A few Sample PMP Questions

Here are a few sample PMPs I made to help remember a few interesting issues.

1. You are the PM of a 3.5 million dollar Project to develop a new brake system for an automotive parts supplier. You have been on vacation for a week and arrive back at work to find a stack of papers of your desk with requested changes, work performance information, recommended corrective actions and deliverables. Your boss comes in to your office with a nervous look on his face and says, “I need those validated defect repair reports ASAP.” What process should you start working on:

A) Manage Stakeholders
B) Integrated change control
C) Product Analysis
D) Constrained optimization

2. You are managing a small project to create a manual for a new mobile telephone. You are reviewing the contract documentation and the contract management plan to produce the closed contract. Which of the following tools and techniques might be a good idea to use?

A) Strong Matrix
B) Constrained Optimization
C) Procurement audits
D) Updates to the contract file as part of the Organizational Process Assets

3. You are managing a large integration project for the EU commission including 9 partners from 5 European countries. You are using the project scope statement and the project scope management plan and are decomposing the project deliverables into work packages with the help of templates. Which process are you carrying out?

A) Fast Tracking
B) Scope Control
C) Activity Definition
D) Qualitative Activity Estimation

4. You have just carried out activity definition and are using the milestone list and activity list to create the project schedule network diagram. A team member suggests that you use the precedence diagramming method. You show him your project management scheduling software which does not support “dummies” and he suggests an alternative to this tool and technique called:

A) Activity on node diagram
B) Activity on arrow diagram
C) Discretionary dependency analysis
D) Published Estimating data

5. You are carrying out the activity resource estimating process. Which of the following is not a tool and technique for this process?

A) Expert Judgement
B) Resource Breakdown Structure
C) Published Estimating data
D) Bottom-up Estimating

6. Which of the following processes does not use the Project Management Plan or its subsidiary plans as an input(s)?

A) Scope Definition
B) Integrated change control
C) Direct and Manage Project Execution
D) Activity Sequencing

7. Which of the following pair of project management plan components are created in the develop Project Management Plan process?

A) Quality baseline and Cost baseline

B) Cost Management plan and Communications management plan

C) Cost Management plan and Schedule management plan

D) Scope Management Plan and Schedule management plan

Answers:
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