You are 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 project charter should be published prior to proceeding to the Planning processes. All of the following are true regarding project charters except: A. Project charters always include cost and time estimates. B. Project charters always include the product description and business need for the product. C. Project charters recognize and acknowledge the existence of the project. D. Project charters commit organizational resources to the project.
954During contract negotiations, your vendor tells you that the equipment originally bid in the RFP is no longer available. They say the best solution is to buy the new equipment they're offering, which is a higher price than the original equipment. You have concerns that the new equipment might not be compatible with existing equipment and try to discuss this with them. They remind you that this decision was already made during the last contract negotiation meeting so there's no need to continue to discuss it. This is an example of which of the following? A. Proposal B. Compromise C. Storming D. Fair accomplish
1038Lessons learned are used for all of the following except: A. To provide historical information that you can review during your next project B. To document employee performance C. To identify successes and failures on the project D. To record the causes of performance variances
1121Post New Project Management Questions
What limits the options of the project team? A. Technology B. Constraints C. Deliverables D. Assumptions
You’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.
All 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
Project managers use this conflict resolution technique most often: A. Smoothing B. Confronting C. Naming D. Forcing
You are a project manager with technical expertise in the pharmaceutical industry. You've decided to try your hand at project management in the entertainment industry. Which of the following is true? A. You will likely be successful because communication skills are your strong suit. You anticipate having technical experts on your project team to address industry specifics that you're not familiar with. B. You will likely be successful because your organizational skills are excellent. You anticipate having technical experts on your project team to address industry specifics that you're not familiar with. C. You will probably be successful because you have a friend in the entertainment industry that has briefed you on all the important aspects of this project that you'll need to know. You anticipate having technical experts on your project team to address industry specifics that you're not familiar with. D. You will probably not be successful because you have little knowledge of the entertainment industry even though you anticipate having technical experts on your project team to address industry specifics that you're not familiar with.
What are the inputs to the Initiation process? A. Product description, strategic plan, project selection criteria, and historical information B. Product description, strategic plan, project overview document, and historical information C. Strategic plan, project overview document, feasibility study, and historical information D. Product description, strategic plan, constraints, and assumptions
If your expected value is ll0 and the standard deviation is l2, which of the following is true? A. There is approximately a 99 percent chance of completing this activity between 86 and 134 days. B. There is approximately a 68 percent chance of completing this activity between 98 and 122 days. C. There is approximately a 95 percent chance of completing this activity between 98 and 122 days. D. There is approximately a 75 percent chance of completing this activity between 86 and 134 days.
The tools and techniques of the Source Selection process include all of the following except: A. Contract negotiation B. Correspondence C. Independent estimates D. Screening system
You are ready to perform the Activity Sequencing process for your project. To make your job easier, you're going to use a software tool to help you draw a PDM network diagram. Most software programs use this technique. You know all of the following are true regarding the PDM except: A. It shows the activities on arrows and connects them to dependencies usually depicted as circles. B. It’s also called AON. C. It shows the activities in boxes with arrows connecting the dependent activities. D. It uses four types of dependency relationships of which finish to start is one.
Information-gathering techniques used in the Risk Identification process include all of the following except: A. Brainstorming B. Delphi technique C. Interviewing D. Kaizen technique
You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States Government. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is because getting top secret clearances for contractors takes quite a bit of time and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Your programmer’s are siphoned off this project to work on the executive director's hot new project. Which of the following addresses the purpose of Scope Verification in this case? A. It determines the correctness and completion of all the work B. It documents the level and degree of completion C. It determines if the project results comply with quality standards D. It documents the correctness of the work according to stakeholders' expectations
You are working on a project that is similar in scope to a project performed last year by your company. You might consider which of the following? A. Using the previous project's alternatives identification as a template B. Reusing the previous project's benefit/cost analysis as justification for this project C. Using the previous project's WBS as a template D. Reusing the previous project's product description when writing the scope statement
What are the initiation process outputs? A. Project charter, identification and assignment of project manager, constraints, and project overview documents B. Project charter, project overview, feasibility study, and constraints C. Project charter, identification and assignment of project manager, constraints, and assumptions D. Identification and assignment of project manager, project overview, constraints, and assumptions
what is software project planning?
Scope definition is necessary for all of the following reasons except: A. To subdivide project deliverables into smaller components B. To assess the stability of the project scope C. To facilitate time and cost estimates D. To facilitate responsibility and assignment