You are the project manager for Fun Days vacation packages. Your new project assignment is to head up the Fun Days resort opening in Austin, Texas. You are estimating the duration of the project plan activities, devising the project schedule, and monitoring and controlling deviations from the schedule. Which of the Project Management Knowledge Areas are you working in?
A. Project Scope
B. Project Quality
C. Project Integration
D. Project Time
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You are a project manager for Swirling Seas Cruises food division. You're considering two different projects regarding food services on the cruise lines. The initial cost of Project Fish'n for Chips will be $800,000 with expected cash inflows of $300,000 per quarter. Project Picnic's payback period is six months. Which project should you recommend? A. Project Fish'n for Chips because its payback period is two months shorter than Project Picnic’s B. Project Fish'n for Chips because the costs on Project Picnic are unknown C. Project Picnic because Project Fish'n for Chips' payback period is four months longer than Project Picnic’s D. Project Picnic because Project Fish'n for Chips' payback period is two months longer than Project Picnic's
Your upcoming project includes project team members from a foreign country. In order to make certain that cultural differences don't interfere with team performance, thereby affecting the success of the project, your first course of action is to do which of the following: A. Provide diversity training to all the team members. B. Collocate the project team. C. Perform team-building exercises. D. Inform the team members of the organization's rules and standards.
Which of the following describes the cost of quality associated with scrapping, rework, and downtime? A. Internal failure costs B. External failure costs C. Prevention costs D. Appraisal costs
You work for a large manufacturing plant. You're in the Initiation process of a new project for an overseas product release. This is the company's first experience in the overseas market, and they hope to make a big splash with the introduction of this product. The project entails producing your product in a concentrated formula and packaging it in smaller containers than the U.S. product uses. A new machine is needed in order to mix the first set of ingredients in the concentrated formula. Which of the following actions should the project manager take? A. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and recommend the project proceed. B. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and assume the project is a go. C. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and recommend a feasibility study be performed. D. The project manager should document the project's goals and known deliverables in a high-level overview document and deliver it to the stakeholders.
Which performance measurement tells us what the projected total cost of the project will be at completion? A. ETC B. CPI C. SPI D. EAC
You have just prepared an RFP for release. Your project involves a substantial amount of contract work detailed in the RFP. Your favorite vendor drops by and offers to give you and your spouse the use of their company condo for your upcoming vacation. It's located in a beautiful resort community that happens to be one of your favorite places to go for a get away. What is the most appropriate response? A. Thank the vendor but decline the offer, as you know this could be considered a conflict of interest. B. Thank the vendor and accept. This vendor is always offering you incentives like this, so this offer does not likely have anything to do with the recent RFP release. C. Thank the vendor, accept the offer, and immediately tell your project sponsor so they're aware of what you're doing. D. Thank the vendor but decline the offer because you've already made another arrangement for this vacation. Ask them if you can take a rain check and arrange another time to use the condo.
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
Project managers have the highest level of authority and the most power in which type of organizational structure? A. Projectized B. Strong matrix C. Functional D. Balanced matrix
Project managers have the greatest amount of authority in which kind of organizational structure? A. Functional B. Projectized C. Weak matrix D. Balanced matrix
You 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. You do not expect these variances to continue, as they're atypical. 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. 25 B. 760 C. 775 D. 833
Which of the following compression techniques increases risk? A. Crashing B. Resource leveling C. Fast tracking D. Lead and lag
All of the following are true regarding the Executing processes except: A. Executing has one core process. B. The majority of the project budget is spent here. C. The greatest conflicts are schedule conflicts. D. Project performance is measured to identify variances.