1.

Which category defines the Salience model used to prioritize stakeholder needs:
1 point

Power, Influence, Urgency

Power, Legitimacy, Urgency
Power, Impact, Urgency
Power, Interest, Impact

2. A project coordinator is having trouble getting UX resources as every time he

makes the request the UX manager says they are all already assigned to work. This
leads to the PM going over his head to overrule him. What time of organization is
he working in?
1 point

Functional
Weak Matrix
Strong Matrix
Projectized

3. The project manager is working on an IT project that has a large number of

stakeholders. What is the best technique for analyzing the importance of each
stakeholder
1 point

Project Charter
Stakeholder Register
Power/Influence Grid
Position/Power Grid

4. Which of the following is not true regarding portfolio management:

1 point

A portfolio is always a group of programs

A portfolio is organized around a business goal
A portfolio can contain projects and programs
A portfolio success is judged by combining data from all of its programs and projects.

5. Team members report to you, and you’re responsible for creating the budget,
building the schedule, and assigning the tasks. When the project is complete, you
release the team so they can work on other projects for the company. What kind of
organization do you work in?
1 point

Functional
Weak Matrix
Strong Matrix
Projectized

6. A electricity company is investing in alternate energy source initiatives so the

company will still be competitive in 15 years. The initiatives are tracked and

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managed together because the goal is vital to the success of the company. This is
an example of:
1 point

A Portfolio
A Program
A Project
A enterprise environmental factor

7. Project managers are responsible for all of the following except:

1 point

Writing project statement of work

Writing project scope document
Writing project management plan
Writing project charter

8. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a project?

1 point

Temporary
Strategic
Unique Result
Progressively Elaborated

9. The project manager is working on an IT project that has a large number of

stakeholders. What is the best technique for analyzing the importance of each
stakeholder
1 point

Project Charter
Stakeholder Register
Power/Influence Grid
Position/Power Grid

10. A project manager has not been assigning to a project yet but the statement of
work has been completed. A committee is planning on meeting with the sponsor
before selecting a project and assigning a project. What technique is being used to
select a project?
1 point

Murder Board
Stakeholder Meeting
Earned Value Selection
Return on Investment

11. Which of the following is NOT the responsibility of a project manager?

1 point

Managing stakeholder expectations

Managing project constraints
Gathering product requirements

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Sponsoring the project

12. Which answer best describes a phase gate?

1 point

It is the opposite of an exit gate in project management

Phase gates are the process of handing over deliverables from one phase to another
Phase gates can only be used in waterfall projects as they go against the agile methodology
Phase gates are used to track project budget between development cycles

13. Which of the following is NOT a type of PMO?

1 point

Directive
Supportive
Value-driven
Controlling

14. A large organization has adopted an Agile approach but has multiple Scrum
teams and is struggling with coordinating theirs across teams. What would you
suggest that could solve this?
1 point

Agile Software
Scrum of Scrums
Gantt Charts
All hands meeting

15. What is not a Scrum artifact?

1 point

User Story
Product backlog
Sprint backlog
Product increment

16. Which one is not a Scrum pillar?

1 point

Transparency
Adaption
Simplicity
Inspection

17. The primary function of WIP Limits is:

1 point

Eliminate bottlenecks
Calculate Little's Law
Limit work in a queue
Improve efficiency of team

18. Which of the following is not a Lean core concept?

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1 point

Deliver fast
Manage flow
Eliminate waste
Defer decisions

19. The Agile triangle of constraints I said to be inverted from the traditional triangle
because it allows:
1 point

Cost to vary which scope and time fixed

Cost and time to vary instead of scope
Scope and time to vary instead of cost
Scope to vary which cost and time fixed

20. Which of the following is the correct collection of Crystal colors?

1 point

Clear, Yellow, Orange, Red, Magenta

Clear, Green, Orange, Red, Magenta
Amber, Orange, Red, Green
Clear, Amber, Orange, Red, Magenta

21. Which of the following is not one of the primary servant leadership duties?
1 point

Carry food and water

Communicate the project vision
Shield team from interruptions
Train new team members on Agile

22. Kouzes and Posner did a 10-year study interviewing 75,000 people about
leadership characteristics, values, and traits they admire. What was not in the
highest-rated responses?
1 point

Honesty
Forward-looking
Inspiring
Technical Skills

23. What is not an XP Value?

1 point

Courage
Simplicity
Respect
Adaptable

24. What is not a core principle of Agile?

1 point

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Continuous delivery
Welcome change
Continuous improvement
Welcome learning

25. Management and leadership have different focuses on Agile projects. Who
focuses on doing the right things?
1 point

Management
Leadership
Neither
Both

26. What question is not answered in the daily stand up?

1 point

What have I done since the last daily stand up?

What do I plan on doing today?
Are their any impediments?
How any I going to remove this blocker?

27. Which of the following would you recommend an organization does first when
trying to become an "Agile" organization?
1 point

Think
Do
Encourage Others
Small changes

28. According to the Agile Manifesto Individuals and interactions are preferred over:
1 point

Comprehensive documentation
Customer Collaboration
Processes and tools
Following a plan

29. Which management plan is not part of the Project Management Plan?
1 point

Staffing Management Plan

Human Resources Management Plan
Configuration Management Plan
Budget Management Plan

30. You’re managing a project to build a new project management information

system. You work with the team to come up with an estimate of 27 weeks. In the
best case, this could be shortened by two weeks because you can reuse a previous
component. But there’s a risk that a vendor delay could cause the project to be

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delayed by five weeks. Use PERT to calculate a three-point estimate for this
project.
1 point

28.83 Weeks
27.5 Weeks
28.3 Weeks
27 Weeks

31. Identify which one is not an example of Enterprise Environmental Factors:

1 point

Geographic Distribution of Facilities and Resources

Political Climate
Company Guidelines
Marketplace Conditions

32. A project has a limited budget and cannot meet everyone's expectations. The
Project Manager holds a vote to determine the top priority for the project. The
project manager counts the votes but ignores the vote and makes his own decision
on top priority and the team abide by his decision. Which group decision-making
technique is the Project Manager displaying?
1 point

Unanimity
Majority
Plurality
Dictatorship

33. A Project Manager has delayed an activity purposely to give the preceding
activity more time to complete and remove pressure on developers. This is an
example of:
1 point

A Lead
A Lag
Crashing
Decomposition

34. The sponsor wants to make a change to a project that initially was to build 10
houses but now has the extra budget to add 2 more houses to the site. What should
do the project manager do next to implement the change?
1 point

Raise Change Request

Raise Configuration Change Request
Raise Scope Change Request
Add new Requirements

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35. What is used by the project manager and his or her designees in order to
approve all project work throughout the course of a project?
1 point

Change Management System

Work Authorization System
Project Scope
Statement of Work

36. You are managing a project for a company that has previously done three
projects that were similar to it. You consult with the cost baselines, lessons learned,
and project managers from those projects, and use that information to come up with
your cost estimate. What technique are you using?
1 point

Three-Point Estimation
Analogous Estimating
Parametric Estimating
Bottom Up Estimating

37. Which of the following is not included in the WBS Dictionary?

1 point

Resources & Cost

Requirements
Estimated Time
Milestones

38. The project manager has held a meeting where all stakeholders got an
opportunity to put forward requirements and discuss them within the group. This
technique is called:
1 point

Interviewing
Focus Group
Collect Requirements
Facilitated Workshop

39. The Project Manager has identified work packages and added them to the WBS
dictionary. Which process is the Project Manager in?
1 point

Create WBS
Identify Requirements
Decomposition
Define Scope

40. An Activity List and Milestone List are outputs of which process:
1 point

Rolling Wave Planning

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Create Activities
Define Activities
Sequence Activities

41. A team member estimates that Task A will most likely be finished in 30 days.
The best-case scenario is that it could be finished in 24 days, and the worst-case
scenario is that it would take 36 days. You would like estimates for expected
completion. Based on this information, calculate Standard Deviation
1 point

2 Days
6 Days
24 Days
Don't have enough information

42. Which statement defines Rolling Wave Planning?

1 point

Plan as You Go
Design Plan Execute
Non-stop Planning
Bottom Up Estimating

43. Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique used in Estimate Activity
Durations?
1 point

SWAG Estimates
Analogous Estimation
Parametric Estimating
Three-Point Estimation

44. A project is 50% complete and is has a task that is not on the critical path that is
awaiting to finish until another task is completed. What type of Dependency
Determination:
1 point

Finish-to-Start
Mandatory Dependency
Critical Path Dependency
Finish-to-Finish

45. Which option is not a baseline part of the Project Management Plan:
1 point

Scope Baseline
Cost Baseline
Schedule Baseline
Budget Baseline

46. Which of the following make up the Scope Baseline?

1 point

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Project Scope Statement, WBS and WBS Categories
Project Statement of Work, WBS and WBS Dictionary
Project Scope Statement, RBS and WBS Dictionary
Project Scope Statement, WBS and WBS Dictionary

47. Which of the following is not product analysis?

1 point

Systems Engineering
Value Engineering
Value Analysis
Business Analysis

48. A Project Team has finished a task early and decided to modify the feature to
be self-efficient and save the Sponsor money and time in the future in maintenance
fees. When the Project Manager is shown the updated feature with the modification
but isn't happy why?
1 point

The modification doesn't work

This is Gold Plating and should be avoided at all costs
He needs to update the Scope Statement to reflect the changes
This is an example of scope creep and should be avoided at all costs

49. Showing activities in rectangles and their relationships as arrows is called:

1 point

Finish to Start
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Dependency Determination
Precedence Diagramming Method

50. Which type of meeting is held at the beginning of a project?

1 point

War Room Meeting

Kick Off Meeting
SOW Review Meeting
Requirements Meeting

51. In a building project to construct a 100-foot wall, and the client comes to the
team and asks them to increase the length of the wall by one foot. The builder is on
schedule and it will make no difference to them to build just one foot of the wall;
therefore, they go ahead and build the extra length of the wall. This is an example
of?
1 point

Gold Plating
Extra Requirements
Scope Creep
Successful Project

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52. How would you best describe the Delphi Technique?
1 point

Anonymously putting forward proposals

Group Brainstorming
Brainstorming where people vote on best ideas
Grouping Ideas

53. EMV Curve is better than a Gantt chart because?

1 point

It is Agile
It illustrates scope and time
It illustrates cost and time
It is a leading indicator

54. Which of the following is not a form of frequent validation and verification?
1 point

Unit Test
Retrospective
Stand-up Meeting
Iteration Demo

55. When it comes to customer valued prioritization in Agile which of the following is
not a tool used to keep track of customer priorities?
1 point

Product Backlog
Feature List
Prioritized Requirements List
Customer Priority Backlog

56. Which category in Kano Analysis is most important to a delivered product?

1 point

Delighters
Satisfiers
Dissatisfies
Indifferent

57. What is an S-Curve?

1 point

An earned value management diagram

A graph that tracks a variable over time
A cumulative flow chart tracking velocity
A gantt chart tracking cost over time

58. In test-driven development what is the correct sequence of activities?

1 point

Write code, refactor, write test

Write code, write test, refactor

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Write test, refactor, write code
Write test, write code, refactor

59. A Sponsor wants to evaluate a 5-year project against 3 projects what financial
metric should they use?
1 point

NPV
ROI
ROIT
IRR

60. Which of the following is not one of Poppendick's list of seven wastes?
1 point

Defects
Motion
Work completed
Over-processing

61. What is the best advantage of delivering incrementally?

1 point

Reduces amount of rework

Better software
Reduces cost of change
Better communication

62. Cumulative flow diagram is best used to:

1 point

Cumulative work to completion

Show work completed
Demonstrate velocity
Identify bottlenecks

63. What is not a component in continuous integration?

1 point

Build tools
Unit testing
Schedulers
Test tools

64. The Product Owner has hired an expert tester to find any edge case scenarios
which could impact the product performance. What type of tests will this expert
perform on the product?
1 point

Exploratory tests
Usability tests
Scripted tests
Expert tests

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65. In MoSCoW the M stands for:
1 point

Must
Most
Might
Maybe

66. A project sponsor has been asked to choose between project A which will return
$150,000 over 18 months and project B which will return $450,000 over 3 years.
What is the best approach to select a project?
1 point

Calculate NPV and choose lowest

Calculate NPV and choose highest
Calculate ROI and choose lowest
Calculate ROI and choose highest

67. If the CPI is high and the SPI is low the project is:
1 point

Behind schedule, under budget

Behind schedule, over budget
Ahead schedule, under budget
Ahead schedule, over budget

68. "Money for nothing" in Agile contracting created by Jeff Sutherland means:
1 point

Changes are already factored in

Customer has work with team on every iteration
Changes are free
Customer can terminate project early

69. A DSDM Contract focuses on?

1 point

Reduces cost of change

Collaboration over negotiation
A win-win situation
Work being fit for business use

70. What formula demonstrates that the duration of the work queue is dependent on
its size?
1 point

Theory of constraints
Little's Law
Work In Progress
Kanban Board

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71. You have been tasked with selecting a contract for a project where the scope
has been roughly estimated so the schedule variance is expected. What would be
the best contract to use for this situation?
1 point

Graduated fixed price contract

Fixed-price Work Packages
Time and Materials
DSDM Contract

72. What is not a disadvantage of continuous integration?

1 point

Setup time to establish build server

Integration problems are fixed
Cost of procuring machine build server
Time required to build tests

73. Which answer best describes Just-in-Time?

1 point

Keeping inventory you need on hand when you need it

Use conveyor belt system to get stuff done
Make small improvements and measure impact
Working between certain time constraints

74. What is the difference between Quality Audit and Process Analysis?
1 point

Quality Audit done in Quality Assurance, Process Analysis done in Perform Quality Control
Quality Audit identifies improvements in process, Product Analysis inspects the process
Quality Audit inspects the process, Process Analysis identifies improvements in process
They are the same thing

75. Which of the following describes Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

1 point

Employees need have expectancy of promotion before they can be motivated

Employees need basic comforts before they can be motivated
Employees need to be made equally before they can be motivated
Employees need to be given incentives before they can be motivated

76. Which tool of Quality uses the 80/20 Rule to identify top priority defects?
1 point

Fishbone Diagram
Pareto Chart
Histogram
Flowchart

77. What are the 5 stages of Team Development?

1 point

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Forming, Storming, Progressing, Performing, Leaving
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Leaving
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning
Forming, Storming, Progressing, Performing, Adjourning

78. What are deliverables?

1 point

Another name for PMIS

Actual Project Work
Project Documents
Closed Project

79. What is the best way to resolve conflicts?

1 point

Smoothing
Confrontation
Compromise
Forcing

80. A Project Manager has hired an external company to review the process the
team is using during the project. The external company uses Six Sigma to inspect
the processes. What is the purpose of the external company?
1 point

Perform Quality Audit

Document Lessons Learned for next Project
Create Change Requests
Perform Quality Management

81. You’re working with an audit team to check that your company’s projects all
meet the same quality standards. What process is being performed?
1 point

Perform Quality Assurance

Plan Quality Management
Develop Project Management Plan
Perform Quality Control

82. Who created Plan-Do-Check-Act?

1 point

Edward Deming
Conor McGregor
Elliot Kaizen
Abraham Maslow

83. Which of the following is not one of the 7 Basic Tools of Quality?
1 point

Pareto Chart
Fishbone Diagram

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Quality Audit
PMP Practice Mock Exam

84. What are the 3 factors of McClelland's Motivational Needs?

1 point

Achievement, Affiliation, Power

Achievement, Success, Power
Reward, Power, Affiliation
Power, Affiliation, Growth

85. Susan and Tom are currently in total disagreement overestimates given to a
feature. The Project Manager has sat down with both of them to determine the
source of the conflict. Which process is he currently in?
1 point

Develop Team
Control Team
Manage Team
Acquire Team

86. A team is learning about other member's habits and learn to work together.
What stage in team development are they in?
1 point

Forming
Norming
Performing
Storming

87. In which process is the Improvement Plan created?

1 point

Perform Quality Assurance

Plan Quality Management
Develop Project Management Plan
Perform Quality Control

88. A Project Manager for an IT company is 75% complete the project. He is

currently writing a performance assessment for the team. Which process is
currently he in?
1 point

Develop Team
Plan Resources Management
Manage Team
Acquire Resources

89. Which of the following is not an interpersonal skill?

1 point

Leadership

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Speaking
Coaching
Communication

90. Which answer best describes Kaizen?

1 point

Be as disruptive as possible and measure impact

Improve processes with constant change
Make changes in one area at a time and measure impact
Make small improvements and measure impact

91. The Project Manager reviews all documents created by the team and ensures
they are punctual in their attendance. What type of Project Manager is this?
1 point

Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
Theory A

92. What is not one of the top sources of conflicts?

1 point

Salaries
Resources
Technical Opinions
Priorities

93. Who created the Hygiene theory?

1 point

McGregor
McClelland
Herzberg
Maslow

94. Which of the following is not a kind of Power defined by French and Raven?
1 point

Reward
Proven
Expert
Referent

95. You are at the beginning of executing the project and need to make work
assignments for the team. Which process should you perform?
1 point

Develop Team
Acquire Team
Manage Team
Preassignment

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96. What is not an output of the Direct & Manage Work Process?
1 point

Work Performance Data

Work Performance Report
Deliverables
Change Requests

97. What is the purpose of the Perform Quality Assurance Process?

1 point

To create Quality Checklists

Ensure Quality is high grade
Improve Project Quality
Improve the way the team works

98. Which of the following enables you to compare the planned performance with
actual performance?
1 point

Work Performance Data

Work Performance Information
Work Performance Reports
None of the above

99. Team members respect the Project Manager due to their in-depth knowledge of
the product. What type of Power does the Project Manager have?
1 point

Reward
Expert
Referent
Legitimate

100. The Project Manager for a Government Project is struggling to gather

resources to create a team. He is meeting with the various team managers to
negotiate terms for each individual resource. Which process is he in?
1 point

Develop Team
Plan Resources Management
Manage Team
Acquire Team

101. Which of the following is not an input to Direct and Manage Process?
1 point

Approved Change Requests

Enterprise Environmental Factors
Approved Defect Requests
Project Management Plan

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102. What is a defect once repaired?
1 point

Validated Change
Deliverable
Implemented Defect Repair
Repurposed Defect Repair

103. Which of the following isn't a brainstorming method?

1 point

Quiet Writing
Round-Robin
Free-for-All
Wideband

104. Team members are having a heated argument which has got personal. Which
level of conflict is this?
1 point

Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4

05. The sponsor is talking to the Product Owner regarding the future of the project
as it ensures if the project still meets the customer needs due to a recent
environmental change. The Product Owner can only think about how this is going to
impact his project. What level of listening is he engaged in?
1 point

Focused listening
Internal listening
Global listening
Active listening

106. Which of the following is not one of the stakeholder engagement principles?
1 point

Show progress and capabilities

Include in estimation sessions
Get the right stakeholders
Actively manage stakeholders

107. You are assigned a new project team that badly needs to facilitate a kick-off
meeting. What can you expect to be responsible for in this meeting?
1 point

Ground Rules
Goal Setting
Meeting Minutes
Timing

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108. The team needs to gather feedback on the proposed system and asked the
Product Owner to provide a low-fidelity prototype so they can model their solution.
What technique are they proposing the PO use?
1 point

Wireframe
Persona
Definition of Done
Agile Modelling

109. Working collaboratively promotes problem-solving rather than?

1 point

Valuing participation
Understanding complex problems and process
Building relationships and understanding
Procedural decision making

110. Which question can you not expect answered in the W5H on the Agile
Charter?
1 point

Who will be engaged?

What is the project about?
How will it be undertaken?
How much will it cost?

111. What would you not expect to find on an information radiator?

1 point

Story Map
Definition of Done
Burn charts
Retrospective findings

112. Select the best form of communication in a project:

1 point

Phone
Instant Messenger
Email
Video Recording

113. The team is using fist of five voting and one team member has shown 5
fingers. What does this signify?
1 point

I have concerns and want to discuss

I totally support this issue
I object and want to discuss the issue
Stop I'm against this decision

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114. The team leader has mastered his own feelings by attending a workshop.
What stage would be next for them to eventually be able to influence others?
1 point

Self-Management
Social-Skills
Social-Awareness
Self-Awareness

115. The team lead wants to communicate the iteration goals to all stakeholders in
a project. What communication model would you recommend they use to best
ensure the goals are communicated and understood?
1 point

Face-to-face
Two Way
Dispatch
Informal

116. the team is in the middle of the estimation process and the Scrum Master has
decided that not everyone in the room has the correct information at hand. Agile
knowledge sharing is designed to:
1 point

Leverage electronics
Maximize resources
Make information available
Get accurate estimates

117. The customer has described the feature as best as they could to the product
owner who created the story. The developer works on the story but it turns out to be
completely different to what the customer expected. What best describes this
situation
1 point

Bad User Story

Gulf of evaluation
Fast Failure
Common Cause

118. Which of the following is not an Agile modeling technique?

1 point

Use Cases
Data Diagram
Screen Designs
Flow Diagram

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119. The Scrum Master is running a facilitated workshop technique so Agile
stakeholders can better understand a complex issue. What technique would you
expect the Scrum Master to implement?
1 point

Remember the future

Bang-for-the-buck
Buy a Story
Prune the Product Tree

120. The team leader is empowering the team members to solve the issue
themselves. What level of conflict is this?
1 point

Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4

121. What is the phrase for a predicted problem?

1 point

Estimation
Forecast
Dependency
PERT

122. A CPI value of 0.6 means what?

1 point

Every dollar spent getting $0.6 worth of value

Every dollar spent getting $0.4 worth of value
Project will cost 40% more
Project will be 60% over budget

123. To forecast any potential cost and/or schedule deviations in the project at
completion is the purpose of what?
1 point

Forecasting
Trend Analysis
Monte Carlo Analysis
Earned Value Management

124. Deliverables are input to which process:

1 point

Control Scope
Validate Scope
Validate Work
Close Project

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125. You are new to a project and been provided with an S curve diagram where
the Actual Cost is more than the Earned Value and the Planned Value is greater
than the Earned Value. What is your interpretation of the project's status?
1 point

The project is under budget and ahead of schedule

The project is over budget and ahead of schedule
The project is over budget and behind schedule
The project is under budget and behind schedule

126. Ensuring change requests are agreed upon and managing changes when they
occur best describes:
1 point

Control Scope
Perform Integrated Change Control
Implemented Defect Repair
Integrated Scope Control

127. A customer has raised a change request which will add $125,000 extra value
to the project and ensure the project is considered a success. The change has
already been approved by the change control board, what should the project
manager do next?
1 point

Update documents & baselines

Issue change request
Analyse impact of change
Inform stakeholders

128. A brand new request from a customer that will not affect the scope and have a
financial impact of $18,000 if not implemented within 1 week has been requested.
What should the project manager do next?
1 point

Inform the project sponsor

Issue change request
Get team to implement change
Understand impact of change

129. You are working on a project with a PV of $56,733 and an SPI of 1.2. What’s
the earned value of your project?
1 point

$47,277.50
$68,000
$68,079.60
0,72

130. Both legally mandated and optional are examples of:

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1 point

Change Requests
Risk Strategies
Legal Procurement Risks
Organization Process assets

131. A change has been approved for the scope of a project. The change will take 3
weeks extra and cost $200,00 extra to complete the project. What should the
project manager do next?
1 point

Update documents and baselines

Inform stakeholders of change
Issue change request
Get Sponsor sign-off

132. Which of the following is not an input to control schedule process:

1 point

Change Requests
Work Performance Data
Schedule Data
Project Calendars

133. Inspections are also called which of the following except:

1 point

Product Reviews
Walkthroughs
Reviews
Project Reviews

134. What measurement is taken during Control Schedule Process?

1 point

SPI
CPI
TCPI
CV

135. How can the project manager determine the actual progress of a project?
1 point

Project Report
Scope Plan
Project baselines
Discuss with team

136. A project to undergo the construction of a garage is halfway through and spent
$5,4000 to date. The wrong heating materials were used and going to cost an

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estimated $4,000 to remove and upgrade. The complete budget is $11,700. What
variable would you use to represent $5,400?
1 point

PV
BAC
EV
EAC

137. If a project has spent $15,000 over budget but has an SPI of 1.15 how would
you best describe it?
1 point

Over Budget, On Schedule

Over Budget, Ahead of Schedule
Over Budget, Behind Schedule
Not enough information to determine

138. The project manager is comparing the old scope baseline to the new baseline
after a series of critical changes. What technique is he doing?
1 point

Trend Analysis
Variance Analysis
Variable Analysis
Creating WBS

139. A Sponsor has requested the schedule performance of a project what

information should the project manager provide?
1 point

SV
SPI
EV
Float

140. How can the project manager determine the actual progress of a project?
1 point

Project Report
Scope Plan
Project baselines
Discuss with team

141. When are work performance reports created?

1 point

Validated Scope
Execute & Manage Work
Control Scope
Monitor & Control Project Work

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142. You are working on a project with an SPI of 1.10 and CPI of 1.3
1 point

The project is under budget and ahead of schedule

The project is over budget and ahead of schedule
The project is over budget and behind schedule
The project is under budget and behind schedule

143. There are several changes that need to be made, and you need to decide how
to apply project resources in order to implement them. What does the project
manager do next?
1 point

Refer to change prioritization plan

Ask Sponsor the priority of work
Consult with change control board
Decide priority and communicate to team

144. A team is trying to determine which changes need to undergo change control.
The testing team does not think defects need to go through change control as it is
the one piece of work. Which of the following is not true?
1 point

Defects to deliverables need not undergo change control

Corrective actions need to undergo change control
Preventive actions need to undergo change control
Defects need to undergo change control

145. What is not an example of a change request?

1 point

Corrective actions
Preventive actions
Defect repairs
Process repairs

146. Which of the following is crucial when designing a team space?

1 point

Caves and Common

Vending Machine
Meeting and Board Rooms
Information Radiators

147. You have been assigned as Product Owner to a new project with a distributed
team. What would be the most beneficial to the team's productivity before the
project starts?
1 point

Have extra resources available if team members need time off

Buffer to all estimates
Get all team together for kick off meeting

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Bonuses for delivering early

148. Which level would you expect the highest level of conflict?
1 point

Forming
Norming
Performing
Storming

149. Which of the following aren't Five dysfunctions of a team?

1 point

Absence of Trust
Over Commitment
Inattention to Results
Fear of Conflict

150. Which stage of Tuckman's team formation can you expect the team to be in
when you are delegating tasks?
1 point

Forming
Norming
Performing
Storming

151. Which chart would the PO look at if they wanted to know the impact of
modifying the scope of a project?
1 point

Burn up Chart
Burn down Chart
Story Histogram
Scope Risk Chart

152. Which Agile team role does not belong in this group?
1 point

Product Owner
Scrum Master
Coach
Team Leader

153. A new team member is trying to work the printer but doesn't realize that it
needs to plug into a certain extension lead or else it cuts out the coffee machine.
This knowledge is best described as?
1 point

Formal Knowledge
Explicit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
Codified Knowledge

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154. High performing team would be expected to have all the following
characteristics except:
1 point

Set Realistic Goals

Shared Vision
13-15 generalists
Strong Leadership

155. Which of the following is not an Agile coaching style?

1 point

Training
Coaching
Mentoring
Supporting

156. Which of the following is not one of Dreyfus's model of adult skill acquisition?
1 point

Novice
Moderately Proficient
Advanced Beginner
Expert

157. Blanchard and Hersey's situational leadership stages in a sequence are:

1 point

Directing, Coaching, Supporting, Delegating

Directing, Supporting, Coaching, Delegating
Delegating, Supporting, Coaching, Directing
Delegating, Coaching, Supporting, Directing

158. Which of the following isn't a collaboration game?

1 point

Listening Game
Plus/Delta
Collaborative Origami
123 Go

159. What is the optimal Agile team size?

1 point

12
14
20
6

160. A new project manager is trying to model her team to be high-performing.

What team characteristics should she not try to mimic?
1 point

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Self Organizing
Consensus Driven
Constructive Disagreement
Motivated by SMART goals

161. A new Scrum Master is creating a list of digital tools that the distributed team
can use to communicate effectively which of the following will not be on his list?
1 point

Skype
Interactive Whiteboard
Virtual Card Walls
Osmotic Transmitter

162. A project manager in an IT project is ensuring the firewall is set up according

to the project management plan. Which project management process are they in?
1 point

Closing
Planning
Monitoring & Control
Define scope

163. Which of the following is not an output of Close Project or Phase?

1 point

Closed contracts
Acceptance of project
Lessons learned
Organization process asset updates

164. Which of the following is not an activity of the procurement closure of a

project?
1 point

Documenting lessons learned

Formal acceptance of procured products
Closing all contracts
Handing over accepted products to customer

165. Which of the following does NOT take place during closing?
1 point

Obtain deliverable acceptance

Document lessons learned
Update risk register
Finalize and close procurements

166. In which process group does a change to design cost the most to the project?
1 point

Initiating
Planning

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Executing
Closing

167. You are preparing to close a project you have been managing. Which of the
following is not an input to the Close Project or Phase process?
1 point

Acceptance criteria
Project deliverables validated through the quality control process
Project management plan
Project audits

168. All of the following are organization process assets except:

1 point

Historical information
Project files
Final project audits
Project close documents

169. What technique best determines if the project is complete?

1 point

Formal acceptance
Procurement sign-off
Document lessons learned
Procurement audit

170. The team have under estimated a user story and the developer tasked with the
story is new to the team and doesn't want to leave team down by delivering only 6
instead of 10 story points. You are the PO what should you do?
1 point

Extend the iteration

Complete the 6 points and put 4 in backlog
Remove the story from the iteration
Leave team member work overtime

171. Which element is not a part of a user story?

1 point

The Card
The Conversation
The Confirmation
The Customer

172. A team lead has been tasked to research a technology the team is planning on
using in the next sprint. What is the name of this task?
1 point

Risk Based Spike

Arch Based Spike
Tech Review

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Story Research

173. The project team is using wideband Delphi to estimate user stories. What
pitfalls should wideband Delphi not help avoid
1 point

HIPPO
Bandwagon
Groupthink
Guesstimates

174. At the estimation session, the team determined that the user story is too big to
be delivered and removed it from the iteration planning session. This type of user
story so best described as:
1 point

Compound Story
Decomposition
Complex Story
Sliced Story

175. In Agile, Fail Fasting should always:

1 point

Done in planning
Be avoided
Be recommended
Done by Sponsor

176. A set of features have been drafted and the next step is to prioritize the list.
Whose responsibility is this?
1 point

Product Owner
Stakeholder
Project Team
Scrum Master

177. The engineer has been given one day to perform the required task to
determine if the project is worth investing in. What is this called?
1 point

Risk-based Spike
Arch-based Spike
Defect Repair
Estimate stories

178. When writing user stories what characteristics should they not have?
1 point

Independent
Negotiable

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Small
Valuable

179. What is the process the team follows when iteration planning?
1 point

Discuss, select, define acceptance, break into tasks, estimate

Discuss, estimate, define acceptance, break into tasks, complete
Create, select, define acceptance, break into tasks, estimate
Discuss, estimate, define acceptance, break into stories, complete

180. The PO is looking to identify missing stories and prioritize stories for releases
what should they do?
1 point

Backlog grooming
Story Mapping
Planning Poker
Business Meeting

181. A team member keeps attending the daily stand-up late, what is the best
option for the Scrum Master do to stop this from happening?
1 point

Give member verbal warning

Train member in Agile practices
Set ground rules
Delay stand up till member present

182. The retrospective and daily stand up meeting are best described as a:
1 point

Process Meetings
Agile Meeting
Business Meeting
Time boxing Meeting

183. A new engineer has failed to refactor their code by the end of the sprint and
didn't inform the PO as it was not noticed in the iteration review. What will be the
biggest impact of this?
1 point

Technical Debt
Customer Complaints
Business Complaints
Poor Team Morale

184. A product has been released to production but a customer has discovered a
bug in the code. What type of defect is this?
1 point

Escaped defect

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Source Code Defect
Discovered Defect
Minor Defect

185. Which activity won't help us find issues earlier on the cost of change curve?
1 point

Pair Programming
Modelling
Risk Adjusted Backlog
Continuous Integration

186. Expected Monetary Value is determined using which of the following:

1 point

Assigned by PO
Risk x Severity
Threats x Cost
Impact x Probability

187. Two engineers have used their coding skills to design an algorithm to improve
testing. This is scenario is an example of what failure mode?
1 point

Gather feedback
Making mistakes
Creatures of habit
Inventing rather than research

188. What is not a failure mode identified by Cockburn?

1 point

We are inconsistent
We make mistakes
We are malleable
We are creatures of habits

189. There has been a new team member assigned to a team and they discovered
a bug. The PO prioritizes bugs based on the 80/20 rule. What technique does the
team member uses to determine the reason for the bug?
1 point

Histogram
Fishbone Analysis
Pareto Chart
Pair Programming

190. The project team has recently started using Kanban but never set any WIP as
the company director insisted the more work the team can work in progress the
better. This decision will not result in what?
1 point

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Higher Throughput
Hide Bottlenecks
Hide Rework
Higher Risk

191. Trend analysis is what type of metric?

1 point

Lead Metric
Lag Metric
Useful Metric
Unreliable Metric

192. An engineer has been out sick for 2 days, what type of variation is this?
1 point

Special Cause
Exceptional Cause
Common Cause
Traditional Cause

193. What is not an approved method to identify their attitude towards

retrospectives?
1 point

Explorers
Shoppers
Vacationers
Participating

194. Which of the following is one of Cockburn's 7 anti-patterns for a methodology?

1 point

Intolerant
Heavy
Untried
Disciplined

195. What best describes ROTI?

1 point

Determines Quality of Retro

Determines ROI in future
Measure of Return
Measure of Effort Used

196. A company has been using Agile for over 9 months. When should a company
stop tailoring the process?
1 point

Shu-Ra-Ri
Never
18 months
12 months

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197. The project team does not use which of the following feedback methods in
XP?
1 point

Refactoring
Pair Programming
Testing
Simple Testing

198. The project team has spent 3 weeks creating a value stream map but have
never included the delay between internal teams. For this reason which metric will
be directly affected in the value stream map?
1 point

Total cycle time

Value-added time
Non value-added time
Process cycle efficiency time

199. The Scrum Master is setting the tone of the meeting and getting the team on
board. Which technique should they not be using?
1 point

Check In
ESVP
Triple Nickels
Working Agreements

200. Mark a Project Manager of a strict multi-national company, is using Kaizen.

Which of the following cycle would he be using to implement improvements?
1 point

Plan-Develop-Check-Learn
Plan-Do-Check-Act
Plan-Develop-Evaluate-Learn
Kaizen

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