Project Management 2 Test 1

1. Five project management processes allow projects to move from start to completion Which one of the following is not one of the project management process groups? Ans . Communicating 2. You are the project manager for the AQA Project. You would like to include several of the customers in the project planning sessions, but your project leader would like to know why the stakeholders should be involved since your project team will be determining the best method to reach the project objectives. You explain to the project leader that the stakeholders should be included because Ans. It allows the project team to meet the stakeholders and discuss project issues. 3. You are the project manager for the FTG Project. This project will affect several lines of business, and project deliverables. You have 45 key stakeholders on this project representing internal customers from all areas of your organization and several external stakeholders. What challenge will be the least concern for project's success because having too many stakeholders? Ans. Managing stakeholder expectations 4. Brenda is the project manager for her organization and she's working with her project team to create the project's network diagram. To create a network diagram, the project manager needs which of the following? Ans . Activity sequencing 5. You are the project manager of a new mobile application project for a client. You have requested that several of the stakeholders participate in the initiation of the project. Which one is not a key reason for this approach? Ans. It improves the probability of shared ownership 6. You are the project manager of a new project. You have worked with management to identify several initial assumptions and constraints for your project. Where will these items be documented? Ans. Project charter 7. Ben is the project manager for his company. A customer has requested a new website and asked that Ben serve as the project manager since he's done great work in the past for her company. Based on this information, when does a project become officially authorized? Ans . When the project charter is approved 8. You are the project manager of an IT upgrade project for a health care client. The client demands perfection in the project's product because of the lives your project's product will affect. Which process aims to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory performance? Ans . Quality control 9. Management has determined that your project must be completed by December 30. This date is an input to your planning process and is considered what? Ans . A constraint 10. You are the project manager for the AQL Project. You and your project team are preparing the project plan. Of the following, which one is a project plan development constraint you and your team must consider? Ans . The budget as assigned by management 11. You are the project manager of a new project to develop a new software product Management has not required a formal project management plan in the past, but they'd like you to develop a project management plan to serve as a model or template for all other projects in the organization. Which one of the following is not a reason for this new approach? Ans . A methodology to evaluate project performance 12. Robert is the project manager of the HBQ Project. This project requires all of the telephones in the organization to be removed and replaced with an Internet phone. He's learned that the removal of some of the phones has damaged the walls in the office building and they will need to be repaired. This project has a deadline and little time for repairing errors that weren't anticipated. Based on this information, which one of the following is not an immediate concern in terms of project constraints? Ans . Cost 13. The project plan provides a baseline for several things. Which one of the following does the project plan not provide a baseline for? Ans . Cost control and monitoring 14. Keisha is the project manager for her organization and she's working with her project team to develop the project management baseline plan for a new project. The project team is confused about how to avoid scope creep within the project. The project baseline plan provides what in regard to project scope changes? Ans . A guideline for how to approach to all scope changes within the project. 15. You have just informed your project team that each team member will be contributing to the lessons learned documentation. Your team does not understand this approach and wants to know what the documentation will be used for. Which one of the following best describes the purpose of the lessons learned documentation? Ans . Offers historical information for future projects 16. Fred is the project manager of a bridge construction project. His organization and the city inspectors both have an interest in the success and overall performance of the and have asked Fred to explain the approach he'll use to measure and report project performance. Which one of the following measures project performance?

Ans . The earned value technique 17. You are the project manager of the GYH Project. This project will create a walking bridge across the Simcoe River. You've been asked to start the process of creating the project scope statement and you need to gather the elements for this process. Which one of the following is not needed to define the project scope? Ans . A risk management plan 18. Marty is the project manager of the Highway 41 Bridge Project and he's working with his project team members to create the WBS. Marty shows the team how to break down the project scope into the WBS components, but the team doesn't understand how far down the breakdown should occur. Marty should call the lowest-level item in a WBS Ans . A work package 19. David, one of your project team members, has been making changes to his work, which, as a result, changes the project scope. David's changes are also known as what? Ans . Scope creep 20. You are the project manager for the JHG Project. Your project is to create a new product for your industry. You have recently learned that your competitor is also working on a similar project, but their offering will include a computer- aided program and web- based tools, which your project does not offer. You are concerned that this will impact the project's success significantly. What should you do? Ans . Assess the impact of the required scope changes and inform the customer/sponsor 21. A project team member has asked you what a scope statement is. Which of the following is a characteristic of a project scope statement? Ans . Defines the requirements for the project 22. Mike, a project manager in your company, is falling behind on the project schedule He decided to compress the project schedule. How can he achieve that? Ans . Adding additional project resources to the project work 23. Terry is the project manager of a network update project. Project stakeholders have requested that four new servers to be added to the project. Which project constraint will not be directly affected from this change? Ans . Scope 24. You are working with your project team to respond to some delays in the project schedule. You chose to compress the project schedule and management wants to know what effect this will have on the project as a whole. Which one is not a possible result of compressing the schedule? Ans . The project costs will increase. 25. You are the project manager for a new technology implementation project. Management has requested that your estimates be as exact as possible. Which one of the following methods of estimating will provide the most accurate estimate? Ans . Bottom-up estimating 26. You are the project manager for the BBB Project. Stacy, a project team member, is confused about what QA is. Which of the following best describes QA? Ans . QA is quality assurance for the overall project performance 27. You are the project manager for the ASE Project, which must match industry standards in order to be accepted by the customer. You and your team have studied the requirements and have created a plan to implement the deliverables with the appropriate level of quality. What is this process called? Ans . Quality assurance 28. You are the project manager of the Global Upgrade Project. Your project team consists of 75 project team members around the world. Each team member will be upgrading a piece of equipment in many different facilities. Which of the following could you implement to ensure that project team members are completing all of the steps in the install procedure at the required quality level? Ans . Checklists 29. You are the project manager of the PUY Project. This project requires a chemical engineer for seven months of the project, although there are no available chemical engineers within your department. This is an example of which of the following? Ans . Staffing requirement 30. Project GHT is a multi discipline project in a matrix organization. The project team requires new team members to be assigned to this project in engineering, procurement and manufacturing fields. Who will have the authority to choose who should be assigned to this project? Ans . Functional management 31. You are the project manager for the LMG Project. Your project has several human resource issues that must be coordinated and approved by the union. Which of the following statements is correct about this scenario? Ans . The union is considered a project stakeholder. 32. You are the project manager of the PLN Project. The team members are somewhat afraid of you as project manager because they don't see you as an easily approachable person. They know that a negative review from you about their project work will impact their yearly bonus and performance reviews. This scenario relates to which important skill expected from a project manager?