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Falcon Training – PMP® & CAPM® Exam Preparation Course
Chapter 1-3: Project Framework Review
Questions
1. What is the primary role of the portfolio manager?
A. To deliver the unique product, service, or result of the project
B. To provide project governance and sponsorship
C. To assess all potential projects against known organizational strategic goals
D. To directly manage people assigned to several different projects
2. What is the primary purpose of the PMBOK® Guide?
A. To provide a flexible methodology for all projects, no matter how large or small
B. To identify a project management framework based on what is generally
recognized as good practice
C. To define a prescriptive approach to managing projects
D. To present all the known project management information in a concise manner
3. What is the best description of rolling wave planning?
A. Project management planning activities that become more detailed as you move
through the project
B. Only planning the first phase of a project
C. Planning the entire project before starting execution
D. Only planning the next phase in a project
4. What is the relationship between successful projects and an organization’s strategic
goals?
A. There is no relationship between the two, because they are separate and distinct
parts of an organization.
B. The successful delivery of projects can be a strategic enabler and deliver strategic
goals.
C. The project selection methodology will determine what an organization’s strategic
goals are.
D. Projects deliver programs, which in turn deliver portfolios, which in turn deliver
strategy.
5. What is the best role for a project management office in an organization with a low
level of project management maturity?
A. Directive
B. Controlling
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C. Supportive
D. Enabling
6. What is the name for a group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to
obtain a synergy not found by managing them individually?
A. Multi projects
B. Portfolio
C. Program
D. Strategy
7. The PMBOK® Guide process groups are based upon which life cycle model?
A. The Check-Plan-Do-Act cycle
B. The Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle
C. The Plan-Check-Act-Do cycle
D. The Do-Check-Act-Plan cycle
8. How many processes are there in the Risk Management knowledge area?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
D. Seven
9. How many processes are there in the Monitoring and Controlling process group?
A. 9
B. 10
C. 12
D. 13
10. Which knowledge area only has a Closing process?
A. Cost Management
B. Initiating
C. Resource Management
D. Integration Management
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Chapter 1-3: Project Framework Review
Answers
1. Correct answer: C
A. Incorrect: The project manager takes responsibility for delivering the product,
service, or result of a project.
B. Incorrect: It may be that on occasion a portfolio manager may provide some
governance and sponsorship advice, but it is not the portfolio manager’s primary
role.
C. Correct: The portfolio manager operates at a strategic level within the organization.
D. Incorrect: It would be the program manager or even a functional manager who
would take responsibility for managing people on several projects, depending on
the type of organizational structure in place.
2. Correct Answer: B
A. Incorrect: The PMBOK® Guide does not provide a methodology. You are able to
build a methodology from the contents of the PMBOK® Guide via the process of
tailoring.
B. Correct: The PMBOK® Guide collects and presents what is generally considered to
be good practice across a wide range of industries and presents this information as
a framework rather than a methodology.
C. Incorrect: The PMBOK® Guide emphasizes in several places that, through the
process of tailoring, you should only take from the PMBOK® Guide what is
appropriate to your project.
D. Incorrect: The PMBOK® Guide does not claim to present all known project
management information, only that which is generally considered good practice
across a wide range of industries.
3. Correct Answer: A
A. Correct: Rolling wave planning acknowledges that you will iteratively plan the
project as you move along the project life cycle.
B. Incorrect: Only planning the first phase of a project is typical for phased projects,
because there may be an important milestone between phases that prevents
further planning.
C. Incorrect: Planning the entire project before starting is a very rare occurrence and
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probably only suitable for small, easily defined projects.
D. Incorrect: Iteratively planning a phase of a project is not an example of rolling
wave planning.
4. Correct Answer: B
A. Incorrect: There is a strong relationship between successful projects and an
organization achieving its strategic goals.
B. Correct: By selecting projects that deliver strategic goals and then successfully
delivering these projects, an organization can achieve its strategic goals.
C. Incorrect: It is the organization’s strategy that dictates which projects get selected.
D. Incorrect: There is not always a direct linear connection between projects,
programs, portfolios, and strategy.
5. Correct answer: C
A. Incorrect: Directive project management offices are generally best in an
organization with a high level of project management maturity.
B. Incorrect: Controlling project management offices are generally a sign of an
organization improving its organizational project management maturity.
C. Correct: Supportive project management offices are generally a sign of a low level
of project management maturity, because they do not support a lot of complexity.
D. Incorrect: This is a made-up term and is not from the PMBOK® Guide.
6. Correct Answer: C
A. Incorrect: Multi projects is a made-up term that does not describe a coordinated
approach to interrelated projects.
B. Incorrect: Portfolios are groups of projects related only by the fact that they are
being performed by a single organization.
C. Correct: A program is a group of projects related in some way and that are
managed to achieve benefits not gained by managing them independently.
D. Incorrect: Strategy is the organization’s future direction and how it is going to
achieve this.
7. Correct Answer: B
A. Incorrect: The correct order requires planning to come first and checking to come
after doing.
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B. Correct: The Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle by Shewhart and Deming describes an
iterative approach to management.
C. Incorrect: The correct order requires checking to come after doing and before
acting.
D. Incorrect: The correct order requires planning to come first.
8. Correct Answer: D
A. Incorrect: There are seven processes, not three, in the Risk Management
knowledge area.
B. Incorrect: There are seven processes, not four, in the Risk Management knowledge
area.
C. Incorrect: There are seven processes, not five, in the Risk Management knowledge
area.
D. Correct: The seven processes in the Risk Management knowledge area are Plan Risk
Management, Identify Risks, Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis, Perform Quantitative
Risk Analysis, Plan Risk Responses, Implement Risk Responses, and Monitor Risks.
9. Correct Answer: C
A. Incorrect: There are 12 processes, not 9, in the Monitoring and Controlling process
group.
B. Incorrect: There are 12 processes, not 10, in the Monitoring and Controlling process
group.
C. Correct: The 12 processes in the Monitoring and Controlling process group are
Monitor and Control Project Work, Perform Integrated Change Control, Validate
Scope, Control Scope, Control Schedule, Control Costs, Control Quality, Control
Resources, Monitor Communications, Monitor Risks, Control Procurements, and
Monitor Stakeholder Engagement.
D. Incorrect: There are 12 processes, not 13, in the Monitoring and Controlling process
group.
10. Correct Answer: D
A. Incorrect: The Cost Management knowledge area does not have any Closing
process.
B. Incorrect: The Initiating process group is not a knowledge area.
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C. Incorrect: The Resource Management knowledge area does not have any Closing
process.
D. Correct: The Integration Management knowledge are has the Close Project or
Phase process in the Closing process group.
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Chapter 4: Integration Management Review
Questions
1. Which of the following answers best describes a key benefit of the Develop
Project Charter process?
A. Assess and manage all change requests
B. Define the project start, and create a formal record of the project
C. Iteratively prepare plans for execution throughout a project
D. Ensure all projects are closed
2. Spending time with your team to understand how effective the project is at
delivering towards its goals is an integral part of continuous improvement.
Capturing Lessons learned occurs during which part of the project?
A. Within the strategic plan
B. At the end of a major milestone, during the Close Project of Phase process.
C. Smaller reviews once every 3 months, and a larger review workshop once per year.
D. Continuously throughout delivery
3. Which of the following answers best describes the main purpose of the project
management plan?
A. To initiate and approve the project
B. To define both project and product scope
C. To describe how the project will be executed, monitored, and controlled
D. To assess which projects should be done
4. Which project change requests must go through the approved change control
process?
A. Only those that have an impact on project scope
B. Any change request that affects scope, time, cost, or quality
C. Only those change requests that the project managers decides should go through
the process
D. All change requests must go through the change control process
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5. What is the name of the group of people responsible for reviewing, evaluating,
and deciding on changes to the project?
A. Change control board
B. Project steering group
C. Project team
D. Stakeholders
6. Which of the following is not an organizational process asset that would be
updated as a result of completing project closure?
A. Historical information
B. Project files
C. Project charter
D. Project closure checklist
7. Consulting stakeholders and project team members, and using your own
knowledge, are all examples of what sort of tool or technique used in the Project
Integration Management knowledge area?
A. Stakeholder engagement
B. Meetings
C. Expert judgment
D. Analytical techniques
8. What is the correct order of project activities?
A. Develop project management plan, execute project, develop project charter,
conduct project selection
B. Conduct project selection, develop project charter, execute project, develop
project management plan
C. Conduct project selection, develop project charter, develop project management
plan, execute project
D. Develop project charter, develop project management plan, execute project,
conduct project selection
9. Which process in the Project Integration Management knowledge area deals
with making decisions on change requests?
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A. Monitor and Control Project Work
B. Develop Project Charter
C. Direct and Manage Project Work
D. Perform Integrated Change Control
10. What are the existing change control processes, policies, and templates referred
to as?
A. Organizational process assets
B. Enterprise environmental factors
C. Project documents
D. Project management plan
11. The final product, service, or result is an output of the Close Project or Phase
process. Where does it go after this process?
A. The Monitor and Control Project Work process
B. The customer
C. The Perform Integrated Change Control process
D. The Direct and Manage Project Work process
12. The document that authorizes the project is called what?
A. Project management plan
B. Project document
C. Organizational process asset
D. Project charter
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Answers
1. Correct answer: B
A. Incorrect: The Perform Integrated Change Control process assesses and manages
change requests.
B. Correct: The Develop Project Charter process does result in outputs that define the
start of the project and does create a formal record of the project with the project
charter.
C. Incorrect: The Develop Project Management Plan process iteratively prepares the
different plans to guide project execution.
D. Incorrect: The Close Project or Phase process ensures all projects are formally
closed.
2. Correct answer: D
A. Incorrect: The Strategic Plan is not an appropriate place to review lessons learned
for a project.
B. Incorrect: While there is value in performing a final lesson learned workshop at the
end of a project or phase, there is more value in performing this continuously
throughout delivery.
C. Incorrect: This may the appropriate for some projects, but not all. This is not the best
answer.
D. Correct: The Manage Project Knowledge process sits within the Executing Process
Group. The key output of this process is the Lessons Learned Register.
3. Correct answer: C
A. Incorrect: The project charter initiates and approves the project.
B. Incorrect: The scope statement defines both project and product scope.
C. Correct: The project management plan describes how the rest of the project will be
executed, monitored, and controlled.
D. Incorrect: The business case can be used to assess which projects should be done.
4. Correct answer: D
A. Incorrect: All change requests, not just those that affect project scope, must go
through the defined change control process
B. Incorrect: All change requests, not just those that affect scope, time, quality, and
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cost, must go through the defined change control process.
C. Incorrect: The project manager does play a proactive part in influencing those
factors which may lead to change requests being initiated, but once initiated the
requests must all go through the approved change control process.
D. Correct: All change requests must be considered as per the approved change
control process.
5. Correct answer: A
A. Correct: The change control board is responsible for reviewing, evaluating, and
deciding on changes to the project.
B. Incorrect: The project steering group is responsible for providing senior-level advice,
oversight, and project governance.
C. Incorrect: The project team is responsible for carrying out the project work under
the guidance of the project manager.
D. Incorrect: Stakeholders have many roles within the project, and members of the
change control board are certainly stakeholders, but the broadest definition
includes everyone who can affect or be affected by the project.
6. Correct answer: C
A. Incorrect: Historical information would be updated as part of project closure.
B. Incorrect: Many types of project files would be updated as part of project closure.
C. Correct: The project charter is an initiating document and would not be updated as
part of project closure, although some historical information may refer to lessons
learned about the project charter.
D. Incorrect: The project closure checklist would be completed and updated as part
of project closure.
7. Correct answer: C
A. Incorrect: Stakeholder engagement is the activity carried out as the focus of the
Project Stakeholder Expectation Management knowledge area.
B. Incorrect: Meetings are used to gather groups of stakeholders together to discuss
and make decisions.
C. Correct: The description in the question refers to different categories of experts who
may be consulted for their advice and opinion.
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D. Incorrect: Analytical techniques are mathematical techniques used to interpret raw
data.
8. Correct answer: C
A. Incorrect: Project selection and development of the project charter must be
carried out before the development of the project management plan.
B. Incorrect: The development of the project management plan must occur before
execution of the work.
C. Correct: Project selection feeds into the project charter, which in turns feeds into
the development of the project management plan. The project management plan
is used as the basis for project execution.
D. Incorrect: Conducting project selection must be done first in the process.
9. Correct answer: D
A. Incorrect: The Monitor and Control Project Work process focuses on monitoring the
actual work being done against the planned work. Change requests are an output
from this process.
B. Incorrect: The Develop Project Charter process is focused upon project selection
methods and the development of the project charter.
C. Incorrect: The Direct and Manage Project Work process is focused upon executing
the work contained in the project management plan.
D. Correct: The Perform Integrated Change Control process uses change requests as
an input and with the appropriate tools and techniques makes decisions whether
to accept or reject the change requests.
10. Correct answer: A
A. Correct: The existing change control processes, policies, and templates are all
examples of process assets owned by the organization.
B. Incorrect: Enterprise environmental factors are external to the project, although
they may still be within the performing organization. They can often be seen as
constraining rather than assisting a project.
C. Incorrect: Project documents are produced as part of many processes. Some
documents will be part of the organizational process assets.
D. Incorrect: The project management plan is the overall combination of subsidiary
plans across all the PMBOK® Guide knowledge areas.
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11. Correct answer: B
A. Incorrect: The Monitor and Control Project Work process uses forecast information
and the project management plan to check actual against planned work.
B. Correct: The customer receives the deliverables from the project.
C. Incorrect: The Perform Integrated Change Control process uses change requests
and work performance reports as inputs.
D. Incorrect: The Direct and Manage Project Work process uses the project
management plan and approved change requests as inputs.
12. Correct answer: D
A. Incorrect: The project management plan combines all subsidiary plans from other
planning processes. The project charter feeds the development of the project
management plan.
B. Incorrect: “Project document” is a generic term for any document used to plan,
record, and store information about the project. The project charter is one example
of a project document.
C. Incorrect: The process to produce the project charter and the blank template
could produce organizational process assets but are not examples of
organizational process assets themselves.
D. Correct: The project charter is the foundation document for any project; it
authorizes resources to be used on the project.