CAPM is the world’s most respected project management credential. The CAPM certification exam comprises 150 questions and requires a good CAPM study plan to pass. The secret to passing the CAPM certification exam is to spend as much time practicing with CAPM questions and answers before the exam.
Take notes when practicing CAPM questions and answers, especially on any mistakes you make. Then, return to the corresponding project management subject area and reread the topic to reinforce your understanding.
Now is the time to put your knowledge to the test with these ten questions!
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CAPM Questions and Answers #1
A manager and the head of engineering discuss a change to a significant work package. After the meeting, the manager contacts you and tells you to complete the change paperwork. This is an example of:
A-) Management attention to scope management.
B-) Management planning.
C-) A project expediter position.
D-) A change control system.
The answer is C. In this situation, the project manager acts as the secretary of the project and does the paperwork. So this is an example of a project expediter position where the project manager does not have authority and power. The project manager does only paperwork.
Knowledge Area: Organizational Influences and Project Lifecycle
CAPM Questions and Answers #2
During a team meeting, a team member asks about the measurements used on the Project to judge performance. The team member feels that some of the measures related to his activities are not valid measurements. The Project is BEST considered in what part of the project management process?
A-) Initiating
B-) Executing
C-) Monitoring & Controlling
D-) Closing
The answer is B. Executing. The question states that the team member feels some of the measures on his activities are not valid. Therefore, he must be working during the executing phase of the Project where project deliverables are produced, and project members perform most of the work they should do.
Knowledge Area: Project Management Processes
CAPM Questions and Answers #3
Your company just won a significant new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at 2m USD. You are the project manager for an existing project. What is the FIRST thing you should do once you hear of the new Project?
A-) Ask management how the new Project will use resources
B-) Resource level your Project
C-) Crash your Project
D-) Ask management how the new project will affect your Project
The answer is D. Ask management how the new project will affect your Project. Since this is another project that your company will execute, you need to be sure whether it will impact your Project.
Knowledge Area: Integration Management Knowledge Area
CAPM Questions and Answers #4
You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on _____ during planning to improve your chance of success.
A-) Your intuition and training
B-) Stakeholder analysis
C-) Historical information
D-) Configuration management
The answer is C. Historical information. The first thing to explore before starting a new project is the historical information about similar projects in the organizational process assets library of the organization.
Knowledge Area: Integration Management Knowledge Area
CAPM Questions and Answers #5
During project execution, a team member comes to the project manager because he is unsure what work he needs to accomplish on the Project. Which of the following documents contain detailed descriptions of work packages?
A-) WBS Dictionary
B-) Activity List
C-) Project scope statement
D-) Scope management plan
The answer is A. WBS Dictionary. Work packages in a Work Breakdown Structure contain only nouns or a couple of words regarding work or deliverable. The Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary includes detailed information on what needs to be done, responsible, prerequisites, successors, due date, etc.
Knowledge Area: Scope Management Knowledge Area
CAPM Questions and Answers #6
During a meeting with some project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and remembered that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to do is to:
A-) Let the sponsor know of the stakeholders’ requests
B-) Evaluate the impact of adding the scope
C-) Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added
D-) Add the work if there is time available in the Project schedule
The answer is C. Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added. After the project’s scope is finalized and the scope baseline is determined, it can be changed only with the approved changed requests. If there is no approved change request, the existing scope baseline must be valid, and the project team must work on delivering that scope only. The scope is defined already in the scenario, but some stakeholders ask to add new work to the scope. This cannot be done unless there is an approved change request. Therefore, stakeholders must be informed that this new work cannot be added.
Knowledge Area: Scope Management Knowledge Area
CAPM Questions and Answers #7
Your project management plan results in a project schedule that is too long. What is the BEST thing to do if the project network diagram cannot change, but you have extra personnel resources?
A-) Fast track the Project.
B-) Level the resources.
C-) Crash the Project.
D-) Monte Carlo analysis.
The answer is C, crash the Project. Because, in the first sentence, it is mentioned that the schedule is too long. Therefore the aim is to make a shorter schedule. And in the second sentence, it is said that you have extra personnel resources. If you have resources, you can put more resources into an activity to complete it in a shorter time. And this is a description of crashing an activity or crashing the Project. If you look at the other options, fast-tracking was performing activities in parallel instead of series. Therefore it is irrelevant. Leveling the resources was for fixing the over-allocation and distributing the tasks to all your resources uniformly. And Monte Carlo analysis was another estimating tool which is an irrelevant choice as well. Therefore, here the best answer is C.
Knowledge Area: Schedule Management Knowledge Area
CAPM Questions and Answers #8
An activity has an early start (ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) on day 13, an early finish (EF) on day 9, and a late finish (LF) on day 19. The activity:
A-) Is on the critical path.
B-) Has a lag.
C-) Is progressing well.
D-) Is not on the critical path.
The answer is D. is not on the critical path. Because if you look to the early start and late start values of the activity, you can find the float or the slack of activity’s time by subtracting early start, three days, from the late start, 13 days. And it gives ten days of float for this activity. You will find the same result if you subtract the early finish, nine days, from the late finish, 19 days. Since the float of the activity or the slack of the activity is more significant than zero, it’s not on the critical path. Remember, the essential path activity had zero floats. Therefore the answer is D.
Knowledge Area: Schedule Management Knowledge Area
CAPM Questions and Answers #9
Early in your project’s life, you are discussing with the sponsor what estimating techniques should be used. You want a form of expert judgment, but the sponsor argues for analogous estimating. It would be BEST to:
A-) Agree to analogous estimating, as it is a form of expert judgment
B-) Suggest life cycle costing
C-) Determine why the sponsor wants such an accurate estimate
D-) Try to convince the sponsor to allow expert judgment because it is typically more accurate.
The answer is A. Agree to analogous estimating, as it is a form of expert judgment. Since analogous estimating is a type of specialist judgment, you can accept it. This is a tricky question.
Knowledge Area: Cost Management Knowledge Area
CAPM Questions and Answers #10
A schedule performance index, SPI, of 0.75 means:
A-) Project is over budget.
B-) Project is ahead of schedule.
C-) Project is progressing at 75% of the rate originally planned
D-) Project is progressing at 25% of the rate originally planned
The answer is C. The Project is progressing at 75% of the rate originally planned. A is irrelevant because SPI is a schedule performance index. We cannot derive any conclusion about the budget performance of the Project with this index. B is not correct because SPI is less than one. Therefore, the Project is behind schedule. And D says that you have completed 25% of the work you originally planned, so it’s not correct. The correct answer here is C because SPI 0.75 means you have completed 75% of the work that you have planned initially.
Knowledge Area: Cost Management Knowledge Area
Conclusion
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