CAPM Exam Dumps - Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
When a backward pass is calculated from a schedule constraint that is later than the early finish date that has been calculated during a forward pass calculation, this causes which type of total float?
Which type of contract gives both the seller and the buyer flexibility to deviate from performance with financial incentives?
Which tool or technique allows a large number of ideas to be classified into groups for review and analysis?
Which tool or technique of the Define Activities process allows for work to exist at various levels of detail depending on where it is in the project life cycle?
A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:
Which tool or technique is used in the Develop Project Management Plan process?
Which process numerically analyzes the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives?
Market conditions and published commercial information are examples of which input to the Estimate Costs process?
Which stakeholder classification model groups stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project?
Payback period, return on investment, internal rate of return, discounted cash flow, and net present value are all examples of:
Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process provides guidance on how stakeholders can best be involved in a project?
Conditions that are not under the control of the project team that influence, direct, or constrain a project are called:
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action is known as:
Which risk management strategy seeks to eliminate the uncertainty associated with a particular upside risk by ensuring that the opportunity is realized?
Which item is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline?
Which earned value management (EVM) metric is a measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as a ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC) and is considered a critical EVM metric?
Which Process Group and Knowledge Area include the Sequence Activities process?
What is the schedule performance index (SPI) if the planned value (PV) is $100, the actual cost (AC) is $150, and the earned value (EV) is $50?
Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?
Which document describes the necessary information to determine if a project is worth the required investment?
A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished is known as:
The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:
Which type of project management office (PMO) supplies templates, best practices, and training to project teams?
The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:
Which input to Collect Requirements is used to identify stakeholders who can provide information on requirements?
Which quality management and control tool is useful in visualizing parent-to-child relationships in any decomposition hierarchy that uses a systematic set of rules that define a nesting relationship?
The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:
Which Define Activities output extends the description of the activity by identifying the multiple components associated with each activity?
An important project stakeholder has low risk tolerance. Which type ot communication should a project manager use to provide this stakeholder with a difficult update?
Which of the following is used to classify stakeholders based on their assessments of power, urgency, and legitimacy?
Due to today's competitive global market, organizations require more than technical project management skills. Which of the following skills can support long-range strategic objectives that contribute to the bottom line?
Which of the following is an example of an organizational system that is arranged based on the job being performed?
A new project has been set. Four main stakeholders besides the project manager and four other team members have been identified. How many communication channels are available?
A project manager is reviewing the change requests for project documents, deliverables, and the project plan. In which project management process does this review belong?
A project manager is formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables. What is an input to this process?
A firm contracted an event management company to conduct the annual sales day event. The agreement states that the event management company will charge the firm for the actuals and receive 8% of the total cost. What type of contract Is this?
Which of the following are outputs from the process of creating a work breakdown structure (WBS)?
When managing costs in an agile environment, what should a project manager consider?
The project manager is dividing the project scope into smaller pieces, and repeating this process until no more subdivisions are required. At this point the project manager is able to estimate costs and activities for each element.
What are these elements called?
Directing another person to get from one point to another using a known set of expected behaviors and the ability to lead a team and inspire them to do their jobs well is related to?
In an agile and adaptive project, which scope management entity invokes stakeholder engagement?
Which of the following technology platforms is most effective for sharing information when managing virtual project teams?
Responsible, accountable, consult and inform (RACI) is an example of which of the following?
The Agile principle "welcome changing requirement, even late in development" relates to which agile manifesto?
The features and functions that characterize a result, product, or service can refer to:
A new project manager wishes to recommend creating a project management office to senior management. Which statement would the project manager use to describe the Importance of creating the project management office?
Which is a list of organizational systems that may have an impact on a project?
The project manager is using co-location and providing training to the project team. On which of the following Project Resource Management processes is the project manager working?
A project manager is launching an information system to provide a lessons learned database. This action is necessary for recipients to access content at their own discretion. Which communication method is described?
A project manager uses their networking skills to build agreement with a difficult stakeholder. What level of influence did the project manager apply?
Which two processes should be used to influence costs in the early stages of a project?
An organizational structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques is referred to as:
A project manager is determining the amount of contingency needed for a project. Which analysis is the project manager using?
What communication methods would a project manager use for overall effective project communication?
Which tools and techniques will a project manager use to develop a project charter?
What tool should a project manager use to efficiently manage project resources?
A project manager has to share a status report with a new stakeholder and is trying to determine the level of detail to include in the report. Which document best details the information the project manager needs lo make this decision?
A functional manager is delegating a key project to a project team without a project manager. Which communication method will be most effective?
A project manager is analyzing a few network diagrams in order to determine the minimum duration of a project. Which diagram should the project manager reference?
A project manager is working in an environment where requirements are not very clear and may change during the project. In addition, the project has several stakeholders and is technically complex.
Which strategies should the project manager take into account for risk management in this environment?
A project manager is monitoring and recording results of executing the quality management activities to assess performance and ensure the project outputs are complete, correct, and meet customer expectations. Which output is the project manager using?
Which is an example of leveraging evolving trends and emerging practices in Project Integration Management?
In which organizational structure would the project manager have most authority?
Which of the following best correspond to the organizational process assets (OPAs) that affect the project?
The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, and awarding a contract is called:
In the Plan Procurement Management process, which source selection criteria analyzes if the seller's proposed technical methodologies, techniques, solutions, and services meet the procurement documents requirements?
In which phase of team building activities do team members begin to work together and adjust their work habits and behavior to support the team?
Which Project Time Management process includes bottom-up estimating as a tool or technique?
Which Manage Communications tool or technique focuses on identifying and managing barriers?
When closing a project or phase, part of the process may require the use of which type of analysis?
An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component is called:
Which basic quality tool explains a change in the dependent variable in relationship to a change observed in the corresponding independent variable?
Which type of dependency used in the Sequence Activities process is sometimes referred to as preferred logic, preferential logic, or soft logic?
Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?
When the business objectives of an organization change, project goals need to be:
Which schedule method allows the project team to place buffers on the project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties?
Which type of analysis is used to determine the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance?
Activity cost estimates and the project schedule are inputs to which Project Cost Management process?
When a project is undertaken to reduce defects in a product or service, the objective of the project is to create a/an:
Job satisfaction, challenging work, and sufficient financial compensation are values related to which interpersonal skill?
Which tools or techniques are used during the Close Project or Phase process?
Organizational process assets, a lessons-learned database, and historical information are all inputs to which process?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
How many possible paths are identified for this project?
The following is a network diagram for a project.
The free float for Activity H is how many days?
The methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress is known as:
Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?
Which key interpersonal skill of a project manager is defined as the strategy of sharing power and relying on interpersonal skills to convince others to cooperate toward common goals?
Which type of organizational structure is displayed in the diagram provided?
Processes in the Initiating Process Group may be completed at the organizational level and be outside of the project's:
Using parametric estimating, if an assigned resource is capable of producing 120 units per hour, how many hours are required to produce 12,000 units?
Project managers who lead by example and follow through on the commitments they make demonstrate the key interpersonal skill of:
Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?
Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?
One of the key benefits of the Plan Human Resource Management process is that it:
The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope as well as managing the changes to the scope baseline is known as:
A project manager should communicate to stakeholders about resolved project issues by updating the:
The lowest level normally depicted in a work breakdown structure (VVBS) is called a/an:
What process in Project Schedule Management identifies and documents specific actions to be performed to produce a project’s deliverables?
What earned value (EV) measure indicates the cost efficiency of the work completed?
How can a project manager represent a contingency reserve in the schedule?
In agile projects while performing scope management. What is the definition of requirements
A project team member identifies a possibility......the team member's idea?
A project team member identifies a possibility of increasing project performance by adopting an innovative approach to a proposed solution. This also will save resources for the company and increase stakeholder satisfaction.
How should the project manager evaluate the team member's idea?
Due to organizational changes, a new product owner joins a project The product owner wants to review the process used to obtain team members, facilities, equipment, materials, supplies, and other resources necessary to complete project work.
What process should the project manager review with the product owner?
When planning communications management what input identifies key stakeholders?
What communications management process enables an effective information flow among project stakeholders'?
The project manager is new to the company in order to effectively manage the project, which components of the organizational governance framework does the project manager need to take into account?
For which kind of quantitative risk analysis chart can a tornado diagram represent values?
What process group includes processes performed to complete work to satisfy the project requirements defined in the project management plan?
Which of the following techniques should a project manager of a large project with virtual teams use to enhance collaboration?
A software development team is pulling work from its backlog to be performed immediately as they become available. What emerging practice for project scheduling is the team using?
Which of the following is used as input to prepare a cost management plan?
The project manager has following information about duration for an activity:
* Most likely [tM] - 15 days
* Pessimistic [tP] - 20 days
* Optimistic [tO] - 10 days
What is the estimated duration of this activity, according to the triangular distribution technique?
Two members of the team are having a conflict..............or partially resolve the problem
Two members of the team are having a conflict. The project manager decides that, in this case, the best solution is to bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties, in order to temporarily or partially resolve the problem.
Which technique should the project manager use?
A Project manager is failing to secure critical equipment on time, and this resulting in delays in the manufacturing of the final product. Which knowledge area is the project manager handling?
Which tools and techniques should a project manager use when estimating costs?
During what project management process does the project team begin identifying risks?
A project manager is working in an environment where requirements are not very clear and may change during the project. In addition, the project has several stakeholders and is technically complex.
Which strategies should the project manager take to account for risk management n this environment’
How should the project manager obtain the maximum engagement from stakeholders that have recently changed to become more connected to social media?
Which key benefit can a project manager obtain by identifying stakeholders?
In a preliminary meeting for a project, team members decide to execute the project with methodology A finance team member wants to know how project cost will be determined at this early stage. How will the project team determine project cost?
A project manager is performing the procurement management process with three vendors The project team is reviewing the requests for proposal (RFPs).
What type of procurement document is the RFP?
A project manager is reviewing the change requests, deliverables, and the project plan in Which project management process does this review belong?
Which kind of communication should the project manager use when creating reports for government bodies?
Which of the following are outputs of define scope process in project scope management
Projects programs subsidiary portfolios.... objectives refer to?
Projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives refers to?
A project manager is working on project cost management. The following information is current.
* Planned value = 30
* Actual cost = 35
* Earned value = 28
Considering this data, which project indicator is correct?
The project manager implemented the stakeholder engagement plan and realized that some uploads should be made. Which components of the project management plan should be modified?
Which is the main benefit of managing and tailoring strategies in the Stakeholder Engagement process?
After defining activities in project schedule management, which processes should a project manager follow?
Match the method for categorizing stakeholders with its corresponding description
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Description automatically generatedWhich of the following is least influenced by a project manager, according to the project manager's sphere of influence?
Which tools and techniques should a project manager use to monitor risks?
What tern describes an intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component?
In an interactive communication model, how is the sender ensured that the message was understood by the receiver?
A construction project is underway, and during... tasks impacted the painting work
A construction project is underway, and during the progress review the painter complained that the task could not be started because the mason has not finished the plastering job What kind ot relationship between the tasks impacted the painting work?
What process group establishes project scope: refines objectives, and defines the actions necessary to attain project objectives'?
What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?
Which of the following tools or techniques is used for Estimate Activity Durations?
The approaches, tools, and data sources that will be used to perform risk management on a project are determined by the:
Which illustrates the connection between work that needs to be done and its project team members?
Which type of manager is assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives?
Identifying major deliverables, deciding if adequate cost estimates can be developed, and identifying tangible components of each deliverable are all part of which of the following?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service, or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?
Which of the following is a narrative description of products, services, or results to be delivered by a project?
The formal and informal interaction with others in an organization industry, or professional environment is known as:
Which component of the human resource management plan describes when and how project team members are acquired and how long they will be needed?
Which of the following statements best describes the influence of stakeholders and the cost of changes as project time advances?
What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
Which process includes prioritizing risks for subsequent further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact?
A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?
Activity resource requirements and the resource breakdown structure (RBS) are outputs of which Project Time Management process?
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
Organizational planning impacts projects by means of project prioritization based on risk, funding, and an organizations:
Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?
At which point of the project is the uncertainty the highest and the risk of failing the greatest?
Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
A collection of projects managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives is referred to as a:
Which of the following is a tool and technique for Estimate Activity Durations?
Which Knowledge Area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?
Definitions of probability and impact, revised stakeholder tolerances, and tracking are components of which subsidiary plan?
Which of the following statements correctly characterizes pull communication?
While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery. What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?
Which of the following includes how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported?
Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?
The item that provides more detailed descriptions of the components in the work breakdown structure (WB5) is called a WBS:
Which risk response strategy is common for both positive and negative risks?
Which of the following change requests can bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan?
Which of the following response strategies are appropriate for negative risks or threats?
Which of the following is an input to Direct and Manage Project Execution?
Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?
Who determines which dependencies are mandatory during the Sequence Activities process?
How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?
The initial development of a Project Scope Management plan uses which technique?
The process improvement plan details the steps for analyzing processes to identify activities which enhance their:
Which type of contract is a hybrid of both a cost-reimbursable and a fixed-price contract?
Which of the following is an input to the Develop Project Charter process?
The contract in which the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and then receives a fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives is called a:
Which Control Scope input is compared to actual results to determine if corrective action is required for the project?
The technique of subdividing project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work and deliverables are defined to the work package level is called:
Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?
Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?
The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:
Requirements documentation, requirements management plan, and requirements traceability matrix are all outputs of which process?
The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:
Funding limit reconciliation is a tool and technique used in which process?
In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?
Using the three-point estimating technique, if the most likely duration is four months, the optimistic duration is two months, and the pessimistic duration is one year, how many months is the expected activity duration?
The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?
Which of the following processes audits the quality requirements and the results from quality control measures to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used?
In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?
What provides information regarding the ways people, teams, and organizational units behave?
Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?
The process of identifying the stakeholders' information needs is completed during:
Which Perform Quality Control tool graphically represents how various elements of a system interrelate?
Which of the following outputs from the Control Schedule process aids in the communication of schedule variance (SV), schedule performance index (SPI), or any performance status to stakeholders?
Tools and techniques used for Plan Communications include the communication:
When calculating the cost of quality (COQ) for a product or service, money spent for cost of conformance would include the areas of:
Managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance are part of which process?
Which type of analysis is used as a general management technique within the Plan Procurements process?
Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
Which of the following is developed from the project scope baseline and defines only that portion of the project scope that is to be included within a related contract?
Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?
Control charts, flowcharting, histograms, Pareto charts, and scatter diagrams are tools and techniques of which process?
In which Project Management Process Group is the project charter developed?
Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?
The project manager needs to review the templates in use. The templates are part of the:
Which cost estimate technique includes contingencies to account for cost uncertainty?
Which process should be conducted from the project inception through completion?
Which process occurs within the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group?
Project contracts generally fall into which of the following three broad categories?
Which of the following is an example of the simplest fixed-price contract?
Which technique is commonly used for the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process?
Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?
Change requests, project management plan updates, project document updates, and organizational process assets updates are all outputs of which project management process?
Which type of chart is a graphic representation of a process showing the relationships among process steps?
Which standard has interrelationships to other project management disciplines such as program management and portfolio management?
Documented identification of a flaw in a project component together with a recommendation is termed a:
What is the responsibility of the project manager and the functional manager respectively?
In which process is a project manager identified and given the authority to apply resources to project activities?
What risk technique is used to quantify the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Which of the following is a conflict resolution technique that emphasizes areas of agreement rather than areas of difference?
The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to: