PK0-005 Practice Test 31 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A project team is identifying risks. They gather a group of experts who provide anonymous responses to a questionnaire. The facilitator aggregates the responses and shares them, then the experts revise their answers. Which technique is being used?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

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Delphi technique. The Delphi technique is a structured, iterative risk-identification method where a panel of experts answers anonymous questionnaires. The facilitator aggregates and redistributes the responses, allowing experts to revise their opinions over multiple rounds until consensus is reached. Anonymity reduces bias and prevents dominant personalities from swaying the group, which is exactly what the scenario describes.

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Brainstorming

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SWOT analysis

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Assumptions analysis

Question 2

A project team is experiencing conflicts and power struggles among members. According to Tuckman's stages of group development, which stage is the team likely in?

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Storming. Tuckman's Storming stage is characterized by conflict, power struggles, and disagreements among team members as they assert their roles and ideas. It follows Forming and precedes Norming. The described conflicts and power struggles are textbook indicators of Storming, where personalities and working styles clash before the team coalesces.

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Performing

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Forming

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Norming

Question 3

In which type of organizational structure does the project manager have the least authority?

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Functional. In a functional organizational structure, the project manager has the least authority because team members report to functional managers, and the project manager acts more as a coordinator. The functional manager controls resources and priorities, leaving the project manager with limited power.

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Projectized

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Balanced matrix

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Strong matrix

Question 4

During project execution, a stakeholder requests an additional feature. The project manager documents the request and evaluates its impact on the triple constraint. Which process is being performed?

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Integrated change control. Integrated change control is the process of reviewing all change requests, approving or rejecting them, and managing changes to deliverables, project documents, and the project management plan. Documenting a stakeholder's feature request and evaluating its impact on the triple constraint (scope, time, cost) is the textbook definition of this process. It ensures changes are assessed before implementation.

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Risk management

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Configuration management

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Scope verification

Question 5

A project manager is creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Which technique is used to break down deliverables into smaller, manageable components?

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Decomposition. Decomposition is the technique used to break down project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components, ultimately producing work packages at the lowest level of the WBS. It involves subdividing scope and deliverables into progressively finer levels until the work can be estimated, scheduled, and assigned. This is the core technique of the Create WBS process.

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Bottom-up estimating

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Precedence diagramming

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Rolling wave planning

Question 6

A project manager is tracking project performance and notices that the SPI is 0.8 and the CPI is 1.2. What does this indicate about the project?

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Behind schedule and under budget. SPI (Schedule Performance Index) of 0.8 indicates that for every unit of planned work, only 0.8 units have been completed, meaning the project is behind schedule. CPI (Cost Performance Index) of 1.2 indicates that for every dollar spent, $1.20 worth of work has been earned, meaning the project is under budget. Therefore, the project is behind schedule and under budget, making option C correct.

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Ahead of schedule and under budget

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Ahead of schedule and over budget

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Behind schedule and over budget

Question 7

A project is near completion, but the key stakeholder cannot perform user acceptance testing (UAT) due to prior commitments. What should the project manager do?

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Ask the stakeholder to delegate UAT to a qualified team member. UAT is a validation activity that must be performed by someone who can represent the stakeholder's business interests and has the authority to accept or reject deliverables. When the key stakeholder is unavailable, the PM should not skip UAT or unilaterally delay the project; instead, the stakeholder should delegate the UAT responsibility to a qualified team member who understands the business requirements. This preserves the integrity of the acceptance process while keeping the schedule on track.

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Proceed without UAT

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Document the issue and request an extension

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Escalate to the project sponsor

Question 8

Which of the following documents formally authorizes the project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources?

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Project charter. The project charter is the formal document that authorizes the project's existence and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. It is issued by the project sponsor or initiator and establishes a partnership between the performing and requesting organizations. Without a signed charter, the project manager lacks the official mandate to commit resources or make binding decisions.

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Scope statement

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Business case

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Project plan

Question 9

You are the project manager for a mid-sized company that provides an online customer portal. The portal is hosted on a single virtual machine (VM) in the company's on-premises data center with 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and a 500 GB HDD. The VM runs Windows Server 2019 and hosts both the web server (IIS) and the database (SQL Server Express). Users have been reporting slow performance, especially during peak hours (10 AM - 2 PM). The system administrator notes that CPU usage spikes to 95% during those times, and disk I/O latency averages 50 ms. The company's budget is limited, and they want a cost-effective solution that can be implemented within two weeks. The project sponsor suggests migrating to the cloud, but the IT director is concerned about security and compliance. The company has no existing cloud infrastructure or virtual private network (VPN) to the cloud. You need to propose a solution that improves performance without incurring high costs or long delays. Which of the following is the BEST course of action?

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Create two separate VMs: one for the web server with 2 vCPUs and 8 GB RAM, and one for the database with 2 vCPUs and 8 GB RAM. Replace the HDD with an SSD on both VMs.. Separating the web server and database onto two VMs eliminates resource contention between IIS and SQL Server Express, which is the root cause of the CPU and I/O spikes. Replacing the HDD with SSDs reduces disk I/O latency from 50 ms to under 1 ms, directly addressing the performance bottleneck. This solution is cost-effective and can be implemented within two weeks using existing on-premises hardware, without requiring cloud migration or VPN setup.

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Migrate the entire portal to a public cloud provider using a lift-and-shift approach, and set up a VPN connection for security.

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Upgrade the existing VM by adding more RAM and using a faster HDD with a larger cache.

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Implement IIS compression and enable SQL Server data compression to reduce CPU and I/O load.

Question 10

A project manager needs to communicate the project's progress to stakeholders with high power and low interest. According to the power/interest grid, which communication approach is most appropriate?

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Keep satisfied with periodic high-level updates.. Stakeholders with high power and low interest fall into the 'Keep Satisfied' quadrant of the power/interest grid. They have the authority to influence the project but lack day-to-day interest, so they need periodic high-level updates that reassure them without overwhelming them with detail. This approach ensures their concerns are addressed while respecting their limited engagement.

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Manage closely with frequent detailed reports.

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Keep informed with regular status reports.

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Monitor with minimal communication.

Question 11

A project manager is assigned to a new project. The sponsor provides a high-level scope and asks for a cost estimate. Which estimation technique should the project manager use at this early stage?

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Analogous estimating. At the early stage of a project when only a high-level scope is available, analogous estimating is the most appropriate technique. It uses historical data from similar past projects to produce a rough order-of-magnitude (ROM) estimate quickly, without requiring detailed breakdowns. This aligns with the PMBOK guide's recommendation for early, top-down estimates when information is limited.

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Three-point estimating

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Parametric estimating

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Bottom-up estimating

Question 12

A project to implement a new backup solution. Which THREE components are essential for a comprehensive backup strategy? (Choose three.)

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Retention policy. A retention policy (A) is essential because it defines how long each backup generation is kept and when it can be expired or overwritten, which directly governs recoverability to specific points in time and compliance with data-retention requirements. Backup scheduling (D) is essential because it determines the frequency and timing of full, incremental, or differential jobs, ensuring the RPO (recovery point objective) is actually met. Off-site storage (E) is essential because it provides geographic separation from the primary site, protecting backups against site-wide disasters such as fire, flood, or ransomware that could destroy locally stored copies. Compression (B) is only an optimization that reduces storage and bandwidth consumption, and replication (C) is a redundancy/availability technique; neither is required for a backup strategy to be comprehensive, since backups can function without them.

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Compression

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Replication

Question 13

A project manager uses a power/interest grid to categorize stakeholders. Stakeholders with high power and low interest should be managed using which approach?

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Keep satisfied. High power, low interest stakeholders need to be kept satisfied to prevent them from using their power against the project.

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Manage closely

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Keep informed

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Monitor

Question 14

A project manager is leading a construction project. The team identifies a risk that a key supplier may go bankrupt. The project manager decides to purchase insurance to cover potential losses. Which risk response strategy is being used?

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Transfer. Purchasing insurance transfers the financial risk of the supplier's bankruptcy to the insurance company. This is a classic example of the Transfer risk response strategy, where the impact of the risk is shifted to a third party, not eliminated or reduced.

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Accept

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Avoid

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Mitigate

Question 15

Which TWO documents are typically created during the project initiating phase?

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Stakeholder register. The project initiating phase produces the documents that formally authorize the project and begin identifying the people involved. Option C, the project charter, is correct because it is the document that formally authorizes the existence of the project and gives the project manager authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. Option A, the stakeholder register, is correct because stakeholder identification is performed during initiating, and the stakeholder register is the output that records identified stakeholders and relevant information about them. Option B, the status report, is not part of initiating; status reports are created during project execution and monitoring/controlling to communicate progress. Option D, the work breakdown structure, is not part of initiating; the WBS is created during project planning as part of scope management. Option E, the risk register, is not part of initiating; it is an output of the risk management processes performed during planning.

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Status report

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Work breakdown structure

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Risk register