Questions from Chapter Six | Passing the PMP Exam: How to Take It and Pass It: How to Take It and Pass It

You are a PMP-certified project manager who works for a company that is trying to get all its project managers certified. You are asked by some of your non-certified colleagues for guidance on how to take the exam. You should:

	A.	Refer them to the main library for project management information.
	B.	Tell them that you are far too busy to help them right now.
	C.	Write a short guide to taking the exam and hand it out to everyone.
	D.	Give them guidance about the various resources available.

You have been with the organization for a short time, and you find what you think are clear violations of the PMP Code that occur with frequency. As a PMP, you should:

	A.	Move to another company.
	B.	Write down the infractions, discuss them discreetly with other PMPs, and decide how to handle the situation.
	C.	Confront the other PMPs in the hall and make sure that you do it loudly and often.
	D.	Let the situation take care of itself.

In this same organization, you hear rumors constantly about a certain PMP failing to live up to the PMP Code. You should:

	A.	Confront him/her immediately.
	B.	Ignore the rumors.
	C.	Gather as much information as you can before proceeding.
	D.	Make sure you pass the rumors along.

You should ________ the information you have so that you can present it to others if that becomes necessary.

	A.	Write down
	B.	Memorize
	C.	Modify
	D.	Hide

You believe you have found someone who is not disclosing all of the costs involved with an upcoming project. Rather, this PMP is constructing a WBS that does not include all the tasks necessary to get the project done. You should:

	A.	Ignore it because the PMP is a friend of yours.
	B.	Call PMI home headquarters.
	C.	Confront the other project manager immediately.
	D.	Talk to the PMP about the WBS to see if you can rework it to reflect actual costs of the project.

You are looking for classes that will help you professionally. There are a series of one-day seminars that you can take that will help you. This series is presented as a set with the tuition for the set of five inclusive of all of them. You are unable to attend one of the days of the set. The topic covered that day is important to you and you have already taken the other four days. What should you do?

	A.	Sign up for all five days again.
	B.	Put it in your resume that you have attended the set.
	C.	Put only the classes you have actually attended in your resume.
	D.	Do self-learning about the class you missed.

You have been assigned to a major project in another country. Before you go, you check with your providing organization to make sure you understand all of the constraints of working in the other country. When you get there, you settle into a routine and do excellent work, completing the project within 5% of the planned budget and schedule. To show their appreciation, the sponsors of the project, who are wealthy men in their own country, send you an expensive gift to, as they put it, "Say thank you for your hard work." It turns out that this is a fairly common practice in that country but is against both ethics and regulations in your own country. What should you do?

	A.	Send it back.
	B.	Take it and go home where you can enjoy the gift because you did such an outstanding job.
	C.	Say nothing but leave the gift in your hotel room when you leave the country.
	D.	Talk to your management about the problem and get them involved.

You are writing an article about risk. In the middle of the article, you use a statistic from a well-known report that is the standard for explaining risk. Everyone writing in the area of risk knows the report. Because the report is so well known, you:

	A.	Assume that everyone knows where the statistic comes from.
	B.	Hope nobody notices.
	C.	Cite the report.
	D.	Let someone complain.

Offering an estimate that you know will be changed shortly after the contract is signed is:

	A.	Bad practice
	B.	Unprofessional practice
	C.	Bad for both the buyer and seller
	D.	All of the above

10.

Estimates are:

	A.	Always correct
	B.	Written in stone
	C.	Estimates
	D.	Easy to do

11.

Estimates should:

	A.	Never be changed after you write them
	B.	Be the closest to correct as you can get
	C.	Be forgotten as you get into the project
	D.	Be changed immediately when a contract is signed

12.

You have just been assigned to a project that has been ongoing for more than three months. In looking over the project plan, you see deliverables that seem to be impossible to deliver to the client in the specified time frame. You should:

	A.	Stop everything until you have talked this problem over with your project team.
	B.	Keep on going.
	C.	Talk to the sponsor and explain your concerns for the accuracy of the schedule.
	D.	Write down your concerns and keep them in a project file.

13.

The final arbiter of any service scope change is the:

	A.	Project manager
	B.	Project team
	C.	Delivery managers
	D.	Customer

14.

When the project was begun, both the customer and the project manager understood that it was likely that some service scope changes would occur. A few weeks into the project, some services need to be added. Because you, as the project manager, and the customer already have talked over the possibility of this happening, you should follow standard scope change procedure that includes:

	A.	A written request for service scope change
	B.	A tacit understanding agreement so that you can make all appropriate changes
	C.	A new SOW
	D.	Verbal assurances that you will be able to make the service scope change quickly

15.

The objectives of the project are agreed to in the ________ phase of the project.

	A.	Execution
	B.	Planning
	C.	Closing
	D.	Control

16.

If the objectives of the project are changed, these changes are accepted only with the consent of the ________.

	A.	Project manager
	B.	Stakeholders
	C.	Customer
	D.	Project team

17.

You are a project manager sitting in a meeting with executives of the company for which you work as a contract manager. These executives include the president of the company who begins the meeting by specifically stating, "What is said in this room at this meeting stays in this room. There are no exceptions to this." This is a clear statement from the president, so you do not report on some issues discussed in the meeting when you file your weekly report to your manager. The manager calls you, asking why you have not filed a complete report, and you reply that the president specifically said that no one outside of the people in the room should hear the information. Your manager replies that both parties have signed a confidentiality agreement, so it is OK for you to report. What do you do to keep both parties satisfied?

	A.	Tell your manager whatever he or she wants to know.
	B.	Have a major lapse of memory.
	C.	Get written permission from the president to give out the information.
	D.	Stall as long as you can, hoping that your manager will forget the whole thing.

18.

You are a contracted PM and are working within an organization. The sponsor of the project comes to you and asks you for some extra work not within the agreed project plan. She makes it clear that she expects it to be done without a change in cost and that this is something that happens often in projects that she sponsors, even suggesting that your company will be removed from the project if you do not comply. Now what?

	A.	There is no single answer to this question.
	B.	Give in because if you do not, you may lose the project.
	C.	Check with your engagement manager before doing anything else.
	D.	Run.

19.

The president of a major international firm had just arrived in our city. During our first meetings to go over project expectations, the conversation turned to his favorite sports and the one that he followed was soccer (European football). It just so happened that the U.S. national team was playing a World Cup qualifying game in our city that evening. I bought tickets and drove him to the game, which he enjoyed immensely. He said it was good to see his home country's sport and was gracious in his thanks. Was I right or wrong to do this?

	A.	Even by revealing this now I should be flayed and sent to jail.
	B.	Because nothing was gained except an enjoyable experience, it was acceptable.
	C.	One little gift could lead to another.
	D.	Did the U.S. win?