PMI CAPM PMI-100 Questions & Answers

• Question 771:

  Which process is responsible for monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline?

  A. Variance Analysis

  B. Define Scope

  C. Verify Scope

  D. Control Scope

  Correct Answer: D

  Explanation:

  Process: 5.6 Control ScopeDefinition: The process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.Key Benefit: The key benefit of this process is that it allows the scope baseline to be maintained throughout the project.

  Inputs

  1.

  Project management plan

  2.

  Requirements documentation

  3.

  Requirements traceability matrix

  4.

  Work performance data

  5.

  Organizational process assets

  Tools and Techniques

  1. Variance analysis

  Outputs

  1.

  Work performance information

  2.

  Change requests

  3.

  Project management plan updates

  4.

  Project documents updates

  5.

  Organizational process assets updates

• Question 772:

  Which Control Scope input is compared to actual results to determine if corrective action is required for the project?

  A. Scope baseline

  B. Scope management plan

  C. Change management plan

  D. Cost baseline

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 773:

  Which of the following are an enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Identify Risks process?

  A. Work performance reports

  B. Assumptions logs

  C. Network diagrams

  D. Academic studies

  Correct Answer: D

  Explanation:

  11.2.1.12 Enterprise Environmental Factors

  Described in Section 2.1.5. Enterprise environmental factors that can influence the Identify Risks process include, but are not limited to:

  Published information, including commercial databases,

  Academic studies,

  Published checklists,

  Benchmarking,

  Industry studies, and

  Risk attitudes.

  Process: 11.2 Identify RisksDefinition: The process of determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics. Key Benefit: The key benefit of this process is the documentation of existing risks and the knowledge and ability it provides to the project team to anticipate events.

  Inputs

  1.

  Risk management plan

  2.

  Cost management plan

  3.

  Schedule management plan

  4.

  Quality management plan

  5.

  Human resource management plan

  6.

  Scope baseline

  7.

  Activity cost estimates

  8.

  Activity duration estimates

  9.

  Stakeholder register 10.Project documents 11.Procurement documents 12.Enterprise environmental factors13.Organizational process assets

  Tools and Techniques

  1.

  Documentation reviews

  2.

  Information gathering techniques

  3.

  Checklist analysis

  4.

  Assumptions analysis

  5.

  Diagramming techniques

  6.

  SWOT analysis Expert judgment

  Outputs

  Risk register

• Question 774:

  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?

  A. Initiating

  B. Planning

  C. Executing

  D. Monitoring and Controlling

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 775:

  Which input will be used when tasked with developing the human resource plan?

  A. Project management plan

  B. Activity resource requirements

  C. Resource calendar

  D. Project staff assignments

  Correct Answer: B

  Explanation:

  9.1.1.2 Activity Resource Requirements

  Described in Section 6.4.3.1. Human resource planning uses activity resource requirements to determine the human resource needs for the project. The preliminary requirements regarding the required project team members and their competencies are progressively elaborated as part of the Plan Human Resource Management process.

  6.4.3.1 Activity Resource Requirements

  Activity resource requirements identify the types and quantities of resources required for each activity in a

  work package. These requirements then can be aggregated to determine the estimated resources for each

  work package and each work period. The amount of detail and the level of specificity of the resource

  requirement descriptions can vary by application area. The resource requirements documentation for each

  activity can include the basis of estimate for each resource, as well as the assumptions that were made in

  determining which types of resources are applied, their availability, and what quantities are used.

  Process: 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management

  Definition: The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills,

  reporting relationships, and creating a staffing management plan.

  Key Benefit: The key benefit of this process is that it establishes project roles and responsibilities, project

  organization charts, and the staffing management plan including the timetable for staff acquisition and

  release.

  Inputs

  1.

  Project management plan

  2.

  Activity resource requirements

  3.

  Enterprise environmental factors

  4.

  Organizational process assets

  Tools and Techniques

  1.

  Organization charts and position descriptions

  2.

  Networking

  3.

  Organizational theory

  4.

  Expert judgment

  5.

  Meetings

  Outputs

  1. Human resource management plan

• Question 776:

  The completion of the project scope is measured against the:

  A. requirements documentation.

  B. project scope statement.

  C. project management plan.

  D. work performance measurements.

  Correct Answer: C

  Explanation:

  4.2.3.1 Project Management Plan

  The project management plan is the document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored,

  and controlled. It integrates and consolidates all of the subsidiary plans and baselines from the planning

  processes.

  Project baselines include, but are not limited to:

  Scope baseline (Section 5.4.3.1),

  Schedule baseline (Section 6.6.3.1), and

  Cost baseline (Section 7.3.3.1).

  Subsidiary plans include, but are not limited to:

  Scope management plan (Section 5.1.3.1),

  Requirements management plan (Section 5.1.3.2),

  Schedule management plan (Section 6.1.3.1),

  Cost management plan (Section 7.1.3.1),

  Quality management plan (Section 8.1.3.1),

  Process improvement plan (Section 8.1.3.2),

  Human resource management plan (Section 9.1.3.1),

  Communications management plan (Section 10.1.3.1),

  Risk management plan (Section 11.1.3.1),

  Procurement management plan (Section 12.1.3.1), and

  Stakeholder management plan (Section 13.2.3.1).

  Among other things, the project management plan may also include the following:

  Life cycle selected for the project and the processes that will be applied to each phase;

  Details of the tailoring decisions specified by the project management team as follows:

  ○

  Project management processes selected by the project management team,

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  Level of implementation for each selected process,

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  Descriptions of the tools and techniques to be used for accomplishing those processes, and

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  Description of how the selected processes will be used to manage the specific project, including the

  dependencies and interactions among those processes and the essential inputs and outputs.

  Description of how work will be executed to accomplish the project objectives;

  Change management plan that documents how changes will be monitored and controlled;

  Configuration management plan that documents how Configuration management will be performed;

  Description of how the integrity of the project baselines will be maintained;

  Requirements and techniques for communication among stakeholders; and

  Key management reviews for content, the extent of, and timing to address, open issues and pending

  decisions.

  The project management plan may be either summary level or detailed, and may be composed of one or more subsidiary plans. Each of the subsidiary plans is detailed to the extent required by the specific project. Once the project management plan is baselined, it may only be changed when a change request is generated and approved through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.

• Question 777:

  Which Process Group contains the processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy the project specifications?

  A. Initiating

  B. Planning

  C. Executing

  D. Closing

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 778:

  A project manager at a publishing company decides to initiate the editing phase of the project as soon as each chapter is written. Which type of Sequence Activities tool and technique is involved, considering that there was a start-to-start relationship with a 15-day delay?

  A. Slack

  B. Float

  C. Lag

  D. Lead

  Correct Answer: C

  A lag is the amount of time whereby a successor activity will be delayed with respect to a predecessor

  activity.

  For example, a technical writing team may begin editing the draft of a large document 15 days after they

  begin writing it.

  Process: 6.3 Sequence Activities

  Definition: The process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities.

  Key Benefit: The key benefit of this process is that it defines the logical sequence of work to obtain the

  greatest efficiency given all project constraints.

  Inputs

  1.

  Schedule management plan

  2.

  Activity list

  3.

  Activity attributes

  4.

  Milestone list

  5.

  Project scope statement

  6.

  Enterprise environmental factors

  7.

  Organizational process assets

  Tools and Techniques

  1.

  Precedence diagramming method (PDM)

  2.

  Dependency determination

  3.

  Leads and lags

  Outputs

  1.

  Project schedule network diagrams

  2.

  Project documents updates

• Question 779:

  Administer Procurements is part of which Process Group?

  A. Planning

  B. Executing

  C. Monitoring and Controlling

  D. Closing

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 780:

  The process to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used is:

  A. Plan Quality.

  B. Perform Quality Assurance.

  C. Perform Quality Control.

  D. Total Quality Management.

  Correct Answer: B

  Explanation:

  Process: 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

  Definition: The process of auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality controlmeasurements to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used.Key Benefit: The key benefit of this process is that it facilitates the improvement of quality processes.

  Inputs

  1.

  Quality management plan

  2.

  Process improvement plan

  3.

  Quality metrics

  4.

  Quality control measurements

  5.

  Project documents

  Tools and Techniques

  1.

  Quality management and control tools

  2.

  Quality audits

  3.

  Process analysis

  Outputs

  1.

  Change requests

  2.

  Project management plan updates

  3.

  Project documents updates

  4.

  Organizational process assets updates