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25. D. The project manager assembles the team members for the project. The project

manager may get input from the sponsor, stakeholders, or customers, but it is the
project manager who decides what the formation of the team should be. For more
information, please see Chapter 1.

26. D. The three categories of contracts most often used to procure goods and services
are time-and-materials, cost-reimbursable, and fixed-price. Requests for proposal
are not contracts. For more information, please see Chapter 9.

27. B. The WBS is a deliverables-oriented hierarchy that defines all the project work
and is completed after the scope management plan and scope statement are
completed. For more information, please see Chapter 5.

28. A. The best way to provide this information is to create a dashboard that provides
real-time, updated information in a succinct and easy-to-read format. For more
information, please see Chapter 10.

29. A. This describes a constraint. Constraints dictate or restrict the actions of the
project team. For more information, please see Chapter 4.

30. C. Determining an order-of-magnitude estimate is used for cost or duration
estimating, not risk analysis. For more information, please see Chapter 7.

31. B, C, G. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing
are the five project management phases or process groups. For more information,
please see Chapter 3.

32. C. The project’s scope statement should be of most interest to the new project
manager. The scope statement describes the product description, key deliverables,
success and acceptance criteria, exclusions, assumptions, and constraints. For more

information, please see Chapter 4.

33. D. A Pareto diagram rank-orders data by frequency over time. For more
information, please see Chapter 10.

34. D. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measurable elements of project success
defined when you create the project management plan and measured and
monitored throughout the Monitoring and Controlling process. For more

information, please see Chapter 10.

35. A. The project kickoff meeting is held after the project charter is signed and at the
beginning of the Executing process. It serves to introduce team members, review
the goals and objectives of the project, review stakeholder expectations, and review
roles and responsibilities for team members. For more information, please see
Chapter 6.

36. A. The best way to avoid scope creep is to make sure the project’s requirements
have been thoroughly defined and documented. For more information, please see

Chapter 4.

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