Free Practice Questions for PMI-SP Exam

All of the following statements about the critical path are false except for which one?

• The critical path cannot be crashed.
  
• The critical path is the shortest path in the project network diagram.
  
• The critical path is always one path with the longest duration.
  
• The critical path shows the project's earliest date for completion.
  

You are the project manager of the OOI Project and you're forty percent complete with this project. The project has a BAC of $2,345,650 and you have spent $950,000 to date. Based on your aggressive scheduling you should be at the 45 percent milestone today, but due to some early delays you're running late. What is the planned value of your project?

• $950,000
  
• $2,375,000
  
• $1,055,543
  
• $938,260
  

Which of the following characteristics of conflict and the conflict management process should be recognized by the project managers while handling conflict in a team environment? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

• Conflict resolution should focus on issues, not personalities.
  
• Conflict is natural and forces a search for alternatives.
  
• Openness resolves conflict.
  
• Conflict is an individual issue.
  

Holly is the project manager for her organization. Her current project is running late and her projectcustomer has asked Holly to find a method to apply corrective actions to the project schedule. Hollyis exploring the concept of crashing the project. Which of the followingstatements is true about crashing the activities in Holly's project?

• The activities to be crashed must have additional quality control metrics associated with them.
  
• The activities to be crashed cannot be of fixed duration.
  
• The activities to be crashed cannot have risks associated with them greater than 0.80.
  
• The activities cannot be on the critical path in order to be crashed.
  

You are the project manager of the HQQ Project. Your project is running late by ten percent of where you should be at this time. Management is concerned and they'd like to know what is your schedule performance index. Considering that the project has a BAC of $567,899, you are thirty percent complete, and you have spent $179,450, what is the SPI for this project?

• $227,140
  
• 0.75
  
• 0.95
  
• -$56,789
  

You work as a project manager for Blue Well Inc. You are calculating the performance indexes of your project. The cost variance (CV) of your project is 30. What does this figure depict?

• Project is behind the schedule.
  
• Costs are higher than planned.
  
• Costs are right on target.
  
• Costs are lower than planned.
  

You are the project manager of the MQQ project. Unfortunately, this project is not performing welland you must do something to address theproblems in your project. Based on your planning for monitoring and controlling projectperformance, you know that there are three outputs ofperformance reporting. Which one of the following is the only output that is most appropriate forthis poorly performing project?

• Organizational process assets update
  
• Performance reports
  
• Performance re-baselining
  
• Change requests
  

What is the formula to find the schedule performance index?

• EV-PV
  
• EV/AC
  
• EV/PV
  
• EV-AC
  

Gary is the project manager of the GHY project. He has elected to use a previous, but similar, project to guide him and the project team through the estimate activity duration process. The previous project schedule could best described as which one of the following?

• Organizational process asset
  
• Lessons learned documentation
  
• Process input
  
• Predecessor project
  

Which of the following components of the change control system includes the documentation, tracking systems, and defined approval levels necessary for authorizing and controlling changes?

• Scope Verification
  
• Configuration Management System
  
• Project Management Information System
  
• Integrated Change Control