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Free PMP Practice Exams, Waterfall Exam 1:

1. A functional manager leaves the company and is no longer involved in the current project.

What should the project manager do first?

Update the assumption log.

Update the risk register.

Update the change log.

Update the stakeholder register.

2. Throughout the project, the project manager takes coffee breaks with the team and asks if they have ideas on how to improve their way of working.

The project manager’s approach is in line with which theory?

Theory T

Theory Q

Theory X

Theory Y

3. A customer identifies performance issues on a newly developed product.

Why should the project manager estimate the Cost of Quality (COQ) for this project?

To assess the conformance and non-conformance cost during the life of this product.

To minimize rework and scrap associated with failure costs during project execution.

To find the optimal cost to prevent failures in future iterations of this product.

To assess the quality of the product to minimize future appraisal costs.

4. New team members joined a project which was already in the execution phase.

Which document should the project manager update first?

Procurement management plan.

Communications management plan.

Risk management plan.

Project charter.

5. As a predictive project enters the execution phase, a functional manager discovers that one of the materials to be used in the product will have a negative effect on the environment and urges the project manager to switch to a more environmentally friendly material.

What should the project manager’s initial response be?

Inform the functional manager that material changes are not permitted during the execution phase of the project.

Develop a proof of concept plan to assess the feasibility and impact of the change and present it to the project sponsor.

Instruct the functional manager to submit a formal change request through the established change management process.

Immediately authorize the change in materials and initiate the transition to an environmentally friendly material.

6. After comparing actual results to the performance measurement baseline, the project manager discovers that the project’s work and cost performance measures are better than expected. The project manager doubts that these positive variances can continue until the end of the project.

What should the project manager do?

Conduct performance reviews with the team members.

Notify the stakeholders.

Update the risk register.

Review the project management plan.

7. During a status meeting of a manufacturing project in its implementation phase, a team member tells the project manager that a solution has been found for a persistent failure on equipment used in the implementation. However, this solution is temporary, and the equipment could fail again in the future.

Which document should the project manager update?

Issue Log.

Risk management plan.

Assumption Log.

Stakeholder register.

8. Midway through the project, one stakeholder leaves the company.

Which document should the project manager update?

Project management plan

Project charter

Stakeholder register

Stakeholder engagement plan

9. A project manager is preparing the project management plan and notices that there is a limited amount of detailed information about the activities, however the project manager worked on a similar project in the past.

What should the project manager do to calculate the expected duration of the project.

Input from the project sponsor

Bottom-up estimating

Analogous estimating

Kick-off meeting feedback

10. The project manager sees that the team is causing delays resulting in a negative schedule variance.

What should the project manager do?

Meet with human resources to discuss possible actions to get project back on schedule.

Meet with the project sponsor to determine an approach to getting back on schedule.

Run a risk analysis to determine the impact of the delays on project success.

Meet with the team to identify strategies to resolve the delays.

11. The project deliverables were refused by the customer.

What should the project manager do to gain approval?

Review the project charter and stakeholder engagement plan with the customer.

Review the acceptance criteria with the customer.

Document customer’s objection as a project issue.

Raise a change request to fix the deliverables.

12. A project manager is committed to the success of a multinational project with tight deadlines. A new team member is continually late or misses status meetings. In a one-on-one with the project manager, the team member expresses the belief that working on deliverables is more important than attending status meetings.

What should the project manager do?

Report the team member’s behavior to HR.

Reassign the team member to another project with more flexible deadlines.

Encourage this team member’s attendance, but be flexible if critical work is not affected.

Educate the team member on the importance of attending the status meetings.

13. A new project manager had been assigned by the project sponsor to new critical project with tight budget and time constraints.

What should the project manager do first?

Meet with functional managers to schedule team resources.

Update the requirements management plan to reflect the budget and time constraints.

Meet with stakeholders to obtain their buy-in and support.

Meet with the project sponsor to understand the project’s purpose and high level requirements.

14. During the planning stage of a complex project, the sponsor identifies a need for a specialist who is a citizen of a foreign country. The budget does not allow for this specialist’s travel expenses.

What should the project manager do?

Submit a change request for additional budget.

Assign the specialist to a virtual team.

Find a local replacement.

Train a resource on the existing team in the special skills.

15. In a large construction project, a fuel price increase was identified as a risk during the planning stages. The identified risk was assigned high probability with low impact. The price increase would not be more than 2%. However when the project begins, a 20% fuel price increase goes into effect.
What should the project manager do?

Update the risk register.

Update the lessons learned register.

Update the issue log.

Update the assumption log.