Midterm Exam Review--Project Management (Daniels)

You are a project manager for an application development and deployment effort. The development team leader reports that his teams primary coding part is complete and they are ready to deploy the code on a test computer. After testing, the team will finally hand over the code to the design team for verification. In what process group does this work fall?

A. Executing

Accounting and manufacturing functions are examples of what?

A. Operations.

What function sustains the business with ongoing, day to day tasks?

A. Operations.

This project is moving ahead of schedule. So management wants to include additional quality testing into the project for enhancing the quality of the project. What processes will you follow to accomplish the task?

A. Perform an integrated change control.

Who provides financial resources for a project?

A. Project Sponsor.

What consists of the tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of the project management processes?

A. Project management information system (PMIS).

He is in the closing phase of the project. He needs to measure the project scope before closing the project. What document will be his criteria?

A. Project management plan.

"S/He is the person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives." What person is described in the statement above?

A. Project manager.

What provides the baseline for evaluating whether requests for changes or additional work are contained within or outside the project's boundaries?

A. Project scope statement.

A performance measurement baseline is made up of what?

A. Scope baseline, cost baseline, and schedule baseline.

What skills are used by the project manager to manage conflicts and convince the project stakeholder in order for supporting their decision?

A. Soft skills.

What statement refers to project management?

A. The discipline planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objective.

What elements in the project charter should be included to make it useful and well-documented?

B. Criteria for project approval. C. Name of the project sponsor. D. High-level requirements.

Marketplace conditions and legal restrictions are part of what?

B. Enterprise environmental factors.

What knowledge management tools are used for connecting people to create new knowledge, share tactic knowledge, and integrate knowledge of diverse team members?

B. Informal social interaction. C. Storytelling. D. Reverse shadowing.

What is an area of management concerned with ongoing production of goods and/or services?

B. Operations management.

What is a temporary work for creating a unique product, service, or result?

B. Project.

What is a concept that is unique to each organization and is the total sum of all tangible and intangible elements?

C. Business value.

Project managers play multiple roles within their sphere of influence. What role is least likely to be within the sphere of influence of the project manager?

C. Contractor.

The organizations processes and procedures for conduction project work during executing, monitoring, and controlling include which of the following?

C. Issue and defect management procedures. D. E.

As a supportive PMO, you are helping project managers by providing some level of support in their projects, what will be your level of control on the projects?

C. Low.

Fast tracking is an example of what relationship?

C. Overlapping.

You have bee assigned as a new project manager for an IT project. What is the first document that you need to get the project formally initiated?

C. Project charter.

You are a new project manager who has been entrusted with a project. The project has entered the execution phase, and you as the project manager, discover that there is a need to spend part of the project funding to bring an external consultant, to cover for an employee leaving the project team. If you are authorized to make decisions about spending the project fund, what kind of organization structure are you working for?

C. Projectized.

What data gathering technique is used for identifying a list of ideas in a short period of time in the Develop Project Charter process?

A. Brainstorming.

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A. Direct and Manage Project Work.

What are the key purposes of PMO for providing support to a project manager?

A. B. Mentor, coach, and train project managers. C. Facilitate communication within and across projects.

What project life cycle is most suitable if you are not certain of all the requirements at the beginning of the project?

A. Adaptive.

What statements are true about the term tailoring in project management?

A. Adapts the project management methodology to fit the nature of the project. C. D.

What is an input to the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

A. Approved change request.

You are a project manager of a large project. Your project sponsor and management have approved your proposal to outsource portions of the project plan. What is your primary responsibility?

D. Ensuring all the project work is authorized, contracted properly, and funded.

Functional managers assign employees to projects, whereas project managers assign tasks associated with the project. What type of organization does this describe?

D. Matrix.

In what relationship does a phase start prior to the completion of the previous one?

D. Overlapping relationship.

John is a new project manager who has never managed a project before. He has been assigned a project and has been asked to start the project planning. What will be best for him to rely on during planning for enhancing chance of project success?

D. Project Charter.

Who among the following controls the assigned project resources to best meet the project objectives?

D. Project manager.

What type of matrix organization emphasizes project work over functional duties?

D. Strong.