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CAPM® practice questions: Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
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1/5 · Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
A new project manager has just been assigned to lead an initiative. Before any planning work begins, the sponsor issues a signed document that formally authorizes the project's existence and grants the project manager the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. What is this document?
AThe business case
BThe project charter
CThe stakeholder register
DThe project management plan
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2/5 · Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts · hard
A stakeholder asks the project manager to add a new feature that was not part of the originally approved scope. The project manager believes the change is small and could be completed quickly. According to basic change control practice, what should the project manager do next?
AImplement the change immediately since it appears small and will save time.
BRefuse to consider the request because the scope was already approved and can never change.
CApprove the change unilaterally without recording it, since the project manager has final say over scope.
DSubmit a formal change request and have its impact on scope, schedule, and cost assessed before any decision to implement it.
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3/5 · Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
A project manager is deciding how, when, and to whom project status updates will be distributed throughout the project, including the format and frequency appropriate for each stakeholder group. Which document should capture this information?
ACommunications management plan.
BStakeholder register.
CRisk register.
DIssue log.
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4/5 · Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
A manufacturing plant runs the same production line every day using the same repeated processes to make an established product. Separately, the company starts a one-time initiative to design and build a brand-new production line, which will conclude once the line is built and handed over to the plant's daily operations team. How should these two efforts be classified?
AThe daily production work is operations (ongoing, repetitive work producing the same output), while building the new line is a project (a temporary endeavor with a definite start and end).
BThe daily production work is a program, and building the new line is a portfolio.
CBoth are projects, because both require organizational resources and coordinated work to be completed.
DThe daily production work is a project because it produces a product, and building the new line is operations because it follows standard construction steps.
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5/5 · Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
Midway through execution, a team lead reports that a key data feed has already stopped working, halting a scheduled task. Separately, the project manager notes that the same vendor's history suggests future feeds might be delayed. How should these two items be logged?
ABoth belong in the issue log, because the issue log captures anything that could ever affect the project schedule.
BThe data feed failure is a risk because it originated with a third party, while the future delay is an issue because it is expected to happen.
CBoth belong in the risk register, since risk registers are used to track anything related to a vendor.
DThe data feed failure is an issue (already occurred, tracked in the issue log), while the possible future delay is a risk (an uncertain future event, tracked in the risk register).
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D is correct. An issue is a current fact or condition that is already impacting or has already impacted the project and is tracked in the issue log, while a risk is an uncertain future event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on the project and is tracked in the risk register. Confusing an already-occurred problem with an uncertain future one leads to the wrong tool being used to manage it.
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