Dirección de proyectos – Preguntas PMI
COST
001. The relationship between the budgeted actual cost, actual work completed and work planned will determine the
A. Schedule estimate at completion
B. Cost estimate at completion
C. Cost Performance Index
D. Schedule Performance Index
Answer: A
002. All work packages are complete
A. at EAC time
B. when BAC is equal to EAC
C. when BCWP intersects BCWS
D. when schedule variance is zero
Answer: B
003. Earned value is
A. the base line plan
B. completed work value
C. cost/cost variance
D. percent over or under budget
Answer: B
004. You could tell Diane was worried about her project. Her folks had been working on the project since Independence Day. Here it was already Halloween and they were just finishing up work that was supposed to have been completed by Labor Day. "Oh dear", she confided to her friend, "Instead of completing by Christmas, at this rate I expect we won't be done until
A. New Year's Day
B. St. Patrick's Day
C. Easter
D. the 4th of July
Answer: D
005. Diane was so concerned about her project that she woke up dreaming about it. She thought to herself, "Well, our BCWP is 2, our ACWP is 4 and our BCWS is 6, so that means
A. our productivity was less than planned
B. our cost estimate at completion is 6
C. our CPI and SPI are both positive
D. our cost variance is negative
E. a, c and d
Answer: E
006. The measurement which best shows the difference between actual work and actual costs is
A. Cost variance
B. Percent over or under
C. Schedule variance
D. CPI
Answer: A
007. Rework costs ____ times budgeted costs.
A. +75, -25
B. +25, -10
C. 25 to 50
D. 10 to 15
Answer: C
008. If part of a project's costs will be paid in future years, the best way to determine the value of those costs in today's dollars is
A. estimated project payout
B. return on investment
C. net present value
D. discounted cash flow
Answer: D
009. If the ACWP exceeds the BCWP, the cost estimate at completion will
A. increase
B. decrease
C. depend on the BCWS
D. exceed the schedule estimate at completion
Answer: A
010. If the BCWS = $1,000,000, the BAC = $2,000,000, the ACWP = $1,500,000, the BCWP = $500,000 and you're halfway through the project after two years, what is the cost estimate at completion?
A. $2,000,000
B. $4,000,000
C. $6,000,000
D. $8,000,000
Answer: C
011. Cost management requires a critical look at future expenditures and the controls exercised over those expenditures. The three types of cost estimates through which project expenditures are made are ________.
A. rough order of magnitude, guestimate, and actual
B. traditional, classical, and contemporary
C. order of magnitude, budget, and definitive
D. concept, budget, and design
Answer: C
012. The cost estimate with the most precise estimate (i.e., the smallest range of error) is the ________ estimate.
A. engineering
B. budget
C. concept
D. definitive
Answer: D
013. The cost estimate that has a range for error of minus 10 percent to plus 25 percent is the ________ estimate.
A. budget
B. definitive
C. parametric
D. analogy
Answer: A
014. There are usually two types of reserves in a project's budget. The ________ reserve is for cost variances from the plan because of inaccurate estimates or pricing and costs overruns, while the ________ is to accommodate costs for project work that were not included in the plan through error or oversight.
A. project; budget overrun allowance
B. engineering; management allowance
C. management; contingency allowance
D. management; mismanagement allowance
Answer: C
015. Feasibility studies are evaluations of both the technical and economic aspects of a potential project. In the economic area, one would look at such items as interest rates, present worth factors, capitalization costs, and ________.
A. human resource skills
B. depreciation costs
C. prospective projects managers
D. implementation of cost controls
Answer: B
016. Project financing can be extremely complex and can come from a variety of sources. However, ________ is not a potential source of financing for a project.
A. borrowing money from a bank
B. selling stocks in the project or corporation
C. selling bonds on the project
D. selling lottery tickets on the project
Answer: D
017. Life cycle costing is a concept whereby all costs for a system are computed to determine the total cost of ownership. Life cycle cost categories include ________.
A. purchase, repair, and operation
B. development, procurement, and operation/maintenance
C. procurement, lease, and disposal
D. procurement, operation, and disposal
Answer: B
018. The integration of cost and schedule to provide measures of the project's performance is the earned value system, or contract performance measurement. The baseline for the earned value system is depicted as a slight "S" curve because ________.
A. there are fewer costs at project initiation until the work force is fully staffed
B. there are workers who have not been paid, so the expense is not shown on the chart
C. there are more expenses to get a project started than are required on a normal operating basis
D. this is just a traditional method of plotting the costs and has no relationship to the actual expenditures
Answer: C
019. The pricing of a project can be extremely complex in the development of valid cost estimates and price quotes from vendors. The tool that facilitates the pricing of a project by a structured decomposition of the total into individual elements of labor, material, and equipment is the ________
A. project management plan
B. budget
C. work breakdown structure
D. configuration management plan
Answer: C
020. In estimating the cost of work, the best source of cost information can be obtained from the ________.
A. customer
B. historical records
C. senior engineers
D. top management
Answer: B
RESPONSABILITY
001. You have just found out that a major subcontractor for your project consistently delivers items late. You decide that you have bigger problems to address, so you do nothing. What conflict resolution mode are you using?
A. Ignoring
B. Compromise
C. Smoothing
D. Withdrawal
ANS: D
002. You are a new project manager for company B. You previously worked for company A that had an extensive project management practice. Company B has its own procedures, but you are more familiar with those from company A. You should:
A. use the practices from company A but include any forms from company B.
B. use the forms from company B and begin to instruct them on ways to upgrade their own.
C. talk about changes to the change control board of company B.
D. interact with others in an ethical way by sharing the good aspects of company A's procedures.
ANS: B
003. Payment for any decision made or encouraged by a foreign official with respect to whether a company will be awarded business is BEST described as:
A. common practice.
B. a sunk cost.
C. a bribe.
D. a progress fee.
ANS: C
004. In the initiation phase of your project, it is apparent that factions within the client's company have significantly different views on how the project should be structured and how the deliverables should be defined. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?
A. Ask the client when they will be in agreement on the project requirements
B. Work with leadership from each area to collaboratively engineer a mutually acceptably solution
C. Make sure the terms and conditions of the contract are clear
D. List the consequences of changes in the contract's requirements section
ANS: B
005. While testing the strength of concrete poured on your project, you discover that over 35% of the concrete does not meet your company's quality standards. You feel certain the concrete will function as it is, and you don't think the concrete needs to meet the quality level specified. What should you do?
A. Change the quality standards to meet the level achieved
B. List in your reports that the concrete simply "meets our quality needs"
C. Ensure the remaining concrete meets the standard
D. Report the lesser quality level and try to find a solution
ANS: D
006. Another project manager in your company is having difficulty managing his project. You have found that he has not used a project charter and that is probably the cause of the problem. How can you help?
A. Provide him with a copy of an article about project charters
B. Work with his boss to get him a mentor
C. Develop a draft charter for his use
D. Talk to him about his project and offer help in creating a project charter
ANS: D
007. You are the project manager for a new international project, and your project team includes people from four countries. Most of the team members have not worked on similar projects before, but the project has strong support from senior management. What is the BEST thing to do to ensure that cultural differences do not interfere with the project?
A. Spend a little more time creating the work breakdown structure and making sure it is complete
B. As the project manager, make sure you choose your words carefully whenever you communicate
C. Ask one person at each team meeting to describe something unique about their culture
D. Carefully encode all the project manager's communications
ANS: C
008. You are four months into a three year project when your project team makes significant discoveries on your project. What is the BEST thing to do?
A. Make certain the discoveries are included in the project lessons learned
B. Make certain the discoveries are in the monthly status report
C. Make certain you mention them at the senior management meeting in two months
D. Make certain you tell the other project managers involved in this program at the weekly meeting
ANS: D
009. During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add work to the project scope of work. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project before the charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsors specifically denied the scope of work mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to:
A. let the sponsors know of the stakeholders' request.
B. evaluate the impact of adding the scope of work.
C. tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added.
D. add the work if there is time available in the project schedule.
ANS: C
0010. You have just been assigned project manager for a new telecommunications project. There appear to be many risks on this project, but no one has evaluated them to assess the range of possible project outcomes. What needs to be done?
A. Risk identification
B. Risk quantification
C. Risk response planning
D. Risk monitoring and control
ANS: A
011. You are the project manager for a large project under contract with the government. The contract for this two year, multi-million dollar project was signed six months ago. You were not involved in contract negotiations or setting up procedures for managing changes, but now you are swamped with changes from the sponsor and from people inside your organization. Who is normally responsible for formally reviewing major changes to the project/contract?
A. The change control board
B. The contracting/legal department
C. The project manager
D. Senior management
ANS: A
012. While preparing your risk responses, you realize that you have not planned for unknown risk events. You need to make adjustments to the project to compensate for unknown risk events. These adjustments are based on your past project experience when unknown risk events occurred and knocked the project off track. What should you do?
A. Apply a general contingency to try to compensate
B. Document the unknown risk items and calculate the expected monetary value based on probability and impact that result from the occurrence
C. Determine the unknown risk events and the associated cost, then add the cost to the project budget as reserves
D. Add a 10% contingency
ANS: A
013. There are over 30 stakeholders on your project. The project is being done in another country with people from three countries as team members. Which of the following is the MOST important thing to keep in mind?
A. The communication channels will be narrow.
B. Many competing needs and objectives must be satisfied.
C. There must be one sponsor from each country.
D. Conflicts of interest must be disclosed.
ANS: B
014. Which of the following is NOT a measure that determines whether a business practice used by another country is an unfair business practice?
A. It hurts the right to physical movement.
B. It is a common practice in the other country.
C. It does not supply a decent wage for the country and the type of work.
D. It discriminates against women.
ANS: B
015. A company puts a new product into the marketplace without any reports of problems. However, your internal research indicated that there is a possibility of two serious injuries per year and would cost US $20,000,000 to fix. What should you do?
A. Make the modifications necessary in current products
B. Recall all existing product
C. Wait until an injury to verify the impact
D. Obtain insurance to cover the anticipated damages
ANS: B
016. You are approached by company A to produce certain software. During the middle of the project a competitor of company A asks you to produce similar software. What should you do?
A. Do not do the new project since it is a conflict of interest
B. Do the project using some of the material created for company A
C. Do the project with all new work
D. Review the intellectual property clause for the first project to help determine the approach
ANS: D
017. You've been assigned to take over managing a project that should be half-complete according to the schedule. You discover that the project is running far behind schedule, and that the project will probably take double the time originally estimated by the previous project manager. However, upper
management has been told that the project is on schedule. What is the BEST course of action?
A. Try to restructure the schedule to meet the project deadline
B. Report your assessment to upper management
C. Turn the project back to the previous project manager
D. Move forward with the schedule as planned by the previous project manager and report at the first missed milestone
ANS: B
018. What is the project manager's KEY role during negotiations?
A. Protect the relationship between buyer and seller
B. Negotiate a price under the seller's estimate
C. Ensure that all project risks are thoroughly delineated
D. Ensure that an effective communication plan is established
ANS: A
019. A major negotiation with a potential subcontractor is scheduled for tomorrow when you discover there is a good chance the project will be canceled. What should you do?
A. Do not spend too much time preparing for the negotiations
B. Cut the negotiations short
C. Only negotiate major items
D. Postpone the negotiations
ANS: D
020. Payment for routine government action by a foreign official is:
A. a bribe.
B. allowed.
C. not payable upon violation of government law.
D. allowed only if they process the project schedule.
ANS: B
During what phase of the lifecycle is the project scope statement created?
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All the following statements about a WBS are true except which one?
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During which phase of the project lifecycle is there the greatest degree of uncertainty?
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Which project-selection technique does not utilize a benefit measurement approach?
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A consulting company first forms a pursuit team to develop a competitive bid and response to an RFP it received. After learning its response had been selected by the buyer, the company formed a negotiation team to settle on a final price. After the negotiation was complete and the contract was signed, the project manager was assigned to the engagement. The project manager was not part of either team or the process to date, so what should he, as a good project manager, do first?
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In the early days of project management, project managers were typically selected from which organizational area?
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SMART objectives are ____________________.
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Of the following conflict management approaches, which is believed to lead to the least-sustaining positive results?
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Complex projects, involving multidisciplinary, multidepartment efforts, are most effectively managed by which of the following?
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Which document describes the business need, the quantifiable criteria that must be met by the project, the key deliverables, and the final product of a project?
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All the following statements are false about the scope statement except which one?
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Effective stakeholder management includes all the following project elements except which one?
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Two types of network diagrams are precedence diagrams and arrow diagrams. Which statement best describes the primary difference between them?
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Although several factors should be considered when developing estimates, the primary basis for estimating time and cost for an activity is _______________.
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Using the following earned value metrics, calculate the SV, CV, and EAC for this project: PV=$5,000, EV=$5,250, AC=$5,500, BAC=$25,000
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When estimating activity durations, what inputs should you consider?
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Due to an ethical violation by the original project manager, you have been handpicked by the Director of Operations to take over the project. In addition to this major project change, you also discover the following on your first day on the project:
Based on this information, what should be your two highest priorities?
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The following activities are in the network diagram shown here:
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A | None | 4 | ||||||
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C | A | 5 | ||||||
D | B, C | 7 | ||||||
E | D | 5 | ||||||
F | D | 4 | ||||||
G | E, F | 2 | ||||||
Which statement is true?
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Lifecycle cost estimates consider which factors?
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Accelerated depreciation allows a company to write off capital expenses from taxes more quickly. Which of the following is a recognized method of accelerated depreciation?
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On a top-secret biotechnology R&D project, the project performance reports indicate a Cost Performance Index (CPI)of 0.81 and a Schedule Performance Index (SPI) of 1.19. What is the most likely explanation for this situation?
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All the following statements about analogous estimating are true except which one?
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Which of the following estimates would most likely predict the actual cost of a project?
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Considering the project schedule during the cost budgeting process ___________.
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You are taking over a project during the planning phase and discover that four individuals have signed the project charter, including two company officers. Which of the following should most concern you?
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A former-CPA-turned-project-manager is selected to lead a groundbreaking information technology project. Because the project manager has very limited knowledge of this new technology, she decides to manage the project by delegating key planning activities, such as WBS development, schedule development, cost estimating, determination of specific tasks, and task assignments, to individual project team members. She decides it will be best to serve as a coordinator and coach for this initiative. What is the likely outcome of this approach?
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Which of the following is a chief characteristic of the Delphi technique?
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To manage a project, a project plan should be realistic and achievable. Which of the following is the best method to achieve a realistic project plan?
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The WBS can be used to _________________________.
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A new project manager asks you why he should use a WBS on his project. He does not see the value and feels it will take too much time to develop. What would be an effective response to his question?
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A new product-development project has five levels in the WBS and has been sequenced using the precedence diagramming method. The activity duration estimates have been received. Which activity would you do next?
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You are now a project manager for a new nanotechnology carbon tube product development project. Most schedule development steps have been completed, including schedule compression. Which activity would you likely perform next?
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A project manager is using weighted average duration estimates to calculate activity duration. What type of mathematical analysis is being used?
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A team member from the Web Creative Design department tells you that her work is too creative to provide you with a fixed, single estimate for the task. You both decide to use the average time the task has taken for past projects. This is an example of which of the following?
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