CAPM exam sample questions

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The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world's largest project management organisation, and its qualifications are achieved through rigorous examinations. Although the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) is aimed at project managers, coordinators and early career professionals with less experience, the exam is of similar difficulty to other PMI exams.

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1. Your project is moving ahead of schedule. Management elects to incorporate additional quality testing into the project to improve the quality and acceptability of the project deliverable. This is an example of which one of the following?

2. You have just informed your project team that each team member will be contributing to the lessons-learned register. Your team does not understand this approach and wants to know what the documentation will be used for. Which one of the following best describes the purpose of the lessons-learned documentation?

Your project is to document all the computer systems in your company. Your project team was required to document the operating systems, the hardware, the network configuration, and the software on each computer. You have finished the project scope according to plan. For the customer to accept the project, what must happen next?

4. One of the stakeholders of the project you are managing asks why you consider the scope statement so important in your project management methodology. You answer her question with which of the following?

5. With four months to completion, you realize your project is running late. You decide, with management's approval, to change the relationship between several of the work packages so they begin in tandem rather than sequentially. This is an example of which one of the following?

6. Christina, a project manager for her company, is explaining the difference between a Gantt chart and a milestone chart. Which of the following best describes a Gantt chart?

7 What is the present value if an organization expects to make $100,000 four years from now and the annual interest rate is 6 percent?

8. You are the project manager for the construction of a new hotel. Before you begin the cost budgeting process, what is needed?

Which of the following can be described as a business philosophy to find methods that will continuously improve products, services, and business practices?

10. Yolanda is the project manager for her company and she's working with the project team to identify errors in the project deliverables. As part of the process, Yolanda and the team must calculate the cost of the error, the materials, the time, and the cost to redo the work. In this instance, with regard to quality management, which of the following is not an attribute of failure costs that Yolanda will need to consider?

11. Charles is the project manager for the WAC Project. The customer and a project team member are in conflict over the level of quality needed on a sampling. Charles decides to split the difference between what the two stakeholders want. This is an example of which of the following?

12. Your latest project will span across three countries and use four languages: English, Chinese, French, and Spanish. In this project, you'll rely heavily on virtual project management. Of the following, which one is a benefit of using a collocated team?

13. You are presenting your project performance to your key stakeholders. Several of the stakeholders receive phone calls during your presentation, and this is distracting from your message. This is an example of what?

14 You are the project manager for the OOK Project. You will be hosting project meetings every week. Of the following, which one is not a valid rule for project meetings?

Your project sponsor has asked that you use an approach to measure the probability and impact of the risk events and then to rank the events accordingly. Which risk analysis provides the project manager with a risk ranking?

16. You are presented with the following: 40% and $500. What is the EMC?

17. A project manager is considering the marketplace and how it may affect the pricing on the procured portion of her project. She determines that in her market, there is only a single-source seller. A single-source seller means what?

18. Which one of the following is not a valid evaluation criterion for source selection?

19. Which one of the following examples best describes the concept of interactive communications in stakeholder management?

20. How does the issue log help you prepare to control stakeholder engagement?