PMP® Study: Two Complete Exams

By Leithy Mohamed Leithy

This book is developed to help you in passing the Project Management Professional Certification PMP® Exam on your first attempt. It is your tool to discover your week points and areas the needs more concentration before entering the actual exam. I am sure that no one wants to enter a PMP testing exam without total reassurance that he has become familiar with the actual certification exam.

The book is created based on the “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Sixth Edition” – PMBOK® 6th - which was PMI certified in 2017. Throughout this book, it will be referred to as the Standard Guide. This book adopts all PMI publications related to the Project Management that were created before the publication date of this edition.

This book contains two Full PMP® sample exam with its detailed answer and explanation, i.e., it has total of 400 questions and answers. The questions were created based on the “PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)® Handbook” and the PMP Examination Content Outline changes for 2016 exam.

This book is different from others as it is created by an author who passed the PfMP®, PgMP® and PMP® Exams on his first attempt, so, the author knows how to pass the different exams from the PMI on the first attempt. This reflects the flavor of the questions that you are going to see on the exam. Besides, it covers different examples of each type of the commonly found questions on the PMP® Exam model; including the regular question, table question, and question set.

As a project manager, your practical experience will help you a lot to pass the exam, and it is a critical success factor of your readiness to the exam. However, in this book, you will find a major support to orient you to the examination philosophy that you will face.

PMP, PgMP, and PfMP are registered trademarks by PMI.

Please note that each question answer has the following details:
•The right answer
•Question Reference: this is referring to the Standard Guide: “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Sixth Edition” which is registered for PMI in 2017. If the question reference section from the Standard Guide span over few pages, I will mention the page number that is directly related to the subject question
•Clarification and Tips: this is the most important part of the answer that describes the reasons for selecting the right answer and eliminating the three other choices
•Process Group: the name of the process group covering this question
•Process: the process pertained to this question’s subject
•Knowledge Area: the name of the Knowledge Area covering this question

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leithy Mohamed Leithy
• Release date: Apr 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370064465

Leithy Mohamed Leithy

Leithy Mohamed Leithy is a certified Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP®), Program Management Professional (PgMP®), and Project Management Professional (PMP®). He also had the certification of Project Management Office (PMOC), ITIL, COBIT, and CSSGB. Leithy is originally an engineer in the computer and automatic control, graduated from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 1989. Later, he upgraded his educational level and got his master (MBA) in IT Management from Leicester University in UK. Leithy has extensive experience in portfolio management, program management, project management and PMO. He practiced the implementation of different types of PMO addressing the project management office, program management office, and portfolio management office. He has practical experience in delivering sensitive projects and programs under high pressure, harsh target deadlines, and budget challenges. He developed project management methodology and program management methodology and implemented them in large multi-national organizations. He acquired excellent practical portfolio management experience while managing multiple portfolios and guided the portfolio managers to achieve their target strategic and financial objectives. He worked in Egypt and in the Arabian Gulf area over the last twenty-five years with big firms and international enterprises that strengthened his practical experience and added a lot to his pragmatic thinking. While concentrating on information technology, he interfered with different industries; educational, health, financial, telecommunication, utilities and oil and gas. Combining the practical experience with the academic experience and international certifications creates an excellent understanding of the best practice and the world-class standards. Leithy is the founder of the 6P-Consulting management services company, which is specialized in project, program, portfolio, and PMO management services, www.6P-Consulting.com Leithy is a Udemy instructor for online learning, refer to the Udemy web site to reach the list of courses offered by him. Leithy is a Skillshare teacher for online professional training, go to the Skillshare.com to review the list of classes offered by him. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leithy-leithy-mba-pfmp-pgmp-pmoc-pmp-3a66a916/

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PMP® Study: Two Complete Exams

400 Questions and Answers

First Edition

based on PMBOK® 6th edition

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Leithy Mohamed Leithy

MBA, PfMP, PgMP, PMP, PMOC, COBIT, ITIL, CSSGB

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About the Author

Leithy Mohamed Leithy is a certified Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP®), Program Management Professional (PgMP®), and Project Management Professional (PMP®). He also has the certification of Project Management Office (PMOC), ITIL, COBIT, and CSSGB.

Leithy is originally an engineer of computer and automatic control, graduated from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 1989. Later, he upgraded his educational level and got his master (MBA) in IT Management from Leicester University in the UK.

Leithy has extensive experience in portfolio management, program management, project management and PMO. He practiced the implementation of project management office, program management office, and portfolio management office for the different models: Supportive, Directive and Controlling.

He has practical experience in delivering sensitive projects and programs under high pressure, harsh target deadlines, and budget challenges. He developed project and program management methodologies and implemented them in large multi-national organizations.

He acquired excellent practical portfolio management experience while managing multiple portfolios and guided the portfolio managers to achieve their target strategic and financial objectives.

He worked mainly in the Arabian Gulf over the last twenty-five years with big firms and international enterprises, strengthening his practical experience and adding a lot to his pragmatic thinking. While concentrating on information technology, he interfered with different industries; educational, health, financial, telecommunication, utilities, and oil and gas.

Combining the practical experience with the academic knowledge and international certifications creates an excellent understanding of the best practice and world-class standards.

Leithy is the founder of the 6P-Consulting management services company, which is specialized in project, program, portfolio, and PMO management services, www.6P-Consulting.com

Leithy is a Udemy instrcutor and Skillshare instructor for many online training courses in project, program, portfolio, and management. You can review his list of courses and you can get benefits from the coupon codes and existing discount on: www.6P-Consulting.com

Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Exam 1 - Questions

Exam 1 – Questions and Answers

Exam 2 - Questions

Exam 2 – Questions and Answers

Appendix (A) – Questions Mapping per Process Group and Knowledge Area

Introduction

This book is developed to help you in passing the Project Management Professional Certification PMP® Exam on your first attempt. It is your tool to discover your week points and areas the needs more concentration before entering the actual exam. I am sure that no one wants to enter a PMP testing exam without total reassurance that he has become familiar with the actual certification exam.

The book is created based on the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Sixth Edition – PMBOK® 6th - which was PMI certified in 2017. Throughout this book, it will be referred to as the Standard Guide. This book adopts all PMI publications related to the Project Management that were created before the publication date of this edition.

This book contains two Full PMP® sample exam with its detailed answer and explanation, i.e., it has total of 400 questions and answers. The questions were created based on the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)® Handbook and the PMP Examination Content Outline changes for 2016 exam.

This book is different from others as it is created by an author who passed the PfMP®, PgMP® and PMP® Exams on his first attempt, so, the author knows how to pass the different exams from the PMI on the first attempt. This reflects the flavor of the questions that you are going to see on the exam. Besides, it covers different examples of each type of the commonly found questions on the PMP® Exam model; including the regular question, table question, and question set.

As a project manager, your practical experience will help you a lot to pass the exam, and it is a critical success factor of your readiness to the exam. However, in this book, you will find a major support to orient you to the examination philosophy that you will face.

PMP, PgMP, and PfMP are registered trademarks by PMI.

Although the two exams include the questions randomly from the different process groups and knowledge areas as you will in the real exam, you can still access the questions for a specific knowledge areas or process group for studying purposes by referring to the tables in the Appendix(A) that groups the questions in each exam per process group and per knowledge area.

Please note that each question answer has the following details:

- The right answer

- Question Reference: this is referring to the Standard Guide: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Sixth Edition which was registered for PMI in 2017. If the question reference section from the Standard Guide span over few pages, I will mention the page number that is directly related to the subject question

- Clarification and Tips: this is the most important part of the answer that describes the reasons for selecting the right answer and eliminating the three other choices

- Process Group: the name of the process group covering this question

- Process: the process pertained to this question’s subject

- Knowledge Area: the name of the Knowledge Area covering this question

For any query, please contact us at [e-mail]

Exam 1 - Questions

Q1 - While you are executing the Monitor and Control Project process, you want to record updates for the effective responses for variances, and corrective and preventive actions. Where should you record this information?

(a) Issue register

(b) Lessons learned register

(c) Risk register

(d) All the above

Q2 - What is the most suitable option to manage contracts in large projects with multiple vendors?

(a) Having a contract administration responsible for managing communication among the various providers

(b) Having a separate administrator to manage communication with each provider

(c) Having the PMO responsible for managing communication within the project and among the various providers

(d) None of the above

Q3 - Olivia is a newly assigned project manager in your organization. She wants your help to understand colocation; what is your answer?

(a) Colocation is where the team members are from the same location

(b) Colocation involves placing many or all of the most active project team members in the same physical location to enhance their ability to perform as a team

(c) Colocation is group of people with a shared goal who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting face to face

(d) None of the above

Q4 - Which of the following are good examples for the Knowledge Management tools and techniques?

(a) Meetings, including virtual meetings

(b) Knowledge-sharing events such as seminars

(c) Creativity and ideas management techniques

(d) All the above

Q5 - Sam is defining his project scope with the project team and the subject matter experts. He found some items outside the scope and he needs to point out clearly to his customer that they are not part of his deliverables to avoid future disputes. Where should Sam add these scope exclusions?

(a) In the scope statement

(b) In the scope register

(c) In the scope management plan

(d) In the exclusion register

Q6 - All the following project documents will help you in executing the Direct and Manage Project Work process, except:

(a) Milestone list

(b) Change log

(c) Requirements traceability matrix

(d) Source selection criteria

Q7 - Judy is closing the first phase of her first project, she started to use the data analysis tools to help her in the phase closeout activities. Which of the following tools should be helpful for Judy?

(a) Risk log

(b) Risk probability and impact assessment

(c) Document analysis

(d) Cost of quality

Q8 - Khadija was assigned to manage a project in her organization which had been running for three months. She found that the project has a virtual team and this was her first time to work in a virtual team environment. She looked for advice regarding have to extend deadlines for many activities for the virtual team.

How can you help her?

(a) Activity durations may be extended to facilitate communications

(b) Activity durations may be extended to understand cultural differences

(c) Activity durations may be extended to develop protocols for resolving conflict

(d) All the above

Q9 - In which of the following processes is the issue log created for the first time?

(a) In the Manage Project process

(b) In the Direct and Manage Project Work process

(c) In the Perform Integrated Change Control process

(d) In the Develop Issue Log process

Q10 - Jacob is reviewing the project documents to get some information to use while performing the Manage Communications process Which of the following project documents may he select?

(a) Activity list

(b) Change log

(c) Duration estimates

(d) Quality metrics

Q11 - Which of the following areas of expertise will help the project manager in creating the schedule management plan?

(a) Cost estimating and budgeting

(b) Schedule development, management, and control

(c) Complying with applicable government and union regulations

(d) Contract types and contract documents

Q12 - Knowledge is commonly split into explicit and tacit. What is tacit knowledge?

(a) Tacit knowledge can be readily codified using words, pictures, and numbers

(b) Tacit knowledge is personal and difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it

(c) Tacit knowledge is what can be stored in a certain media

(d) All the above

Q13 - VK is working in the resource management planning and he is currently preparing a document that establishes the team values, agreements, and operating guidelines for the team. Which document is VK preparing?

(a) Resource calendar

(b) Project charter

(c) Team charter

(d) Physical resource assignments

Q14 - You have one opportunity captured in your project which results in cost savings. What should you do with these savings?

(a) The cost savings will be used to reward the project team

(b) The cost savings will be used to reward the project manager

(c) The cost savings will be added to the contingency amount

(d) None of the above

Q15 - Interpersonal and team skills are very important for a project manager. Which of the following tools is the most important for a project manager to consider when creating the communication management plan?

(a) Motivation

(b) Active listening

(c) Communication styles assessment

(d) Conflict management

Q16 - As a project manager, which of the following cases will drive you to update the stakeholder engagement plan?

(a) The start of a new phase of the project

(b) When outputs of the change management process require a review of stakeholder engagement strategies

(c) When there are changes to the organization structure

(d) All the above

Q17 - Jacob inspected one important deliverable in his project. After the inspections passed successfully, the product moved to the next process.

What is an inspection?

(a) An inspection focuses on the project status and tries to answer: Where are we up to?

(b) An inspection is the comparison of actual or planned products, processes, and practices to those of comparable organizations to identify best practices.

(c) An inspection is the examination of a work product to determine if it conforms to documented standards.

(d) None of the above

Q18 - Lucy is preparing for the execution of the Manage Communications process. She reviewed many documents to get the stakeholder risk thresholds and the list of established communication channels. Which of the following artifacts should hold this information?

(a) The organizational process assets

(b) The enterprise environmental factors

(c) The communication management plan

(d) The stakeholder engagement plan

Q19 - The following are the key benefits of the Close Project or Phase process, except:

(a) The project or phase information is archived

(b) Organizational team resources are released to pursue new endeavors

(c) Having visibility into the future project status with cost and schedule forecasts

(d) The planned work is completed

Q20 - Omar is collecting his project requirements and reviewing documents that may help him in doing his job. Which of the following documents can he consider in requirements gathering?

(a) The documented needs and expectations of the sponsor and other concerned stakeholders

(b) Stakeholder Register

(c) Lessons learned register

(d) All the above

Q21 - Which of the following project documents may be updated as a result of executing the Conduct Procurements process?

(a) Cost forecasts

(b) Risk report

(c) Milestone list

(d) Requirements documentation

Q22 - Sam is writing a contract for one of the sellers, he is not sure which is better to have: payments linked to project outputs or project inputs. How can you advise him?

(a) I will advise him that the contract that requires payments linked to project inputs rather than outputs and deliverables has better controls

(b) I will advise him that the contract that requires payments linked to project outputs and deliverables rather than inputs has better controls

(c) I will advise him that the contract has equal control when we link the payments to the outputs or inputs

(d) None of the above

Q23 - Question Set (1/2) - You were selected to manage an Information Technology project in a hospital to build a hospital management information system because of your experience in a similar project in another city. You started to estimate your activity durations to build your project schedule.

Which of the following estimate techniques will help you more if you want to exploit the historical data of your old project using statistical relationships that exist between the data and the number of beds in the hospital?

(a) Six-point estimating

(b) Parametric estimating

(c) Bottom-Up Estimating

(d) Analogous estimating

Q24 - Question Set (2/2) - You were selected to manage an Information Technology project in a hospital to build a hospital management information system because of your experience in a similar project in another city. You started to estimate your activity durations to build your project schedule.

Which of the following estimate techniques will help you more if you want to improve your estimates and accommodate the estimation uncertainty and risk for your selected activities?

(a) Three-point estimating

(b) Six-point estimating

(c) Analogous estimating

(d) Parametric estimating

Q25 - Which of the following items are expected to appear in the final lessons learned register?

(a) Information on risk and issue management

(b) Accuracy of the business case

(c) Stakeholder engagement

(d) All the above

Q26 - The following document will empower the project manager in your organization with the authority required to plan, execute, and control the project:

(a) Sponsor assignment letter

(b) Project management plan

(c) Project Charter

(d) Strong CV with similar projects success

Q27 - You have awarded a project after long negotiations with your customer. If the project is a professional services project, which of the following delivery methods may be used?

(a) Turnkey

(b) Buyer/services provider with subcontracting allowed

(c) Design build operate

(d) All the above

Q28 - Question Set 1/2 - Jason is the project manager for an important project in the TradingCO organization. He is managing a project with many vendors. Now, he is confirming the formal acceptance of the seller’s work and finalizing the open claims.

Which process is he executing?

(a) He is executing the Control Procurement process

(b) He is executing the Close Project or Phase process

(c) He is executing the Conduct Procurement process

(d) He is executing the Close Procurements process

Q29 - Question Set 2/2 - Jason is the project manager for an important project in the TradingCO organization. He is managing a project with many vendors. Now, he is confirming the formal acceptance of the seller’s work and finalizing the open claims.

Which of the following inputs will help him execute this process?

(a) Project charter, Project documents, Accepted deliverables, and Project management plan updates

(b) Project charter, Project documents, Accepted deliverables, Project management plan Updates, and Business documents

(c) Project documents, Accepted deliverables, Business documents, Agreements, and Procurement documentation

(d) Project documents, Accepted deliverables, Business documents, Agreements, and Change requests

Q30 - Jimmy is a project manager of the SAW project who has multiple vendors in his project. One of his vendors is Sam who claimed that his delivery is completed, but Jimmy denied it and submitted three features that are missing in Sam’s delivery. If such a claim is not resolved between Jimmy and Sam, what should be the next step?

(a) The next step for unresolved claims is to escalate to the steering meeting

(b) The next step for unresolved claims will be to follow the alternative dispute resolution procedure established in the contract

(c) The next step for unresolved claims is to go to arbitration

(d) The next step for unresolved claims is to escalate to the project sponsors for both the seller and the buyer

Q31 - ____________ is the amount of time that a schedule

activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.

(a) The lead time

(b) The lag time

(c) The total float

(d) The free float

Q32 - (Question Set 1/2) - You have recruited a service company called Netal to execute one of your projects due to the limited resource capacity of your organization and the time constraint imposed by some business objectives.

What is the right way to establish an agreement between your organization and Netal?

(a) Develop a project charter

(b) Create a formal contract

(c) Record the minutes of meeting where we agreed on the scope of the project

(d) Define a strong project management plan

Q33 - (Question Set 2/2) - You have recruited a service company called Netal to execute one of your projects due to the limited resource capacity of your organization and the time constraint imposed by some business objectives.

Who should develop the project charter for your organization?

(a) The project sponsor will develop the project charter

(b) Netal’s project manager will develop the required project charter

(c) No need for the project charter as the project scope is outsourced

(d) None of the above

Q34 - Which of the following are considered inputs to the Collect Requirements Process?

(a) Requirements documentation

(b) Project scope statement

(c) Business documents

(d) Requirements traceability matrix

Q35 - Abdullah was working on his project schedule with his team leader and he adjusted the activities of a schedule such that the requirements for resources in the project do not exceed certain predefined resource limits.

He was informing his team leader that this technique will not change the project’s critical path and will not delay the completion date. Which technique did Abdullah use?

(a) Fast tracking

(b) Resource smoothing

(c) Resource leveling

(d) Crashing

Q36 - All the following tools may help you close your project phase, except:

(a) Decision Making

(b) Expert judgment

(c) Data analysis

(d) Meetings

Q37 - Mia has executed the Develop Project Charter process. Which of the following may be included in the project charter developed by Mia?

(a) Key stakeholder list

(b) Summary milestone schedule

(c) Project exit criteria

(d) All the above

Q38 - John, the team leader, wants some help from his project manager Linda with planning good team building activities that he can conduct for his team. What is right answer for Linda?

(a) Preparing an event designed to improve interpersonal relationships

(b) Watching a 15-minute video focusing on good team work stories

(c) Plan a trip for one day that include team interactions and group playing games

(d) All the above

Q39 - When estimating the activity duration for your project, you should consider that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. What is this concept called?

(a) Student Syndrome

(b) Procrastination

(c) Parkinson’s Law

(d) Hygiene factors

Q40 - As a project manager, where do you use the Tuckman ladder?

(a) The Tuckman ladder is used to measure the team performance

(b) The Tuckman ladder is used to describe team development

(c) The Tuckman ladder is used to manage the team behaviors

(d) The Tuckman ladder empowers the team

Q41 - All the following interpersonal and team skills can help the project manager in executing the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process, except:

(a) Motivation

(b) Political awareness

(c) Observation/conversation

(d) Conflict management

Q42 - You executed the Identify Stakeholders process and generated the process outputs that include an update to the requirements management plan as a component of the project management plan. Why do you think this update may be required?

(a) This update may be required to add the stakeholders’ names and roles in the requirements management plan

(b) This update may be required because the identified stakeholders can impact how requirements activities will be planned, tracked, and reported

(c) This update is not required because the identified stakeholders will not change the requirement management plan

(d) None of the above

Q43 - Repetto is performing qualitative risk assessment. In addition to the risk impact, probability, and priority, he also assessed the risk propinquity.

Which of the following best describes the risk propinquity?

(a) Propinquity is the degree to which the risk owner (or owning organization) is able to control the risk’s outcome

(b) Propinquity is the degree to which a risk is perceived to matter by one or more stakeholders

(c) Propinquity is the extent to which the risk is related to other individual project risks

(d) Propinquity is the period of time before the risk might have an impact on one or more project objectives

Q44 - Abdullah has recently received approval from the project sponsor on the project charter. The charter includes criteria that define the conditions to be met in order to close or to cancel the project or phase. What is the name of these criteria?

(a) Closing criteria

(b) Cancelling criteria

(c) Project exit criteria

(d) Project kick-off criteria

Q45 - You are executing the Control Quality process and you started to track the resources issues you discovered in the issue log. Which of the following issues may be tracked by you during this process?

(a) Team conflicts

(b) Delays in raw material supplies, or low grades of raw material

(c) Missing a business analyst

(d) All the above

Q46 - The following are valid statements describing the approved change requests, except:

(a) The approved change request may be a corrective action, a preventive action, or a defect repair

(b) The approved change requests can modify the formally controlled project management plan components

(c) The approved change requests should be implemented as part of the Perform Integrated Change Control process

(d) The approved change requests can modify the formally controlled project documents

Q47 - Jack spent a long time with his project team to identify and analyze risks and develop risk responses, then risk responses were agreed upon and documented in the risk register and risk report, but no action is taken to manage the risk. Which process was not managed properly?

(a) The Identify Risks process

(b) The Plan Risk Management process

(c) The Implement Risk Responses process

(d) None of the above

Q48 - How can the resource breakdown structure help in executing the Manage Project Knowledge process?

(a) The resource breakdown structure includes information on the composition of the team and may help understand what knowledge is available as a group and what knowledge is missing

(b) The resource breakdown structure includes recommendations to motivate people to share knowledge

(c) The resource breakdown structure has nothing to do with the Manage Project Knowledge process

(d) None of the above

Q49 - Lee is the project manager of the KMC project.