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What are the skills required to be a project manager?
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PLINC
Problem Solving
Leadership
Influential
Negotiation and
Communication Skills
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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 BB Tops, a nationwide toy store chain. You are working on estimates for your latest project and have gathered several variables for your model. You've determined the following: A. Parametric modeling is a top-down technique that uses variables to produce time estimates. B. Parametric modeling is a mathematical formula that uses variables to produce cost estimates. C. Contingency estimating is a top-down technique that uses variables to produce cost estimates. D. Contingency estimating is a mathematical model that uses variables to produce time estimates.
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 regularly check the progress of the project with your team members using which of the following techniques? A. E-mail communication B. Status review meetings C. Project management information systems D. Receiver communication model
Your company has asked you to be the project manager for the product introduction of their new DeskTop Rock media system. You recently published the scope statement and the supporting detail. The supporting detail contains all of the following except: A. Constraints B. Other project information not noted in the scope statement C. Code of accounts D. Assumptions
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.
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.
How do you handle change request?
How does a project manager can avoid the above given ten points for the success of project.
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
Comparative methods, scoring methods, and economic and cash flow analysis are all part of which of the following? A. Benefit measurement methods, which are a tool and technique in Initiation B. Constrained optimization methods, which are a tool and technique C. Benefit measurement methods, which are an input to Initiation D. Decision models, which are an output of Initiation
Describe the 4 p’s in software project management.
Your nonprofit organization is preparing to host its first annual 5K run/walk in City Park. You worked on a similar project for the organization two years ago when it co-hosted the 10K run through Overland Pass. Which of the Initiation process inputs might be helpful to you on your new project? A. The strategic plan, because you'll want to make sure the project reflects the overall strategic direction of the organization. B. Historical information on the 10K run project. You might be able to gather helpful project information since this new project is similar in nature. C. The product description, which would describe all the details of the run/walk program. D. Historical information from the recent blood drive project.
You have collected the performance measurement documentation for your project to be included in the project archives. What is the purpose of the performance measurement documentation? A. It's used as part of the formal acceptance process to verify contract expenditures. B. It's reviewed to make certain the project goals and objectives were met. C. It's included in the project archive documentation after confirming the accuracy of the measurements. D. It’s used as historical information for future project that are similar in scope to this project.
What are the different project scheduling techniques?
What 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
