19 -CAPM Final Practice Exam 150 Questions with Verified Answers
The processes required to define the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and
... [Show More] determine the appropriate course of action to achieve the project objectives.
A. Executing process group
B. Monitoring and controlling process group
C. Scoping process group
D. Planning process group - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 210, #1
Answer: D
The processes that track, review, and regulate the performance and progress of the project.
A. Evaluating process group
B. Executing process group
C. Monitoring and controlling process group
D. Planning process group - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 210, #2
Answer: C
The processes that are performed to complete the work of the project as defined in the project management plan.
A. Conduct process group
B. Executing process group
C. Planning process group
D. Integration process group - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 210, #3
Answer: B
This process group includes processes spanning all ten knowledge areas:
A. Initiating process group
B. Executing process group
C. Planning process group
D. Monitoring and controlling process group - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 210, #4
Answer: C
The majority of the project team's time, efforts, and expense are applied during this process group:
A. Planning process group
B. Executing process group
C. Integration process group
D. Monitoring and controlling process group - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 210, #5
Answer: B
Includes status reports, information notes, electronic dashboards, justifications, memos, etc.
A. Work performance information
B. Work performance data
C. Work performance reports
D. Work performance outputs - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 210, #6
Answer: C
The difference between work performance information and work performance data can best be described as:
A. Data is the raw project observations whereas information has been analyzed through the control processes
B. Data and information are fundamentally the same
C. Information is the raw project observations whereas data has been analyzed through the control processes
D. Information is an input to data which is an input to the work performance reports - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 210, #7
Answer: A
The documented start and finish dates of activities, actual costs and durations, percent work physically completed would all be considered:
A. Work performance inputs
B. Work performance data
C. Work performance information
D. Work performance reports - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 210, #8
Answer: B
Forecasts, such as budget and schedule forecasts, would be considered
A. Work performance information
B. Work performance data
C. Work performance outputs
D. Work performance reports - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #9
Answer: A
Forecasts are considered work performance information as it is project data that has been analyzed through the control schedule and control cost processes.
Which statement is most accurate:
A. Work performance reports precedes work performance data
B. Work performance data precedes work performance information
C. Work performance information precedes work performance data
D. Work performance reports and information are integrated into work performance data - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #10
Answer: B
Work performance data precedes work performance information. The data is analyzed through the monitor and control processes and the output is work performance information.
Those processes performed to define a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase.
A. Initiating process group
B. Integration process group
C. Initiating knowledge area
D. Integration knowledge area - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #11
Answer: A
This knowledge are has processes in all five process groups
A. Scope
B. Procurement
C. Integration
D. Communication - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #12
Answer: C
The validate scope process:
A. Is in the planning process group
B. Is in the executing process group
C. Is in the closing process group
D. Is in the monitoring and controlling process group - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #13
Answer: D
Which of the following processes is not in the executing process group?
A. Acquire project team
B. Perform integrated change control
C. Manage project team
D. Perform quality assurance - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #14
Answer: B
The perform integrated change control process is in what knowledge area?
A. Scope
B. Quality
C. Change
D. Integration - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #15
Answer: D
Which process is in the initiating process group?
A. Identify stakeholders
B. Validate scope
C. Develop project management plan
D. Define scope - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #16
Answer: A
Which of the following process is not a procurement process?
A. Conduct procurements
B. Control procurements
C. Manage procurements
D. Close procurements - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 211, #17
Answer: C
Which of the following is not a stakeholder management process?
A. Evaluate stakeholder expectations
B. Identify stakeholders
C. Control stakeholder engagement
D. Plan stakeholder management - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #18
Answer: A
Which process is not in the Monitoring and Controlling process group?
A. Validate scope
B. Perform integrated change control
C. Monitor and control project work
D. Conduct procurements - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #19
Answer: D
Conduct Procurements is in the Executing process group
Which process is not in the executing process group?
A. Perform quantitative risk analysis
B. Manage project team
C. Conduct procurements
D. Perform quality assurance - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #20
Answer: A
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis is in the Planning process group
You have secured written authorization for your project. What process has been completed?
A. Develop project management plan
B. Complete project initiation
C. Direct and manage project work
D. Develop project charter - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #21
Answer: D
The deliverable are an output of what process?
A. Control quality
B. Scope management
C. Direct and manage project work
D. Develop project management plan - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #22
Answer: C
All of the following are key benefits of developing the project charter, except:
A. It creates a formal record of the project
B. It determines the project budget
C. It establishes the project start date
D. It is a direct way for senior management to formally accept the project - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #23
Answer: B
The charter does not determine the budget. The project budget and the cost baseline will be a result of the Determine Budget process.
The develop project charter has two tools/techniques that are used:
A. Project management plan and budget
B. Expert judgement and facilitation techniques
C. Analytical techniques and group creativity techniques
D. Brainstorming and meetings - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #24
Answer: B
Which of the following statements is least accurate regarding the project charter?
A. The approved charter formally initiates the project
B. A project manager is identified and assigned as early as feasible
C. The project charter should not be authored by the sponsoring entity
D. It is recommended that the project manager participate in the development of the project charter - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #25
Answer: C
The project charter is typically authored by the sponsoring entity.
A narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by the project, created by the sponsor for internal projects or from the customer for external projects.
A. Statement of work
B. Project charter
C. Requirements document
D. Business case - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 212, #26
Answer: A
The statement of work comes from the requesting party.
This document, used for decision making purposes, determines whether or not the project is worth the investment.
A. Project scope statement
B. Business case
C. Project charter
D. Project statement of work - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 213, #27
Answer: B
The business case, typically completed by the project sponsor, provides the justification for investing in a project.
Organizational standard processes, procedures, templates, historical information, and lessons learned used to develop the project charter are all considered:
A. Organization process assets
B. Enterprise environmental factors
C. Corporate communications
D. Expert judgment - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 213, #28
Answer: A
The process of defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a comprehensive plan:
A. Create subsidiary plans
B. Design project approach
C. Develop project management plan
D. Collect requirements - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 213, #29
Answer: C
The project management plan describes how the work will be executed, monitored, and controlled and collects and integrates the following components except
A. Scope baseline
B. Change management baseline
C. Cost baseline
D. Subsidiary plans - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 213, #30
Answer: B
The only three baselines are the scope, schedule, and cost baselines
Two key outputs from the direct and manage project work process are:
A. Approved changes and quality measurements
B. Deliverables and work performance data
C. The project charter and detailed risk responses
D. Work performance information and implemented changes - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 213, #31
Answer: B
An intentional action taken to realign the performance of the project with the project management plan.
A. Variance response
B. Scope change
C. Corrective action
D. Defect repair - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 213, #32
Answer: C
A corrective action is an action taken to realign the performance of the project with the baselines, reactive in nature.
Any unique verifiable product, capability to perform a service, or result that is required to be produced to complete a process, phase, or project. Typically tangible components:
A. Requirement
B. Deliverable
C. Prototype
D. Work package - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 213, #33
Answer: B
What is the key benefit of monitoring and controlling project work?
A. It allows the stakeholders to understand the current state of the project and the budget and schedule forecasts
B. It allows the project manager to make proactive changes to the plan
C. It allows the team members to reduce and reallocate their work evenly
D. It allows the sponsor to determine the appropriate funding limits - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 213, #34
Answer: A
The physical or electronic representation of work performance information, compiled in project documents with an intent to generate awareness, decision, and actions.
A. Project reports
B. Work performance reports
C. Project performance appraisals
D. Work performance data - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #35
Answer: B
The key benefit of this process is that it provides lessons learned, the formal ending of the project, and the release of organization resources to pursue new endeavors.
A. Perform integrated change control
B. Dismiss project team
C. Project retirement
D. Close phase or project - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #36
Answer: D
The two key outputs of the Perform Integrated Change Control Process are:
A. Change requests and meetings
B. Approved change requests and change log
C. Change log and change requests
D. Approved change requests and issue log - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #37
Answer: B
An intentional action taken to modify a nonconforming product or product component:
A. Quality control
B. Requirements modification
C. Defect repair
D. Corrective action - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #38
Answer: C
Which statement is most accurate?
A. The define scope process precedes the create work breakdown structure process
B. The WBS must be complete in order to define scope
C. The scope baseline is an output of the define scope process
D. The scope statement is produced after the WBS - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #39
Answer: A
The Define Scope process precedes the Create WBS process, as the scope statement is needed in order to complete the scope baseline.
The activity attributes are to the activity list as what is to the WBS?
A. WBS dictionary
B. WBS details
C. Work package attributes
D. Work descriptions - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #40
Answer: A
The scope baseline is an output of what process?
A. Plan scope management
B. Define scope
C. Collect requirements
D. Create WBS - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #41
Answer: D
Requirements documentation and the requirements traceability matrix are:
A. Both outputs of the collect requirements process
B. Both outputs of the define scope process
C. Outputs of both plan scope management and plan requirements management
D. Both outputs of create scope baseline - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #42
Answer: A
Documents how the scope will be defined, validated, and controlled:
A. Scope statement
B. Scope management plan
C. Statement of work
D. Project charter - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 214, #43
Answer: B
A technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas for further brainstorming or for prioritization.
A. Delphi technique
B. Requirements gathering
C. Affinity diagram
D. Nominal group technique - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 215, #44
Answer: D
A multicriteria decision analysis
A. Is a technique that utilizes a decision matrix to provide a systematic analytical approach for establishing criteria to evaluate and rank many ideas
B. Is a technique in which ideas created through brainstorming sessions are consolidated into a single map to reflect commonality and differences in understanding
C. Is a technique used to generate and collect multiple ideas related to project and product requirements
D. Is a technique that allows large numbers of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 215, #45
Answer: A
An assessment process having multiple alternatives with an expected outcome in the form of future actions, used to generate, classify, and prioritize product requirements:
A. Multi-criteria decision analysis
B. Group decision-making techniques
C. Affinity diagram
D. Brainstorming - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 215, #46
Answer: A
Tools/techniques used to validate scope include:
A. Brainstorming and group decision-making techniques
B. Inspection and expert judgement
C. Brainstorming and meetings
D. Inspection and group decision-making techniques - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 215, #47
Answer: D
The tool/technique used to control scope:
A. Variance analysis
B. Earned value management
C. Inspection
D. Meetings - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 215, #48
Answer: A
The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline
A. Validate scope
B. Control scope
C. Plan scope
D. Monitor scope - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 215, #49
Answer: B
The following is true about the WBS:
A. The WBS is another term for the Gantt chart
B. Each descending level of the WBS represents an increasingly detailed definition of the project work
C. Work not in the WBS is usually defined in the scope statement of the project
D. The WBS shows only the critical path activities - CORRECT ANSWER Workbook, CAPM Final Practice Exam, page 215, #50
Answer: B [Show Less]