PMI PMP-Project Management Professional Practice Exam Q. 1321 to 1330
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Q. 1321: On your project to construct a new runway for your City’s airport, you are in the process of selecting vendors for various parts of this project. You have conducted your make-or-buy analysis and have issued Requests for Proposals. You believe it is important to examine past performance of potential vendors. This means you are using:
A. Proposal evaluation techniques
B. Multi-disciplinary review teams
C. Analytical techniques
D. Independent estimates
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Analytical techniques are a tool and technique n conduct procurements. They are used to help organizations identify the readiness of a vendor to provide the desired end state, determine costs to support budgeting, and avoid cost overruns In evaluating past performance they identify areas that have more risk and that may need to be monitored closely for project success.
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Q. 1322: Requirements typically are classified into product requirements and project requirements. Capturing and managing both types of requirements is important for project success, so you and your team decided to follow this classification system on your project to modernize all the telecommunications equipment in your company. During such an approach, all the following are examples of product requirements EXCEPT:
A. Action requirements
B. Level of service requirements
C. Security requirements
D. Performance requirements
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Such classification systems are helpful in both defining and documenting stakeholder needs to meet project objectives. Project requirements are ones that involve actions, processes, or other conditions the project needs to meet.
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Q. 1323: Change control procedures, configuration management knowledge base, versions, and baselines in the develop project management plan process are:
A. Enterprise environmental factors
B. Organizational process assets
C. Part of the project’s configuration management plan, which as a subsidiary plan will be part of the project management plan
D. Part of the organization’s management practices
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Organizational process assets include formal and informal plans, policies, procedures, and guidelines. As an input to the develop project management plan process, they include the items listed as well as standardized guidelines, instructions, proposal evaluation criteria, and performance measurement criteria; project management plan template; change control procedures; project files from previous projects; and historical information and lessons learned.
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Q. 1324: You are managing a project that has five subcontractors. You must monitor contract performance, make payments, and manage provider interface. One subcontractor submitted a change request to expand the scope of its work. You decided to award a contract modification based on a review of this request. All these activities are part of:
A. Control procurements
B. Conduct procurements
C. Form contract
D. Configuration management
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The purpose of control procurements is to ensure that the contractual requirements are met by the seller. This objective is accomplished by managing procurement relationships, monitoring contract performance and making changes and corrections to contracts if appropriate.
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Q. 1325: Although the project charter serves to state the project manager’s authority and responsibility on the project, the project manager further requires which type of power in order to be an effective leader?
A. Expert
B. Legitimate
C. Position
D. Referent
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Expert power is a function of knowledge, skills, and reputation possessed by the project manager. In such situations, project personnel will do what the project manager wants because they believe he or she knows best, and they trust and respect the project manager.
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Q. 1326: The performance measurement baseline consists of all the following EXCEPT:
A. Scope baseline
B. Requirements baseline
C. Schedule baseline
D. Cost baseline
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The scope, schedule, and cost baselines may be combined into a performance measurement baseline. It also may include technical and quality parameters. It then is used as an overall project baseline against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance. It also is used for earned value measurements.
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Q. 1327: While working as the project manager on a new project to improve overall ease of use in the development of a railroad switching station, you have decided to add a subject matter expert who specializes in ergonomics to your team. She has decided to observe the existing approach as you and your team work to define the requirements for the new system. This method is also called:
A. Mentoring
B. Coaching
C. Job shadowing
D. User experimentation
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Observations are a tool and technique in the collect requirements process. They provide a way to view individuals in their environment and to see how they perform their jobs or tasks and carry out processes. Another term for this approach is job shadowing and usually is done by an observer viewing the user performing his or her job.
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Q. 1328: In addition to providing support to the project, quality assurance also provides an umbrella for:
A. Plan-do-check-act
B. Continuous process improvement
C. Project management maturity
D. Work performance information
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Continuous process improvement provides an iterative means for improving the quality of all processes and is part of the definition of quality assurance. Its objective is to reduce waste and eliminate non-value-added activities.
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Q. 1329: As you manage the railroad switching station project, you are concerned that the business analyst who was responsible for preparing the WBS may have overlooked some parts of the project. In order to see if the WBS requires enhancements you decide to:
A. Perform a cause-and-effect diagram
B. Meet with your sponsor
C. Use an affinity diagram
D. Review the accompanying WBS Dictionary with a member of the PMO
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
In quality assurance an affinity diagram is used to generate ideas that can be linked to form organized patterns of thought about a problem. Using them in project management, one can enhance the creation of the WBS by using it to give structure to the decomposition of scope.
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Q. 1330: Assume that your company is working under a fixed-price-incentive contract. It has a target cost of $100,000, a target profit of 10%, a price ceiling of $120,000, and a share formula of 80/20. Assume that your company completes all of the work but has actual costs of $110,000. What is the final value of this procurement?
A. $120,000
B. $132,000
C. $118,000
D. $110,000
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
In this situation, there is a $10,000 overrun from the target costs. Applying the 80/20 share ratio, the seller’s share of the overrun is 20% of $10,000 or a minus $2,000 in earned fee. The final value of this procurement is $110,000 in costs, plus a seller fee of $10,000 less $2,000, or $8,000 for a final price of $118,000.
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