Project management foundations

A stakeholder project review meeting is estimated for a one-day duration. There are eight stakeholders. How many work hours do the stakeholders spend in this meeting?

64

Your boss has asked you to be the project manager of an approved software implementation project. Which project document identifies your authority and responsibilities?

A project charter

You are building your project schedule. You have the tasks in the right sequence. What is the next step you should take?

Add the time that you estimate for each task.

After the plan is approved and project work begins, tara's oss is not ahppy about a project delay for an upgrade, the vendor though tara's team would do the upgrade, and tara thought the vendaor would do it. what was missed in this situation?

An assumption was not identified.

The customer has identified several new features since the original backlog was built. What do you do to address them?

At the beginning of the next iteration, re-estimate, reevaluate, and re-prioritize the backlog features to decide which ones to include in the iteration.

Your coworker has to develop a cost estimate but is unsure which is the best one based on a bell curve of costs for past projects. What is a general practice for choosing the best estimate?

Choose a point halfway between the average and worst-case values.

Your project meetings run longer than planned and you're determined to start and finish them on time in the future. What technique would you implement to accomplish this?

Create an agenda with topics and time estimates so you can move topics that exceed their time to the parking lot to be handled later.

What do you use to specify what will be tested in project acceptance tests.

Deliverables and success criteria

banton is defining his project deliverables. which statement describes what a project deliverable is?

Deliverables are the results that the project delivers and help define the project scope.

Your organization runs numerous projects and wants to choose the most appropriate resources for each project team. Which of the following is the best tool for identifying project resources?

Enterprise project management software.

During which waterfall phase does the prohect a=manager bring the full team on boeard and orient them to the project and expectations?

Executing

which type of dependency is most common in project schedules?

Finish-to-start

Raghbir has done all the project planning and is ready to obtain stakeholders' approval. However, the stakeholders are not co-located. What is the best possible approach for getting their approval?

Have a video conference with all stakeholders.

You need to resolve a serious disagreement over requirements between the project customer and another key stakeholder. What is the key communication technique to choose for this situation?

Hold a face-to-face meeting or videoconference.

Rosanne's boss asks her to manage a project. Which question requires understanding of objectives, requirements, deliverables, and success criteria to answer?

How will you know when you are done?

You have a project committee meeting with all stakeholders. What is the key step you need to take to make the meeting effective for the stakeholders?

Identify the purpose of the meeting and results yo

Kendra has a project team of varying skills and experience. Since the WBS task names are short and may not be enough for the team members to know what to do, what should Kendra do?

Kendra should have her team leaders create work package documents.

Ramesh is creating objectives for his project. Which SMART step will help him identify actual progress?

Measurable

Your project seems to be going off track, so you take action to resolve the problem. In which project management phase are you working?

Monitoring and Controlling

Pam owns several risks in a project. What is Pam's first action as a risk owner?

Proactively implement risk responses before the risks become issues.

The sponsor of Project T5 assigned you as the project manager, and the project has already been approved. What is the first thing you need to do as the project manager?

Review what has been done and complete any tasks not addressed.

Sakait has done some extra work to appease a client. Now the client is asking her to do one more task, which is significant and not part of project scope. What should Sakait do?

Sakait should tell the client the task is not within scope and add the task using the change control process.

What is not a required part of creating a project schedule?

Set a deadline for the project.

Izzy has finished identifying risks for her big project, but is unsure how to account for unknown risks from a time and cost perspective. What is the general practice most companies use for projects?

Set aside a percentage of the budget and project duration based on past projects. If you don't have past experience, use 15%.

The change review board can't get through all the change requests that are submitted. They want to focus on requests with significant impact. What process change would you propose to allow the review board to focus on significant changes?

Set thresholds so you or team leads can decide what to do with small change requests.

You are hiring a new project manager to take over a project with several teams that often disagree on what they are supposed to do. Which competency would you feel is most important in a candidate for this situation?

Strong leadership skills

Which organizational factor is most important when you need to make a difficult decision?

The organization's mission

What is a reason that you might not be able to tailor your project in some ways?

The project is in a highly regulated industry that has specific project management requirements.

Which factor is a test you can use to determine whether you have broken down the work to the right level?

The work package is between 8 and 80 hours to complete.

Callahan just completed the planning phase. Now he needs to have a kickoff meeting with the team. What is not something covered in the kickoff meeting?

a detailed review of the project plan

You are managing a project that is implementing a new financial system. You need to include some of the finance department's resources on the team. Which stakeholder should you approach?

a functional or line manager

Krisha is gathering information on her stakeholders, such as department names, factors that motivate them, who they listen to, and their contributions on the project. What is this document called?

a stakeholder analysis

what are the components that differentiate a project from operational work?

a unique goal, a temporary, start and finish dates, and management aporval

There's a conflict on Mack's virtual project team. Which approach is best to address the conflict?

a video or phone conference

which of the following skills is not crucial for a project manager to possess?

accounting

You have quite the diversified team in experience, skills, and hours they work. Which best practice should you follow to help ensure your schedule is as realistic as possible?

add notes to ur schedule to document resource chanegs and the reasons for the changes

Who applies the principles for effective project management?

anyone who wokrs on projects

You have created a risk management plan for your project. Which type of response would you use if the scope was changed to remove a risky section of the project?

avoidance

How can using an Agile approach help a company improve delivery?

by using an iterative approach to deliver value sooner

The project customer and other stakeholders have approved your project plan. After you save the project baseline, those documents will be under the control of the _____.

change management process

Project objectives help you flesh out a project by ___

defining project scope

While each performance domain places on a specific topic, what is the overarching focus of all performance domains?

delivering outcomes, benefits, and value

The Agile team is building and implementing features. The team lead runs a daily meeting to review the status on completed and incomplete work. Which Agile stage is the team in?

explore

Which technique would you most likely use to gather valid requirements and get buy-in from various departments?

focus groups

Your team asks a lot of questions about their assignments. Although they turn to you to make decisions, they sometimes test the boundaries of what they can do. What stage of team building are they in?

forming

which of the following skills is not crutical for a project manager to possess?

identifying deliverables

now that ur porject is underway, all resource assignments are running late. what is the likely cause?

not taking into account the hours that resoruces spend on non-project work each day.

Your client has asked for a project that will fix productivity concerns with the customer service department. After asking "why" several times, you are able to determine the cause and create a ___

problem statement

Madhukant's project includes testing software functions. Which part of the quality management plan would address the processes that will be used to ensure the software is meeting the standards?

quality assurance plan

Turkan is developing a resource management plan for his project. Which part of this plan articulates who makes decisions, who performs work, and who needs to receive status on the project?

responsibility matrix

what activity is not part of the adapt stage?

review what has been completed and what is still on the backog to choose the features for the next iteration.

as aprt of the project definition, bisa identifies risks for the project. what is the purpose of doing this druing projectinitiation?

so management can decide whether the risks are sserious enough to warrant denying the project.

what are the names for the stages in an Agile iteration?

speculate, explore, adapt

Milestones can be used in many ways. What is not something that milestones do?

summarize schedule and cost performance

George is building his work breakdown structure (WBS) to organize and distribute the project work to various departments. Which type of tasks would he use to represent a department's responsibility?

summary tasks

When would you create a work package document that describes the work to be done in explicit detail?

the assigned resource is inexperienced

Mei has obtained a graph showing duration data for past projects that follows a normal distribution. Which duration estimate provides the best chance for a project being selected and completed successfully?

the average of the worst-case value and the 50% probability value on the normal distribution

camille wants to use the agile approach on the project she will be managing. what significant benefit does the agile methodology provide?

the customer receives value from the project sooner.

Chloe is developing her risk management plan and wants to make sure that she can get early warning that a risk might occur. What is the key item she should document in her risk information forms?

the events that might trigger the risk

Ravi took on a system implementation project that he estimated would take six months to complete, but the work keeps continuing. what is the likely cause?

the project is not clearly defined.

What is not something you would tailor in a project?

the project objectives

Several stakeholders for a project disagree on the priorities of many project objectives. Who would you ask first for help resolving this issue?

the project sponsor

Rudolph, the project manager, is trying to obtain customer approval of project deliverables. It is taking longer than he anticipated because the customer wants to discuss the results. What is the most likely reason for these delays?

the success criteria aren't clear and quantifiable.

Which factor could directly affect the strategy and portfolio changes that the leadership team makes?

the value realized from project-related work

why is it important to decoument the project scope?

to remind stateholders what they argreed to and to prevent scope creep.

Your client has just asked you to make changes to some features in the project. What would you do first?

Ask the client to document and submit a change request form.

The it department says that there are sevral prodcts that do what the project needs. what is the most important thing that will help you choos the right product?

Understanding ur project needs

The boss has asked you to research project management tools that will help with building and planning tasks on a timeline. Which type of tool would you most likely consider?

a schduling program

The development team has encountered a problem with a software feature. They need to handle this problem quickly, but they can't make a face-to-face brainstorming session because they aren't local. Which alternative solution is best?

videoconferencing

A project that you manage is behind schedule. You have identified an approach that would get the project back on track, but it would require you to break one of your organization's policies. What is the best course of action?

Determine if the rule is one that can be broken and come up with an alternative plan of action if your approach doesn't work.

You are project managing a team of 10 people. Lately, one of your team members is not performing up to par. What is the least likely approach you should use to handle this situation?

Quickly find another team member to take over.

Camille receives a change request that will probably affect the project's business case. How should she manage this change?

She should have the customer approve the change request.

what is not a required part of creating a project schedule?

What time people start working each day

Your boss is asking you to take on a reengineering project. The company hasn't run reengineering projects before, but has hired several project managers with reengineering experience. Which technique is best to use in this situation to estimate time and cost?

delphi technique

At the beginning of the next iteration, re-estimate, reevaluate, and re-prioritize the backlog features to decide which ones to include in the iteration. Correct

includes activities similar to a Waterfall approach but performed in a different order and with different emphasis

Candace is a new project manager and has asked for your help with the project budget. Which type of cost typically represents the largest portion of a project budget?

labor

Estimating a project using the Delphi technique is an example of which type of tool?

method

Which choice is not a characteristic of Agile project management?

no documentation

One risk to your schedule is that a hard drive with customized software fails and you lose the work that was done. Resources on the project team regularly back up their work so they can resume work quickly after a hard drive failure. What type of risk management strategy do backups represent?

risk mitigation

Jivan is preparing an agenda for the project plan approval meeting. Which item should she not include in her agenda?

schedule the project definition meeting

James is managing a project in which he has some authority to make decisions. In which type of organizational structure is James most likely managing this project?

the matrix organization

A change request submitted by the project sponsor has an effect on several other projects within the organization. If the change request appears to be a positive addition to the project, who should you ask to approve the change request?

the organization's executive board

What is the initial driver for what the value delivery system does within an organization?

the organizational vision of senior leadership

Linde has a tight budget for her project. She needs to potentially seek outside sources. Which plan should she consult to understand the products or services that are available?

the procurement plan

Angela is about to start the project plan for a financial system migration project. What information should she identify first because it drives most of the plan?

the work that must be done Correct

You are the project manager for a healthcare system implementation project. The sponsor has asked you to create a project definition. What will the sponsor use this document for?

to decide whether to approve the project