B. Put a statement in the charter that no additions to the project will be allowed once it’s underway.
C. Alert the sponsor that you will not be taking any change requests after the project starts.
D. Inform stakeholders when they sign the project scope statement that no changes will be accepted after the scope statement is published.
37. Which of these statements describes an assumption?
A. Our senior web developer will be available to work on this project.
B. The electrical capacity at the site of the project event may not be adequate.
C. The project’s due date is June 27.
D. There’s a potential for the server administrator to receive a promotion during the course of this project.
38. Your subject-matter expert tells you that her most likely estimate to complete her task is 40 hours. The task starts on Thursday, January 20, at 8 a.m. The team works 8-hour days, and they do not work weekends. Which day will the task end?
A. January 24
B. January 25
C. January 27
D. January 26
39. You are working for an organization and just learned that another organization with more power and influence is taking over your organization at the first of the year. What does this describe?
A. Business merger
B. Business demerger
C. Business venture
D. Business acquisition
40. What are the two types of charts that you might utilize to display the project schedule? Choose two.
A. Run chart
B. Gantt chart
C. Milestone chart
D. CPM
E. Histogram
41. All of the following describe types of project endings except for which one?
A. Integration
B. Starvation
C. Addition
D. Extinction
E. Attrition
42. Demonstrating competency, respect, honesty, integrity, openness, and doing what you say you’ll do is an example of which of the following?
A. Team building
B. Managing team resources
C. Demonstrating leadership skills
D. Trust building
43. This is the approved, expected cost of the project.
A. Expenditure budget
B. Expenditure baseline
C. Cost budget
D. Cost baseline
44. “Install an Interactive Voice Response System that will increase customer response time by an average of 15 seconds and decrease the number of customer service interactions by 30 percent” is an example of which of the following elements of the project charter?
A. High-level requirements
B. Goals and objectives
C. Project description
D. Milestone
45. The network communication model is a visual depiction of what?
A. Lines of communication
B. Participant model
C. Communication model
D. Participant communication model
46. This estimating technique uses the most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic estimates to come up with an average cost or duration estimate.
A. Analogous estimate
B. Bottom-up estimate
C. Parametric estimate
D. Three-point estimate
47. In this type of organization, the project manager shares responsibility for team member assignments and performance evaluations with the functional manager.
A. Functional
B. Projectized
C. Hierarchical
D. Matrix
48. Which of the following is not true regarding cost estimating?
A. Cost estimates are provided by team members.
B. Cost estimate accuracy depends on the technique used to determine the estimate.
C. Cost estimates have a quality factor built into them.
D. Cost estimates are inputs to the project budget and used to determine the total project cost.
49. You’re the project manager for a small project that is in the Closing phase. You prepare closure documents and take them to the project sponsor for sign-off. The project sponsor says that the documents are not needed because the project is so small. What should you tell the sponsor?
A. You’re sorry to have bothered them and will close the project without sign-off.
B. The sponsor is the one who needs to sign off on the documents, showing that the project is officially closed.
C. You offer to have a stakeholder sign off in the sponsor’s place.
D. You offer to sign off on the documents yourself.
50. This meeting is held so that team members can answer three questions: what work they completed yesterday, what work they will complete today, and what obstacles stand in their way.
A. This describes a sprint planning meeting, which is part of the Agile methodology.
B. This describes a Scrum meeting, which is part of the Agile methodology.
C. This describes a daily standup, which is part of the waterfall methodology.
D. This describes a retrospective meeting, which is part of the PMI® methodology.
Answers to Assessment Test
1. B. Tasks with zero float are critical path tasks, and if delayed, they will cause the delay of the project completion date. For more information, please see Chapter 5.
2. B. Remote and in-house resources are categorized as personnel management activities in the CompTIA objectives. For more information, please see Chapter 6.
3. A. A weighted scoring model is a tool that weights evaluation criteria and provides a way to score vendor responses. Bidder conferences, IFB, and SOW are all used during vendor solicitation. For more information, please see Chapter 9.
4. A, C, F. The five stages of team development are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. For more information, please see Chapter 6.
5. A. This describes a projectized organization because the project manager works in a division whose sole responsibility is project management, and once the team members are assigned to the project, the project manager has the authority to hold them accountable to their tasks and activities. For more information, please see Chapter 1.
6. A. Acceptance criteria describe how to determine whether the deliverables are complete and meet the requirements of the project. For more information, please see Chapter 4.
7. E. A project sponsor is responsible for obtaining financial resources for the project, monitoring the progress of the project, and handling escalations from the project manager. For more information, please see Chapter 2.
8. D. Project managers may spend up to 90 percent of their time communicating. For more information, please see Chapter 1.
9. A. Smoothing is a lose-lose conflict-resolution technique. It is a temporary way to resolve conflict. Avoiding can also be a lose-lose conflict technique,