Prepare for the PMP certification exam with these study card questions and answers. This guide covers all PMBOK knowledge areas, processes, and project management concepts.
Q: Schedule Development/Project Time Management
Answer: Analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project schedule
Q: Activity Duration Estimating/Project Time Management
Answer: Estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities
Q: Activity Resource Estimating/Project Time Management
Answer: Estimating the type and quantities of resources required to perform each schedule activity
Q: Activity Sequencing/Project Time Management
Answer: Identifying and documenting dependencies among schedule activities
Q: Manage Stakeholders/Project Communications Management
Answer: Managing communications to satisfy the requirements of, and resolve issues with, project stakeholders
Q: What process group does ‘Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Verify Scope’ belong to?
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling
Q: What process group does ‘Manage Stakeholder Expectations’ belong to?
Answer: Executing
Q: What process group does ‘Perform Quality Control’ belong to?
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling
Q: What process group does ‘Collect Requirements’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: Contract Administration/Project Procurement Management
Answer: Managing the contract and the relationship between the buyer and the seller, reviewing and documenting how a seller is performing or has performed to establish required corrective actions and provide basis for future relationship with seller
Q: What process group does ‘Adminsiter Procurements’ belong to?
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling
Q: Risk REsponse Planning/Project Risk Management
Answer: Developing Options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to projcect objectives
Q: Activity Definition/Project Time Management
Answer: Identifying the specific schedule activities that need to be performed to produce the various project deliverables
Q: What process group does ‘Control Scope’ belong to?
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling
Q: Plan Contracting/Project Procurement Management
Answer: Dcoumenting products, services and results requirements and identifying potential sellers
Q: Select Sellers/Project Procurement Management
Answer: Reviewing offers, choosing from among potential sellers, and negotiating a written contract with a seller
Q: Request Seller Responses/Project Procurement Management
Answer: Obtaining information, quotations, bids, offers or proposals as appropriate
Q: To-Complete Performance Index(TCPI)
Answer: (BAC-EV)/(BAC-AC) or (work remaining)/(funds remaining)
Q: EAC forecast for ETC at BUDGETED RATE
Answer: EAC=AC+BAC-EV
Q: EAC forecast for ETC at PRESENT CPI
Answer: EAC=BAC/(cumulative CPI)
Q: EAC forecast for ETC at both CPI & SPI factors
Answer: EAC=AC+((BAC-EV)/(Cumulative CPI x Cumulative SPI))
Q: What process group does ‘Identify Risks’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Manage Project Team’ belong to?
Answer: Executing
Q: Risk Management Planning/Project Risk Management
Answer: Deciding how to appproach, plan and execute the risk management activities for a project
Q: Risk Identification/Project Risk Management
Answer: Determining which risks might affect the project and documenting their characteristics
Q: What process group does ‘Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Plan Risk Responses’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Define Scope’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Acquire Project Team’ belong to?
Answer: Executing
Q: Plan Purchases and Acuisitions/Project Procurement Management
Answer: Determining what to purchase or acquire and determining WHEN and HOW
Q: Risk Monitoring and Control/Project Risk Management
Answer: Tracking identifies risk, monitoring residual risks, identifying new risks, executing risk response plans and evaluating their effectiveness throughout the project life cycle
Q: What process group does ‘Close Procurements’ belong to?
Answer: Closing
Q: What process group does ‘Close Project Phase’ belong to?
Answer: Closing
Q: What process group does ‘Monitor and Control Risks’ belong to?
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling
Q: What process group does ‘Develop Schedule’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Perform Integrated Change Control’ belong to?
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling
Q: What process group does ‘Monitor and Control Project Work’ belong to?
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling
Q: What process group does ‘Sequence Activities’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Plan Procurements’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Control Schedule’ belong to?
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling
Q: What process group does ‘Define Activities’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Develop Project Team’ belong to?
Answer: Executing
Q: What process group does ‘Determine Budget’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Plan Communications’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: What process group does ‘Plan Risk Management’ belong to?
Answer: Planning
Q: Scope Control/Project Scope Management
Answer: Controlling changes to the project scope
Q: Develop Project Charter/Project Integraion Management
Answer: Process of developing project charter that formally authorizes a project
Q: Create WBS/Project Scope Management
Answer: Subdividing the major project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components
Q: Scope Verification/Project Scope Management
Answer: Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Q: Schedule Control/Project Time Management
Answer: Controlling changes to the project schedule
Q: Scope Planning/Project Scope Management
Answer: Creating a project scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be defined, verified and controlled, and how WBS will be created and defined
Q: Scope Definition/Project Scope Management
Answer: Developing a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions
Q: Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement/Project Integration Management
Answer: Developing the preliminary project scope statement provided as a high-level scope narrative
Q: Develop Project Management Plan/Project Integration Management
Answer: Documenting the actions necessary to define prepare, integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project management plan
Q: Direct and Manage Project Execution/Project Integration Management
Answer: Executing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project’s requirements defined in the project scope statement
Q: Monitor and Control Project Work/Project Integration Management
Answer: Monitoring and Controlling the processes required to initiate, plan, execute and close a project to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan
Q: Integrated Change Control/Project Integration Management
Answer: Reviewing all change requests, approving changes, and controlling changes to the deliverables and organizational process assets
Q: Close Project/Project Integration Management
Answer: Finalizing all activities across all the project process groups to formally close the project
Q: Quality Planning/Project Quality Management
Answer: Identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them
Q: Perform Quality Assurance/Project Quality Management
Answer: Applying the planned, systematic quality activities to ensure that the project employs all processes needed to meet requirements
Q: Perform Quality Control/Project Quality Management
Answer: Monitoring specific project results to determine whether they comply with relevant quality standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory performance
Q: Manage Project Team/Project Human Resource Management
Answer: Tracking team members’ performance, providing feedback, resolving issues and coordinating changes to enhance project performance
Q: Acquire Project Team/Project Human Resource Management
Answer: Obtaining the human resources needed to complete the project
Q: Human Resource Planning/Project Human Resource Management
Answer: Identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships as well as creating the staffing management plan
Q: Develop Project Team/Project Human Resource Management
Answer: Improving the competencies and interaction of team members to enhance project performance
Q: Cost Estimating/Project Cost Manangement
Answer: Developing an approximation of the costs of resources needed to complete project activities
Q: Cost Budgeting/Project Cost Management
Answer: Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish a cost baseline
Q: Cost Control/Project Cost Management
Answer: Inflluencing the factors that create cost variances and controlling changes to the project budget
Q: Communications Planning/Project Communications Management
Answer: Determining the information and communication needs of the project stakeholders
Q: Information Distribution/Project Communications Management
Answer: Making needed information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner
Q: Performance Reporting/Project Communications Management
Answer: Collecting and distributing performance information including status reporting, progress measurement and forecasting
Q: What is a surgical team structure comprised of?
Answer: The organizational structure in which a single individual has primary responsibility for the final product
Q: What are the five Project Management process groups?
Answer: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing
Q: What is life-cycle costing?
Answer: considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Q: What is configuration management?
Answer: is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a product, result, service, or component; control any changes to such characteristics; record and report each change and its implementation status; and support the audit of the products, results, or components to verify conformance to requirements.