PK0-004 CompTIA Project + Questions and Answers

A project team has completed a major deliverable earlier than planned and wants to deliver it for testing. The team lead sends an email providing notice of task completion to the project manager.

Which of the following describes how the project manager can increase the likelihood that the deliverable moves to testing?

A project manager is assigned to a project that was previously managed by a peer project manager. The

project manager identifies several modifications that were deployed prior to CCB approval. Which of the

following change control processes is being mismanaged?

An organization recently restructured. Leaders feel they are not in a position to sign off on a required change, which is delaying a project.

Which of the following is the obstacle?

Which of the following tasks are responsibilities of the project manager role?

A project manager noted there were many possible features that could be incorporated into a project, and the customers wavered about whether to include particular features. Which of the following is the BEST approach to ensure appropriate delivery of the project?

A company has been trying to implement a product with multiple challenges for more than two years. Both the company and the vendor mutually agree to cancel the project. Which of the following should be issued?

A key stakeholder has communicated a significant project scope change to the project manager. Which of the following actions should the project manager take FIRST?

A project team is unable to meet at the same time, thus requiring project work handoff at each shift.

Which of the following constraints might the project team be facing?

A Scrum team is completing a sprint; however, some tasks will need to carry over to the next sprint.

Which of the following should the Scrum master do to improve the team's velocity in the next sprint?

Which of the following is a risk strategy?

To control costs, project funding is being released under a waved approach. After passing each milestone, the project receives the next round of funding. Which of the following is hindered by this funding approach?

A number of requirements, conflicts, and reworks during a project delayed the schedule, increased the budget, and required replanning efforts.

Which of the following is MOST likely the cause?

Which of the following are characteristics of qualitative risk assessments as opposed to quantitative? (Choose two.)

A first-time project manager is developing a project charter.

Which of the following are key elements to have the project charter approved? (Choose two.)

Which of the following risk management activities identifies the severity of a risk event?

The project team is creating a schedule for an upcoming project and attempting to determine when each task should occur.

Which of the following will assist the project team with building the schedule?

Which of the following should receive regular communication during the planning phase of a project? (Choose two.)

A fire alarm goes off in the building where the project team works. Employees are instructed to leave the

premises immediately using the stairs; they are not to use elevators, and they must gather in one place outside

the building for further instructions. This is known as a:

Which of the following is an example of quantitative risk management?

To resolve a dispute between two project team members, the project manager allows both parties to provide input on the final design. Which of the following resolution techniques is being used?

An engineer is troubleshooting a malfunctioning physical deliverable and requires assistance from remote team members. Which of the following would be the BEST communication method for the engineer to use?

Given the table below for a house construction project:

The table above is an example of which of the following project artifacts?

A company recently discovered that it could save money by moving its call center to another country. The company entered into an agreement for call center services. Which of the following types of organizational change is this?

A project manager has developed a schedule in which all tasks start as late as possible, and there is a focus on buffer utilization and work being completed in shorter periods of time. Which of the following methods is the project manager MOST likely using to develop the schedule?

A project manager is not going to finish a project on time but cannot change the deadline or add more budget. Which of the following types of change would allow the project manager to finish the project successfully?

A project manager launched a survey for future end users of a new product under development. The sponsor received the survey results and realized the needs are different than the features currently being developed. The sponsor decided to cancel the project. Which of the following explains why the sponsor made this decision?

A stakeholder informs a project manager that a weekly status report has not been delivered via email, but the monthly status reports were received. Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?

Midway through a project, the building the team works in is destroyed by a hurricane. Which of the following

types of communication is BEST in this event?

A project manager chose an architect based on the architect’s presentation, but company policy states vendors must be selected based on the lowest bid. Which of the following applies to this situation?

A project has just begun, and people are not clear about the objectives.

Which of the following meeting types is needed?

A new project manager was hired to help transition projects from the waterfall style to an approach based on iterative refinement. This method has never been used by the organization and would mark a significant change in approach from previous projects. Which of the following should the project manager contact for guidance and approval for the new methodology?

A project management team is discussing a potential risk event that would be devastating to the organization and prohibitively expensive to mitigate or insure against if it occurred. Which of the following is the BEST risk strategy to adopt?

Ann, a customer, approaches the project manager of a portable computing device implementation project with a request to have a tablet instead of a laptop.

Which of the following steps should the project manager take NEXT?

A project manager receives an initial project assignment.

Which of the following documents is MOST likely to indicate the organizational structure for the project?

Based on the information below:

AC=100

SV=80

EV=120

Which of the following is the CPI of the project?

As part of the early stages of a potential corporate acquisition, which of the following documents should the acquiring organization complete, showing regulators and investors the offered purchase price and target

closing date?

A key stakeholder has asked project team members to work overtime on special projects. This is undermining the success of a time-sensitive project because the project team is too tired to complete the deliverables.

Which of the following steps should the project manager take to BEST resolve the issue?

Which of the following indicators will assist the project manager in determining the health of the budget?

A vendor who is scheduled to arrive in two days encounters a delay and needs to reschedule the visit. The project manager needs a timely response from the project sponsor regarding the delay; however, the sponsor is in an all-day meeting and is not responding to email.

Which of the following is the BEST method to get the sponsor’s attention?

Which of the following is the BEST indicator of project failure?

A project manager is informed that the project sponsor was terminated from the project effective immediately. To ensure business continuity, the project manager has been asked to assume additional tasks to complete

the project on time. Many of these tasks were performed by the former project sponsor.

Which of the following types of change does this illustrate?

A team shares authority between functional managers and project managers. The project manager's authority ranges from weak to strong. Which of the following organizational structures is described?

When an action is taken on a risk, which of the following is being done and which document needs to be updated?

A stakeholders asked for a change to the project. The project manager discussed and documented the desired change, and the proper authorities approved it.

Which of the following steps of the control was missed?

A project can be defined as:

During the planning phase of a construction project, the project team discovers the site is the nesting area birds, and construction could disrupt the bird’s patterns. Lobbyists would like the team to move the project down the road.

Which of the following constraint and influencer types are involved in this scenario?

A project coordinator notices there is a scheduling conflict with the weekly team meeting. The project

coordinator submits a request to hold the meeting at a different time will not negatively impact the scheduling.

Which of the following resources has the authority to authorize this change?

A project schedule lists a resource as 50% because it likely:

A project sponsor has requested documentation to determine the scheduled activities for a project that is

running behind schedule. Which of the following documents should the project manager send to the sponsor to

quickly identify the project activities?

Which of the following activity sequencing techniques uses nodes to symbolize activities and arrows to show how their dependencies are connected?

Which of the following techniques modifies the schedule based upon resource constraints?

Which of the following is a reason for assessing risk in a project?

A project manager at a projectized organization is finishing the objective goals for the appraisal process. Performance goals have been identified for colocated individuals working on the team. Which of the following is the appropriate communication method for relaying the goals to the team members?

The final project report should contain which of the following?

A PM notes a feature that was delivered does not appear in the latest requirement document. The PM

immediately submits a change request for remediation. Which of the following actions has the PM omitted?

A local company is part of a hostile takeover by a multinational conglomerate. The Chief Executive Officer

(CEO) directs that all meetings be conducted via video conference to save costs and expedite communication.

This scenario is an example of:

A client has provided a list of deliverables to include in the project scope. Which of the following will allow the project team to ensure all deliverables are included in the final product while managing scope creep?

As a project processes, the team appears disjointed. Meetings are not effective because the right team members are not in the discussion, and functional managers are questioning if the project manager has a true management plan.

Which of the following documents should be reviewed FIRST to uncover the issue?

Two critical members have approached the project manager separately regarding personality conflicts. The

project manager cannot remove either from the project or separate their work activities. To help resolve the

conflict, which of the following would be BEST for the project manager to do?

A project encountered a problem and reached a milestone. In which of the following documents will the stakeholders MOST likely find information on these events?

The following tasks are required to complete an IT project that is behind schedule:

Which of the following is the critical path?

Which of the following analyses should a project manager use to determine problem areas for corrective action planning? (Select two.)

An organization has determined that all projects must use a remote dashboard to allow portfolio management. Which of the following would enforce this directive?

Which of the following is the MOST important component against which the project manager can analyze

project performance?

A company is in the process of combining the human resources and marketing departments. Which of the following describes this change?

Which of the following describes KPIs?

A vendor advises the project manager that a key component of the project is no longer available and recommends a higher-cost replacement. To have this change approved, the project manager submits a change request that contains which of the following?

Ann, one of the affected stakeholders, feels that the project team has not been giving periodic stakeholder updates and that her input has not been taken into account.

Which of the following should the project manager do to ensure stakeholder expectations are met?

Which of the following represents additional unauthorized requirements from the client?

A project manager is determining a project’s critical path to report the projected completion date to stakeholders.

Which of the following information will be required? (Select two.)

Which of the following captures unforeseen activities throughout the project that need attention and resolution?

The project's network map has a loop with multiple project outcomes.

This is the result of which of the following scheduling tools?

Which of the following resources outlines consequences of non-performance?

Which of the following project phases would MOST likely include a creating transition plan?

In which of the following situations is a project manager MOST likely to use a process diagram?

Which of the following documents serves the primary purpose of requesting details about a vendor’s capabilities?

A project manager has been assigned a complex project and does not know all the activities required to complete it.

Which of the following if the BEST approach to determine the work packages for the WBS?

Which of the following tools would a project manager use to determine the root cause of an issue?

A project manager who is part of a global team wants to have a team building meeting and decides to hold a video conference.

Which of the following is MOST likely to be the main challenge the influences this decision?

The key stakeholders have reported the project pace as being slow. The project sponsor would like to cancel the project if it cannot be completed before the end of the year. The project is scheduled to be completed three months after the requested date.

To alter the pace of the project, which of the following should the project manager do FIRST?

Which of the following are characteristics of a project? (Choose two.)

During a project, the project manager discovers there is insufficient time allotted for quality control. The project manager prepared to submit a revised schedule to the CCB.

Given the attached chart, which of the following is the critical path if one day is added to each task for quality control?

A project manager is providing the lessons learned for a project that ran over budget and produced poor quality deliverables. Which of the following should the project manager include as part of the lessons learned?

A project has fallen behind schedule. Upon investigation, the project manager determines that team members have implemented requirements relayed via impromptu hallway meetings with the client.

Which of the following should the project manager do to resolve this issue?

A project manager is trying to ensure the quality of the design and reduce the number of potential defects. The project manager would like to use the fishbone diagram to perform this analysis.

This type of modeling relies on:

A risk with minor impact has been realized. There is no change to the triple constraint. The PM should notify the:

A department manager asks a project manager about the status of a project that has only a few employees from the department assigned to it. Which of the following were MOST likely missed during project planning?

Two team members are arguing over two different approaches to complete a task. The project manager listens to both sides, determines neither approach will work, and directs the team members to use a third option.

This type of conflict resolution is known as:

Which of the following measurements would give the project manager the BEST estimate of the total cost of an active project?

A project manager is justifying a required change with the associated impact on the project.

Which of the following is the NEXT step?

The chairperson of the board is visiting from another country and wishes to meet the project team members. The next project team meeting will be held next week, but the chairperson is leaving before the meeting. Which of the following actions should the project manager take?

A project manager is successfully adhering to an eight-week project schedule through week three. A change in the marketplace will require the project manager to deliver the product one week early.

Given the project schedule above, which of the following aspects are missing for the project manager to plan and execute an accelerated schedule? (Choose two).

A business has implemented a new online performance management tool that allows functional and project managers to rate employees online.

This action is known as which of the following?

A vendor has accepted a proposed project from a customer.

Which of the following is MOST likely to be the first document created by the project manager?

Due to a new government regulation, a project change is required. The project manager evaluates the change and realizes a representative from the legal department will need to approve the change as well.

The project manager should:

A project team has finished creating a WBS and started developing a schedule. The team should FIRST determine the:

A project manager has been asked to prepare and present a review of the execution phase. Which of the following is the BEST audience for this review?

Team members have reported poor sound quality during critical, time-sensitive conference calls. Which of the following may be a more effective means of communication?

During the execution phase of a project, a project task has run longer than anticipated.

Which of the following is the new critical path of the project if Task 2 requires an additional two days to complete?

A part that is needed to complete Task 3 has been backordered and will arrive three days later than scheduled. Task 3 must be complete for Task 4 to start. There is one day of float for the two tasks. Which of the following represents the number of days the project schedule will be delayed?

The project team is distributed throughout a single country. The scrum master has decided to hold remote "stand-ups" on a daily basis. Which of the following would be the MOST effective means to do this?

Assuming an iterative approach, which of the following will be conducted at the end of each iteration?

A company is hired to perform some of another organization’s work. Which of the following types of organizational change is described?

Which of the following would indicate a project manager is working in a matrix-based organization?

An authorized change to a construction project was implemented. During the modification, the team identified a defect in which the change caused the building power output to be outside the KPPs.

Which of the following actions should the project manager take?

A project manager needs to track the actual and estimated start and finish dates of all WBS work packages.

Which of the following is a necessary step to record the actual durations?

Two team members completely disagree on how to complete a specific task. The project manager observes the conflict but takes no immediate action.

Which of the following techniques is the project manager using?

A project manager was directed to complete a project sooner than previously planned. Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective step to take to ensure the project’s success?

A project team is mainly based in a metropolitan area. The team also has members in a remote area, where Internet access is limited and unstable.

Which of the following factors will MOST likely influence the communication methods used in the project?

A project manager has contracted a third-party vendor to achieve milestones. Which of the following risk strategies is the project manager applying?

Which of the following documents should be used to provide high-level reporting to key stakeholders?

Which of the following describes risk mitigation?

Several team members report that meeting objectives are not being met.

Which of the following documents would a project manager create to make team meetings more effective? (Choose two.)

A project’s key stakeholders have requested significant changes that will affect the scope. To adjust the project scope, which of the following need to be changed? (Choose two.)

The project manager has had a large number of change requests approved by the project steering committee, but has been given no extra time to deliver the project.

Which of the following schedule compression techniques should be used by the project manager?

Which of the following job roles is primarily tasked with communicating the project timeline changes?