PMI Scheduling Professional PMI-SP Exam Practice Test

Answer : D

Andy and his project team are creating the stakeholder management strategy. The goal

is to identify a method to gain support through communications for the project.

The stakeholder management strategy is an approach to raise the support and decrease negative

impacts of stakeholders during the complete project life cycle. It consists of the following essential

elements:

Key stakeholders who can significantly impact the project

Level of participation in the project desired for each identified stakeholder

Stakeholder groups and their management

Answer option B is incorrect. The stakeholder register contains the stakeholder's identification

information, assessment information, and

stakeholder classification, but not the management strategy.

Answer option A is incorrect. Stakeholder assessment information is part of the stakeholder register.

Answer option C is incorrect. The communications management plan defines how and when

communication will happen.

Answer : B

A three-point estimate requires that each activity be estimated for its optimistic, most

likely, and pessimistic duration. Once the three

estimates have been created, an average of the duration estimates is found and this is the recorded

duration for the project work.

Answer option A is incorrect. This is not a complete explanation of a three-point estimate.

Answer option C is incorrect. This is a definition of PERT, a similar time estimating technique.

Answer option D is incorrect. This is definition of PERT, but this answer uses the term GERT so it is

not a valid choice.

Answer : D

The various group creativity techniques are as follows:

Brainstorming: It is a technique used to generate and collect multiple ideas related to the project

and product requirements.

Nominal group technique: It is a technique used to enhance brainstorming with a voting process

used to rank the most useful ideas for

further brainstorming or prioritization.

Delphi technique: It is a techniques used to identify potential risk. In this technique, the responses

are gathered via a questionnaire

from different experts and their inputs are organized according to their contents.

Idea/mind mapping: It is a technique used to map the ideas generated by brainstorming to reflect

the commonality and differences in

understanding and generating new ideas.

Affinity diagram: It is a technique used to allow a large number of ideas to be sorted into groups for

review and analysis.

Answer : C

The level of effort term describes the ongoing maintenance associated with the project work, but

not a contribution to the deliverables of the

project work.

Level of Effort (LOE) is a project activity which must be done to support other work activities or the

entire project effort. It usually consists of

short amounts of work which must be repeated periodically. LOE is used to define the amount of

work performance within a period of time and

is measured in man days or man hours per day/week/month.

Answer option B is incorrect. Discrete effort describes the activities that can be linked directly to the

project work packages.

Answer option A is incorrect. Project management overhead is an example of apportioned effort.

Answer option D is incorrect. The cost of conformance to quality describes the dues, such as the

subscription for the anti-virus software that

must be spent, so the project can reach its objectives.

Answer : B

Activity B is not on the critical path and it has a total of four days of float. If Activity B takes a total of eight days, it will consume three days of float. However, the total duration of the path ABEHJ may not exceed 26 days, as this is the total duration for the project. Although Activity H has a total of four days of float available, the consumption of three days of float on this path will reduce the total float for Activity H to just one day. If Activity H is delayed by more than one day, then the project will be late. Answer option D is incorrect. There is one day of float still available for Activity H. Answer options A and C are incorrect. These are not the valid answers, as there is just one day of float available for Activity H.

Answer : D

The various phases of the decision making process are as follows:

Problem definition: This phase explores, clarifies and defines the problem.

Problem solution generation: This phase draws out the new idea generating process by

brainstorming multiple solutions and rejecting

premature decisions.

Ideas to action: This phase defines the evaluation criteria, rate pros and cons of alternatives and

helps in selecting the best solution.

Solution action planning: This phase involves key participants to gain acceptance and commitment to

make the solution work.

Solution evaluation planning: This phase performs the post implementation analysis, evaluations and

lessons learned.

Evaluation of the outcome and process: This phase evaluates how well the problem was solved or

project goals were achieved.

Answer : C

The best answer is to track actual durations to measure the actual progress of the

project.

Actual duration is the time, in the calendar units, between the actual start date of the schedule

activity and either the data date of the project

schedule if the schedule activity is in development or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is

complete.

Answer option B is incorrect. The schedule baseline is not created based on actual durations.

Answer option A is incorrect. Process improvement is part of the quality management knowledge

area, but it is not a reason to track actual

durations.

Answer option D is incorrect. Quality control is the inspection of the project deliverables. It is not

concerned with the actual durations of

project work. The improvement of the project processes is defined in the Process Improvement Plan.