a batch of 100 identical valves which will be custom made for your project. There is a risk of deterioration of the valves during processing; therefore you placed requirements on the quality of the raw materials for them, which will make production very expensive. To cover the risk of costly production failure, you add more testing to the backlog. What should this altered backlog version be referred to?

Which statements are correct? Progressive elaboration of project scope…

You are managing an internationally dispersed project team. The members of your team have different cultural backgrounds and primary languages, but all are educated and able to communicate eloquently in English. You should nevertheless bear in mind that…

When finishing a project, which factors that influence customer satisfaction the most should you be aware of?

When identifying the basis of the business need for a project all of the following can be considered except____,

You are discussing with your project team to implement a “hybrid” approach. In a hybrid approach to perform a project, what will you do?

You finished your project for a customer to implement a business software solution. All deliverables have been handed over and are already in use by the company. There is a minor last payment to be made by the customer on contract closure. You believe that it is now getting time to finally close the contract with the customer and then administratively close down the project. You approached the customer this morning and found that they are reluctant to finally close the contract. But you do not exactly understand why. What should you not do?

At the end of an internal project, you find several key stakeholders including the sponsor reluctant to finally accept all deliverables and then close the project. What should not be your next step in this situation?

When running a project as a project manager, what should you focus on during the executing processes?

A review of your project team member’s most recent performance reports shows a major drop in output. Which is the best approach to raise team productivity in a project?

A project customer and a contractor agreed on regular quality audits during execution by a third party audit team, which is working on an assignment for the customer. What should the contractor have prepared for the audits?

Your team is complaining that requirements against which it is going to work are not sufficiently clarified. Which are criteria that well-defined requirements should meet? (Chose 3)

What should you focus on when managing the stakeholders of your project?

What should not be your thoughts when you are organizing documents as lessons learned?

You are identifying key stakeholders for your project. Which of the following groups is least likely to be included?

You are using a phase gate approach for your project. What do you need to consider?

Post mortem earned value analysis of a project showed the following data:

A project has undergone a major scope change, which increased cost and work levels. What does this mean for earned value data?

Which statement describes best the meaning of servant-leadership?

As a project manager, you must demonstrate transparency regarding…

Who should always issue the project charter?

You are planning quality management for your project. How can a process flowchart help you?

A difference between a statement of work and a scope statement is:

You are the manager of a project for a company that is known to make heavy use of extrinsic motivators in order to boost morale and team performance. What does that mean? The motivators used…

When should a time and material contract with a contractor been chosen instead of a fixed price contract?

Being assigned as a project manager, you noticed during project execution that conflicts arise in the team on both technical and interpersonal levels. What is an appropriate way of handling conflicts?

What is the purpose of a project charter?

Which is a central objective of using a Kanban board?

What does the term continuous delivery often refer to?

The communications management plan is a document which includes descriptions of

___________are usually not a manifestation of unique organizational cultures and styles.

Which of the following are generally regarded as elements of active listening?

As the project manager, you decided to arrange a team meeting to identify and analyze lessons learned from quality control with stakeholders. What should you do with them?

Your Scrum Team is working with a Product Owner. During daily Scrum meetings, the person criticizes your team’s perceived “dysfunctionality” and requires that one developer should be delegated to take the lead? What could be an appropriate response to that? (Choose 2)

How should change management be planned for?

According to Bruce Tuckman, what are the stages of team development?

What is not a reason for companies to organize lessons learned?

How does a project management team stay in touch with the work and the attitudes of project team members?

Your project is running into a number of issues that could have been predicted using a formal risk management process with appropriate documentation Which document could have helped you and should have been developed along the risk management processes from identify risks through plan and implement risk responses to monitor risks?

A customer is requiring a minor scope change and expects you to do this without delays and additional costs. You believe that you have adequate authorization to make the decision by yourself, but you are not quite sure. What should be your next steps?

A facilitator should…

As the project manager in a software project which is currently initiated, you want to assess high level risks. What should you do?

In most jurisdictions, a legally required order of formal statements establishing a contract is:

What should managers consider before conducting a performance evaluation interview with a project team member?

During team development, the handling of assumptions is causing problems. Some team members reject the notion that assumptions are an expression of uncertainty. Others recommended to make exploring assumptions an essential element of team building, following the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model Which statement describes best the handling of assumptions in this model?

A WBS dictionary is a document which…

You are in the process of contacting sellers to obtain bids and proposals. You found out that it might become a time-consuming procedure to ensure that the sellers get a clear and common understanding of the procurement process and of the needs of your project. Which technique may help you save time?

While you implement the plans of your project, you find that cultural differences and incompatibilities among your team members cause issues and resolving them leads to delays. As a project manager, when should you especially consider cultural differences? (Choose 2)

At the beginning of project execution, you notice different opinions between team members relating to project work and deliverables and to the level of overall complexity. What should you do right now?

You have just taken over as manager of a project that will create many benefits for the performing organization, but you sense a high level of resistance in various stakeholders right from the start. What is the most appropriate action to resolve the problem?

You are in the process of planning a project and found that stakeholders often have varying objectives and requirements. This makes it hard to come up with a plan with which all objectives will be met. What is probably most helpful to ensure common understanding?

Projects frequently do not meet customer expectations for which of the following reasons?

You are the project manager for the development of a new type of power plant. Your project is making fast progress, and it is getting nearer to the day of product acceptance. Which technique will be most important for product acceptance?

You have a discussion with management in organizations that the costs of quality are hard to assign and to balance against each What are the cost types in modern quality management?

During the execution of a project to build a complex defense system, your team has run into a deep crisis. The project’s goal and objectives have been challenging right from the start, but now you have discovered that your team members have become increasingly unaware of them. Being busy solving detail problems, they often fail to understand the overall requirements. Then they develop solutions which resolve issues in their area of limited responsibility, while causing new problems at the interfaces with other system components. Meanwhile, the team members show signs of growing frustration, and time is running away. How can you help your team in this situation?

During execution in a project to build a major road bridge, your team found a major flaw in the technical drawings. On an ad-hoc base, they had to find and implement a workaround to avoid delays and mitigate technical problems. What should you do next?

You recently took over the assignment for a project. The project charter has been developed. What is an appropriate next step for you?

You scheduled a kick-off meeting in order to announce the start of your project, present the plan and develop consensus on it. Another topic will be explanation of each team member’s role. In addition, you planned some time for discussions. You published the agenda of the kick-off meeting some weeks ago to all invited attendees. Now, short term before the event, you receive various cancellations by team members, who say that they cannot join the meeting. But they will be with you when project work will start.

During a meeting, a discussion came up: To which degree does your project have to be compliant to the processes enumerated in the PMBOK® Guide? What should be the guiding principle to answer this question?

Your project team is complaining that the acceptance criteria of their work result are unclear and ask you to provide clarification with the customer. You arrange a meeting, and several criteria are identified. The product acceptance criteria should now be laid down in which documents? (Choose 2)

During project execution you found out that work is often not performed at the right time and in the right order. Deliverables are made by one team member that cannot be processed by another one. This already leads to timely rework and bad morale among team members. Which project management tool is most appropriate to deal with problems like this?

Your management is applying the 10 percent solution: It has requested that you reduce the budget for the project which you are currently initiating by 10%. What will this probably mean for your project?

While applying procurement management processes in your project, you identified the need to gain a more objective understanding of sellers’ capabilities in order to rank proposals and develop a negotiating sequence. Which technique may help avoid bias and subjective decisions best?

During code inspection in a major software development project, a project management team identified frequent occurrences of critical programming errors. These errors are scattered across the code and occur without a discernible pattern. Which tool is most likely to help the team identify areas of error concentration in order to develop a prioritized response strategy?39

The term baseline is used in both disciplines project management and configuration management. Which statement is not true?

The scope baseline includes____.

During human resource planning you identified that your team members are not sufficiently qualified for their tasks. Which may be an appropriate solution to this problem?

You are performing a customer project for a customer in a high-context cultural environment, while you and your team are in a low context country. Different communication styles and contents repeatedly led to conflicts between the organizations. What is typical for high-context cultures?

In general, processes of configuration management do not include…

The ____________ is a document which describes how the project management team will implement the performing organization’s quality policy.

What do you expect when you are submitting an invitation for bid to sellers?

What is important for quality auditors?

Your agile team is uncertain for which elements of the project what methods should be applied. A recommendation was to follow the stages of uncertainty. Which are these stages?

You are running a major project with four sub-projects. Each of the sub-project managers has developed a risk management plan, identified many risks, analyzed them and planned for risk response. It is now two months later. What should you not do?

What is true for statistical sampling?

A project team was asked by a customer to shorten the cycle time of an iterative-incremental approach. What benefits may the customer hope to achieve?

What is not true for change requests?

You recently assigned staff members to activities, estimated work and scheduled your project. You then created the following resource histogram for your staff:

A project manager’s PDM network schedule gets audited by a scheduling expert. The expert tells the project manager to focus more on nodes with “path convergence”, also known as “sinks”. What is the person referring to?

The members of your project team have been assigned to your project with general availability levels of 50%. Yesterday, they reported to you that significant variances occurred during project execution. You have noted that the team members have been spending less than 50% of their time working on your project. Your project schedule is about to become heavily delayed, and deadlines are in jeopardy. What should you do?

You are the manager of a major project to develop a system of barriers to prevent a seaside city from flooding. Together with your team you created a code of conduct stating that the change control board must be immediately notified of gifts when the value exceeds $90. The same applies to invitations when the value exceeds $150. Today, a contractor executive sent you an invitation for a night at an opera with a value of $95. It is a one-time event and you tried to obtain tickets by yourself without success. The person told you that he would so much wish to join you, but he will not be available on that day, and he could get hold of only one ticket anyway. What do you have to do?

You found that colocating team members from different cultures in one place is not possible in your project. What should you focus on to ensure that the dispersed team works well? (select 2)

You are running a project to develop the production process for a future electronic component. Evaluating some first test batches, you found out that the precision is generally quite good, but that you have some irregular outliers in an increasing frequency. You believe that motivators in use for workers making the batches are losing their effectiveness and complacency creeps in. According to D. Pink. which motivators are least likely to lose effectiveness?

As a leader, how should you deem ethical conduct?

You have recently been named as the manager of a new project under contract. The sponsor of the project gave you the contract signed by the customer and a statement of work. He asked you to go on with initiation. Which document should you develop next?

When is passive risk acceptance an appropriate approach?

You are running a project to engineer and implement a set of business processes and a software solution for customer relationship management. The project involves a big number of performing organizations―a major corporation and many suppliers of different sizes. During the project you observed a restraining effect of differences between the companies’ corporate cultures. This leads to different expectations on how such a project should be handled and to frequent misunderstandings between stakeholders. Another effect is a growing degree of distrust and skepticism. What should you try first to integrate the diverse stakeholder groups?

During execution of your project you have observed that a team member is getting isolated by other team members. Which is a wrong approach in such a situation?

In an organization, project managers report directly to the head of a project management office (PMO). In this case, which statement is probably not true?

During a project, you applied a series of measurements relating to team performance and product performance. You were warned that the act of measurement may influence the outcomes. What is this measurement pitfall referred to?

The use of scarce resources must be decided upon with functional managers before it causes delays in your project. Which is probably your most important skill right now?

Which question is not appropriate for a weighting system to evaluate seller’s performance according to weighted criteria?

Which is not an example of a correctly handled contract closure procedure?

You gathered a lot of knowledge on project management in your business life. What is an appropriate use for that?

Respect is…...

During a post-mortem meeting, discussion arises about who has to take responsibility for some major failures. It has become obvious that the attendees of the meeting will not come to a jointly accepted conclusion. What is not an appropriate strategy for such a situation?

Understanding cultural key similarities and differences is especially important for…..

Your project team is on its way to finish work on the project, while you have the impression that a staff member is already negotiating the next assignment in another project. You are afraid that the person may come under pressure to start working on the other job before she has finished her work for your project. Her task is very complex, and it would be hard for someone else to take up the partial results and finish them. What action is most likely to resolve the situation?

When control charts are used, outliers are…..

You are running a project which was budgeted based on some rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimates with a precision of -50% /+100%. Meanwhile, with new estimates made on detail level and some work already finished, you found out that these estimates were consistently too low and the budget will not be sufficient to successfully run and finish the project. What should you do?

Which is typically not specified in a document referred to as activity attributes?

In a country with high level of violence in public, a local police officer requires a private money transfer to ensure the safety of your team. How do you react?

Which is not a type of project review meeting?

You are performing integrated change control. Which of the following will not be part of what you do?

You are project manager for a strategic project with a multi-million dollars value assigned by a company that is listed at a US stock exchange. Recent Earned Value Analysis after app. 25% completion told you that your project has a CPI of 0.76. What should you do right now?

A management point in a work breakdown structure (WBS) used to consolidate and process work package data and forward the results to the project manager is called

You are the project manager supervising several Scrum teams that work concurrently in your project. While you are planning the work items for your team members for the next three-months sprint, which criticism is should you expect your team to come up with?

When you perform quality assurance in your project, which technique could you typically use?

The___________can be used to assess outlays and funding requirements.

Which technique has been applied to develop the following diagram?

Your organization has the choice between several internal projects it could run. In order to select projects, the organization assessed their strategic importance, investment requirements, and expected cash inflow from the projects’ products, services and results. What should the organization assess in addition?

Which of the following is not a forecasting method?

Processes of configuration management commonly include all of the following except:

A project manager tracks the work of team members using a network logic diagram. Which effect will the presence of an actual finish date have on the calculation of float for the finished activity?

Your project work has generally been finished and you want to commence a solid closing process for the project. What must have been attained to begin this process?

The situational leadership model as defined by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard consists of the stages____.

A Pareto chart helps focusing on…

When should the project schedule be developed?

What is wrong in this diagram?

What is the purpose of control limits?

What is not the main purpose of a final project report?

You are managing a project that bears a risk to either permanently damage or strongly improve the reputation of the performing organization with its customer base. You decide to call a meeting with the organization’s management to make them aware of the issue and discuss possible options. Which risk response strategy are you applying?

A project manager has developed various risk response strategies for a high-risk project. When presenting some of the results, she emphasizes the importance of putting the responses into action instead of leaving them documented as a plan that might get forgotten. Which process is she most likely referring to?

For a project to replace an older ERP software with a more modern tool in an organization, you have identified a number of risks. You have documented them in a detailed list. A manger from executive level has asked you now to summarize the overall project risk exposure with appropriate metrics, as well as individual high-level risks along with a quick presentation of responses with their pros and cons. Which document is probably required by the person in this situation?

In order to prepare yourself for a new project assignment that requires adaptive methods, you have developed a plan for how to tailor the project management approach using a combination of some agile principles with other, more predictive techniques. Regarding your own personal development, which aspect of the PMI talent triangle did you particularly address?

The organization for which you are currently managing an IT infrastructure project has informed you that they have hired an agile coach who is now available to help with several projects, including yours. In a meeting to get to know each other, the coach suggests to introduce regular project retrospectives. You are thinking about what the person might be referring to. What would be the best answer?

A project manager is asked to contribute to a document to describe what is intended to be achieved with a project once it is successfully finished, and how this will be measured. What could be the name of that document?

Which of the following can usually be referred to as factors which trigger the need for a new project?

What is a project business case?

Which type of Organizational Process Asset should be updated by the project team?

What is not a characteristic of what is referred to as an “organic organization”?

Stakeholders such as suppliers, customers, and end users have what in common?

Which of the following is usually recognized as a form of power for a project manager?

A project manager hears about an issue and decides to ask the project team about more details as to how and when this happened. Is this more of a team management or more of a team leadership approach in this moment?

A Scrum Master talks to you about the impact and value of servant leadership. What is the person probably referring to?

What is a purpose of agile release planning?

What is a product backlog?

What does an iteration burndown chart track?

Which is not one of the five levels of increasingly effective quality management?

Which is an advantage of self-organizing teams?

Which is a category framework that is suitable for prompt lists?

How are a procurement lifecycle and contracts related?