The document provides sample questions and explanations for preparing for the PMP certification exam, emphasizing that it is not endorsed by PMI and should only serve as a reference. It covers various project management scenarios, including change requests, process improvement, confidence intervals, quality audits, virtual team challenges, and resource allocation in a weak matrix organization. Key points include the importance of documentation for change approvals and the necessity of increasing sample sizes to decrease confidence intervals.

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3. 1. You are a project manager working for a fast moving consumer goods company. You
are currently managing a process improvement project for your organization. You
have just obtained approval for a change request for a defect repair you have issued.
What should be your next step?
A. Perform the defect repair in the Direct and Manage ProjectWork process
B. Perform the defect repair in the Monitor and Control ProjectWork proces
C. Document the approval in the change log
D. Document the approval in the issue log
Hint:You must document the approval before carrying out the defect
repairs.
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4. The correct answer is C
Explanation:You must document the approval
before carrying out the defect repairs.A
change log is used to document changes that
occur during a project.
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5. 2. You are currently performing process analysis for your project and you are following
the steps outlined in the process improvement plan to identify needed improvements.
You are examining problems that have surfaced, constraints experienced, and non-value-
added activities identified during process execution. You are analyzing a sample of
readings from the processes. If you need to decrease your confidence interval for your
measurements, what should you do regarding the sample size you have selected?
A. You should increase the sample size to decrease the confidence interval
B. You should decrease the sample size to decrease the confidence interval
C. You should keep the same sample size since it does not have any effect on the
confidence interval
D. You should keep the same sample size but decrease the number of measurements
in the sample
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HINT: Confidence interval is the range of statistical values within which a result is expected to
fall with a specific probability.

6. The correct answer isA
Confidence interval is the range of statistical values
within which a result is expected to fall with a specific
probability.A confidence interval (CI) is a particular kind
of interval estimate of a population parameter. Instead of
estimating the parameter by a single value, an interval
likely to include the parameter is given. In this way,
confidence intervals are used to indicate the reliability of
an estimate.The smaller the confidence interval, the
more accurate the measurement is.Therefore, if we want
to decrease the confidence interval, i.e. we want a closer
estimate, we need to increase the sample size.
Answer and Explanation

7. 2. You are currently performing process analysis for your project and you are
following the steps outlined in the process improvement plan to identify needed
improvements. You are examining problems that have surfaced, constraints
experienced, and non-value-added activities identified during process execution. You
are analyzing a sample of readings from the processes. If you need to decrease your
confidence interval for your measurements, what should you do regarding the sample
size you have selected?
A. You should issue a change request
B. You should use your legitimate power to obtain the
required resources
C. You should convince your project sponsor to release
the necessary resources
B. You should negotiate with the functional manager
*Hint: Confidence interval is the range of statistical values within which a result is expected
to fall with a specific probability.
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8. The correct answer is A
Confidence interval is the range of statistical values within
which a result is expected to fall with a specific probability.
A confidence interval (CI) is a particular kind of interval
estimate of a population parameter. Instead of estimating
the parameter by a single value, an interval likely to include
the parameter is given. In this way, confidence intervals are
used to indicate the reliability of an estimate.The smaller
the confidence interval, the more accurate the
measurement is.Therefore, if we want to decrease the
confidence interval, i.e. we want a closer estimate, we need
to increase the sample size.
Answer and Explanation

9. 3. You are currently performing quality assurance on your project by conducting a
QualityAudit.Which of the following is not an objective of a QualityAudit?
A. Share the good practices introduced or implemented in similar projects in the
organization and/or industry
B. Document the effectiveness of the Risk Management process
C. Identify all the good/best practices being implemented
D. Identify all the gaps/shortcomings
Hint:Think about the specific knowledge area in which you conduct the Perform Quality Assurance
process.
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10. The correct answer is B
The Perform QualityAssurance process is
conducted in the Quality Management knowledge
area, not the Risk Management knowledge area.
Although documenting the effectiveness of the Risk
Management process is an important activity, it is
performed in the Risk Management knowledge
area, not the Quality Management area.All
remaining answer choices are specific objectives of
the QualityAudit.
Answer and Explanation

11. 4. You have been assigned as the project manager for an upcoming
telecommunications project in a developing country. Due to cost issues, you cannot
take the entire project team from your local country to the country where the
project will be executed. You take a few of the project team members with you and
plan to hire the rest of the team from the local job market. You are also considering
building a virtual team to get technical support from the country of your origin.
Which of the following problems are you likely to face as a result of having a virtual
team?
A.Virtual team members lack motivation
B.The use of a virtual team may create noise
C.Virtual team members cannot communicate frequently
D.Technical assistance cannot be provided by the virtual team members
Hint:Virtual teams are groups of people with a shared goal who fulfill their roles with little
or no time spent meeting face-to-face?
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12. The correct answer is B
The use of virtual teams creates new possibilities when
acquiring project team members.Virtual teams can be
defined as groups of people with a shared goal who fulfill
their roles with little or no time spent meeting face-to-
face.The availability of electronic communication such as
e-mail, audio conferencing, web-based meetings, and
video conferencing has made such teams feasible. Noise is
anything that interferes with the transmission and
understanding of the message (e.g. distance, unfamiliar
technology, lack of background information, etc.). Noise
is the biggest concern for virtual teams.
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13. 5. You are working in a weak matrix organization. You are having problems acquiring
the project human resources you were promised earlier during the planning phase of
the project. The substitute resources being offered to you do not have the skills
required to perform the project work.What should you do to resolve this problem?
A. You should issue a change request
B. You should use your legitimate power to obtain the required resources
C. You should convince your project sponsor to release the necessary resource
D. You should negotiate with the functional manager
Hint: Determine which of the available choices can actually help you obtain the required
resources.
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14. The correct answer is D
You only issue a change request when you require a
change to the project baselines, which is not the case
here.You can use your legitimate power to obtain the
required resources if you were in a projectized
organization, but as you are not, this choice is incorrect.
Your project sponsor is responsible for the project
funding and does not have any significant influence over
the project human resource decisions in a weak matrix
organization.As the resources are controlled by their
functional managers in a weak matrix organization,
negotiating with the respective functional managers might
resolve the issue.
Answer and Explanation