gaqm ppm-001 practice test

If a project manager is concerned with gathering, integrating, and disseminating the outputs of all
project management processes, she should concentrate on creating a better:

• A. WBS.
• B. Communications management plan.
• C. Project management information system.
• D. Project scope management plan.

The Java development of a project is outsourced to Indi
a. The project schedule is starting to slip. What is the LEAST likely cause of the slippage?

• A. Lack of competent programmers
• B. Cultural influences
• C. Internationalization
• D. Communication

A project manager has made a change to the project. What should she do NEXT?

• A. Assign resources.
• B. Revise the project management plan and/or project documents.
• C. Evaluate impact.
• D. Request change control board involvement.

A work authorization system can be used to:

• A. Manage who does each activity.
• B. Manage when and in what sequence work is done.
• C. Manage when each activity is done.
• D. Manage who does each activity and when it is done.

A project team member tells you that she went to her project manager with a good idea for a useful
change to the project. Instead of giving her approval to make the change, the project manager asked
her to write a report describing the benefits of the change. What is
the MOST appropriate advice for the situation?

• A. The project manager is being unreasonable and should do that kind of work herself.
• B. Remind the project manager that the benefit cost analysis for the project was done during project planning.
• C. A project manager must be able to weigh the benefits of the change versus the costs and compare them to other possible changes. The team member should do what was asked.
• D. The team member should do what was asked because this sort of information must be given to the project sponsor to make the change.

A project manager has finished the project. He knows that the project scope has been completed and
is within cost and time objectives set by management. Management, however, says that the project
is a failure, because the original schedule was for 27 weeks and the project was completed in 33
weeks. If the project baseline was 33 weeks, the project is a success because:

• A. It only had six weeks of changes.
• B. It was completed within the baseline.
• C. There were so few changes.
• D. There was good communication control.

Your company has just presented its new five-year strategic plan. You have received a new product
request from a customer that is in line with the previous five-year strategic plan, but it does not meet
the objectives of the new plan. The product description seems to have a valid business driver and to
be a straightforward development effort. As project manager, what is the BEST course of action?

• A. Do a benefit cost analysis of the project and submit it for management approval.
• B. Submit the new product request to the PMO for review and approval before proceeding.
• C. Inform the customer of the change in corporate direction and ask him/her to take another look at the project.
• D. Request a project charter from management and begin a WBS.

The performing organization is trying to decide whether to split the contracts department and assign
procurement responsibilities to departments directly responsible for the projects. A procurement
professional might not want this split to occur because they would lose ___________ in a
decentralized contracting environment.

• A. Standardized company project management practices
• B. Loyalty to the project
• C. Experience
• D. Access to others with similar expertise

Linear programming is an example of what type of project selection criteria?

• A. Constrained optimization
• B. Comparative approach
• C. Benefit measurement
• D. Impact analysis

A project manager has just been assigned to a new project and has been given the approved project
charter. The FIRST thing the project manager must do is:

• A. Create a project scope statement.
• B. Confirm that all the stakeholders have had input to the scope.
• C. Analyze project risk.
• D. Begin work on a project management plan.