PgMP Practice Test

PgMP Practice Test practice questions, page 28 of 29, with answer review and explanations.

Question 136

You are the program manager for a large program in your matrix organization. You need to define when the resources in your program will be brought into the program and then released from the program so that the project managers, operational managers, and your program team can plan accordingly. What program management plan defines when resources are needed, how the resources will be obtained, and how the resources may be released from the program?

  1. Procurement management plan
  2. Resource management plan
  3. Team management plan
  4. Schedule management plan

Question 137

In your organization there are rules and procedures that the program manager must follow and abide by before the program can begin and must continue to follow once the program is in execution. What term is assigned to the enforcement of these program management rules and procedures?

  1. Program governance
  2. Organizational process assets
  3. Program standards
  4. Process analysis

Question 138

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 at this, but due to some vendor delays your program is running just a bit late. Management is concerned that your program will not be able to recoup the costs of the expenses. They've asked you to determine the cost variance for the program. What is the cost variance based on this information?

  1. -$27,500
  2. -$77,500
  3. -$61,111
  4. .90

Question 139

You are the program manager for your organization and are working with Tracy, one of the project managers in your program. Tracy is having some trouble understanding the concept of the critical path in her project's network diagram. Which one of the following is the best definition of the critical path?

  1. It is the path that carries the most risk of project failure.
  2. It is the path that reveals the earliest date the project can finish.
  3. It is the path with the most important activities in the project.
  4. It is the duration of all the project activities if the labor is summed.

Question 140

You are the program manager for your organization and are reviewing several proposed change requests for your program. Mary, a stakeholder, who has made a change request is asking why it is taking you so long to review the change. You tell her that you must perform integrated change control to review each change request. What is integrated change control?

  1. It is the review of the impact of the change on the program's knowledge areas.
  2. It is the review of the impact of the change on the time, cost, scope, and quality baselines.
  3. It is the review of the impact of the change on the program's triple constraints.
  4. It is the review of the impact of the change on the program's Iron Triangle.