OMIS 352 Sample Final Exam

_____ involves assigning the needed personnel to work on the project.

Acquiring the project team

_____ means the project's processes and products meet written specifications.

Conformance to requirements

_____ is a planning process that is within the Project Scope Management knowledge area.

Creation of a WBS

Projects that use Six Sigma principles for quality control normally follow a five-phase improvement process called _____.

DMAIC

_____ are an output of the executing process of project integration management.

Deliverables

_____ is a technique that helps identify which variables have the most influence on the overall outcome of a process.

Design of experiments

_____ involves working with stakeholders to create the document that formally authorizes a project.

Developing the project charter

In project time management, which of the following processes involve analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule?

Developing the schedule

_____ dependencies are sometimes referred to as soft logic and should be used with care because they may limit later scheduling options.

Discretionary

Recognizing an employee as the "Star Performer of the Month" would be satisfying the _____ need of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Esteem

In project time management, which of the following processes involve calculating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities?

Estimating activity durations

A SWOT analysis, being a linear process, cannot be performed using the nonlinear mind mapping technique.

False

An organization's information technology project selection process should guide the strategic plan.

False

An organization's project management plan expresses the vision, mission, goals, objectives, and strategies of the organization.

False

Corrective actions reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks, while preventive actions should result in improvements in project performance.

False

Earned value management is a tool primarily used in human resource management.

False

Effective program managers recognize that managing a project is much more complex than managing a program.

False

In project time management, one should control the schedule before estimating the duration for each activity.

False

Internal stakeholders include groups affected by the project such as government officials or concerned citizens.

False

It is much more expensive to make major changes to a project during the earlier phases.

False

Microsoft Project 2010 does not lend itself to project human resource management.

False

Project managers should lead projects in isolation in order to truly serve the needs of the organization.

False

Project members should either have strong technical skills or soft skills.

False

Responsibility assignment matrices and project organizational charts are examples of tools used in procurement management.

False

Testing as a stage is important only at the end of an information technology product development.

False

The burndown chart is a Scrum created artifact that provides a list of features prioritized by business value.

False

The last phase of the traditional project life cycle is the implementation phase.

False

The lower the earned monetary value calculation for a project, the chances of project success is higher.

False

The main disadvantage of crashing is that it lengthens the time needed to finish a project.

False

The only responsibility of a project manager is to meet the specific scope, time, and cost goals of a project.

False

To be a successful manager, the only skills an IT project manager needs to possess is excellent technical skills.

False

When you separate business and organizational issues from project management planning, you do a better job of ensuring project success.

False

​An organizational culture with strong unit integration makes the project manager's job more difficult

False

_____ are the system's special characteristics that appeal to users.

Features

DeMarco and Lister's study on organizations and productivity found direct correlations between productivity and programming language, years of experience, and salary.

Flase

_____ provide(s) a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format.

Gantt charts

Which of the following questions is typically addressed by a project forecast?

How much more money will be needed to complete the project?

_____ are those costs that are difficult to measure in monetary terms.

Intangible costs

_____ is a fact-finding technique that can be used for collecting information in face-to-face, phone, e-mail, or instant-messaging discussions.

Interviewing

Which of the following is true of a finish-to-finish dependency?

It is a dependency in which the "from" activity must be finished before the "to" activity can be finished.

Which of the following tools can best help in efficient communication management?

Kick-Off meetings

Which of the following are organizational process assets?

Management systems

The most difficult and unappreciated process in project management is often

Planning

_____ involves deciding how to approach and plan the risk management activities for the project.

Planning risk management

Which of the following project management knowledge areas is an overarching function that affects and is affected by the different knowledge areas?

Project integration management

The _____ model uses an approach in which developers work with an evolving prototype, using tools such as computer-aided software engineering, joint requirements planning, and joint application design to facilitate rapid prototyping and code generation.

RAD life cycle

Which of the following is a disadvantage of virtual teams as compared to traditional teams?

Reduced opportunities for informal transfer of information

_____ is a technique for resolving resource conflicts by delaying tasks.

Resource leveling

_____ involves changing the size of the opportunity by identifying and maximizing key drivers of the positive risk.

Risk enhancement

_____ is at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Self-Actualization

In the MBTI, the _____ dimension relates to the manner in which you gather information.

Sensation/Intuition

The _____ line for any e-mail messages you write should clearly state the intention of the e-mail.

Subject

According to Lencioni, which of the following qualities is present in organizations that succeed?

Teamwork

Which of the following is true of analogous estimates?

They are most reliable when previous projects are similar in fact with current projects.

Which of the following is true of program managers?

They provide leadership and direction for project managers heading the projects within a program.

A schedule performance index of one means that the project is on schedule.

True

A sprint review is a meeting in which the team demonstrates to the product owner what it has completed during the sprint.

True

An annual discount factor is a multiplier for each year based on the discount rate and year.

True

Every project should have a well-defined objective.

True

IT project managers must be able to present and discuss project information both in financial and technical terms.

True

If an organization has no need to buy any products or services from outside the organization, then it has no need to perform any of the procurement management processes.

True

In the Scrum method, team members work as a self-directed group coached by the ScrumMaster.

True

In unit pricing, the total value of the contract is a function of the quantities needed to complete the work.

True

Internal stakeholders include top management, other functional managers, and other project managers.

True

Many information technology projects also require detailed functional and design specifications for developing software, which also should be referenced in the detailed scope statement.

True

Maslow's hierarchy of needs states that people's behaviors are guided or motivated by a sequence of needs.

True

Organizational process asset updates are an important output of the closing process of a project.

True

Program managers are change agents.

True

Project managers must conduct cash flow analysis to determine net present value.

True

Project managers must have cooperation from people in other parts of the organization.

True

Scope creep if not managed well can lead to the failure of information technology projects.

True

Stakeholder analyses, work requests, and project charters are tools used in integration management.

True

The Adaptive Software Development (ASD) life cycle model assumes that software development follows an adaptive approach because the requirements cannot be clearly expressed early in the life cycle.

True

The WBS provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance.

True

The contractual relationship is a legal relationship, which means it is subject to state and federal contract laws.

True

The project scope statement should reference supporting documents, such as product specifications that will affect what products are produced or purchased, or corporate policies, which might affect how products or services are produced.

True

The project scope statement, stakeholder requirements documentation, and organizational process assets are the primary inputs for creating a WBS.

True

The quality assurance process involves taking responsibility for quality throughout the project's life cycle.

True

The two main items for monitoring and controlling in the Scrum framework are the daily Scrum and the sprint retrospectives.

True

To define activities, the project team should start with reviewing the schedule management plan, scope baseline, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational processes.

True

Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top management in the military, computer, and construction industries.

True

One of Juran's ten steps to quality improvement states that:

an organization should build awareness of the need and opportunity for improvement.

A cost estimation tool which is used to allocate money into an organization's budget is known as a _____ estimate.

budgetary

A(n) _____ is a formal, documented process that describes when and how official project documents may be modified, the people authorized to make modifications, and the paperwork required for these changes.

change control system

A _____ is a tool used in quality management.

checklist

E-mail communication is most suited for:

communicating routine information.

In project time management, the process of_____ primarily involves checking and managing changes to the project schedule.

controlling the schedule

The process of controlling costs primarily involves:

managing changes to the project budget.

A _____ is a standard of measurement in quality management.

metric

The project time management knowledge area maps to the _____ process group through the activity of schedule control.

monitoring and controlling

The output of the _____ process is a communications management plan.

planning communications

The _____ perspective on organizations assumes that organizations are coalitions composed of varied individuals and interest groups.

political frame

Project managers have the most authority in a pure _____ organizational structure.

project

Risk utility rises at a decreasing rate for a _____ person.

risk-averse

A difference between strategic and tactical goals is that:

strategic goals are long-term in nature whereas tactical goals are short-term.

In organizational culture, control refers to _____.

the degree to which rules, policies, and direct supervision are used to oversee employee behavior

Analogous estimates are also known as _____ estimates.

top-down

The _____ approach for constructing a WBS starts with the largest items of the project and breaks them into subordinate items.

top-down

An example of push communication is _____.

voice mails

A(n) ____ is a task at the lowest level of the WBS.

work package