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Exam code: PgMP
Exam Name: PgMP
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Question: 1
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Your program has 121 stakeholders that you'll need to
communicate with. Your communications management plan defines how the
communication should happen, what should be communicated, and the expected
modality of the communications. You'll also need which one of the following as
an input to the information distribution process in your program?
A. Change requests
B. Earned value management results
C. Stakeholder analysis plan
D. Performance reports
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Answer: C
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Question: 2
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What is the formula to determine earned value (EV) for a
program?
A. Percent complete times percent remaining in the
program
B. Percent completes time the program cost estimate
C. Percent complete times the program budget at
completion
D. Percent complete times the program cost of labor and
materials
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Answer: C
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Question: 3
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Olive is the program manager for her organization. She
has created a request for proposal for a large portion of her program. In this
work to be procured she has set several requirements for the vendors to
participate. The chief among these requirements is a vendor must have at least
four licensed electricians in his team. This requirement for four licensed
electricians is an example of which one of the following terms?
A. Screening system
B. Scoring model
C. Vendor analysis requirements
D. Evaluation criteria
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Answer: A
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Question: 4
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You are the program manager for your organization.
Management has asked you to create a document that will capture the
stakeholders concerns, perceived threats, and specific objectives about the
program and its projects. What document is management asking you to create in
this instance?
A. Requirements document
B. Project charter
C. Business case
D. Scope statement
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Answer: D
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Question: 5
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You are the program manager of the NHQ Program. You are
working with your program team to ensure that the work in the program is done
accurately and according to scope. You are also reviewing the team inspection process
that will need to be done to ensure that the work is being done according to
the scope. If the work is found to be defective it will need to be corrected
before the program customers can inspect the work. What process are you
completing to ensure that the work is done accordingly to scope?
A. Quality control
B. Scope verification
C. Quality assurance
D. Planning
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Answer: C
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Question: 6
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Your company and a competing company have created a
teaming agreement for an opportunity.
Through this team agreement you and your competitor can
complete a major program for a client.
This is, technically, a risk response for both
organizations. What type of risk response are you dealing with in this
instance?
A. Teaming
B. Exploiting
C. Accepting
D. Sharing
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Answer: D
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Question: 7
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A project manager in your program has estimated the cost
of a program to be $145,000. As the project manager's project comes close to
completion, the project manager realizes that he has still $27,876 left in his
project budget. He decides to add some additional features to the project's
deliverables in an effort to use the remaining budget. These additions will add
value to the project and the project customer is likely to enjoy these new
features. This is an example of what term?
A. Gold plating
B. Errors and omissions
C. Expert judgment by the project manager
D. Value added change
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Answer: A
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Question: 8
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Andy is the program manager of the HQN Program. This
program is nearing its completion and there is still $25,000 left in the
program budget. Andy has asked the program team to identify some extra
deliverables that can be included in the program scope to improve the program
deliverable but also to use all of the funds in the budget. What term is
assigned to the actions that Andy is trying to do in this instance?
A. Value-added change requests
B. Zero based budgeting
C. Integrated change control
D. Gold plating
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Answer: D
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Question: 9
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What analysis type could you use in a program to compare
the positive stakeholders and their position, power, and influence over your
program to the same variable components of the negative stakeholders in your
program?
A. Sensitivity analysis
B. Stakeholder analysis
C. Monte Carlo simulation
D. Force field analysis
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Answer: D
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Question: 10
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You are the program manager of the BHG Program. One of
the projects in your program will be using new materials that are somewhat
untested. You are worried that there may be delays and waste because the
project team is unaware of how to accurately use these materials. You elect to
send the people that will be using the new materials through training on how to
complete their project work. You also allow them to purchase some of the
materials to experiment on their use before the actual project work is to be
done. You want to ensure that mistakes do not enter into the project. What type
of action have you provided in this scenario?
A. This is an example of a preventive action.
B. This is an example of team development.
C. This is an example of quality assurance.
D. This is an example of a corrective action.
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Answer: A
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Question: 11
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You are the program manager for your organization. You
and your program team have been creating and transferring the program benefits
to operations as feasible in your program execution. The process of delivering
the program's benefits describes what process in program management?
A. Quality control
B. Benefits management
C. Direct and manage program execution
D. Quality assurance
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Answer: C
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Question: 12
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What is the present value of a program that will be worth
$3,567,000 if it lasts for six years and the rate of return is five percent?
A. $1,550,850
B. $3,532,000
C. $2,502,750
D. $2,661,750
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Answer: D
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Question: 13
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You are the program manager for the SRQ Program. You have
rejected several change requests for the program scope. What must you do with
the rejected change requests?
A. Communicate why the change request was rejected and
record the results in the lessons learned documentation for your program.
B. Inform the stakeholders that their change requests
have been rejected.
C. Communicate the change request status to the
stakeholders and record the results of the change request in the change
register.
D. Inform the stakeholders why their change requests have
been rejected.
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Answer: C
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Question: 14
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Where are negative risks recorded?
A. Negative risk register
B. Risk management plan
C. Risk register
D. Issues log
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Answer: C
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Question: 15
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You are the program manager for your organization. Management
would like to consider the present value for your program. If your program is
predicted to be worth $450,000 in two years what is the present value of the
program if the interest rate is six percent?
A. $400,498
B. $521,345
C. $505,620
D. $385,450
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Answer: A
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Question: 16
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Harriet is the program manager of a large program that
has a high profile and visibility in her organization. Some of the stakeholders
are negative and Harriet needs to work with these stakeholders to address their
fears, perceived threats, and concerns about the program. Which communication
method is considered to be the best approach for this scenario?
A. Face-to-face
B. Many-to-many
C. Ad hoc conversation
D. One-to-many
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Answer: A
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Question: 17
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Eric is the project manager of the NQQ Project and has
hired the ZAS Corporation to complete part of the project work for Eric's
organization. Due to a change request the ZAS Corporation is no longer needed
on the project even though they have completed nearly all of the project work.
Is Eric's organization liable to pay the ZAS Corporation for the work they have
completed so far on the project?
A. It depends on what the outcome of a lawsuit will
determine.
B. No, the ZAS Corporation did not complete all of the
work.
C. It depends on what the termination clause of the
contract stipulates.
D. Yes, the ZAS Corporation did not choose to terminate
the contract work.
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Answer: C
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Question: 18
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Mike is the program manager of the NHQ Program. Mike and
a vendor are in disagreement over the deliverable the vendor has created for
Mike's program. Mike does not believe the vendor has correctly created the
deliverable, while the vendor is adamant that his company has indeed completed
the contract. Both parties have documented their stance in the debate. This is
an example of what?
A. Breach of contract
B. Issue
C. Risk
D. Claim
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Answer: D
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Question: 19
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You are the program manager of the GHY Program in your
organization. It has come to your attention that some of the project managers in
your program are adding time to each project activity in an effort to pad their
durations in case some event happens in their project that will cause delays.
What principle should you share with these project managers that counterattack
the concept of padding activities with additional time?
A. Parkinson's Law
B. Law of Diminishing Returns
C. 80/20 Law
D. Pareto's Law
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Answer: A
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Question: 20
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You are the program manager for your organization. Your
program team has 43 people that all need to be monitored and controlled. You
would like to create a standardized report that you can use to monitor,
control, and record the performance of each staff member in your program. What
type of report can you create that will help you track your staff and their
performance?
A. Performance reports
B. Staff variance reports
C. Exceptions report
D. Lessons learned
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Answer: A
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Question: 21
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You have created a control chart for a repeatable process
in your program. You have discovered that the seven most recent measurements
are all on the positive side of the mean in your control chart. What is this
phenomenon called?
A. Rule of Improvement
B. Mean Improvement
C. Rule of Seven
D. Low-Riding Mean
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Answer: C
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Question: 22
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What component of the change management system is
responsible for evaluating, testing, and documenting changes created to the
project scope?
A. Project Management Information System
B. Integrated Change Control
C. Scope Verification
D. Configuration Management System
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Answer: D
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Question: 23
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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
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Answer: C
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Question: 24
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You are a program manager for your organization. You have
proposed a program to the management that will last four years and will cost
$35 million to create. Management has asked to see the program charter and the proposed
costs and benefits of the program. Management agrees to your program charter
and proposed to fund the program in increment at the completion of each
milestone. What type of funding does management proposed for this program?
A. Tentative
B. Step funding
C. Milestone approval
D. Phase gate estimating
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Answer: B
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Question: 25
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You are program manager for the HYH Program. Your program
governance is requiring you to use earned value management to predict how
closely your program is tracking to the cost and schedule baselines and to
predict overall program performance. Which earned value management formula can
you use to predict how much more will need to be invested in the program based
on current program performance?
A. EV/AC
B. EV/PV
C. BAC/CPI
D. EAC-AC
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Answer: D
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Question: 26
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You are the program manager for your organization. When a
project in your program is completed, who will need to sign the certificate of
completion?
A. The project manager
B. The program customer
C. The program stakeholders
D. The project management team
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Answer: B
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Question: 27
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You are the program manager for your organization. Part
of your role as the program manager is to train John, a new program manager, on
the program processes within a program. John is confused as to when the program
team can be acquired in the program management lifecycle.
When will the program team be acquired for a program?
A. Planning
B. Execution
C. Monitoring and controlling
D. Initiation
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Answer: B
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Question: 28
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You are the program manager for your organization. You're
currently working with the program director, Nancy Holmes, to define a new
program and the benefits the program should create. Of the following, which is
the best definition of a benefit a program creates?
A. A benefit is an outcome of the constituent projects
within a program.
B. A benefit is a project and program deliverables that
the organization may use immediately.
C. A benefit is a deliverable of a program or project
that is worth more than the cost to create the deliverable.
D. A benefit is an outcome of actions and behaviors that
provides utility to stakeholders.
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Answer: D
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Question: 29
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You are the program manager for your organization and you
need to define all of the program resources you'll need for your program. All
of the following can be considered a program resource except for which one?
A. A forklift
B. Materials for the installation of a new server
C. A positive risk response
D. Gary, an application developer
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Answer: C
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Question: 30
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Your program has been selected and its program charter is
now being created. The program charter defines all of the following
characteristics except for which one?
A. Program constraints
B. Program scope
C. High-level objectives for the program
D. Project scope statement for all projects within the
program
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Answer: D
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