CIS Project Management Exam 1

What refers to a set of principles that guides decision making based on personal values of what is considered right and wrong?

Ethics

What are new requirements imposed by management, government, or some external influence?

Directives.

An IT company revises its process parameters in response to complaints from vendors that products were not ready on time. This would be an example of ...

A corrective action

What are the roles of leaders?

A leader focuses on long term goals and big picture objectives while inspiring people to reach those goals.

What outputs of the executing process of project integration management?

Deliverables

What involves working with stakeholders to create the document that formally authorizes a project?

Developing the project charter

How are program managers different from project managers?

A program is a group of related projects, the program manager provides leadership and direction for the project managers heading the projects within the program.

What reflects the strategic goals of project portfolio management?

Are we investing in the right areas?

Which stage of information technology planning outlines business processes that are central to achieving strategic goals and help determine which ones could most benefit from information technology?

Business

Admin activities, such as archiving project files, closing out contracts, documenting lessons learned, and receiving formal acceptance of the delivered work as part of the phase or project, are often involved in the

Closing Processes

What is a planning process associated with project scope management?

Collecting requirements

What project management knowledge areas primarily involve generating, collecting, disseminating, and storing project information?

Communications

What involves identifying and controlling the functional and physical design characteristics of products and their support documentation, and ensures that the descriptions of the project's products are correct and complete?

Configuration management ensures that the descriptions of the project's products are correct and complete. It involves identifying and controlling the functional and physical design characteristics of products and their support documentation.

What activities are parts of the planning process of the Scrum?

Creating product backlogs, sprint backlogs, and release backlogs.

What involves coordinating all planning efforts to create a consistent, coherent document?

Developing the project management plan.

The project integration management knowledge area maps to the ______ process group through the activities of developing project charters.

Initialing

During __________ processes for a new project, the organization recognized that a new project exists, and completes a project charter as part of this recognition.

Initiating

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

Integration

The project management plan is the output of the planning process of project....

Integration Management

What are attributes of a project?

It has a unique purpose, it is temporary, is developed using progressive elaboration, requires resources - often from various areas, should have a primary customer or sponsor, involves uncertainly.

What tools can best help in efficient communication management?

Kickoff meetings

What types of financial analysis is a method of calculating the expected net monetary gain or loss from a project by discounting all expected future cash inflows and outflows to the present point in time?

Net Present Value Analysis

Understand different financial methods used to make a strong business case.

Net Present Value Analysis Return on Investment Payback Analysis

What information needs to be included in the business case?

Objectives, proposed solutions, benefits and cost, risks, and key dates

What are considered organizational process assets?

Organizational Process Assets are the repository of information and data that has been collected by an organization from past projects.

What processes include devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project addresses the organization's needs?

Planning

What is a proactive process undertaken to reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks?

Preventive actions

What types of activities does project procurement management mainly involve?

Primarily involves identifying stakeholder needs.

Organizational process assets update is the output of the closing process of

Project Integration Management

A _____________ is a document used to coordinate all project planning documents and help guide a project's execution and control.

Project Management Plan

In the _________ stage of selecting information technology projects, organizations define project scope, benefits, and constraints.

Project Planning

What project parameters would be compatible with the use of the agile approach?

Project with less rigid constraints, experienced and preferably co-loaded teams, smaller risks, unclear requirements, and more flexible scheduling would be more compatible with an agile approach.

A ______ _________ ________ ______ is a tool used in management.

Risk Register - a list of prioritized risks

The role of a _____ is to provide direction and funding for a project.

Sponser

Understand the difference between project sponsor and project manager.

Sponser - the person who provides the direction and funding for a project Manager - the person responsible for working with the project sponsor, the project team, and the other people involved to meet the project goals.

What are differences between strategic and tactical goals?

Strategic is the what and tactics are the how.

What are true about the agile method?

The agile approach to managing project that includes an iterative workflow and incremental delivery of software in short iterations.

What is a planning process that is within the Project Scope Management knowledge area?

The knowledge area of Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work, and only all the work required to complete the project successfully. It is primarily concerned with controlling what is and what is not in the scope.

What provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance?

Work Breakdown Structures

The project schedule information section of the project management plan includes...

a detailed schedule.

The majority of time on a project is usually spent on _________, as is most of the project's budget.

executing

The outputs of the ______________ process include change request status updates, project management plan updates, and project document updates.

performing integrated change control

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

quality

A ______________ is usually not necessary to the Scrum method.

team contract

Enterprise environmental factors are an output of the executing process of

the Develop Project team.

Fact tracking is an example of a tool used in ________ management.

time

The first step in the planning process is

to identify specific company goals.