GCPM questions and answers

You are a Project Manager in your organization who is managing a considerably huge budget project to develop new software. Considering the varied nature of your stakeholder group, you would like to put together a plan as to what information the stakeholders need, and how to provide that information.

What is the document that you would need, and as part of which process group would you achieve this?

Which of the following are outputs of the Plan Quality process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

You are in a project to create a Website. Your project team has met a few times and you're working with them to develop the project's WBS. Jan, a marketing expert, is in disagreement with Larry over how the Website should function. Gary and Gina are in disagreement over who'll take the lead on the design of the software for the Website. Mark, Mary, and Martha are all bickering about the photo management approach for the Website's pictures.

What stage of team development is your project team currently in?

Don has hired Jerry, a contractor, to complete a portion of his project work. The contract used was a cost-plus contract.
If Don was to perform a risk audit, who would carry the risk in this scenario?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to include a budget contingency to accommodate the risk of incurring unidentifiable but normally occurring costs within the defined scope.

Which of the following processes will help you to accomplish the task?

Which of the following processes improves the competencies and interaction of the team?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc.

Which of the following risk response planning techniques will you use to shift the impact of a threat to a third party, together with the ownership of the response?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are using market risk, value at risk (VaR), historical simulation (HS), and extreme value theory (EVT) so as to analyze a portfolio and make forecasts of the likely losses that would be incurred for a variety of risks.

Which of the following processes are you using to accomplish the task?

Which of the following techniques is described in the statement below? "It evaluates the abstract early start and finish dates and late start and finish dates for all activities devoid of any resource limitations by performing a forward and backward pass analysis through the schedule network."

Which of the following quality costs determines, assesses, or audits products or services to assure conformance to quality standards and performance requirements?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on a construction project. You are compiling and reviewing the comments to draft deliverables prior to forwarding them to the contractor for incorporation into the final draft. You are responsible for communicating the changes to the reviewer who initially made the comments.
Who among the following will be responsible for updating the draft deliverables and producing the final deliverables in the above scenario?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to calculate the probability of loss due to cost overrun.

Which of the following terms describes the above metric?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Your project has a budget of $545,000 and is expected to last 12 months. You have identified several risk events and created risk response plans for your project.
In which of the following process groups will you be able to implement risk response plans?

Walter is the project manager of a large construction project. He'll be working with several vendors on the project. Vendors will be providing materials and labor for several parts of the project. Some of the works in the project are very dangerous so Walter has implemented safety requirements for all of the vendors and his own project team. Stakeholders for the project have added new requirements, which have caused new risks in the project. A vendor has identified a new risk that could affect the project if it comes into fruition.
Walter agrees with the vendor and has updated the risk register and created potential risk responses to mitigate the risk.

What should Walter also update in this scenario considering the risk event?

In which of the following process groups is the project manager responsible for authorizing and applying organization resources to the subsequent project activities?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are in the project kickoff meeting. Which of the following documents are reviewed during the project kickoff meeting?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Which of the following components of EVA is described in the statement below? "It is a measure of how much of the project value has been earned so far through completed work, that is, the budgeted cost of the work that has been performed through the project status date."

You work as a Project Manager for PassGuide Inc. You are developing the schedule for your project. Your project deals with the construction of a new building for PassGuide Inc. You want to break the project into small, individual, and manageable components.

Which of the following tasks will you perform in the above scenario?

Which of the following is built by aggregating the costs of the individual work elements and then joining them at time intervals where meaningful actual cost information will be available?

You are the project manager for the HGQ Project. You and the project team are currently working on the Identify Risks process.

When does this project typically happen in a project?

Which of the following is a measure of progress achieved compared to progress planned on a project?

In which of the following contract types, the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and receives a fixed fee payment which is calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs?

Which of the following are outputs of the Perform Quality Control process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

In which of the following process groups is the project manager responsible for authorizing and applying organization resources to the subsequent project activities?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to communicate and solicit feedback from your employees to build future plans.

Which of the following will help you to accomplish the above task?

You are the project manager of a project to create a network inside of a building. You need to hire an electrician to run network cable throughout the building. Based on your experience, you create an estimate for the work that you'll measure all of the bids against.
This is an example of what type of procurement seller selection?

Which of the following is a document that covers the work that will be done, how the work will be compensated, and any penalties for noncompliance?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to subdivide project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.

Which of the following processes will you use to perform the above task?

Which of the following types of organizations reduces duplication of work because responsibilities are clearly defined on a company-wide basis?

Which of the following tools of the Conduct procurements process is used to assign numerical weights to evaluate criteria and then multiply them by the weights of each criteria factor to come up with total scores for each vendor?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to work on an agreement that creates and defines obligations between two or more parties.

Which of the following types of agreement will you work on?

Which of the following are the types of casual/econometric forecasting methods? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Which of the following refers to the transmission of a message from one person to another in a simple triangle consisting of the context, the sender, the message, and the receiver?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to measure the potential risks on the two dimensions of a graph.

Which of the following charts will you use to accomplish the task?

You are working with your project team to identify the project activities within your project.

Which of the following is NOT a tool and technique that will be useful in defining the project activities?

You are in a project to create a Website. Your project team has met a few times and you're working with them to develop the project's WBS. Jan, a marketing expert, is in disagreement with Larry over how the Website should function. Gary and Gina are in disagreement over who'll take the lead on the design of the software for the Website. Mark, Mary, and Martha are all bickering about the photo management approach for the Website's pictures.

What stage of team development is your project team currently in?

Your project uses a piece of equipment that if the temperature of the machine goes above 450 degree Fahrenheit the machine will overheat and have to be shut down for 48 hours. Should this machine overheat even once it will delay the project's end date. You work with your project to create a response that should the temperature of the machine reach 430, the machine will be paused for at least an hour to cool it down.
The temperature of 430 is called what?

Jane is the project manager of the GBB project for her company. In the current project a vendor has offered the project a ten percent discount based if they will order 100 units for the project. It is possible that the GBB Project may need the 100 units, but the cost of the units is not a top priority for the project. Jane documents the offer and tells the vendor that they will keep the offer in mind and continue with the project as planned.

What risk response has been given in this project?

Which of the following elements facilitates people to know large amounts of information as a picture rather than a table of names and numbers?

James works as the project manager for a software project. He and his team are on the Direct and Manage Project Execution process.
All of the following are inputs of this process except for which one?

Which one of the following best describes a quality metric?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to subdivide project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.

Which of the following processes will you use to perform the above task?

Which of the following process groups involves coordinating with people and resources, as well as integrating and performing the activities of the project in accordance with the project management plan?

You are the project manager of the NHT Project. This project has 12,345 office doors to install throughout a campus. Each of the doors costs the project $456 and requires special hardware to electronically lock and open the doors. You've gathered the project team before they begin the installation for a hands-on training. As a group you and the project team install 50 doors following a checklist of instructions so that every door will be installed exactly the same throughout the campus and with minimal waste.
This is an example of what project execution technique?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to enable roll-up of both resource assignments and availability data to a higher level.

Which of the following diagrams will help you to accomplish the above task?

You are the project manager of TRT project. During execution phase of your project, Rick, a team member, complains that other team members are isolating him and this isolation is bothering him.

Which of the following is not a recommended step in order to resolve the issue?

Of the following, which best describes the elements in the work breakdown structure (WBS)?

Which of the following processes describes the statement below? "It consists of the processes required to ensure that the project contains all the work required to complete the project effectively."

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on several projects. Your projects vary in size and budget. You have to calculate the ratios of schedule and cost compared to plan, so that you can compare relative schedule and cost performance of each project.

Which of the following components of EVM provide measures of schedule and cost performance that are not affected by the size of the project?

Which of the following skills includes vision, gaining consensus for strategic goals, and establishing direction?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are determining the scope of a project.
Which of the following stages should be completed while determining the scope of the project?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Which of the following statements describes the critical path?

Which of the following are inputs of the Acquire Project Team process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

You are a Project Manager in your organization who is managing a considerably huge budget project to develop new software. Considering the varied nature of your stakeholder group, you would like to put together a plan as to what information the stakeholders need, and how to provide that information.

What is the document that you would need, and as part of which process group would you achieve this?

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?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
______refers to conveying a message from an individual person to another or to several people, whether verbally or non-verbally

Which of the following are outputs of the Control Scope process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.
The______defines the period in which, during the development of the project scope statement, a clear and very thorough project scope statement narrative is documented.

Which of the following methods tends to keep the resources levelly loaded, but requires the resources to be flexible in their start times and to quickly switch between tasks and task chains to keep the whole project on schedule?

Micha is the project manager for her project. Micha is now ready to complete the scope verification process so that she can move the project into the project closing process.

What is the primary purpose of the scope verification process?