You are the project manager for a pharmaceutical company. The latest project involves a new drug that will be released in six months. The project for the release is going well and closely mirrors the release of a drug that took place the previous year. With accurate historical information and quantifiable parameters in hand, what is the best type of cost estimating technique to use during the Determine Budget process?

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the project management plan?

The project sponsor asks the project manager to validate that the product scope has been met. What will the project manager use to measure the completion of the product scope?

You are using the tools and techniques of the Control Schedule process and know all of the following are true except for which one?

David is a project manager working for a prominent book publishing company. As the most senior project manager within the organization, he often gets the most complex project assignments. For this reason, the PMO manager assigns David to manage a project for a sponsor who is notorious for scope creep. Knowing this, David is likely to place greater emphasis on what project management process?

A project manager is managing a project working to produce a fitness tracking device. He has just finished getting the project authorized and analyzing stakeholder needs and expectations. What activity is he likely to perform next?

Carina is a principal project manager of You’ve Got Dogs, a specialty company that creates custom dog apparel and toys. She has just finished developing the project charter of a project that will create a new line of high-tech dog bones. What is the significance of the project charter?

Your organization uses a predicative approach to managing projects. You have recently kicked off your project, and you are beginning a series of overview sessions with key users to determine requirements for a new enterprise resource software implementation. What process group are the activities you are performing in?

Which of the following techniques can provide the probability of a project completing on any given date?

You are in the Monitor Communications process. Your organization has taken on a large, complex, multiyear project. You are coming in as the new project manager (the old project manager left one day for lunch and never came back). After you’ve spent some time working on the project, you begin to realize that the project sponsor doesn’t want to hear bad news. There is, unfortunately, some bad news related to the project, but you have a plan to get the project back on track. One of the other stakeholders on the project informed you that the sponsor had just told them that the project was proceeding as planned and was on time and on budget. You’ve found that the stakeholders are not communicating with each other and that since you’ve started working on the project, there have been no regularly scheduled meetings with stakeholders. All of the following are true regarding this question except which one?