PMI PGMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PGMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 151:

  What document should you provide to the vendors if you're only interested for a set fee for their materials?

  A. IFB
  B. RFP
  C. RFI
  D. SOW
  A. IFB

• Question 152:

  You are the program manager for your organization. As your program is being initiated there is some initial concern from the management about the utilization of resources in your program and the need for resources in their day-to-day roles in operations. Management has set a limit on your program that resources may only work 20 hours per week on the program. What is this limit of resource hours in a time period known as?

  A. Resource leveling heuristic
  B. Resource requirements
  C. Program risk
  D. Resource utilization
  A. Resource leveling heuristic

• Question 153:

  You are the project manager for the JJY Project, which is similar to the HHG Project you managed last quarter. You would like to model the current project scope on the previous project to save time and effort. This is an example of what kind of scope definition?

  A. Analogous estimating
  B. Organizational process assets
  C. Parametric scope definition
  D. Template driven
  D. Template driven

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• Question 154:

  You are the program manager for your organization. You're currently creating an accountability matrix starting with yourself, the program manager and the program sponsor. What program management process identifies the program sponsor?

  A. Pre-program setup phase
  B. Authorization of program processes and projects
  C. Initiate program process
  D. Initiation of the program management team
  C. Initiate program process

• Question 155:

  You are the program manager for your organization. Your current program, which has just started, has eight projects and many of the projects share resources such as equipment and people. Management has asked that you identify when the project resources will be utilized on each project within your program. They are worried some resources may be idle or overscheduled. What approach can you use to consider the availability of resources when the project managers begin sequencing their project activities?

  A. The project managers will use the critical path method for scheduling activities.
  B. The project managers will use PERT to schedule all activities.
  C. The project managers will use the critical chain method for scheduling activities.
  D. The project managers will create Gantt charts to schedule all activities.
  C. The project managers will use the critical chain method for scheduling activities.

• Question 156:

  You are the program manager of the MQQ Program. Your program will use equipment and materials that are new to your industry. You have some concerns that there will be delays and waste by your program team because they've not worked with these materials or tools before. You elect to send the resources that will work the most with these tools through training. The cost of the training in this instance is known as which one of the following?

  A. Indirect costs
  B. Cost of doing business
  C. Direct costs
  D. Cost of conformance quality
  D. Cost of conformance quality

• Question 157:

  The program manager wants to increase the team's commitment to the program objectives. The program manager should do which of the following?

  A. Work with the sponsor to identify the organization's best practices.
  B. Work with the program stakeholders and program management office to identify the organization's best practices.
  C. Work with the program management office to identify the organization's best practices.
  D. Work with the sponsor, program stakeholders, and the program management office to identify the organization's best practices.
  D. Work with the sponsor, program stakeholders, and the program management office to identify the organization's best practices.

• Question 158:

  You have created a control chart for a repeatable process in your program. You have discovered that the seven most recent measurements are all on the positive side of the mean in your control chart. What is this phenomenon called?

  A. Rule of Improvement
  B. Mean Improvement
  C. Rule of Seven
  D. Low-Riding Mean
  C. Rule of Seven

• Question 159:

  You are the program manager for the HNY Corporation and you complete programs for other companies in your role. You have just been assigned a new program that is very similar to a recently completed program you did for your company. Management has asked you to create a cost estimate for the program so you base your current cost estimate on the recently finished program. What type of estimating technique have you used in this instance?

  A. Bottom-up
  B. Parametric
  C. Analogous
  D. Rough order of magnitude
  C. Analogous

• Question 160:

  Which of the following documents provides the mandate to execute the program within a certain timeline and also presents milestones for the delivery of products or incremental benefits?

  A. Program architecture baseline
  B. Program risk register
  C. Program WBS
  D. Program charter
  D. Program charter