PMI PMI-RMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMI-RMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 611:

  Your project spans the entire organization. You would like to assess the risk of the project but are worried that some of the managers involved in the project could affect the outcome of any risk identification meeting. Your worry is based on the fact that some employees would not want to publicly identify risk events that could make their supervisors look bad. You would like a method that would allow participants to anonymously identify risk events. What risk identification method could you use?

  A. Delphi technique
  B. Isolated pilot groups
  C. SWOT analysis
  D. Root cause analysis
  A. Delphi technique

• Question 612:

  The risk manager of a major project needs to ensure the organizational process assets (OPAsj are updated as a result of risk management activities. How will the risk manager accomplish this?

  A. Ensuring that the project sponsor is kept well-informed
  B. Arranging periodic risk: management process audits
  C. Communicating the status of risks regularly to stakeholders
  D. Monitoring costs with intervention when necessary
  B. Arranging periodic risk: management process audits

• Question 613:

  You are the project manager for your organization. You have determined that an activity is too dangerous to complete internally so you hire licensed contractor to complete the work. The contractor, however, may not complete the assigned work on time which could cause delays in subsequent work beginning. This is an example of what type of risk event?

  A. Internal
  B. Secondary risk
  C. Pure risk
  D. Transference
  B. Secondary risk

• Question 614:

  The project enters a testing phase to validate a project requirement. The testing is occurring in a common company testing area maintained by operations. The project team accepts the external customer's additional testing requirements, which may cause a slip in the schedule. A risk is identified, added to the risk register, and a response is developed.

  What is the next step to be completed?

  A. Inform the external customer that the project manager has added the schedule risk to the register.
  B. Hire more resources to ensure the original schedule is maintained.
  C. Communicate and monitor the risk response with testing and operations.
  D. Resist the customer's scope increase to maintain the original testing requirements.
  C. Communicate and monitor the risk response with testing and operations.

• Question 615:

  A common understanding of the value of risk management among key stakeholders is an effective foundation to managing risk effectively. The project manager should ensure training is provided to which of the following groups to create this understanding?

  A. Project team members and customers
  B. Management and external stakeholders
  C. Management and customers
  D. Project team members and management
  D. Project team members and management

• Question 616:

  Gary is the project manager of the MMQ project for his company. He is working with his project team to plan the risk responses for his project. Sarah, a project team member, does not understand the process that Gary is using to plan the risk responses. Which approach is the preferred method to address project risks and the risk responses?

  A. Risks in the project should be addressed by their probability for creating risk responses.
  B. Risks in the project should be addressed by the organization's risk tolerance for creating risk responses.
  C. Risks in the project should be addressed by their impact for creating risk responses.
  D. Risks in the project should be addressed by their priority for creating risk responses.
  D. Risks in the project should be addressed by their priority for creating risk responses.

• Question 617:

  A risk manager is assigned to a mobile network deployment project with a strict contractually agreed-on schedule. One of the key risks identified has materialized. There is insufficient staffing because critical resources are dedicated to strategic projects in the organization. The risk manager expected the resource manager to notice this, but the resource manager thought the project experts would be alerting the team during the project.

  What should the risk manager do to prevent this from happening again?

  A. Document the risks and response actions in a clear manner.
  B. Communicate with the project manager on the topic.
  C. Assign owners who will be fully accountable to managing the risks.
  D. Define the response plans and take the lead in implementing them.
  C. Assign owners who will be fully accountable to managing the risks.

• Question 618:

  Amy is the project manager for her company. In her current project the organization has a very low tolerance for risk events that will affect the project schedule. Management has asked Amy to consider the affect of all the risks on the project schedule. What approach can Amy take to create a bias against risks that will affect the schedule of the project?

  A. She can create an overall project rating scheme to reflect the bias towards risks that affect the project schedule.
  B. She can filter all risks based on their affect on schedule versus other project objectives.
  C. She can have the project team pad their time estimates to alleviate delays in the project schedule.
  D. She can shift risk-laden activities that affect the project schedule from the critical path as much as possible.
  A. She can create an overall project rating scheme to reflect the bias towards risks that affect the project schedule.

• Question 619:

  You are the project manager of the NNH Project. In this project you have created a contingency response that the schedule performance index should be less than 0.93. The NHH Project has a budget at completion of $945,000 and is 45 percent complete though the project should be 49 percent complete. The project has spent $455,897 to reach the 45 percent complete milestone. What is the project's cost performance index?

  A. -$37,800
  B. 0.93
  C. 0.92
  D. 1.06
  B. 0.93

• Question 620:

  There are five outputs of the risk monitoring and controlling process. Which one of the following is NOT an output of the process?

  A. Organizational process assets updates
  B. Risk register updates
  C. Vendor contracts
  D. Change requests
  C. Vendor contracts