Project managers have the greatest amount of authority in which kind of organizational structure? A. Functional B. Projectized C. Weak matrix D. Balanced matrix
637You are a project manager for Snow Fun, a chain of retail shops specializing in winter sports gear and clothing. You’ve been working on contract with Snow Fun and are ready to move on to your next assignment. The customer has signed off on the project, formal acceptance notices have been distributed, and project closure procedures have been performed. What type of project ending is this? A. Extinction B. Starvation C. Integration D. Addition
853Brainstorming and the Delphi technique are two types of information-gathering techniques found in which process? A. Risk Management Planning B. Risk Response Control C. Risk Identification D. Quantitative Risk Analysis
969You are a project manager working for Mail House King. Your company processes orders for several mail-order catalog companies. Your project is to install new mail-sorting equipment and software. You’ve had some problems and experienced some variances so far during the project. Your project sponsor has asked for an EAC. You know the following information: PV = 800, BAC = 700, EV = 675, AC = 750, and ETC = 30. Which of the following is the correct EAC given the circumstances? A. 778 B. 780 C. 861 D. 833
773What 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
548You know that change control systems are important as they describe how to submit change requests and document how to manage the change, track the status, and determine the management impacts of the change. Each of the following processes in the Controlling process group uses a change control system as one of its tools and techniques except: A. Integrated Change Control B. Quality Control C. Scope Change Control D. Schedule Control
509You are in the Planning process of your project, and your project sponsor has requested an accurate cost estimate in two weeks from today. You'll use which of the following techniques to provide her with the most accurate cost estimate? A. Bottom-up B. Analogous C. Top-down D. Earned value
582The Critical Path Method is a mathematical tool and technique of the Schedule Development process. All of the following are true regarding CPM except: A. Determines a single early and late start date and a single early and late finish date B. Calculates expected value C. Focuses on the calculation of float time D. Shows the critical path, or the path with the longest duration
629You are a project manager working in the automotive industry. You are performing quality control and decide to rank order the frequency of problem occurrences over time using which of the following: A. Control chart B. Pareto diagram C. Cause-and-effect diagram D. Scatter diagram
886You are developing your project schedule and have decided to use the PＥRT method to determine project duration. The estimates you've gathered so far include the following: Most likely is 200 hours, optimistic is 180 hours, and pessimistic is 220 hours. Which of the following is the correct PERT estimate? A. 190 B. 266 C. ２00 D. 210
522You 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 are to add resources to the project. The sponsor agrees to pay the additional costs since time is now a critical factor. Which technique have you used? A. Crashing B. Resource leveling C. Fast tracking D. Resource loading
553You’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.
534You are a project manager for Cashiers systems. Your company produces cashiering systems and software for the retail industry. Your customer has requested a change to the product. You will handle this change using the scope change control system. All of the following are true except: A. Changes to product scope should be reflected in project scope. B. Project scope changes may result in adjustments to the performance measurement baselines. C. Changes to project scope should be reflected in the product scope. D. Scope changes may result in performance improvements.
545You are the project manager for a nonprofit organization. Your project has come about due to a social need. Your sponsor wants to get right to the Planning process. However, you know that a scope statement should be published prior to proceeding to the Planning processes. All of the following are true regarding scope statements except: A. It documents roles and responsibilities. B. It can be modified to reflect changes to the scope of the project. C. It describes the project deliverables, requirements, and objectives D. It serves as a baseline for future project decisions.
560Which of the following processes involves receiving bids and proposals and applies evaluation criteria to the proposals to rank order the sequence of award? A. Contract Administration B. Procurement C. Source Selection D. Solicitation
491Post New Project Management Questions
What are the characteristics of management?
You are a contract project manager working with the State of Bliss. Your latest project involves rewriting the Department of Revenue's income tax system. As project manager, you have taken all the appropriate actions regarding confidentiality of data. One of the key stakeholders is a huge movie huff, and she has the power to promote you into a better position at the conclusion of this project. She's reviewing some report data that just happens to include confidential information regarding one of her favorite movie superstars. What is the most appropriate response? A. Report her to the management team. B. Request that she immediately return the information, citing conflict of interest and violation of confidential company data. C. Do nothing as she has the proper level of access rights to the data and this information showed up unintentionally. D. Request that she immediately return the information until you can confirm that she has the proper level of access rights to the data.
Your company manufactures small kitchen appliances. They are introducing a new product line of appliances in designer colors with distinctive features for kitchens in small spaces. These new products will be offered indefinitely starting with the spring catalog release. In order to determine the characteristics and features of the new product line, you will have to perform which of the following? A. Fast tracking B. Consulting with the stakeholders C. Planning the project life cycle D. Progressive elaboration
You are a project manager for Laredo Pioneer’s Traveling Rodeo Show. You’re heading up a project to promote a new line of souvenirs to be sold at the shows. You need to gather the inputs to write the scope statement. You gather which of the following? A. Project charter, product description, assumptions, and constraints B. Project charter, product analysis, and cost benefit analysis C. Product description, product analysis, and project charter D. Product description, assumptions, constraints, and product analysis
Your procurement department has obtained independent estimates. The vendor's proposal is substantially different than the independent estimates. All of the following are true except: A. The SOW was not detailed enough. B. The vendor failed to respond according to the terms of the proposal. C. The vendor failed to respond to all items in the SOW. D. The vendor failed to respond to all items in the contract.
What is the difference between project, program, and portfolio?
You are the project manager for Zippy Tees. Your company has decided to outsource the manufacturing of miniature bears to be attached to your trendy T-shirts. Which of the following is true? A. A good product description is all that's required. The project manager will supply this to the vendor. B. The contract can serve as the project charter. The product description will be included in the contract. C. The project manager should write the project charter because the project manager will be managing the vendor portion of this project as well. D. The vendor should write the project charter as they are responsible for manufacturing the bears.
You are the project manager for Lucky Stars nightclubs. They specialize in live country and western band performances. Your newest project is in the Planning process. You've published the scope statement and scope management plan. The document that describes who will receive copies of this information as well as future project information, how it should be distributed, and how the information should be stored and filed is which of the following? A. Scope management plan B. Communications management plan C. Information distribution plan D. Project charter
You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail score for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country. You know, but have not yet informed your company, that you are going to go to work for the competitor, which happens to be bidding for this same opportunity. What is the most appropriate response? A. You decline to participate in the initial meetings with the foreign business partners due to conflict of interest. B. You've not yet received an official offer from the competing company for your new job opportunity, so you choose to participate in the initial meetings with the foreign business partners. C. You decide to participate in the initial meetings with the foreign business partners because any information you gain now will help you when you make the move to the new company. D. You inform the foreign business partners that you're going to be working with a new company and that you know the deal they'll receive from the competing company is better than the one this company is proposing.
You are a project manager for Laurel's theater productions. Your new project is coming in over budget and requires a cost change through the cost change control system. You know all of the following are true regarding Cost Control except: A. Performance is monitored to detect variances B. Changes are reflected in the cost baseline C. Changes are monitored and reflected in the project scope D. Changes are monitored so that inappropriate changes do not get into the cost baseline
You are the project manager for a software consulting firm that is working on developing a new software program for a customer in another country. Things seem to be progressing well. Recently, your stakeholders examined the work of the project and formally accepted the work results. Which process was just performed? A. Scope Verification B. Quality Assurance C. Performance Reporting D. Quality Control
You are the project manager for the Late Night Smooth Jazz Club chain, with stores in 12 states. Smooth Jazz is considering opening a new club in Kansas City or Spokane. You have derived the following information: Project Kansas City: The payback period is 27 months, and the IRR is 35 percent. Project Spokane: The payback period is 25 months, and the IRR is 32 percent. Which project should you recommend to the selection committee? A. Project Spokane because the payback period is shortest B. Project Kansas City because the IRR is highest C. Project Spokane because the IRR is lowest D. Project Kansas City because the payback period is longest ?
What are the Initiation process outputs? A. Project charter, historical information, and project manager identification and assignment B. Project charter, project manager identification and assignment, constraints, and assumptions C. Project charter, historical information, constraints, and assumptions D. Project charter, constraints, and assumptions
Project managers use this conflict resolution technique most often： A. Smoothing B. Confronting C. Naming D. Forcing
Your project team is a close group all busily working on project activities. They're close to approaching the performing stage of Team Development. All six members must communicate frequently with each other. How many lines of communication are there? A. 12 B. 15 C. 18 D. 14
