____ 1. the Project ____ Usually Provides the Direction and Funding for the Project

Test 1

Multiple Choice

Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. The project ____ usually provides the direction and funding for the project.

a. / planner / c. / sponsor
b. / coordinator / d. / auditor

____ 2. Project ____ work with the project sponsors, the project team, and the other people involved in a project to meet project goals.

a. / organizers / c. / handlers
b. / designers / d. / managers

____ 3. A project’s ____ addresses questions concerning what unique product, service or result should be delivered to a customer or sponsor.

a. / schedule / c. / time-frame
b. / scope / d. / cost

____ 4. Key elements of the project management framework include the project stakeholders, project management ____, project management tools and techniques, project success, and contribution of a portfolio of projects to the success of the entire enterprise.

a. / domain / c. / vision
b. / scope / d. / knowledge areas

____ 5. Project ____ management involves defining and managing all the work required to complete the project successfully.

a. / time / c. / risk
b. / communications / d. / scope

____ 6. Project ____ management, the ninth knowledge area, is an overarching function that affects and is affected by all of the other knowledge areas.

a. / human resource / c. / integration
b. / procurement / d. / quality

____ 7. Some popular ____-management tools and techniques include Gantt charts, project network diagrams, and critical-path analysis.

a. / quality / c. / cost
b. / time / d. / scope

____ 8. Project ____ may be defined as a test of whether a project has met scope, time, and cost goals.

a. / depth / c. / success
b. / clarity / d. / vision

____ 9. Two important concepts that help projects meet enterprise goals are the use of programs and project ____ management.

a. / waste / c. / means
b. / portfolio / d. / promotion

____ 10. Which of the following it the logical flow of any project?

a. / Planning, Initiating, Executing, Montoring and Controlling, Closing / c. / Initiating, Planning, Montoring and Controlling, Executing, Closing
b. / Initiating, Planning, Executing, Montoring and Controlling, Closing / d. / Planning, Initiating, Executing, Montoring and Controlling, Closing

____ 11. A program ____ provides leadership and direction for the project managers heading the projects within the program.

a. / director / c. / facilitator
b. / organizer / d. / manager

____ 12. Individual projects often address ____ goals, whereas project portfolio management addresses strategic goals.

a. / program / c. / tactical
b. / long-term / d. / minor

____ 13. By grouping projects into ____, organizations can better tie their projects to meeting strategic goals.

a. / portfolios / c. / suites
b. / applications / d. / collections

____ 14. Project managers and their teams must develop knowledge and skills in all ____ project management knowledge areas.

a. / five / c. / eleven
b. / nine / d. / fifteen

____ 15. ____ management is a soft skill required to achieve high performance on projects.

a. / Scope / c. / Conflict
b. / Time / d. / Cost

____ 16. An organization should consider only projects with a ____ NPV if financial value is a key criterion for project selection.

a. / positive / c. / zero
b. / negative / d. / well-defined

____ 17. Projects involve five project management process groups: initiating, planning, ____, monitoring and controlling, and closing.

a. / delivering / c. / maintaining
b. / designing / d. / executing

____ 18. ____ processes include devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project meets its scope, time, and cost goals as well as organizational needs.

a. / Initiating / c. / Securing
b. / Planning / d. / Protecting

____ 19. A ____ is a product or service produced or provided as part of a project.

a. / process / c. / deliverable
b. / result / d. / requirement

____ 20. Based on the PMBOK® Guide, 2004, there are ____ total processes in project management.

a. / 7 / c. / 25
b. / 9 / d. / 44

____ 21. Most time and money is normally spent on ____ because that is where the project’s products and/or services (for example, the buildings for a construction project, the training courses for a training project, and so on) are produced.

a. / monitoring / c. / controlling
b. / executing / d. / planning

____ 22. The PMBOK Guide® is a ____ that describes best practices for what should be done to manage a project.

a. / rule book / c. / protocol
b. / standard / d. / secondary authority

____ 23. After a project is approved, senior managers should meet to determine the ____, time, and cost constraints for the project.

a. / range / c. / vision
b. / scope / d. / boundary

____ 24. It often makes sense to break large projects down into two or more smaller ____.

a. / projects / c. / portfolios
b. / programs / d. / enterprises

____ 25. One of the main tasks normally involved in project initiation is to identify and understand project ____.

a. / shareholders / c. / critics
b. / stakeholders / d. / analysts

____ 26. It is helpful to create a ____, or initial, scope statement during project initiation so that the entire project team can start important discussions and work related to the project scope.

a. / tentative / c. / preliminary
b. / provisional / d. / categorical

____ 27. The main purpose of project planning is to guide project ____.

a. / initiation / c. / review
b. / execution / d. / evaluation

____ 28. Planning includes tasks related to each of the ____ project management knowledge areas.

a. / 4 / c. / 9
b. / 5 / d. / 16

____ 29. The PMBOK® Guide lists at least ____ documents that project teams can produce as part of project planning.

a. / 50 / c. / 100
b. / 75 / d. / 125

____ 30. Project ____ management involves coordinating all the project management knowledge areas throughout a project’s life span.

a. / union / c. / unification
b. / synthesis / d. / integration

____ 31. Project management ____ facilitate communication among stakeholders and provide a baseline for progress measurement and project control.

a. / charters / c. / contracts
b. / plans / d. / compacts

____ 32. The main planning tasks performed as part of project scope management include scope planning, scope definition, and ____.

a. / scope evaluation / c. / creating the WBS
b. / scope reduction / d. / scope expansion

____ 33. The main output of scope planning is a ____ management plan, which is a document that includes descriptions of how the team will prepare the scope statement, create the WBS, verify completion of the project deliverables, and control requests for changes to the project scope.

a. / scope / c. / program
b. / project / d. / portfolio

____ 34. The project team develops a preliminary scope statement during project ____.

a. / review / c. / orientation
b. / initiation / d. / development

____ 35. Scope statements should include, at a minimum, a description of the project, including its overall objectives and justification; detailed descriptions of all project ____; characteristics and requirements of products and services produced as part of the project; and project success criteria.

a. / stakeholders / c. / meetings
b. / volunteers / d. / deliverables

____ 36. To define the ____ of the project accurately, it is very important to ensure consistency between the project charter, scope statement, WBS, Gantt chart, and related documents.

a. / scope / c. / vision
b. / charter / d. / parameters

____ 37. The project manager should work with his or her team and ____ to determine the level of detail needed in the WBS dictionary.

a. / client / c. / auditor
b. / customer / d. / sponsor

____ 38. Performance in meeting project scope goals is based on the scope ____.

a. / definition / c. / baseline
b. / revision / d. / statement

____ 39. The project team begins to develop a ____ by first clearly defining all the activities it needs to perform.

a. / charter / c. / scope
b. / schedule / d. / work flow diagram

____ 40. Activity ____ provide schedule-related information about each activity, such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions related to the activity.

a. / features / c. / properties
b. / characteristics / d. / attributes

____ 41. After defining project activities, the next step in project time management is activity ____.

a. / organization / c. / segmenting
b. / sequencing / d. / ordering

____ 42. There are ____ basic reasons for creating dependencies among project activities.

a. / three / c. / five
b. / four / d. / six

____ 43. ____ dependencies are inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project.

a. / Embedded / c. / Mandatory
b. / Absolute / d. / Compulsory

____ 44. ____ dependencies involve relationships between project and nonproject activities.

a. / Internal / c. / Ancillary
b. / External / d. / Miscellaneous

____ 45. In the context of a network diagram, a ____ is simply the starting and ending point of an activity.

a. / cell / c. / source
b. / vertex / d. / node

____ 46. In an AOA network diagram, ____ occur when two or more activities follow a single node.

a. / drives / c. / bursts
b. / flares / d. / runs

____ 47. In an AOA network diagram, a(n) ____ occurs when two or more nodes precede a single node.

a. / merge / c. / union
b. / join / d. / intersection

____ 48. ____ includes the actual amount of time spent working on an activity plus elapsed time.

a. / Extension / c. / Period
b. / Duration / d. / Length

____ 49. A three-point estimate is an estimate that includes a(n) ____, most likely, and pessimistic estimate, such as three weeks, four weeks, and five weeks, respectively.

a. / optimistic / c. / remote
b. / unusual / d. / conditional

____ 50. Duration estimates are provided as a ____ number, such as four weeks; as a range, such as three to five weeks; or as a three-point estimate.

a. / continuous / c. / fractional
b. / random / d. / discrete

____ 51. What is the PERT weighted average based on an optimistic estimate of 6 days, a most likely estimate of 8 days, and a pessimistic time of 12 days?

a. / 6 / c. / 11
b. / 8 / d. / 12

____ 52. ____ development uses the results of all the preceding project time management processes to determine the start and end dates of project activities and of the entire project.

a. / Task / c. / Work Package
b. / Schedule / d. / Activity

____ 53. A(n) ____ path for a project is the series of activities that determine the earliest time by which the project can be completed.

a. / integral / c. / critical
b. / incidental / d. / vital

____ 54. Slack or ____ is the amount of time an activity may be delayed without delaying a succeeding activity or the project finish date.

a. / leeway / c. / redundancy
b. / float / d. / space

____ 55. ____ is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost.

a. / Crashing / c. / Compacting
b. / Deflating / d. / Minimizing

____ 56. The main disadvantage of ____ is that it can end up lengthening the project schedule, because starting some tasks too soon often increases project risk and results in rework.

a. / reviewing / c. / extending
b. / crashing / d. / fast tracking

____ 57. Project ____ management includes the processes required to ensure that a project team completes a project within an approved budget.

a. / control / c. / cost
b. / delivery / d. / outlays

____ 58. Cost ____ involves allocating the overall cost estimate to individual tasks over time to establish a baseline for measuring performance.

a. / estimating / c. / allowance
b. / account / d. / budgeting

____ 59. ____ estimates, also called top-down estimates, use the actual cost of a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the cost of the current project.

a. / Homologous / c. / Sequential
b. / Analogous / d. / Parallel

____ 60. ____ estimates involve estimating individual activities and summing them to get a project total.

a. / Bottom-up / c. / Ad hoc
b. / Provisional / d. / Temporary

____ 61. A cost baseline is a(n) ____ budget that project managers use to measure and monitor cost performance.

a. / incidental / c. / time-phased
b. / basic / d. / incremental

____ 62. Project ____ management ensures that the project will satisfy the stated or implied needs for which it was undertaken.

a. / integration / c. / portfolio
b. / quality / d. / performance

____ 63. ____ to requirements means that the project’s processes and products meet written specifications.

a. / Voluntary adherence / c. / Conformance
b. / Management / d. / Fidelity

____ 64. If a project’s stakeholders are not satisfied with the quality of the project management or the resulting products, the project team will need to adjust ____, time, and cost to satisfy stakeholder needs and expectations.

a. / range / c. / vision
b. / breadth / d. / scope

____ 65. Examples of common ____ used by organizations include failure rates of products produced, availability of goods and services, and customer satisfaction ratings.

a. / metrics / c. / requirements
b. / analytics / d. / guidelines

____ 66. Two important metrics related to the Just-In-Time Training project include the ____ and course evaluation ratings.

a. / rate of attrition / c. / overall attendance
b. / survey response rate / d. / quantity of lesson modules

____ 67. A project ____ chart is a graphic representation of how authority and responsibility is distributed within the project.