Project Management Quiz

The traditional competing constraints on a project are:

• Time, cost, and profitability

• Resources required, sponsorship involvement, and funding

• Time, cost, and quality and/or scope

• Calendar dates, facilities available, and funding

Which of the following is not part of the definition of a project?

• Repetitive activities

• Constraints

• Consumption of resources

• A well-defined objective

Which of the following is usually not part of the criteria for project success?

• Customer satisfaction

• Customer acceptance

• Meeting at least 75 percent of specification requirements.

• Meeting the triple-constraint requirements

Which of the following is generally not a benefit achieved from using project management?

• Flexibility in the project’s end date

• Improved risk management

• Improved estimating

• Tracking of projects

The person responsible for assigning the resources to a project is most often:

• The project manager

• The Human resources Department

• The line manager

• The executive sponsor

Conflicts between the project and line managers are most often resolved by:

• The assistant project manager for conflicts

• The project sponsor

• The executive steering committee

• The Human resources Department

Your company does only projects. If the projects performed by your company are for customers external to your company and a profit criterion exists on the project, then your organization is most likely:

• Project-driven

• Non–project-driven

• A hybrid

• All of the above are possible based upon the size of the profit margin

Match the development approach with its characteristic:

Waterfall approach

• Well-defined and relatively stable scope, schedule, cost, resource needs, and risks. 

• The deliverable contains the capability to be considered as completed only after the final iteration.

• Produce sufficient capability to be considered acceptable prior to the final iteration.  

• The iterations tend to get shorter and the product is more likely to evolve based on stakeholder feedback.

Match the development approach with its characteristic:

Incremental approach

• Produce sufficient capability to be considered acceptable prior to the final iteration.  

• Well-defined and relatively stable scope, schedule, cost, resource needs, and risks. 

• The deliverable contains the capability to be considered as completed only after the final iteration.

• The iterations tend to get shorter and the product is more likely to evolve based on stakeholder feedback

Match the development approach with its characteristic:

Iterative approach

• Well-defined and relatively stable scope, schedule, cost, resource needs, and risks.

• Produce sufficient capability to be considered acceptable prior to the final iteration.  

• The deliverable contains the capability to be considered as completed only after the final iteration.

• The iterations tend to get shorter and the product is more likely to evolve based on stakeholder feedback