PK0-004 Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following describes a burn rate?

A. The rate at which project documents are disposed.

B. The rate at which project personnel leave the project.

C. The rate at which the project budget is used.

D. The rate at which the timeline increases.

During the initiation phase, a project manager has asked for a document containing the high-level objectives and goals for a project.

Which of the following documents would contain these items?

A. Business case

B. Requirements document

C. Project timeline

D. Task plan

A project team member highlights to the project manager that expensive licensing for critical software in use across the project may expire before the completion project.

Which of the following would the project manager MOST likely do?

A. Place a risk on the risk register and arrange a risk review with the appropriate stakeholders to accept and/or mitigate the risk.

B. Raise a purchase order to purchase the licensing and ask the team member to install it.

C. Amend the project scope and raise a project change request to obtain approval of the amendment.

D. Amend the project schedule and work breakdown structures to remove the use of the software from the project.

Which of the following is an example of a project?

A. Purchasing pedometers from local retail stores for employees

B. Implementing a health awareness program at an organization

C. Conducting semi-annual blood drives at an organization

D. Presenting a scripted workshop at an organization's three locations

A project manager receives a call from the area regional building department and is informed that, upon inspection, waterlines from public water access to the project building do not meet local material and installation code specifications. Which of the following items BEST describes the unmet objective?

A. Schedule

B. Milestone

C. Gate

D. Task

Which of the following is a characteristic of a project?

A. It solves a business problem.

B. It created a unique service.

C. It has a definite beginning and end.

D. It adheres to a formal framework.

During the planning phase of a construction project, the project team discovers the site is the nesting area of rare birds, and construction could disrupt the birds' 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. Environmental; resources

B. Environmental; stakeholders

C. Deliverables; resources

D. Deliverables; stakeholders

A project manager needs status on the project timeline.

Which of the following team members should provide an update?

A. Product owner

B. Business analyst

C. Scheduler

D. Sponsor

Which of the following charts is a mathematical diagram used to display values for two variables for a set of data?

A. Histogram

B. Fishbone

C. Gantt

D. Scatter

Which of the following documents will provide the MOST detailed information regarding the work a vendor will perform during a project?

A. RFI

B. SLA

C. SOW

D. PO

A company was originally organized using a functional structure; however, the company has decided to go forward with a matrix structure to get the most utilization of resources. This is an example of:

A. a business process change

B. personal preference

C. internal reorganization

D. intraorganizational differences

Which of the following charts would indicate the cause and effect of tasks in a project, and for which of the following activities would the chart be used?

A. Histogram, forecasting

B. Ishikawa, quality control

C. Scatter, determining resources

D. Gantt, leveraging resources

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?

A. Ask the project sponsor for shared resources for the key stakeholder's project.

B. Ask the project sponsor for benched resources for the time-sensitive project.

C. Ask the key stakeholder for low-quality resources for the time-sensitive project.

D. Ask the project sponsor for dedicated resources for the time-sensitive project.

Based on the table below:

Which of the following is the critical path?

A. A, C, F, G, J, K, L, M

B. A, C, D, E, H, I, L, M

C. B, C, F, G, J, K, L, M

D. B, C, D, E, H, I, L, M

A project manager is developing a network diagram to understand the flow of a project. Which of the following processes is the project manager performing?

A. Defining activities

B. Estimating activity resources

C. Developing a schedule

D. Sequencing activities