Certified Implementation Specialist - Strategic Portfolio Management Questions and Answers
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CIS-SPM
200 questions
9 topics
Updated May 2026SPM Implementation Overview
4 questions4 easy~2% of exam
A new implementation needs the plugin that installs the Project Portfolio Management applications. Which plugin should b...A consultant is preparing for the CIS-SPM exam. Which capability area is explicitly validated by the exam?A team is starting an SPM rollout and wants the plugin that installs the Project Portfolio Management applications. Whic...
SPM Financials
20 questions5 easy9 medium6 hard~10% of exam
A user's approved time card has no labor rate card matching that user and rate type. What rate is used?On time card approval, a consultant matches two labor rate cards with the same rate type. Which card is used to derive t...A project uses a rate model and a requested period crosses two matching non-overlapping rate lines for the same criteria...
Resource Management
46 questions12 easy22 medium12 hard~23% of exam
A resource manager selects a widget on the Resource Management Workspace overview dashboard. What can that action do?A resource manager clicks Auto Assign. How does the workspace identify resources and distribute work?A project has no resource plans and the property sn_pw.enable_resource_planning is true. Which related list becomes avai...
Idea and Demand
36 questions8 easy20 medium8 hard~18% of exam
Project Management
60 questions14 easy30 medium16 hard~30% of exam
A risk exists on a project but is missing from the status report snapshot. What should the project manager verify?A PMO lead is building a reusable project template. Which content can the template include?A predecessor task in one project must depend on a task in another project. What does the system create when the externa...
Timecard Management
10 questions4 easy4 medium2 hard~5% of exam
Portfolio Planning Workspace
16 questions4 easy9 medium3 hard~8% of exam
SPM Platform Analytics & Dashboards
4 questions1 easy3 medium~2% of exam
What do the Project Portfolio Management Platform Analytics Solutions provide out of the box?An administrator wants a Platform Analytics dashboard to appear inside Portfolio Planning Workspace. What must be change...A manager navigates to the Dashboards page in Portfolio Planning Workspace and asks which dashboard appears first by def...
SPM Better Together
4 questions3 medium1 hard~2% of exam
A fulfillment team completes order tasks linked to an SPM project. What synchronization does the Order Management integr...A portfolio manager wants to track hardware refresh requests tied to a project directly from SPM. Which integrated capab...A fulfillment team completes order tasks that are tied to an SPM project. What does Order Management synchronize automat...
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A resource manager selects a widget on the Resource Management Workspace overview dashboard. What ca... | Resource Management | easy |
| 2 | A resource manager clicks Auto Assign. How does the workspace identify resources and distribute work... | Resource Management | medium |
| 3 | A risk exists on a project but is missing from the status report snapshot. What should the project m... | Project Management | medium |
| 4 | A PMO lead is building a reusable project template. Which content can the template include? | Project Management | easy |
| 5 | A coordinator creates a demand directly from Demand Workbench. What is true immediately after creati... | Idea and Demand | hard |
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