IS 445 Final

Which of the following practices is a component of project integration management?

Break the rules when needed.

___________ is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost.

Crashing

____ motivation causes people to do something for a reward or to avoid a penalty.

Extrinsic

A project organizational chart shows the number of people working on a project over time.

FALSE

According to Jung's theory of psychological types found in the MBTI, perceiving types tend to establish deadlines and take them seriously, expecting others to do the same.

FALSE

Agile teams estimate user stories separately.

FALSE

In the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a person can consider self-actualization before addressing basic needs concerning security and safety.

FALSE

It is not possible for project managers to observe and discuss the work of virtual workers.

FALSE

It is poor practice to use more than one approach for creating a cost estimate.

FALSE

Many people should be responsible for monitoring each risk event.

FALSE

Most project teams use the most pessimistic time to estimate activity durations.

FALSE

Project dashboards often use colors like red, white, and blue to show the status of key metrics.

FALSE

Project teams should initially focus on risk events that fall in the low sections of the probability/impact matrix.

FALSE

Quality audits must always be random.

FALSE

Risk management contributes very little to the chance of a project succeeding.

FALSE

Some agile teams use the Kanban method for project cost estimating.

FALSE

Stakeholder management does not include any planning processes.

FALSE

Thamhain and Wilemon found that projects were more likely to fail when project managers relied too heavily on using work challenge and expertise to influence people.

FALSE

The accommodating mode of conflict resolution is assertive and uncooperative.

FALSE

The goal of the activity definition process is to replace the scope statement.

FALSE

The knowledge areas of scope, schedule, cost, and risk management have processes directly related to project execution.

FALSE

The project manager ultimately decides what level of quality is acceptable.

FALSE

Unlike other project plans, the contents of the procurement management plan do not vary with project needs.

FALSE

A project ___________ chart is a graphic representation of how authority and responsibility is distributed within the project.

Organizational

_______ risk events include completing work sooner than planned or at an unexpectedly reduced cost, collaborating with suppliers to produce better products, and obtaining good publicity from the project.

Positive

In a RACI chart, each task may have multiple __________ entries.

R, C, or I

_________ development uses the results of all the preceding project time management processes to determine the start and end dates of project activities and of the entire project.

Schedule

A risk log is a type of information radiator.

TRUE

A supplier evaluation matrix is a type of weighted scoring model.

TRUE

According to Stephen Covey, when you practice sharpening the saw, you take time to renew yourself physically, spiritually, mentally, and socially.

TRUE

After you determine the reason for a dependency between activities, you must determine the type of dependency.

TRUE

Agile projects often use the Definition of Done in addition to acceptance criteria.

TRUE

By having suppliers visibly compete against each other, the buyers reduce their risks and benefit from competition.

TRUE

Change models address the concern that projects can cause big changes in organizations.

TRUE

David McClelland proposed that an individual's specific needs are acquired or learned over time and shaped by life experiences.

TRUE

Duration relates to the time estimate, not the effort estimate.

TRUE

Earned value calculations for all project activities (or summary level activities) are required to estimate the earned value for the entire project.

TRUE

Fortune magazine summarized research showing that the main reason chief executive officers (CEOs) failed was poor execution.

TRUE

ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization.

TRUE

Ideally, members of Scrum teams should be 100% dedicated to the project.

TRUE

If you do not have a good baseline or actual scope, time, and cost information, you cannot use earned value management.

TRUE

If you want to postpone an issue until a better time, you can use the avoiding mode of conflict handling.

TRUE

In the context of the Social Styles Profile, the main determinants of social style are the level of assertiveness and how you respond to tasks.

TRUE

Lag time is a gap in time, such as waiting.

TRUE

No two projects are ever executed in the exact same way.

TRUE

Quality is based on conformance to requirements and fitness for use.

TRUE

The WBS is a required input to the cost budgeting process.

TRUE

The communications management plan for any project should always be expressed in written form.

TRUE

The products of a project are produced during project execution.

TRUE

The project team should review an activity list and activity attributes with project stakeholders.

TRUE

There can be more than one critical path on a project.

TRUE

There's a saying that the project manager who is the smartest person on the team has done a poor job of recruiting.

TRUE

Which of the following is NOT usually used as a project management planning tool?

Word

According to Douglas McGregor, people who believe in Theory ____ assume that workers dislike and avoid work if possible, so managers must use coercion, threats, and various control schemes to get workers to make adequate efforts to meet objectives.

X

According to David McClelland, people with a high need for ____ seek to excel and tend to avoid both low-risk and high-risk situations to improve their chances of achieving something worthwhile.

achievement

A(n) _____________ is a distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.

activity

According to David McClelland, people with a high need for ____ desire harmonious relationships with other people and need to feel accepted by others.

affiliation

A quality ____ is a structured review of specific quality management activities that helps identify lessons learned, which could improve performance on current or future projects.

audit

Using a(n)__________ approach to developing cost estimates requires a good deal of expert judgment and is generally less costly than others are, but it can also be less accurate.

bottom up

Using a(n) __________ approach to developing cost estimates requires a good deal of expert judgment and is generally less costly than others are, but it can also be less accurate.

bottom-up

Cost ____ involves allocating the overall cost estimate to individual tasks over time to establish a baseline for measuring performance.

budgeting

A project buffer _____________ is additional time added before the project's due date.

buffer

In an AOA network diagram, _____ occur when two or more activities follow a single node.

bursts

Project ____ management involves generating, collecting, disseminating, and storing project information.

communications

The ____ conflict-handling mode falls in the middle of the cooperativeness and assertiveness chart.

compromising

Project _______ management includes the processes required to ensure that a project team completes a project within an approved budget.

cost

The ______________ method is a network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration.

critical path

Duration estimates are provided as a _______ number, such as four weeks; as a range, such as three to five weeks; or as a three-point estimate.

discrete

________ includes the actual amount of time spent working on an activity plus elapsed time.

duration

You can help identify the root cause of problems by creating a cause-and-effect or ____ diagram.

fishbone

____ contracts reduce the risk of incurring higher costs than expected.

fixed price

As the business world continues to become more competitive and ____, more and more projects include procurement.

global

In an AOA network diagram, a(n) ____ occurs when two or more nodes precede a single node.

merge

Examples of common _______ used by organizations include failure rates of products produced, availability of goods and services, and customer satisfaction ratings.

metrics

A(n) ____________________ is a significant point or event in a project.

milestone

Project teams often create a ____________ to ensure that all major activities are accounted for.

milestone list

In the context of a network diagram, a ____ is simply the starting and ending point of an activity.

node

A three-point estimate is an estimate that includes a(n) ____, most likely, and pessimistic estimate, such as three weeks, four weeks, and five weeks, respectively.

optimistic

Which of the following is not an agile estimating methods?

parametric estimating

Project _______ management includes acquiring or procuring goods and services for a project from outside the organization.

procurement

Which of the following ensures that the business is ready to work effectively; utilizing processes and training, communication and stakeholder management, to support a successful project implementation?

project change management

Project ____ management ensures that the project will satisfy the stated or implied needs for which it was undertaken.

quality

The main monitoring and controlling process performed as part of project schedule management is ____ control.

schedule

If a project's stakeholders are not satisfied with the quality of the project management or the resulting products or services, the project team will need to adjust ____, schedule, and cost to satisfy stakeholder needs and expectations.

scope

After defining project activities, the next step in project time management is activity ________________.

sequencing

A __________ helps promote teamwork and clarify team communications.

team charter

____ are indicators or symptoms of actual risk events.

triggers