Project Management Quiz #02

You are working with your project team, business analysts, and stakeholders to plan out the project work. Some of the resources are in Chicago and other resources are in London, UK. The distribution of resources, such as in your project, is also known as what?

• Enterprise environmental factor

• Organizational process asset

• Virtual team

• Constraint

Understanding enterprise environmental factors is an important part of your role as a project manager or business analyst. Which of the following choices is an enterprise environmental factor? (Choose three.)

• Employee capability

• Infrastructure

• Templates

• Organizational culture

• Policy manual

In your industry, your products must adhere to a government regulation. This government regulation will affect how you manage your project. The government regulation in this scenario is best described as which one of the following?

• Organizational process asset

• External enterprise environmental factor

• Constraint

• External constraint

As the project manager, you must work with your project team to identify the project phases within the project schedule. To help with this identification, you are using the project plan and project documents from a completed and similar project. These project files are commonly known as what term?

• Enterprise environmental factors

• Lessons learned

• Organizational process assets

• Supportive PMO

A governance framework is important for the success of the project, programs, and portfolios within an organization. A governance framework addresses all the following items except for which one?

• Alignment with the organizational mission

• Change control procedures

• Performance on time, cost, and scope

• Communications with stakeholders

Khalid is the owner of a large manufacturing company. In his company, organizational resources are pooled into one project team, but the functional managers have less project power than the project manager. What type of structure is Khalid operating in?

• Simple

• Weak matrix

• Project-oriented

• Strong matrix

Project team members are most likely to work full time on a project in which of the following organizational structures?

• Functional

• Weak matrix

• Strong matrix

• Project-oriented

Marcy is the project manager of the GQD Project for her organization. She is working with Stan, the project sponsor, and they are identifying the most likely phases for this type of project work. Why would an organization divide a project into phases?

• To provide better management and control of the project

• To identify the work that will likely happen within a phase of the project

• To identify the resources necessary to complete a phase of the project

• To define the cash-flow requirements within each phase of the project

You are the project manager for your organization. Lei, a new project team member, is working on multiple projects at once. He approaches you, worried about who he reports to. In addition, Lei has a functional manager who is assigning him work. What type of structure are you and Lei operating in?

• Functional

• Weak matrix

• Program office

• Project-oriented

You are the project manager of a new project. When is the likelihood of failing to achieve the objectives the highest within your project?

• There is not enough information provided to know for certain.

• At the start of the project.

• At the end of the project.

• During the intermediate phases of the project.