PK0-005 Tools and Documentation Practice Test 7 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A project manager is creating documents for procurement. Which TWO documents are typically used in procurement processes? (Select two.)

Accepted Answer

Request for proposal (RFP). The Request for Proposal (RFP) (option A) is a standard procurement document issued to solicit formal proposals from prospective vendors, specifying requirements, evaluation criteria, and submission terms, so it is correctly used in procurement processes. The Statement of Work (SOW) (option D) is also a core procurement document because it defines the detailed deliverables, scope, timelines, and acceptance criteria for the work to be performed under a contract. By contrast, the risk register (option B) and issue log (option E) are project monitoring and control artifacts used to track risks and problems, not to solicit or define vendor work. The communication plan (option C) governs how project information is distributed among stakeholders and is not a procurement-specific document.

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Risk register

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Communication plan

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Issue log

Question 2

A project manager is tracking remaining work over the course of a sprint to see if the team is on pace to complete all committed stories. Which agile artifact should the project manager use?

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Burndown chart. A burndown chart tracks the amount of remaining work (typically story points or hours) over the sprint duration, showing whether the team is on pace to complete all committed stories by sprint end. It plots remaining work on the Y-axis against time on the X-axis, with an ideal trend line for comparison.

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Velocity chart

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Burnup chart

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Gantt chart

Question 3

During project execution, a team discovers that the actual cost of work performed is $45,000, the planned value is $50,000, and the earned value is $40,000. Which statement is correct?

Accepted Answer

The project is behind schedule and over budget.. SV = EV - PV = $40,000 - $50,000 = -$10,000 (behind schedule). CV = EV - AC = $40,000 - $45,000 = -$5,000 (over budget).

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The project is behind schedule and under budget.

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The project is ahead of schedule and under budget.

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The project is ahead of schedule and over budget.

Question 4

A project team uses planning poker to estimate user stories. The product owner describes a story that involves integrating with a third-party API. The team discusses unknowns and then votes. The estimates are 5, 8, 13, and 20 story points. What should the team do next?

Accepted Answer

Discuss the reasoning behind each estimate and then re-vote.. When estimates vary widely, the team should discuss the outlier reasons, then re-vote. This is standard planning poker practice.

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Use the estimate from the most senior developer.

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Assign the story to the developer who gave the lowest estimate.

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Take the average of the estimates and move on.

Question 5

Which document formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities?

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Project charter. The project charter is the document that formally authorizes the project and gives the project manager authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. It is typically issued by the project sponsor or initiating authority and marks the transition from pre-project work to the formal project lifecycle. Without a charter, the project manager lacks formal authority.

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Statement of work

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Project management plan

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Business case

Question 6

A project manager is creating a RACI matrix for the project. One activity involves conducting security testing. The security lead will perform the testing, the project manager is responsible for ensuring it happens, and the compliance officer needs to be informed of the results. Which assignment is correct?

Accepted Answer

Security lead: Responsible; Project manager: Accountable; Compliance officer: Informed. In a RACI matrix, the person who performs the work is Responsible (R), the person ultimately answerable for the correct completion is Accountable (A), and those who need to be kept informed are Informed (I). Here, the security lead performs the testing, so they are Responsible; the project manager ensures it happens and is ultimately answerable, so they are Accountable; the compliance officer needs to be informed, so they are Informed. This matches option C.

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Security lead: Accountable; Project manager: Informed; Compliance officer: Responsible

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Security lead: Responsible; Project manager: Informed; Compliance officer: Accountable

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Security lead: Accountable; Project manager: Responsible; Compliance officer: Informed

Question 7

Which project scheduling tool shows activities as bars on a timeline, including dependencies and milestones?

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Gantt chart. A Gantt chart displays tasks as horizontal bars along a timeline, with dependencies and milestones clearly shown.

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Network diagram

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Control chart

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Milestone chart

Question 8

A project manager needs to identify which tasks are critical to the project's completion date. After creating the project schedule, which tool should be used to visualize the critical path?

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Network diagram. A network diagram (activity-on-node) with dependencies allows identification of the critical path (longest path with zero float).

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Burndown chart

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Milestone chart

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Gantt chart

Question 9

During a quality audit, the project team discovers that 80% of customer complaints are caused by 20% of the defect types. Which quality tool should the project manager use to present this data and prioritize corrective actions?

Accepted Answer

Pareto chart. A Pareto chart is the correct tool because it combines a bar chart of defect frequencies (ordered from highest to lowest) with a cumulative percentage line, visually demonstrating the 80/20 principle. It helps the project manager prioritize corrective actions by focusing on the 20% of defect types causing 80% of complaints.

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Scatter diagram

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Control chart

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Cause-and-effect diagram

Question 10

An agile team uses story points for estimating effort. During sprint planning, the team's average velocity is 30 story points per sprint. The product owner wants to commit to 35 story points for the upcoming sprint. What should the team do?

Accepted Answer

Commit to 30 story points based on historical velocity.. Velocity is the team's historical throughput, and committing to more than average velocity without a concrete capacity change sets the sprint up for failure. The team should commit to 30 story points based on demonstrated velocity, and if the product owner wants more, the backlog or team capacity must be renegotiated.

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Remove the definition of done to save time.

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Increase the sprint duration to accommodate more points.

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Accept the 35 story points to satisfy the product owner.

Question 11

A project team is using Jira for agile project management. They want to visualize the flow of work across columns such as 'To Do', 'In Progress', and 'Done'. Which board type should they use?

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Kanban board. A Kanban board in Jira is specifically designed to visualize continuous workflow across status columns such as 'To Do', 'In Progress', and 'Done', with work items moving left to right as they progress. It emphasizes flow, work-in-progress limits, and cycle time rather than time-boxed iterations. This directly matches the team's goal of visualizing work flow across columns.

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Scrum board

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Gantt chart

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Burndown chart

Question 12

A project has a budget at completion (BAC) of $200,000. The earned value (EV) is $100,000, and the actual cost (AC) is $120,000. What is the estimate at completion (EAC) assuming the current cost performance index (CPI) will remain the same?

Accepted Answer

$240,000. EAC is calculated as BAC / CPI when the current cost performance index is expected to continue. CPI = EV / AC = 100,000 / 120,000 = 0.8333. Therefore EAC = 200,000 / 0.8333 = $240,000. This reflects the projected total cost if the current cost inefficiency persists.

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$180,000

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$220,000

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$250,000

Question 13

Which THREE items are considered agile artefacts?

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Sprint backlog. The Sprint backlog (A) is a core agile artefact because it is the Scrum team's real-time plan of the work selected for the current Sprint, decomposed into tasks and owned by the Developers. The Product backlog (C) is the single, ordered, emergent list of everything that may be needed in the product, maintained by the Product Owner and refined continuously. The Burndown chart (D) is an agile artefact used to visualize remaining work versus time within a Sprint or release, supporting transparency and inspection. The Risk register (B) and RACI matrix (E) are traditional project-management documents typically associated with predictive/waterfall governance, not with agile frameworks such as Scrum.

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Risk register

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RACI matrix

Question 14

A project manager wants to visualize task dependencies and the critical path for a construction project. Which tool should they use?

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Network diagram. A network diagram (also called a PERT or precedence diagram) is the standard project management tool for visualizing task dependencies and identifying the critical path, because it explicitly shows the sequence of activities, their dependencies, and the longest path through the network. It is the only tool in the list designed specifically for dependency and critical-path analysis.

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Burndown chart

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Gantt chart

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Milestone chart

Question 15

In an agile project using Jira, the product owner wants to prioritize the work for the next iteration. Which document or artefact should they refer to?

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Product backlog. The product backlog is the single source of prioritized work for the product, and the product owner is responsible for ordering it. To plan the next iteration, the product owner reviews and re-prioritizes the product backlog, from which the highest-value items are selected into the sprint backlog during sprint planning.

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Burndown chart

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Sprint backlog

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RACI matrix