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PMI PMI-SP Exam
PMI-SP PMI Scheduling Professional (Page 7 )

Updated On: 12-Feb-2026
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PDF with 326 Questions

Ben is the project manager for his organization. His project has 26 stakeholders this week and will have five additional stakeholders next week. How many more communication channels will Ben's project have next week?

  1. 140
  2. 10
  3. 325
  4. 5

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Ben's project will have 140 more communication channels because of the five additional stakeholders. To solve the question, you will need to find the current stakeholder communication channels first, which is (26*25)/2= 325, and then find the difference of the number of channels for the five additional stakeholders. You can use the formula of N(N-1), where N is the number of stakeholders. In this example, the formula would read: Total number of communication channels that Ben will have next = ((31*30)/2)-((26*25)/2 =140
Answer option D is incorrect. Five is the number of additional stakeholders.
Answer option B is incorrect. 10 is the number of communication channels among just five stakeholders.
Answer option C is incorrect. 325 is the number of current communication channels.



You are the project manager for your company. You are working with the activities defined in the figure below.



What will happen to your project if Activity F takes five additional days to complete than what was expected?

  1. Your project's critical path will shift to ACFI.
  2. Your project will be late by five days.
  3. Your project can still complete on time as float is available on Activity I.
  4. Your project will now have two critical paths.

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Activity F is on the critical path of ACFHK of 30 days. By adding five additional days to Activity F, the project will now take 35 days to complete. Answer options C, A, and D are incorrect.
These are not the valid answers.



You are the project manager for your organization. You need the oak cabinets for your project delivered by December 1 in order to install the floors around the oak cabinets by December 15. Your company's procurement office generally takes 45 days to complete procurement orders. Based on this information, how should you schedule the lead time for the cabinet delivery?

  1. Cabinet procurement December 1, plus 45 days lead time
  2. Cabinet procurement November 15
  3. Cabinet procurement December 1, minus 45 days lead time
  4. Cabinet procurement December 15 minus 45 days lead time

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The cabinet procurement and delivery must be completed by December 1. By scheduling the activity to finish on December 1 with minus 45 days lead time for procurement, the cabinets will arrive by the needed date.
Answer option A is incorrect. Lead time is always negative time, lag time is positive time. This choice would cause the cabinets to not arrive until 45 days after December 1.
Answer option D is incorrect. This choice would cause the cabinets to arrive on December 15 when the floors are to be installed.
Answer option B is incorrect. This choice is not the best answer because it does not necessarily account for holidays, weekends, or other factors in the project calendar. By scheduling the cabinet for December 1 and working backwards through lead time, the project's PMIS will account for these breaks in the project work.



Your project has a BAC of $750,000 and is 75 percent complete. According to your plan, however, your project should actually be 80 percent complete. You have spent $575,000 of your project budget to reach this point and you are worried about the project not being able to complete based on your current project budget.
What is the to-complete performance index for this project?

  1. 0.98
  2. -$16,677
  3. 1.07
  4. 0.94

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The to-complete performance index can be found by using the formula (BAC-EV)/(BAC-AC) for a value of 1.07. The higher the value is from 1, the less likely the project will meet the BAC. To- complete Performance Index (TCPI) is the measured projection of the anticipated performance required to achieve either the BAC or the EAC. TCPI indicates the future required cost efficiency needed to achieve a target EAC (Estimate At Complete).Once approved, the EAC supersedes the BAC as the cost performance goal. Any significant difference between TCPI and the CPI needed to meet the EAC should be accounted for by management in their forecast of the final cost. The formula for TCPI is as follows: TCPI = {(BAC-EV)/(BAC-AC)}
Answer option A is incorrect. 0.98 is the project's cost performance index.
Answer option D is incorrect. This is the project's schedule performance index.
Answer option B is incorrect. -$16,667 is the project's variance at completion.



You are the project manager of the NHT Project. This project has 12,345 office doors to install throughout a campus. Each of the doors costs the project $456 and requires special hardware to electronically lock and open the doors. You've gathered the project team before they begin the installation for a hands-on training. As a group you and the project team install 50 doors following a checklist of instructions so that every door will be installed exactly the same throughout the campus and with minimal waste. This is an example of what project execution technique?

  1. Preventive action
  2. Defect repair validation
  3. Implemented corrective action
  4. Quality control

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

This is an example of a preventive action as you're working with the team before they install the doors to train them on the installation. The checklist is a quality control tool but the question was asking for a project execution activity. Preventive and corrective actions are part of project execution.
Answer option D is incorrect. Quality control is a controlling and monitoring process, not an executing process.
Answer option B is incorrect. The defect repair validation comes after the project team has corrected an error - something that has not occurred in this instance.
Answer option C is incorrect. Corrective action is a response to something that needs to be corrected in the project.






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