PMP Questions For Practice

Robin, the project manager for CID Corporation is working as a project manager. One of the senior functional managers instructed him to work for the upcoming project. Robin told the manager it not a project but an operational work because _______

a. Ongoing and repetitive
b. Contrained by limited resources
c. Planned, executed, and controlled
d. Creates a unique product or service

Ans. a

Explanation:
Ongoing and repetitiveis a characteristic of operational work. Constrained by limited resources as well as creating a unique product or service are the characteristic of project. Also, a project is planned, executed, and controlled.

Domain: 1.3: Foundational
Reference: PMBOK5 Section 1.2 Page 3.

Question 2:

Tim, the new project manager of US based developer company has very little project management experience, but he has been assigned as the project manager of a new skyscrapers project. Because he is working in a matrix organization to complete is project, he can expect communication to be:

a. Open and accurate
b. Hard to automate
c. Complex
d. Simple

ans. C

Explanation:

In a matrix organization is communication is expected to be complex. Hard to automate in some cases right, but is not a general characteristic of matrix organizatio. So, Complex is the obvious choice. In Projectized organization, it can be simple.

Domain name: 1.3 Foundational
Reference: PMBOK5 Sec 2.1 Page 21