Pro Man 372 Ch1-9

a one-day delay to an activity with 0 total float

As a project manager, which of the following situations would concern you the most?

subject matter experts

During WBS creation on a large, complex project, the product and project deliverables are broken down into progressively lower levels of detail. Once the WBS has been defined at the second or third level of detail, whose input is essential in order to break down the work further?

Project culture (norms)

Group phenomena that evolve over time and include established approaches to initiating and planning projects, the acceptable means for getting the work done, and recognized decision-making authorities are referred to as:

Late Finish-Duration

How do you calculate Late Start, using the two-pass method?

the time and cost are fixed, but the scope is developed iteratively

In Adaptive Life Cycles (change-driven or agile methods) ___.

A - Accountable

In a RACI chart, the single individual who will have to provide an explanation if something goes wrong is indicated with a(n) ___.

The team is self-directed

In an Agile life cycle model _____.

Constraints

In order to be successful, the project team must be able to assess the needs of stakeholders and manage their expectations through effective communications. At the same time they must balance competing demands among project scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and resources, which are also known as project _____?

Need to keep workers busy during slow times

Projects may be undertaken as a result of any of the following strategic reasons except:

project life cycle

Projects pass through a series of phases as they move from initiation to project closure. The names and number of these phases can vary significantly depending on the organization, the type of application, industry, or technology employed. These phases create the framework for the project, and are referred to collectively as the ________.

should be included in the project's Staffing Management Plan

Recognition and rewards _____________.

Scope management

Which PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Area includes those processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully?

It is one of the deliverables at the lowest level of the WBS

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an activity?

web

Which of the following is NOT a common method for organizing a WBS?

provides detailed information about financial resources

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of an approved project charter?

All of these choices are correct

Which of the following is a financial analysis tool that an organization may use to determine the cost-value of potential projects?

It is the lowest level of the WBS.

Which of the following statements about a work package is true?

Determine which teammate was in the wrong

Which of the following steps is not part of the six-step project conflict-resolution process?

summary budget

Which of these is NOT a component of a Project Scope Statement?

competencies

Which of these is not a challenge of working on global and virtual teams?

Project sponsor

Which project role provides resources or support for the project, promotes and protects the project at higher levels of management, and takes an active role in the project from the chartering stage through project closure?

6 hours

You are planning the schedule and come to an activity you are unfamiliar with. Your SMEs give you the following time estimates: most likely = 5 hours; optimistic = 2 hours; pessimistic = 14 hours. Using PERT, which activity duration do you use in your plan?

negotiate with your sponsor to see how you can best accommodate her requests without agreeing to unreasonable expectations.

You are the project manager. Upon presenting your charter to your sponsor, she requests several changes. What do you do?

Acquire Project Team

___ is the process of "confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project activities".

Matrix

___ organization structures can be classified as weak, balanced, or strong depending on the relative level of influence between the functional manager and the project manager.

Ground rules

_____ establish(es) clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members, and may cover topics such as protecting confidentiality, establishing trust and handling conflict.

Plan Resource Management

The "process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, reporting relationships, and creating a staffing management plan" is called:

finish-to-start (FS

The Bluestar Creative Agency is developing a new marketing campaign for a client. They have determined that the client's marketing plan must be completed before the graphic design can begin. This situation describes what type of dependency?

Ensuring enough resources are available to perform the project

The Chief Projects Officer's or PMO's responsibilities might include:

define activities

The Midlands Company is eager to develop a project schedule. They have already completed the scope statement, work breakdown structure and schedule management plan. What is the next thing they should do in order to start creating a project schedule?

business case

The __________________ best describe(s) why a project is being undertaken

Initiating

The charter is the primary deliverable of a project's ______________ phase

Business Case

The document that includes the necessary information to determine whether a project is worth the required investment, and is used for decision making by upper management, is called the:

identify changes in scope that will go through formal change control procedures.

The key output of the scope planning process is an approved version of the scope baseline. After this baseline is established, it can be referenced during project execution in order to:

Develop Project Team

The objective of the ______ process is to improve competencies, team member interaction, and overall team environment to enhance project performance.

types; quantities

The process "Estimate Activity Resources" involves identification of the ___ and ___ of resources required for each activity within a work package.

decomposition

The process of breaking the WBS into smaller and smaller deliverables is called:

create WBS

The process where project deliverables and project work are subdivided into smaller and smaller pieces is called ______.

assumptions

The project charter should include "factors that are considered to be true, real or certain without proof or demonstration." These are known as _____.

project charter

The project scope baseline consists of the approved versions of three of the four documents listed below. Which of these documents is NOT included in the project scope baseline?

Ensuring communications with key stakeholders

The project sponsor's responsibilities during the executing stage include:

the formal approval of the detailed project schedule.

The signing of the project charter represents all of these EXCEPT:

relationships; tasks

The sources of most project conflicts can be grouped into those related to ___________ and those related to __________.

duration of time spent on project

The two traditional project management associate-level roles are different in each of the following ways except ____.

authority—power or right granted by the organization

To be effective, a project manager needs to possess all of the following competencies except ____.

measurable objectives and acceptance criteria

What information does the project charter contain that signifies how the customer or user of the final product, service or result will judge the deliverables, in order to determine that they have been completed satisfactorily?

It can provide a great deal of information about how activity times may vary.

What is an advantage of using Monte Carlo analysis when estimating the duration for an activity?

summary milestone schedule

What project charter component documents significant points or events in the project, and per the author may be developed most effectively when combined with other information such as acceptance criteria?

resource leveling

When the demand for resources is greater than the available supply, the project manager can use a scheduling method that adjusts the start and finish dates of activities in order to address resource limits or constraints. This technique is called ___________.

when the product to be delivered is well understood

When would a predictive project life cycle be the preferred approach?

business case

"It is inconvenient and time-consuming for employees to walk across campus every day to eat lunch, which is why we need an employee lunch room in our building" is an example of:

scope management plan

A "component of the project management plan that describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled and verified" is the _______

fast tracking

A "schedule compression technique in which activities or phases normally done in sequence are performed in parallel for at least a portion of their duration" is referred to as ______

budget data

A Gantt chart represents project schedule information in an easy-to-read, graphical format. Which of these is NOT a component of this type of Gantt chart?

staffing management plan

A ______ addresses when and how project team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.

Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR)

A business case typically contains information regarding the business need and a financial analysis. Which financial model divides the cash flow by the initial cash outlay?

Portfolio

A collection of projects, programs, and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives are called a:

zero

A critical path activity has ________ float during the planning process.

Issue log

A document used to manage points of discussion or dispute that arise during projects, in order to monitor them and ensure that they are resolved and add them to lessons learned, is called a(n) _____.

familiarize herself with the long-term objectives of Company X

A freelance project manager is brought in by Company X to lead a large, expensive project. This project manager has excellent leadership skills and a strong technical understanding of the project. In order for her to optimize every component of the Talent Triangle, what might be a good activity for the project manager at the start of her time with Company X?

requirements traceability matrix

A grid that links product requirements from their origins (e.g. business reason needed, stakeholder who requested them) to the deliverables that satisfy them is referred to as a _______.

Functional organization

A hierarchical organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area is known as a:

Project statement of work

A narrative description of products, services or results to be delivered by the project is a:

-25% to + 75% accuracy

According to the PMBOK, the rough order of magnitude for the summary budget within the project charter is _____________________.

scope creep

Adding to the project after it has already begun without making adjustments to time, cost, or resources, is known as:

resource histogram

After creating a Staffing Management Plan, the project manager and team might create a chart that provides a visual representation of project resource needs by type of resource and time period (weeks, months etc.) This chart is called a(n) ____________

assess each risk based on probability and likely impact, and then create a risk response plan for each major risk

After identifying potential project risks, the project team should then ________

Functional managers have the majority of authority

All of the following are characteristics of a projectized organization EXCEPT:

A project manager has the discretion to make trade-offs in regard to which programs to pursue.

All of the following are true except:

Learning

All of these are stages of team development EXCEPT:

None of these choices are correct.

All of these are techniques for managing project conflicts EXCEPT:

Conveys a larger sense of organizational purpose, and is both inspiring and guiding.

All projects should be aligned with their organization's strategic plan, which includes the organization's vision, goals, and objectives. Which of these describes an organization's vision?

rolling wave planning

An iterative planning technique where "the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail, while the work in the future is planned at a higher level", is referred to as _______

triple bottom line

An organization's vision often includes reference to its social, environmental, and economic health, collectively referred to as the:

Performance assessments

An output of the process Develop Project Team, an evaluation of the team's success in achieving project objectives for schedule, budget and quality levels, is called team ____.

precedence diagramming method (PDM)

Another term for "activity on node," the most commonly used technique for constructing a schedule model is:

designing and launching a new website

Based on PMI's definition, which of these is a good example of a project?

Financial control procedures

Characteristics of an organizational culture can have a major impact on a project's success. All of these are attributes of an organizational culture EXCEPT:

depends on which, if either, is on the critical path

Crashing the following activity chains would save time and cost extra money as follows:AGJQ—2 days $300 CDIL—3 days $400Which sequence of activities would you, as a project manager, choose to crash?

Perform the work of the project to achieve its objectives

Customer responsibilities on a project might include all of the following EXCEPT:

Authority

PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is a guide for project management practitioners that describes the expectations that they should hold for themselves and others. Which of these is not one of the desired behaviors and basic obligations referenced by the code of conduct?