PMP Tests
PMP Tests
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Customers
Good!
The guide differentiates between client and user, with clients being those people or organizations who will
approve and manage the product, service or result of the project and users being those people or
organizations who will use the product, service or result of the project. Although it may coincide, it depends
on the project, with one or more of the client and sponsor. PMBOK 5th Ed. Page 32
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The information is integrated into reports, and the reports are generated in the process of monitoring and
controlling project work.
Good!
If a critical project arises, even a functional organization can create a special project team for it. And that
the staff be dedicated full time to that critical project.
Good!
The risks and uncertainty are greater at the beginning of the project. The cost of correcting errors and
making changes often increases substantially as you approach completion.
The sponsor
The organization
Good!
The Sponsor may be external or internal to the organization and is the person or group that provides
resources and support for the project and is responsible for facilitating its success.
Good!
The PMI's mission is: To work for the recognition of the value of project management as a profession and
methodology in organizations and society.
Environmental Factors
Good!
Quality checklists are part of the organization's process assets and project documents.
Balanced Matrix
Good!
Any of the three previous answers is valid, since administrative staff are assigned to projects in any type of
organization, at least part-time.
Product Assemblers
Functional manager
Good!
The stakeholders who carry out and direct business operations are called Operational Stakeholders. The
rest are interested in the project but not operational.
His kidneys hurt from working so much and his wife doesn't
prepare dinner for him when he gets home.
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The project manager should try to help the client as much as possible in terms of project feasibility studies
and alignment with the strategic objectives of the organization.
2. INTEGRATION
Effective project integration normally
requires putting greater intensity into:
The personal trajectories of the team members
Good!
This question is of the type "all answers are valid and you have to mark the most relevant one." Integration
involves keeping the project coordinated and merged in its different phases and processes, managing
iterativity so that problems in one area do not make us lose control of the rest.
Good!
The Monitor and Control Project Work process outputs Work Performance Reports. These will be used to
report the progress of the project allowing stakeholders to understand the current status of the project.
Performance reports constitute the physical or electronic representation of information about work
performance, intended to generate decisions, actions or knowledge.
Good!
Configuration control focuses on the specification of both deliverables and processes, while change control
is more oriented toward identifying, documenting, and approving or rejecting changes to project
deliverables or baselines. One of the configuration management activities is its verification and audit that
ensures compliance with the functional requirements defined in the configuration documents.
From CCB
The client's
Good!
As indicated in the plan some requests may be approved by the DP, but sometimes a CCB change control
committee is formally responsible for approvals, however, some requests may even require client or
sponsor approval after approval. approval by the CCB, unless they are part of it.
Validate scope
Close acquisitions
Good!
The Transfer of the product, service or final result is the output of the process Close the Project or Phase
Good!
View accepted PMBOK deliverables
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Straight-line depreciation uses the same amount in each time period. General logic question even if you
don't know much about accounting. It must be taken into account that in the integration of the project and,
for example, in monitoring and control, we can find questions of all kinds that arise in practice, beyond the
theory of the PMBOK.
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This is the only option that prevents us from having numerous problems in the future. It must be explained
that until we have closed the minutes, we will not have the fundamental pillars of the project well
established. The other options simply obviate the problem.
Comparative approach
Profit measurement
Impact analysis
Good!
Constraint optimization uses mathematical models. Linear programming is a mathematical model. This is
an example of a question that is not strictly subject to the PMBOK and must be reasoned from the logic of
the presentation of the question itself.
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The DATA collected is analyzed in the control processes of the other areas, in the work monitoring
process THE INFORMATION that comes from these control processes is analyzed.
3. SCOPE MANAGEMENT
Once the "thumbed keyboards" project has started, your boss calls you with some doubt about
what he should do at this moment, it turns out that a production manager has told him that they
already have a deliverable ready for review and that it is necessary to validate the deliverable,
we meet...
At the end of the project
Sequence Activities
Perform Quality Assurance
Time management
Gain a better understanding of the project product to create the scope statement
You arrive late for a meeting with the clients of your project and everyone is sitting at the table,
they scold you but everyone knows that you are a number one, a crack, so as soon as you sit
down they tell you what they are describing a USER STORY:
They are documenting the features or functions required by stakeholders
They are generating the events or stories that happened between the interested parties
The Sponsor of the "painful falls" project advises you to break down the work into small pieces.
Which of the following does not describe how far to break down the work?
Until you have a meaningful conclusion
As a project manager you sit down with your team and your client to measure, examine and
verify that the service meets all the requirements established in the contract. What tool or
technique are you using?
inspection
control quality
control range
audit
I realized during scoping that I need to update the project calendars, I should then update:
The master plan
A project document
We have been entrusted with the important task of managing a humanitarian project for "birds
without borders", the project is already closed and approved in terms of planning and we are
going to directly direct the execution since the previous DP has become ill. One of the
employees without reviewing the plan went to work, surely this will mean:
that the communications plan must be improved
scope corruption
control range
Which of the following can create the greatest misunderstanding of the project scope
statement?
Imprecise language
Lots of detail
4. TIME MANAGEMENT
Two weeks ago you joined the project "the graph that attracts you", through this project you will
consolidate yourself as a true leader and to begin with you want to control the schedule so you
are reanalyzing the project to predict its duration. You do this by analyzing the sequence of
activities with the least amount of scheduling flexibility. What technique are you using?
Critical Path Method
Flowchart
Diagram by Precedence
We can use project management software like MS Project to obtain comparative bar charts with
the baseline. What is this useful for?
To determine dependencies between activities
You need to perform one of the schedule compression techniques to shorten the duration of the
project in order to meet the completion date agreed upon with the client. In your meeting with
the project team, escalation or rapid execution are being considered. Which of the following
statements would be correct?
Escalation always adds risk to the project
Escalation is possible only if resources from other activities are trained to support critical
path activities.
For the Estimate Activity Resources process I can use the results of Estimate Costs
For the Estimate Activity Resources process I use the results of Acquire Project
Equipment.
For the Acquire Project Equipment process I use the results of Estimate Activity
Resources
They can be included in the Estimates of the duration of the activities by adding a
percentage of the estimated duration of the activity.
The level of flexibility in scheduling logical network paths within the schedule is known as:
Contingency reserves
Mattresses
Clearance
Uncertainty
Estimating the time of some complicated activities, we are using the pert method and we
suddenly wonder which of the following best describes the relationship between standard
deviation and risks:
There is no relationship
The standard deviation tells you how uncertain the estimate is.
The standard deviation tells you if the estimate includes a time cushion
We have not yet finished planting all the roses in our rose bushes project, but halfway through
monitoring we realize that if the optimistic estimate for an activity is 12 days and the pessimistic
estimate is 18 days, what is the standard deviation for this activity?
1
1,3
What a mess has formed between the project members in a meeting, and all this because there
are too many project managers who are not clear about which of the following is better
illustrated by a bar diagram than by a network diagram:
logical relationships
Critical paths
Resource trade-offs
Progress or status
When is it useful to use the 50/50 rule, the 20/80 rule, or the 0/100 rule?
To know if we have spent more than we should.
When the activity does not have partial tangible deliverables or it is difficult to calculate
progress
5. COSTS
In the project the earned value is 280?, the planned value is 260?, the actual cost is 280?, and
the total budget is 440?. If hypothetically the cost performance is expected to be the same for
the rest of the project. What is the variation at completion (VAC)?
0
31,42?
-31,42?
20?
There is a risk that project costs could rise more than planned
There is a risk that the cost of the project will be less than planned
The difference between the cost baseline and the cost budget can best be described as:
Management reserves
Contingency reserves
The project cost estimate
You're having trouble estimating the cost of a project. Which of the following best describes the
most likely cause of your difficulty?
Inadequate scope definition
Learning curve
Upward
CPM
No
Fernando is the Project Sponsor of the new Guatemala City Zoo, he has just signed the
project's charter and is negotiating all prices with potential suppliers before finalizing the
planning and starting the execution and purchasing of animals. Pedro is the purchasing
manager and believes that he is wrong and that he should wait until the master plan is
completed and negotiate during execution...
Fernando is wrong and must wait
0,99
1,11
0,91
The following table shows the data for earned value management, on the performance index of
the work to be completed, indicating which is true, if it is calculated at the beginning of the third
month:
Worth 0.92
6. QUALITY
You are a quality expert, the project manager "Quality, check!, check!" asks you a question that
you must answer in a meeting with the client, it is the following: What would you call the point
where the benefits or gains to be received from improving quality equal the incremental cost to
obtain that quality?:
Marginal analysis
Compliance analysis
Punctuality rate
budget control
The OPM3 model and Six Sigma are used for quality improvement.
Nonconformity costs are expenses incurred during the project to avoid failures.
Within the compliance costs there are only prevention costs to avoid failures.
You're walking around the office and you hear in the background a small meeting where your
project team has just planned to test an entire population. Suddenly you are very alarmed and
you speak up so that they do not commit such madness! This is because testing could
be mutually exclusive
Which of the following answers clearly and without a doubt reveals to us why quality is planned
and not inspected?
The day has finally come when you manage a project, alone, but not everything is as easy as it
seemed... You spend all day monitoring and controlling, because there are several execution
activities that are underway and they are very important. You start to worry about the accuracy
of the progress reports your team is making. How can you check if there is a problem?
Quality audits
Regression analysis
Quality controls
You are managing a project in a just-in-time environment. This will require more attention,
because the amount of inventory in such an environment is usually:
45
12
You are meeting with your work team, working hard and preparing a control diagram to monitor
quality tests. Which of the following statements regarding these diagrams is true?
The upper and lower limits defined by the client are more flexible than the upper and lower
control limits set by the project manager
The upper and lower control limits are set by the director and are outside the specification
limits.
The upper and lower control limits are set by the client, indicating what is admissible and
what is not.
The upper and lower limits defined by the project manager are more flexible than the
upper and lower control limits set by the client.
7. HR
As time goes by and the difficulties of the water evaporation project of the "las salinas de
aguadulces" complex located in the Doñana National Park become more evident, the members
of the project begin to become demoralized and demotivated, because they must be done. so
many steps that they no longer know very well how it will all end. This is a job for:
Place people in project management because they are good in their technical areas
Place people in project management because they have had project management training
Have you heard the project manager say "I can't deal with hedge right now", this means he is
using the technique:
Dictator
Force
Avoid
Consent
Which theory proposes that employees' efforts result in effective performance and that
employees will be rewarded for their achievements?
Conditional reinforcement
Maslow's hierarchy
McGregor's theory
Expectations
During the project "la más nostra", you have just discovered that a major subcontractor on your
project is systematically submitting deliverables late. The subcontractor contacts you and asks
you to continue accepting late deliverables in exchange for a reduction in project costs. This
offer is an example of
To confront
Consent
Smooth
Force
Ana Botellín is in charge of a very complex project, not so much because of its technical
aspects but because of the number of people affected by the project and who oppose it. One of
the most important skills you must acquire is negotiating since you practically have to negotiate
with everyone except...
the client
functional heads
One of your project employees has left unmotivated in the middle of the execution phase, you
don't explain why and you mention it to the project sponsor, you tell him that this is strange
because you raised his salary and this should motivate him, the sponsor tells you explains that,
according to Herzberg's theory, salary is not a motivator, but rather a hygienic factor, and that
you must then improve its safety because it is a motivating factor. Do you think he is right?
Yeah
What theory states that the success of a company is based on trust, close relationships
between superior and subordinate, and personalized treatment for each employee?
Ouchi Theory Z
Expectations theory
We calmly walk through our offices with a check list in our hands supervising the performance of
human resources, we are at:
The most frequent causes of conflict in a project are schedules, project priorities and:
Personality
Resources
Cost
Management
8. COMMUNICATIONS
After an intense day of work you encounter a problem with the performance of a team member.
What is the best form of communication to address this problem?
Conflicts occur
Management is upset
You are distributing the minutes of a previous meeting to project members, this is a
communication
You maintain communication with a new member of your project, you are explaining how
communications should be handled. In your opinion, who is responsible for ensuring that the
information is well understood?
Transmitter
Receiver
None
Both
During a meeting, one of its members is continually receiving calls on his cell phone until the
boss gets angry and throws the cell phone out the window. These calls are an example of:
Noise
Blockers
Personalities
Communication management
So that your staff in the other European headquarters can know all the project information, you
place it on an ftp server. What communication method are you using?
push
Pull
Interactive
Technological
The project manager is waiting for a deliverable that will be presented today via email from a
team member. At the end of the day, the project manager contacts the team member to notify
them that they have not received it. The team member apologizes, explaining that he was
unable to send the deliverable by email and instead sent it by post, and reminds the DP that he
had informed him, during a telephone conversation, that this would occur. "It was that time when
I told you that I couldn't hear you well because there was a plane passing by"... what could have
been done to avoid the problem?
Paralinguistic communication
Little importance
Great importance
He speaks louder to
He speaks slowly to
You are the project manager, if you had three stakeholders and a new one has been added that
you also need to communicate with, how many channels do you have now?
10
12
16
9. RISKS
When you were tasked with your last telecommunications project, you didn't think you would
have so much work to do to follow up on identified risks, monitor residual risks, identify new
risks, and evaluate the effectiveness of the risk management process throughout the project.
They have been in business for three months now and he is satisfied. The only thing he hasn't
done yet is
Today he woke up in a good mood, as almost always, and thought that it was the ideal day to
work with his team on prioritizing risks, which is very useful for subsequent analysis or actions.
They will do so by evaluating and combining the probability of occurrence and impact of said
risks. They will then go, if applicable, to
You have finally decided to use the well-known Monte Carlo technique, this means that you are
going to use it to:
If a risk has a 20% probability of occurring in a certain month, and the project is expected to last
five months. What is the probability that the risk event will occur in the fourth month of the
project?
10%
20%
60%
80%
If a risk has a 90% probability of occurring and its consequence would be 10,000,000 euros,
what does the figure of 9,000,000 euros represent?
Risk value
Current value
Contingency budget
Management
Contingency
Mattress
Exploitation
If the team has to repair a deliverable after a year and a half of use, because it is still under
warranty, is the expense incurred in this work considered a type cost?
For complex projects in which analysis of different scenarios is required and seeing the
influence that different sets of changes in different project variables whose probability
distributions are known have on the project, what quantitative analysis technique would you
use?
sensitivity analysis
probability distributions
Which of the following is one of the most important characteristics of the Delphi technique:
Expert opinion
Bottom-up approach
10. ACQUISITIONS
You are preparing the cost-reimbursable contract for the execution of some civil engineering
work and reviewing the checklist of the elements you have or usually include in it. Which of the
following answers are not two elements to include?
Negotiations between two parties are becoming complex, so Party A makes some notes that
both parties sign. However, when they are getting work done, Party B claims that they are not
obligated to provide an item they both agreed to during negotiations, because it was not
included in the subsequent contract. In this case, Part B:
He is not right, since both parties must comply with what they agreed to
In general he is right, because the two parties are only obligated to do what is in the
contract.
You have just started working on an acquisition when management decides to terminate the
contract. What should you do first?
What type of contract don't you want to use if you don't have enough employees to audit
invoices?
Be declared null and void by the legal representative of any of the parties
You have this data from the contract Target cost: 10,000 Target profit: 750 Maximum profit:
1,350 Minimum profit: 300 Contractor distribution: 15% Ownership distribution: 85% If final
agreed cost is 4,000, what will be the final price of the contract?
4.150
5.350
10.000
6.530
The final contract with your supplier for a large networked computer systems package for a new
project in which you are the project manager is usually signed last and as a prior step to the
award.
A project manager on the seller's side is informed by his management that the project must do
everything possible to be granted monetary incentives. The main objective of incentive clauses
in a contract is
Synchronize goals
11. INTERESTED
Before you start hiring your project team and after being authorized as project manager, you are
working with your sponsor, you have not begun to develop the master plan and you study the
people who can influence the project, you are in the process of :
Start
Planning
Communication gaps
More interested
A project manager wants to involve stakeholders more in the project. Which of the following
options would be the best way to achieve this?
Requirement
Heuristics
Expectation
Restriction
You are meeting with your sponsor and are trying to identify potential stakeholders, why are you
with your sponsor and not the project team?
The director of the "hands united against corruption" project has determined that the
management of the stakeholders in this project is of utmost importance. To define the lines of
work of this project, he asks you to prepare a report on the structure of the organization. You
are clear that the structure of the organization is:
You dared to take the reins of a project despite your little experience, you don't know how to
plan the management of stakeholders, so the first thing you are going to do is:
You are going to visit an interested party in the project, you are crossing the city to get to the
offices of this interested party and have a meeting with him, meanwhile your boss, who is the
Project Manager, tells you that this interested party is not participating in any way. active in the
project and their attitude is not influencing it at the moment, how would you classify the
interested party?
Unknown
Reticent
Supporter
Leader
You are the project manager of a large wastewater project and have over 500 potential project
stakeholders. what is the next thing you should do?
Contact your manager and ask which stakeholders are the most important