Question

Project Management Fundamentals Questions Only

1. A project team is discussing the benefits and drawbacks of working on projects within their organization now that it has become project-oriented. They can agree on many advantages for the team and for the organization, but also agree there are some drawbacks, relative to the strong matrix structure the organization used to have. In a project-oriented organization the project team:

ANSWER

1. Will not always have a "home"
2. Reports to the functional manager
3. Has no loyalty to the project
4. Reports to many managers

2. Your team is involved in the Validate Scope process. What process group is the project in?

1. Executing
2. Planning
3. Closing
4. Monitoring and controlling

3. You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be best in this situation to rely on which of the following during planning to improve your chances of success?

1. Stakeholder analysis
2. Historical information
3. Configuration management
4. Your intuition and training

4. You are a senior project manager within your organization, and you have two new project managers to mentor. They are discussing who within an organization should provide them with the policies, methodologies, and templates for managing projects. They ask for your input. You tell them that the policies, methodologies, and templates for managing projects within the organization should be supplied by the:

1. Project management office
2. Project sponsor
3. Project manager
4. Functional department

5. Your project is managed in a project-oriented organization. It has just entered the Close Project or Phase process. Under the circumstances, which of the following should be your greatest concern?

1. That the team is not focused on completing the project
2. That you will have extra pressure from the customer
3. Making sure your manager knows the project is almost completed
4. Setting yourself up to take over a large multiyear project

6. The organization has grown rapidly in the last two years. Many employees have been given project management responsibilities to help the organization reach the objectives established for the next 12 months. The staff of the PMO has been trained on their role in managing the projects. With all the staff additions, there is disagreement over the best approach to complete a project. In the company's monthly training session, the PMO staff will be clarifying the approach. They have started to outline how to present the information and have agreed on the following: The project management processes can be categorized into five groups. These process groups are linked by the results they produce. The outputs of one often become the inputs to another. What is the most appropriate sequence of the five project management process groups?

1. Initiating, planning, monitoring and controlling, executing, closing
2. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing
3. Initiating, monitoring and controlling, planning, executing, closing
4. Initiating, executing, monitoring and controlling, planning, closing

7. You are the project manager for one part of a new program in your organization. You are four months into a three-year project when your project team makes significant discoveries. What is the best thing to do?

1. Make certain you tell the other project managers involved in this program about the discoveries at the weekly meeting.
2. Make certain the discoveries are included in the project lessons learned.
3. Make certain the discoveries are reported in the monthly status report.
4. Make certain you mention the discoveries at the senior management meeting in two months.

8. In which process group does the closing of a procurement occur?

1. Monitoring and controlling
2. Initiating
3. Closing
4. Planning

9. Your company wants to open a plant in a country where the law stipulates that women can earn only 50 percent of what men earn. Under these circumstances, what should you recommend to your company?

1. Do not hire women.
2. Do not open the plant.
3. Meet with government officials and try to get a waiver that equalizes the pay rate between men and women.
4. Provide the women you hire with extra work to increase their salary.

10. A new project manager is having difficulty creating a WBS with the team. He started by making a list of the project activities, which he distributed to team members. Some of these team members have more experience than the project manager, and are not happy about trying to convert his list into a WBS. The team is spending a lot of time trying to agree on work package definitions, and some feel the project manager's list is more of a distraction than a help. The project manager realizes that the team is becoming increasingly frustrated. To alleviate this situation, the project manager should ask for help from:

1. The sponsor
2. Other project managers
3. The team
4. The project management office

11. A successful project requires an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved. The person(s) who dictates milestones, key events, or the project end date, along with the customer, determines the priorities between the constraints, if not done by the customer, and provides information that helps develop the project charter is the:

1. Project stakeholders
2. Project sponsor
3. Project manager
4. Project team

12. All the following occur during the planning process group except:

1. Estimate Costs
2. Create WBS
3. Sequence Activities
4. Develop Project Charter

13. A project is:

1. Work required to sustain a business
2. Temporary and unique
3. Work that can be accomplished in 40 hours or less
4. Repetitive work

14. A successful project requires an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved. The person(s) who enforces quality policies, helps evaluate trade-offs during crashing, fast tracking, and reestimating, resolves conflicts that extend beyond the project manager’s control, and approves, rejects or defers changes, or authorizes a change control board to do so is the:

1. Project team
2. Project sponsor
3. Project stakeholders
4. Manager

15. A project manager in a predominantly hierarchical organization has been assigned a major project with aggressive timelines. The best approach for developing an initial project charter in this environment is to:

1. Create a project charter with the functional managers and present it to the sponsor for signature.
2. Create a project charter jointly with management for distribution to potential team members and stakeholders.
3. Create and present a draft project charter to potential team members and stakeholders to solicit their input.
4. Create a project charter using brainstorming sessions with potential team members and stakeholders.

16. A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the best way to accomplish this?

1. Create lessons learned.
2. Create project management plans.
3. Create network diagrams.
4. Create status reports.

17. You are moving to a job in a matrix organization, from a job you held for a long time in a project-oriented organization. You are concerned about all there is to learn in changing jobs because the organization's structure is so different. You are particularly concerned about communications in your new organization. A frequent complaint about communications within this type of organization is that communications are:

1. Closed and inaccurate
2. Hard to automate
3. Complex
4. Misleading

18. An advisor to a new project manager tells the project manager to compile lessons learned at the end of a project. What is included in lessons learned?

1. All the plans used in the project
2. Reports from the customer
3. Reports from management
4. Variances and their causes

19. Being told to complete the project in three months using only four resources is an example of:

1. Earned value analysis components
2. Benefit-cost ratios
3. Constraints
4. Law of diminishing returns

20. A project manager receives a change request from the customer. The change requires adding a new filtration system to the project in place of a cleaner bag. When the project manager evaluates the change, it is most important that she consider the impact on the:

Answer 1

1st question

Correct answer is A. Will not always have a "home"

In a project-oriented organization the project team Will not always have a "home"

2nd question

Correct answer is B. Planning

Scope validation is done in planning process

3rd question

correct answer is B. Historical information

Historical information is good information source during plan when there is no experience of the job

4th question

Correct answer is A. Project management office

Project management office is a department or group within organization that supplies policies, methodologies, and templates for managing projects within the organization

5th question

Correct answer is A. That the team is not focused on completing the project

During the project closure stage, team should remain focused to perform the actions required to complete the project