Project Management Quiz

Who is responsible for completing project deliverables?

• Sponsors

• Team members

• Product managers

• Business analysts

You are a team member working on a project. All the team members signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and project management ethical guidelines. According to project management ethical guidelines, what should you do?

• Remind the team about the importance of keeping project details confidential.

• Let the project manager discover and take care of the issue.

• Send an email to all employees with the definition of non-disclosure.

• Bring the situation to the attention of the project manager.

What is project procurement?

• The purchasing of external goods and services needed to complete a project

• The planning of all communication methods needed to complete a project

• The analysis of the business requirements needed to complete a project

• The identification of all the funding requirements needed to complete a project

You have a highly qualified and motivated team. The project requires a significant amount of testing and retesting. Which project management approach should you choose?

• Predictive

• Critical path

• Hybrid

• Adaptive

What is a vendor?

• An external supplier who provides goods or services to a project

• A procurement team member who negotiates contracts for a project

• An experienced business professional who can sell the final product

• A business analyst who works with the finance team for a project

A project consists of the development of a new product that contains software and hardware components. Which type of project management approach does this scenario describe?

• Hybrid

• Predictive

• Adaptive

• Incremental

What impact does gold plating have on a project?

• The scope and cost increases without adding value.

• It ensures the project meets all client requirements.

• It reduces the risk of project failure.

• It improves team productivity.

You are managing a project that is experiencing significant scope creep. What is the impact on the project?

• The project will take additional time to complete.

• The project will include fewer deliverables.

• The project will be assigned a new project manager.

• The project will require fewer resources to develop.

Which statement describes the main purpose of using a change management process?

• To list project scope requirements and create an initial scope baseline

• To document all modifications and formalize their approval

• To discuss new requirements and have customers add them to the work breakdown structure (WBS)

• To identify new stakeholders and add them to the stakeholder register

At a team meeting, your project sponsor states the customer is concerned that the software being developed is unreliable. As the project manager, how should you respond?

• Inform the project sponsor that the customer is using old performance data.

• Meet with the customer to understand the basis of their concerns.

• Email the customer to inform them reliability will be addressed at the end of the project.

• Ask the engineering team to increase software reliability.