CompTIA PK0-004 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

CompTIA PK0-004 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 581:

  In a weak matrix, a highly skilled project team member has been using company equipment to view inappropriate content. Which of the following steps should the project manager take FIRST to address this issue?

  A. Send an email outlining the company's acceptable use policy to the employee.
  B. Arrange a face-to-face meeting with the team member.
  C. Contact the team member's manager to address the problem.
  D. Restrict the team member's equipment access.
  C. Contact the team member's manager to address the problem.

• Question 582:

  A project team member highlights to the project manager that expensive licensing for critical software in use across the project may expire before the completion project. Which of the following would the project manager MOST likely do?

  A. Place a risk on the risk register and arrange a risk review with the appropriate stakeholders to accept and/or mitigate the risk.
  B. Raise a purchase order to purchase the licensing and ask the team member to install it.
  C. Amend the project scope and raise a project change request to obtain approval of the amendment.
  D. Amend the project schedule and work breakdown structures to remove the use of the software from the project.
  A. Place a risk on the risk register and arrange a risk review with the appropriate stakeholders to accept and/or mitigate the risk.

• Question 583:

  A client has provided a list of deliverables to include in the project scope. Which of the following will allow the project team to ensure all deliverables are included in the final product while managing scope creep?

  A. Requirements traceability matrix
  B. Gantt chart
  C. SWOT analysis
  D. Project charter
  A. Requirements traceability matrix

• Question 584:

  A software upgrade project has been postponed because it may impact a critical business system. Which of the following strategies has been applied?

  A. Accept risk
  B. Mitigate risk
  C. Avoid risk
  D. Exploit risk
  C. Avoid risk

• Question 585:

  During the execution phase, the project manager discovered that the testing phase is dependent on completion of the vendor's tasks. The project team has just informed the project manager their activities are almost complete, and they would like permission to begin testing. The vendor is not scheduled to deliver the products for two months.

  Which of the following should have occurred to prevent this issue?

  A. During the planning phase, the project manager should have recognized the relationship between the vendor's and project team's tasks and adjusted the schedule for the project team to begin activities two months later.
  B. The project manager should have crashed the schedule for the vendor to keep it at the same work pace as the rest of the project team.
  C. During the project team's regular status meeting with the vendor, the project team should have informed the vendor that the team was ahead of schedule and to speed up their work.
  D. During the project team's regular status meeting with the vendor, the vendor should have informed the project team that it required another two months, and to slow down.
  B. The project manager should have crashed the schedule for the vendor to keep it at the same work pace as the rest of the project team.

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  Reference: Kim Heldman, CompTIA Project+ Study Guide, 2nd Edition, Sybex, Indianapolis, 2017, p. 170

• Question 586:

  Many questions have arisen regarding a newly identified project. Project team members are anxious to know who will be part of the team and what the project will deliver. Which of the following would be the BEST way to provide this information?

  A. Kickoff meeting
  B. Status report
  C. Company-wide email
  D. CCB meeting
  A. Kickoff meeting

• Question 587:

  The government wants to start a project that will launch a satellite but lacks the appropriate SMEs. Which of the following would be BEST to solicit vendors?

  A. LOI
  B. RFQ
  C. RFI
  D. SOW
  C. RFI

• Question 588:

  During the testing phase, a team member has informed the project manager that the test environment was set with inadequate client information, putting the project in jeopardy. Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?

  A. Ask the team member to move to a different test environment.
  B. Ask the team member to refrain from testing the scenarios.
  C. Revisit the risk management plan and provide corrective actions.
  D. Revisit the contingency plan and provide corrective actions.
  D. Revisit the contingency plan and provide corrective actions.

• Question 589:

  The design activity of a project has the following cost attributes:

  PV = 100,000 EV = 20,000 AC = 90,000

  Based on this scenario, calculate the schedule variance.

  A. -80,000
  B. -70,000
  C. 10,000
  D. 120,000
  A. -80,000

• Question 590:

  A project manager is mapping qualifications and available personnel to the project requirements. Which of the following activities is the project manager completing?

  A. Team Building
  B. Team Selection
  C. Resource loading
  D. Resource leveling
  A. Team Building