Project Management

The five Project Management Process Groups are:

• Planning, Checking, Directing, Monitoring, and Recording.

• Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing.

• Planning, Executing, Directing, Closing, and Commissioning.

• Initiating, Executing, Monitoring, Evaluating, and Closing

Which process uses up most of the budget in a project?

• Integrating

• Planning

• Executing

• Monitoring and Controlling

A change control board is

• A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for minimizing the number of approved changes, with all decisions and recommendations being recorded.

• A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing, evaluating, approving, delaying or rejecting changes to the project, with all decisions and recommendations being recorded.

• Functionally equivalent to a project steering committee.

• Any group of stakeholders that meets to review or approve changes

The sequence of activities that cannot be delayed during the course of the project is referred to as the:

• Critical path

• Master schedule

• Slack line

• Action plan

Your project budget is USD 400,000. Most of this money will be spent during:

• Project plan development.

• Project plan execution.

• Project control.

• Project initiation.

Your team is in the middle of executing a project that is now projected to run three weeks too long. Which of the following adjustments would allow the project to be delivered on time?

• Substitute a lesser experienced programmer for a more experienced one

• Move resources from a non-critical task to a critical path task

• Modify the purchase of new equipment to less expensive equipment

• Allow a tester on the project to temporarily work on another, more critical project

One of the following groups is NOT a process group – but which one?

• Planning

• Integrating

• Closing

• Executing

Which of these is not an example of a project? 

• Buying clothes from the market on a special sale.

• Planning for your friends wedding.

• Building a bridge across the Amazon river. 

• Cleaning the office building every day. 

As the project manager, you are scheduling some activities in which there is a delay between the finish of the activity and the start of the successor activity. These dependencies would be reflected in the schedule with a

• Finish-to-start relationship

• Lag

• Start-to-finish relationship

• Lead

All of the following are common characteristics of project life cycle descriptions EXCEPT :

• Cost and staffing levels are low at the start, higher towards the end and drop rapidly as the project ends

• Risk and uncertainty are highest at the end of the project

• The probability of successfully completing the project is low at the start and gets progressively higher as the project continues

• The ability of stakeholders to influence the final characteristics of the project product is highest at the start of the project