Instead of celebrating the end of the project, the stakeholders are breathing a sigh of relief. None of them were confident the project would meet the end date.
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons this project had difficulty?
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 buff, 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?
Control Charts, Flowcharting, Histograms, Pareto Charts, Scatter Diagrams are tools and techniques of what process?
Company expenses such as auditing costs, supervision, office supplies, building rent and maintenance are elements of the:
What is the name of a graphic display of project team members and their reporting relationships?
You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store 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?
You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States government. Your mission-should you choose to accept it-is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is that finding contractors with top-secret clearances takes quite a bit of time, and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director's hot new project.
Which of the following type of project ending is this?
An activity-on-node (AON) network diagram shows the following activities on two critical paths; Start, D, E, J, L, End and Start, D, E, G, I, L, End. Each activity is at least three days in duration, except for activity L, which is one day in duration.
If you are directed to reduce the project by one day, which activities are MOST likely to change?
Which of the following strategies is used to deal with risks that may have a negative impact on project objectives?
When communicating with large audiences, which communication method works most effectively?
Which of the following is not true for a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM):
If a project manager is concerned with gathering, integrating, and disseminating the outputs of all project management processes, she should concentrate on creating a better:
In a control chart, the consecutive measurements are 11, 13, 09, 07, 08, 09, 09, 09, 08, and 12. For the entire process, the goal is 10 and the standard deviation is 1.
For this data set, it is correct to say that the process:
A team member from research and development tells you that her work is too creative to provide you with a fixed single estimate for the activity. You both decide to use the average labor hours per installation from past projects to predict the future.
This is an example of which of the following?
Which of the following is one of the tools and techniques for the Define Activities process?
In which type of organization(s) is the project manager's role most likely part-time?
Your project team consists of 12 people in the same building you're located in, 4 people from the West Coast office, 2 people from the Kansas City office, and 6 people from the London office. Your office works different hours than all the other offices. Additionally, not all of the resources in your building are available at the same times during the day. Three of the 12 team members work swing shift hours. You use tools like web conferencing and email to distribute information to the team.
Which of the following is true?
Which of the following is a schedule network analysis technique that takes limited resources into account?
Which process documents the business needs of a project and the new product, service or other result that is intended to satisfy those requirements?
A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, Activity B takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes 4 weeks and can start as soon as Activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before Activity G starts. Activity G requires 3 weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed.
Which activities have float available?
Resource reallocation from non-critical to critical activities is an example of which Project Scheduling technique:
Your company has asked you to be the project manager for the product introduction of its new DeskTop Rock media system. You recently published the project scope statement.
Which of the following is not contained in the project scope statement?
A company attorney, newly hired by the company, walks into the project manager's office and tells her that he is ready to work with her on the procurement process. The project manager has little experience with procurement, so she is excited to have the assistance.
With which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to ask the attorney for help?
During the opening rounds of contract negotiation, the other party uses a fait accompli tactic. Which of the following statements is true about fait accompli tactics?
Which of the following risk response strategies involves allocating ownership of a positive risk to a third party?
The approval of which of the following indicates formal initiation of the project?
The project manager calculated a schedule performance index of 0.8 and a cost performance index of 1.1 for the project. What is the actual status of this project?
In attempting to complete the project faster, the project manager looks at the cost associated with crashing each activity. The BEST approach to crashing would also include looking at the:
Which of the following terms indicates a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work?
Which of the following is a tool or technique of the Collect Requirements process?
A project manager convenes a meeting to determine why the time to produce one product according to specifications has increased from one day to three days over the past month.
Which tool or technique is used in this case?
The project manager has, as a prime responsibility, to assure proper integration of activities.
In which organizational form does the project manager probably have the easiest time in integrating work?
Which tool and technique identifies inefficient and ineffective policies, processes and procedures?
In what type of contract is the seller reimbursed for all allowable costs for performing the contract work and receives a predetermined fee based upon achieving certain performance objectives as set forth in the contract?
Continually measuring and monitoring the actual cost versus the budget is done to _____.
As the project manager, you are preparing your methods for quality management. You are looking for a method that can demonstrate the relationship between events and their resulting effects. You want to use a method to depict the events that cause a negative effect on quality.
Which of the following is the BEST choice for accomplishing your objective?
You are negotiating with a seller. Time is of the essence but you have a limited budget, and the seller knows this.
What is your BEST negotiating strategy under these circumstances?
What type of project structure is a hierarchically organized depiction of the resources by type?
A project manager arranges for project specific training for the new team members.
Under which category does this cost fall?
You are a project manager working on gathering requirements and establishing estimates for the project.
Which process group are you in?
The erection of foundation formwork before the placement of foundation concrete would be an example of a _____ dependency.
History has shown that project managers can be trained in a combination of ways.
Which method is usually preferred by most companies?
Which of the following is a strategy to deal with positive risks or opportunities?