PGMP Online Practice Questions and Answers

Donna is the project manager for her organization. She is preparing a plan to manage changes to the project should changes be requested. Her change management plan defines the process for documenting, tracking, and determining if the changes should be approved or declined. What system is considered the parent of the change control system documented in Donna's plan?

A. Quality Management System

B. Change Control System

C. Project Management Information System

D. Integrated Change Control System

Your program has a budget at completion of $1,550,000 and is expected to last one year.

Currently your program is 45 percent complete and has spent $725,000. According to the program schedule you are actually to be fifty percent complete by this time, but due to some vendor delays your program is running just a bit late.

Based on this information which is performing worse, the cost or schedule?

A. The schedule is performing worse because the SPI is .90

B. The cost is performing worse because the EAC is $1,611,111.

C. The schedule is performing worse because the SV is -$27,500.

D. The cost is performing worse because the CPI is .96.

You are the program manager of the JNH Program. Tom, a project manager in your program, has just completed his project and is ready to officially close his project. You agree that Tom's project is completed. What role do you play in Tom's project closure?

A. You must ensure that the project sponsor closes the project.

B. You must ensure that that the projects within the program have been closed at the project level.

C. You must close the project before operations closes the project.

D. You must ensure that the program management team closes the project for the project manager.

All of the following are resources that need to be monitored and controlled except for which one?

A. Equipment

B. Staff

C. Quality

D. Facilities

Mary has just completed a large program for her organization. What should Mary now do with the program records that she has created throughout the program?

A. The program records should be archived with the program customer.

B. The program records should be archived with the program sponsor.

C. The program records should be archived as part of organizational process assets.

D. The program records should be archived as part of enterprise environmental factors.

You are the program manager of the NHQ Program for your organization. Your program is nearing the completion of one of its major phases and there are several resources that should be released at this time. What program management plan will guide you to release of the program resources and transfer the resources and benefits to operations within the organization?

A. Resource management plan

B. Transition plan

C. Communications management plan

D. Benefits management plan

Company A acquires company B, which leads to a two-year program to integrate the processes and systems. Company B uses a different project management process, and the company's staff is unhappy about the acquisition. As a result, company B's project team fails to provide status and cost data in a format that conforms to the program standards.

What should the program manager do first?

A. Inform the stakeholders of this issue as soon as possible

B. Change the program standards, aligning them with the project standards

C. Work with the reports provided to extract the required information

D. Remind the project manager of the relevant program standards

The program manager takes over a poorly performing program. After a review of the documentation and interviews with the program sponsor, stakeholders, and program constituents, the program manager realizes that the program is not aligned with the corporate/organizational goals. The program manager must realign the constituent projects and components to meet the program's needs.

What action should the program manager take to realign the program?

A. Assess the program schedule and determine how to maintain all projects and components within the program.

B. Discuss the situation with the program stakeholders and let them decide which projects to accelerate and which to close.

C. Discuss the situation with the program sponsor(s) and let the sponsor(s) make the decision as to which projects to accelerate and which to close.

D. Develop a change request to present to the governance board, accelerate some projects, close some projects, and reassign some resources.

The risk manager completes risk response planning. The risk manager believes that to effectively address all eventualities, an additional action is required. What should the program manager do next?

A. Transfer a percentage of known risks.

B. Establish a contingency reserve.

C. Avoid known critical project threats.

D. Perform a final review of project scope.

Based on its board's mandate, an organization drafts a new business strategy to meet future challenges, put the business on track, and meet growth expectations. Key to this are upgrading the IT infrastructure and strategic direction to transition the computing platform from onsite to cloud-based, thereby optimizing costs, and providing scalability, performance and high availability.

How should the program manager use the program mission statement to engage program stakeholders?

A. Publish the program mission statement and interact with operational managers and stakeholders to ensure that programs receive appropriate operational support.

B. Review, capture and document the organization's current state, its new strategic direction, and how the program will support its mission

C. Incorporate the names of key stakeholders and their respective influence, power, and authority into the program mission statement.

D. Update the program mission statement to address strategic business goals, and the influence of stakeholders' interests, concerns, and expectations.