GIAC GIAC Information Security GCPM Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  In which of the following process groups is the project manager responsible for authorizing and applying organization resources to the subsequent project activities?

  A. Executing

  B. Planning

  C. Initiating

  D. Monitoring and controlling

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 32:

  Marsha is the project manager of the NHQ Project. There's a risk that her project team has identified, which could cause the project to be late by more than a month. Marsha does not want this risk event to happen so she devises extra project activities to ensure that the risk event will not happen. The extra steps, however, will cost the project an additional $10,000. What type of risk response is this approach?

  A. Mitigation

  B. Transference

  C. Enhancing

  D. Exploiting

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 33:

  You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to communicate and solicit feedback from your employees to build future plans. Which of the following will help you to accomplish the above task?

  A. Stakeholders register

  B. Risk register

  C. Organizational chart

  D. Change register

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 34:

  Which of the following documents refers specifically to the input output mechanism that serves the purpose of providing a narrative description of the sum of the scope of the project?

  A. Project scope statement

  B. Project WBS

  C. Project WBS dictionary

  D. Project charter

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 35:

  You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to subdivide project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components. Which of the following processes will you use to perform the above task?

  A. Create WBS

  B. Control scope

  C. Verify scope

  D. Define activities

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 36:

  You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to include a budget contingency to accommodate the risk of incurring unidentifiable but normally occurring costs within the defined scope. Which of the following processes will help you to accomplish the task?

  A. Cost baselining

  B. Cost controlling

  C. Cost estimation

  D. Cost budgeting

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 37:

  You are the project manager of TRT project. During execution phase of your project, Rick, a team member, complains that other team members are isolating him and this isolation is bothering him. Which of the following is not a recommended step in order to resolve the issue?

  A. Apply team building measures to improve the team's effectiveness.

  B. Get more feed back from Rick.

  C. Get feedback on Rick from other team members.

  D. Shift Rick to another project.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 38:

  Which of the following is a document that covers the work that will be done, how the work will be compensated, and any penalties for noncompliance?

  A. Project description

  B. Control chart

  C. Cost baseline

  D. Contract

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 39:

  Alan works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He is working on the office renovation project. The office has 200 doors. All doors have to be glassed and painted. Before each door can be painted, the glasses must be fitted in them at least 12 hours before. Alan has arranged these tasks with a finish to start relationship between glassing and painting. What else should Alan do to account for the twelve hours of maintenance time?

  A. Alan must schedule all 200 office doors to be glassed first and then schedule all 200 doors to be painted to ensure time for the maintenance.

  B. Alan must add twelve hours of lag time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

  C. Alan must add twelve hours of lead time to each of the 200 doors painting activity to account for the glassed maintenance time.

  D. Alan must add an intermediary task with duration of twelve hours.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 40:

  Which of the following processes is performed to develop a detailed description of the project and product?

  A. Initiation

  B. Scope definition

  C. Planning

  D. Scope verification

  Correct Answer: B