PMP Sample Questions

41. Which of the following are not cost of quality?
    • Prevention costs.
    • Failure costs.
    • Transportation costs.
    • Appraisal costs.

    Answer: c

42. What is a trigger in project risk management?
    • An expected situation causing an unidentified risk event to occur.
    • A warning sign that an identified risk event might have occurred.
    • An unexpected situation causing an identified risk event to occur.
    • An unexpected situation causing an unidentified risk event to occur.

    Answer: b

43. According to the project plan, a contractor is scheduled to deliver some software components at the end of the day. A regular payment is due to be made to this contractor tomorrow.

    The project team received a note this morning informing them that the software delivery will be delayed by 2 weeks.

    This morning, the project team received a note that the software will be delayed by 2 weeks.

    How should the project management team react?

    • The project management team should delay payment for 2 weeks.
    • The project management team must immediately find a different contractor.
    • The project management team should conduct a meeting with the contractor to resolve the delivery issues before making the payment.
    • The project management team should make the payment and reschedule the project plan.

    Answer: C

44. In a software company a large number of simultaneously performed projects utilize the same groups of human and other resources.

    

    What is the term commonly used for this situation?

    • Concurrent engineering.
    • Resource over-allocation.
    • Resource pooling.
    • Program management

    Answer: c

45. What does the acronym RAM commonly stand for in project management?
    • Responsibility Assignment Matrix.
    • Remotely Applied Measurements.
    • Risk Aware Management.
    • Randomly Accessible Material.

    Answer: A

46. What is not handled as a constraint in project management?
    • Laws and regulations.
    • Limits of authorization.
    • Team preferences.
    • Physical constraints.

    Answer: C

47. A precontract agreement that establishes the intent of a party to buy products or services is called a
    • Seller initial response.
    • Seller immediate response.
    • Letter of intent.
    • Letter of credit.

    Answer: C

48. What should not be part of a risk management plan?
    • Roles and responsibilities for handling risks.
    • Timing of risk management activities.
    • The managerial approach towards risk.
    • Individual risks

    Answer: D

49. A project manager performs Earned Value Analysis and finds the following results:

    EV: 250,000; PV: 200,000; AC 275,000

    BAC is 500,000.

    What is right?

    • EAC = 400,000
    • EAC = 550,000
    • BTC = 400,000
    • ETC = 75,000.

    Answer: B

50. The construction of a residential home will cost a certain amount per square foot of living space. This is an example of what type of estimating?
    • Analogous estimating.
    • Bottom-up estimating.
    • Top-down estimating.
    • Parametric modeling.

    Answer: D