Project Management Wk 2 Quiz

Typical kinds of costs found in a project include all of the following EXCEPT

A. Direct costs. B. Project overhead costs. C. General and administrative overhead costs. D. Labor. E. All of these are examples of costs found in a project.

Scott has just been given a project that has a specific completion date. After a discussion with top management he finds that while the date is important the cost is more important and a slip in delivery would be acceptable if required to meet the cost targets. The completion date is best classified as

Accepted.

Factors in identifying cultural characteristics include all the following EXCEPT

Attitude.

The salary of the project manager would be an example of what type of cost found in a project?

Direct project overhead

There are 5 steps involved when defining a project; which of the following is the second?

Establish project priorities

Sean is forecasting the time and cost of developing a customized software program by looking at the number of inputs, outputs, inquiries, files, and interfaces. Which of the following methods is he using?

Function point

Learning curves are more likely to be applied in situations where most of the costs are

Labor.

Laura is forecasting the time and cost of developing an intranet for a new customer. Her department has completed six such intranets for customers during the last two years. Although the proposed system is about the same size as the others, she estimates that it will take about 10 percent less time and money. Which of the following methods is she using?

Learning curve

Which of the following is NOT one of the bottom-up approaches to estimating project time and cost?

Learning curve

The project scope statement indicates that the client is responsible for training the people who will be using the equipment and that the project team will train the client's trainers. This is an example of

Limits and exclusions.

Which of the following is an advantage of a functional project management organization?

Maximum flexibility in the use of staff

Which of the following cultural characteristics relates to the degree to which employees identify with the organization as a whole rather than with their type of job or field of professional expertise?

Member identity

Organizational culture is best explained as organizational

Personality.

Richard is collecting estimates for a house that he will have the funding to build in 12 months. Which of the following factors does Richard need to consider in regard to the quality of these estimates?

Planning horizon

The WBS is best suited for projects that have a tangible outcome. Which of the following is used when the final outcome of the project is less tangible or is a product of a series of steps or phases?

Process breakdown structure

From the list below, which is NOT a primary characteristic of organizational culture?

Profitability

Rob is responsible for estimating a work package that has a significant amount of uncertainty associated with the time and cost to complete. Due to the uncertainty involved he will be making a low, an average and a high estimate. Rob is using which estimating approach?

Range estimating

If a project is small and does not require an elaborate system to assign tasks, which of the following is a good choice?

Responsibility matrix

The tendency for the project deliverables to expand over time—usually by changing requirements, specifications, and priorities—is called

Scope creep.

Which of the following cultural characteristics relates to the degree to which work activities are organized around groups rather than individuals?

Team emphasis

The ability of a 911 emergency system to identify the caller's phone number and location is considered to be a

Technical requirement.

The highest element in the hierarchical breakdown of the WBS is

The project.

At the project level, which of the following is a factor that should influence the choice of project management structure?

The size of the project The novelty of the project Budget and time constraints The strategic importance of the project All of these are factors that should influence the choice of project management structure

Which of the following does NOT help describe a bottom-up estimating approach?

They are made by someone who uses experience and/or information from someone else to determine overall project cost and duration

Which of the following cultural characteristics relates to the degree to which groups within the organization are encouraged to operate in a coordinated or independent manner?

Unit integration

In which of the following is the balance of authority strongly in favor of the functional managers?

Weak matrix

How is project scope defined?

What you expect to deliver to your customer when the project is complete

Which of the following is a good condition for bottom-up estimating?

When there is a fixed price contract

Which of the following is a good example of a Process Breakdown Structure?

new software program

MegaComputers Inc., has assigned a project manager for each of the five new-product teams. The managers, as well as the project team members, work on the projects on a full-time basis. The structure being used is ________ organization.

projectized