PMI PGMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PGMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 261:

  Julie is the program manager of the NHQ Program for her organization and she believes the program is now complete. Julie is closing her program, and she's working with her program sponsor to review the program's deliverables and benefits. Janet, the program sponsor, is very pleased with the program and agrees that the program has met the program scope. What should Julie and the program sponsor do next?

  A. Close the constituent projects before closing the program
  B. Complete the program's budget
  C. Release the program's resources
  D. Sign the certificate of program closure
  D. Sign the certificate of program closure

• Question 262:

  Which of the following serves as a guiding principle for a program manager when preparing a program work breakdown structure?

  A. Decompose the program work based upon available resources
  B. Decompose the program to the work package level
  C. Decompose the program to the architecture baseline level
  D. Decompose the program at a level sufficient to achieve control
  D. Decompose the program at a level sufficient to achieve control

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Decompose the program at a level sufficient to achieve control - the level of decomposition should be enough to manage the program. That is the main principle of PWBS creation.

• Question 263:

  Program manager B leaves the program and program manager A takes over the program responsibilities. Program manager A wants to ensure that all expected benefits of the program are realized. What is used to assess the program cost/benefit justification?

  A. Program charter
  B. Benefits management plan
  C. Program business case
  D. Program scope statement
  C. Program business case

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• Question 264:

  At what point in the project is the risk of failing to achieve the project objectives the greatest?

  A. During project planning
  B. During the project execution
  C. At the project start
  D. At the end of the project
  C. At the project start

• Question 265:

  Martha is sharing her experience of her last project as the project manager. She tells that when she presented customer a formal acceptance and sign-off document, they refused to sign, claiming that the product does not meet their expectation. Taking which of the following steps could have been prevented the situation? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

  A. Performing quality inspections regularly
  B. Archiving sign-off at important milestones
  C. Documenting the requirements
  D. Completing the project behind the schedule
  A. Performing quality inspections regularly
  C. Documenting the requirements

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• Question 266:

  While setting up a program's infrastructure and plan, a program management team develops documents and processes that provide commonality and consistency throughout the program's components. What should the team also prepare, if not already provided by the organization's assets?

  A. Breakdowns such as the program work breakdown structure (PWBS), component project milestones, and budgets that transform top-level planning into fragments relevant to the components
  B. Industry standards that provide guidance to the component project managers on how to adapt their detailed planning to the program's master plan
  C. Documents that enable level-adequate aggregation and consolidation of component/program information and forecasting
  D. Files, filing structures, and templates for knowledge repositories that contain centrally stored and commonly maintained program data
  D. Files, filing structures, and templates for knowledge repositories that contain centrally stored and commonly maintained program data

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  Explanation/Reference:

  D is the right answer, org's assets belong to files, info storage and so on.

• Question 267:

  A program manager has four projects pending approval. Senior management asks the program manager to identify a project for potential elimination based on the return on investment. The program manager has the following information to guide and support the decision:

  

  Which project should the program manager select to be cancelled?

  A. Project A
  B. Project B
  C. Project C
  D. Project D
  D. Project D

• Question 268:

  You are the program manager for your organization. Management is considering a new program but they are worried about the program risks that may affect the program success. You know that there are three positive risks responses and three negative risk responses that each risk can have. Management asks you which risk response would be most appropriate for a large risk event if they wanted to hire a third-party to own the risk event for the program. What risk event is most appropriate?

  A. Transference
  B. Mitigation
  C. Avoidance
  D. Sharing
  A. Transference

• Question 269:

  You are the program manager for the JQN Program in your organization. There have been some delays in your schedule and you're about to perform some schedule control activities. Which one of the following will not help you as you perform schedule control?

  A. Change requests
  B. Performance reports
  C. Forecasts
  D. Earned value management
  A. Change requests

• Question 270:

  Alice is the project manager of the NHQ Project and is entering the project's closing processes. The project, she has managed, has been for another organization in a contractual relationship. Her organization requires Alice to complete performance reviews of the project team, review the deliverables with the project customer, and to obtain formal signoff of the project deliverables. There may be other conditions and activities that Alice likely will need to do in this final project phase. Where can Alice check regarding this project?

  A. Project Integration Plan
  B. Project Contract
  C. Project Quality Control procedures
  D. Project Communications Management Plan
  B. Project Contract