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Project managers have the greatest amount of authority in which kind of organizational structure? A. Functional B. Projectized C. Weak matrix D. Balanced matrix
1120You are a project manager for Snow Fun, a chain of retail shops specializing in winter sports gear and clothing. You’ve been working on contract with Snow Fun and are ready to move on to your next assignment. The customer has signed off on the project, formal acceptance notices have been distributed, and project closure procedures have been performed. What type of project ending is this? A. Extinction B. Starvation C. Integration D. Addition
1329Brainstorming and the Delphi technique are two types of information-gathering techniques found in which process? A. Risk Management Planning B. Risk Response Control C. Risk Identification D. Quantitative Risk Analysis
1606You are a project manager working for Mail House King. Your company processes orders for several mail-order catalog companies. Your project is to install new mail-sorting equipment and software. You’ve had some problems and experienced some variances so far during the project. Your project sponsor has asked for an EAC. You know the following information: PV = 800, BAC = 700, EV = 675, AC = 750, and ETC = 30. Which of the following is the correct EAC given the circumstances? A. 778 B. 780 C. 861 D. 833
1218What is the key activity during Contract Closeout and Administrative Closure? A. Documenting lessons learned B. Creating project archives C. Disseminating information to formalize project closure D. Documenting project closure
1038You know that change control systems are important as they describe how to submit change requests and document how to manage the change, track the status, and determine the management impacts of the change. Each of the following processes in the Controlling process group uses a change control system as one of its tools and techniques except: A. Integrated Change Control B. Quality Control C. Scope Change Control D. Schedule Control
949You are in the Planning process of your project, and your project sponsor has requested an accurate cost estimate in two weeks from today. You'll use which of the following techniques to provide her with the most accurate cost estimate? A. Bottom-up B. Analogous C. Top-down D. Earned value
1019The Critical Path Method is a mathematical tool and technique of the Schedule Development process. All of the following are true regarding CPM except: A. Determines a single early and late start date and a single early and late finish date B. Calculates expected value C. Focuses on the calculation of float time D. Shows the critical path, or the path with the longest duration
1120You are a project manager working in the automotive industry. You are performing quality control and decide to rank order the frequency of problem occurrences over time using which of the following: A. Control chart B. Pareto diagram C. Cause-and-effect diagram D. Scatter diagram
1361You are developing your project schedule and have decided to use the PＥRT method to determine project duration. The estimates you've gathered so far include the following: Most likely is 200 hours, optimistic is 180 hours, and pessimistic is 220 hours. Which of the following is the correct PERT estimate? A. 190 B. 266 C. ２00 D. 210
941You are a project manager for Uncle Sam's Flag Company. Your company has designed a new line of products featuring the American flag. Due to some unique circumstances, the products are in hot demand and the project sponsor has asked you to do whatever it takes to get this project completed early and make the products available. You are to add resources to the project. The sponsor agrees to pay the additional costs since time is now a critical factor. Which technique have you used? A. Crashing B. Resource leveling C. Fast tracking D. Resource loading
918You’ve just accepted a new project management assignment. The project is for a customer in a foreign country. You've requested a business analyst and two other project team members from the country the customer resides in to participate on your team. The remaining team members are from your country. You know that the best way to ensure the project team doesn’t get bogged down in cultural differences and hold up project progress is to: A. Perform team-building exercises using videoconferencing to allow team members to get to know each other and get to the performing stage of team development as soon as possible. B. Provide diversity training for all the team members to make them aware of cultural differences and teach them to function effectively as a team despite these differences. C. Establish your role as project manager as the first order of business and require compliance to company policies. D. Require project team members to read and sign the organization’s diversity policy.
1085You are a project manager for Cashiers systems. Your company produces cashiering systems and software for the retail industry. Your customer has requested a change to the product. You will handle this change using the scope change control system. All of the following are true except: A. Changes to product scope should be reflected in project scope. B. Project scope changes may result in adjustments to the performance measurement baselines. C. Changes to project scope should be reflected in the product scope. D. Scope changes may result in performance improvements.
937You are the project manager for a nonprofit organization. Your project has come about due to a social need. Your sponsor wants to get right to the Planning process. However, you know that a scope statement should be published prior to proceeding to the Planning processes. All of the following are true regarding scope statements except: A. It documents roles and responsibilities. B. It can be modified to reflect changes to the scope of the project. C. It describes the project deliverables, requirements, and objectives D. It serves as a baseline for future project decisions.
950Which of the following processes involves receiving bids and proposals and applies evaluation criteria to the proposals to rank order the sequence of award? A. Contract Administration B. Procurement C. Source Selection D. Solicitation
896Post New Project Management Questions
You are the project manager for a large construction project. The project objective is to construct a set of outbuildings to house the Olympic support team that will be arriving in your city 18 months from the project start date. You've been given a budget of $12 million to complete this project. Resources are easily attained. Which of the triple constraints is the primary constraint for this project? A. Time, because the date cannot be moved B. Money, because the budget is set at $12 million C. Resources, because they're not fixed D. Quality, because the buildings have to be functional and safe
Which organization has set the de facto standards for project management techniques? A. PMBOK B. PMO C. PMI D. PMA
Which of the following processes serve as inputs to each other? A. Executing and Controlling B. Planning and Executing C. Planning and Controlling D. Executing and Initiation
You are the project manager for Changing Tides video games. You have produced a project network diagram and have updated the activity list. Which process have you just finished? A. The Activity Sequencing process, which identifies all the specific activities of the project B. The Activity Sequencing process, which identifies all the activity dependencies C. The Activity Duration Estimating process, which diagrams project network time estimates D. The Activity Duration Estimating process, which identifies all the dependent activities of the project
Your team is split between two buildings on either side of town. As a result, the team isn't very cohesive because the members don't know each other very well. The team is still in the storming stage because of the separation issues. Which of the following should you consider? A. Corrective action B. Collocation C. Training D. Conflict resolution
What are the csfs in the software project management ?
Describe the risk in software engineering.
The purpose of the Initiation process is to: A. Formally recognize the existence of a project or project phase B. Formally recognize the need that brought about the project be it marketing demand, customer requests, business need, technological advances, or legal requirements C. Formally recognize the stakeholders of the project and identify them in the project charter D. Formally recognize the project sponsor and document his or her project goals
You are a project manager for Fountain of Youth Spring Water bottlers. You are installing a new accounting system and have identified several problems and their causes. You decide to use which of the following flowcharts to diagram the problems' causes and effects? A. Decision tree diagram B. Fishbone diagram C. Benchmark diagram D. Simulation tree diagram
You are a project manager for Star Light Strings. Star Light manufactures strings of lights for outdoor display. Their products range from simple tight strings to elaborate lights with animal designs, bug designs, memorabilia, and so on. Your newest project requires a change. One of the business unit managers submitted a change through the change control system, which utilizes a CCB. Which of the following is true regarding the CCB? A. Describes how change requests are managed B. Requires all change requests in writing C. Approves or denies change requests D. Requires updates to the appropriate management plan
You are the project manager for Insomniacs International. Since you don't sleep much, you get a lot of project work done. You're considering recommending a project that costs $575,000, and expected inflows are $25,000 per quarter for the first 2 years, and then $75,000 per quarter thereafter. What is the payback period? A. 40 months B. 38 months C. 39 months D. 41 months
You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to expand three miles of the north-south highway through your city by two lanes in each direction. You are interested in implementing a new project process called design-build in order to speed up the project schedule. The idea is that the construction team will work on the first mile of the highway reconstruction. At the same lime, the design team is coming up with plans for the third mile of the reconstruction rather than completing all design before any construction begins. This is an example of: A. Managing the projects as a program B. Fast tracking C. Progressive elaboration D. Collocation
You are working on a project that will upgrade the phone system in your customer service center. You have used bottom-up estimating techniques to assign costs to the project activities and have determined the cost baseline. Which of the following is true? A. You have completed the Cost Estimating process and now need to complete the Cost Budgeting process to determine the project's baseline. B. You have completed the Project Plan Development process and established a project baseline to measure future project performance against. C. You have completed the Cost Estimating process and now need to complete the Project Plan Development process to establish a project baseline to measure future project performance against. D. You have completed the Cost Budgeting process, and the cost baseline will be used to measure future project performance.
Your project team is a close group all busily working on project activities. They're close to approaching the performing stage of Team Development. All six members must communicate frequently with each other. How many lines of communication are there? A. 12 B. 15 C. 18 D. 14
All of the following are true regarding configuration management except: A. Requires all acceptance decisions to be made through the CCB B. Serves as a change control system C. Describes the physical characteristics of the product of the project D. Controls changes to the characteristics of an item or system
