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Certified Associate in Project Management Exam – Q’s And A’s
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Certified Associate in Project Management Exam– Q’s And A’s
What is a Project? ✔️Ans - A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a
unique product, service, or result.
What is a Program? ✔️Ans - A group of related projects, subprograms, and
program activities managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not
available from managing them individually.
What is a Portfolio? ✔️Ans - Projects, programs, subsidiary portfolios, and
operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Describe the Predictive Life Cycle (Waterfall) ✔️Ans - In a predictive life
cycle, the project scope, time, and cost are determined in the early phases of
the life cycle. Any changes to the scope are carefully managed
Describe the Iterative Life Cycle ✔️Ans - The project scope is generally
determined early in the project life cycle, but time and cost estimates are
routinely modified as the project team's understanding of the product
increases. Iterations develop the product through a series of repeated cycles,
while increments successively add to the functionality of the product.
Describe the Incremental Life Cycle ✔️Ans - The deliverable is produced
through a series of iterations that successively add functionality within a
predetermined time frame. The deliverable contains the necessary and
sufficient capability to be considered complete only after the final iteration.
Describe the Adaptive Life Cycle (Agile) ✔️Ans - The detailed scope is
defined and approved before the start of an iteration. Adaptive life cycles are
also referred to as agile or change-driven life cycles.
Describe the Hybrid Life Cycle ✔️Ans - A combination of predictive and an
adaptive life cycle. Those elements of the project that are well known or have
fixed requirements follow a predictive development life cycle, and those
elements that are still evolving follow an adaptive development life cycle.
,What is a Project Phase? ✔️Ans - A collection of logically related project
activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
What are the 5 Project Management Process Groups ✔️Ans - Initiating,
Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing
Define Project Integration Management ✔️Ans - Includes the processes and
activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various
processes and project management activities within the Project Management
Process Groups.
Define Project Scope Management ✔️Ans - The processes required to
ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work
required, to complete the project successfully.
Define Project Schedule Management ✔️Ans - The processes required to
manage the timely completion of the project.
Define Project Cost Management ✔️Ans - The processes involved in
planning, estimating, budgeting, financing, funding, managing, and controlling
costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Define Project Quality Management ✔️Ans - The processes and activities of
the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and
responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was
undertaken
Define Project Resource Management ✔️Ans - The processes to identify,
acquire, and manage the resources needed for the successful completion of
the project.
Define Project Communications Management ✔️Ans - The processes that
are required to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation,
distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the
ultimate disposition of project information.
Define Project Risk Management ✔️Ans - The processes of conducting risk
management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and
controlling risk on a project.
, Define Project Procurement Management ✔️Ans - Includes the processes
necessary to purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from
outside the project team.
Define Project Stakeholder Management ✔️Ans - Includes the processes
required to identify the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or
be impacted by the project, to analyze stakeholder expectations and their
impact on the project, and to develop appropriate management strategies for
effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution.
Define Work Performance Data ✔️Ans - The raw observations and
measurements identified during activities being performed to carry out the
project work.
Define Work Performance Information ✔️Ans - The performance data
collected from various controlling processes, analyzed in context and
integrated based on relationships across areas.
Define Work Performance Reports ✔️Ans - The physical or electronic
representation of work performance information compiled in project
documents, intended to generate decisions, actions, or awareness.
Define Tailoring ✔️Ans - Determining the appropriate combination of
processes, inputs, tools, techniques, outputs, and life cycle phases to manage a
project.
Define Organizational Process Assets (OPA) ✔️Ans - Plans, processes,
policies, procedures, and knowledge bases that are specific to and used by the
performing organization.
Define Environmental External Factors (EEF) ✔️Ans - Refers to conditions
which are not under the control of the project team, that influence, constrain,
or direct the project.
What is a Supportive PMO? ✔️Ans - Provides a consultative role to projects
by supplying templates, best practices, training access to information, and
lessons learned from other projects. Has a low control of projects.
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