PMI PMI Certifications CA0-001 Questions & Answers

• Question 331:

  What is a technique used in the performance reporting process?

  A. Expert judgment

  B. Project management methodology

  C. Stakeholder analysis

  D. Status review meetings

  Correct Answer: D

  Performance Reportingis the process for "collecting and distributing performance information" like "status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting" (comp.PMBOK3, p. 221): On the base of the collected performance information concerning scope, schedule, cost and quality this process generates the reports which are distributed to the stakeholders (comp.PMBOK3, p. 231). Basicly one can determine four types of reports:

  -Forcast reports for describing future trends -Progess reports for describing trends from past to presence -Status reports for describing actual status -Variance reports for describing differences between the planned baseline and the real data

• Question 332:

  Approved change requests, approved corrective actions, and updates to organizational process assets are all outputs of which project management process?

  A. Risk response planning

  B. Manage stakeholders

  C. Scope definition

  D. Performance reporting

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 333:

  Which of the following is contained within the communications management plan?

  A. An organizational chart

  B. Glossary of common terminology

  C. Organizational process assets

  D. Enterprise environmental factors

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 334:

  Which knowledge area employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?

  A. Project Risk Management

  B. Project Integration Management

  C. Project Communications Management

  D. Project Quality Management

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 335:

  Forecasts, requested changes, recommended corrective actions, and organizational process asset updates are all outputs of which process?

  A. Risk response planning

  B. Risk monitoring and control

  C. Performance reporting

  D. Manage stakeholders

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 336:

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

  A. Contract management

  B. Performance reporting

  C. Project status reports

  D. Information distribution

  Correct Answer: D

  The project management term or phrase that is used for the purposes of representing the project management process that focuses on taking the facts and happenings in regards to a particular project and disseminating this information to all of the relevant parties, with a particular focus on providing information to those who have a financial stake in the ultimate outcomes of the project. These methods of information dissemination can come in means including regularly scheduled conferences and or meetings, regularly scheduled conference calls in which some or all members of the project team participate, informal written communications such as periodic updates via email and of other short form, less formal means of communications, as well as formal reports that may or may not have been requisite to the completion of the project. Information distribution is essential to assuring that the financial stakeholdersare fully aware of the progress throughout as it helps to assure no surprises arise at the time that deliverables are expected to be final. This term is defined in the 3rd edition of the PMBOK but not in the 4th.

• Question 337:

  Which knowledge area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?

  A. Project Integration Management

  B. Project Communications Management

  C. Project Information Management System (PIMS)

  D. Project Scope Management

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 338:

  Placing many or all of the most active project team members in the same physical location to enhance their ability to perform as a team is called which of the following?

  A. Team training

  B. Co-location

  C. Team location

  D. Organization training

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 339:

  Emphasizing areas of agreement rather than areas of difference is part which of the following conflict management techniques?

  A. Smoothing

  B. Compromising

  C. Avoiding

  D. Forcing

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 340:

  In which of the following team development stages does the team begin to work together, develop trust, and adjust to the work habits and behavior?

  A. Norming

  B. Forming

  C. Storming

  D. Performing

  Correct Answer: A