PMI CAPM PMI-100 Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  Which process involves determining, documenting, and managing stakeholders' needs and requirements to meet project objectives?

  A. Collect Requirements

  B. Plan Scope Management

  C. Define Scope

  D. Define Activities

  Correct Answer: A

  Explanation:

  Process: 5.2 Collect RequirementsDefinition: The process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs andrequirements to meet project objectives.Key Benefit: The key benefit of this process is that it provides the basis for defining and managing the project scope including product scope.

  Inputs

  1.

  Scope management plan

  2.

  Requirements management plan

  3.

  Stakeholder management plan

  4.

  Project charter

  5.

  Stakeholder register

  Tools and Techniques

  1.

  Interviews

  2.

  Focus groups

  3.

  Facilitated workshops

  4.

  Group creativity techniques

  5.

  Group decision-making techniques

  6.

• Question 12:

  Using parametric estimating, if an assigned resource is capable of producing 120 units per hour, how many hours are required to produce 12,000 units?

  A. 100

  B. 120

  C. 1,000

  D. 1,200

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 13:

  Which change request is an intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan?

  A. Update

  B. Preventive action

  C. Defect repair

  D. Corrective action

  Correct Answer: D

  Explanation:

  4.3.3.3 Change Requests

  A change request is a formal proposal to modify any document, deliverable, or baseline. An approved change request will replace the associated document, deliverable, or baseline and may result in an update to other parts of the project management plan. When issues are found while project work is being performed, change requests are submitted, which may modify project policies or procedures, project scope, project cost or budget, project schedule, or project quality. Other change requests cover the needed preventive or corrective actions to forestall negative impact later in the project. Requests for a change can be direct or indirect, externally or internally initiated, and can be optional or legally/contractually mandated, and may include:

  Corrective action—An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan;

  Preventive action—An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan;

  Defect repair—An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component;

  Updates—Changes to formally controlled project documents, plans, etc., to reflect modified or additional ideas or content.

• Question 14:

  Which type of probability distribution is used to represent uncertain events such as the outcome of a test or a possible scenario in a decision tree?

  A. Uniform

  B. Continuous

  C. Discrete

  D. Linear

  Correct Answer: C

  Explanation:

  Decision Tree Analysis. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a

  chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.

  -Can only be used with discrete data.

• Question 15:

  In project management, a temporary project can be: A. Completed without planning

  B. A routine business process

  C. Long in duration

  D. Ongoing to produce goods

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 16:

  Which document in the project management plan can be updated in the Plan Procurement Management process?

  A. Budget estimates

  B. Risk matrix

  C. Requirements documentation

  D. Procurement documents

  Correct Answer: C

  Explanation:

  Process: 12.1 Plan Procurement ManagementDefinition: The process of documenting project procurement decisions, specifying the approach, and identifying potential sellers. Key Benefit: The key benefit of this process is that it determines whether to acquire outside support, and if so, what to acquire, how to acquire it, how much is needed, and when to acquire it.

  Inputs

  1.

  Project management plan

  2.

  Requirements documentation

  3.

  Risk register

  4.

  Activity resource requirements

  5.

  Project schedule

  6.

  Activity cost estimates

  7.

  Stakeholder register

  8.

  Enterprise environmental factors

  9.

  Organizational process assets

  Tools and Techniques

  1.

  Make-or-buy analysis

  2.

  Expert judgment

  3.

  Market research

  4.

  Meetings

  Outputs

  1.

  Procurement management plan

  2.

  Procurement statement of work

  3.

  Procurement documents

  4.

  Source selection criteria

  5.

  Make-or-buy decisions

  6.

  Change requests

  7.

  Project documents updates

• Question 17:

  Activity cost estimates and the project schedule are inputs to which Project Cost Management process?

  A. Estimate Costs

  B. Control Costs

  C. Plan Cost Management

  D. Determine Budget

  Correct Answer: D

  Explanation:

  7.2.3.1 Activity Cost Estimates

  Activity cost estimates are quantitative assessments of the probable costs required to complete project work. Cost estimates can be presented in summary form or in detail. Costs are estimated for all resources that are applied to the activity cost estimate. This includes, but is not limited to, direct labor, materials, equipment, services, facilities, information technology, and special categories such as cost of financing (including interest charges), an inflation allowance, exchange rates, or a cost contingency reserve. Indirect costs, if they are included in the project estimate, can be included at the activity level or at higher levels.

  Process: 7.3 Determine BudgetDefinition: The process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline. Key Benefit: The key benefit of this process is that it determines the cost baseline against which project performance can be monitored and controlled.

  Inputs

  1.

  Cost management plan

  2.

  Scope baseline

  3.

  Activity cost estimates

  4.

  Basis of estimates

  5.

  Project schedule

  6.

  Resource calendars

  7.

  Risk register

  8.

  Agreements

  9.

  Organizational process assets

  Tools and Techniques

  1.

  Cost aggregation

  2.

  Reserve analysis

  3.

  Expert judgment

  4.

  Historical relationships

  5.

  Funding limit reconciliation

  Outputs

  1.

  Cost baseline

  2.

  Project funding requirements

  3.

  Project documents updates

• Question 18:

  Which item is a cost of conformance?

  A. Training

  B. Liabilities

  C. Lost business

  D. Scrap

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 19:

  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?

  A. Collaboration

  B. Negotiation

  C. Decision making

  D. Influencing

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 20:

  A graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships is known as a:

  A. Resource calendar.

  B. Project organization chart.

  C. Resource breakdown structure (RBS).

  D. Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM).

  Correct Answer: B

  Explanation: Project organization charts. A project organization chart is a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships. It can be formal or informal, highly detailed or broadly framed, based on the needs of the project. For example, the project organization chart for a 3,000-person disaster response team will have greater detail than a project organization chart for an internal, twenty-person project.