Project Management Quiz

Many organizations claim that one of the advantages of using project management is ____.

• lower profit margins

• lower costs

• lower quality

• lower worker morale

Because a project often requires resources from various areas, many projects cross ____ or other boundaries to achieve their unique purpose.

• financial

• spatial

• departmental

• technological

The project ____ usually provides direction and funding for the project.

• leader

• sponsor

• manager

• director

Project ____ is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities in order to meet project requirements.

• sponsorship

• advice

• technology

• management

____ are the people involved in or affected by project activities and include the project sponsor, project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even opponents to the project.

• Managers

• Stakeholders

• Directors

• Citizens

In the example of the project of building a house, the sponsors would be the potential ____.

• contractors

• support staff

• managers

• homeowners

Project ____ management ensures that the project will satisfy the stated or implied needs for which it was undertaken.

• scope

• quality

• time

• cost

Project ____ management involves generating, collecting, disseminating, and storing project information.

• risk

• procurement

• communications

• resource

Project ____ resource management is concerned with making effective use of the people involved with the project.

• human

• risk

• communications

• procurement

Project ____ management, the ninth knowledge area, is an overarching function that affects and is affected by all of the other knowledge areas.

• cost

• quality

• integration

• time