PMI PMP-Project Management Professional Practice Exam Q. 1371 to 1380
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Q. 1371: Your company is in the project management training business. In addition, the company publishes several exam study aids for the PMP and CAPM exam. You have your PMP and you have been appointed as the project manager to make sure your company’s training materials are updated to be aligned with the new PMBOK Guide. You must complete your project in six months. You are now in month four. Many of your team members have been working on other projects as the company uses matrix management. In a performance review meeting today, you informed your Governance Board that you did not think you could complete this project in the remaining two months. You were informed that additional resources were not available, but you had to complete your project on time. Your best course of action is to:
A. Revise your schedule baseline
B. Use fast tracking
C. Adjust leads and lags now in your schedule
D. Use modeling techniques
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Fast tracking or crashing the schedule for the remaining work to be done are examples of schedule compression techniques to find ways to bring project activities that are behind into alignment with the project management plan.
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Q. 1372: You are trying to determine whether or not to conduct 100% final system tests of 500 ground-based radar units at the factory. The historical radar field failure rate is 4%; the cost to test each unit in the factory is $10,000; the cost to reassemble each passed unit after the factory test is $2,000; the cost to repair and reassemble each failed unit after factory test is $23,000; and the cost to repair and reinstall each failed unit in the field is $350,000. Using decision tree analysis, what is the expected value if you decide to conduct these tests?
A. $5.5 million
B. $5.96 million
C. $6.42 million
D. $7 million
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Test: $5M + $960K + $460K = $6.42M; Don’t Test: $7M.
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Q. 1373: Motivation is dynamic and complex. The statement, “Motivation is an intrinsic phenomenon. Extrinsic satisfaction only leads to movements, not motivation” is attributed to which of the leading theories of motivation?
A. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory
B. Herzberg’s Motivator-Hygiene Theory
C. Morse and Lorsch’s Contingency Theory
D. McGregor’s Theory X/Theory Y
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Frederick Herzberg’s Motivator-Hygiene Theory asserts that some job factors lead to satisfaction, whereas others can only prevent dissatisfaction. There are two types of factors associated to the motivation process: hygiene factors, which relate to the work environment, and motivators, which relate to the work itself. Hygiene factors, if provided appropriately, can prevent dissatisfaction, while motivating factors can increase job satisfaction and are more permanent.
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Q. 1374: Each time you meet with your project sponsor, she emphasizes the need for cost control. To address her concerns, you should provide:
A. Work performance information
B. Cost baseline updates
C. Resource productivity analyses
D. Trend analysis statistics
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The project’s work performance information should document and communicate the CV, SV, CPI, SPI, TCPI, and VAC for the WBS components in particular for specific work packages and control accounts.
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Q. 1375: One output of the control costs process is cost forecasts, which is when:
A. Modifications are made to the cost information used to manage the project and are communicated to stakeholders
B. Trend analyses are performed and communicated to stakeholders
C. A budget update is required and communicated to all stakeholders
D. A calculated EAC value or a bottom-up EAC value is documented and communicated to stakeholders
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Cost forecasts are another output of control costs, and the EAC is used to show the expected total costs of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
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Q. 1376: You work for an electrical utility company and will be managing a project to build a new substation that will serve a new industrial park. This project was authorized because of a:
A. Business need
B. Market demand
C. Technological advance
D. Customer request
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Projects can be authorized as a result of a market demand, organizational need, customer request, technological advance, legal requirement, ecological impact, or a social need. The new industrial park is an example of a project authorized because of a customer request.
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Q. 1377: A final project report is a recommended best practice. Although this report can be organized in a variety of ways, how should each item that is covered in the report be addressed?
A. A recommendation for changing current practice should be made and defended.
B. The focus should be solely on items that did not work well on the project.
C. Individuals who did not contribute successfully as team members should be noted.
D. An earned value discussion is warranted.
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
It is important to capture lessons learned, which then can be used on subsequent projects. The more detailed the lessons the better. However, when it comes to personnel lessons learned, the information should be handled in a confidential manner.
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Q. 1378: At the time the risk register is first prepared, it should contain all the following entries EXCEPT:
A. Root causes of risk
B. Structure for describing risks
C. List of risks requiring near-term responses
D. List of potential responses
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The primary outputs from identify risks are initial entries into the risk register. It ultimately contains outcomes of other risk management processes as they are conducted. As an output of identify risks, the risk register should contain a list of identified risks, a list of potential responses, root causes that gave rise to the identified risks, and a structure for describing risks.
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Q. 1379: Which of the following theorists stated that people generally are motivated according to the strength of their desire either to achieve high levels of performance or to exceed in competitive situations?
A. David McGregor
B. David McClelland
C. Victor Vroom
D. B. F. Skinner
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
According to David McClelland, there are three relevant motives or needs in work situations: the need for achievement, power, and affiliation or association. This theory supports the view that there is a high correlation between achievement, affiliation, and power motives and the overall motivation and performance achieved in a project.
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Q. 1380: Your project is considered very risky. You plan to perform numerous what-if scenarios on your schedule using simulation software that will define each schedule activity and calculate a range of possible durations for each activity. The simulation then will use the collected data from each activity to calculate a distribution curve (or range) for the possible outcomes of the total project.
Your planned approach is an example of which following technique?
A. PERT
B. Monte Carlo analysis
C. Linear programming
D. Concurrent engineering
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Simulation is a tool and technique for the develop schedule process by which multiple project durations with different sets of activity assumptions are calculated. Monte Carlo analysis is the most commonly used simulation technique.
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