PM Test Center

What term best describes the person who provides financial resources to the project?

A. Sponsor
B. Project manager
C. Customer
D. Resource manager

Answer: A. Sponsor
The sponsor is either a person or group who funds the project.

While working on a project to relocate hazardous materials from one location to another, you are asked to work with the company’s risk manager to monitor how the project may impact the communities during and after the project. The professional responsibility term that describes this :

A. Conflict of interest
B. Probability and impact matrix
C. Unethical behavior
D. Social-economic-environmental-sustainability

Answer: D. Social-economic-environmental-sustainability
Social-economic-environmental-sustainability means that the project may produce effects long after its completion.

You are working for a new company and your new boss asks you to show him a requirements document from your previous company. What is the best thing for you to do?

A. Provide the requirements document since you are supposed to learn from previous projects.
B. Do nothing and hope he forgets that he asked.
C. Tell your new boss that it is unethical for you to provide anything from a previous employer.
D. Tell your new boss that you will provide him with the requirements document after you remove all confidential information.

Answer: D. Tell your new boss that you will provide him with the requirements document after you remove all confidential information.
You are expected to share best practices but you must be certain not to break confidentiality. Although you could decline to share, the more appropriate action would be to purge the document of anything that is identifiable with the previous employer and treating it as a historical document that can be learned from.

As a project progresses, the cost of making changes will:

A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Depend on other factors
D. Stay the same

Answer: A. Increase
Making changes cost more as projects progress through the life cycle. For example, typically changing a requirement is easy during the planning stage but once a prototype has been built, changing a requirement might unravel some work already performed.

Processes in the Initiating process group are:

A. Develop Project Charter, Identify Stakeholders
B. Develop Project Charter, Develop Preliminary Scope Statement
C. Develop Project Management Plan, Identify Stakeholders
D. Develop Project Management Plan, Plan Communications, Identify Stakeholders

Answer: A. Develop Project Charter, Identify Stakeholders
Develop Project Charter from the Integration knowledge area and Identify Stakeholders from the Communications knowledge area are the only two processes in the Initiation process group.

Danielle is the project manager for a public water organization. During the testing phase, she learns that there are contaminants in the water left from her construction project. Danielle consults her environmental experts and they claim that there is very little risk of any sickness. What is the best thing for Danielle to do?

A. Inform the public that the water is safe but they should boil the water before drinking.
B. Inform the public and perform a more detailed examination to locate the root of the problem.
C. Inform the public of the water treatment process and your organization’s safety record.
D. Do nothing because there is low risk for sickness.

Answer: B. Inform the public and perform a more detailed examination to locate the root of the problem.
Managing expectations, even for the public, is key to any project or organization. In this case, the problem also requires remediation to ensure that the problem can be solved to prevent continued issues with the water.

As a PMP, you are responsible for all of the following except:

A. Ensuring that the PMBOK® Guide is strictly enforced
B. Meeting the scope of the project
C. Providing accurate estimates to superiors
D. Keeping confidential information from leaking

Answer: A. Ensuring that the PMBOK® Guide is strictly enforced
The PMBOK® Guide is simply a recommended standard and not meant for project managers to follow strictly.

One advantage of a functional organizations is:

A. Being part of a functional team provides team members with peer support.
B. The project manager has full control over the budget.
C. The functional manager reports to the project manager.
D. Team members have two bosses.

Answer: A. Being part of a functional team provides team members with peer support.
Since team members usually work side-by-side with their respective peers, they have valuable resources readily available to them. In functional organizations, team members have one functional boss and the project manager usually has no control over the budget.

One advantage of a projectized organization is:

A. The project manager reports to the functional manager.
B. Team members have two bosses.
C. Team members are usually responsible with only one project at a time.
D. The project manager has no control over the budget.

Answer: C. Team members are usually responsible with only one project at a time.
Since team members are assigned to a project, they can typically focus on work within that particular project. In projectized organizations, team members have one project boss and the project manager usually has full control over the budget.

Which of the following organization types does the project manager have the least power?

A. Functional
B. Weak matrix
C. Strong matrix
D. Projectized

Answer: A. Functional
Projectized organizations grants project managers with total control of their projects. That means team members report directly to the project manager. Functional organizations, conversely, provides project managers with the least amount of power since the team members report to a functional, or line of business, manager.