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A. Directive
B. Value-driven
C. Supportive
D. Controlling
2. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a project?
A. Temporary
B. Strategic
C. Specific result
D. progressively elaborated
3. An energy company is investing in a series of initiatives to look for
alternative energy sources so that the company can be competitive in 10
years. The initiatives are tracked and managed together because this goal
is vital to the success of the company. This is an example of:
A. a portfolio
B. A program
C. A project
D. An enterprise environmental factor
4. Which of the following is NOT a responsibility of a project manager?
A. Managing stakeholder expectations
B. Managing project constraints
C. Gathering product requirements
D. sponsoring the project
5. Which of the following is NOT an interpersonal skill?
A. Motivation
B. Brainstorming
C. Team building
D. Coaching
8. Answer: A
your knowledge of earned value management techniques is how you can
predict that the project will be
over budget. Knowing that could help you plan ahead to avoid further cost
overruns. Minimally, it can help
you to reset expectations with your stakeholders so they have a better idea of
whats coming.
9. Answer: C
this is a resource constraint, because the project managers resourcesin this
case, the people who will be testing the softwareare not going to be available
to her when she needs them. Yes, this will cause
problems with the quality, introduce risks, and cause schedule problems. But
theyre not schedule, time, or risk constraints, because theres no outside
limitation placed on the project quality, schedule, or risks. The
only outside limitation is the resource availability. If they were available, there
wouldnt be a problem!
10. Answer: C
The way that the project manager interacts with the people on his team
interfered with his work getting done. This is a good example of how a lack of
personal skills can lead directly to major project problems
down the line, and its why this particular project manager needs to work on
his personal skills.
6. Your manager asks you where to find a list of projects that should be
managed together. What is the BEST place to find this information?
A. Project Plan
B. Project Charter
C. Portfolio Charter
D. Program Charter
7. You want to know specifically which business goal a group of projects and
programs are going to accomplish. Which is the best place to look for this
information?
A. Project Plan
B. Project Charter
C. Portfolio Charter
D. Program Charter
8. A project coordinator is having trouble securing programmers for her
project. Every time she asks her boss to give a resource to the project he
says that they are too busy to help out with her project. Which type of
organization is she working in?
A. Functional
B. Weak Matrix
C. Strong Matrix
D. Projectized
9. A project manager is having trouble securing programmers for her
project. Every time she asks the programming manager for resources for her
project, he says theyre all assigned to other work. So she constantly has to
go over his head to overrule him. Which type of organization is she working
for?
A. Functional
B. Weak Matrix
C. Strong Matrix
D. Projectized
10. The project manager for a construction project discovers that a new
water line is being created in the neighborhood where hes managing a
project. Company policy requires that a series of forms for city
environmental changes need to be filed out before his team can continue
work on the project. This is an
example of:
A. A portfolio
B. A program
C. An enterprise environmental factor
D. A project
1. Answer: B
Scale is not a project constraint. The constraints are Scope, Time, Cost,
Quality, Resource, and Risk.
2. Answer: C
There is no mention of the project being late or missing its deadlines in the
example. The project was over
budget, which affects the projects cost. The project wont meet the
stakeholders requirements, which is a
quality problem. And the staff was more expensive than planned, which is
another cost problem.
3. Answer: A
Building a purchase order system for accounts payable is a project. Its a
temporary effort that has a unique
result.
4. Answer: D
When a stakeholder is negatively impacted by your project, you need to
manage his expectations and help him to buy into your project.
5. Answer: B
The stakeholder register is where you identify all of the people who are
impacted by your project.
6. Answer: D
A program is a group of projects that should be managed together because of
interdependencies. A program charter fis the description in this question.
7. Answer: C
A portfolio charter will give the business goal that a group of projects and
programs will accomplish as part
of a portfolio.
8. Answer: A
Since the project manager has to ask permission from the functional manager
and cant overrule him, shes working in a functional organization.
9. Answer: C
The Project Manager in this scenario can overrule the functional manager, so
shes working in a Strong Matrix organization. If it were a projectized
organization, she wouldnt have to get permission from the functional
manager at all because shed be the person with authority to assign resources
to projects.
10. Answer: C
Since the project manager is filing out the form because of a company policy.
This is a good example of an enterprise environmental factor.