Free CIS-PPM Sample Questions — Certified Implementation Specialist - Project Portfolio Management

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Question 1

Each teamspace has its own (Choose two.)

  • A. Project table
  • B. Resource table
  • C. Demand table
  • D. Problem table
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Project table
  • C. Demand table
Question 2

What is the difference between confirm and allocate actions?

  • A. They function the same way
  • B. Confirm action creates hard allocation and allocate action creates soft allocation
  • C. Confirm action creates soft allocation and allocate action creates hard allocation
  • D. Allocate action is always followed by confirm action
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Correct Answer:
C. Confirm action creates soft allocation and allocate action creates hard allocation
Question 3

Projects and which other artifact can be linked to either a program, a portfolio, both, or neither.

  • A. Demands
  • B. Test Cases
  • C. Resources
  • D. Stories
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Correct Answer:
A. Demands
Question 4

What is a data copy of the current project’s task, schedule, or structure that can be used for comparison reporting later?

  • A. Accrual
  • B. Forecast
  • C. Commitment
  • D. Baseline
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Correct Answer:
D. Baseline
Question 5

How does a project manager request a change to a resource plan in the requested state?

  • A. Use notes on resource plan
  • B. Email resource user
  • C. Request change on resource plan
  • D. Email resource manager
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Correct Answer:
C. Request change on resource plan
Question 6

The RIDAC workflow can be modified by using which recommended feature?

  • A. Service Catalog
  • B. Project Form
  • C. Flow Designer
  • D. Workflow Editor
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Correct Answer:
C. Flow Designer
Question 7

Which ‘Member Preference’ automatically finds the most available resource(s) from the group and allocates to a plan using the allocation action?

  • A. All members
  • B. Specific member
  • C. Any member and specific member
  • D. Any member
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Correct Answer:
D. Any member
Question 8

Which related lists should primarily be used to capture financial data in a project? (Choose two.)

  • A. Cost Plans
  • B. Risks
  • C. Programs
  • D. Monetary Benefit Plans
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Cost Plans
  • D. Monetary Benefit Plans
Question 9

In the default system, when working with demands, what two assessment metrics are supported when taking an assessment survey? (Choose two.)

  • A. Strategic Alignment
  • B. Risk
  • C. Size
  • D. Cost
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Strategic Alignment
  • B. Risk
Question 10

What role can create or modify a rate model?

  • A. it_pps_admin
  • B. time_card_admin
  • C. push_admin
  • D. release_admin
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Correct Answer:
A. it_pps_admin
Question 11

When setting-up a program, planned ROI% is calculated based on: (Choose two.)

  • A. Values in the NPV field
  • B. Values in the Planned cost field
  • C. Values in the Planned return field
  • D. Values in the Budgeted cost field
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Values in the Planned cost field
  • C. Values in the Planned return field
Question 12

A customer needs to know what activity type is associated to time entries in the project so that they can capitalize build tasks. What is the best method to do this?

  • A. Leverage project time categories to classify the time
  • B. Create a capital protect task flag
  • C. Put all capital project tasks in one phase and report from those tasks
  • D. Create an incident
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Correct Answer:
A. Leverage project time categories to classify the time
Question 13

If the Agile Development 2.0 plugin is activated, an idea can be converted into which of the following task types? (Choose three.)

  • A. Story
  • B. SAFe epic
  • C. Epic
  • D. SAFe feature
  • E. Project
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Story
  • C. Epic
  • E. Project
Question 14

What is a resource event?

  • A. An external event
  • B. An event scheduled by a project manager
  • C. block of time that a resource spends on a task
  • D. non-scheduled activity impacting capacity
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Correct Answer:
C. block of time that a resource spends on a task
Question 15

A pps_admin role can configure the parameters that are displayed on a project card. The parameters displayed on a project card are derived from the records in what table?

  • A. CMDB Health Scorecard [cmdb_health_scorecard_group]
  • B. PM Home Page Card [pm_home_page_card]
  • C. Project Time Card Exception [project_time_category]
  • D. Theme [scrum_theme]
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Correct Answer:
B. PM Home Page Card [pm_home_page_card]
Question 16

This should be updated by an it_pps_admin, so that the stakeholder list will automatically populate when a user creates a demand or project.

  • A. Project form
  • B. Stakeholder registry
  • C. Demand form
  • D. Application registry
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Correct Answer:
B. Stakeholder registry
Question 17

Where is planned cost calculated from when requesting resources from a group and when resource role is specified?

  • A. The task rate cards
  • B. The distribution costs
  • C. The hourly rate of the specified role
  • D. The CI rate cards
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Correct Answer:
C. The hourly rate of the specified role
Question 18

If an it_project_manager does not want to equally distribute hours across the resource plan time frame, what allocation spread should be used?

  • A. Front Load
  • B. Back Load
  • C. Any
  • D. Even
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Correct Answer:
A. Front Load
Question 19

What are the allocation types available on a resource plan? (Choose three.)

  • A. Weekly
  • B. Yearly
  • C. Monthly
  • D. Plan Duration
  • E. Daily
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Weekly
  • C. Monthly
  • D. Plan Duration
Question 20

The project property to update actual effort from time card is controlled at what level?

  • A. Application Level (Global)
  • B. Program Level
  • C. Project Level
  • D. Portfolio Level
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Correct Answer:
C. Project Level

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