Project Management Quiz

Your management has decided that all orders will be treated as 'Projects' and that project managers will be used to update orders daily, to resolve issues, and to ensure the customer formally accepts the product within 30 days of completion. Revenue from the individual orders can vary from US $100 to US $150000. The project manager will not be required to perform planning or provide documentation other than daily status. How would you define this situation?

The key output of Direct and Manage Project Work Process is which one of the following:

• Creating the WBS

• Deliverables

• Enterprise environmental factors

• Performance reports

Which of the following is not a process in the Project Integration Management process group?

• Develop project charter

• Close project or phase

• Identify Project Manager

• Monitor and Control Project work

Two junior project managers who are working on the same project are having a heated discussion(an argument) on the difference between the project management life cycle and the project life cycle. The first project manager is saying there is essentially no difference between the two while the second project manager is saying that there is a significant difference between the two. While this debate is occurring, a senior vice president from your division interrupts the two and asks them the following question: 'When the project is completed what is the expected lifetime of the deliverable?' Essentially, what is the vice president asking them?

• a. He is asking about the status of the project life cycle

• b. He is asking about the status of the project management life cycle

• c. He is asking about the status of the product

• d. He is trying to determine if they understand life cycle costing

Validate Scope can be BEST described as the process of

• Validating that the project quality requirements have been met

• Obtaining stakeholder's formal acceptance of the project deliverables

• Controlling changes to the scope of the project

• Validating that all of the project's objectives have been met

Raw observations and measurements taking during the performance of project activities is defined by PMI as _____________________?

• Work performance information

• Work performance data

• Work performance report

• Work performance criteria

Validate Scope is part of what process group?

• Planning

• Executing

• Closing

• Monitoring and Controlling

The difference between a configuration management system and a change control system is?

• The configuration management system is part of the PMIS - the change control system is not

• The change control system is part of the key PMIS - the configuration management system is not

• The change control system feeds into the configuration management system and is part of the configuration management system

• Both the change control system and a configuration management system are organizational process assets

Lessons learned are best completed by:

• a. The Project Manager

• b. The team

• c. The sponsor

• d. The stakeholders

You are the Project Managers of XYZ consultants. The Project team members are from Finance and HR departments. The team members report to Finance and HR Managers respectively, and you have limited control over them. What type of organizational hierarchy does XYZ consultants follow?

• Matrix organization

• Projectized organization

• Functional organization

• None of these.