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

Each teamspace has its own (Choose two.)

• A. Project table
• B. Resource table
• C. Demand table
• D. Problem table

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

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

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

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

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

• A. Service Catalog
• B. Project Form
• C. Flow Designer
• D. Workflow Editor

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

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

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

What role can create or modify a rate model?

• A. it_pps_admin
• B. time_card_admin
• C. push_admin
• D. release_admin

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

• A. Weekly
• B. Yearly
• C. Monthly
• D. Plan Duration
• E. Daily

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