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WorksheetsRita PMP - Project Process Management Process
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
A project manager has received some help from the team, and she needs help from them again so that she can create a detailed project budget. Which project management process group is she in?
Initiating
Before the project management process
Planning
Executing
The project charter is created in which project management process group?
Executing
Planning
Closing
Initiating
The project team has just completed the initial project schedule and budget. The next thing to do is to:
Identify risks.
Begin iterations.
Determine communications requirements.
Create a bar (Gantt) chart.
A detailed project schedule can be created only after creating the:
Project budget
Work breakdown structure
Project management plan
Detailed risk assessment
The person who should be in control of the project during project planning is the:
Project manager
Team member
Functional manager
Sponsor
Which of the following is not an input to the initiating process group?
Company processes
Company culture
Historical WBSs
Project scope statement
The project sponsor has just signed the project charter. What is the next thing to do?
Begin to complete work packages.
Validate scope.
Start integrated change control.
Start to create management plans.
The high-level project schedule constraints have just been determined. What project management process group are you in?
Initiating
Planning
Executing
Monitoring and controlling
The WBS and WBS dictionary have been completed, and the project team has begun working on identifying risks. The sponsor contacts the project manager, requesting that the responsibility assignment matrix be issued. The project has a budget of $100,000 and is taking place in three countries using 14 human resources. There is little risk expected for the project, and the project manager has managed many projects similar to this one. What is the next thing to do?
Understand the experience of the sponsor on similar projects .
Create an activity list.
Make sure the project scope is defined.
Complete risk management and issue the responsibility assignment matrix.
A project manager does not have much time to spend on planing before the mandatory start date arrives. He therefore wants to move through planning as effectively as possible. What advice would you offer?
Make sure you have a signed project charter and then start the WBS.
Create an activity list before creating a network diagram.
Document all the known risks before you document the high-level assumptions.
Finalize the quality management plan before you determine quality metrics.
The best time to assign a project manager to a project is during:
Integration
Project selection
Initiating
Planning
A project manager gets a call from a team member notifying him that there is a variance between the speed of a system on the project and the desired or planned speed. The project manager is surprised because that performance measurement was not identified in planning. If the project manager then evaluates whether the variance warrants a response, he is in which part of the project management process?
lnitiating
Executing
Monitoring and controlling
Closing
A team member notifies the project manager that the activities comprising a work package are no longer appropriate. It would be best for the project manager to be in what part of the project management process?
Corrective action
Integrated change control
Monitoring and controlling
Project closing
During a team meeting, a team member asks about the measurements that will be used on the project to assess performance. The team member feels that some of the measures related to activities assigned to him are not valid measurements. The project is most likely in what part of the project management process?
Closing
Monitoring and controlling
Executing
Initiating
Which of the followmg is the most appropriate thing to do during the initiating process group?
Create a detailed description of the project deliverables.
Get familiar with the company culture and structure as they relate to the project.
Identify the root cause of problems.
Ensure all project management process are complete.
Which of the following is a characteristic of project management processes?
Iterative
Unique
Unnecessary
Standardized
Which project management process group generally takes the most project time and resources?
Planning
Design
Intergration
Executing
You are managing two projects and have been assigned to a third project that has just been approved. You begin the new project, and are able to manager it well along with the others you are managing. During initiating, you are focused on accomplishing a number of activites. Which of the following are you not concerned with at this time?
Identifying and documenting business needs
Creating a project scope statement
Dividing a large project into phases
Accumulating and evaluating historical information
The software development project has progressed according to plan. The team is very enthusiastic about the product they have created. Now they are looking ahead to finding new projects to work on. You caution them that the current project cannot be considered complete until after the closing process group. Closure includes all the following except:
Determining performance measures
Turning over the product of the project
Documenting the degree to which each project phase was properly closed after its completion
Updating the company's organizational process assets.
The first phase of your project has come to an end. What is the most important thing to ensure is done before beginning the next phase?
Verify that the resources are available for the next phase.
Check the project's progress compared to its baselines.
Confirm that the phase has reached its objectives, and have its deliverables formally accepted.
Recommend corrective action to bring the project results in line with project expectations.
During which process group docs the team measure and analyze the work being done on the project?
Initiating
Executing
Monitoring and controlling
Closing
Which process groups must be included in every project?
Planning, executing, and closing
lnitiating, planning, and executing
Planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling
Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing
Which of the following is the most appropriate thing to do in project closing?
Work with the customer to determine acceptance criteria.
Confirm all the requirements in the project have been met.
Collect historical information from previous projects.
Gain formal approval of the management plans.
Which process group focuses on completing the requirements of the project?
lnitiating
Planning
Executing
Closing
Monitoring and controlling
All the following occur during the planning process group except:
Develop Project Charter
Create WBS
Estimate Costs
Sequence Activities
A market demand, a business need, and a legal requirement are examples of:
Reasons to hire a project manager
Reasons projects are initiated
Reasons people or businesses become stakeholders
Reasons to sponsor a project
