Project Management Quiz

Which of the following best characterizes the milestone planning approach?

• It focuses only on deadlines.

• It emphasizes intermediate outputs and checkpoints.

• It does not allow changes once set.

• It ignores task dependencies.

In bottom-up planning, project plans are:

• Created by senior management alone.

• Based on the deliverables from suppliers.

• Derived from lower-level task estimates.

• Focused only on the high-level strategy.

The main limitation of top-down planning is:

• Too much task detail.

• Lack of direction.

• Unrealistic estimates from high-level abstraction.

• Excessive time consumption.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of incremental planning?

• Improved flexibility

• Early product delivery

• Easy to manage large projects

• Entire system is planned in one go

Which approach is most suitable for Agile environments?

• Top-down planning

• Product-based planning

• Incremental planning

• Parallel planning

In rolling wave planning:

• The entire project is planned upfront.

• Only high-level tasks are defined initially, detailed planning happens progressively.

• Planning focuses on only the first deliverable.

• It avoids project baselines.

Which planning approach is most vulnerable to the "cone of uncertainty"?

• Bottom-up

• Incremental

• Top-down

• Milestone-based

Which planning strategy integrates Agile and traditional methods?

• Waterfall

• Spiral

• Hybrid

• Critical Chain

What is the key focus of risk-driven planning?

• Optimizing time

• Mitigating high-priority project risks

• Minimizing cost

• Scheduling parallel tasks

Planning by defining product deliverables and decomposing them into manageable parts is known as:

• Functional planning

• Product-based planning

• Risk-based planning

• Event-based planning