Errata

Chapter 2, Section Quiz Question #8 reads: A project COORDINATOR is having trouble securing programmers for HER PROJECT... which type of organization is she working in?

The answer according to the book is "Functional" - because she can't overrule the functional manager in overruling her request.

The answer should be "Weak" (also one of the choices), because she is a coordinator, and it is her project she is trying to allocate resources for, which implies that she has some authority, though still not enough to overrule the functional manager. If the answer was to be "functional", she would be an expediter, and would likely not have the responsibility of trying to get resources for anything.

Found this in the third edition, print format. (Form doesn't give a space to specify edition).

The ninth bullet in the bulleted list describes the "project management information system" as the enterprise environmental factor that "determines how work is assigned and makes sure that tasks are done in the right order."

However, this directly contradicts the correct information on p. 115, which says that "One of the enterprise environmental factors you'll use in the Integration Management processes is the work authorization system, which determines how your company assigns work to people and ensure that tasks are done properly and in the right order."

3rd edition, print.

Text indicates that the project management information system "defines how work is assigned to people."

That actually defines the work authorization system, which is a sub-system of the PMIS. Here are the definitions of each from the glossary of the PMBOK, 5th Ed.:

"Project Management Information System. An information system consisting of the tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of project management processes. It is used to support all aspects of the project from initiating through closing, and can include both manual and automated systems" (p. 554).

"Work Authorization System. A subsystem of the overall project management system. It is a collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work is done by the identified organization, at the right time, and in the proper sequence. It includes the steps, documents, tracking system, and defined approval levels needed to issue work authorizations" (p. 566).

To say that the PMIS defines how work is assigned is like saying that you hear with your body. You actually hear with your ear, and your ear is part of your body.

Explanation provided, "The project management information system is defined by the company, and it's external to the project."

I believe the correct sentence should be, "The work authorization system is defined by the company, and it's external to the project."

Arrows for side notes, "Remember that lessons learned are documented throughout the project, not just at the end! That's why they're part of Work Performance Information"

and

"When you close a process or phase, you need to make sure each deliverable has been accepted by the stakeholders."

should be pointing to explanation for question 18 instead of question 17.

In the sentence " The three outputs of Collect Requirements are requirements documentation and the requirements traceability matrix. ?Requirements Observations? isn?t really an output." it is said that there are 3 outputs for the "collect requirement" process.
When checking in the PMbook 5th edition page 117, there are only 2 output for this process mentioned: requirements documentation and the requirements traceability matrix.

Requirement management plan AND Requirement Observation that are shown as option A and D in the question are NOT outputs from the collect requirement process.
I think that both question and answer need to be reviewed.

The heading states that "Leads and lags add time between activities," but leads do not add time; they reduce it. As defined in the PMBOK Guide v. 5, a lead is “the amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity."

3rd edition, print

Text says, "First do the forward pass for both paths. When you do that, you get a different LF for Activity B, ..." You don't calculate LFs on forward passes. And, whether you are going forward or backward, looking at ES/EF or LS/LF, you won't get different values on Activity B; it isn't either a branching or a converging activity.

Next commentary text says, "We use Activity D to calculate the LF for Activity C because it has the lower LS." If you are looking to calculate a LF, you should be doing so in a backwards pass. If you are in a backwards pass, then you would be using Activity C to calculate the LF of Activity D, since Activity D is a predecessor of Activity C.

The answer for question 2 is ES of 13, for the same diagram how can question 3 have a LF of 10? which would be earlier than the earliest start.

The values for "early start" and "early finish" of each activity (except G) are higher than the value for "late start" and "late finish". It should be contrary.

According to ES and EF the duration for the activities D and E is 3, but LS=3 and LF=4 the duration is only 2.

The correct answer for this question is A ("Determine Budget") which is also listed as the correct answer.

However, in the text below the very same "Determine Budget" is discarded because "it uses the cost baseline and thus the cost baseline has to be created before". This is wrong! The cost baseline is actually the output of the "Determine Budget" process (see PMBOK guide) and not its input.
Instead the incorrect answer C ("Estimate Costs") is not mentioned at all - something got probably mixed up here…

First paragraph on page 464 states: "Remember, in a matrix organization your team doesn't report directly to the project manager." However, the bottom right corner of page 42 states: "Folks who work in a balanced matrix organization report to a project manager AND a functional manager equally."

The comment says (with an arrow to the Communcation Management Plan below): "This is the only output of the Plan Commucation Management process".
That is wrong. "Document Updates" is the second output (also listed in the PMBOK guide), the icon and text for exactly that second output are even on the same page! By the way, page 517 (talking of two outputs) has it correctly.

The question asks, "Which best describes the COMMUNICATIONS process you are in" (emphasis added).

Answer B ("You did not identify a project stakeholder") is identified as the correct answer. But stakeholder identification is not one of the Communications Management processes, it is one of the Stakeholder Management processes.

Both the answer and explanation for question 9 are incorrect. The correct answer should be "B. Lag", because two weeks are needed after finishing the equipment order, and starting the installation of the equipment. The PMBOK v. 5 defines lag as "the amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.”

The explanation for the CV states that "since the CV is negative, you're below your budget...".

However, a negative CV signals that you are over budget, not below it.