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The PMP®, or Project Management Professional, is an exam conducted by the

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Project Management Institute (PMI)®, is a globally recognized certification. The
exam consists of 200 multiple choice questions that outline the five process
groups (Initiation, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing)
and nine knowledge areas (Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human
Resource, Communication, Risk, and Procurement).
Of the 200 questions, 25 of them are pretest questions. Pretest questions

appear randomly during the exam, do not affect the candidate’s score, and are
used in examinations as an effective way to increase the number of examination
questions that can be used in future PMP exams. The passing score for the exam
is almost 61% (106 questions correct out of 175 scored questions).
Here's a video on PMP Certification Training.

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Below are 20 examples of PMP questions and answers.
1. Question:
A project has a 60% chance of a $100,000 profit and a 40 percent of a US

$100,000 loss. The Expected Monetary Value for the project is:
1. $100,000 profit
2. $60,000 loss
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4. $40,000 loss
Answer:
Expected Monitory Value (EMV) is computed by EMV = Probability × Impact.
Compute both positive and negative values and then add them:
0.6 × $100,000 = $60,000 0.4 × $100,000 = $40,000 EMV = $60,000 - $40,000

= $20,000 profit
2. Question:
Assuming that the ends of a range of estimates are +/- 3 sigma from the mean,
which of the following range estimates involves the LEAST risk?
Answer:
1. 30 days, plus or minus 5 days
2. 22 – 30 days
3. Optimistic = 26 days, most likely = 30 days, pessimistic = 33 days
4. Mean of 28 days

The estimate with the smallest range is less risky.
3. Question:
If a risk has a 20 percent chance of happening in a given month, and the project
is expected to last five months, what is the probability that the risk event will
occur during the fourth month of the project?
Answer:
1. Less than 1 percent
2. 20 percent
3. 60 percent
4. 80 percent
4. Question:
An accepted deadline for a project approaches. However, the project

manager realizes only 75% percent of the work has been completed.
The project manager then issues a change request. What should the
change request authorize?
Answer:
1. Additional resources using the contingency fund
2. Escalation approval to use contingency funding
3. Team overtime to meet schedule
4. Corrective action based on causes
5. Question:
Risk will be identified during which risk management process(es)?
Answer:
1. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Identify Risks
2. Identify Risks and Monitor and Control Risks
3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Monitor and Control Risks
4. Identify Risks
Reference: The PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition, Page 312, Figure 11.1
6. Question:
What is meant by RACI?
Answer:
1. Responsible, Accountable, Confirm, Inform
2. Recommended, Accountable, Consulted, Inform
3. Responsible, Accountant, Consulted, Inform
4. Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Inform
The RACI chart is an example of the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM),

which shows the relationship between activities and the team members.
7. Question:
Which of the following statement is true about a Program?
Answer:
1. A Program is a group of related projects
2. A Program is group of unrelated projects

3. A Program is a part of a big project
4. None of above
Reference: The PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition, Page 9
8. Question:
The project manager meets with the project team to review lessons learned
from previous projects. In what activity is the team involved?
Answer:
1. Performance management
2. Scope identification
3. Risk identification
4. Project team status meeting
9. Question:
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1. You will pass some confidential info to him
2. You will disclose this relationship to your management
3. You will resign immediately from the bidding process
4. You will try not to give the contract to him to prove your integrity
There is a conflict of interest in this situation. You must inform your bosses
about this relationship.
10. Question:
If a risk event has a 90 percent chance of occurring, and the

consequences will be US $ 10,000, what does US $9,000 represent?
Answer:
1. Risk value
2. Present value
3. Expected monetary value

4. Contingency budget
EMV = .9 X $ 10,000 = $ 9, 000
11. Question:
Your construction project was damaged by an earthquake. Your contractor says

that he cannot fulfill the terms of the contract due to a specific clause you both
had signed the contract. He is referring to the:
Answer:
1. Force majeure clause
2. Fixed price clause
3. Contract obligation terms
4. None of the above
12. Question:
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1. Historical information
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3. Work breakdown structure
4. Project status reports
Project Status report can be an input to risk management. However, when

completing risk management for the first time, you wouldn’t have the project
status report yet. Therefore, the project status report is not always an input to
risk management.
13. Question:
When estimating time for activities, a Project Manager should:
Answer:
1. Use the best guess and estimate all activities since there will be changes as
the project progresses and more information becomes available
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4. None of the above
14. Question:
Risk tolerance is determined in order to help:
Answer:
1. The team ranks the project risks.
2. The project manager estimates the project.
3. The team schedules the project.
4. Management knows how other managers will act on the project.
If you know the tolerance of the stakeholders, you can predict how they might
react to different situations and risk events. This information can help assign
levels of risk on each work package activity.
15. Question:
You are running a project

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management. The project involves a large number of organizations―a
major corporation and many suppliers of different sizes. During the
project, you observe effects of the differences between the companies’
corporate cultures. This leads to different expectations on how the
project should be handled—as well as to frequent misunderstandings
between stakeholders. Another effect is a growing degree of distrust
and skepticism. What should you try first to integrate the diverse
stakeholder groups?
Answer:
1. Focus on project work. As a project manager, you should not get distracted
by big egos.
2. Let the problems grow further until they are obvious for all. Then escalate
them.
3. Develop a joint quality policy for the project and seek a commitment by all
organizations.
4. Analyze probability and impact of the risks linked with the situation
and plan how to respond to them.
PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition, page 194 (last paragraph).
16. Question:
You are finding it difficult to evaluate the exact cost impact of risk. You
should evaluate on a(n) :
Answer:
1. Quantitative basis
2. Numerical basis
3. Qualitative basis
4. Economic basis
If you cannot determine an exact cost impact to the event, use qualitative
estimates such as Low, Medium, and High.
17. Question:
A project manager is quantifying risk for her project. Several of her

experts are offsite, but wish to be included. How can this be done?
Answer:
1. Do a Monte Carlo analysis using the Internet as a tool

2. Apply the critical path method
3. Determine options for recommended corrective action
4. Apply the Delphi Technique
The Delphi technique is commonly used to obtain expert opinions on technical

issues, the necessary project, or product scope.
18. Question:
Being assigned as a project manager, you noticed during project

execution that conflicts arise in the team on both technical and
interpersonal levels. What is an appropriate way of handling conflicts?
Answer:
1. Conflicts distract the team and disrupt the work rhythm. You should always
smooth them when they surface.
2. A conflict should be handled in a meeting so that the entire team can

participate in finding a solution.
3. Conflicts should be addressed early and usually in private, using a

direct, collaborative approach.
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19. Question:
During which risk management process is a determination to transfer a

risk made?
Answer:
1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Plan Risk Response
4. Monitor and Control Risks
Transference is a Risk Response Strategy.
20. Question:
When control charts are used, outliers are…
Answer:
1. singular measurements
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2. a typical result of a rare random cause which is difficult to replicate and to

verify.
3. insignificant results, often measurement errors, the causes of which should

not be further investigated.
4. measurements inconsistent with a run of 7 results over or under a mean

value.
Reference: Managing Project Quality by Timothy J. Kloppenborg and Joseph A.

Petrick
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PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition is Here! What Project

Managers Should Know
Tim Jerome
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PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition was released in September 2017 and

PMP ® certification exam format will be revised on 26 March 2018 , according to
PMI.
The exam is not about the PMBOK Ⓡ Guide , but the guide does influence the
exam a lot. Here’s what to expect, and what you could see as impacts to the
exam as a result of the updated 6th edition.

Centralization of Effective Leadership
A chapter has been added that talks about what Project Management
Leadership means, and PMI’s expectations of a project management leader. The
new edition also reviews competencies and skills that project management
professionals must possess. This makes sense, considering that we’ve seen the
Exam Content Outline introduce this throughout the last few years, and it was a
logical step to bring it into the guide.
Effective leadership is mentioned in the 5th edition but is now being

consolidated into one section. Consider this as a continuation of PMI’s message—
a call to action that Project Management has three components that aspiring
professionals need to continually develop: technical project management,
business acumen, and leadership.
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Terminology Changes
The 5th edition of the PMBOK® Guide made great progress in standardizing
phrases, terms, and definitions. This was needed to achieve alignment with the
ISO standard 21500. This, also, was a bigger change than one would consider—
the PMI Lexicon of terms and Exam Content Outline were aligned to match the
same terminology. This was a big step. Once this was achieved, students and
project managers could see a term in one area, knowing it would mean the same
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This new edition continues towards terminology consistency, with these primary
updates:
Human Resource Management will become Resource Management. This means

you don’t merely manage teams, but also bulldozers, shovels, cases of nuts
and bolts, and bottled water.
Time Management will become Schedule Management. This makes sense; we

don’t manage time, but we manage and control our schedule.
It’s interesting how PMI discusses these changes; they state “… Areas have been
renamed to more accurately reflect which elements can be managed… and which
cannot…”
Knowledge Area Changes
The structure of the Knowledge Areas will be updated, with the following details:
Key Concepts will be organized. You can look to a specific section to review
the core message of the knowledge area.
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are expected to consider. The guide is not something static, but something
that we can modify based on needs inside and outside the project. It is moved
closer to a dynamic set of tools supported by thoughtful analysis as well as
best practice.
Tailoring Considerations are now a component of each Knowledge Area.

Again, having each section discuss how to modify it based on constraints,
consideration, organizational preference, and business need is exciting. Having
guidance in modifying the PMBOK® Guide will assist in understanding that this
is a component of control, required if you are to actively manage.
Considerations for Agile/Adaptive Environments are included. Agile is

currently mentioned as a methodology in Project Life Cycle discussions. In the
6th edition, each Knowledge Area will provide considerations for integrating
agile methods based on its skill set and processes.
All these updates support not only increased clarity but also provide a focus on
how this material can be best applied. This is the core of the PMP Certification
Exam; it tests not only one’s knowledge but how well the applicant can apply
what they know as a best practice in ambiguous, often confusing situations.
This bodes well for the profession of project management, and it bodes well for
us, too. The guide gives us not only what we need to do today to make projects
and business better, but what we need to think about and prepare for the future.
Project management and our careers within it are a continuing story, not a
stairway that ends with a closed door.
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The PMP®, or Project Management Professional, is an exam conducted by the

Of the 200 questions, 25 of them are pretest questions. Pretest questions

Here's a video on PMP Certification Training.

Project Manageme… All Resources Articles E-Books On-Demand Webinars

Related read: Project Management Professional Exam Tips and Tricks

Below are 20 examples of PMP questions and answers.

A project has a 60% chance of a $100,000 profit and a 40 percent of a US

0.6 × $100,000 = $60,000 0.4 × $100,000 = $40,000 EMV = $60,000 - $40,000

1. 30 days, plus or minus 5 days

3. Optimistic = 26 days, most likely = 30 days, pessimistic = 33 days

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1. Less than 1 percent

An accepted deadline for a project approaches. However, the project

1. Additional resources using the contingency fund

2. Escalation approval to use contingency funding

3. Team overtime to meet schedule

4. Corrective action based on causes

Risk will be identified during which risk management process(es)?

1. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Identify Risks

2. Identify Risks and Monitor and Control Risks

3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Monitor and Control Risks

What is meant by RACI?

1. Responsible, Accountable, Confirm, Inform

2. Recommended, Accountable, Consulted, Inform

3. Responsible, Accountant, Consulted, Inform

4. Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Inform

The RACI chart is an example of the Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM),

Which of the following statement is true about a Program?

1. A Program is a group of related projects

2. A Program is group of unrelated projects

3. A Program is a part of a big project

Reference: The PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition, Page 9

4. Project team status meeting

During a bidder conference,

1. You will pass some confidential info to him

2. You will disclose this relationship to your management

3. You will resign immediately from the bidding process

If a risk event has a 90 percent chance of occurring, and the

3. Expected monetary value

EMV = .9 X $ 10,000 = $ 9, 000

Your construction project was damaged by an earthquake. Your contractor says

1. Force majeure clause

2. Fixed price clause

3. Contract obligation terms

4. None of the above

3. Work breakdown structure

4. Project status reports

Project Status report can be an input to risk management. However, when

When estimating time for activities, a Project Manager should:

2. Involve people who will

4. None of the above

Risk tolerance is determined in order to help:

1. The team ranks the project risks.

2. The project manager estimates the project.

3. The team schedules the project.

4. Management knows how other managers will act on the project.

You are running a project

PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition, page 194 (last paragraph).

A project manager is quantifying risk for her project. Several of her

1. Do a Monte Carlo analysis using the Internet as a tool

3. Determine options for recommended corrective action