Latest CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 Study Guide [2022]

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By Eleanor CompTIA, CompTIA Project+

PK0-004 exam is the requirement of getting CompTIA Project+ certification, which is designed for business professionals who coordinate or manage small-to-medium-size projects, inside and outside of IT. While preparing for CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 exam, candidates can choose online resources as the training courses to prepare for PK0-004 exam well. Actual PK0-004 exam contains maximum of 95 questions, practicing PK0-004 study guide regularly will help you answer CompTIA Project+ certification exam smoothly.

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1. A project manager is managing a transactional project. One of the key team members is having difficulties understanding the client requirements.

Which of the following actions would be BEST for the project manager to take?

Ask the client to provide additional language resources to the team.

Purchase a language translation program.

Hire a translator to help the key team member

Ask the client to provide requirements in the native language of the team.

2. Which of the following is a schedule that illustrates the duration of an activity?

Process diagram

Ishikawa diagram

Gantt chart

Pareto chart

3. Which of the following job roles is primarily tasked with communicating the project timeline changes?

Project scheduler

Project manager

Project sponsor

Project coordinator

4. Which of the following is a characteristics of a matrix organization?

Authority lies solely with the project manager.

Authority is directed by the project architect.

Authority is shared between the project manager and project coordinator.

Authority is shared between functional and project managers.

5. Which of the following documents need to be updated as events occur during a project? (Select TWO).

Change request

Risk register

Meeting minutes

Issue log

Status report

6. A software upgrade project has been postponed because it may impact a critical business system.

Which of the following strategies has been applied?

Accept risk

Mitigate risk

Avoid risk

Exploit risk

7. The project team is distributed throughout a single country. The scrum master has decided to hold remote "stand-ups" on a daily basis.

Which of the following would be the MOST effective means to do this?

Instant messaging

Video conference

Phone call

Collaboration website

8. Which of the following project documents should be used to record the occurrence of an unplanned event?

Action log

Risk log

Change log

Issue log

9. Which of the following individuals is MOST likely to be a key stakeholder for the product launch phase of a project?

Sales clerk

Marketing representative

Team lead

Product item

10. A project manager needs to identify the resources assigned to a particular task.

In which of the following documents can this information be found?

Project schedule

Cost plan

Scope statement

Impact assessment

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11. An outsourced project team member approaches the project manager and complains that the contract does not permit overtime. The project manager had fast-tracked tasks that require additional hours.

Which of the following documents did the project manager fail to reference?

MOU

MOA

SOW

SLA

12. A project manager was directed to complete a project sooner than previously planned.

Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective step to take to ensure the project’s success?

Reduce the scope

Increase the budget

Decrease staff

Update the WBS

13. A project manager provides status reports to a customer on a biweekly basis, but the customer is very busy and only has a few minutes to review the project.

Which of the following are critical for the project manager to provide?

Cost, schedule, organizational chart, and risks/issues

Risks/issues, cost, RACI chart, and action items

Schedule, cost, risks/issues, and milestones

Action items, organizational chart, schedule, and NDA

14. 1.A project manager has an opportunity to add a highly skilled expert to the team who can increase the probability of the project’s success.

Which of the following risk strategies should the project manager adopt?

Exploitation

Avoidance

Acceptance

Mitigation

15. Team members have reported that meetings are poorly attended and unproductive.

Which of the following steps can the project manager take to make the meetings more productive?

Discontinue the meetings with the poorest attendance.

Decrease the length of the meetings.

Distribute an agenda before each meeting.

Document team member attendance and report it to management.

16. A customer will have ongoing changes to project requirements.

Which of the following is the BEST project management methodology for this requirement?

Waterfall

Agile

PRINCE2

Bottom-up

17. new stakeholder has been added to a project with a BAG of $850,000. The stakeholder has raised five change requests to the CCB; two of them have been approved, and three are awaiting initial review.

Considering the project has a CPI of 0.89 and an SPI of 1.14, and the approved ones will be implemented, which of the following should the project manager do LAST?

Identify and document the risk.

Evaluate the impact and justification.

Implement the change.

Update the documents and plans.

18. A project manager has received a change order that will reduce a project's timeline and budget. However, the change order also indicates the goals and deliverables of the project must remain unchanged.

Which of the following is the MOST logical impact to the project?

The reduced timeline will impact the quality of the deliverables because the amount of time to test will be reduced.

The reduced budget will result in reduced resources, which will lead to a strong matrix organizational structure being used.

The reduced timeline will decrease risk, resulting in an increased contingency reserve.

The reduced budget will cause the project manager to reject the change order.

19. A new project charter is being drafted.

Which of the following would be the BEST source for the high-level project requirements?

Sponsor

Project manager

Project management office

Project team

20. A department manager asks a project manager about the status of a project that has only a few employees from the department assigned to it.

Which of the following were MOST likely missed during project planning?

Issue log and process diagram

Resource analysis and Gantt chart

Stakeholder analysis and communication plan

Scatter chart and scope analysis

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21. A project team member highlights to the project manager that expensive licensing for critical software in use across the project may expire before the completion project.

Which of the following would the project manager MOST likely do?

Place a risk on the risk register and arrange a risk review with the appropriate stakeholders to accept and/or mitigate the risk.

Raise a purchase order to purchase the licensing and ask the team member to install it.

Amend the project scope and raise a project change request to obtain approval of the amendment.

Amend the project schedule and work breakdown structures to remove the use of the software from the project.

22. Which of the following are characteristics of a project? (Choose two.)

Ongoing

Temporary

Start and finish

Achieving a goal

Consisting of milestones

Restricting the budget

23. A project manager needs to track the actual and estimated start and finish dates of all WBS work packages.

Which of the following is a necessary step to record the actual durations?

Establish each WBS work package resource.

Establish and set the baseline.

Establish and set the quality gates.

Establish the tollgates.

24. Which of the following elements should be included on a responsibility assignment matrix?

Responsible, accountable, consulted, informed

Resource, accountable, signoff, input

Responsible, accurate, confidential, informed

Resource, accountable, consulted, informed

25. A non-stakeholder approaches the project manager and asks if certain items can be added to a project that was started two months earlier.

Which of the following constraints does this impact MOST?

Time

Schedule

Scope

Cost

26. During the initiation phase, a project manager has asked for a document containing the high-level objectives and goals for a project.

Which of the following documents would contain these items?

Business case

Requirements document

Project timeline

Task plan

27. A project manager has been assigned a project with a budget of $50,000. Three change requests are submitted during execution that will increase the overall project cost to $60,000.

Which of the following steps should the project manager perform NEXT?

Wait until the change requests are approved by the CC

Approve the changes because the additional functionality is required to complete the process.

Speak with the project sponsor and provide a detailed analysis of the changes and impacts to the project budget.

Schedule the changes as part of the second phase of the project when additional funding will be available and work can be completed.

28. A company has determined it does not have the in-house capability to perform a project and wants to procure third-party services.

Which of the following documents will the company MOST likely release FIRST?

RFO

RFI

RFP

RFQ

29. A project requires daily status updates.

Which of the following is the MOST effective method for providing these updates?

Backlog

Standup

Kickoff

Retrospective

30. A project manager is creating the monthly report for top management.

The project manager has collected the information below:

AC = 100

PV = 80

EV = 120

Based on this information, the CPI reflects which of the following about the project?

It is under budget.

It is over budget.

It is ahead of schedule.

It is behind schedule.

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31. A project has just finished performance testing and found that the application can only handle 100 concurrent users where the requirement was to handle 500 concurrent users.

In which of the following components of the project plan should this be documented?

Scope statement

Issues log

WBS

Change form

32. A project manager is trying to ensure the quality of the design and reduce the number of potential defects. The project manager would like to use the fishbone diagram to perform this analysis.

This type of modeling relies on:

Prioritizing the specific event.

Variance in the process over time.

Causes of a specific event.

Determining the number of events.

33. A project manager is working on the project charter.

Which of the following phases does this describe?

Initiation

Planning

Execution

Closing

34. In which of the following organizational structures would a project manager have the MOST authority?

Projectized

Strong matrix

Balanced matrix

Functional

35. A milestone task on the critical path has been completed.

Which of the following should the project manager notify?

Owner of predecessor task

Project team

Project sponsor

Project steering committee

36. A project manager does not have enough time to complete several tasks on a critical path.

The budget is a low concern.

Which of the following should be used to complete the tasks on time?

Fast-track the tasks.

Utilize positive float.

Crash the schedule.

Remove the critical path

37. A vendor has accepted a proposed project from a customer.

Which of the following is MOST likely to be the first document created by the project manager?

Project charter

Project management plan

Project statement of work

Project schedule

38. A project manager is attempting to establish the proper sequencing and duration of project activities.

Which of the following would be the MOST beneficial?

Network diagram

Ishikawa diagram

WBS

Gantt chart

39. The project manager is reviewing the earned value of work completed compared to the planned value and is representing it in a dollar figure.

This type of analysis is an example of which of the following?

Cost performance index

Risk mitigation

Schedule variance

Cost variance

40. A project manager is assigned to an ongoing project.

Which of the following is the FIRST document the protect manager should review?

Project schedule

Action items

Project charter

Communication plan

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41. Which of the following charts is a graphical representation of the causes of a specific event?

Histogram

Scatter

Fishbone

Gantt

42. When a risk event occurs, which of the following documents is BEST suited for recording and tracking new items corresponding to the risk?

Issue log

Risk management plan

Communications plan

Risk register

Status report

43. Maintenance estimates.

Which of the following information should the project manager provide?

Cost baseline

Burn rate

Cost variance report

Total project cost

44. The project manager of a global project constantly receives complaints from individuals at another location that some team members are not available after lunch on Fridays. This is acceptable to the project manager.

Which of the following factors is the MOST likely cause for this scenario?

Personal preference

Intra-organizational differences

Culture

Time zone

45. The project schedule performance index is 1.1, and the cost performance index is 0.9.

Which of the following describes the project status?

Ahead of schedule and over budget

Behind schedule and under budget

Ahead of schedule and under budget

Behind schedule and over budget

46. A vendor is unable to deliver an order by the specified date.

Which of the following should be the project manager’s NEXT steps? (Choose two.)

The project manager should notify the affected project team and, if necessary, adjust the schedule because the project could potentially encounter delays.

The project manager should notify the project sponsor to update the schedule in the documentation because the project could potentially encounter delays.

The project manager should adjust the schedule in the documentation and, if necessary, take steps to rush other areas of the schedule so the project will not encounter delays.

The project manager should update the project management plan in the documentation to reflect the reason for the possible delay in the project timeline.

The project manager should update the procurement plan and action items to reflect the possible delay in the project timeline.

47. A company hires a number of interns and assigns them key roles on a project.

Which of the following should the project manager MOST likely anticipate?

Reduced quality

Reduced scope

Reduced risk

Reduced timeline

48. One deliverable failed during testing, and this has already happened several times.

Which of the following tools is MOST appropriate for the project team to use to determine the cause of the problem?

Run chart

Fishbone diagram

Scatter diagram

Gantt chart

49. During a project assessment, a project manager determines the initial project cost estimates were incorrect, and there is not enough budget left, including reserves, to complete the project.

Which of the following actions should the project manager take?

Alert the project sponsor of the situation.

Contact the customer and request more funding.

Announce the project will end early due to lack of funds.

Attempt to save money in downstream activities.

50. A team member was replaced on a project by a new team member of equal capability.

Which of the following should the project manager do FIRST?

Resource loading

Resource leveling

Prioritizing tasks

Allocating resources

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51. Which of the following would indicate a project manager is working in a matrix-based organization?

The project manager has full authority over resources and the project.

The project manager has no authority over the project resources and limited-to-no authority over the project.

Resources align to the project, report to the project manager, and have no functional home at the end of the project.

Resources report to business area functional managers and return to the functional area at the end of the project.

52. A project has been experiencing some difficulties due to third-party vendors. The project manager should request.

Additional resources

A gate review

A risk register update

A performance audit

53. A project team has finished creating a WBS and started developing a schedule. The team should FIRST determine the:

durations.

tasks.

critical path.

resources.

54. Two team members have concluded that documentation is not required due to the size of the current project. The project manager has encouraged them to align strictly within the process.

Which of the following conflict resolution techniques has the project manager utilized?

Smoothing

Forcing

Compromising

Avoiding

55. The project sponsor has cut the resources required for project completion. The project manager cannot complete the project without additional resources.

Which of the following should the project manager do to obtain the resources?

The project manager should identify and document the reasons for the additional resources in a change request.

The project manager should hire additional resources temporarily to complete the project.

The project manager should terminate the project until additional resources are added to the project.

The project manager should ask the project team members to take on more tasks to complete the project on time.

56. A critical stakeholder has requested additional status updated beyond the schedule.

Which of the following factors MOST likely needs to be accounted for when communicating with this stakeholder?

Confidentiality

Criticality

Frequency

Cultural differences

57. A project is about to begin the execution phase. The SOW and project plan have been approved, and the project team has been formed.

Which of the following types of meetings should happen NEXT?

Update

Scheduling

Kickoff

Review

58. A project manager is trying to explain to a stakeholder why projects are progressively elaborated upon.

Which of the following is the BEST explanation?

In the beginning, projects entail a degree of uncertainty that needs to be specified.

In the beginning, projects have start and finish dates that require elaboration.

In the beginning, projects are part of a program that requires coordination.

In the beginning, projects start with detailed inputs that need to be explained.

59. The project manager was asked to provide recommendations for the removal of a vendor. A meeting was scheduled with the key stakeholders and the project sponsor to highlight the reasons for this recommendation.

Which of the following should the project manager bring to the meeting to support this recommendation? (Choose two.)

The issue log to show why the vendor should be replaced.

The team action items to show why the vendor should be replaced.

The scope statement to show why the vendor should be replaced.

A procurement plan to show why the vendor should be replaced.

A change management plan to have the vendor replaced.

60. During the execution phase, the project manager discovered that the testing phase is dependent on completion of the vendor’s tasks. The project team has just informed the project manager their activities are almost complete, and they would like permission to begin testing. The vendor is not scheduled to deliver the products for two months.

Which of the following should have occurred to prevent this issue?

During the planning phase, the project manager should have recognized the relationship between the vendor’s and project team’s tasks and adjusted the schedule for the project team to begin activities two months later.

The project manager should have crashed the schedule for the vendor to keep it at the same work pace as the rest of the project team.

During the project team’s regular status meeting with the vendor, the project team should have informed the vendor that the team was ahead of schedule and to speed up their work.

During the project team’s regular status meeting with the vendor, the vendor should have informed the project team that it required another two months, and to slow down.

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61. During the execution phase of a project, a project task has run longer than anticipated.

Which of the following is the new critical path of the project if Task 2 requires an additional two days to complete?

12 days

14 days

16 days

19 days

62. A risk with a high probability and medium consequence to a project has been identified. In response, the project manager has purchased an insurance plan with the intent to provide additional funds if the risk is realized. There is no risk to the schedule or scope.

Which of the following types of risk strategies is this an example of?

Accept risk

Transfer risk

Mitigate risk

Exploit risk

Avoid risk

63. A project team is spread between two countries on different continents.

Which of the following factors are MOST likely to influence communication methods selected for the communication plan? (Select TWO).

Interorganizational constraints

Personal preferences

Language barriers

Cultural differences

Confidentiality constraints

64. Which of the following describes how a project is related to a program?

A program is a combination of multiple projects.

A program contains an element of the project.

A program is a part of a project.

A program uses half of the project’s budget.

65. Which of the following shows projected project expenditures?

Work breakdown structure

Cash flow schedule

Cash burn rate

Budget milestone

66. During a project, a key stakeholder asks a project team member to add a requirement. The team member adds the requirement without informing the project manager.

Which of the following is described in this scenario?

Change request

Risk mitigation

Change control

Scope creep

67. There are four parallel paths on a network diagram.

The summary duration of each path is below:

A, C, G: 10 weeks

A, B, F: 8 weeks

D, E, H: 12 weeks

D, B, F: 7 weeks

Which of the following tasks are on the critical path?

A, C, G

A, B, F

D, E, H

D, B, F

68. Which of the following activities are associated with the closing phase of a project? (Choose two.)

Risk mitigation

Archiving of project documents

Tracking of expenditures

Lessons learned

Quality assurance

69. A project manager is justifying a required change with the associated impact on the project.

Which of the following is the NEXT step?

Implementation

Approval

Validation

Auditing

70. The project manager has noticed a vendor is not performing in accordance with the SLA.

Which of the following items should the project manager use to highlight the vendor’s areas of poor performance?

Balanced score card

WBS

Post-project evaluation

PERT

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71. Which of the following is a key aspect of the Agile project management methodology?

Test-driven

Daily standup meetings

Short project durations

Defined list of requirements

72. A project coordinator logs potential events that can affect project constraints, and then records the results of brainstorming of potential strategies.

Which of the following documents should the project coordinator use?

Risk register

Issue log

Communication plan

Status report

73. While working on risk ranking, the project team is unsure about the qualitative scales to be used for probability and impact. The project manager directs the team to look in the:

quality plan.

project management plan.

risk register.

process diagram.

74. Which of the following is an example of a project?

Purchasing pedometers from local retail stores for employees

Implementing a health awareness program at an organization

Conducting semi-annual blood drives at an organization

Presenting a scripted workshop at an organization’s three locations

75. The PM is preparing for the planning phase kickoff meeting. It is imperative for the team to focus during the meeting on the expected outcomes.

Which of the following best describes what the PM should work on FIRST?

Project charter

Project schedule

Meeting agenda

Responsibility assignment matrix

Risk register

76. A project manager has identified a minor skills gap in the operational team that will end up supporting the project solution.

Which of the following is the BEST risk mitigation strategy that the project manager should use?

Organize adequate training and have one of the operational staff as part of the project team.

Raise a risk in the risk register, identify the likelihood and the consequence of the risk occurring.

Have the project adequately document the solution and ensure a transition is in place.

Escalate this as an issue to the project control board and ensure that there is adequate discussion.

77. A project team is mainly based in a metropolitan area. The team also has members in a remote area, where Internet access is limited and unstable.

Which of the following factors will MOST likely influence the communication methods used in the project?

Personal preferences

Technological factors

Language barriers

Cultural differences

78. Which of the following vendor documents specifically address quality? (Select TWO).

LOI

SLA

Warranty

NDA

79. Which of the following measurements would give the project manager the BEST estimate of the total cost of an active project?

EAC

BAC

TCPI

ETC

80. A project manager is unsure if the quality of a deliverable from a SME meets specifications.

Which of the following is the BEST way for the project manager to address the issue?

Conduct a face-to-face or telephone meeting with the team member.

Send an email outlining the concerns to the team member.

Send a project team meeting to obtain feedback from everyone.

Post the issue on the wiki page for input from stakeholders.

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