CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005) — All Questions

A stakeholder asks the project manager to add a major new feature after the schedule and budget are already fixed. Increasing scope without adjusting time or cost most directly threatens which project fundamental?

• a.The communication plan
• b.The lessons-learned register
• c.The triple constraint (scope, schedule, cost)✓
• d.The procurement contract type

The triple constraint describes the balance among scope, schedule, and cost, where changing one usually forces a change in another. Expanding scope while holding time and budget fixed pressures quality and is the classic constraint conflict a project manager must manage through change control.

During risk planning, a team decides to purchase insurance to shift the financial impact of a potential event to a third party. Which risk response strategy is this?

• a.Transfer✓
• b.Avoid
• c.Mitigate
• d.Accept

Transferring a risk shifts its impact or ownership to a third party, for example through insurance or a warranty. Avoiding eliminates the risk by changing the plan, mitigating reduces its probability or impact, and accepting takes no proactive action.

Which statement best distinguishes a project from ongoing operations?

• a.A project runs indefinitely with no defined end
• b.A project is temporary and produces a unique result✓
• c.A project never has a budget or schedule
• d.A project cannot involve more than one person

A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end that creates a unique product, service, or result. Operations, by contrast, are ongoing and repetitive. Projects still have budgets, schedules, and can involve many people.

A project uses fixed-length iterations, delivers working increments frequently, and welcomes changing requirements throughout. Which delivery approach is being used?

• a.Pure waterfall
• b.Predictive-only
• c.Phase-gate with no iteration
• d.Agile✓

Agile approaches deliver work in short iterations, produce frequent increments, and embrace change even late in development. Waterfall and predictive approaches plan extensively up front and resist late changes, making them the opposite of the described behavior.

Who typically provides the funding and high-level support for a project and champions it within the organization?

• a.The project sponsor✓
• b.The end user
• c.The vendor's delivery driver
• d.The quality auditor

The project sponsor authorizes funding, provides high-level direction, and champions the project to remove organizational obstacles. End users benefit from the product, and auditors and vendors play supporting roles but do not fund or champion the effort.