CAPM Online Practice Questions and Answers

The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities is known as:

A. Plan Human Resource Management.

B. Acquire Project Team.

C. Manage Project Team.

D. Develop Project Team.

The following is a network diagram for a project.

What is the critical path for the project?

A. A-B-C-F-G-I

B. A-B-C-F-H-I

C. A-D-E-F-G-I

D. A-D-E-F-H-I

Who, along with the project manager, is supposed to direct the performance of the planned project activities and manage the various technical and organizational interfaces that exist within the project?

A. The customer and functional managers

B. The risk owners and stakeholders

C. The sponsors and stakeholders

D. The project management team

A work package has been scheduled to cost $1,000 to complete and was to be finished today. As of today, the actual expenditure is $1,200 and approximately half of the work has been completed. What is the cost variance?

A. -700

B. -200

C. 200

D. 500

Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?

A. Mitigate

B. Transfer

C. Exploit

D. Avoid

The project management processes are usually presented as discrete processes with defined interfaces, while in practice they:

A. operate separately.

B. move together in batches,

C. overlap and interact.

D. move in a sequence.

Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?

A. Customers

B. Project sponsors

C. Project management team

D. Insurance claims department.

How can a project manager represent a contingency reserve in the schedule?

A. Additional weeks of work to account for unknown-unknowns risks

B. Task duration estimates of the best case scenarios

C. Additional duration estimates in response to identified risks that have been accepted

D. Milestones representing the completion of deliverables

A project had four phases, and at the end of the third phase, the project manager realized that some of the project execution steps could have been improved to avoid team burn out

What should the project manager have done differently?

A. Conduct performance reviews

B. Review quality reports with the project team

C. Hold regular meetings with the project team

D. Conduct a retrospective session at the end of each phase

Which of the following are components of the technical project management skill?

A. Ability to explain business aspects of the project, business strategy, goals and objectives, and business value

B. Ability to deal with people, to be collaborative, and to apply persuasion and negotiation

C. Ability to focus on relationships with people, inspire trust, and implement decisions and actions that support the business strategy

D. Ability to plan and prioritize, gather the right artifacts available for each project, and focus on critical success factors