Project Management Quizzes

Which of the following best describes outsourcing?

An organization's acquisition of goods and services from an outside source

Generating Ideas by comparing specific project practices or product charactersitcs to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization is known as

Benchmarking

In the ___ approach, team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then aggregate the specific tasks and organize them into summary activities, or higher levels in the WBS

Bottom-up

A ___ is a formal, documented process that describes when and how official project documents may be modified, the peolple authorized to make modifications, and the paperwork required for these changes

Change control system

Administrative activities, such as 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 ___ processes

Closing

___ are an example of external stakeholders for an organization

Competitors

Which of the following proccesses in project time management involves identifying the specific tasks that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables?

Defining activities

In project time management, the next step up after defining project activities is:

Determining their dependencies

One of the main outputs of the initiation process is

Developing the project charter

Majority of time on a project is usually spent on ___ , as is most of the project's budget

Execution

A disadvantage of using Gantt charts is that they do not provide a standard formt for displaying planned project schedule information

False

A work package represents one component of the product that the project aims to deliver

False

An organization should consider only projects with negative NPV if financial value is key criterion for project selection

False

Initiating and closing tasks are usually the longest and require the most amount of resources and time

False

Key outcomes of the executing process group are formal acceptance of the work and creation of closing documents

False

The WBS is organized organized solely around project phases

False

Which of the following techniques involves doing activities in parallel that one would normally do in sequence?

Fast tracking

The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immedaitely following activities is known as

Free slack

Project mangers have the least amount of authority in a pure ___ organizational structure

Functional

___ processes include defining and authorizing a priject or project phase

Initiating

Which of the followin is true of return on investment or ROI

It is always a percentage

Which of the following are organizational process assets?

Management systems

Which of the following types of dependencies are inherent in the nature of work being performed on a project?

Mandatory

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

Monitoring and Controlling

Creating the WBS is a subprocess associated with the ___ process in project scope management

Planning

A ____ is a document that recognizes the existence of a project and provides direction on the project's objectives and management

Project Charter

The ____ section of the project management plan describes how to monitor project progress and handle changes

Project Controls

First two traditional project phases focus on planning, and are often referred to as

Project feasibility

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

Project management plan

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

RAD life cycle

Which of the following best describes a kill point in the

Review of the status of a project at each phase of development to determine if it should be continued, redirected, or terminated

____ involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders

Scope Validation

Scope refers to

The work involved in creating the products and the processes used to create them

___ is the amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early start without delaying

Total Slack

Identifying the project sponsor is a pre-initiation task

True

Information from the project charter provides a basis for further defining the project scope

True

The level of activity and length of each process group varies for every project

True

The critical path is the ___ path through a network diagram, and it represents the ___ amount of slack or float

longest; shortest

In organizational culture, people focus to ___

the degree to which management's decisions take into account the effect of outcomes on employees within the organization

In organizational culture, control refers to

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