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A. The events should be entered into qualitative risk analysis.
B. The events should be determined if they need to be accepted or responded to.
C. The events should be entered into the risk register.
D. The events should continue on with quantitative risk analysis.
PMI-RMP PMIRisk ManagementProfessional Practice Test
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QUESTION NO: 1
Lisa is the project manager of the SQL project for her company. She has completed the risk
response planning with her project team and is now ready to update the risk register to reflect the
risk response. Which of the following statements best describes the level of detail Lisa should
include with the risk responses she has created?
A. The level of detail is set by historical information.
B. The level of detail should correspond with the priority ranking.
C. The level of detail must define exactly the risk response for each identified risk.
D. The level of detail is set of project risk governance.[
QUESTION NO: 2
Jenny is the project manager for the NBT projects. She is working with the project team and
several subject matter experts to perform the quantitative risk analysis process. During this
process she and the project team uncover several risks events that were not previously identified.
What should Jenny do with these risk events?
QUESTION NO: 3
You work as the project manager for Bluewell Inc. Your project has several risks that will affect
several stakeholder requirements. Which project management plan will define who will be
available to share information on the project risks?
A. Risk Management Plan
B. Stakeholder management strategy
C. Resource Management Plan
D. Communications Management Plan
QUESTION NO: 4
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your project is using a new material to construct
a large warehouse in your city. This new material is cheaper than traditional building materials, but
it takes some time to learn how to use the material properly. You have communicated to the
project stakeholders that you will be able to save costs by using the new material, but you will
need a few extra weeks to complete training to use the materials. This risk response of learning
how to use the new materials can also be known as what term?
A. Team development
B. Benchmarking
C. Cost of conformance to quality
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D. Acceptance is the only risk response for positive risk events.
D. Sammy is correct, because she is the project manager.
QUESTION NO: 5
Jenny is the project manager of the NHJ Project for her company. She has identified several
positive risk events within the project and she thinks these events can save the project time and
money. You, a new team member wants to know that how many risk responses are available for a
positive risk event. What will Jenny reply to you?
A. Four
B. Three
C. Seven
QUESTION NO: 6
You are working with Anna on your project to determine and map the probability distributions of
risk within the project. You have indicated that you will use the uniform distribution method for a
portion of the project. Which part of your project is most likely to have a uniform risk distribution?
A. Late completion stages of a project
B. Project phases that deal with "cutover" technologies
C. Early concept stage of design
D. Project initiating
QUESTION NO: 7
You are the project manager of the GYH project for your organization. Management has asked
you to begin identifying risks and to use an information gathering technique. Which one of the
following risk identification approaches is an information gathering technique?
A. Root cause analysis
B. Assumptions analysis
C. SWOT analysis
D. Documentation reviews
QUESTION NO: 8
Sammy is the project manager for her organization. She would like to rate each risk based on its
probability and effect on time, cost, and scope. Harry, a project team member, has never done this
before and thinks Sammy is wrong to attempt this approach. Harry says that an accumulative risk
score should be created, not three separate risk scores. Who is correct in this scenario?
A. Harry is correct, because the risk probability and impact considers all objectives of the project.
B. Harry is correct, the risk probability and impact matrix is the only approach to risk assessment.
C. Sammy is correct, because organizations can create risk scores for each objective of the
project.
QUESTION NO: 9
Your organization has named you the project manager of the JKN Project. This project has a BAC
of $1,500,000 and it is expected to last 18 months. Management has agreed that if the schedule
baseline has a variance of more than five percent then you will need to crash the project. What
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A. Project risks will increase.
B. The project will take longer to complete, but risks will diminish.
C. Project costs will increase.
D. The amount of hours a resource can be used will diminish.
QUESTION NO: 10
Kelly is the project manager of the BHH project for her organization. She is completing the risk
identification process for this portion of her project. Which one of the following is the only thing that
the risk identification process will create for Kelly?
A. Risk register
B. Risk register updates
C. Change requests
D. Project document updates
QUESTION NO: 11
You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your company. You have completed
qualitative and quantitative analysis of your identified project risks and you would now like to find
an approach to increase project opportunities and to reduce threats within the project. What
project management process would best help you?
A. Monitor and control project risks
B. Create a risk governance approach
C. Create the project risk register
D. Plan risk responses
QUESTION NO: 12
Virginia is the project manager for her organization. She has hired a subject matter expert to
interview the project stakeholders on certain identified risks within the project. The subject matter
expert will assess the risk event with what specific goal in mind?
A. To determine the level of probability and impact for each risk event
B. To determine the bias of the risk event based on each person interviewed
C. To determine the probability and cost of the risk event
D. To determine the validity of each risk event[
QUESTION NO: 13
You are preparing to start the qualitative risk analysis process for your project. You will be relying
on some organizational process assets to influence the process. Which one of the following is
NOT a probable reason for relying on organizational process assets as an input for qualitative risk
analysis?
A. Studies of similar projects by risk specialists
B. Risk databases that may be available from industry sources
C. Review of vendor contracts to examine risks in past projects
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QUESTION NO: 14
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You want to create a visual diagram, which can
depict the resources that will be used within the project. Which of the following diagrams will you
create to accomplish the task?
A. Roles and responsibility matrix
B. Work breakdown structure
C. Resource breakdown structure
D. RACI chart
QUESTION NO: 15
Examine the figure given below.
A. Risk Response Plan
B. Risk Management Plan
C. Communications Management Plan
What will be the expected monetary value of Risk C?
A. -$113,750
B. $175,000 if the risk event actually happens
C. -$175,000
D. -$27,000
QUESTION NO: 16
John is the project manager of the NHQ Project for his company. His project has 75 stakeholders,
some of which are external to the organization. John needs to make certain that he communicates
about risk in the most appropriate method for the external stakeholders. Which project
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D. Project Management Plan
QUESTION NO: 17
You are the project manager of the KJH Project and are working with your project team to plan the
risk responses. Consider that your project has a budget of $500,000 and is expected to last six
months. Within the KJH Project you have identified a risk event that has a probability of .70 and
has a cost impact of $350,000. When it comes to creating a risk response for this event what is
the risk exposure of the event that must be considered for the cost of the risk response?
A. The risk exposure of the event is $245,000.
B. The risk exposure of the event is $500,000.
C. The risk exposure of the event is $350,000.
D. The risk exposure of the event is $850,000.
QUESTION NO: 18
What risk identification technique allows participants to identify the project risks and to remain
anonymous?
A. Influence diagrams
B. Assumptions analysis
C. Surveys
D. Delphi technique
QUESTION NO: 19
John works as a project manager for ABD project. He and his team, are working on the following
activities:
Relative ranking or priority list of project risks
Watchlists of low priority risk
Trends in Qualitative Risk Analysis results
On which of the following processes is John working on?
A. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
B. Plan Risk Management
C. Plan Risk Responses
D. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
QUESTION NO: 20
There are five outputs of the risk monitoring and controlling process. Which one of the following is
NOT an output of the process?
A. Organizational process assets updates
C. Vendor contracts
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QUESTION NO: 21
You are the project manager of the NHJ project for your company. This project has a budget at
completion of $1,650,000 and you are 60 percent complete. According to the project plan,
however, the project should be 65 percent complete. In this project you have spent $995,000 to
reach this point of completion. There is a risk that this project may be late so you have taken some
measures to recover the project schedule. Management would like to know, based on current
performance, what the estimate at completion for this project will be. What is the estimate at
completion?
A. $1,650,000
B. $1,666,667
C. $663,333
D. -$8,333
QUESTION NO: 22
Frank is the project manager of the NHQ project for his company. Frank is working with the project
team, key stakeholders, and several subject matter experts on risks dealing with the new materials
in the project. Frank wants to utilize a risk analysis method that will help the team to make
decisions in the presence of the current uncertainty surrounding the new materials. Which risk
analysis approach can Frank use to create an approach to make decisions in the presence of
uncertainty?
A. Monte Carlo Technique
B. Qualitative risk analysis process
C. Quantitative risk analysis process
D. Delphi Technique
QUESTION NO: 23
You are a risk auditor for your company. You are reviewing the contract types a project manager
has used in her project. Of the following, which contract type has the most risk for the project
manager as a buyer?
A. Cost plus percentage of costs
B. Time and material
C. Cost plus incentive fee
D. Fixed-price, incentive fee
QUESTION NO: 24
Jane is the project manager of the GBB project for her company. In the current project a vendor
has offered the project a ten percent discount based if they will order 100 units for the project. It is
possible that the GBB Project may need the 100 units, but the cost of the units is not a top priority
for the project. Jane documents the offer and tells the vendor that they will keep the offer in mind
and continue with the project as planned. What risk response has been given in this project?

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On which of the following processes are you working on?
A. Acceptance
B. Enhance
C. Exploiting
D. Sharing
QUESTION NO: 25
You are the project manager of the GHE Project. You have identified the following risks with the
characteristics as shown in the following figure: How much capital should the project set aside for
the risk contingency reserve?
A. $142,000
B. $41,750
C. $23,750
D. $232,000
QUESTION NO: 26
You are project manager for ABD project. You, with your team, are working on the following
activities:
Probabilistic analysis of a project.
Probability of achieving cost and time objectives.
Trends in Qualitative Risk Analysis results.
A. Plan Risk Management
B. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
C. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
D. Identify Risks
QUESTION NO: 27
Shelly is the project manager of the BUF project for her company. In this project Shelly needs to
establish some rules to reduce the influence of risk bias during the qualitative risk analysis
process. What method can Shelly take to best reduce the influence of risk bias?
A. Group stakeholders according to positive and negative stakeholders and then complete the risk
analysis
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B. Risk responses protect the time and investment of the project.
C. Risk responses may take time and money to implement.
D. Baselines should not be updated, but refined through versions.
C. Establish risk boundaries
D. Establish definitions of the level of probability and impact of risk event
QUESTION NO: 28
Tom is the project manager for his organization. In his project he has recently finished the risk
response planning. He tells his manager that he will now need to update the cost and schedule
baselines. Why would the risk response planning cause Tom the need to update the cost and
schedule baselines?
A. New or omitted work as part of a risk response can cause changes to the cost and/or schedule
baseline.
QUESTION NO: 29
Tracy is the project manager of the NLT Project for her company. The NLT Project is scheduled to
last 14 months and has a budget at completion of $4,555,000. Tracy's organization will receive a
bonus of $80,000 per day that the project is completed early up to $800,000. Tracy realizes that
there are several opportunities within the project to save on time by crashing the project work.
Crashing the project is what type of risk response?
A. Transference
B. Mitigation
C. Exploit
D. Enhance
QUESTION NO: 30
Which risk response is acceptable for both positive and negative risk events?
A. Transferring
B. Acceptance
C. Sharing
D. Enhancing
QUESTION NO: 31
Which one of the following is the only output for the qualitative risk analysis process?
A. Enterprise environmental factors
B. Project management plan
C. Risk register updates
D. Organizational process assets
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A. The risk exposure of a risk event is determined by historical information.
B. The probability of a risk event times the impact of a risk event determines the true risk exposure
Jeff, a key stakeholder in your project, wants to know how the risk exposure for the risk events is
calculated during quantitative risk analysis. He is worried about the risk exposure which is too low
for the events surrounding his project requirements. How is the risk exposure calculated?
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C. The probability of a risk event plus the impact of a risk event determines the true risk exposure.
D. The probability and impact of a risk event are gauged based on research and in-depth analysis.
QUESTION NO: 33
You are the project manager of the YHG project for your company. Within the project, you and the
project team have identified a risk event that could have a financial impact on the project of
$450,000. This risk event has a 70 percent chance of occurring in the project. The project
identifies a solution that will reduce the probability of the risk event to ten percent, but it will cost
$260,000 to implement. Management agrees with the solution and asks that you include the risk
response in the project plan. What risk response is this?
A. This is mitigation because the response reduces the probability.
B. This is not a risk response, but a change request.
C. This is transference because of the $260,000 cost of the solution.
D. This is avoidance because the risk response caused the project plan to be changed.
QUESTION NO: 34
You are the project manager of the NKJ Project for your company. The project's success or failure
will have a significant impact on your organization's profitability for the coming year. Management
has asked you to identify the risk events and communicate the event's probability and impact as
early as possible in the project. Management wants to avoid risk events and needs to analyse the
cost-benefits of each risk event in this project. What term is assigned to the low-level of
stakeholder tolerance in this project?
A. Mitigation-ready project management
B. Risk utility function
C. Risk avoidance
D. Risk-reward mentality
QUESTION NO: 35
You are the project manager for your organization. You are working with your key stakeholders in
the qualitative risk analysis process. You understand that there is certain bias towards the risk
events in the project that you need to address, manage, and ideally reduce. What solution does
the PMBOK recommend to reduce the influence of bias during qualitative risk analysis?
A. Establish the definitions of the levels of probability and impact
B. Provide iterations of risk analysis for true reflection of a risk probability and impact
C. Isolate the stakeholders by project phases to determine their risk bias
D. Involve all stakeholders to vote on the probability and impact of the risk events
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Your organization, as part of its enterprise environmental factors, has established risk governance
to be implemented in each project. Part of this governance is the reassessment of risks within
each project. How much detail and repetition in approach for risks to be reassessed for probability
and impact?
A. Each risk reassessment should go into the same depth as the original risk assessment activity.
B. The probability and impact of risk event should determine the level of reassessment throughout
the project lifecycle.
C. The amount of detail of repetition that is appropriate depends on how the project progresses
relative to its objectives.
D. The level of detail and reassessment should reflect the priority of the project.
QUESTION NO: 37
Your project spans the entire organization. You would like to assess the risk of the project but are
worried that some of the managers involved in the project could affect the outcome of any risk
identification meeting. Your worry is based on the fact that some employees would not want to
publicly identify risk events that could make their supervisors look bad. You would like a method
that would allow participants to anonymously identify risk events. What risk identification method
could you use?
A. Delphi technique
B. Isolated pilot groups
C. SWOT analysis
D. Root cause analysis[
QUESTION NO: 38
Frank is the project manager of the NHL Project for his company and he is starting the risk
identification process for the project. Frank needs to ensure that the correct stakeholders are
interviewed as part of risk identification. What document will help Frank to communicate and solicit
inputs of the project stakeholders during risk identification?
A. Project charter
B. Risk register
C. Requirements management plan
D. Stakeholder register
QUESTION NO: 39
You are working with your project stakeholders to identify risks within the JKP Project. You want to
use an approach to engage the stakeholders to increase the breadth of the identified risks by
including internally generated risk. Which risk identification approach is most suited for this goal?
A. Delphi Technique
B. SWOT analysis
C. Assumptions analysis
D. Brainstorming
QUESTION NO: 40
Ted is the project manager of the HRR project for his company. Management has asked that Ted
periodically reviews the contingency reserve as risk events happen, pass, or are still pending.
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A. It helps to evaluate if the remaining reserve is adequate for the risk exposure.
B. It helps to determine how much more funds will need to be invested in the project.
C. It helps to evaluate secondary and residual risks related to the risk responses and their costs.
D. It helps to determine the probability and impact of project risks.
QUESTION NO: 41
Which of the following documents is described in the statement below? "It is developed along with
all processes of the risk management. It contains the results of the qualitative risk analysis,
quantitative risk analysis, and risk response planning."
A. Risk management plan
B. Project charter
C. Risk register
D. Quality management plan
QUESTION NO: 42
Fred is the project manager of the CPS project. He is working with his project team to prioritize the
identified risks within the CPS project. He and the team are prioritizing risks for further analysis or
action by assessing and combining the risks probability of occurrence and impact. What process is
Fred completing?
A. Risk identification
B. Perform qualitative analysis
C. Perform quantitative analysis
D. Risk Breakdown Structure creation
QUESTION NO: 43
Which of the following statements describe the purpose of an Issue Log? Each correct answer
represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. It analyses the impact that the issue is having on the project.
B. It tracks the actions taken to resolve the issue.
C. It tracks the outcome of the actions taken.
D. It addresses the risks that could affect the project.
QUESTION NO: 44
You are the program manager for your organization. Management is considering a new program
but they are worried about the program risks that may affect the program success. You know that
there are three positive risks responses and three negative risk responses that each risk can
have. Management asks you which risk response would be most appropriate for a large risk event
if they wanted to hire a third-party to own the risk event for the program. What risk event is most
appropriate?
A. Avoidance
B. Sharing
C. Transference
D. Mitigation
QUESTION NO: 45
There are seven risk responses for any project. Which one of the following is a valid risk response
for a negative risk event?
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C. Acceptance
D. Share
QUESTION NO: 46
Bill is the project manager of the JKH Project. He and the project team have identified a risk event
in the project with a high probability of occurrence and the risk event has a high cost impact on the
project. Bill discusses the risk event with Virginia, the primary project customer, and she decides
that the requirements surrounding the risk event should be removed from the project. The removal
of the requirements does affect the project scope, but it can release the project from the high risk
exposure. What risk response has been enacted in this project?
A. Mitigation
B. Transference
C. Acceptance
D. Avoidance
QUESTION NO: 47
Your project team has identified a project risk that must be responded to. The risk has been
recorded in the risk register and the project team has been discussing potential risk responses for
the risk event. The event is not likely to happen for several months but the probability of the event
is high. Which one of the following is a valid response to the identified risk event?
A. Corrective action
B. Risk audit
C. Technical performance measurement
D. Earned value management
QUESTION NO: 48
Beth is the project manager of the BFG Project for her company. In this project Beth has decided
to create a contingency response based on the performance of the project schedule. If the project
schedule variance is greater than $10,000 the contingency plan will be implemented. What is the
formula for the schedule variance?
A. SV=EV/PV
B. SV=PV-EV
C. SV=EV/AC
D. SV=EV-PV
QUESTION NO: 49
During which of the following processes, probability and impact matrix is prepared?
A. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
B. Monitoring and Control Risks
C. Plan Risk Responses
QUESTION NO: 50
Holly is the project manager of the GHH Project. During risk identification and the subsequent risk
analysis process she has identified a risk with a high probability and high impact for her project.
She and the stakeholder agree that the project management plan should be changed to eliminate
the risk threat entirely. What risk response has Holly used in this instance?
A. This is the risk mitigation response.
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C. This is the transference risk response.
D. This is a scope change and not a risk response.
QUESTION NO: 51
Tom works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is determining which risks can affect the
project. Which of the following inputs of the identify risks process is useful in identifying risks, and
provides a quantitative assessment of the likely cost to complete the scheduled activities?
A. Activity cost estimates
B. Cost management plan
C. Activity duration estimates
D. Risk management plan

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QUESTION NO: 52
Frank is the project manager of the NHH Project. He is working with the project team to create a
plan to document the procedures to manage risks throughout the project. This document will
define how risks will be identified and quantified. It will also define how contingency plans will be
implemented by the project team. What document is Frank and the NHH Project team creating in
this scenario?
A. Resource management plan
B. Project plan
C. Project management plan
QUESTION NO: 53
Holly is the project manager of the NSS Project for her company. She is discussing some of the
project risks and the issues that have happened in the project. Holly has faxed the status report to
her project client for their review. Based on the standard communication model, which component
in this scenario is the decoder?
A. Project customer
B. Telephone wire
C. Holly
D. Project customer's fax machine
QUESTION NO: 54
Pete works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. The Management has told him that he must
implement an agreed-upon contingency response if the cost performance index in his project is
less than 0.90. Consider that Pete's project has a budget at completion of $275,000. His project is
65 percent complete and he has spent $175,000 to date. However, Pete is scheduled to be 78
percent complete. What is the cost performance index for this project to determine if the
contingency response should happen?
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A. 1.02
B. 0.96
C. 0.90
D. 0.89
QUESTION NO: 55
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are working with Nancy, the COO of your
company, on several risks within the project. Nancy understands that through qualitative analysis
you have identified 80 risks that have a low probability and low impact as the project is currently
planned. Nancy's concern, however, is that the impact and probability of these risk events may
change as conditions within the project may change. She would like to know where will you
document and record these 80 risks that have low probability and low impact for future reference.
What should you tell Nancy?
A. Risks with low probability and low impact are recorded in a watch list for future monitoring.
B. All risks, regardless of their assessed impact and probability, are recorded in the risk log.
C. Risk identification is an iterative process so any changes to the low probability and low impact
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D. All risks are recorded in the risk management plan.
QUESTION NO: 56
There are four inputs to the Monitoring and Controlling Project Risks process. Which one of the
following will NOT help you, the project manager, to prepare for risk monitoring and controlling?
A. Work Performance Information
B. Project management plan
C. Risk register
D. Change requests
QUESTION NO: 57
A part of a project deals with the hardware work. As a project manager, you have decided to hire
a company to deal with all hardware work on the project. Which type of risk response is this?
A. Exploit
B. Mitigation
C. Transference
D. Avoidance
QUESTION NO: 58
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are working with your team members on the
risk responses in the project. Which risk response will likely cause a project to use the
procurement processes?
A. Exploiting
B. Mitigation
C. Sharing
D. Acceptance
QUESTION NO: 59
During qualitative risk analysis you want to define the risk urgency assessment. All of the
following are indicators of risk priority except for which one?
A. Cost of the project
B. Risk rating
C. Warning signs
Symptoms QUESTION NO: 60
Which of the following processes is described in the statement below? "This is the process of
numerically analysing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives."
A. Identify Risks
B. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
C. Monitor and Control Risks
D. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
QUESTION NO: 61
Ruth is the project manager of ISFH project for her company. This project is forty percent
complete and it appears that some risk events are going to happen in the project that will have an
adverse effect on the project. Ruth creates a change request regarding the risks. Is this a valid
response?
A. No, change requests should not address risks, only risk response strategies should be issued.
B. No, change requests should not address pending risks, but only scope changes.
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QUESTION NO: 62
Henry is the project manager of the QBG Project for his company. This project has a budget of
$4,576,900 and is expected to last 18 months to complete. The CIO, a stakeholder in the project,
has introduced a scope change request for additional deliverables as part of the project work.
What component of the change control system would review the proposed changes' impact on the
features and functions of the project's product?
A. Scope change control system
B. Cost change control system
C. Configuration management system
D. Integrated change control
QUESTION NO: 63
You are the project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your current project is a high priority and high
profile project within your organization. You want to identify the project stakeholders that will have
the most power in relation to their interest on your project. This will help you plan for project risks,
stakeholder management, and ongoing communication with the key stakeholders in your project.
In this process of stakeholder analysis, what type of a grid or model should you create based on
these conditions?
A. Stakeholder power/interest grid
B. Influence/impact grid
C. Salience model
QUESTION NO: 64
You work as the project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are monitoring the project performance.
You want to make a decision to change the project plan to eliminate a risk in order to protect the
project objectives. Which of the following strategies will you use to tackle the risk?
A. Risk mitigation
B. Risk avoidance
C. Risk acceptance
D. Risk transference
QUESTION NO: 65
Lisa is the project manager of the FKN project for her organization. She is working with Sam, the
CIO, to discuss a discount the vendor has offered the project based on the amount of materials
that is ordered. Lisa and Sam review the offer and agree that while their project may qualify for the
discounted materials the savings is nominal and they would not necessarily pursue the savings.
Lisa documents this positive risk response in the risk register. What risk response is this?
A. Enhance
B. Transference
C. Share
D. Acceptance
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A. All risks must have a valid, documented risk response.
B. These risks can be accepted.
C. These risks can be added to a low priority risk watch list.
D. These risks can be dismissed.
You are preparing to complete the quantitative risk analysis process with your project team and
several subject matter experts. You gather the necessary inputs including the project's cost
management plan. Why is it necessary to include the project's cost management plan in the
preparation for the quantitative risk analysis process?
A. The project's cost management plan can help you to determine what the total cost of the
project is allowed to be.
B. The project's cost management plan provides direction on how costs may be changed due to
identified risks.
C. The project's cost management plan provides control that may help determine the structure for
quantitative analysis of the budget.
D. The project's cost management plan is not an input to the quantitative risk analysis process.
QUESTION NO: 67
You and your project team are identifying the risks that may exist within your project. Some of the
risks are small risks that won't affect your project much if they happen. What should you do with
these identified risk events?
QUESTION NO: 68
You are the project manager of a new project in your organization. You and the project team have
identified the project risks, completed risk analysis, and are planning the most appropriate risk
responses. Which of the following tools is most effective to choose the most appropriate risk
response?
A. Cause-and-effect diagrams
B. Project network diagrams
C. Delphi Technique
D. Decision tree analysis
QUESTION NO: 69
You are the project manager of the NNQ Project for your company and are working with your
project team to define contingency plans for the risks within your project. Mary, one of your project
team members, asks what a contingency plan is. Which of the following statements best defines
what a contingency response is?
A. Some responses are designed for use only if certain events occur.
B. Some responses have a cost and a time factor to consider for each risk event.
C. Some responses must counteract pending risk events.
D. Quantified risks should always have contingency responses.
QUESTION NO: 70
Who is responsible for the stakeholder expectations management in a high-profile, high-risk
project?
A. Project risk assessment officer
B. Project management office
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D. Project manager
QUESTION NO: 71
You are completing the qualitative risk analysis process with your project team and are relying on
the risk management plan to help you determine the budget, schedule for risk management, and
risk categories. You discover that the risk categories have not been created. When should the risk
categories have been created?
A. Create work breakdown structure process
B. Plan risk management process
C. Risk identification process
D. Define scope process

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QUESTION NO: 72
You are the project manager of the HJH project for your company. In your project, you have
created the probability-impact risk matrix as shown in the following figure:
A. Trends in qualitative risk analysis
B. Risk probability-impact matrix
C. Watch list of low-priority risks
D. Risks grouped by categories
QUESTION NO: 74
Nancy is the project manager of the NHH project. She and the project team have identified a
significant risk in the project during the qualitative risk analysis process. Bob is familiar with the
technology that the risk is affecting and proposes to Nancy a solution to the risk event. Nancy tells
Bob that she has noted his response, but the risk really needs to pass through the quantitative risk
analysis process before creating responses. Bob disagrees and ensures Nancy that his response
is most appropriate for the identified risk. Who is correct in this scenario?
A. Bob is correct. Bob is familiar with the technology and the risk event so his response should
be implemented.
B. Bob is correct. Not all risk events have to pass the quantitative risk analysis process to
develop effective risk responses.
C. Nancy is correct. All risks of significant probability and impact should pass the quantitative
risk analysis process before risk responses are created.
If Risk D happens in this project, how much will be left in the contingency reserve?
A. $440,000
B. $233,500
C. $258,500
D. $243,500
QUESTION NO: 73
The only output of the perform qualitative risk analysis are risk register updates. When the project
manager updates the risk register he will need to include several pieces of information including all
of the following except for which one?

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C. The funds for the risks that have passed and have not happened are released.
D. The funds remain in the contingency reserve until the project is closed.
D. Nancy is correct. Because Nancy is the project manager she can determine the correct
procedures for risk analysis and risk responses. In addition, she has noted the risk response that
Bob recommends.
QUESTION NO: 75
A. Fishbone
B. Influence
C. Tornado
D. Cause and effect
QUESTION NO: 76
Rachel is the project manager of the KJH Project for her company. She needs a method to create
a quick and simple approach to risk identification to communicate the project risk with the
stakeholders. Which one of the following approaches to risk identification should Rachel choose to
provide a quick and simple listing of the project risks?
A. Delphi Technique
B. Checklist analysis
C. Assumptions analysis
D. Brainstorming
QUESTION NO: 77
Shawn is the project manager of the WHT Project for his company. In this project Shawn's team
reports that they have found a way to complete the project work for less cost than what was
originally planned. The project team presents a new software that will help to automate the project
work. While the software and the associated training costs $25,000 it will save the project nearly
$65,000 in total costs. Shawn agrees to the software and changes to the project management
plan accordingly. What type of risk response has been used in this instance?
A. Avoidance
B. Exploiting
C. Accepting
D. Enhancing
QUESTION NO: 78
Wendy is the project manager of the FBL project for your company. She has identified several
risks within her project and has created a risk contingency reserve of $45,000 total. Her project is
nearly complete and many of the risks have not happened in the project. What should Wendy do
with the funds in the contingency reserve?
A. The funds remain in the contingency reserve until all of the risks have passed.
B. The funds for the risks that have passed and have not happened are transferred to the project
budget.
QUESTION NO: 79
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Frank is a project team member in your project. Frank has been adding changes to the software
interface for the software that your project is creating. Because Frank has been adding these
features new risks have entered into the project. You elect that these additions should be removed
from the project even if it takes extra time and money to remove the features. What are these risk
laden features called?
A. Gold plating
B. Scope creep
C. Negative risks
D. Corrective actions
QUESTION NO: 80
You are the project manager for your organization. You have identified a risk event you're your
organization could manage internally or externally. If you manage the event internally it will cost
your project $578,000 and an additional $12,000 per month the solution is in use. A vendor can
manage the risk event for you. The vendor will charge $550,000 and $14,500 per month that the
solution is in use. How many months will you need to use the solution to pay for the internal
solution in comparison to the vendor's solution?
A. Approximately 8 months
B. Approximately 15 months
C. Approximately 13 months
D. Approximately 11 months
QUESTION NO: 81
You are the project manager for TTP project. You are in the Identify Risks process. You have to
create the risk register. Which of the following are included in the risk register? Each correct
answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
A. List of mitigation techniques
B. List of key stakeholders
C. List of identified risks
D. List of potential responses
QUESTION NO: 82
Kelly is the project manager of the NNQ Project for her company. This project will last for one year
and has a budget of $350,000. Kelly is working with her project team and subject matter experts to
begin the risk response planning process. When the project manager begins the plan risk
response process, what two inputs will she need?
A. Risk register and the risk response plan
B. Risk register and power to assign risk responses
C. Risk register and the risk management plan
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QUESTION NO: 83
John works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is determining which risks can affect the
project. Which of the following inputs of the identify risks process is useful in identifying risks
associated to the time allowances for the activities or projects as a whole, with a width of the
range indicating the degrees of risk?
A. Activity duration estimates
B. Schedule management plan
C. Risk management plan
D. Activity cost estimates
QUESTION NO: 84
Your project is an agricultural-based project that deals with plant irrigation systems. You have
discovered a by-product in your project that your organization could use to make a profit. If your
organization seizes this opportunity it would be an example of what risk response?
A. Enhancing
B. Opportunistic
C. Positive
D. Exploiting
QUESTION NO: 85
You work as a project manager for TechSoft Inc. You, the project team, and the key project
stakeholders have completed a round of quantitative risk analysis. You now need to update the
risk register with your findings so that you can communicate the risk results to the project
stakeholders - including management. You will need to update all of the following information
except for which one?
A. Probabilistic analysis of the project
B. Probability of achieving cost and time objectives
C. Risk distributions within the project schedule
D. Trends in quantitative risk analysis
QUESTION NO: 86
You are the project manager for a construction project. The project involves casting of a column in
a very narrow space. Because of lack of space, casting it is highly dangerous. High technical skill
will be required for casting that column. You decide to hire a local expert team for casting that
column. Which of the following types of risk response are you following?
A. Acceptance
B. Avoidance
C. Mitigation
D. Transference
QUESTION NO: 87
There are seven risks responses that a project manager can choose from. Which risk response is
appropriate for both positive and negative risk events?
A. Acceptance
B. Sharing
C. Transference
D. Mitigation

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QUESTION NO: 88
You are the project manager of the NGQQ Project for your company. To help you communicate
project status to your stakeholders, you are going to create a stakeholder register. All of the
following information should be included in the stakeholder register except for which one?
A. Assessment information of the stakeholders' major requirements, expectations, and potential
influence
B. Stakeholder classification of their role in the project
C. Identification information for each stakeholder
D. Stakeholder management strategy
QUESTION NO: 89
You are the project manager of the GGK project for your company. The GGK project has a budget
of $1,265,100 and is currently 40 percent complete. In this project, you elected to add labor to the
project to increase the likelihood of completing the project early as the project was only scheduled
to be 35 percent complete at this time. This positive risk response, while keeping the project
ahead of schedule, has added significant costs to the project. You have already spent $575,000 to
reach this point in the project. Management would like to know what your cost performance index
and the schedule performance index is for this project. What are these values?
A. The CPI is -$68,960 and the SPI is $63,255.
B. The CPI is .88 and the SPI is zero.
C. The CPI is .88 and the SPI is 1.14.
D. The CPI is 1.14 and the SPI is .88.
QUESTION NO: 90
You are the project manager of the AMD project for your organization. In this project, you are
currently performing quantitative risk analysis. The tool and technique you are using is simulation
where the project model is computed many times with the input values chosen at random for each
iteration. The goal is to create a probability distribution from the iterations for the project schedule.
What technique will you use with this simulation?
A. Pareto modelling
B. Expected Monetary Value
C. Analogous modelling
D. Monte Carlo Technique
QUESTION NO: 91
Gary is the project manager of his organization. He is managing a project that is similar to a
project his organization completed recently. Gary has decided that he will use the information from
the past project to help him and the project team to identify the risks that may be present in the
project. Management agrees that this checklist approach is ideal and will save time in the project.
Which of the following statement is most accurate about the limitations of the checklist analysis
approach for Gary?
A. The checklist analysis approach is fast but it is impossible to build and exhaustive checklist.
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C. The checklist analysis approach only uses qualitative analysis.
D. The checklist is also known as top down risk assessment.
QUESTION NO: 92
You are the project manager of the GGG project. You have completed the risk identification
process for the initial phases of your project. As you begin to document the risk events in the risk
register what additional information can you associate with the identified risk events?
A. Risk potential responses
B. Risk schedule
C. Risk owner
D. Risk cost
QUESTION NO: 93
You are the project manager for the TTR project. You are in the process of gathering information
for risk identification. You ask experts to participate in the process through their emails for
maintaining anonymity. You collect the responses, summarize them, and are then re-circulated to
the experts for further comment. Which of the following techniques are you using for risk
identification?
A. Delphi
B. Expert judgment
C. SWOT analysis
D. Brainstorming
QUESTION NO: 94
Ben is the project manager of the CMH Project for his organization. He has identified a risk that
has a low probability of happening, but the impact of the risk event could save the project and the
organization with a significant amount of capital. Ben assigns Laura to the risk event and instructs
her to research the time, cost, and method to improve the probability of the positive risk event.
Ben then communicates the risk event and response to management. What risk response has
been used here?
A. Sharing
B. Transference
C. Enhance
D. Exploit
QUESTION NO: 95
Your project uses a piece of equipment that if the temperature of the machine goes above 450
degree Fahrenheit the machine will overheat and have to be shut down for 48 hours. Should this
machine overheat even once it will delay the project's end date? You work with your project to
create a response that should the temperature of the machine reach 430, the machine will be
paused for at least an hour to cool it down. The temperature of 430 is called what?
A. Risk response
B. Risk event
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D. Risk identification
QUESTION NO: 96
You are the project manager of the GHQ project for your company. You are working with your
project team to prepare for the qualitative risk analysis process. Mary, a project team member,
does not understand why you need to complete qualitative risks analysis. You explain to Mary that
qualitative risks analysis helps you determine which risks needs additional analysis. There are
also some other benefits that qualitative risks analysis can do for the project. Which one of the
following is NOT an accomplishment of the qualitative risk analysis process?
A. Corresponding impact on project objectives
B. Time frame for a risk response
C. Prioritization of identified risk events based on probability and impact
D. Cost of the risk impact if the risk event occurs

QUESTION NO: 97
When does the Identify Risks process take place in a project?
A. At the Planning stage.
B. Throughout the project life-cycle.
C. At the Initiating stage.
D. At the Executing stage.
QUESTION NO: 98
Sam is the project manager of a construction project in south Florida. This area of the United
States is prone to hurricanes during certain parts of the year. As part of the project plan Sam and
the project team acknowledge the possibility of hurricanes and the damage the hurricane could
have on the project's deliverables, the schedule of the project, and the overall cost of the project.
Once Sam and the project stakeholders acknowledge the risk of the hurricane they go on planning
the project as if the risk is not likely to happen. What type of risk response is Sam using?
A. Active acceptance
B. Passive acceptance
C. Avoidance
D. Mitigation
QUESTION NO: 99
You are the project manager of a large project that will last four years. In this project, you would
like to model the risk based on its distribution, impact, and other factors. There are three modelling
techniques that a project manager can use to include both event-oriented and project-oriented
analysis. Which modelling technique does NOT provide event-oriented and project-oriented
analysis for identified risks?
A. Sensitivity analysis
B. Jo-Hari Window
C. Expected monetary value
D. Modelling and simulation
QUESTION NO: 100
You are the project manager of the GHY project for your company. This project has a budget of
$543,000 and is expected to last 18 months. In this project, you have identified several risk events
and created risk response plans. In what project management process group will you implement
risk response plans?
A. Executing
B. Planning
C. Monitoring and Controlling
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A. Bill, because he is the project manager
B. Beth, because she has the authority to respond to the risk event
C. Beth and the consultant are the risk owners
D. The consultant working with Beth, because this is transference
QUESTION NO: 101
Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase.
________is the study of how the variation (uncertainty) in the output of a mathematical model can
be apportioned, qualitatively or quantitatively, to different sources of variation in the input of a
model.
A. Sensitivity analysis
QUESTION NO: 102
You are the project manager of QSL project for your organization. You are working with your
project team and several key stakeholders to create a diagram that shows how various elements
of a system interrelate and the mechanism of causation within the system. What diagramming
technique are you using as a part of the risk identification process?
A. Predecessor and successor diagramming
B. System or process flowcharts
C. Cause and effect diagram
D. Influence diagram
QUESTION NO: 103
Bill is the project manager for a project that will last six months and has a budget of $580,000. In
this project a high-risk has been identified with the new materials the project will be using. Bill
would like to assign one person, Beth, to be responsible to monitor this risk. Bill assigns Beth the
authority to respond to the risk event if it appears in the risk events that is likely to happen. In
addition, Bill hires a consultant to work with Beth on this area of the project. In this instance, who
is the risk response owner?
QUESTION NO: 104
Nancy is the project manager of a project with 78 stakeholders. This is a high-profile project and
she needs to express to her project team and to the management the importance of
communication in this project. She would like to show the number of stakeholder communication
channels in the project. Based on this information how many communication channels exist within
this project?
A. 156
B. 3,003
C. 78
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QUESTION NO: 105
Thomas is a key stakeholder in your project. Thomas has requested several changes to the
project scope for the project you are managing. Upon review of the proposed changes, you have
discovered that these new requirements are laden with risks and you recommend to the change
control board that the changes be excluded from the project scope. The change control board
agrees with you. What component of the change control system communicates the approval or
denial of a proposed change request?
A. Configuration management system
B. Scope change control system
C. Integrated change control
D. Change log
QUESTION NO: 106
Fred is the project manager of the PKL project. He is working with his project team to complete the
quantitative risk analysis process as a part of risk management planning. Fred understands that
once the quantitative risk analysis process is complete, the process will need to be completed
again in at least two other times in the project. When will the quantitative risk analysis process
need to be repeated?
A. Quantitative risk analysis process will be completed again after the cost management
planning and as a part of monitoring and controlling.
B. Quantitative risk analysis process will be completed again after new risks are identified and
as part of monitoring and controlling.
C. Quantitative risk analysis process will be completed again after the risk response planning
and as a part of monitoring and controlling.
D. Quantitative risk analysis process will be completed again after the plan risk response
planning and as part of procurement.
QUESTION NO: 107
Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase.
________are activities that are dangerous to complete and manage such as construction,
electrical work, or manufacturing.
A. Pure risks

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QUESTION NO: 108
Which of the following is a risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to
reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold?
A. Avoidance
B. Exploit
C. Transference
D. Mitigation
QUESTION NO: 109
If this event does happen, how much will Donna have left in the risk contingency reserve if none of
the other risk events have happened?
A. $35,000
B. $41,700
C. $14,000
You are the project manager for Genpact Inc. You have established quarterly risk management
meetings. Which of the following is not a component of a risk management meeting?
A. Assessing the overall status of risks in the project
B. Review of risk responses
C. Assessment or risk
D. The availability of the individual
QUESTION NO: 110
Donna is the project manager of the QSD Project and she believes Risk Event D in the following
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D. $6,700
QUESTION NO: 111
You are the project manager of the GHY project for your organization. You are about to start the
qualitative risk analysis process for the project and you need to determine the roles and
responsibilities for conducting risk management. Where can you find this information?
A. Enterprise environmental factors
B. Risk register
D. Staffing management plan
QUESTION NO: 112
Neil works as a project manager for SoftTech Inc. He is working with Tom, the COO of his
company, on several risks within the project. Tom understands that through qualitative analysis
Neil has identified many risks in the project. Tom's concern, however, is that the priority list of
these risk events are sorted in "high-risk," "moderate-risk," and "low-risk" as conditions apply
within the project. Tom wants to know that is there any other objective on which Neil can make the
priority list for project risks. What will be Neil's reply to Tom?
A. Risks may be listed by the additional analysis and response
B. Risk may be listed by the responses in the near-term
C. Risks may be listed by priority separately for schedule, cost, and performance
D. Risks may be listed by categories
QUESTION NO: 113
Which of the following processes involves choosing the alternative strategies, executing a
contingency or fallback plan, taking corrective action, and modifying the project management
plan?
A. Monitor and Control risk
B. Configuration Management
C. Integrated Change control
D. Scope Change control
QUESTION NO: 114
Melody is the project manager for her organization. She has created a risk response to conduct
more tests on the software her project is creating. The identified risk that prompted this response
was that the software is mission-critical and must be flawless before it can be put into product.
What type of a risk response has Melody used in this scenario?
A. Mitigation
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D. Avoidance
QUESTION NO: 115
Rex is the project manager of the BDF Project. This project will last for two years and has a
budget of $2,345,000. Management has instructed Rex that the project must not go over budget
as funds are very tight in the organization. During the project planning Rex and the project team
discover a positive risk event to save $75,000. Rex wants to make certain that this risk event
happens so which risk response method is most appropriate?
A. Share
B. Mitigation
C. Exploit
D. Enhance
QUESTION NO: 116
You are the project manager of the NJJ project. Your enterprise environmental factors require that
you establish certain risk management rules regarding low risks within your project. What is the
best policy for risks with low probability and low impact in the project management?
A. These risks should be accepted.
B. These risks should be placed on awatchlist for future monitoring.
C. These risks should be identified, but dismissed.
D. These risks should be placed in the risk register.
QUESTION NO: 117
Gary has identified a project risk that could injure project team members. He does not want to
accept any risk where someone could become injured on this project so he hires a professional
vendor to complete this portion of the project work. This workaround to the risk event is known as
what type of risk response?
A. Acceptance
B. Transference
C. Mitigation
D. Avoidance
QUESTION NO: 118
Fred is the project manager of a large project in his organization. Fred needs to begin planning the
risk management plan with the project team and key stakeholders. Which plan risk management
process tool and technique should Fred use to plan risk management?
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B. Information gathering techniques
C. Planning meetings and analysis
D. Data gathering and representation techniques
QUESTION NO: 119
Joan is the project manager of the BTT project for her company. She has worked with her project
to create risk responses for both positive and negative risk events within the project. As a result of
this process Joan needs to update the project document updates. She has updated the
assumptions log as a result of the findings and risk responses, but what other documentation will
need to be updated as an output of risk response planning?
A. Scope statement
B. Lessons learned
C. Risk Breakdown Structure
D. Technical documentation
QUESTION NO: 120
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You with your team are using a method or a
(technical) process that conceives the risks even if all theoretically possible safety measures
would be applied. One of your team member wants to know that what a residual risk is. What will
you reply to your team member?
A. It is a risk that can not be addressed by a risk response.
B. It is a risk that will remain no matter what type of risk response is offered.
C. It is a risk that remains because no risk response is taken.
D. It is a risk that remains after planned risk responses are taken.
QUESTION NO: 121
Stephen is the project manager of the GBB project. He has worked with two subject matter
experts and his project team to complete the risk assessment technique. There are approximately
47 risks that have a low probability and a low impact on the project. Which of the following
answers best describes what Stephen should do with these risk events?
A. The low probability and low impact risks should be added to a watchlist for future monitoring.
B. Because they are low probability and low impact, the risks can be dismissed.
C. The low probability and low impact risks should be added to the risk register.
D. Because they are low probability and low impact, Stephen should accept the risks.
QUESTION NO: 122
Mary is the project manager for the BLB project. She has instructed the project team to assemble,
to review the risks. She has included the schedule management plan as an input for the
quantitative risk analysis process. Why is the schedule management plan needed for quantitative
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A. Add the identified risk to a quality control management control chart.
B. Add the identified risk to the issues log.
C. Add the identified risk to the risk register.
D. Add the identified risk to the low-level riskwatchlist.
A. Mary will schedule when the identified risks are likely to happen and affect the project schedule.
B. Mary will utilize the schedule controls and the nature of the schedule for the quantitative
analysis of the schedule.
C. Mary will use the schedule management plan to schedule the risk identification meetings
throughout the remaining project.
D. Mary will utilize the schedule controls to determine how risks may be allowed to change the
project schedule.
QUESTION NO: 123
A project team member has just identified a new project risk. The risk event is determined to have
significant impact but a low probability in the project. Should the risk event happen it'll cause the
project to be delayed by three weeks, which will cause new risk in the project. What should the
project manager do with the risk event?
QUESTION NO: 124
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are working on a project and the
management wants a rapid and cost-effective means for establishing priorities for planning risk
responses in your project. Which risk management process can satisfy management's objective
for your project?
A. Historical information
B. Qualitative risk analysis
C. Quantitative analysis
D. Rolling wave planning
QUESTION NO: 125
Your organization has a project that is expected to last 20 months but the customer would really
like the project completed in 18 months. You have worked on similar projects in the past and
believe that you could fast track the project and reach the 18 month deadline. What increases
when you fast track a project?
A. Resources
B. Costs
C. Communication
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QUESTION NO: 126
Yolanda is the project manager of a high-profile project for her organization. This project has 124
stakeholders from across the organization and many of the stakeholders have high demands and
expectations for the project. Yolanda will need several pieces of project information as she begins
to communicate and manage the stakeholder expectations. Which of the following inputs of the
manage stakeholder expectations process directly addresses the risks that could affect the project
and which must be communicated to the project stakeholders?
A. Change log
B. Low-level risks watchlist
C. Issue log
QUESTION NO: 127
Holly is the project manager of the NHQ project for her company. Her project sponsor, Tracy, has
requested that Thomas, the department manager, from the Risk Management Department, will
work with Holly to determine the effectiveness of the risk responses. Tracy and Thomas are
concerned that some of the risks within Holly's project may not be addressed to depth they would
like. In this scenario, who is responsible for ensuring that risk audits are performed at an
appropriate frequency throughout the project?
A. Thomas
B. Tracy
C. The project team
D. Holly
QUESTION NO: 128
You work as a project manager for SoftTech Inc. You are working with the project stakeholders to
begin the qualitative risk analysis process. Which of the following inputs will be needed for the
qualitative risk analysis process in your project? Each correct answer represents a complete
solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Organizational process assets
C. Project scope statement
D. Risk register
QUESTION NO: 129
You are the project manager of the HJU project for your company. This project will last for 18
months and has a project budget of $567,000. Robert, one of your stakeholders, has introduced a
scope change request that will likely have an impact on the project costs and schedule. Robert
assures you that he will pay for the extra time and costs associated with the risk event. You tell
Robert that the change request may affect more areas of the project than just time and cost and
that you are worried about the additional risks the change request will bring. What project
management component is responsible for evaluating a change request and its impact on all of
the project management knowledge areas?
A. Project change control system
B. Integrated change control
C. Risk analysis
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QUESTION NO: 130
Amy is the project manager for her company. In her current project the organization has a very low
tolerance for risk events that will affect the project schedule. Management has asked Amy to
consider the effect of all the risks on the project schedule. What approach can Amy take to create
a bias against risks that will affect the schedule of the project?
A. She can create an overall project rating scheme to reflect the bias towards risks that affect the
project schedule.
B. She can filter all risks based on their effect on schedule versus other project objectives.
C. She can have the project team pad their time estimates to alleviate delays in the project
schedule.
D. She can shift risk-laden activities that affect the project schedule from the critical path as much
as possible.
QUESTION NO: 131
Adrian is the project manager of the NHP Project. In her project there are several work packages
that deal with electrical wiring. Rather than to manage the risk internally she has decided to hire a
vendor to complete all work packages that deal with the electrical wiring. By removing the risk
internally to a licensed electrician Adrian feels more comfortable with project team being safe.
What type of risk response has Adrian used in this example?
A. Avoidance
B. Mitigation
C. Acceptance
D. Transference
QUESTION NO: 132
Linda is the project manager of the NAB Project. One of the risks her project team has identified is
too dangerous for the project team to manage internally so she has hired a vendor to complete
this portion of the project and to manage the identified risk. What risk response has Linda used in
this instance?
A. Transference
B. Avoidance
C. Contractual
D. Mitigation
QUESTION NO: 133
You work as a project manager for SoftTech Inc. You have implemented the risk action plan and it
was not effective. What type of plan should you as a project manager will create for
implementation if a selected risk strategy fails to be fully effective?
A. Mitigation management plan
B. Mitigation plan
C. Fallback plan
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QUESTION NO: 134
You are the project manager of a large construction project. This project will last for 18 months
and will cost $750,000 to complete. You are working with your project team, experts, and
stakeholders to identify risks within the project before the project work begins. Management wants
to know why you have scheduled so many risk identification meetings throughout the project
rather than just initially during the project planning. What is the best reason for the duplicate risk
identification sessions?
A. The iterative meetings allow the project manager and the risk identification participants to
identify newly discovered risk events throughout the project.
B. The iterative meetings allow all stakeholders to participate in the risk identification
processes throughout the project phases.
C. The iterative meetings allow the project manager to discuss the risk events which have
passed the project and which did not happen.
D. The iterative meetings allow the project manager to communicate pending risks events
during project execution.
QUESTION NO: 135
You are the project manager for a construction project. The project includes a work that involves
very high financial risks. You decide to insure processes so that any ill happening can be
compensated. Which type of strategies have you used to deal with the risks involved with that
particular work?
A. Mitigate
B. Avoid
C. Accept
D. Transfer
QUESTION NO: 136
Harry is a project manager of a software development project. In the early stages of planning, he
and the stakeholders operated with the belief that the software they were developing would work
with their organization's current computer operating system. Now that the project team has started
developing the software it has become apparent that the software will not work with nearly half of
the organization's computer operating systems. The incorrect belief Harry had in the software
compatibility is an example of what in project management?
A. Issue
B. Assumption
C. Risk
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D. Vary depending on the situations within the project
QUESTION NO: 137
You are the project manager of the NHK Project. Management wants to know how often your risk
identification process will occur during the project. Considering that your project is scheduled to
last one year and involves five distinct phases, how often should risk identification take place?
A. Monthly
B. Once per project life cycle phase
C. Quarterly
QUESTION NO: 138
Della works as a project manager for SoftTech Inc. She is working with the project stakeholders to
begin the quantitative risk analysis process. Which of the following inputs will be needed for the
quantitative risk analysis process in her project? Each correct answer represents a complete
B. Project scope statement
C. Risk register
D. Cost management plan
QUESTION NO: 139
You are the project manager of the GHY Project for your company. You need to complete a
project management process that will be on the lookout for new risks, changing risks, and risks
that are now outdated. Which project management process is responsible for these actions?
A. Risk planning
B. Risk identification
C. Risk monitoring and controlling
D. Risk analysis
QUESTION NO: 140
You are the project manager of the GGH Project in your company. Your company is structured as
a functional organization and you report to the functional manager that you are ready to move onto
the quantitative risk analysis process. What things will you need as inputs for the quantitative risk
analysis of the project in this scenario?
A. You will need the risk register, risk management plan, permission from the functional
manager, and any relevant organizational process assets.
B. You will need the risk register, risk management plan, cost management plan, schedule
management plan, and any relevant organizational process assets.
C. You will need the risk register, risk management plan, outputs of qualitative risk analysis,
and any relevant organizational process assets.
D. Quantitative risk analysis does not happen through the project manager in a functional
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QUESTION NO: 141
You are the project manager of the HQQ Project for your company. You are working with your
project stakeholders to discuss the risks in the project that can adversely affect the project
objectives. You are discussing the possibilities of causes for an identified risk event in your
project. Your stakeholder is confused on the difference between causes and risk events. Which of
the following is NOT an example of a cause for a project risk?
A. Limited team members to complete the project work
B. Quality assurance programs within the company
C. Work permit requirements
D. Schedule constraints on the project
QUESTION NO: 142
Consider a project with a budget at completion of $1,345,000 and it is supposed to be completed
by today, but it is only 80 percent complete. This project has spent $1,250,000 to reach this point
of completion. What is the schedule variance for this project?
A. -$217,500
B. 20 percent
C. -$174,000
D. -$269,000
QUESTION NO: 143
You are the project manager of the NHQ project for your company. You are working with your
project team to complete a risk audit. A recent issue that your project team responded to, and
management approved, was to increase the project schedule because there was risk surrounding
the installation time of a new material. Your logic was that with the expanded schedule there
would be time to complete the installation without affecting downstream project activities. What
type of risk response is being audited in this scenario?
A. Parkinson's Law
B. Mitigation
C. Avoidance
D. Lag Time
QUESTION NO: 144
Gary is the project manager for his organization. He is working with the project stakeholders on
the project requirements and how risks may affect their project. One of the stakeholders is
confused about what constitutes risks in the project. Which of the following is the most accurate
definition of a project risk?
A. It is an uncertain event that can affect the project costs.
B. It is an uncertain event or condition within the project execution.
C. It is an uncertain event that can affect at least one project objective.
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C. Involve subject matter experts in the risk analysis activities
D. Use qualitative risk analysis to quickly assess the probability and impact of risk events
QUESTION NO: 145
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Management has asked you to work with the key
project stakeholder to analyse the risk events you have identified in the project. They would like
you to analyse the project risks with a goal of improving the project's performance as a whole.
What approach can you use to achieve the goal of improving the project's performance through
risk analysis with your project stakeholders?
A. Focus on the high-priority risks through qualitative risk analysis
B. Involve the stakeholders for risk identification only in the phases where the project directly
affects them
QUESTION NO: 146
A high-profile, high-priority project within your organization is being created. Management wants
you to pay special attention to the project risks and do all that you can to ensure that all of the
risks are identified early in the project. Management has to ensure that this project succeeds.
Management's risk aversion in this project is associated with what term?
A. Quantitative risk analysis
B. Risk conscience
C. Risk mitigation
Utility function
QUESTION NO: 147
You are the project manager of the BJA Project for your company. Management is worried about
one of the identified risks in your project. The risk event has a probability of 90 percent and a cost
impact of $85,000. Management and you discuss possible solutions to address the risk. You share
with them that for $75,000 you can reduce the probability of the risk event to 15 percent and the
impact to $25,000. This solution will add three weeks to the project schedule. Management thinks
this is a good idea and they would like you to add the time and cost additions to your project plan.
What type of risk response is used?
A. Avoidance
B. Acceptance
C. Exploit
D. Mitigation
QUESTION NO: 148
Ben is the project manager of the YHT Project for his company. Alice, one of his team
members, is confused about when project risks will happen in the project. Which one of the
following statements is the most accurate about when project risk happens?
A. Project risk can happen at any moment.
B. Project risk happens throughout the project execution.
C. Project risk is always in the future.
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QUESTION NO: 149
There are seven risk responses, a project manager can use to address risk events. Which one of
the following is a risk response that is appropriate for positive or negative risk events depending
on the scenario in the project?
A. Avoidance
B. Acceptance
C. Sharing
D. Transference
QUESTION NO: 150
You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your company. You are discussing some of
the project issues that need to be resolved in the project. You and the project stakeholders come
to an agreement about the risk issues and how they will be resolved. Where should you document
this information for issue resolution?
A. Project management plan for execution
B. Lessons learned documentation
C. Issue log
QUESTION NO: 151
You are the project manager of the GHY project. In your organization you must follow certain
enterprise environmental factors that establish the rules for risk management. One of the policies
your project must adhere to requires periodic rapid analysis of risks within the project. These
rapid, cost-effective session must be documented and performed monthly. What type of analysis
are you required to perform according to your enterprise environmental factors?
A. Brainstorming
B. Qualitative analysis
C. Delphi Technique
D. Quantitative analysis
QUESTION NO: 152
You are the project manager of the NHH project for your company. You have completed the first
round of risk management planning and have created four outputs of the risk response planning
process. Which one of the following is NOT an output of the risk response planning?
A. Risk register updates
B. Organizational process assets updates
C. Project document updates
D. Risk-related contract decisions
QUESTION NO: 153
A project manager must have certain interpersonal skills to communicate with stakeholders and
manage their expectations of the project work. Which of the following interpersonal skills has been
identified as one of the biggest reasons for project success or failure?
A. Motivation
B. Communication
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D. Political and cultural awareness
QUESTION NO: 154
You are the project manager of the GHG project for your company. You have identified the project
risks, completed qualitative and quantitative analysis, and created risk responses. You also need
to document how and when risk audits will be performed in the project. Where will you define the
frequency of risk audits?
A. Risk response plan
B. Quality management plan
D. Schedule management plan
QUESTION NO: 155
You work as the project manager for Bluewell Inc. You are working on NGQQ Project you’re your
company. You have completed the risk analysis processes for the risk events. You and the project
team have created risk responses for most of the identified project risks. Which of the following
risk response planning techniques will you use to shift the impact of a threat to a third party,
together with the responses?
A. Risk acceptance
B. Risk avoidance
C. Risk transference
D. Risk mitigation
QUESTION NO: 156
Which types of project tends to have more well-understood risks?
A. Operational work projects
B. First-of-its kind technology projects
C. Recurrent projects
D. State-of-art technology projects
QUESTION NO: 157
You are the project manager of a large construction project. You are evaluating the strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats involved in a project. In which of the following processes
are you on?
A. Define Scope
B. Plan Risk Responses
C. Plan Risk Management
D. Identify Risks
QUESTION NO: 158
You are the project manager of the NHQ project for your company. Management has told you that
you must implement an agreed upon contingency response if the Cost Performance Index in your
project is less than 0.90. Consider that your project has a budget at completion of $250,000 and is
60 percent complete. You are scheduled to be however, 75 percent complete, and you have spent
$165,000 to date. What is the Cost Performance Index for this project to determine if the
contingency response should happen?
A. -$37,500
B. 0.91
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D. 0.80
QUESTION NO: 159
Harry works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is determining how to conduct the risk
management activities for a project. According to the PMBOK, there are six inputs to the plan
risk management process. Which one of the following is NOT an input to this process?
A. Project scope statement
B. Risk management plan
C. Schedule management plan
D. Cost management plan
QUESTION NO: 160
Which of the following are parts of SWOT Analysis? Each correct answer represents a complete
A. Opportunities
B. Tools
C. Weaknesses
D. Threats
E. Strengths
F. Optimism
QUESTION NO: 161
Adrian is a project manager for a new project using a technology that has recently been released
and there's relatively little information about the technology. Initial testing of the technology makes
the use of it look promising, but there's still uncertainty as to the longevity and reliability of the
technology. Adrian wants to consider the technology factors a risk for her project. Where should
she document the risks associated with this technology so she can track the risk status and
responses?
B. Risk register
C. Project charter
D. Risk low-level watch list
QUESTION NO: 162
Sensitivity analysis is a technique for systematically changing parameters in a model to determine
the effects of such changes and is useful for computer modellers for a range of purposes. Which
of the following purposes does the sensitivity analysis include? Each correct answer represents a
complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Estimating the average outcome
B. Model development
C. Decision making or the development of recommendations for decision makers
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QUESTION NO: 163
Eric is the project manager of the MTC project for his company. In this project a vendor has
offered Eric a sizeable discount on all hardware if his order total for the project is more than
$125,000. Right now, Eric is likely to spend $118,000 with vendor. If Eric spends $7,000 his cost
savings for the project will be $12,500, but he cannot purchase hardware if he cannot implement
the hardware immediately due to organizational policies. Eric consults with Amy and Allen, other
project managers in the organization, and asks if she needs any hardware for their projects. Both
Amy and Allen need hardware and they agree to purchase the hardware through Eric's
relationship with the vendor. What positive risk response has happened in this instance?
A. Sharing
B. Exploiting
C. Transference
D. Enhancing
QUESTION NO: 164
Della works as a project manager for Tech Perfect Inc. She is studying the documentation of
planning of a project. The documentation states that there are twenty-eight stakeholders with the
project. What will be the number of communication channels for the project?
A. 378
B. 300
C. 28
D. 250
QUESTION NO: 165
You are the project manager for your organization. You are working with your project team to
complete the qualitative risk analysis process. The first tool and technique you are using requires
that you assess the probability and what other characteristic of each identified risk in the project?
A. Impact
B. Risk owner
C. Cost
D. Risk category
QUESTION NO: 166
You are the project manager of the GHG project. You are preparing for the quantitative risk
analysis process. You are using organizational process assets to help you complete the
quantitative risk analysis process. Which one of the following is NOT a valid reason to utilize
organizational process assets as a part of the quantitative risk analysis process?
A. You will use organizational process assets for risk databases that may be available from
industry sources.
B. You will use organizational process assets for studies of similar projects by risk
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C. You will use organizational process assets to determine costs of all risks events within
the current project.
QUESTION NO: 167
Which of the following processes looks at the complex web of actors, rules, conventions,
processes, and mechanisms concerned with how relevant risk information is collected, analysed
and communicated, and how management decisions are taken?
A. Risk Communication
B. IRGC
C. Risk Response Planning
D. Risk Governance
QUESTION NO: 168
You are the project manager of the NNH project. In this project you have created a contingency
response that the cost performance index should be less than 0.93. The NHH project has a
budget at completion of $945,000 and is 45 percent complete - though the project should be 49
percent complete. The project has spent $455,897 to reach the 45 percent complete milestone.
What is the project's cost performance index?
A. 1.06
B. 0.92
C. -$30,647
D. 0.93
QUESTION NO: 169
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are performing the quantitative risk analysis
for your project. One of the project risks has a 50 percent probability of happening, and it will cost
the project $55,000 if the risk happens. What will be the expected monetary value of this risk
event?
A. Negative $27,500
B. Zero - the risk event has not yet occurred
C. Negative $26,000
D. Negative $55,000
QUESTION NO: 170
Joyce is the project manager for her company. Joyce and her project team are working through
the quantitative analysis for certain risk events within her project. According to the enterprise
environmental factors the project manager is to perform sensitivity analysis on any risk with an
impact greater than $5,000 in the project. What is the sensitivity analysis?
A. It determines which risk events have the most potential impact on the project.
B. It uses round of anonymous surveys to predict which events are most likely to happen.
C. It uses rounds of anonymous surveys to predict probability and impact.
D. It determines possible combinations of risk events to predict overall project success, failure, or
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A. A qualitative risk analysis requires fast and simple data to complete the analysis.
B. A qualitative risk analysis requires accurate and unbiased data if it is to be credible.
C. A qualitative risk analysis encourages biased data to reveal risk tolerances.
D. A qualitative risk analysis required unbiased stakeholders with biased risk tolerances.
QUESTION NO: 171
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are preparing to plan risk responses for your
project with your team. How many risk response types are available for a negative risk event in the
project?
A. Four
B. One
C. Three
D. Seven
QUESTION NO: 172
You are the project manager of the GHY project for your organization. You are working with your
project team to begin identifying risks for the project. As part of your preparation for identifying the
risks within the project you will need eleven inputs for the process. Which one of the following is
NOT an input to the risk identification process?
A. Quality management plan
C. Stakeholder register
D. Procurement management plan
QUESTION NO: 173
Where can a project manager find risk-rating rules?
B. Organizational process assets
C. Enterprise environmental factors
D. Risk probability and impact matrix
QUESTION NO: 174
As a part of monitoring and controlling the project, the project manager should update the risk
register. The project manager should update the risk register with information on risk
reassessment, risk audits, and periodic risk reviews. What other information should the project
manager update the risk register with?
A. Actual costs and schedule delays of risk events.
B. Actual outcomes of risk management duties by the project team.
C. Actual cost of risk events.
D. Actual outcomes of the project's risks and of the risk responses.
QUESTION NO: 175
You are the project manager of the CUL project in your organization. You and the project team are
assessing the risk events and creating a probability and impact matrix for the identified risks.
Which one of the following statements best describes the requirements for the data type used in
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QUESTION NO: 176
You are the project manager for your company and a new change request has been approved for
your project. This change request, however, has introduced several new risks to the project. You
have communicated these risk events and the project stakeholders understand the possible
effects these risks could have on your project. You elect to create a mitigation response for the
identified risk events. Where will you record the mitigation response?
A. Risk register
B. Risk log
D. Project management plan
QUESTION NO: 177
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You have declined a proposed change request
because of the risk associated with the proposed change request. Where should the declined
change request be documented and stored?
A. Change request log
B. Lessons learned
C. Project archives
D. Project document updates
QUESTION NO: 178
You are the project manager of the NKQ project for your organization. You have completed the
quantitative risk analysis process for this portion of the project. What is the only output of the
quantitative risk analysis process?
A. Probability of reaching project objectives
C. Risk response
D. Risk contingency reserve
QUESTION NO: 179
Mark works as a project manager for TechSoft Inc. Mark, the project team, and the key project
stakeholders have completed a round of qualitative risk analysis. He needs to update the risk
register with his findings so that he can communicate the risk results to the project stakeholders
including management. Mark will need to update all of the following information except for which
one?
A. Prioritized list of quantified risks
B. Watchlist of low-priority risks
C. Trends in qualitative risk analysis
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QUESTION NO: 180
The risk transference is referred to the transfer of risks to a third party, usually for a fee, it creates
a contractual-relationship for the third party to manage the risk on behalf of the performing
organization. Which one of the following is NOT an example of the transference risk response?
A. Use of insurance
B. Warranties
C. Life cycle costing
D. Performance bonds
QUESTION NO: 181
David is the project manager of the NKL Project for his organization. He has been asked to create
a proposal for a construction project for a client. David realizes that there are several requirements
within the SOW and RFP provided by the client that would eliminate his company from bidding on
the construction project. David proposed to management that his organization create a partnership
with a competitor so that together they could bid on the construction project and qualify for the
customer's requirements. What risk response is David proposing to management?
A. Exploiting
B. Teaming agreement
C. Transference
D. Sharing
QUESTION NO: 182
Billy is the project manager of the HAR Project and is in month six of the project. The project is
scheduled to last for 18 months. Management asks Billy how often the project team is participating
in risk reassessment in this project. What should Billy tell management if he's following the best
practices for risk management?
A. Project risk management is scheduled for every month in the 18-month project.
B. Project risk management has been concluded with the project planning.
C. At every status meeting the project team project risk management is an agenda item.
D. Project risk management happens at every milestone.
QUESTION NO: 183
Which of the following risk responses delineates that the project plan will not be changed to deal
with the risk?
A. Exploitation
B. Transference
C. Acceptance
D. Mitigation

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QUESTION NO: 184
You are the project manager of the HJK Project for your organization. You and the project team
have created risk responses for many of the risk events in the project. Where should you
document the proposed responses and the current status of all identified risks?
A. Stakeholder management strategy
C. Risk register
D. Lessons learned documentation
QUESTION NO: 185
You are the project manager of the NGH project for your organization. You want to create a cause
and- effect diagram to help discover the root causes of the risks within the project. Harold, the
CIO, recommends that you create an Ishikawa diagram instead. What is an Ishikawa diagram?
A. It is a graphical representation of situations showing causal influences.
B. It is the same thing as a root cause diagram.
C. It shows how various elements of a system interrelate.
D. It diagrams the risks according to the work breakdown structure including resources.
QUESTION NO: 186
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are about to complete the quantitative risk
analysis process for your project. You can use three available tools and techniques to complete
this process. Which one of the following is NOT a tool or technique that is appropriate for the
quantitative risk analysis process?
A. Expert judgment
B. Data gathering and representation techniques
C. Organizational process assets
D. Quantitative risk analysis and modelling techniques
E.
QUESTION NO: 187
You are the project manager of RTF project for your organization. You are working with your
project team and several key stakeholders to create a diagram that shows causal factors for an
effect to be solved. What diagramming technique are you using as a part of the risk identification
process?
A. Cause and effect diagrams
B. System or process flow charts
C. Predecessor and successor diagramming
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B. Each agreed-to and funded risk response should have a risk response owner
C. Each risk that has a risk response should have a risk response owner
D. Only the risk events that are considered a negative risk event with a high risk rating
QUESTION NO: 188
You are the project manager of the NNN project for your company. You and the project team are
working together to plan the risk responses for the project. You feel that the team has successfully
completed the risk response planning and now you must initiate what risk process it is. Which of
the following risk processes is repeated after the plan risk responses to determine if the overall
project risk has been satisfactorily decreased?
A. Qualitative risk analysis
B. Quantitative risk analysis
C. Risk identification
D. Risk response implementation
QUESTION NO: 189
Sensitivity analysis is a technique for systematically changing parameters in a model to determine
the effects of such changes and is useful for computer modellers for a range of purposes. Which
of the following purposes does the sensitivity analysis include? Each correct answer represents a
complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Increased understanding or quantification of the system
B. Estimating the average outcome
C. Model development
D. Decision making or the development of recommendations for decision makers
QUESTION NO: 190
You are the project manager of the NHH Project for your company and you have completed the
risk analysis processes for the risk events. You and the project team have created risk responses
for most of the identified project risks. Now, you would like to assign risk owners to the events.
Which risk events should have risk response owners?
A. Only the risks with a high risk rating
QUESTION NO: 191
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You have to communicate the causes of risk
events to the stakeholders. Which risk diagramming technique you will use to communicate the
causes of risk events to project stakeholders?
A. Project network diagrams
B. Process flow charts
C. Ishikawa diagrams
D. Influence diagrams
QUESTION NO: 192
Wendy is about to perform qualitative risk analysis on the identified risks within her project. Which
one of the following will NOT help Wendy to perform this project management activity?
C. Risk register

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QUESTION NO: 193
Frances is the project manager of a project in her organization. This project has a budget of
$567,000 and is schedule to last for three years. Frances wants to examine the risk events to
determine which risk events have the most potential impact on the project. Which modelling
technique can help Frances to accomplish this goal?
A. Expected monetary value
B. Sensitivity analysis
C. Quantitative risk analysis
QUESTION NO: 194
You are the project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are reviewing the risk register for your project.
The risk register provides much information to you, the project manager and to the project team
during the risk response planning. All of the following are included in the risk register except for
which item?
A. Network diagram analysis of critical path activities
B. Symptoms and warning signs of risks
C. List of potential risk responses
D. Trends in qualitative risk analysis results
QUESTION NO: 195
You work as a project manager for SoftTech Inc. You are working with the project stakeholders to
begin the qualitative risk analysis process. You will need all of the following as inputs to the
qualitative risk analysis process except for which one?
A. Stakeholder register
B. Project scope statement
D. Risk register
QUESTION NO: 196
Which of the following components ensures that risks are examined for all new proposed change
requests in the change control system?
A. Risk monitoring and control
B. Scope change control
C. Integrated change control
D. Configuration management
QUESTION NO: 197
Elizabeth is a project manager for her organization and she finds risk management to be very
difficult for her to manage. She asks you, a lead project manager, at what stage in the project will
risk management become easier. What answer best resolves the difficulty of risk management
practices and the effort required?
A. Risk management only becomes easier the more often it is practiced.
B. Risk management only becomes easier when the project is closed.
C. Risk management only becomes easier when the project moves into project execution.
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QUESTION NO: 198
Mary is the project manager of the HGH Project for her company. She and her project team have
agreed that if the vendor is late by more than ten days they will cancel the order and hire the NBG
Company to fulfil the order. The NBG Company can guarantee orders within three days, but the
costs of their products are significantly more expensive than the current vendor. What type of a
response strategy is this?
A. Internal risk management strategy
B. Contingent response strategy
C. External risk response
D. Expert judgment
QUESTION NO: 199
You are the project manager of the GHY Project for your company. You have completed the risk
response planning with your project team. You now need to update the WBS. Why would the
project manager need to update the WBS after the risk response planning process? Choose the
best answer.
A. Because of work that was omitted during the WBS creation.
B. Because of new work generated by risk responses.
C. Because of risk responses that are new activities.
D. Because of risks associated with work packages.
QUESTION NO: 200
Adrian is a project manager for a new project using a technology that has recently been released
and there's relatively little information about the technology. Initial testing of the technology makes
the use of it look promising, but there's still uncertainty as to the longevity and reliability of the
technology. Adrian wants to consider the technology factors a risk for her project. Where should
she document the risks associated with this technology so she can track the risk status and
responses?
A. Risk register
B. Risk low-level watch list
C. Project scope statement
D. Project charter
QUESTION NO: 201
Your project has several risks that may cause serious financial impact should they happen. You
have studied the risk events and made some potential risk responses for the risk events but
management wants you to do more. They'd like for you to create some type of a chart that
identified the risk probability and impact with a financial amount for each risk event. What is the
likely outcome of creating this type of chart?
A. Risk response
B. Quantitative analysis
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QUESTION NO: 202
Marsha is the project manager of the NHQ Project. There's a risk that her project team has
identified, which could cause the project to be late by more than a month. Marsha does not want
this risk event to happen so she devises extra project activities to ensure that the risk event will
not happen. The extra steps, however, will cost the project an additional $10,000. What type of
risk response is this approach?
A. Enhancing
B. Exploiting
C. Mitigation
D. Transference
QUESTION NO: 203
You are the project manager for your organization. You are preparing for the quantitative risk
analysis. Mark, a project team member, wants to know why you need to do quantitative risk
analysis when you just completed qualitative risk analysis. Which one of the following statements
best defines what quantitative risk analysis is?
A. Quantitative risk analysis is the process of numerically analysing the effect of identified
risks on overall project objectives.
B. Quantitative risk analysis is the planning and quantification of risk responses based on
probability and impact of each risk event.
C. Quantitative risk analysis is the review of the risk events with the high probability and the
highest impact on the project objectives.
D. Quantitative risk analysis is the process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by
assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact.
QUESTION NO: 204
Joan is the project manager of the KYU project for her company. She is working with management
on defining a contingency reserve for her project. Currently the project is scheduled to last 18
months and it has a cost budget of $2.5 million. What two areas of the project can the contingency
reserve address in regard to risk management?
A. Quality and costs
B. Cost and resource management
C. Risk and project planning
D. Costs and schedule
QUESTION NO: 205
You and your project team are just starting the risk identification activities for a project that is
scheduled to last for 18 months. Your project team has already identified a long list of risks that
need to be analysed. How often you and the project team should do risk identification?
A. It depends on how many risks are initially identified.
B. At least once per month
C. Identify risks is an iterative process.
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B. Stakeholder analysis as the project team is a stakeholder
C. Risk identification with the project team
QUESTION NO: 206
Wendy is the project manager of the NNJ project for her company. As part of the variance and
trend analysis tool and technique for risk governance she is using earned value management. In
this approach, Wendy wants to track and compare the cost and schedule variances. What is the
point of this tool and technique in regard to risk?
A. Wendy can determine a true project completion date.
B. Wendy can track the cost and schedule variances.
C. Wendy can review quality performance on baselines.
D. Wendy can forecast deviation of the project cost and schedule for completion targets.
QUESTION NO: 207
Which of the following techniques examines the degree to which organizational strengths offset
threats and opportunities that may serve to overcome weaknesses?
A. SWOT Analysis
B. Expert Judgment
C. Delphi
D. Brainstorming
QUESTION NO: 208
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. There has been a delay in your project work that
is adversely affecting the project schedule. You decided, with your stakeholders' approval, to fast
track the project work to get the project done faster. When you fast track the project which of the
following are likely to increase?
A. Costs
B. Quality control concerns
C. Human resource needs
D. Risks
QUESTION NO: 209
Don is the project manager of the PFO project for his organization. Don is working with the project
team members and two subject matter experts to assess the identified risk events in the project.
Which of the following approaches is the best to assess the risk events in the project?
A. Determination of the true cost of the risk event
B. Probability and Impact Matrix
C. Root cause analysis
D. Interviews or meetings
QUESTION NO: 210
You are interviewing members of a project team to test their understanding of the assigned risk
responses as risk owners. You and the project manager are working together to evaluate the risk
responses to determine their effectiveness in the project. What project management technique are
you performing with the project manager in this scenario?
A. Risk audits
D. Risk analysis

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QUESTION NO: 211
Thomas is the project manager of the NHJ Project for his company. He has identified several
positive risk events within his project and he thinks these events can save the project time and
money. Positive risk events, such as these within the NHJ Project are also known as what?
A. Benefits
B. Opportunities
C. Ancillary constituent components
D. Contingency risks
QUESTION NO: 212
In addition to monitoring and controlling the project risks for their status and information the risk
monitoring and controlling process accomplishes four key things for a project. Which one of the
following is NOT a determination that is made by the risk monitoring and controlling process?
A. Determines if the project assumptions are still valid
B. Determines if the risk management policies and procedures are being followed
C. Determines if the risk contingency reserves should be modified to be in alignment with the
current risk assessment
D. Determines if the project constraints are still valid
QUESTION NO: 213
You are the project manager for your organization and you are working with Thomas, a project
team member. You and Thomas have been working on a specific risk response for a probable risk
event in the project. Thomas is empowered with a risk response and will control all aspects of the
identified risk response in which a particular risk event will happen within the project. What title, in
regard to risk, is bestowed on Thomas?
A. Risk expeditor
B. Risk owner
C. Risk team leader
D. Risk coordinator
QUESTION NO: 214
You are the project manager of a large construction project. Part of the project involves the wiring
of the electricity in the building your project is creating. You and the project team determine the
electrical work is too dangerous to perform yourself so you hire an electrician to perform the work
for the project. This is an example of what type of risk response?
A. Acceptance
B. Mitigation
C. Transference
D. Avoidance
QUESTION NO: 215
Risks with low ratings of probability and impact are included on a ____ for future monitoring.
A. Risk alarm
B. Watchlist
C. Observation list
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QUESTION NO: 216
What approach can a project manager use to improve the project's performance during qualitative
risk analysis?
A. Focus on near-term risks first.
B. Create a risk breakdown structure and delegate the risk analysis to the appropriate project
team members.
C. Focus on high-priority risks.
D. Analyse as many risks as possible regardless of who initiated the risk event.
Based on the information in the figure above, what amount would you need to include in your risk
contingency fund?
A. -$465,000
B. $171,500
C. -$258,500
D. $258,500
QUESTION NO: 218
Mark is the project manager of the BFL project for his organization. He and the project team are
creating a probability and impact matrix using RAG rating. There is some confusion and
disagreement among the project team as to how a certain risk is important and priority for
attention should be managed. Where can Mark determine the priority of a risk given its probability
and impact?
QUESTION NO: 217
You are the project manager of the NHH project for your company. You and the project team have
completed the quantitative risk analysis for your project. During this process you create a
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B. Project sponsor
C. Risk response plan
D. Look-up table
QUESTION NO: 219
The Identify Risk process determines the risks that affect the project and document their
characteristics. Why should the project team members be involved in the Identify Risk process?
A. They are the individuals that will need a sense of ownership and responsibility for the risk
events.
B. They are the individuals that will have the best responses for identified risks events within the
project.
C. They are the individuals that are most affected by the risk events.
D. They are the individuals that will most likely cause and respond to the risk events.
QUESTION NO: 220
You are the project manager for the NHQ Project. This project requires that you install 140 copies
of design software onto your department's computers. The vendor offers you a twenty percent
discount on the software if your company will purchase 150 or more copies of the software. You
communicate this offer with other departments in your firm to see if anyone else would need 10
copies of the software to save your project a significant amount of funds. What is this risk
response called?
A. Exploiting
B. Avoidance
C. Sharing
D. Transference
QUESTION NO: 221
What project management plan is most likely to direct the quantitative risk analysis process for a
project in a matrix environment?
A. Risk analysis plan
B. Staffing management plan
C. Human resource management plan
Risk management plan
QUESTION NO: 222
You are working with the project stakeholders to analyse and prioritize their requirements for the
project. One of the project requirements is to achieve a high-level of customer satisfaction for the
project deliverable. What is the danger in this project requirement?
A. Achieving customer satisfaction is an assumption and should be documented in the project
scope.
B. Achieving customer satisfaction is a subjective requirement and entails a high level of risk
of being successfully accomplished.
C. Achieving customer satisfaction is a risk as the project manager cannot control how
satisfied the customer will be with the project deliverables.
D. Achieving customer satisfaction should always map to the quality requirements for the
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QUESTION NO: 223
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are preparing for the risk identification
process. You will need to involve several of the project's key stakeholders to help you identify and
communicate the identified risk events. You will also need several documents to help you and the
stakeholders identify the risk events. Which one of the following is NOT a document that will help
you identify and communicate risks within the project?
A. Risk register
B. Activity cost estimates
C. Stakeholder register
D. Activity duration estimates
QUESTION NO: 224
Mark works as a project manager of the NNH project. In this project, he has created a contingency
response that the cost performance index should be less than 0.91. The NHH project has a
budget at completion of $950,000 and is 43 percent complete - though the project should be 50
What is the project's cost performance index?
A. 0.95
B. 0.80
C. 0.87
D. 0.91
QUESTION NO: 225
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are involved with the project team on the
different risk issues in your project. You are using the applications of IRGC model to facilitate the
understanding and managing the rising of the overall risks that have impacts on the economy and
society. One of your team member wants to know that what the need to use the IRGC is. What will
be your reply?
A. IRGC addresses questions such as the understanding of the secondary impacts of a risk.
B. IRGC models aim at building robust, integrative inter-disciplinary governance models for
emerging and existing risks.
C. IRGC addresses the development of resilience and the capacity of organizations and people to
face unavoidable risks.
D. IRGC is both a concept and a tool.
QUESTION NO: 226
Diana is the project manager of the QPS project for her company. In this project Diana and the
project team have identified a pure risk. Diana and the project team decided, along with the key
stakeholders, to remove the pure risk from the project by changing the project plan altogether.
What is a pure risk?
A. It is a risk event that is generated due to errors or omission in the project work.
B. It is a risk event that is created by a risk response.
C. It is a risk event that only has a negative side, such as loss of life or limb.
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QUESTION NO: 227
Management has asked you to perform a risk audit and report back on the results. Bonny, a
project team member asks you what a risk audit is. What do you tell Bonny?
Happening are.
B. A risk audit is a review of the effectiveness of the risk responses in dealing with identified
risks and their root causes, as well as the effectiveness of the risk management process.
C. A risk audit is a review of all the risk probability and impact for the risks, which are still
presenting the project but which have not yet occurred.
D. A risk audit is an audit of all the risks that have occurred in the project and what their true
impact on cost and time has been.
QUESTION NO: 228
Consider the risk probability-impact matrix in the figure given below:
If Risk B happens in this project, how much will be left in the contingency reserve?
A. $193,500
B. -$334,500
C. It depends on the total budget of the project.
D. $148,300
QUESTION NO: 229
Mary is a project manager in her organization. On her current project she is working with her
project team and other key stakeholders to identify the risks within the project. She is currently
aiming to create a comprehensive list of project risks so she is using a facilitator to help generate
ideas about project risks. What risk identification method is Mary likely using?
A. Brainstorming
B. Delphi Techniques
C. Checklist analysis
D. Expert judgment
QUESTION NO: 230
Mike is the project manager of the NNP Project for his organization. He is working with his project
team to plan the risk responses for the NNP Project. Mike would like the project team to work
together on establishing risk thresholds in the project. What is the purpose of a risk threshold?
A. It helps to identify those risks for which specific responses are needed.
B. It is a limit of the funds that can be assigned to risk events.
C. It is a warning sign that a risk event is going to happen.
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QUESTION NO: 231
You are the project manager for the ABC organization. Your current project has 75 internal
stakeholders and 245 external stakeholders. Many of the risks within your project will only affect
the internal stakeholders, but several of the identified risk events will affect the external
stakeholders. Management would like to know the total number of communication channels in the
project. How many communication channels exist in this project?
A. 245
B. 51,040
C. 102,080
D. 320
QUESTION NO: 232
Tom is the project manager of the GGG project for his company. He is working with the project
team on the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process. Tom is having the project team to review
the project scope statement as an input to the qualitative risk analysis process. Why?
A. The project scope statement must be understood to see the project requirements and the
inherent risks of the project.
B. The project scope statement will reveal the type of project as either a recurrent or first-of-its-
kind project.
C. The project scope identifies the risks associated with project constraints.
D. The project scope statement must be reviewed to understand the quality requirements and the
risks associated with the demand for quality.
QUESTION NO: 233
You are the project manager for GHY Project and are working to create a risk response for a
negative risk. You and the project team have identified the risk that the project may not complete
on time, as required by the management, due to the creation of the user guide for the software
you're creating. You have elected to hire an external writer in order to satisfy the requirements and
to alleviate the risk event. What type of risk response have you elected to use in this instance?
A. Avoidance
B. Exploiting
C. Transference
D. Sharing
QUESTION NO: 234
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are currently working with the project
stakeholders to identify risks in your project. You understand that the qualitative risk assessment
and analysis can reflect the attitude of the project team and other stakeholders to risk. Effective
assessment of risk requires management of the risk attitudes of the participants. What should you,
the project manager, do with assessment of identified risks in consideration of the attitude and
bias of the participants towards the project risk?
A. Evaluate and document the bias towards the risk events
B. Evaluate the bias through SWOT for true analysis of the risk events
C. Document the bias for the risk events and communicate the bias with management
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QUESTION NO: 235
You are the project manager of your organization. Your organization will receive a bonus if the
project finishes by December 20. Management has communicated this bonus to you and your
project team and has asked you to evaluate the project to see if it is possible to realize the reward.
The bonus offered to your organization is $750,000. You have examined the project and believe
that you can crash the project for an additional $275,000 and reach the December 20 date.
Management is thrilled with your assessment and they approve the crash fee. What risk response
is this?
A. Crashing can be a type of the enhancing risk response.
B. Crashing can be considered transference because of the $275,000 is actually paid from the
bonus, which is paid by the project customer.
C. Crashing can be a type of the exploit risk response.
D. Crashing is the addition of labor, not a risk response.
QUESTION NO: 236
You are working as a project manager in your organization. You are nearing the final stages of
project execution and looking towards the final risk monitoring and controlling activities. For your
project archives, which one of the following is an output of risk monitoring and control?
A. Quantitative risk analysis
B. Risk audits
C. Requested changes
D. Qualitative risk analysis
QUESTION NO: 237
You and your project team have identified the project risks and now are analysing the probability
and impact of the risks. What type of analysis of the risks provides a quick and high-level review of
each identified risk event?
A. A risk probability-impact matrix
B. Quantitative risk analysis
C. Seven risk responses
D. Qualitative risk analysis
QUESTION NO: 238
You are the project manager of the AFD project for your company. You are working with the
project team to reassess existing risk events and to identify risk events that have not happened
and whose relevancy to the project has passed. What should you do with these events that have
not happened and would not happen now in the project?
A. Add the risks to the risk register
B. Add the risks to a low-priority watchlist
C. Close the outdated risks
D. Add the risk to the issues log
QUESTION NO: 239
Harry works as a project manager for the NHQ Project. He is performing quantitative risk analysis
for his project. One of the project risks has a 40 percent probability of happening, and it will cost
the project $65,000 if the risk happens. What is the expected monetary value of this risk event?

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A. Negative $26,000
B. Negative $67,000
C. Zero - the risk event has not yet occurred
D. $27,000
QUESTION NO: 240
Beth is a project team member on the JHG Project. Beth has added extra features to the project
and this has introduced new risks to the project work. The project manager of the JHG project
elects to remove the features Beth has added. The process of removing the extra features to
remove the risks is called what?
A. Preventive action
B. Corrective action
C. Scope creep
D. Defect repair
QUESTION NO: 241
Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase. The _________ is the risk or danger of an action or an
event, a method or a (technical) process that still conceives these dangers even if all theoretically
possible safety measures would be applied.
A. residual risk
QUESTION NO: 242
Which of the following processes must be repeated after Plan Risk Responses, as well as part of
the Monitor and Control Risks, to determine if the overall project risk has been satisfactorily
decreased?
A. Risk Limitation
B. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
C. Identify Risk
QUESTION NO: 243
You work as a project manager for TechSoft Inc. You are working with the project stakeholders on
the qualitative risk analysis process in your project. You have used all the tools to the qualitative
risk analysis process in your project. Which of the following techniques is NOT used as a tool in
qualitative risk analysis process?
A. Risk Urgency Assessment
B. Risk Categorization
C. Risk Reassessment
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QUESTION NO: 244
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You would like to utilize sensitivity analysis in
your project, but the management does not understand how this will be displayed. What type of
chart is usually used with sensitivity analysis to show the relative effect of risks on the project?
A. Ishikawa chart
B. Force field analysis chart
C. GERT Chart
D. Tornado diagram
QUESTION NO: 245
A. Share
B. Exploit
C. Enhance
D. Venture
QUESTION NO: 246
Gary is the project manager of the MMQ project for his company. He is working with his project
team to plan the risk responses for his project. Sarah, a project team member, does not
understand the process that Gary is using to plan the risk responses. Which approach is the
preferred method to address project risks and the risk responses?
A. Risks in the project should be addressed by their probability for creating risk responses.
B. Risks in the project should be addressed by the organization's risk tolerance for creating risk
responses.
C. Risks in the project should be addressed by their impact for creating risk responses.
D. Risks in the project should be addressed by their priority for creating risk responses.
QUESTION NO: 247
Ned is the project manager of the HNN project for your company. Ned has asked you to help him
complete some probability distributions for his project. What portion of the project will you most
likely use for probability distributions?
A. Bias towards risk in new resources
B. Risk probability and impact matrixes
C. Risk identification
QUESTION NO: 248
You are the project manager of a large, high-profile project in your organization. You have realized
that politics within your company may affect the true identification of risk events within the project.
You decide that you'd like to use a method to identify risk events through an anonymous process.
Which one of the following risk events will allow you to collect and distribute risk information
without the stakeholders knowing what other stakeholders are communicating about the project
risk events?
A. Surveys
B. Monte Carlo Technique
C. Checklist analysis
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QUESTION NO: 249
You are the project manager of the NNH Project. In this project you have created a contingency
response that the schedule performance index should be less than 0.93. The NHH Project has a
budget at completion of $945,000 and is 45 percent complete though the project should be 49
What is the project's schedule performance index?
A. -$37,800
B. 0.93
C. 0.92
D. 1.06
QUESTION NO: 250
David is the project manager of HGF project for his company. David, the project team, and several
key stakeholders have completed risk identification and are ready to move into qualitative risk
analysis. Tracy, a project team member, does not understand why they need to complete
qualitative risk analysis. Which one of the following is the best explanation for completing
qualitative risk analysis?
A. It is a cost-effective means of establishing probability and impact for the project risks.
B. Qualitative risk analysis helps segment the project risks, create a risk breakdown structure, and
create fast and accurate risk responses.
C. All risks must pass through quantitative risk analysis before qualitative risk analysis.
D. It is a rapid and cost-effective means of establishing priorities for the plan risk responses and
lays the foundation for quantitative analysis.
QUESTION NO: 251
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your project is running late and you must
respond to the risk. Which risk response can you choose that will also cause you to update the
human resource management plan?
A. Teaming agreements
B. Transference
C. Crashing the project
D. Fast tracking the project
QUESTION NO: 252
The Project Risk Management knowledge area focuses on which of the following processes?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Quantitative Risk Analysis
B. Risk Monitoring and Control
C. Potential Risk Monitoring
D. Risk Management Planning
QUESTION NO: 253
Mary is the project manager of PKT project. In Mary's project there are certain enterprise
environmental factors that require Mary to use modelling and simulation techniques to predict the
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which the cost estimates are chosen at random for each iteration of the analysis, such as
pessimistic, most likely, and worst-case scenarios. What type of analysis is Mary using in this
project?
A. Quantitative analysis
B. Qualitative analysis
C. Risk distribution
D. Monte Carlo Analysis
QUESTION NO: 254
In what portion of a project are risk and opportunities greatest and require intense planning and
anticipation of risk events?
A. Closing
B. Planning
C. Initiating
D. Executing
QUESTION NO: 255
Courtney is the project manager for her organization. She is working with the project team to
complete the qualitative risk analysis for her project. During the analysis Courtney encourages the
project team to begin the grouping of identified risks by common causes. What is the primary
advantage to group risks by common causes during qualitative risk analysis?
A. It helps the project team realize the areas of the project most laden with risks.
B. It saves time by collecting the related resources, such as project team members, to analyse the
risk events.
C. It can lead to developing effective risk responses.
D. It can lead to the creation of risk categories unique to each project.
QUESTION NO: 256
Lamont is the project manager of a project that has recently finished the final project deliverables.
The project customer has signed off on the project deliverable and Lamont has a few
administrative closure activities to complete. In the project, there were several large risks that
could have wrecked the project but Lamont and his project team found some creative methods to
resolve the risks without affecting the project costs or project end date. What should Lamont do
with the risk responses he identified during the project's monitoring and controlling process?
A. Include the risk response in the project risk management plan.
B. Include the responses in the project management plan.
C. Nothing. The risk responses are included in the project's risk register already.
D. Include the risk responses in the organization's lessons learned database.
QUESTION NO: 257
You are the project manager of the HJK project for your organization. You and the project team
have created risk responses for many of the risk events in the project. A teaming agreement is an
example of what risk response?
A. Transference
B. Acceptance
C. Mitigation
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A. Influence/impact grid, grouping the stakeholders based on their active involvement ("influence")
in the project and their ability to affect changes to the project's planning or execution ("impact"). B.
Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority ("power") and their active involvement
("influence") in the project.
C. Grouping the stakeholders based on their level of authority ("power") and their level or concern
("interest") regarding the project outcomes.
D. Describing classes of stakeholders based on their power (ability to impose their will), urgency
(Need for immediate attention), and legitimacy (their involvement is
appropriate).
QUESTION NO: 258
Harold is the project manager of a large project in his organization. He has been actively
communicating and working with the project stakeholders. One of the outputs of the manage
stakeholder expectations process can actually create new risk events for Harold's project. Which
output of the manage stakeholder expectations process can create risks?
A. Project document updates
B. Change requests
C. Organizational process assets updates
D. Project management plan updates
QUESTION NO: 259
Harry is the project manager of the MMQ Construction Project. In this project, Harry has identified
a supplier who can create stained glass windows for 1,000 window units in the construction
project. The supplier is an artist who works by himself, but creates windows for several companies
throughout the United States. Management reviews the proposal to use this supplier and while
they agree that the supplier is talented, they do not think the artist can fulfil the 1,000 window units
in time for the project's deadline. Management asked Harry to find a supplier who can fulfil the
completion of the windows by the needed date in the schedule. What risk response has
management asked Harry to implement?
A. Mitigation
B. Acceptance
C. Avoidance
D. Transference
QUESTION NO: 260
Joan is a project management consultant and she has been hired by a firm to help them identify
risk events within the project. Joan would first like to examine the project documents including the
plans, assumptions lists, project files, and contracts. What key thing will help Joan to discover
risks within the review of the project documents?
A. The project documents will help the project manager, or Joan, to identify what risk identification
approach is best to pursue.
B. Lack of consistency between the plans and the project requirements and assumptions can be
the indicators of risk in the project.
C. Poorly written requirements will reveal inconsistencies in the project plans and documents.
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QUESTION NO: 261
Rob is the project manager of the IDLK Project for his company. This project has a budget of
$5,600,000 and is expected to last 18 months. Rob has learned that a new law may affect how the
project is allowed to proceed - even though the organization has already invested over $750,000
in the project. What risk response is the most appropriate for this instance?
A. Acceptance
B. Transference
C. Mitigation
D. Enhance
QUESTION NO: 262
You are the project manager for your organization. You have determined that an activity is too
dangerous to complete internally so you hire licensed contractor to complete the work. The
contractor, however, may not complete the assigned work on time which could cause delays in
subsequent work beginning. This is an example of what type of risk event?
A. Internal
B. Secondary risk
C. Pure risk
D. Transference
QUESTION NO: 263
There are five inputs to the quantitative risk analysis process. Which one of the following is NOT
an input to the perform quantitative risk analysis process?
A. Risk register
C. Cost management plan
D. Enterprise environmental factors
QUESTION NO: 264
Don has hired Jerry, a contractor, to complete a portion of his project work. The contract used was
a cost-plus contract. If Don were to perform a risk audit, who would carry the risk in this scenario?
A. Don would because he is the project manager.
B. Jerry would because of the contract type.
C. Don would because of the contract type.
D. Jerry would because he is the hired contractor.
QUESTION NO: 265
You are the project manager of the BlueStar project in your company. Your company is structured
as a functional organization and you report to the functional manager that you are ready to move
onto the qualitative risk analysis process. What will you need as inputs for the qualitative risk
analysis of the project in this scenario?
A. Qualitative risk analysis does not happen through the project manager in a functional structure.
B. You will need the risk register, risk management plan, project scope statement, and any
relevant organizational process assets.
C. You will need the risk register, risk management plan, outputs of qualitative risk analysis,
and any relevant organizational process assets.
D. You will need the risk register, risk management plan, permission from the functional
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QUESTION NO: 266
You work as a project manager for TechSoft Inc. You are preparing to plan risk responses for your
project with your project team. How many risk responses are available for a positive risk event in
the project?
A. Three
B. Four
C. Seven
D. One
QUESTION NO: 267
Jeff works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is determining which risks can affect the
project. Which of the following are the inputs to the identify risks process that Jeff will use to
accomplish the task? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Scope baseline
B. Activity cost estimates
C. Risk register
QUESTION NO: 268
You are the project manager for the NHH project. You are working with your project team to
examine the project from four different defined perspectives to increase the breadth of identified
risks by including internally generated risks. What risk identification approach are you using in this
example?
A. Root cause analysis
B. SWOT analysis
C. Influence diagramming techniques
D. Assumptions analysis
QUESTION NO: 269
Ben works as a project manager for the MJH Project. In this project, Ben is preparing to identify
stakeholders so he can communicate project requirements, status, and risks. Ben has elected to
use a salience model as part of his stakeholder identification process. Which of the following
activities best describes a salience model?
QUESTION NO: 270
Gary is the project manager for his project. He and the project team have completed the
qualitative risk analysis process and are about to enter the quantitative risk analysis process when
Mary, the project sponsor, wants to know what quantitative risk analysis will review. Which of the
following statements best defines what quantitative risk analysis will review?
A. The quantitative risk analysis process will review risk events for their probability and impact
on the project objectives.
B. The quantitative risk analysis seeks to determine the true cost of each identified risk event
and the probability of each risk event to determine the risk exposure.
C. The quantitative risk analysis process will analyse the effect of risk events that may
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D. The quantitative risk analysis reviews the results of risk identification and prepares the
project for risk response management.
QUESTION NO: 271
____ analysis is a statistical concept that calculates the average outcome when the future
includes scenarios that may or may not happen.
A. Expert judgment
B. Expected monetary value
C. Sensitivity
QUESTION NO: 272
Todd is the project manager of the EST project for his company. His organization has established
certain rules in the enterprise environmental factors which affect the approach that Todd takes in
managing his project. One of the rules requires Todd to consider the risk attitude of the
stakeholders participating in risk analysis. Why must risk attitude be considered as a part of risk
analysis?
A. Risk attitude can affect the measurement of probability and impact.
B. Risk attitude can establish a stakeholder's influence over project decisions.
C. Risk attitude identifies stakeholders that are hygiene seekers or motivation seekers.
D. Risk attitude establishes stakeholders as positive or negative stakeholders.
QUESTION NO: 273
You work as the project manager for Bluewell Inc. There has been a delay in your project work
that is adversely affecting the project schedule. You decide, with your stakeholders' approval, to
fast track the project work to get the project done faster. When you fast track the project, what is
likely to increase?
A. Risks
B. Costs
C. Quality control concerns
D. Human resource needs

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