IBA Lesson 10 - C

During which project management phase should you develop a project schedule and assemble the project team?

• planning

• initiating

• executing

• testing

What are project stakeholders?

• Milestones that are used to measure the progress of a project

• People or groups that can exert influence over the project and affect results

• Reporting tools used by project managers to record the progress of a project

• The tasks that must be completed on time, to ensure project success

During which project management phase should you conduct a needs analysis; determine project objectives, assumptions and constraints; and develop a Statement Of Work (SOW)?

• initiating

• planning

• executing

• closing

The ability to help project participants coordinate and prioritize their tasks to stay within the project scope can be considered:

• problem-solving skill

• communication skill

• planning skill

• organizational skill

You should schedule meetings with project stakeholders and management during the executing and controlling phases of a project to:

• inform them of progress and to handle issues they raise that may affect project scope.

• identify the problems or needs that the project must resolve or address.

• outline the requirements for each project task to ensure the project objectives are met.

• outline project tasks and assign resources to each.

One way that a project manager can ensure the delivery of a quality product is to adhere to ISO 9000 standards. ISO 9000:

• outlines the rights of IT professionals and their responsibilities to the organizations for which they work.

• identifies nine topic areas, each of which provides a set of principles and techniques to help project managers manage projects.

• details recommended steps for producing products and services using a quality-management system that maximizes time, money and resources.

• details the segregation of duties that project team members should employ to independently verify that project tasks were completed correctly.

What is program management?

• The process of determining a customer's needs by acquiring information, processing and evaluating the information, then creating a plan of action to address the needs

• The process of producing high-quality products and services using a quality-management system that maximizes time, money and resources

• The process of managing multiple tasks that must be accomplished within a certain time frame to achieve a desired result

• The process of managing multiple interdependent projects to improve the performance of an organization

What are the three elements of the project triangle?

• Funding, quality and deadlines

• Deadlines, time and tasks

• Time, money and scope

• Time, staff and funding

Project managers must balance three elements that compose the project triangle. You are a project manager who is halfway through a project when your customer contacts you to say that he has been authorized to provide additional funds for the project. How will this most likely affect other elements of the project?

• Cost of the project will be reduced.

• Project scope will decrease.

• Time to complete the project will be reduced.

• Project scope will increase.

In project management, a resource is:

• a sequence of work units that must be accomplished within a defined time frame.

• a person, department or device needed to accomplish a unit of work.

• the appointment of a person, department or device to a unit of work.

• a unit of work that must be accomplished.