PMI-SP

PMI-SP practice questions, page 7 of 13, with answer review and explanations.

Question 31

Your project is forty percent complete though it was scheduled to be fifty percent complete as of today. Management has asked that you report on the schedule variance for your project. If your project has a BAC of $650,000 and you've spent $385,000 to date, what is the schedule variance value?

  1. -$75,500
  2. -$390,000
  3. -$487,500
  4. -$65,000

Question 32

Jim is the project manager for his project. He and his project team are creating their duration estimates for the work packages in the WBS. For each activity, Jim is adding a few hours to the duration estimate in case something goes wrong during the completion of the work activity. Sarah, the project sponsor, does not approve of this and warns Jim of Parkinson's Law. What is Parkinson's Law?

  1. People will behave based on what their behavior brings them.
  2. As employees do repetitive tasks, duration should decrease.
  3. Work expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it.
  4. An exponential increase labor does not correlate to an exponential decrease in duration.

Question 33

SIMULATION - Fill in the blank with the appropriate word. When activities are logically linked, they become the __________

Question 34

You work as a project manager for ABC Inc. You are currently overseeing a project on a high-rise building site. Your prime concern is to ensure that cranes are used effectively for moving materials. You also have to ensure that delivery trucks do not have to wait in a queue and that workers on the upper floors are able to get their deliveries on time. Which type of scheduling would be required in such a scenario?

  1. Critical path scheduling
  2. Time-oriented scheduling
  3. Resource-oriented scheduling
  4. Network scheduling

Question 35

John works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is working on a high-profile project with 80 stakeholders and he needs to express to his project team and to the management the importance of communication in the project. He would like to show the number of stakeholder communication channels in the project. Based on this information how many communication channels exist within this project?

  1. 3000
  2. 79
  3. 80
  4. 3160