Which organization has set the de facto standards for project management techniques?
A. PMBOK
B. PMO
C. PMI
D. PMA
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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.
You are the project manager for Fun Days vacation packages. Your new project assignment is to head up the Fun Days resort opening in Austin, Texas. You are estimating the duration of the project plan activities, devising the project schedule, and monitoring and controlling deviations from the schedule. Which of the Project Management Knowledge Areas are you working in? A. Project Scope B. Project Quality C. Project Integration D. Project Time
Contract documentation is an input to the Contract Closeout process. Contract documentation might include all of the following except: A. Supporting documents B. Contract changes C. Financial documents D. Procurement audit documents
What are the tools and techniques of the Contract Administration process? A. Contract change control system, payment system, payment requests B. Contract change control system, contract negotiations, payment system C. Contract change control system, contract negotiations, contract changes D. Contract change control system, performance reporting, payment system
How do you set goals for your team?
You 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.
What are the qualities of a good project manager?
You are the project manager for a web development project. You hold regular project status meetings and publish status reports on a timely basis. You know that communication is one of your most important functions. As such, all of the following are true except: A. Senders are responsible for sending clear, concise, complete messages. B. Receivers are responsible for understanding the message. C. Communication can be vertical or horizontal or both. D. Effective communication techniques include making eye contact, nodding, and asking clarifying questions.
You work for a company that writes hilling software programs for the communication industry. You've just been assigned a new project. The customer is located in a distant country that limits the number of foreigners allowed into the country. You identify this risk in your risk management plan. The critical point during the project is installation and setup. You might do which of the following given these circumstances? A. Use a design of experiments technique to develop a contingency plan. B. Develop a cause-and-effect diagram that identifies the contract type you should use for a project like this. C. Use sensitivity analysis to assist you in developing the appropriate risk response for this situation. D. Develop a contingency plan for installation.
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.
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.
The product description, strategic plan, project selection criteria, and historical information are considered: A. Inputs to the project Planning process B. Inputs to the project Overview process C. Inputs to the project Initiation process D. Inputs to the project Execution process