PMI ACP Quiz 32

Question 1 of 30

1. Question

Richard, from another department, is deputising while the assigned project manager is on long leave. While collecting project status, Richard finds discrepancy in status from past few weeks. The project is overspent, behind schedule. and actually in RED but shown Green on reports. What should Richard do?

Report to PMI as this is clear violation of PMI’s code of ethics
Since Richard is filling in, continue with the data of the previous report, as no one else noticed the discrepancy
Update actual status to dashboard report and inform the management
Ask the project manager about the discrepancies when he returns
All of these are answered by the mission statement

Question 2 of 30

2. Question

Which of the following is one of the requirements for successful implementation of strategies through projects?

Allocation of resources
Prioritizing of projects
Motivation of project contributors
Adequate planning and control systems
All of these are requirements

Question 3 of 30

3. Question

Which of these is not part of the “technical dimension” of project management?

WBS
Budgets
Problem solving
Schedule

Question 4 of 30

4. Question

Which of the following project one must pursue?
Project A having NPV: $3500,
Project B has NPV: $150,
Project C has NPV: $40000,
Project D has NPV: $3000

Project A
Project B
Project C
Project D

Question 5 of 30

5. Question

What is the main way that a Scrum Master contributes to maximising the productivity in the development team?

By maintaining a risk-adjusted Product Backlog in priority order
By making sure hygiene is maintained on meeting – agendas, start & end times, capturing and sending out minutes, etc
By facilitating Development Team decisions and removing impediments
By providing news about the newest technology trends in the market

Question 6 of 30

6. Question

In order to encourage innovation and creativity establishment of agile emphasises on developing what kind of environment?

Reinforcement of positive feedback
Empowered team
Developing leaders
Stretching each team members capabilities

Question 7 of 30

7. Question

Such managers who underestimate the importance of their project towards the plan of action of their organization makes the following mistake except

By putting their all efforts in low priority jobs
Overemphasizing technology
Prioritizing only the immediate customer
Trying to resolve every petty issues by customers themselves
All the above are likely mistakes

Question 8 of 30

8. Question

The Development Team is expected to have all the skills needed for which of the following purpose?

Complete the project by the given deadline and budget shared upfront with the sponsor
Do analysis and development work, but leave out all forms of testing since that is handled by another specialised team
Turn the Product Backlog items into potentially shippable product increments
Master all state-of-the-art technology practices and tools available

Question 9 of 30

9. Question

Richard is conducting a retrospective meeting. As recommended by the Agile coach, Richard is planning on using the following agenda in the meeting

Set the stage, generate data, gather insight, decide what to do, close the retrospective
Set the stage, gather data, generate insight, decide what to do, close the retrospective
Gather data, set the stage, generate insight, decide what to do, close the retrospective
Gather data, set the stage, decide what to do, generate insight, close the retrospective

Question 10 of 30

10. Question

A process that involves continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detail become available is termed as

project analysis
project enhancing
progressive deliberation
progressive elaboration

Question 11 of 30

11. Question

The easiest and most commonly used technique for analyzing risks is can be termed as the following :

Scenario
Probability
Payback
Impact
Risk

Question 12 of 30

12. Question

A risk profile is a list of questions that address traditional areas of uncertainty on a project that answers developed from:

When the event might occur in the project
Chances of the event occurring
Interaction with other parts of the project or with other projects
From previous, similar projects

Question 13 of 30

13. Question

The risk assessment form contains all of the following except :

Likelihood of the risk. event occurring
Who will detect the event of occurrence of risk
Potential impact of the risk event
Difficulty of detecting the occurrence of risk event

Question 14 of 30

14. Question

Which of the following is not one of the probability analysis tool?

Ratio/arrange analysis
Decision tree
PERT simulation
PERT

Question 15 of 30

15. Question

The demolition of the Seattle King dome is an example of which of the following?

Mitigating
Retaining
Ignoring
Transferring and sharing

Question 16 of 30

16. Question

Technical risks can stop all the ongoing activities.Which of the following depicts the technical risks?

Often the kind that can cause the project to be shut down
Problematic
Imposed duration dates
Both A and B are correct

Question 17 of 30

17. Question

Among st the following which are the important features of agile project management?

Engaging the customer and proper self organization
Reduction in total developmental cost
Enhanced collaboration between team members
Improves quality throughout the organization

Question 18 of 30

18. Question

Which of the following changes are observed when a team adopts the shift-left testing approach?

Focus changes from detecting to preventing defects
Break the silos between the development and testing teams
Development and testing activities progress in parallel
All of the above

Question 19 of 30

19. Question

Agile development encourages establishment of creating an environment which :

privilege team work to promote innovation and creativity
emphasizes individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Delivers high quality working software
Satisfies the long term customer

Question 20 of 30

20. Question

An important application with the Agile values is that they are predetermined to be

Proportional statements
Relative statements
Approximate statements
Significant and absolute statements

Question 21 of 30

21. Question

Which Agile Manifesto Value would be most relevant to this situation:
A customer realized in the middle of a project that what was being built will not really meet his needs and a very different solution is more appropriate; however, the new approach will significantly increase the cost and schedule for completing the effort

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Responding to change over following a plan
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Question 22 of 30

22. Question

“The team, not the leader, gets the real work done.” belongs to:

Management
Servant leadership
Leadership
Customer

Question 23 of 30

23. Question

The N2 Effect can be easily defined as :

the number of interaction possibilities increases by nearly the square of the number of system components.
the square of interaction possibilities increases by the number of system components
how the number of interaction possibilities decreases by nearly the square of the number of system components
how the number of interaction possibilities multiplies three times by nearly the square of the number of system components

Question 24 of 30

24. Question

Among st the following which is multi criteria selection model?

Net Present Value
Weighted criteria model
Checklist
Both A and B are correct

Question 25 of 30

25. Question

The cost impact of a risk event occurring as a project proceeds through its life cycle tends to :

Drop sharply and then level out
It is slowly rising
Rises sharply and then level out
It remains about the same

Question 26 of 30

26. Question

One common mistake made early in the risk identification process is :

Major mistake is that too much attention is given to past events
Main focus is more on objectives but not on the events that could produce consequences
Participants are over-pessimistic

Question 27 of 30

27. Question

Bill has worked hard over the last few days and finds that the build is broken because Richard has checked in code without properly unit testing it. It will mean that Bill will have to wait until Richard comes back and fixes the issue. Bill is furious at Richard and he makes statements like, “I know Richard. He is always careless and doesn’t bother how others get affected by his actions.”
Which stage of conflict do you think is reflected in Bill’s language?

Level 1: Problem to Solve
Level 2: Disagreement
Level 3: Contest
Level 5: World War

Question 28 of 30

28. Question

All of the following are included in the risk identification process except

Customers
Subcontractors
Competitors
Vendors

Question 29 of 30

29. Question

Retrospective is best described as?

Review the software built by the team and not how the team worked and apply the learning to the next iteration
A forum to share achievements, celebrate and identify coaching needs
Identify 5 things that went well and 5 things that did not go well or could have been better. Documents these lessons learned and save in organisational document repository for use in future projects
Review how the team worked and not on what was delivered. Take the learning on what could be improved and feed that as input to next iteration

Question 30 of 30

30. Question

Change management systems are designed to accomplish all of the following except:

Track all changes that are to be implemented
Review, evaluates, and approve/disapprove proposed changes formally
Reflect scope changes in baseline and performance measures
All of the above

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