Rizwan’s project is behind schedule, but it needs to be delivered by a certain date. She requests additional resources to complete the project faster. Which of the following terms is this an example of?

Paralingual communication pertains to the way that the pitch and tone of a voice convey meaning.

Calvin Butterball is working as a Project Manager at the Half-Baked Ham Company. One day, he realizes that his last status report to the project’s stakeholders contains a serious mistake. According to the Code of Professional Conduct, what concept best represents the situation at hand, and what should Calvin do?

Caroline is managing a project at The Forrester Company. In the project charter she helped draft, it’s noted that Systems A and B are assumed to be the only systems impacted; however, it comes to light several weeks later that System C is also impacted. Which statement is correct about this particular situation?

David was in the middle of his procurement management process when he realized he was missing organizational process assets. Which is an example of an organizational process asset?

Which of the following is not recommended as it tends to take the focus off of meeting the client’s intended requirements?

What is true of corrective action?

True or false: Project manager alone creates the WBS.

What is mutual exclusivity?

Dave, the Project Manager has just recently received the Statement of Work he was awaiting from Bill. Which best describes Bill’s role in the project?

True or False: A work authorization system is always required by PMI standards.

True or false: According to the PMBOK, legitimate power is always the best way to get someone to do some work.

Patrick, a Project Manager at the Ponzi Financial Services firm, is staffed on a key strategic project and is privy to the firm’s client information. His manager Bernie has asked him to keep the information confidential. What would be considered an inappropriate use of Patrick’s access to information according to the Code?

Which set of standards does a project manager typically have the least control over?

True or false: Specific percentage of each budget should be reserved by management.

A schedule performance index, SPI, of 0.75 means:

Early in the life of your project, you are having a discussion with the sponsor about what estimating techniques should be used. You want a form of expert judgment, but the sponsor argues for analogous estimating. It would be BEST to:

An activity has an early start (ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an early finish (EF) of day 9, and a late finish (LF) of day 19. The activity

Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long. If the project network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the BEST thing to do?

During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to do is to:

The first thing to explore before starting a new project is the historical information about similar projects in the organizational process assets library of the organization.

Ask management how the new project will affect your project. Since this is another project that your company is going to execute, you need to be sure whether it will impact your project.

Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at 2m USD. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new project?

In this situation, the project manager acts as the secretary of the project and does the paperwork. So, this is an example of a project expediter position where the project manager does not have any authority and power. The project manager does only paperwork.

A decision table is considered a rule model. Rule models are important for capturing and documenting business rules that are essential for the successful implementation of the project.

A decision table is a model that business analysts use to document certain aspects of a business process. Which type of model is this?

A wireframe is a model that business analysts use to help understand specific systems and their relationships within a solution. Which type of model is this?

What type of requirements are often expressed in the form of user stories, and why?

A business analysis model uses this format: "As an , I want to be able to so that I can ." What is the name of this model?

If a business analyst's role is clearly defined and analysis is done in an early stage of a project, the business analyst is most likely working in the context of which project approach?

If a business analyst is completing a RACI matrix, which business activity are they performing?

Which prioritization technique gives stakeholders a fixed number of indicators they can use to rank feature priority?

Which condition is a factor of uncertainty and describes project dimensions or components that change often and unexpectedly?

What type of chart highlights how much work is left to complete in a sprint?

In which framework does a team develop user stories that are then managed using kanban boards to control for work-in-progress (WIP) limits?

Lean is the foundation for which two popular agile frameworks?

In Scrum, a business analyst, systems analyst, programmer, quality assurance specialist, and any others who play a role in delivering a software system are known as the __________.

Which term refers to a shared understanding within a development team of what it takes to make the user story, feature, or product incrementable so it can be released?

An approach to adaptive project estimation requires that a user story be evaluated according to complexity, size, and which third attribute?

A team is made up of members who each have expertise in one area and can provide some assistance in most other areas of the project; what is this team's structure?

Which graph shows the behavior of a process over time and whether or not it is stable and within expectations?

A contract with a vendor includes a 5% decrease in contract payments for each week the project is delayed. Which approach to risk management are you using?
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Ensuring that stakeholders accept and are satisfied with the project deliverables is a part of which project performance domain?

Which process can a project manager use to determine which activities have the greatest potential impact on the project timeline if they are not completed on time?

Although a(n) _____ is scheduled in a project plan, it has no estimated duration and is used to provide information about progress through the major segments.

Executives of a widget company have decided that it's time to phase out Widget 452 and bring Widget 673 into production and sales. These factors would lead you to believe that the executives are discussing a(n) ______?

Delivery in project management focuses on ensuring the project's outputs (deliverables) meet the specified requirements and quality standards. It involves activities related to producing, testing, and delivering the final product or service.

Which of these project performance domains deals with the activities and functions associated with certainty about the scope and quality that a project is undertaken to achieve?

Which of these issues standard document templates, oversees project management, and reviews project documentation to be sure that projects follow the standards for your organization?

Anyone who is either positively or negatively affected by the potential outcomes of the project is considered a __________.