Project Management_Execution

What is the main goal that a project manager should strive to achieve?

• Completing tasks on time
• Delivering the project predictably to defined scope, quality, time, cost, and level of risk
• Ensuring everyone enjoys working on the project
• Creating a detailed project plan

What is the key task for the project manager regarding progress?

• Ensuring every task is completed exactly as planned
• Making sure everyone is busy all the time
• Managing progress to deliver the desired result in the expected time and budget
• Tracking individual team member's work hours

How should progress be measured in a project?

• By tracking work hours spent on each task
• By comparing planned progress to actual progress
• By counting the number of tasks completed
• By assessing the overall budget spent

What should a project manager do if a task is behind schedule?

• Ignore it, as delays are expected in every project
• Take action to speed up the task and get it back on schedule
• Blame the team member responsible for the task
• Request more budget to finish the task

What term is used to describe problems that hinder project progress?

• Objectives
• Risks
• Issues
• Contingencies

How should a project manager handle identified risks?

• Ignore them, as they are often overestimated
• Develop a structured process to manage and mitigate them
• Wait until a risk becomes a problem before taking action
• Share them with the team, but take no further action

How is the priority of a risk determined?

• By looking at the likelihood of the risk happening only
• By assessing the impact of the risk only
• By multiplying the impact score by the likelihood score
• By adding the impact and likelihood scores

What is one way to reduce a risk's likelihood of occurring?

• Implementing a contingency plan
• Ignoring the risk altogether
• Taking action now to prevent the risk from happening
• Monitoring the risk periodically

How should a project manager manage a change in project deliverables?

• Implement the change without notifying the customer
• Ensure that change is controlled and only proceed with customer agreement
• Reject any proposed changes to avoid disruptions
• Delay making any decisions about changes until the end of the project

What is a common reason for project failure related to changes?

• Failing to plan for changes in advance
• Allowing too many changes without proper assessment
• Not tracking progress adequately
• Not involving the customer in the change process