Project Management 3

What is the “halo effect”?

• The tendency to promote people who are good at technical jobs into managerial

  positions

• When a technical person does such a good job that no one can find fault with them

• When a project manager is good, the team is good, too

• When a project manager picks a star on the team and always rewards that person

Which of the following is NOT one of the top sources of conflict on projects?

• Technical opinions

• Salaries

• Resources

• Priorities

What is the output of Direct and Manage Execution?

• Forecasts

• Deliverables

• Project management processes

• Approved change requests

Which of the following BEST describes risk audits?

• An external auditor reviews the risk response strategies for each risk

• A senior manager audits your work and decides whether you’re doing a good job

• An external auditor reviews the project work to make sure the team isn’t introducing new risk

• The project manager reviews each risk on the risk register with the team

Stakeholders can be identified in which project management process groups?

• Initiating, planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling.

• Initiating and planning

• Planning and monitoring and controlling

• Monitoring and controlling and closing

You are the project manager for Xylophone Phonics. It produces children’s software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You’re performing cost estimates for your project and don’t have a lot of details yet. Which of the following techniques should you use?

• Bottom-up estimating techniques, because this is a form of expert judgment that uses historical information from similar projects

• Parametric modeling, because this is a form of simulation used to determine estimates

• Analogous estimating techniques, because this is a form of expert judgment that uses historical information from similar projects

• Monte Carlo analysis, because this is a modeling technique that uses simulation to determine estimates.

What’s the correct order of the Time Management planning processes?

• Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule

• Develop Schedule, Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate, Activity Durations

• Define Activities, Sequence Activities, Develop Schedule, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations

• Sequence Activities, Define Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule

What is one of the most important skills a project manager can have?

• Problem-solving skills

• Influencing skills

• Negotiation skills

• Communication skills

Which of the following is NOT an input to the Plan Communications process?

• Information gathering techniques

• Project scope statement

• Organizational process assets

• Enterprise environmental factors

Which of the following is an example of noise?

• An email that’s sent to the wrong person

• Garbled text and smudges that make a fax of a photocopy hard to read

• A project manager who doesn’t notice an important clause in a contract

• When the team is not paying attention during a status meeting