Project Management Quiz

Which is an objective of the Directing a Project process?

• Create and authorize the project mandate

• Provide management control and direction

• Control the day-to-day running of the project

• Provide accurate progress information to the Project Manager

Which of the following can be done to control the size of the Project Board on a project that involves multiple users and suppliers?

• Create a separate Project Board to manage the supplier elements of the project

• Create multiple smaller Project Boards during the process of Starting up a Project, one for each of the project's stages

• Create user and supplier groups

• Appoint corporate quality assurance to perform the Project Assurance role for all members of the Project Board

Which is an objective of the 'controlling a stage' process?

• To review the business justification for the project

• To replan the current stage when directed

• To develop products to defined quality criteria

• To produce a learn plan for the work package

Who are considered as the stakeholders in a project?

• Only those benefitting the project
  

• Everyone in the corporate organization
  

• Everyone involved in or affected by the project

• Only those who are users of the products

How does the 'managing product delivery' process ensure that the team manager's perspective is provided in a work package?

• The work packages are defined by the team manager and supported by a team plan.

• The work packages provided by the project manager are agreed by the team manager.

• The team plans are checked by project assurance against the work packages.

• The stage plan covering the work packages is created with input from the team manager.

What is a purpose of the communication management approach?

• To define how the project team intends to obtain responses from stakeholders.

• To describe the techniques required to make the project product acceptable to stakeholders.

• To describe the target organizational state and how the business will move to that new state.

• To describe the processes used to engage with stakeholders in identifying uncertainties.

How does the project plan help to support the 'manage by stages' principle?

• By identifying the customer's quality expectations.

• By defining products to ensure they are fit for purpose.

• By identifying the major control points and milestones.

• By estimating the timescales and costs of the project.

What statement describes how the project manager should ensure effective communication within a project?

• Use a more structured approach to communication with co-located teams, then remote teams

• Rely on regular reporting by team managers to determine whether the work is on track

• Involve a small group of key stakeholders when defining the project to reduce the amount of communication

• Focus on publishing standard messages to key influencers throughout the project

In which step of the 'risk management' technique should the organization's environment be considered?

• Identity

• Assess

• Plan

• Implement

Identify the missing words in the following sentence. The six aspects of project performance to be managed are [ ? ] costs, timescales and scope.

• benefits, change, risk

• benefits, quality, risk

• change, quality, risk

• benefits, change, quality