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PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

PMI-SP

The PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification validates your expertise in developing, maintaining, and analyzing project schedules. It is designed for scheduling specialists who create and manage schedules that keep projects on track. Earning the PMI-SP demonstrates your ability to apply advanced scheduling techniques and tools to deliver successful projects.

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5Domains

23Objectives

119Practice pages

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PMI-SP free practice questions

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Task 1 Establish project schedule configuration management policies and procedures incorporating best practices, regulations, governing standards and organization policies, and procedures to ensure accessibility, storage, retrieval, maintenance, change control, and baseline schedule control.

30 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30

Task 2 Develop schedule approach, based on the unique characteristics of the project, including enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets, in order to define schedule requirements.

20 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20

Task 3 Establish scheduling policies and procedures regarding methodology, selection of a scheduling tool, scheduling parameters, performance thresholds, activity granularity, presentation format, earned value management (EVM) implementation, analysis techniques, and approval requirements by using resources such as organizational process assets and project documents in order to develop the schedule management plan and standardize operational procedures.

38 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–38

Task 5 Provide information about project scheduling objectives and goals, the role of the scheduler, and scheduling procedures to project team members to facilitate effective participation in the project.

25 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25

Develop Schedule Model

26 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–26

Analyze Schedule

32 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–32

Establish Baseline

29 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–29

Task 1 Collect activity status at defined intervals from activity owners via reports, meetings, inspections, or other standard procedures in order to update and review the project progress.

23 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–23

Task 2 Collect resource information and updates via reports, timesheets, meetings, inspections, or other standard procedures in order to report on resource utilization and availability.

21 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–21

Task 3 Perform schedule analysis and audit, on in-house and subcontractor schedules, using industry standards, guidelines and best practices in order to identify and report project schedule, status, changes, impacts or issues.

40 questions · 8 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40

Task 4 Identify alternative project execution options, using tools and techniques such as what-if scenario analyses, in order to optimize the schedule.

18 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–18

Task 5 Incorporate approved risk mitigation activities into the schedule, by utilizing defined change control processes, in order to establish a new performance measurement baseline (PMB).

17 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–17

Task 6 Update the schedule model and document schedule baseline changes, received through formal change-control processes, in order to maintain an accurate schedule and facilitate forensic schedule analysis, if required.

16 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–16

Task 2 Evaluate final schedule performance against baseline schedule, scheduling approach and the implementation, using standard scheduling tools and techniques, including solicitation of feedback from stakeholders, in order to identify lessons learned and develop best practices.

22 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–22

Task 3 Update the organizational process assets, through documentation of identified lessons learned and best practices, in order to improve business processes.

13 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–13

Task 4 Distribute final schedule reports, including earned value management (EVM) calculations and variance analysis, to stakeholders in order to facilitate project closeout.

15 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15

Task 5 Archive schedule files (for example, final schedule model, schedule management plan, periodic status reports, schedule change log), as per defined procedures in order to satisfy contractual requirements and prepare for potential forensic schedule analysis.

23 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–23

Task 1 Develop and foster relationships with project stakeholders, consistent with the communication management plan, in order to enhance support for the project schedule.

33 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–33

Task 2 Generate and maintain visibility of project schedule, by working with the project manager and/or stakeholders, in order to maintain stakeholder support.

35 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35

Task 3 Provide senior management and other stakeholders with verbal and written schedule status updates and impact on schedule of corrective actions, as defined by the communication management plan, in order to maintain stakeholder awareness.

13 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–13

Task 4 Communicate schedule issues that could impact delivery of project scope or adherence to the schedule management plan, in order to elevate awareness to relevant stakeholders.

22 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–22

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PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

PMI-SP free practice questions

Domain 1 · Schedule Strategy24% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 131 questions24%

Domain 2 · Schedule Planning and Development16% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 87 questions16%

Domain 3 · Schedule Monitoring and Controlling25% of practice bank · 6 objectives · 135 questions25%

Domain 4 · Schedule Closeout17% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 94 questions17%

Domain 5 · Stakeholder Communications Management19% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 103 questions19%