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PMI PMI-SP - PMI Scheduling Professional

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John works as a Project Manager for Blue Well Inc. He is measuring cost efficiency of his project. The key values are provided in the table below:

What is the cost performance index (CPI) of the project at the current point of time?

A.

0.96

B.

1.082

C.

0.833

D.

1.0625

Mary is the project manager for her company. She's working with the project team to compress the project schedule as the project must be completed by December 30. For some of the project activities, she and the project team have agreed to crash the project work. What must be true of these project activities for crashing to be acceptable?

A.

The activities must be of fixed duration.

B.

The activities must be effort-drive.

C.

The activities must not be susceptible to the Law of Diminishing Returns.

D.

The activities must be risk-free.

You are the project manager of the NHT Project. This project has 12,345 office doors to install throughout a campus. Each of the doors costs the project $456 and requires special hardware to electronically lock and open the doors. You've gathered the project team before they begin the installation for a hands-on training. As a group you and the project team install 50 doors following a checklist of instructions so that every door will be installed exactly the same throughout the campus and with minimal waste. This is an example of what project execution technique?

A.

Preventive action

B.

Defect repair validation

C.

Implemented corrective action

D.

Quality control

You are the project manager of the BHG Project. You are creating a network diagram as shown in the figure:

Mary, a project team member, reports that an identified risk is likely to happen in the project that will affect the completion date of Activity D . She reports that the risk event will likely cause the duration of the activity to increase by six days. If this happens what is the earliest the project can complete?

A.

32 days

B.

29 days

C.

27 days

D.

26 days

Mark is the project manager of the GHQ Project. He is happily reporting that his project has a schedule performance index of 2.12. Management, however, does not think this is good news. What is the most likely reason why management does not like an SPI of 2.12?

A.

It is not good news because a larger number means the schedule duration estimates were likely to be wrong to begin with.

B.

They likely do not understand the SPI formula.

C.

It is not good news, as the number should be closer to 100 than 0.

D.

It is good news, but Mark may have large cost variances to achieve this value.

Gary is the project manager for his organization. At each weekly status meeting with his project team, Gary collects information on the work that has been completed and reviews the work that is remaining in the project. Alice, one of Gary's project team members, consistently reports that she's late on her project work. After the meeting, Gary and Alice discuss why the work is late as it is causing other delays in the project. What is the review of the late work commonly called?

A.

Variance analysis

B.

Leadership

C.

Quality control

D.

Discipline

Which of the following individuals performs various management roles within an administrative or functional area of the business, such as human resources, finance, accounting, or procurement?

A.

Seller

B.

Operations manager

C.

Functional manager

D.

Project manager

Beth is the project manager for her organization. Her current project has many deliverables that have been defined at a high level, but the details of the deliverables are still unknown. In her project, Beth is planning in detail only the activities that are most imminent in the project work. This approach to project management planning is known as what?

A.

Imminent activity management

B.

Rolling wave planning

C.

Predecessor-only diagramming

D.

Decomposition

You are the project manager of the NNN Project. Stakeholders in the two-year project have requested to send status reports to them via email every week. You have agreed and are sending the reports on each Thursday. After six months of the project, the stakeholders are pleased with the project progress and they would like you to reduce the status reports to every two weeks. What process will examine the change to this project process and implement it in the project?

A.

Project change control process

B.

Perform integrated change control process

C.

Configuration management

D.

Communications management

You are the project manager of the NHQ project. This project is scheduled to last for six months and will require $345,000 to complete. If the project completes earlier than scheduled, your organization will receive a bonus of $5,000 per day for the early completion. Management has asked you to develop an aggressive schedule to realize as much of the bonus as possible, but you must be careful not to increase project risk beyond an acceptable level of risk exposure. Which of the following approaches is most likely to increase project risk?

A.

Using the critical chain method

B.

Crashing

C.

Adding leads to the project work

D.

Fast tracking