PMI-100 Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® Questions and Answers

Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?

Which technique helps to determine the risks that have the most potential impact on a project?

Which of the following is an output of Direct and Manage Project Execution?

Which of the following helps to ensure that each requirement adds business value by linking it to the business and project objectives?

Who provides the inputs for the original estimates of activity durations for tasks on the project plan?

Which of the following factors is lowest at the start of the project?

What is the primary benefit of meeting quality requirements?

Which of the following documents allows the project manager to assess risks that may require near term action?

Managing procurement relationships and monitoring contract performance are part of which process?

In Project Cost Management, which input is exclusive to the Determine Budget process?

Which of the following types of a dependency determination is used to define the sequence of activities?

Which of the following characteristics are found in a functional organizational structure?

The risk management team of a software project has decided that due to the lack of adequate talent in the company, development of a specific part of the system is under high risk, so the team has decided to outsource it. This is an example of which risk response?

Co-location is a tool and technique of:

A project has a current cost performance index (CPI) of 1.25. To date, US$10,000 have been spent on performing the project work. What is the earned value of the work completed to date?

One of the tools and techniques of the Manage Project Team process is:

Which standard has interrelationships to other project management disciplines such as program management and portfolio management?

A purchase order for a specified item to be delivered by a specified date for a specified price is the simplest form of what type of contract?

Which changes occur in risk and uncertainty as well as the cost of changes as the life cycle of a typical project progresses?

A project manager should document the escalation path for unresolved project risks in the:

A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished is known as:

In a project, total float measures the:

Which input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process provides guidance on how stakeholders can best be involved in a project?

Processes in the Planning Process Group are typically carried out during which part of the project life cycle?

A reward can only be effective if it is:

Stakeholder satisfaction should be managed as a key project:

The basis of identification for current or potential problems to support later claims or new procurements is provided by:

When alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is necessary, which tool or technique should be utilized?

Which conflict resolution technique searches for solutions that bring some degree of satisfaction to all parties in order to temporarily or partially resolve the conflict?

The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities is known as:

Which process identifies whether the needs of a project can best be met by acquiring products, services, or results outside of the organization?

An input to Close Project or Phase is:

An element of the project scope statement is:

Which tool or technique is used in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

Regression analysis, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), and trend analysis are examples of which tool or technique?

Which process in Project Time Management includes reserve analysis as a tool or technique?

Which process involves developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities?

Scope, schedule, and cost parameters are integrated in the:

Organizational theory is a tool used in which Project Human Resource Management process?

Whose approval may be required for change requests after change control board (CCB) approval?

Correlated and contextualized information on how closely the scope is being maintained relative to the scope baseline is contained within:

A project team member agrees to change a project deliverable after a conversation with an external stakeholder. It is later discovered that the change has had an adverse effect on another deliverable. This could have been avoided if the project team had implemented:

Which type of graphic is displayed below?

Which item is a cost of conformance?

Which tools or techniques are used during the Close Project or Phase process?

The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope as well as managing the changes to the scope baseline is known as:

Which project document is updated in the Control Stakeholder Engagement process?

Which element does a project charter contain?

A benefit of using virtual teams in the Acquire Project Team process is the reduction of the:

Which basic quality tool explains a change in the dependent variable in relationship to a change observed in the corresponding independent variable?

Which process is conducted from project inception through completion and is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager?

The following is a network diagram for a project.

The critical path for the project is how many days in duration?

Perform Integrated Change Control is the process of:

Which project risk listed in the table below is most likely to occur?

High-level project risks are included in which document?

Which Control Stakeholder Engagement tool or technique allows the project manager to consolidate and facilitate distribution of reports?

Project Scope Management is primarily concerned with:

The cost baseline and project funding requirements are outputs of which process in Project Cost Management?

Which output of Project Cost Management consists of quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work?

Which key interpersonal skill of a project manager is defined as the strategy of sharing power and relying on interpersonal skills to convince others to cooperate toward common goals?

Most experienced project managers know that:

While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery. What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?

The stakeholder register is an output of:

What is the total float of the critical path?

Which process involves documenting the actions necessary to define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans?

Which of the following involves making information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner?

Identifying major deliverables, deciding if adequate cost estimates can be developed, and identifying tangible components of each deliverable are all part of which of the following?

What is the number of stakeholders, if the project has 28 potential communication channels?

Information collected on the status of project activities being performed to accomplish the project work is known as what?

Which Project Management Process Group includes Collect Requirements, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, and Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis?

Which process uses occurrence probability and impact on project objectives to assess the priority of identified risks?

The project manager notes that stakeholders are aware of the project and potential impacts and are actively engaged in ensuring that the project is a success. The engagement level of the stakeholders should be classified as:

What is one of the objectives of Project Risk Management?

Which Process Group's purpose is to track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project; identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required; and initiate the corresponding changes?

Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?

Organizations perceive risks as:

Activity resource requirements and the resource breakdown structure (RBS) are outputs of which Project Time Management process?

The product scope description is used to:

To which process is work performance information an input?

Which of the following is a tool and technique for Estimate Activity Durations?

Assigned risk ratings are based upon:

In which type of contract are the performance targets established at the onset and the final contract price determined after completion of all work based on the sellers performance?

Which type of diagram includes groups of information and shows relationships between factors, causes, and objectives?

Which index is the calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal?

Risk responses reflect an organization's perceived balance between:

The total of the planned value (PV) is also known as:

Identify Stakeholders is the process of identifying all of the people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests in, involvement in, and impact on the project:

How should a stakeholder who is classified as high power and low interest be grouped in a power/interest grid during stakeholder analysis?

Which of the following is a tool or technique used in the Acquire Project Team process?

In the basic communication model, which term refers to the method that is used to convey the message?

Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?

What are the identified risks for doing excessive decomposition in a WBS?

After Define Activities and Sequence Activities, the next process is:

Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to:

The processes required to establish the scope of the project, refine the objectives, and define the course of action required to attain the objectives that the project has been undertaken to achieve are grouped within which Process Group?

The process of identifying specific actions to be performed to produce project deliverables is:

The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements describes management of which of the following?

What is project management?

A tool and technique used during the Collect Requirements process is:

The project budget is set at $150,000. The project duration is planned to be one year. At the completion of Week 16 of the project, the following information is collected: Actual cost = $50,000, Plan cost = $45,000, Earned value = $40,000. What is the cost performance index?

A project lifecycle is defined as:

What happens to a stakeholder's project influence over time?