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PMP资格认证考试-项目整体管理
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[单项选择]Which of the following projects(i.e.Project A, Project B or Project C) should be selected
A. Project A with opportunity cost of $100,000 and investment of $1,000,000.
B. Project B with opportunity cost of $200,000 and investment of $500,000.
C. Project C with opportunity cost of $300,000 and investment of $3,500,000.
D. Cannot be determined with available informatio
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[单项选择]A narrative description of products or services to be supplied under contract is called______.
A. the project plan
B. a statement of work
C. an exception report
D. a Pareto analysis
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[单项选择]A project manager has to resolve two problems. However, both problems can occur in a single trial. In this situation, what is the BEST action the project manager can take
A. Develop a solution for each proble
B. Develop a solution that solves both problem
C. Use a statistically independent tria
D. N0 solution is needed, the two problems cancel each other ou
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[单项选择]All of the following are characteristics of the project management information system(PMIS)EXCEPT:
A. It is a standardized set of automated tools available within the organization and integrated into a syste
B. It is used by the project management team to support generation of the project management plan, facilitate feedback as the document is developed, control changes to the project management plan, and release the approved documen
C. It is used by the project management team to monitor and control the execution of activities that are planned and scheduled in the project, management pla The PMIS is also used to create new forecasts as neede
D. It is used by the project management team primarily to generate presentations to key stakeholder Typically, a separate, manual system is used for the integrated change control process, to facilitate feedback and control changes across the projec
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[单项选择]In your project, if the benefit cost ratio is greater than 1, it means that______.
A. the ratio of profits to cost is greater than 1
B. the ratio of revenue to cost is greater than 1
C. you should select this project from all other competing alternatives
D. none of the above
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[单项选择]Which of the following is NOT a part of the project management plan
A. Procurement management pla
B. Process improvement pla
C. Schedule baselin
D. Resource requirement pla
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[单项选择]Quality audits, reward and recognition systems and information gathering and retrieval systems are tools for______.
A. executing
B. controlling
C. initiating
D. planning
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[单项选择]Your project is very critical for the company and must be completed within 6 months. The project charter has been signed, but scope statement is not yet prepared. Management asks you to go ahead with the project without the scope statement being approved. What should you do(select the best answer)
A. Refuse to work on the project because management is not following standard project management practice
B. Since time is of essence, you should start the project with the inputs from project charte
C. Meet the management and mention the problems you will face without a scope statemen
D. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor and issue a risk mem
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[单项选择]In a project, two team members were using different versions of WBS. Team members could not know the status of project management plan documents. Project manager should FIRST check______.
A. configuration management system
B. work performance information
C. change control system
D. information gathering and retrieval systems
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[单项选择]A customer informed you that it is preferable to make a change to a certain aspect of the project. What should you do first
A. Talk with team members to understand implication of the chang
B. Communicate the change to management to get their input
C. Open up a change contro
D. Do sizing for the change and communicate to custome
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[单项选择]You work for a Lower Seobovian company that hires only left-handed people. The entire company culture is based on left-handedness. There are left-handed desks, left-handed scissors, left-handed pencil sharpeners, and left-handed coffee cups. Most people even go by the nickname “Lefty”. When the company decided to go global, it replicated its left-banded culture around the world. A new manager once mentioned at a staff meeting that it would be nice to have a few right-handed people in the company to get a different point of view on things. Such diversity would have which of the following impacts on this company
A. Have no impac
B. Cause only problem
C. Either cause problems or lead to benefit
D. Can simultaneously cause problems and lead to benefit
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[单项选择]Select the most effective sequence of the following four activities in initiating a project. (1)Define project phases;(2)Identify stakeholders;(3)Select a project manager;(4)Develop project charter.
A. (4)-(1)-(2)-(3)
B. (3)-(1)-(2)-(4)
C. (4)-(3)-(1)-(2)
D. (1)-(2)-(3)-(4)
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[单项选择]Your project is in the planning phase and you are paid every fortnight for the work to be done during the fortnight. You have been informed by the project sponsor that there has been a revaluation of projects within your company and your project will not be getting any additional funding. In this case, you should ______.
A. stop work immediately and release all resources
B. perform appropriate closure for the project
C. decrease team size
D. remove non-critical tasks to decrease cost
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[单项选择]A project should be terminated for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
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[单项选择]Managing e-business projects for the consulting firm, Milkem & Fleecem Inc. , has taken a heavy toll. You are waking up at night with cold sweats, and you are traveling so often your children have forgotten your name. Only the partners seem to be making money. Although you dream of prospering and opening an art gallery in Soho, the trendy district ill Manhattan, you need to complete a financial analysis of the payback period first. Such an analysis identifies the______.
A. ratio of discounted revenues over discounted costs
B. future value of money invested today
C. amount of time before net cash flow becomes positive
D. point in time where costs exceed profit
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[单项选择]As the world’s leading seller of pogo sticks to senior citizens, your business has had its ups and downs. Recently, a high-priced consultant completed a study tracing the “downs” directly to the fact that your organization is not a learning organization. It seems that no one shares information, and that people are managing projects the same way they were managed three generations ago. You are convinced that the consultant’s advice is correct and decide to make some changes. Accordingly, your firm now will conduct regular learning events. You hired a chief learning officer to make it all happen. Her first suggestion aimed at achieving this goal is to ensure the company supports______.
A. project team meetings
B. in-progress customer review sessions
C. kickoff meetings
D. benchmarking forums
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[单项选择]Your management is evaluating a project which requires an investment of $500,000. The expected inflow is $100,000 for 1st year, and $300,000 for every year after that. What is the payback period
A. 2 year
B. 2 years and 4 month
C. 3 year
D. Cannot be determined because discount rate is not specifie
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[单项选择]A project planning methodology is any structured approach used to guide the project team during development of the project plan. What is an example of this methodology
A. Standard forms or template
B. Upper management involvemen
C. Functional work authorization
D. Stakeholders skill
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[单项选择]Which information is NOT found in the project charter
A. High-level project description or product requirement
B. Summary milestone schedul
C. Stakeholder influence
D. Assign project manager and type of project organizatio
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[单项选择]Configuration management is______.
A. used to ensure that the description of the project product is correct and complete
B. the creation of the work breakdown structure
C. the set of procedures developed to assure that project design criteria are met
D. a mechanism to track budget and schedule variances
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[单项选择]Initiating process group consists of the processes that facilitate the formal authorization to satart a new project or a project phase. Initiating processes are often done external to the project’s scope of control by the organization or by a program or portfolio processes which may blur the project boundaries for project inputs. Before beginning the initiation process group, ______.
A. a scope management plan is created to document how the project scope will be defined, verified and controlled
B. a project management plan is developed
C. specific activities that need to be performed to produce the various project deliverables are determined
D. none of the above
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[单项选择]The organization of the project is very important for successful implementation. Which factor does not have an impact of design of the project organization
A. Environmental force
B. Schedule limitation
C. Strategic choice
D. Technological factor
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[单项选择]During initiation, a project manager is planning the upcoming project execution team meetings. What should the project manager include in these meetings that would have the biggest impact on the project
A. Review of the action item lis
B. Review of identified risk
C. Assignment of tasks to team member
D. Estimating cost
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[单项选择]Which of the following is not related to control process groups
A. Team developmen
B. Quality contro
C. Benefit cost analysi
D. Verify scop
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[单项选择]As part of monitoring and controlling, project performance must be monitored and measured regularly to identify variances from the plan. All the following are processes involved with controlling EXCEPT______.
A. verify scope
B. risk monitoring and control
C. performance reporting
D. quality assurance
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[单项选择]A project manager is working on a complex project with people from around the world. The project schedule is set, but the tasks require detailed integration with other tasks being done by the buyer. What is the BEST thing the project manager could use to control this situation
A. Work authorization syste
B. Configuration managemen
C. Historical informatio
D. Change control boar
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[单项选择]Webster Dictionary meaning of authority is “power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavior”. As a project manager, your authority is greatly dependent on______.
A. support from functional managers
B. support from senior management
C. influencing and leading skills of a project manager
D. organization structure
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[单项选择]Deliverables are produced as part of a project. Deliverables are any unique or verifiable product, result or capability to perform a service, and are produced to complete a(n)______.
A. process
B. phase
C. project
D. any one of the above
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[单项选择]In your organization, you are the project manager of the engineering department. But if questions related to manufacturing arise, they are passed up to the engineering department head, who consults with the head of the manufacturing department. Once the manufacturing head gets the answers, he passes it the engineering department head, who in turn passes answer back down to you. The organization structure you are working on is______.
A. Weak Matrix
B. Matrix
C. Strong Matrix
D. Functional
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[单项选择]You are in the process of developing a project charter for your project and would like to use organizational process assets as inputs for the purpose. All the following statements about organizational process assets are accurate EXCEPT:
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[单项选择]Your department is currently working on four urgent projects when it is assigned a major new project. To staff the new project, one of the four urgents needs to be terminated. The benefit cost ratios(BCR)for the four projects are listed. Which would you select for termination
A. 0.8
B. 1.1
C. 0.9
D. 1.9
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[单项选择]A project manager is following her company's internal project procedures to finish a project. These procedures call for the completion of lessons learned but do not describe who creates it. Who is involved in the creation of lessons learned
A. Project manage
B. Tea
C. Managemen
D. Stakeholder
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[单项选择]Configuration management is a technique for______.
A. overall change control
B. project plan execution
C. scope planning
D. risk quantification
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[单项选择]Although your internet start-up company has few project management policies and procedures in place, it made a healthy profit last year. Experience, however, has taught you that some controls are required, especially for projects that change frequently. You would like to establish a change control system for your company, but must convince a group of money-hungry “20 somethings” to use it. To be effective, the change control system must include ______.
A. procedures that define how project documents may be changed
B. specific change requests expected on the project and plan to respond to each one
C. performance reports that forecast project changes
D. a description of the functional and physical characteristics of an item or system
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[单项选择]None of the people on your 15 person project team have worked together before, and it really shows. The team cannot seem to get past the storming stage: each meeting is characterized by disagreements, debates, and long-winded expositions some of the more verbose members of the group. Everyone seems to speak a different “language” even though they are all from the same country. Conflicts are rampant. You need to get this situation under control quickly. Therefore, the first action you should take is to______.
A. hold periodic group meetings
B. use a group facilitator at the next meeting
C. perform careful project planning
D. enforce strict rules about meeting behavior
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[单项选择]You are the project manager for a large government contract. The contract was signed a year ago for this three-year, multi-million dollar project. You were not involved in writing the contract or setting up change control procedures, but now you are being inundated with change requests from the project sponsor and from your own senior management. What should you do first
A. Ask senior management to set aside more management reserve to avoid potential financial problem
B. Tell the sponsor and your senior management that any changes are out of scope at his point and cannot be considere
C. Talk to your legal department to make sure you don’t do anything illega
D. Meet with the project sponsor and senior management to discuss this problem and potential solution
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[单项选择]Your organization is having a difficult time managing its many projects. You have been asked to help senior management decide how to proceed. What should you do first
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[单项选择]You are interviewing for the position of project manager in the company. What is the most important characteristic you should be looking for in the project manager
A. Technical knowledge about the busines
B. Negotiating and convincing skill
C. Communication skill
D. Experience in your organizatio
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[单项选择]For internal projects, who is responsible to provide the project statement of work
A. Sponso
B. Project manage
C. Project management tea
D. The tea
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[单项选择]Controlling occurs______.
A. on a continual basis throughout the project
B. at the end of each phase of the project life cycle to assess its Success in meeting project objectives
C. at the end of each planning process
D. on a continual basis throughout the executing process and as needed in the other process
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[单项选择]In the project plan development, an example of a project constraint may be______.
A. a lump-sum contract
B. a project whose budget is still in the preliminary stages
C. the use of historical data as applied to the new project
D. a list of assumptions
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[单项选择]All of the following are characteristics of parametric estimating EXCEPT______.
A. Historical information
B. Quantifiable
C. Scalable
D. Activity lists
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[单项选择]You have created the project charter but could not get it approved. Your manager and his boss asked that the project begin immediately. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do
A. Set up an integrated change control proces
B. Push to get the charter signe
C. Perform an impact analysi
D. Start work on only the critical path task
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[单项选择]Puts into overall Change control include all of the following EXCEPT______.
A. project management plan
B. change requests
C. change control meetings
D. work performance information
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[单项选择]When developing the project charter, any kind of the organzation's enterprise environmental factors must be considered. This may include the following EXCEPT______.
A. company reputation
B. personnel administration procedure, including training records
C. existing facilities and capital equipment
D. stakeholder risk tolerances
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[单项选择]Initiation inputs for a project include all of the following EXCEPT______.
A. product description
B. strategic plan
C. project charter
D. selection criteria
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[单项选择]A KEY activity in closing out a project is to______.
A. disseminate status reports and risk assessment
B. disseminate information to formalize project completion
C. monitor the specific project results to determine if they comply with relevant quality standards
D. transfer all the project records to the project owners
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[单项选择]Which of the following is reasonable in explaining the integration
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[单项选择]Preventive action is______.
A. anything that reduces the probability of potential consequence of project risk event
B. anything done to bring expected future project performance in line with the project plan
C. anything report to key stakeholder for approval
D. anything issued by top management to change the project scope
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[单项选择]A project has the following characteristics: payback of $2,000, profit of $1,000, project cost of $800, life cycle cost of $1,200. What is the benefit cost ratio of the project
A. 2.50.
B. 1.25.
C. 1.67.
D. 0.83.