PMI PMP-Project Management Professional Practice Exam Q. 1401 to 1410
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Q. 1401: Based on quality control measurements on your manufacturing project, management realizes that immediate corrective action is required to the material requirements planning (MRP) system to minimize rework. To implement the necessary changes you should follow:
A. The organization’s quality policy
B. The quality management plan
C. Established operational definitions and procedures
D. A defined integrated change control process
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
If the recommended corrective or preventive actions or a defect repair require a change to any of the project management plans, a change request should be prepared in conformance with the perform integrated change control process.
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Q. 1402: You are the project manager on a project to improve traffic flow in the company’s parking garage. You decide to use flowcharting to:
A. Help anticipate how problems occur
B. Show dependencies between tasks
C. Show the results of a process
D. Forecast future outcomes
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Flowcharts depict the interrelationship of a system’s components and show the relationships among process steps. They are often referred to as process maps as they display the sequence of steps and the branching possibilities for a process that transforms one or more inputs into one or more outputs. Flowcharts show activities, decision points, branching loops, parallel paths, and the order of processing. As such, they aid the team in anticipating where quality problems might occur, which helps in developing approaches for dealing with these potential problems.
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Q. 1403: Successful project management involves both project leadership as well as project management skills. Several different leadership styles are appropriate in different phases of the project life cycle. Assume that you are working on a project, and it is in the execution phase. The leadership style that is most appropriate should consist of a blend of all but which one of the following?
A. Change master
B. Decision maker
C. Team and synergy
D. Trustworthiness
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
During the execution stage, the major attributes and emphasis is on realignment. The leadership style/blend that is most appropriate is one who is a decision maker, balances work and fun, is trustworthy, and promotes the team concept and synergy.
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Q. 1404: Schedule control is one important way to avoid delays. While planning and executing schedule recovery, one tool available to you for control schedules is:
A. Changing the schedule management plan
B. Immediately rebaselining
C. Adjusting leads and lags
D. Changing all project and resource calendars
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Corrective action is anything that brings expected future schedule performance in line with the project plan. Adjusting leads and lags is one of many tools available to identify the cause of variation.
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Q. 1405: You have been the project manager for your nuclear submarine project for four years. While you did not assume this position until the project management plan had been prepared and approved, you find you spend a significant amount of time collecting data and communicating. You also spend time reviewing the impact of project changes and implementing ones that have been approved. Often you have had to modify a non-conforming product, which means you are spending time on:
A. Corrective actions
B. Updating the project’s requirements
C. Updating the traceability matrix
D. Defect repair
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Defect repair is an intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or project component.
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Q. 1406: You were assigned recently as the project manager of a program management office project to implement a new enterprise-wide scheduling system for use throughout your company. You identify the need for a project charter to provide you with appropriate authority for applying resources, completing the project work, and formally initiating the project. Who should issue the project charter?
A. The project manager you
B. The customer
C. The person who formally authorizes the project
D. A member of the training and development department as they will own the training on the new system
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The charter is issued by the project initiator or sponsor who formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
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Q. 1407: In which of the following methods of resolving conflict will the conflict typically reappear again in another form?
A. Smoothing
B. Compromising
C. Collaborating
D. Confronting
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Smoothing emphasizes areas of agreement while avoiding points of disagreement. It tends to keep peace only in the short term.
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Q. 1408: Statistical sampling is a method in perform quality control to determine the conformance to requirements for some component or product of a project. Its greatest advantage is that it:
A. Does not require a large expenditure of resources
B. Is accurate enough with a sampling of less than 1%
C. Does not require 100% inspection of the components to achieve a satisfactory inference of the population
D. Needs to be conducted only when a problem is discovered with the end product or when the customer has some rejects
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
The application of the statistical concept of probability has proven, over many years in many applications, that an entire population of products need not be inspected, if the sample selected conforms to a normal distribution of possible outcomes (the “bell” curve). Sample frequency and sizes should be determined as the quality management plan is prepared in order that the cost of quality includes the number of tests and expected scrap.
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Q. 1409: Your project sponsor wants to know whether process variables are within acceptable limits. To answer this question, you should:
A. Conduct a process analysis
B. Conduct a root cause analysis
C. Use a control chart
D. Use a run chart
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
A control chart is one of the seven basic tools of quality control that determines whether or not a process is stable or has predictable performance. It also illustrates how a process behaves over time. When a process is within acceptable limits, it need not be adjusted; when it is outside acceptable limits, an analysis should be conducted to determine the reasons why.
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Q. 1410: All the following statements are true about the grassroots estimate, EXCEPT:
A. Its accuracy rate is from -5% to +10%
B. It is also called an engineering estimate
C. It is used primarily for Level 1 of the WBS
D. It may take months to prepare
Section: Mix Questions
Justification in favor of the correct answer:
Estimates are categorized according to accuracy and the time to prepare them. Grassroots or engineering-type estimates are definite estimates and are prepared when detailed information about the project is available. These estimates would use the work-package level of the WBS.
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