PMI-SP Exam Questions
336 real PMI-SP exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 7.
- Question #1Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the NHQ Project. Management has set a conformance to the project schedule for your project at 0.95. What does this term mean?
schedule conformanceschedule varianceperformance thresholdsschedule metrics - Question #2Schedule Planning and Development
Which one of the following estimate types is a form of expert judgment?
analogous estimatingexpert judgmentestimation typesduration estimating - Question #3Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the NHA Project. This project is expected to last one year with quarterly milestones throughout the year. Your project is supposed to be at the third...
schedule performance indexearned valueSPI calculationplanned value - Question #4Schedule Planning and Development
Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase. The __________ includes a description of any collateral services required, such as performance reporting or post-project operational s...
procurement SOWstatement of workprocurement managementperformance reporting - Question #5Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
Mark is the project manager of the GHQ Project. He is happily reporting that his project has a schedule performance index of 2.12. Management, however, does not think this is good...
schedule performance indexSPI interpretationschedule analysisperformance metrics - Question #6Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the BHG Project. You are creating a network diagram as shown in the figure: Mary, a project team member, reports that an identified risk is likely to...
network diagramcritical pathrisk impactfloat analysis - Question #7Stakeholder Communication
Sam is the project manager of the NQQ project. He and the project team have completed the stakeholder identification process for his project. What is the main output of the identif...
stakeholder identificationstakeholder registerprocess outputsPMI process groups - Question #8Stakeholder Communication
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Management has asked you not to communicate performance unless the CPI is less than 0.96 or the SPI dips below 0.98. What type of re...
exception reportperformance reportingCPI thresholdSPI threshold - Question #9Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the HQQ Project. Your project is running late by ten percent of where you should be at this time. Management is concerned. Considering that the proje...
TCPIto-complete performance indexearned valueBAC - Question #10Schedule Planning and Development
Andy works as the project manager for Bluewell Inc. He is developing the schedule for the project. There are eight tools and techniques that a project manager can use to develop th...
schedule developmentschedule compressiontools and techniquesPMI process - Question #11Schedule Planning and Development
You are the project manager for your organization. You have recorded the following duration estimates for an activity in your project: optimistic 20, most likely 45, pessimistic 90...
PERT estimationthree-point estimateweighted averageduration estimating - Question #12Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the NHQ Project. You have created the project network diagram as shown in the figure: You are concerned about a risk on Activity G that if it happens...
float analysisnetwork diagramcritical pathrisk offset - Question #13Schedule Planning and Development
Beth is the project manager for her organization. Her current project has many deliverables that have been defined at a high level, but the details of the deliverables are still un...
rolling wave planningprogressive elaborationplanning approachschedule planning - Question #14Schedule Planning and Development
Gina is the project manager for her organization and she is working with her project team to define the project activities. In this project, the stakeholders are sensitive to the p...
activity definitionprocess inputsscope baselineWBS - Question #15Schedule Planning and Development
You have created the project network diagram for the ABC project. You are exploring total float and free float for that project. Martin, a project team member, wants to know the di...
total floatfree floatcritical path methodschedule flexibility - Question #16Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
John works as a project manager of the NHQ Project. He has created the project network diagram as shown in the figure: Based on the project network diagram, how much float is avail...
float calculationnetwork diagramactivity delayscritical path - Question #17Stakeholder Communication
Ben is the project manager for his organization. His project has 26 stakeholders this week and will have five additional stakeholders next week. How many more communication channel...
communication channelsstakeholder countchannel formulastakeholder management - Question #18Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager for your company. You are working with the activities defined in the figure below. What will happen to your project if Activity F takes five additional...
critical pathschedule impactfloat consumptionnetwork analysis - Question #19Schedule Planning and Development
You are the project manager for your organization. You need the oak cabinets for your project delivered by December 1 in order to install the floors around the oak cabinets by Dece...
lead timeprocurement schedulinglagsschedule dependencies - Question #20Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
Your project has a BAC of $750,000 and is 75 percent complete. According to your plan, however, your project should actually be 80 percent complete. You have spent $575,000 of your...
TCPIto-complete performance indexearned valuebudget at completion - Question #21Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the NHT Project. This project has 12,345 office doors to install throughout a campus. Each of the doors costs the project $456 and requires special h...
preventive actionquality managementdefect preventionproject execution - Question #22Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
Your project is forty percent complete though it was scheduled to be fifty percent complete as of today. Management has asked that you report on the schedule variance for your proj...
schedule varianceearned value managementSV calculationEVM metrics - Question #23Schedule Planning and Development
Jim is the project manager for his project. He and his project team are creating their duration estimates for the work packages in the WBS. For each activity, Jim is adding a few h...
Parkinson's Lawduration estimationschedule bufferpadding estimates - Question #24Schedule Planning and Development
Michelle works as a scheduler in Array Inc. She has to create a schedule for a project assigned to her. Choose and reorder the steps that she should follow while creating the sched...
schedule development processscheduling stepsWBSschedule creation - Question #25Schedule Planning and Development
You work as a project manager for ABC Inc. You are currently overseeing a project on a high-rise building site. Your prime concern is to ensure that cranes are used effectively for...
resource-oriented schedulingresource optimizationconstruction schedulingcrane management - Question #26Stakeholder Communication
John works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is working on a high-profile project with 80 stakeholders and he needs to express to his project team and to the management the...
communication channelsstakeholder count formulan(n-1)/2communication planning - Question #27Schedule Planning and Development
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. There have been changes to the project scope in your project. These changes will cause the project schedule to change as well, so yo...
schedule baselineproject management planscope changesbaseline updates - Question #28Stakeholder Communication
You have been hired as a project manager for Tech Perfect Inc. You are studying the documentation of planning of a project. The documentation states that there are twenty-five stak...
communication channelsstakeholder count formulan(n-1)/2communication planning - Question #29Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the GHY Project. This project is scheduled to last for one year and has a BAC of $4,500,000. You are currently 45 percent complete with this project,...
schedule varianceearned value managementSV calculationmilestone tracking - Question #30Stakeholder Communication
The figure given below demonstrates the communication model for a project. What role does the component E play in the communications model?
communication modelnoisecommunication barrierssender-receiver model - Question #31Schedule Planning and Development
Which of the following documents is a narrative description of products or services to be supplied by the project and has detailed requirements and pricing specified on it?
statement of workSOWproject documentationprocurement - Question #32Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
Fred is the project manager of the NHA project. This project has a BAC of $2,456,900 and is sixty percent complete. Fred has crashed the project, which has driven the project costs...
cost varianceearned value managementCV calculationcrashing impact - Question #33Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the GHY Project. This project is scheduled to last for one year and has a BAC of $4,500,000. You are currently 45 percent complete with this project,...
schedule performance indexSPIearned value managementEVM metrics - Question #34Schedule Planning and Development
Which may be employed to shorten a schedule without changing the scope of the task?
fast trackingschedule compressioncrashingscope preservation - Question #35Stakeholder Communication
Surveys have shown that the primary skill needed to be a project manager is communication skill. The typical project manager spends approximately ______percent of his or her time c...
communication time allocationproject manager rolestakeholder communicationtime management - Question #36Schedule Close-Out
A computer tape which contains historical project information is called ____ tape.
archive tapehistorical informationproject recordsclose-out documentation - Question #37Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
Risk event is the description of what may happen to the _____ of the project.
risk eventrisk definitionschedule riskrisk management - Question #38Stakeholder Communication
Which of the following is NOT part of stakeholder's management?
stakeholder managementcommunication planstakeholder identificationstakeholder planning - Question #39Schedule Planning and Development
On what is project baseline development established?
project baselinebaseline developmentcost and schedule estimatesbaseline establishment - Question #40Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
Tom is the project manager of the HQQ Project. His project has a schedule variance of -$34,500 due to some errors early in the project. Management would like to know how Tom will r...
corrective actionschedule varianceerror managementvariance response - Question #41Schedule Planning and Development
You have been assigned to a project that centers on a discipline you are only topically aware of. While you do have years of experience as a project manager, but you have never wor...
define activitiesexpert judgmenttools and techniquesactivity identification - Question #42Schedule Planning and Development
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your project requires the project team to paint 1,500 hotel rooms. Your project team reports that it will take them approximately 4...
parametric estimatingduration estimationestimating techniquesactivity duration - Question #43Schedule Planning and Development
Which organizational theory explains the factors that promote performance of people in any organization?
Herzberg's theorymotivation theoryorganizational theoryteam performance - Question #44Schedule Planning and Development
You are the project manager for your company. You are working with the management regarding the exact end date of your project. Management needs to know what day of the week your p...
schedule calculationworking daysproject calendarduration arithmetic - Question #45Schedule Planning and Development
Harry works as the project manager for his organization. He is creating the activity list and would like to tag those activities that are comprised of apportioned effort. Which of...
apportioned effortactivity typesactivity listwork categorization - Question #46Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Some of the activities in your project are not being completed on time. You review these activities with your project team discovere...
control scheduleschedule baselinecorrective actiontarget schedule - Question #47Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
You are the project manager of the OOI Project and you're forty percent complete with this project. The project has a BAC of $2,345,650 and you have spent $950,000 to date. Based o...
schedule varianceearned value managementEV calculationSV formula - Question #48Schedule Planning and Development
Which of the following individuals performs various management roles within an administrative or functional area of the business, such as human resources, finance, accounting, or p...
functional managerorganizational rolesorganizational structuremanagement roles - Question #49Schedule Planning and Development
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. ____ management sets the boundaries for the project and is the foundation on which the other project elements are built. Answer: Scope
scope managementproject scopeproject foundationscope baseline - Question #50Schedule Planning and Development
You are the project manager for your organization. You and the project team are developing the project schedule for your current project. In addition to the enterprise environment...
develop scheduleprocess inputsschedule developmentPMBOK process groups