Free PMI Scheduling Professional PMI-SP Exam Practice Test

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 on your aggressive scheduling you should at the 45 percent milestone today, but due to some early delays you're running late. What is the schedule variance of your project?

• -$29,350
  
• -$117,282
  
• -$938,260
  
• -$11,740
  

Which of the following is an output of the Develop Project Charter process?

• Enterprise environmental factors
  
• Contract
  
• Business case
  
• Project charter
  

Andy is the project manager for his project. Andy and his project team are identifying stakeholders who can significantly impact the project, what the level of participation for each identified stakeholder may be, and classifying the stakeholders by common characteristics, concerns, and their perception of the project. Andy and his project team want to define an approach as a result of this information to gain support from the stakeholders for their project. What should Andy and his project team create in this scenario?

• Stakeholder assessment information
  
• Stakeholder register
  
• Communications management plan
  
• Stakeholder management strategy
  

What formula would you use if your project had a BAC of $450,000, you have spent $191,000, and you are 40 percent complete though you are supposed to be 55 percent done and management wants to know your project's schedule performance index?

• ($450,000 - $180,000) / ($450,000 - $191,000)
  
• $450,000 - $477,500
  
• $180,000 / $247,500
  
• $180,000 - $247,500
  

What forecasting method would your project use if your project customer requires an autoregressive moving average for performance forecasting?

• Judgmental methods
  
• Time series method
  
• Ensemble forecasting
  
• Causal/econometric method
  

You work as a project manager for Blue Well Inc. You and your project team is undergoing the decision making process for the project. You want to involve key participants to gain acceptance and commitment to make the solution work. Which of the following phases of the decision- making model defines this process of work?

• Ideas to action
  
• Problem definition
  
• Problem solution generation
  
• Solution action planning
  

Which of the following is an output of the Identify Stakeholders process?

• Scope baseline
  
• Project scope statement
  
• Project charter
  
• Stakeholder register
  

You are the project manager for your organization. You and the project team are developing the project schedule for your current project. This project management process will create four outputs. Which of the following is an output of the Develop Schedule process?

• Work performance information
  
• Schedule baseline
  
• Resource calendars
  
• Activity duration estimates
  

You have a project to install 45,900 emergency exit signs throughout a university campus. You have a crew of 45 project team members to install the signs and they are making good progress on the installation but it looks like they'll miss the promised end date. Your project requires all of the signs to be installed one week before classes are scheduled to begin. You elect to crash the project in an effort to shorten the installation duration activity. What does it mean to crash the project?

• Increase the working hours.
  
• Level the project schedule.
  
• Add more workers.
  
• Reduce the project scope.
  

Holly is the project manager for her organization. Her current project is running late and her projectcustomer has asked Holly to find a method to apply corrective actions to the project schedule. Hollyis exploring the concept of crashing the project. Which of the followingstatements is true about crashing the activities in Holly's project?

• The activities to be crashed must have additional quality control metrics associated with them.
  
• The activities to be crashed cannot be of fixed duration.
  
• The activities to be crashed cannot have risks associated with them greater than 0.80.
  
• The activities cannot be on the critical path in order to be crashed.