Integration

1. You are planning communications on a new service development project. Your stakeholder list is large, but not terribly complicated. Not all
stakeholders will understand the need for developing an actual communications plan, and you already have good relationships with most
stakeholders on this project. What is one of the major driving forces for communication on a project?
A. Optimization
B. Integrity
C. Integration
D. Differentiation

2. The customer has accepted the completed project scope. However, the lessons learned required by the project management office have not been
completed. What is the status of the project?
A. The project is incomplete because it needs to be replanned.
B. The project is incomplete until all project and product deliverables are complete and accepted.
C. The project is complete because the customer has accepted the deliverables.
D. The project is complete because it has reached its due date.

3. Your well-planned project is likely to encounter a number of change requests and approved changes during its life cycle. In the change
management plan, you have outlined the processes that you and others will use to understand the impacts of changes. Getting stakeholder
acceptance of the decisions related to change on this project is critical, as a failed project could impact shareholder value and the earning
projections for the organization. Your attention is best focused on which of the following regarding changes on your project?
A. Making changes
B. Tracking and recording changes
C. Informing the sponsor of changes
D. Preventing unnecessary changes

4. The customer on a project tells the project manager they have run out of money to pay for the project. What should the project manager do first?
A. Shift more of the work to later in the schedule to allow time for the customer to get the funds.
B. Close Project or Phase.
C. Stop work.
D. Release part of the project team.

5. All the following are parts of an effective change management plan except:
A. Procedures
B. Standards for reports
C. Meetings
D. Lessons learned

6. 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.

7. Which of the following would be most important to include in a charter for an agile project?
A. The roles and responsibilities of the team members assigned to the project
B. Authorization for the product owner to prioritize features to maximize value
C. The approvals required for specific product development milestones
D. The preassigned resources available to the project

8. A project is plagued by requested changes to the project charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary?
A. The project manager
B. The project team
C. The sponsor
D. The stakeholders

9. Effective project integration usually requires an emphasis on:

A. The careers of the team members
B. Timely updates to the project management plan
C. Effective communication at key interface points
D. Product control
10. The project manager's many responsibilities include being of service to the team, integrating new team members as the project progresses, and
ensuring that the project meets its objectives within scope, time, budget, and other constraints. Which of the following best describes the project
manager's role as an integrator?
A. Help team members become familiar with the project.
B. Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole.
C. Put all the pieces of a project into a program.
D. Get all team members together into a cohesive whole.
11. Approved corrective actions are an input to which of the following processes?
A. Validate Scope
B. Direct and Manage Project Work
C. Develop Project Charter
D. Develop Schedule

12. At various points during project execution, the project manager reviews the project charter. Which of the following best describes what a project
charter may be used for when the work is being completed?
A. To make sure all the team members are rewarded
B. To help determine if a scope change should be approved
C. To assess the effectiveness of the change control system
D. To make sure that all the documentation on the project is completed

13. Which of the following best describes a project management plan?

A. A printout from project management software
B. A bar chart
C. Scope, risk, resource, and other management plans
D. The project scope

14. A project management plan should be realistic in order to be used to manage the project. Which of the following is the best method to achieve a
realistic project management plan?
A. The sponsor creates the project management plan based on input from the project manager.
B. The functional manager creates the project management plan based on input from the project manager.
C. The project manager creates the project management plan based on input from senior management.
D. The project manager creates the project management plan based on input from the team.

15. You have taken over a project during project planning and have discovered that six individuals have signed the project charter. Which of the
following should most concern you?
A. Who will be a member of the change control board
B. Spending more time on configuration management
C. Getting a single project sponsor
D. Determining the reporting structure

16. To manage risk for an agile project, which of the following would you be least likely to need?
A. Risk burndown chart
B. Risk-adjusted backlog
C. Risk management plan
D. Risk-based spike

17. The project manager is working to clearly describe the level of involvement expected from everyone on the project in order to prevent rework,
conflict, and coordination problems. Which of the following best describes the project manager's efforts?
A. Develop Project Management Plan and Plan Quality Management
B. Manage Stakeholder Engagement and Direct and Manage Project Work
C. Validate Scope and Control Quality
D. Identify Risks and Develop Project Team

18. All the following are parts of the Direct and Manage Project Work process except:
A. Identifying changes
B. Using a work breakdown structure
C. Implementing corrective actions
D. Setting up a project control system

19. A project manager is appointed to head a highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager
delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team
members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be:
A. A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment
B. A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion, but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit
C. A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager
D. A team that is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high levels of conflict, and high turnover

20. You are in the middle of leading a major modification project for an existing manufactured product when you learn that the resources promised at
the beginning of the project are not available. According to your plans, these resources will be needed soon, and their unavailability will affect
your timeline and possibly other aspects of the project. What is the best thing to do?
A. Show how the resources were originally promised to your project.
B. Replan the project without the resources.
C. Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available.
D. Crash the project.
21. The project manager has just received a change request from the customer that does not affect the project schedule and is easy to complete. What
should the project manager do first?
A. Make the change happen as soon as possible.
B. Contact the project sponsor for permission.
C. Go to the change control board.
D. Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints.

22. You are the project manager for an existing year-long project that must be completed. Your company just won a major new project. It will begin in
three months and is valued at $2,000,000. The new project has a greater starting value and is therefore likely to have a higher priority than your
project. It may affect your resources. You are concerned about how you will manage your project so that both projects can be implemented
successfully. What is the first thing you should do when you hear of the new project?
A. Ask management how the new project will use resources.
B. Resource level your project.
C. Crash your project.
D. Ask management how the new project will affect your project.

23. In the middle of the project, the project manager is informed by her scheduler that the project control limits are secure. That same morning, she
receives a note from a team member about a problem he is having. The note says, ''This activity is driving me crazy, and the manager of the
accounting department won't help me until the activity's float is in jeopardy:' In addition, the project manager has emails from a minor stakeholder
and 14 emails from team members. While she is reading the emails, a team member walks into the project manager's office to tell her a corrective
action was implemented by a team member from the project management office, but was not documented. What should the project manager do
next?
A. Report the documentation violation to the project management office, evaluate the security of the control limits, and review the emailing rules
in the communications management plan.
B. Clarify the reasoning behind documentation being a problem, get the accounting department to assist the team member, and respond to the
minor stakeholder.
C. Add the implemented corrective action to the change log, discuss the value of documentation at the next team meeting, and smooth the
team member's issue with the accounting department.
D. Find out who caused the problem with the accounting department, respond to the minor stakeholder before responding to the other emails, and
review the process in the communications management plan for reporting concerns with the team member having the documentation problem.

24. Which of the following sequences represents straight-line depreciation?

A. $100, $100, $100
B. $100, $120, $140
C. $100, $120, $160
D. $160, $140, $120

25. For an agile project, changes are an important part of the process, allowing the product owner to maximize value delivery. As the manager of an
agile project, how should you approach managing changes?
A. Changes should be addressed as low as possible on the cost of change curve.
B. To avoid delays and cost overruns, only changes that add measurable value should be approved.
C. Agile tools and methods should be used to reduce the number ?f changes needed and their disruptive impact.
D. There is no difference in the basis for managing changes on agile projects compared to plan driven projects.

26. The client demands changes to the product specification that will add only two weeks to the critical path. Which of the following is the best thing
for the project manager to do?
A. Compress the schedule to recover the two weeks.
B. Cut scope to recover the two weeks.
C. Consult with the sponsor about options.
D. Advise the client of the impact of the change.

27. You are asked to prepare a budget for completing a project that was started last year and then shelved for six months. All the following would be
included in the project budget except:
A. Fixed costs
B. Sunk costs
C. Direct costs
D. Variable costs

28. A project is chartered to determine new ways to extend the product life of one of the company's medium-producing products. The project manager
comes from the engineering department, and the team comes from the product management and marketing departments. The project scope
statement and project planning are completed when a stakeholder notifies the team that there is a better way to complete one of the work packages.
1he stakeholder supplies a technical review letter from his department proving that the new way to complete the work package will actually be
faster than the old way. The project manager has had similar experiences with this department on other projects, and was expecting this to happen
on this project. What is the first thing the project manager should do?
A. Contact the department and complain again about their missing the deadline for submission of scope.
B. Determine how this change will impact the cost to complete the work package and the quality of the product of the work package.
C. See if there is a way to change from a matrix organization to a functional organization so as to eliminate all the interference from other
departments.
D. Ask the department if they have any other changes.
29. The CFO is a key stakeholder on your agile project. One day he emails you, "I just saw the backlog , and we have a problem! We need to update
the descriptions of stories 12.4 to 12.6 to reflect our new digital business strategy :• How should you respond?
A. The backlog has already been prioritized based on the features that will add the most business value.
B. I noticed that and have already referred this request to the change control board for approval.
C. The team has already made those updates, they will be included in the next backlog version.
D. I will refer this request to the product owner, who will decide what to do about it.

30. All the following occur during the Close Project or Phase process except:
A. Creating lessons learned
B. Formal acceptance
C. Performance reporting
D. Performing cost-benefit analysis

31. The project manager can help influence the processes that affect change on projects by creating and using the most appropriate planning strategies
and tools. Assuming the project manager has created and is executing the best possible project management plan, the project sponsor should help
the project manager to protect the project against unnecessary changes. Which of the following best reflects the phrase, "influencing the factors
that affect change?"
A. Telling people that changes are not allowed after planning is complete
B. Determining the sources of changes and fixing the root causes
C. Adding more activities to the work breakdown structure to accommodate risks
D. Calculating the impact of changes to date on the project

32. You are managing an agile project with a high level of requirements uncertainty. What is the best way to manage changes throughout the project to
ensure the project goals are met?
A. Ask the development team to create a change management plan before the work begins.
B. Delegate authority to the team and the product owner to manage changes as they arise.
C. Prepare a comprehensive change management plan, and manage to the plan.
D. Ask the product owner to refer all substantive changes to the change management team.

33. The organization is about to begin a series of similar projects. The projects will be managed consecutively. Each project involves developing an
online cooking video focused on foods appropriate to the month in which they will be released. For example, the summer videos will include
picnic food and cool treats, and the December video will feature holiday foods for Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. The project sponsor is
adamant that the management plan for each project includes an emphasis on making the best possible use of the lessons learned register. He
believes that other projects have not been successful because they failed to take advantage of lessons learned from previously completed projects.
The lessons learned register should be updated:
A. At the end of each project phase
B. Throughout the project
C. Weekly
D. At the end of the project

34. Knowledge management is a key responsibility of the project manager. This responsibility includes managing two kinds of knowledge on a
project: tacit and explicit. Which of the following definitions are correct?
A. Tacit knowledge is fact-based and can be easily communicated through words and symbols.
B. Tacit knowledge may need explanation or context to provide value to recipients of this information.
C. Tacit knowledge includes emotions, experience, and abilities.
D. Lessons learned are an example of tacit knowledge.