Project Management Review
13. Samantha is a project manager. She is good at planning, organizing, and controlling project work. With reference to the project management skills defined by Thamhain, Samantha is demonstrating which skill?
Administrative skills
12. Daniel is a project manager. He provides directions to his team members and assists them with problem solving. With reference to the project management skills defined by Thamhain, Daniel is demonstrating which of the following skills?
Interpersonal skills
Which of the following is true about project management?
Project managers are goal oriented
11.According to Thamhain, which of the following is a skill needed by a project manager?
Technical expertise
Apart from cost, schedule, and specifications, what was the fourth aspect of project management added by Meredith and Mantel?
The expectations of the client
36. _____ refers to funds set aside by the project team to address unforeseen events.
a. Contingency
13. _____ refer(s) to activities that are affected by events that change the characteristics of other
a. Relationship dependence
11. A(n) _____ is defined as an organization of elements that change in response to events in its environment.
a. adaptive system
26. The longest path to the completion of the project is called the _____.
a. critical path
14. Einsiedel discussed leader-sensitive projects and defined five characteristics of an _____.
a. effective project leader
6. According to Shenhar and Dvir, as the project system scope became more complex and the system scope of the project became larger:
a. more sophisticated management tools were put in place to reduce project uncertainty.
37. A(n) _____ refers to a company that designs goods or services to meet specified needs.
a. vendor
20. A layered description of the work with increasing detail in each layer is known as a _____.
a. work breakdown structure
All of the following are characteristics of an effective project leader as defined by Einsiedel EXCEPT
ability to work under pressure
28. Which of the following is true about synchronous communication?
b. A telephone conversation is an example of synchronous communication.
15. _____ refers to the work processes associated with shortening the time of delivering a product or servic
b. Expediting
38. Which of the following is NOT an example of a commodity?
b. Furnace for a new steel mill
_____ represents the likelihood that an event will happen during the life of the project that will negatively affect the achievement of project goals.
b. Risk
23. Which of the following is NOT true about project risk?
b. The likelihood that all the potential events identified in the risk analysis will occur is very high.
1. Research by the Construction Industry Institute indicated that the number one criterion for assignment of a project manager to a project was:
b. availability.
16. A _____ is a method of incorporating change into project planning and execution processes.
b. change management process
10. In addition to the number of parts, the degree of differentiation between parts and _____ also influences the degree of complexity in system.
b. the number, type, and strength of relationships between parts
33. Which of the following is an example of synchronous communication?
c. Audio conference
14. A _____ system is a system that will produce the same results if you start with the same conditions.
c. Deterministic
34. Which of the following is an example of asynchronous communication?
c. Electronic mail
35. What is the first step in developing a risk management plan?
c. Identify potential project risks
2. _____ is the process of extracting a characterization from the known attributes of a project.
c. Project profiling
17. Which of the following statements is true regarding the Darnall-Preston Complexity Index (DPCI)?
c. The DPCI helps in defining the experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by the project manager.
5. As per the typology developed by Shenhar and Dvir, system scope ranged from _____ that included projects that dealt with building a single component, to _____ that included a wide dispersal of interactive systems and subsystems.
c. assembly projects; array projects
30. A project budget estimate which is developed with the least amount of knowledge is known as a _____.
c. conceptual estimate
21. A _____ represents the sequence of the activities needed to complete the project.
c. project logic diagram
29. The conceptual estimate is developed with the least amount of knowledge. When more information is known, the project team can develop a _____.
c. rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate
18. An incremental expansion in the project scope is known as _____.
c. scope creep
12. A complex adaptive system is adaptive if:
c. the activities adjust or react to the events of the environment.
Darnall focused on defining and managing _____ as a critical project management skill.
client expectations
9. Which among the following is an example of an ordered system?
d. A factory production line
16. Which of the following changes will NOT likely change the scope of the project?
d. Changes in the HR policies of the parent organization
32. Which of the following statements regarding project staffing is NOT true?
d. Generally, longer projects experience less team turnover than shorter projects.
3. Which of the following statements is true about project profiling?
d. It summarizes what is known about the attributes of a project.
15. Projects are usually _____ systems, that is, they produce wildly different results even if the starting conditions are almost exactly the same.
d. Nonlinear
4. Which of the following were the two dimensions of the typology developed by Shenhar and Dvir?
d. Technological uncertainty and system scope
17. According to the Project Management Institute, the scope statement should address all of the following issues EXCEPT:
d. code of conduct for the team members working on the project
27. Compressing the task durations along the critical path to meet the project completion date is called _____.
d. crashing
31. Which of the following is also known as a ballpark estimate?
e. Conceptual estimate
8. Which of the following statements is true regarding complex systems?
e. Irregularly configured systems are complex, such as junkyards.
7. _____ identified differences in project types based on uncertainty and risk, level of sophistication of the workers, the level of detail in the planning, the newness of the technology, and the time pressure.
e. Robert Youker
22. Which of the following is true about asynchronous communication?
e. The parties to the communication do not interact at the same time
19. The _____ establishes key dates throughout the life of a project that must be met for the project to finish on time.
e. milestone schedule
25. The _____ is typically a written document that defines what work will be accomplished by the end of the project.
e. scope of work
Meredith and Mantel discussed a tendency noted by Darnall that expectations often______ during the life of a project.
increase
All of the following are the functions of a project management office EXCEPT
it assigns project managers from other departments but does not procure contract project managers.
Einsiedel discussed leader-sensitive projects and defined five characteristics of an effective project leader. Those characteristics are based on some assumptions about project environment which is often a ___ organization
matrix
In the case of project management, the processes for developing teams, organizing work, and establishing priorities require different sets of knowledge and skills because________.
members of the project management team recognize that it is temporary.
A ______ facilitates the development of organizational knowledge, skills, and tools to internally charter and manage projects within the organization
project management office
According to the Project management institute (PMI), Project management is the application of knowledge, _______,_______, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements
skills; tools
