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You are the project manager for a custom home-building construction company. You are working on the model home project for the upcoming Show Homes Tour. The model home includes Internet connections in every room and talking appliances. You are working on the cost budget for this project. Which of the following is true? A. This process assigns cost estimates to project activities including risks and contingency plans. B. The cost baseline will be used to measure variances and future project performance. C. This process assigns cost estimates for expected future period operating costs. D. The cost baseline is the expected cost for the project.
1213Which of the following is displayed as an S-curve? A. Gantt B. Cost baseline C. Critical path D. PERT
1125All of the following are true regarding the project plan except: A. Some of its inputs are outputs from other Planning processes. B. It's used to guide the project executing and controlling processes and is the baseline used to measure project performance. C. It consists of one document that should be formally approved and signed by stakeholders. D. It contains things like the WBS, project schedule, and resource assignments.
1144You are a project manager for an international marketing firm. You are ready to assign resources to your new project using a work authorization system. All of the following are true except: A. Work authorization systems clarify and initiate the work for each work package. B. Work authorization systems are written procedures defined by the organization. C. Work authorization systems are tools and techniques of the Project Plan Execution process. D. Work authorization systems are an output of the Project Plan Execution process.
995Your project is progressing as planned. The project team has comp up with a demo that the sales team will use when making presentations to perspective clients. You will do which of the following at your next stakeholder process. A. Report on the progress of the demo and note that it's a completed task B. Preview the demo for stakeholders and obtain their approval and sign-off C. Review the technical documentation of the demo and obtain approval and sign-off D. Report that the demo has been noted as a completed task in the information retrieval system
1049All of the following arc tools and techniques of the Project Plan execution process except： A. Project management information system B. Work authorization system C. Organizational policies D. General management skills
900You are a project manager for a growing dairy farm. They offer their organic dairy products regionally and are expanding their operations to the West Coast. They're in the process of purchasing and leasing dairy farms to get operations under way. You are in charge of the network operations part of this project. An important deadline is approaching that depends on the successful completion of the testing phase. You've detected some problems with your hardware in the testing phase and discover that the hardware is not compatible with other network equipment. You take corrective action and exchange the hardware for more compatible equipment. Which of the following is true? A. This is not a corrective action involves human resources, not project resources. B. Corrective action is taken here to make sure the future project outcomes are aligned with the project plan. C. Corrective action is not necessary in this case as the future project outcomes aren't affected. D. Corrective action serves as the change request to authorize exchanging the equipment.
866You are a project manager for a growing dairy farm. They offer their organic dairy products regionally and are expanding their operations to the West Coast. They're in the process of purchasing and leasing dairy farms to get operations under way. The sub project manager in charge of network operations has reported some hardware problems to you. You’re also having some other coordinating and integrating other elements of the project. Which of the following is true? A. You are in the Project Plan Execution process. B. Your project team doesn't appear to have the right skills and knowledge needed to perform this project. C. You are in the Information Distribution process. D. Your project team could benefit from some team-building exercises.
843Which 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
1050You are the project manager for a cable service provider. Your team members are amiable with each other and are careful to make project decisions jointly. Which of the following is true? A. They are in the smoothing stage of Team Development. B. They are in the norming stage of Team Development. C. They are in the forming stage of Team Development. D. They are in the forcing stage of Team Development.
892You are the project manager for a cable service provider. Your project team is researching a new service offering. They have been working together for quite sometime and are in the performing stage of Team Development. A new member has been introduced to the team. Which of the following is true? A. The Team Development process will start all over again with the storming stage. B. The team will continue in the performing stage. C. The Team Development process will start all over again with the forming stage. D. The team will start all over again at the storming stage but quickly progress to the performing stage. ?
985You are the project manager for a cable service provider. Your project team is researching a new service offering. They have been working together for quite some time and are in the performing stage of Team Development. This stage of Team Development is similar to which of the following? A. Smoothing B. Achievement theory C. Hygiene theory D. Self-actualization
898Receivers in the communication model filter their information through all of the following except: A. Culture B. Knowledge of subject C. Conflict D. Language
909You’re promised your team two days of paid time off plus a week’s training in the latest technology of their choice if they complete their project ahead of schedule. This is an example of which of the following? A. Achievement theory B. Expectancy theory C. Maslow's theory D. Contingency theory
1160What are the outputs of the Team Development process? A. Performance improvements, input to performance appraisals B. Input to performance appraisals, reward and recognition systems C. Performance improvements, input to performance appraisals, performance reports D. Work results, input to performance appraisals, performance reports
968Post New Project Management Questions
How do you manage team performance?
You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country. You've been told that it is culturally unacceptable to eat certain foods in this country. You know that one of these foods happens to be a secret ingredient in the pizza sauce. What is the most appropriate response? A. Inform the potential partners that your sauce recipe is secret, but you’re certain there are no forbidden ingredients in it. B. Inform the potential partners that you suspect there might be a forbidden ingredient in the sauce and you'll request an investigation to determine if any of them exist in the sauce. C. Inform the potential partners that a forbidden ingredient exists in the sauce and determine to work with them to come up with another ingredient to replace that one. D. Don't tell the potential partners about the ingredient because the sauce they'll be using in the stores is shipped to them already prepared in cans. They won't know the ingredient is in the sauce.
How will prioritize tasks in your projects?
You 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
What are the five project management process groups, in order? A. Initiation, Executing, Planning, Controlling, and Closing B. Initiation, Controlling, Planning, Executing, and Closing C. Initiation, Planning, Controlling, Executing, and Closing D. Initiation, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing
You are the project manager for a new construction project in your city. Your longtime personal friend is bidding on the project. They've asked you to give them an indication of the budget for this project so that they do not overbid and lose the deal. What is the most appropriate response? A. Give the information to your friend. You know their character and can trust that they won't tell anyone. B. Tell your friend that after all this time, they should know you better than to think you'd put your personal integrity on the line or compromise your job due to a conflict of interest. Decline to give them the information. C. Tell your friend you'll give them the information if they'll promise not to tell anyone and if they'll agree to help you out with some materials on your basement-refinishing project. D. Give the information to your friend and inform the project sponsor so that the information can be shared with the other bidders as well.
What is the concept of project management?
Your company provides answering services for several major catalog retailers. The number of calls coming into the service center per month has continued to increase over the past 18 months. The phone system is approaching the maximum load limits and needs to be upgraded. You've been assigned to head up the upgrade project. Based on the company's experience with the vendor who worked on the last phone upgrade project, you're confident they'll be able to assist you with this project as well. Which of the following is true? A. You’ve made an assumption about vendor availability and expertise. The project came about due to a business need. B. Vendor availability and expertise are constraints. The project came about due to a business need. C. You've made an assumption about vendor availability and expertise. The project came about due to a marketing demand. D. Vendor availability and expertise are constraints. The project came about due to a marketing demand.
The amount of authority a project manager possesses can be related to: A. The project manager’s communication skills B. The organizational structure C. The amount of authority the manager of the project manager possesses D. The project manager's influencing skills
You are a project manager for a software manufacturing firm. The project you've just finished created a new software product that is expected to become a number-one seller. A friend of yours is a certified software instructor. They have asked you for a copy of the software prior to the beta release through the marketing department so they can get familiar with it. What is the most appropriate response? A. Since your friend is certified to teach your company's brand of software, provide them with a copy of the software. B. Ask them to sign a nondisclosure agreement before releasing a copy of the software. C. Decline the request since you stand to gain from this transaction by receiving free training. D. Decline the request because the software is the intellectual property of the company.
You are a project manager for Safari Outfitters. Your company is going to offer a new product line in the upcoming spring catalog. Your project team has 10 months to secure contracts with suppliers, finalize the designs, get the product into the catalog, and stock the warehouse. This is an example of: A. An assumption because the project team has worked on projects like this before and know they can meet the 10-month deadline B. An assumption because the project team has a limited amount of time to complete the project C. A constraint because the project team has a limited amount of time to complete the project D. A constraint because the project team is working with a new product line that hasn't been developed before
All of the following are true regarding Pareto diagrams and Pareto theory except: A. Pareto diagrams are histograms. B. Pareto diagrams rank order factors. C. A small number of causes create the majority of problems. D. Pareto diagrams use two variables.
You are the project manager for an upcoming outdoor concert event. You're working on the procurement plan for the computer software program that will control the lighting and screen projections during the concert. You're comparing the cost of purchasing a software product to the cost of your company programmers writing a custom software program. You are engaged in which of the following? A. Procurement planning B. Sensitivity analysis C. Transference of risk D. Make or buy analysis
During your project meeting, a problem was discussed and a resolution to the problem was reached. During the meeting, the participants started wondering why they thought the problem was such a big issue. Sometime after the meeting, you received and e-mail from one of the meeting members saying they've changed their mind about the solution reached in the meeting and need to resurface the problem. The solution reached during the initial project meeting is an example of which of the following conflict resolution techniques? A. Confrontation B. Forcing C. Smoothing D. Storming
Theory Y managers believe which of the following? A. That people are motivated only by money, power, or position B. That people will perform their best if they're given proper motivation and expectations C. That people are motivated to achieve a high level of competency D. That people are motivated by expectation of good outcomes
