GIAC GCPM - GIAC Certified Project Manager Certification Practice Test

Charlie has just completed the project according to the terms of the contract. She and the customer are completing a walk through of the project deliverables, and the customer is asking for changes to the deliverables before she'll accept the product. What project management Mprocess should manage the documented change request that may come from scope verification?

You are the project manager for PassGuide Inc. Your project has a budget at completion of $950,000 and is 45 percent complete, though the project should be 50 percent complete. The project has spent $450,897 to reach the 45 percent complete milestone.

What is the project's cost performance index?

In which process group does the project manager and the performing organization choose the vendors the project will use?

Which of the following documents has the specific purpose of conceding or providing formal authorization and/or agreement for the actual and real existence of the project?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______describes the utilization of formal econometric techniques to evaluate the aggregate risk in a financial portfolio

Ned is the project manager for his organization and he's working with management to define the contents of the quality management plan. Ned is concerned that his current project team will need to be trained on the new software used in the project. He believes that if the project team is not trained on the new software, there will be costly delays and errors within the project execution.

What is the term assigned to the costly delays and errors if the project team is not trained on the software?

Thomas is a key stakeholder in your project. Thomas has requested several changes to the project scope for the project you are managing. Upon review of the proposed changes, you have discovered that these new requirements are laden with risks and you recommend to the change control board that the changes be excluded from the project scope. The change control board agrees with you. What component of the change control system communicates the approval or denial of a proposed change request?

Which of the following management skills is described in the statement below?

"It is a strategy of sharing power and relying on interpersonal skill to get others to cooperate towards common goals."

You are the project manager for the NQK Project for your organization. Your project team has both internal employees and contract-based employees. What document should define how the contract based employees will be managed?

Which of the following processes is described in the statement below?

"It is the process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities."