PMI CAPM Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI CAPM Online Questions & Answers

• Question 801:

  Project or phase closure guidelines or requirements, historical information, and the lessons learned knowledge base are examples of which input to the Close Project or Phase process?

  A. Organizational process assets
  B. A work breakdown structure
  C. The project management plan
  D. Enterprise environmental factors
  A. Organizational process assets

• Question 802:

  Why is a project undertaken?

  A. To create a unique product, service, or result
  B. To achieve better management of resources
  C. To increase the understanding of project management
  D. To teach the discipline of program and portfolio management
  A. To create a unique product, service, or result

• Question 803:

  What tools or techniques can be used in all cost management processes?

  A. Decision making and expert judgment
  B. Expert judgment and data analysis
  C. Data analysis and meetings
  D. Meetings and cost aggregation
  B. Expert judgment and data analysis

• Question 804:

  Which are the main objectives of Project Risk Management?

  A. Increase the probability of positive risks and decrease the probability of negative risks
  B. Avoid all kind of risks
  C. Increase the probability of positive risks and eliminate all negative risks
  D. Identify positive and negative risks
  A. Increase the probability of positive risks and decrease the probability of negative risks

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• Question 805:

  A project team is brainstorming about the best methods and practices to adopt for an upcoming project.

  What is the project team trying to follow?

  A. Programs
  B. Portfolios
  C. Standards
  D. Concepts
  C. Standards

• Question 806:

  The three types of estimates that PERT uses to define an approximate range for an activity's cost are:

  A. Parametric, most likely, and analogous.
  B. Least likely, analogous, and realistic.
  C. Parametric, optimistic, and pessimistic.
  D. Most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic.
  D. Most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic.

• Question 807:

  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
  B. Project Communications Management

• Question 808:

  The project manager and the project team are having a meeting with the purpose of identifying risks. Which tools and techniques might help in this process?

  A. Prompt lists and data analysis
  B. Reports and representations of uncertainty
  C. Data analysis and risk audits
  D. Interpersonal and team skills and project management information system
  A. Prompt lists and data analysis

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• Question 809:

  A project manager read the initial contract when a project was started. The contract states a house has to be built in one year, and the foundation has to be completed in 30 days.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Start the project as soon as possible, as time is short.
  B. Add the milestones to the risk register, as time is short.
  C. Add the two milestones to the project plan, as they are mandatory.
  D. Calculate the duration of the two milestones stated in the contract.
  C. Add the two milestones to the project plan, as they are mandatory.

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• Question 810:

  Which technique should a project manager use in a situation in which a collaborative approach to conflict management is not possible?

  A. Coaching
  B. Avoidance
  C. Consensus
  D. Influencing
  B. Avoidance