GCPM GIAC Certified Project Manager Certification Practice Test Questions and Answers

You are the project manager of the HJK project for your organization. You and the project team have created risk responses for many of the risk events in the project. A teaming agreement is an example of what risk response?

You work as a Project Manager for PassGuide Inc. You are developing the schedule for your project. Your project deals with the construction of a new building for PassGuide Inc. You want to break the project into small, individual, and manageable components. Which of the following tasks will you perform in the above scenario?

Sam is the project manager of a construction project in south Florida. This area of the United States is prone to hurricanes during certain parts of the year. As part of the project plan Sam and the project team acknowledge the possibility of hurricanes and the damage the hurricane could have on the project's deliverables, the schedule of the project, and the overall cost of the project. Once Sam and the project stakeholders acknowledge the risk of the hurricane they go on planning the project as if the risk is not likely to happen. What type of risk response is Sam using?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You report the project details directly to the vice president and the administrator of your organization. In which of the following types of organization structures are you working?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Your project is in a situation in which a party interested in trading an asset is unable to do so. Which of the following types of risks must have occurred in the above scenario?

You are the project manager for the HGQ Project. You and the project team are currently working on the Identify Risks process. When does this project typically happen in a project?

You are the project manager for your organization. Marcy, a project stakeholder, is demanding that you add some deliverables to your project scope for free. You explain to Marcy that it's too late in the project execution to consider adding these deliverables, as most of the software your project team is creating is nearly done. Marcy and you escalate the issue to management. Management decides that you will add the deliverables to the project scope if Marcy pays a significant fee and allows you additional time to complete the project. What conflict resolution method has management offered?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You have to work on an agreement that creates and defines obligations between two or more parties. Which of the following types of agreement will you work on?

The figure given below demonstrates the communication model for a project. What role does the component D play in the communication model?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to standardize your department's personnel resources to facilitate planning and controlling of project work. Which of the following components of project management will help you accomplish the task?

Which of the following diagrams is described in the statement below?

"It allows comparison of the workload with detailed resource availabilities. It also enables roll-up of both resource assignments and availability data to a higher level."

Which of the following is a document that covers the work that will be done, how the work will be compensated, and any penalties for noncompliance?

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It is a tool that defines a project and groups the project's discrete work elements in a way that helps organize and define the total work scope of the project."

Which of the following is described in the statement below? "It is a group of sequential and related project phases that are defined by the organization and control needs of the management or organizations concerned with the project, the nature of the project itself, and the application area."

You are the project manager of a large construction project. Part of the project involves the wiring of the electricity in the building your project is creating. You and the project team determine the electrical work is too dangerous to perform yourself so you hire an electrician to perform the work for the project. This is an example of what type of risk response?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on directing and managing the execution of your project. Which of the following is the most likely outcome as part of this phase of the project?

In which of the following contract types, the seller is reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and receives a fixed fee payment which is calculated as a percentage of the initial estimated project costs?

Which of the following theories describes the statement below?

"It states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction, while a separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction."

Which of the following are the characteristics of a project?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

You are the project manager for your organization and are planning the project work with your project team. You are currently breaking down the project scope into work packages to determine an accurate time and cost estimate. What document are you and the project team creating?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Management has selected the team members for your team in advance. Which of the following techniques of the Acquire project team has been used in the above scenario?

In which process group does the project manager and the performing organization choose the vendors the project will use?

You are the project manager for PassGuide Inc. Your project has a budget at completion of $950,000 and is 45 percent complete, though the project should be 50 percent complete. The project has spent $450,897 to reach the 45 percent complete milestone.

What is the project's cost performance index?

Which of the following components of communication is described in the statement below?

"It describes the pitch, tone, and inflections of a message that affect what the message means."

You are the project manager for your organization and are planning the project work with your project team. You are currently breaking down the project scope into work packages to determine an accurate time and cost estimate. What document are you and the project team creating?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to calculate the probability of loss due to cost overrun. Which of the following terms describes the above metric?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. A new project has been proposed to change all keyboards of every computer in your organization. There are 1,600 keyboards that will need to be removed and replaced with wireless keyboards. What document will you first need to start this project?

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It contains a complete set of indexed contract documentation. It is prepared to be included with the final project files."

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

______ (also called contractor conferences, vendor conferences, and pre-bid conferences) are meetings with prospective sellers prior to preparation of a bid or proposal.

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Which of the following stages of the process group, if not performed well by you, is unlikely that the project will be successful in meeting the business needs?

Jeff works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He has to adjust the amount of time between two activities. He wants to delay the start of the second activity by 14 hours. Which of the following scheduling components will Jeff add to the second activity?

Which of the following processes is performed to develop a detailed description of the project and product?

Lamont is the project manager of a project that has recently finished the final project deliverables. The project customer has signed off on the project deliverable and Lamont has a few administrative closure activities to complete. In the project, there were several large risks that could have wrecked the project but Lamont and his project team found some creative methods to resolve the risks without affecting the project costs or project end date. What should Lamont do with the risk responses he identified during the project's monitoring and controlling process?

You are the project manager for your organization and would like to use a time and materials contract for a small project. What must a time and materials contract have to safeguard the project?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on the control schedule process. Which of the following techniques will you use to find ways to bring project activities that are behind into alignment with the plan?

You are the project manager of the NNH project. In this project you have created a contingency response that the cost performance index should be less than 0.93. The NHH project has a budget at completion of $945,000 and is 45 percent complete - though the project should be 49 percent complete. The project has spent $455,897 to reach the 45 percent complete milestone. What is the project's cost performance index?

Which of the following describes the statement below?

"It allocates continuous monitoring of the schedule, permits the project manager to track the critical activities, and alerts the project manager to the possibility that non-critical activities may be delayed beyond their total float, thus creating a new critical path and delaying project completion."

How many steps are there in the Plan stage of the PDCA cycle?

You are the project manager of the GHY Project for your functional organization. Another project manager that uses some of your project resources has asked that you allow the resources you both share to always be available for her project on every Thursday. The only conflict you have with this request that on Thursday mornings you have a regularly scheduled status meeting. You agree to the request and decide to move the status meeting to Tuesday morning going forward in your project.

What project plan must you update to reflect this change?

Which of the following types of organization structures represents the particular and specific organization that has been built through the utilization of an organizational structure?

Which of the following costs is measured to assess quality?

Amy works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. She wants to determine those risks that may affect the project. Which of the following processes should Amy use to accomplish the task?

How many stages are there in the project life cycle?

Which of the following techniques is described in the statement below?

"It is an early warning project management tool that allows managers to discover and control errors before they become unmanageable."

Which of the following documents refers specifically to the input output mechanism that serves the purpose of providing a narrative description of the sum of the scope of the project?

In which of the following process groups is the project manager responsible for authorizing and applying organization resources to the subsequent project activities?

Which of the following is the method used to convey a message?

You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a project to develop a machine which produces auto components. You have put together your project team and have begun executing your project. Recently, a conflict arose between two of your team members about a feature that will be incorporated in the design of the machine. Which of the following is the MOST APPROPRIATE technique to resolve this conflict?

You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are working on a project that has a budget of $805,000 and you have completed 45 percent of the project work. Due to some errors, however, you have actually spent $430,000 of the budget. Management wants to know the project's cost performance index. Which of the following values will you report?

Which of the following elements facilitates people to know large amounts of information as a picture rather than a table of names and numbers?

Which of the following are outputs of the Perform Integrated Change control process?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Which of the following is described in the statement below?

"It is a form of discussion held in person or by electronic means. Its goal is to come to a written agreement regarding a business matter."

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Management has asked you to work with the key project stakeholder to analyze the risk events you have identified in the project. They would like you to analyze the project risks with a goal of improving the project's performance as a whole.

What approach can you use to achieve the goal of improving the project's performance through risk analysis with your project stakeholders?

Which of the following are the characteristics of the project life cycle?

Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

Which of the following models is used to determine, implement, monitor, control, and maintain Information Security Management System or ISMS?

Which of the following is a key input to the processes within the project?