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Question 26
Where are negative risks recorded?
- A: Negative risk register
- B: Risk management plan
- C: Risk register
- D: Issues log
Question 27
Over the life of your program you've received many change request forms. Some of the change requests have been approved and some have been declined.
Where should you record all change requests and their status?
- A: Change register
- B: Integrated change control
- C: Program Management Information System
- D: Change log
Question 28
What project management term would you associated with a predetermined budget you're your program?
- A: Program governance
- B: Constraint
- C: Cost baseline
- D: Assumption
Question 29
You are the program manager for your organization. A new program is about to initiated and Marcy, your assistant, asks you about the themes that all new programs must map to. All of the following are themes that you can discuss with Marcy except for which one is not a program theme?
- A: Stakeholder management
- B: Requirements analysis
- C: Benefits management
- D: Program governance
Question 30
You are the program manager for your organization and are planning the composition of the project team. In your organization resources are used from throughout the company and may serve on more than one project. While you, the program manager, will have most of the authority on the program you want the project managers to have authority over the project decisions. What type of an organizational structure does your organization have?
- A: Strong Matrix
- B: Functional
- C: Weak Matrix
- D: Projectized
Question 31
You are the program manager for your organization. Management would like to consider the present value for your program. If your program is predicted to be worth $450,000 in two years what is the present value of the program if the interest rate is six percent?
- A: $400,498
- B: $521,345
- C: $505,620
- D: $385,450
Question 32
Performing quality assurance in a program can result in which one of the following?
- A: Quality control execution
- B: Scope fulfillment
- C: Quality management plan
- D: Change requests
Question 33
You are the program manager for your organization. This program will last for two years and has eight projects. The cost of your program is $4 million and there are some risk concerns that may affect the overall cost of the program. Management is concerned with how long it will take the program to reach the management horizon. What is management horizon also known as?
- A: Payback period
- B: Cost performance index
- C: Cost-to-benefits ratio
- D: Return on investment
Question 34
Hal is the program manager for his organization. He would like your organization to provide his program with 4 tons of pea gravel for a construction project in his program. Hal send you a statement of work and an IFB. What document should you provide to Hal?
- A: Invoice
- B: Proposal
- C: Bid
- D: Quote
Question 35
You are the project manager of a construction project. You have to close a phase of the project. Which is the only technique (or tool) available in the Close Project or Phase process?
- A: Change control meetings
- B: Project management information system
- C: Expert judgment
- D: Observations
Question 36
You are the program manager of the NQA Program. In this program you're planning which contract types you'll allow into the program and which ones you will not.
One contract type you won't accept is the cost plus percentage of cost contract. Which of the following is a valid reason you would not allow this contract type into your program?
- A: The contract type requires the vendor to provide a fee for the time invested and the materials used.
- B: The contract type allows the vendor to change the price of the work he's completed.
- C: The contract type allows is the most dangerous for the buyer.
- D: The contract type requires the vendor to provide a fixed price for the work.
Question 37
Which of the following is not a phase of program life cycle?
- A: Program Initiation
- B: Program Closure
- C: Program Setup
- D: Program Planning
- E: Delivery of Program Benefits
- F: Pre-program Preparation
Question 38
Harriet is the program manager of a large program that has a high profile and visibility in her organization. Some of the stakeholders are negative and Harriet needs to work with these stakeholders to address their fears, perceived threats, and concerns about the program. Which communication method is considered to be the best approach for this scenario?
- A: Face-to-face
- B: Many-to-many
- C: Ad hoc conversation
- D: One-to-many
Question 39
Your program will create new software and install new hardware for your organization. Some of the goals of the program is to improve employee morale, improve customer service, and boost customer satisfaction. These intangible goals need metrics. What program stakeholder is responsible for quantifying these goals?
- A: Program customer
- B: Program director
- C: Program manager
- D: Business analyst
Question 40
Eric is the project manager of the NQQ Project and has hired the ZAS Corporation to complete part of the project work for Eric's organization. Due to a change request the ZAS Corporation is no longer needed on the project even though they have completed nearly all of the project work. Is Eric's organization liable to pay the ZAS Corporation for the work they have completed so far on the project?
- A: It depends on what the outcome of a lawsuit will determine.
- B: No, the ZAS Corporation did not complete all of the work.
- C: It depends on what the termination clause of the contract stipulates.
- D: Yes, the ZAS Corporation did not choose to terminate the contract work.
Question 41
What is the primary purpose of a project kick-off meeting?
- A: To establish why the project has been initiated.
- B: To establish the direction and purpose of the project management plan.
- C: To establish the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders.
- D: To establish who the project manager and project sponsor are for the project.
Question 42
At what point in the project is the risk of failing to achieve the project objectives the greatest?
- A: During project planning
- B: During the project execution
- C: At the project start
- D: At the end of the project
Question 43
You are the program manager for your program and are creating a communications management plan. Management wants you to address the type of communications based on the number of communication channels you'll have within the program. Currently there are 345 stakeholders in your program but next week you'll have 387 stakeholders. How many more communication channels will you have next week in your program?
- A: 59,340
- B: 15,351
- C: 861
- D: 74,691
Question 44
Mike is the program manager of the NHQ Program. Mike and a vendor are in disagreement over the deliverable the vendor has created for Mike's program. Mike does not believe the vendor has correctly created the deliverable, while the vendor is adamant that his company has indeed completed the contract. Both parties have documented their stance in the debate.
This is an example of what?
- A: Breach of contract
- B: Issue
- C: Risk
- D: Claim
Question 45
Which one of the following is not an output of the direct and manage program execution process?
- A: Results of program work
- B: Program budget
- C: Change requests
- D: Request to terminate the program
Question 46
Holly is the program manager for her program. She is creating with her team a plan that will address how the program team will achieve program goals based on who the program will need to interact with in the program. This plan should define all of the people, groups, and other entities the program needs to interact with in order to move the program forward. On what plan is Holly working?
- A: Stakeholder management plan
- B: Communications management plan
- C: Human resource management plan
- D: Interface management plan
Question 47
What is a stakeholder analysis chart?
- A: It is a matrix that identifies who must communicate with whom.
- B: It is a matrix that documents the stakeholders' requirements, when the requirements were created, and when the fulfillment of the requirements took place.
- C: It is a matrix that documents stakeholders' threats, perceived threats, and communication needs.
- D: It is a matrix that identifies all of the stakeholders and to whom they must report to.
Question 48
You are the program manager for the GHT Program for your company. This program has a budget at completion of $789,000 and is currently 40 percent complete, though it was scheduled to be 50 percent at this time. Your program has spent $325,000 of the budget to date. Based on this information, how many pennies is your program losing per dollar spent on the work?
- A: 11
- B: 20
- C: 3
- D: 1
Question 49
Wanda is the program manager for her organization. Her program team consists of resources from across the organization - many of whom have not worked together before. Wanda thinks that she'll need to complete some team development but would like to focus the development on the materials and activities that the program team will need to complete in the program. What plan should Wanda reference and update to complete her team development process?
- A: Training plan
- B: Communications management plan
- C: Staffing management plan
- D: Requirements management plan
Question 50
You are the program manager of the GHY Program in your organization. It has come to your attention that some of the project managers in your program are adding time to each project activity in an effort to pad their durations in case some event happens in their project that will cause delays. What principle should you share with these project managers that counterattack the concept of padding activities with additional time?
- A: Parkinson's Law
- B: Law of Diminishing Returns
- C: 80/20 Law
- D: Pareto's Law
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