CAPM Practice Test 32 — 15 Questions

Question 1

Which THREE are components of the project management plan?

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Cost baseline. The cost baseline (B), scope baseline (D), and schedule baseline (E) are components of the project management plan. The risk register (A) and stakeholder register (C) are project documents, not part of the plan.

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Risk register

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Stakeholder register

Question 2

A business analyst has developed a working prototype for a new user interface. The prototype is used to demonstrate the workflow to stakeholders and gather feedback. Which type of requirements validation does this represent?

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Validation. Validation ensures the right product is built, often through demonstration and feedback. Verification checks if the product is built correctly. Prototyping is a validation technique to confirm requirements meet user needs.

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Quality assurance

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Peer review

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Verification

Question 3

A project manager is developing a work breakdown structure (WBS) for a software development project. The team is struggling with defining the lowest-level work packages. Which technique should the project manager use to ensure the WBS is complete and properly decomposed?

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Decomposition. Decomposition is the correct technique because it is the process of subdividing project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work package level is reached. This directly addresses the team's struggle with defining the lowest-level work packages, ensuring the WBS is complete and properly decomposed by breaking down deliverables iteratively.

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Critical path method

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Expert judgment

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Rolling wave planning

Question 4

A team is new to Agile and wants to implement a framework that emphasizes iterative development, time-boxed iterations, and a prioritized backlog. Which framework should they adopt?

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Scrum. Scrum is the correct framework because it explicitly prescribes time-boxed iterations (sprints), a prioritized backlog (Product Backlog), and iterative development through defined events like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. This aligns directly with the team's requirements for a structured Agile framework that enforces these core practices.

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Kanban

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Lean

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Extreme Programming (XP)

Question 5

A company uses Scrum with two-week sprints. The team's velocity is 30 story points per sprint, and they have a well-refined product backlog. However, stakeholders frequently introduce urgent, high-priority requests mid-sprint, which the Product Owner accepts because of stakeholder pressure. As a result, the team is overcommitted each sprint, often leaving 40% of planned work incomplete. The Product Owner is frustrated because promised features are delayed, and the team feels demotivated due to constant interruptions. The Scrum Master has been asked to intervene. What is the best course of action for the Scrum Master?

Accepted Answer

Facilitate stakeholder negotiation to limit mid-sprint changes and reinforce the importance of the sprint goal.. The Scrum Master's primary role is to protect the Scrum framework and facilitate collaboration. By negotiating with stakeholders and reinforcing the sprint goal's importance, the Scrum Master addresses the root cause—uncontrolled scope changes—without violating Scrum principles. This approach preserves the team's focus and velocity, preventing overcommitment and demotivation.

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Instruct the Product Owner to defer all mid-sprint changes to the next sprint.

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Add a capacity buffer to each sprint to accommodate unexpected requests.

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Implement a change control board to approve all mid-sprint changes.

Question 6

Which of the following best defines a project?

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A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.. The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project as 'a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.' The key characteristics are temporality (definite start and end) and uniqueness (the output is different from all other products or services). This definition is foundational to the CAPM exam and distinguishes projects from operations.

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An ongoing process to produce the same product repeatedly.

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A set of tasks that can be completed in any order.

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A routine operation with a defined start and end.

Question 7

A business analyst is using a context diagram to model the scope of a system. What does a context diagram primarily show?

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The system boundary and external entities that interact with it. A context diagram defines the system boundary and external entities that interact with the system. It is a high-level data flow diagram that focuses on external interactions rather than internal processes. Option A is incorrect because a context diagram does not show internal architecture; that would be a system architecture diagram. Option B is incorrect because sequence of interactions is depicted in a sequence diagram, not a context diagram. Option D is incorrect because detailed processes and data flows are shown in lower-level data flow diagrams, not the context diagram.

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Internal architecture of the system

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Sequence of interactions between objects

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Detailed system processes and data flows

Question 8

Which TWO of the following are outputs of the 'Define Activities' process in predictive project management?

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Activity attributes. Options B and D are correct. The Define Activities process in predictive project management outputs the activity list and activity attributes. Option A (project schedule) is an output of the Develop Schedule process. Option C (work breakdown structure) is an input to Define Activities. Option E (resource breakdown structure) is an output of the Estimate Activity Resources process.

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Project schedule

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Work breakdown structure

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Resource breakdown structure

Question 9

A project manager is reviewing the project schedule and notices that a task has a lead time of 2 days. What does this indicate?

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The task can start 2 days before its predecessor finishes. Lead time allows a successor activity to start before its predecessor finishes. A lead of 2 days means the successor can start 2 days before the predecessor finishes. Lag is the opposite (wait time). Float is not directly related.

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The task has 2 days of float

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The task duration is 2 days

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The task cannot start until 2 days after its predecessor finishes

Question 10

A project manager is planning a project and needs to identify all the work required to complete the project successfully. Which document is the primary output of the Create WBS process?

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Scope baseline. The Create WBS process decomposes the project scope into manageable work packages, and its primary output is the scope baseline. The scope baseline consists of the project scope statement, the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and the WBS dictionary, which together define all the work required to complete the project successfully.

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Project charter

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Requirements traceability matrix

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Work performance data

Question 11

The team notices that work is piling up in the Testing column. The WIP limit for Testing is 3, but currently there are 5 items. What should the team do first?

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Focus the team on completing testing items until the WIP limit is met.. When a WIP limit is exceeded, the team should swarm on the bottleneck to complete the items in that column, thereby reducing work-in-progress and restoring flow. In Kanban, exceeding a WIP limit signals a constraint that must be resolved by finishing existing work, not by adding more. This aligns with the core principle of limiting WIP to improve throughput and cycle time.

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Move items from Backlog to To Do to increase throughput.

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Ignore the WIP limit and continue as is.

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Move some testing items back to In Progress.

Question 12

In a predictive project life cycle, which of the following best describes the relationship between scope, time, and cost?

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Scope is fixed, time and cost are estimated.. In a predictive project life cycle, the scope is defined and fixed early in the project, while the time and cost are estimated based on that scope. Therefore, Option B correctly states that scope is fixed and time and cost are estimated. Option A is incorrect because not all three are fixed; time and cost are estimates. Option C is incorrect because it describes an adaptive life cycle where scope is variable, not predictive. Option D is incorrect because scope is not variable in predictive life cycles.

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All three are fixed.

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Time and cost are fixed, scope is variable.

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All three are variable.

Question 13

In a predictive project life cycle, which three of the following are characteristics of a work breakdown structure (WBS)? (Choose three)

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The lowest level is called a work package.. A WBS is hierarchical, decomposes scope to the work package level, and ensures all deliverables are identified. It does not assign roles or include cost estimates.

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It is used to assign project roles and responsibilities.

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It includes cost estimates for each element.

Question 14

Which THREE of the following are processes that belong to the Planning process group?

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Sequence Activities. Options B, C, and E are correct. Create WBS, Sequence Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources are all Planning processes. Develop Project Charter is Initiating, and Control Quality is Monitoring and Controlling.

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Control Quality

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Develop Project Charter

Question 15

Refer to the exhibit. Which task has a dependency that requires the successor to start 2 days after the predecessor starts?

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Task A. A Start-to-Start (SS) dependency with a 2-day lag means the successor task starts 2 days after the predecessor starts. Task A has this dependency, matching the requirement. Task D (Option A) has a different dependency, Task B (Option C) has Finish-to-Start, and Task C (Option D) has Start-to-Start but without a lag.

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Task D

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Task B

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Task C