Quiz Ch. 4-6 IT Project Management

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

mandatory

What document used to coordinate all project planning documents and help guide a project's execution and control?

project management plan

Which document contains results of various risk management processes; it is often displayed in a table or spreadsheet format?

risk register

The main outputs of _____are the project scope statement and updates to project documents.

scope definition

A(n) _____ Gantt chart compares planned and actual project schedule information.

tracking

The scope of a project is clear and specific from the start.

False

_____ involves identifying and managing the points of interaction between various elements of the project.

Interface management

A(n) _____ involves analyzing a company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and is used to aid in strategic planning.

SWOT analysis

_____ is the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger.

Scope creep

_____ involves determining long-term objectives by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses, studying opportunities and threats, predicting future trends, and projecting the need for new products and services.

Strategic planning

Which approach for constructing a WBS starts with the largest items of the project and breaks them into subordinate items?

Top-Down

A schedule management plan includes information which describes the format and frequency of schedule reports required for the project

True

An activity is an element of work that has an expected duration, cost, and resource requirements.

True

The critical path on a project can change as the project progresses

True

A(n) _____ for a project is the series of activities that determine the earliest time by which the project can be completed.

critical path

n project schedule management, the main goal of which process is to ensure that the project team has complete understanding of all the work they must do as part of the project scope so they can start scheduling the work?

defining activities

In project schedule management, the ultimate goal of which process is to provide a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project?

developing a schedule

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

False

It is necessary that IT project managers have prior technical experience in creating and managing IT products.

False

Many projects fail because of unclear requirements and expectations, so starting with a payback analysis makes a lot of sense.

False

Project scope statements must include the project boundaries, constraints, and assumptions.

False

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

False

The organization should complete low-priority projects before high-priority ones, if the low-priority ones take less time.

False

In a weighted scoring model, what percent must the sum of the weights of all the criteria total?

100

Which is recommended for the creation of a good WBS?

A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS.

Which approach for constructing a WBS uses a similar project's WBS as a starting point?

Analogy

Which action involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them?

Collecting requirements

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

Directives

Which document contains a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project?

work breakdown structure