Test your basic knowledge |

Subjects : certifications, capm
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.






2. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.






3. A schedule network analysis technique used to determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on various logical network paths in the project schedule network - and to determine the minimum total project duration. Early start and finish dates are calc






4. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.






5. A schedule compression technique in which cost and schedule tradeoffs are analyzed to determine how to obtain the greatest amount of compression for the least incremental cost. Crashing only works for activities where additional resources will shorte






6. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.






7. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.






8. Process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller - and awarding a contract






9. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.






10. Includes the processes required to purchase or acquire products - services - or results needed from outside the project team.






11. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.






12. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.






13. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.






14. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.






15. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.






16. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.






17. Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers






18. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.






19. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.






20. List of risks includes those that pose the greatest threat or present the greatest opportunity to the project together with a measure of their impact.






21. Meetings held to assess project status and/or progress.






22. They possess a blend of functional and projectized characteristics. Weak matrices maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization - and the Project Manager's role is more that of a coordinator or expediter than that of a manager. Si






23. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.






24. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas - or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts which data can be addressed later in Perform qualitative and quantitative






25. Risks that remain after planned responses have been implemented - as well as those that have been deliberately accepted.






26. The planned dates to perform schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones. Includes planned start and finish dates for the project's activities - milestones - work packages - planning packages - and control accounts. This






27. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project






28. Refers to the centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic business objectives. Portfolio management ensures that the portfolios are reviewed to ascertain that resources are allocated as per priority and the allocation is con






29. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.






30. They involve measuring value or attractiveness to the project owner. Includes considering the decision criteria and a means to calculate value under uncertainty.






31. Describes the need - justification - requirements - and current boundaries for the project.






32. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming item into compliance with requirements or specifications. It is a frequent cause of project overruns in most application areas.






33. An accepted action performed to bring projected future project performance in line with the project plan. These actions have to be documented.






34. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.






35. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.






36. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project






37. Uses a project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into their potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Project simulation uses computer models and estimates of risk and are






38. Includes all those activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. Training can be formal or informal.






39. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions






40. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.






41. Describes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination and ultimate disposition of project information. It includes identifying stakeholders - planning communication - distributing information - mana






42. A formal procedure for authorizing project work to ensure that work is done by the identified organization at the right time and in proper sequence.






43. An analytical technique used to determine the basic underlying reason that causes a variance or a defect or a risk. Root cause may underlie more than one variance or defect or risk. Root cause analysis is done as part of corrective action - Helps ide






44. A -specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives.






45. A general management technique used to determine whether a particular work can be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from outside sources.






46. Risk Audits examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with identified risks and their root causes - as well as the effectiveness of the risk management process.






47. Responses to emerging risks that was previously unidentified or accepted. These were not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event.






48. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.






49. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.






50. In a projectized organization - most of the organization's resources are involved in project work - and Project Managers have a great deal of independence and authority.