30 PMP Manage Integration Questions Answer and Explanation

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Question 1 - ID: 271155
Once the project charter is authorized, it is the project manager’s duty to distribute the charter to all key stakeholders and ensure common understanding of the key deliverables, milestones, and their roles and responsibilities. During which of the following processes is the project charter distributed to the project stakeholders?
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Although the manage communications and manage stakeholder engagement are processes involving stakeholder communication, these processes are from the executing process group. Project charter is developed during the project initiating and must be communicated to all key stakeholders as soon as it is authorized. The develop project charter process produces the project charter and this output must be shared with the stakeholders at the end of this process.
Question 2 - ID: 161620
You are new to project management, but you have been managing a small project successfully. Now, management has given you another project to manage, something you are excited about. However, the new project is growing exponentially every day. You have also learned that a project manager you work with managed a similar project last year. What should you do?
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The historical records will give you an understanding of the prior project; however, you should also obtain guidance from the project manager.
Question 3 - ID: 801475
A collection of formally documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation are controlled, changed, and approved is:
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A collection of formally documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation are controlled, changed and approved is called a change control system. This is a subsystem of the configuration management system.
Question 4 - ID: 581258
Which of the following statements correctly define the 100 percent rule for WBS?
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The WBS represents all product and project work, including the project management work. The total of the work at the lowest levels should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed. This is called the 100 percent rule.
Question 5 - ID: 911512
Which of the following is not an example of data that may be presented in a performance report?
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The project charter is not a valid response. The other choices are data that can be presented in a work performance report.
Question 6 - ID: 871713
The sponsor of a project created a document that included the business need and the cost-benefit analysis. What would this document be termed as?
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The business case usually provides information from a business standpoint so that any investment in the project can be justified. Typically it would contain both the business need as well as the costbenefit analysis. The business case is an input to the develop project charter process.
Question 7 - ID: 961853
Procurement statement of work (SOW) is a narrative description of the products or services to be delivered by the vendor. It usually references all the following except:
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The procurement statement of work (SOW) does not usually reference the business case. The business case may contain cost sensitive information that may not be made available to a wider audience. The rest of the choices are valid components of a procurement statement of work.
Question 8 - ID: 931558
A project manager was assigned to a project when the project charter was in development. Which of the following is an input that the project manager will use to develop the project charter?
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When developing the project charter, the project manager can draw on the assets that are part of the organizational process assets. There may be formal or informal policies, procedures, plans, and guidelines whose effects must be considered. Organizational process assets also represent the organization's learning from previous projects such as completed schedules, risk data, and earned value data. These are invaluable in developing the project charter.
Question 9 - ID: 701851
A project charter that formally authorized a project was created. The project charter documented the initial requirements to satisfy stakeholders' needs and expectations. How often should the project charter be revised?
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The project charter is a high-level document that authorizes a project. It documents a broad understanding of the project and does not need to be updated during the course of the project.
Question 10 - ID: 921987
To reduce delivery delays and process downtime, your organization has recognized a need to replace their legacy manufacturing system with a modern software application. Your IT director anticipates a project to fulfill this business need; however, he warns that the new project’s budget cannot exceed $75,000 due to shortages in the department budget. He also indicates that no additional staff will be allocated to this project other than the existing IT staff. If you become the project manager, you would document these initial project conditions as:
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A project constraint is a limiting factor that affects the execution of the project. Budget and staffing restrictions in this case are examples of project constraints.
Question 11 - ID: 661307
Business value is also defined as the aggregate of all tangible and intangible elements of the business. Which of the following is NOT an example of a tangible business element?
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Good will is an intangible element, while the rest are considered tangible elements.
Question 12 - ID: 631116
The Close Project or Phase process is not performed when:
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The close project or phase process allows the project manager to close or finish a specific phase of the project.
Question 13 - ID: 371308
You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting at which you presented the requested changes to the employee move project. You had five change requests approved and one request rejected. These are outputs of what process?
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Approved and rejected change requests are outputs of the perform integrated change control process.
Question 14 - ID: 661862
Which of the following is neither an input nor an output of the Direct and Manage Project Work process?
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Approved deliverables are neither an input nor an output of the direct and manage project work process. Approved or accepted deliverables are outputs of the validate scope process and are the inputs of the close project or phase process.
Question 15 - ID: 921029
Jane is currently reviewing a list of project proposals. All the proposed projects achieve some of the organizational strategic objectives and their expected costs are known. However, Jane cannot execute all the projects due to the funding limitation. How shall Jane determine which projects she needs to execute this year?
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Project should never be prioritized based on their budgets. Selecting the projects that maximize organizational revenue or selecting the projects that maximize the business value seem good options. However, adding to business value takes precedence over adding the organizational revenue, since there can be projects that add more to the revenue but add less to the business value.
Question 16 - ID: 781600
All of the following are components of an effective change control process, except:
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Variance analysis is not a tool and technique of the perform integrated change control process. The other choices are valid tools and techniques of this process.
Question 17 - ID: 851293
You have recently become the project manager for a construction project. You are a new hire in your company and are unaware of the organizational project management standards. Which of the following can help you get a head start on your project?
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Reviewing the pmbok guide or developing the charter will not help you come on board with your organization’s work standards. Further, reviewing the lessons learned from you past similar projects won’t help since you are a new hire in the company and your past projects are not with this organization. The best way is to talk to other project managers in the company and get their expert opinion.
Question 18 - ID: 891518
Your team has built an exotic sports car for a wealthy client. The project team verified every deliverable against the quality requirements, and the client accepted. Now the project manager is arranging for the car delivery. This is part of which process group?
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It must be noted that the car has been built, and the control quality and validate scope processes have been performed for every deliverable. The question is asking about product delivery, which occurs during the closing process.
Question 19 - ID: 401216
Although it is highly recommended that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project lifecycle, lessons learned are finalized during project closure. At this stage, responses to high-level questions may be gathered and documented. Which of the following is not an appropriate question to ask at this stage?
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Lessons learned are extremely useful as they can save a lot of rework and mitigate a number of risks on future projects. However, validating the relevance to historic lessons learned to the project being closed do not add any value. [pmi best practice; not explicitly stated in pmbok] [project integration management]
Question 20 - ID: 821170
The best practice to gather and document lessons learned is during weekly progress meetings. The agenda can have a lessons-learned brainstorming item at the end of these meetings. You can ask team members to put forward their recommendations, but it is always better to adopt a more structured way to gather lessons learned. Which of the following approaches will ensure you capture important lessons learned on your project?
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Signing off minutes of the meeting is a good meeting management technique specially in highly bureaucratic environments. However, this doesn’t help at all in gathering lessons learned. Planning risk responses and determining estimates to complete are forward look-ahead of the project. Lessons learned can be captured through the review of project variances. You review the variances again and focus on how to avoid them in the future. You also identify other tasks or people who are likely to encounter the same issue so it can be avoided.
Question 21 - ID: 111222
The purpose of lessons learned is to bring together any insights gained during a project that can be usefully applied on future projects. When should a project manager ideally commence this activity?
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Manage project knowledge is the process of using existing knowledge and creating new knowledge to achieve the project's objectives and contribute to organizational learning. This process is performed throughout the project.
Question 22 - ID: 161281
You are working as the project manager on a mega-construction project. You need to prepare a quarterly report for the project investors. You need to collect work performance data and convert that into work performance information. Which of the following processes produces work performance data?
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Although the scenario of the question is broad, the question specifically asks about the process which produces work performance data. In other words, what is being asked is “Work Performance Data” is output of which of the given processes. The correct answer is direct & manage project work process.
Question 23 - ID: 831910
There is a heavy demand for new houses in your city's expensive neighborhood. RECON, a construction company, has employed you as a project manager to assess the benefit of building new energy-efficient houses in that neighborhood, even though it takes more expensive technology to build such houses. You have started gathering data to perform a detailed payback analysis to submit a report to your management. Since the full financial impact of building energy-efficient houses is difficult to estimate, you would like to prepare a rough costbenefit analysis and include it with the report. Which of the following describes the effort you are undertaking in this scenario?
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An organization's business need may arise due to advances in technology, a demand from the market or a legal requirement. The business need and cost-benefit analysis are documented in a business case. A business case determines whether the project is worth the investment. Payback analysis is also part of a business case. The business case and other documents are used as an input to the develop project charter process. Hence, you are making efforts to build a business case to input to the develop project charter process.
Question 24 - ID: 731313
You are having your project team members record the time they spend on different activities during the day, such as programming, electrical, HVAC, etc. This is an example of a tool and technique in what process?
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The monitor and control project work process tracks and reviews the project's progress.
Question 25 - ID: 951922
Changes in projects are inevitable. Therefore, project managers must develop or use a system to manage and control changes. There are four types of changes that need to be controlled in a project: Project changes, deliverable changes, process changes, and baseline changes. The impact of each of these changes must be evaluated, and approved or rejected changes must be communicated to all stakeholders, as and when required. Which of the following helps control these changes?
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Configuration control is focused on the specification of both the processes and deliverables, whereas change control is focused on project changes and the product baselines. A configuration control process and change control system must be implemented to handle all those changes.
Question 26 - ID: 641986
Debbie, an IT project manager, is in the planning phase of a shopping website development project. A junior project manager, who has worked under her authority, started developing procedures for maintaining the integrity of cost and schedule performance baselines in the project. Where should the junior project manager store these procedures?
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The baselines change only when a change request is generated. A project management plan documents the procedures for making changes to performance baselines. These baselines include scope, cost and schedule baselines. Therefore, the junior project manager must store these procedures in the project management plan.
Question 27 - ID: 302007
All the following activities are performed in the Close Project or Phase process except:
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Sending the deliverables to the customer for acceptance is an activity of the validate scope process. The other choices are activities related to the close project or phase process.
Question 28 - ID: 721850
Which of the following is not an example of a work performance report?
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The project charter is a high-level document that authorizes a project. It is not a work performance report. The other choices are valid examples of work performance reports.
Question 29 - ID: 131066
Change control tool selection should be based on the needs of the project stakeholders, including organizational and environmental considerations and/or constraints. Which of the following is not a key change management consideration while selecting an appropriate change control tool for a project?
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Configuration item verification and audit is related to configuration management instead of change management.
Question 30 - ID: 831954
You are managing a highly complex drug manufacturing project, and your sponsor is highly motivated and influential. You are optimistic about the outcome of the project; however, you are unsure about the project approval requirements that measure the project’s success. You would like to document the name of the person who signs off on the project and the criteria that constitute the project’s success. Which of the following documents should you use first to incorporate project approval requirements?
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Project approval requirements must be documented early in the project during the initiation phase. These requirements show the requisites for project success, the names of persons signing off on the project and deliverable requirements. Since the project charter is created in the initiation phase of the project, the project manager must include these requirements in the charter.

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