wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Chapter 09 - Resource Management

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
You have just been notified by one of your companys senior managers that you will managing their upcoming security system development project. You are currently preparing different project plans and feel you need best of the existing staff in your project team. However, these staff members are already engaged in different projects. Which of the following tools and techniques would be most appropriate to use in this scenario?
a)
Negotiation
b)
Pre-Assignment
c)
Acquisition
d)
Virtual team
2.
Which of the following is a tool or technique in the Manage Project Team Process?
a)
Networking
b)
Ground Rules
c)
Training
d)
Conflict Management
3.
You are making efforts to improve the skills of your project team by providing classroom training. You are also working with the team members individually to lower conflict and increase teamwork. Which project process would you use to do the activities?
a)
Develop Project Team
b)
Plan Human Resource Management
c)
Manage Project Team
d)
Acquire Project Team
4.
You are finalizing your project staff assignment. You want to shortlist a few individuals for some project roles from a list of several candidates available within your organization. You want to select candidates based on their qualifications, prior experience, cost rates and availability. Which of the following should you review to obtain this information?
a)
Enterprise Environmental Factors
b)
Project Management Plan
c)
Resource Calendars
d)
Resource Negotiation Document
5.
Which of the following conflict resolution techniques offers project managers the best option for conflict resolution?
a)
Smoothing
b)
Reconciling
c)
Forcing
d)
Collaborating
6.
On any project, what are the people skills, technical competencies, overall team environment, and project performance improved by?
a)
Team language
b)
Mutual trust
c)
Technical effort
d)
Developing the project team
7.
Which of the following is not an input to the Develop Project Team Process?
a)
Project Staff Assignments
b)
Organizational Process Assets
c)
Projects Management Plan
d)
Resource Calendars
8.
Which of the following is an input to the Acquire Project Team process?
a)
Project Staff Assignments
b)
Performance Report
c)
Organizational Process Assets
d)
Resource Calendars
9.
Which of the following is considered a project constraint?
a)
Negotiation
b)
Pre-Assignment
c)
Acquisition
d)
Virtual Teams
10.
Which of the following is an input to the Acquire Project Team process?
a)
Cost Performance Baseline
b)
Resource Calendars
c)
Activity Cost Estimates
d)
Enterprise Environmental Factors
11.
Which of the following is the most important subsidiary plan of the project Management Plan that is used as an input to the Manage Project Team process?
a)
Human resource management plan
b)
Scope management plan
c)
Schedule management plan
d)
Cost management plan
12.
The Acquire Project Team process has five tools and techniques. Four of the five are Pre-Assignment, Negotiation, Multi-criteria Decision Analysis, and virtual teams. Which of the following is the fifth Acquire Project Team process tool and technique?
a)
Issue Log
b)
Acquisition
c)
Interpersonal Skills
d)
Conflict Management
13.
The Manage Project Team process has six inputs. Five of them are Human Resource Management Plan, Project Staff Assignments, Issue Log, Team Performance Assessments, and Organizational Process Assets. Which one of the following inputs is missing?
a)
Status Reports
b)
Work Performance Report
c)
Stakeholder register
d)
Change Log
14.
Which of the following is not an input to Manage Project Team process?
a)
Project Staff Assignments
b)
Human Resource Management Plan
c)
Resource Calendars
d)
Work Performance Reports
15.
You are managing a project in a matrix organization. One of your project team members is not behaving appropriately so you approach his functional manager to help resolve the problem. What kind of power are you indirectly using to solve the problem?
a)
Reward Power
b)
Expert Power
c)
Punishment Power
d)
Legitimate Power
16.
Vinny has recently been promoted to manage a project establishing a distribution network for a new flavored milk product. Vinny is enthusiastic about his new assignment and wants to ensure that his first project is a success, so he follows all the best practices. He starts with the project planning phase and develops a project management plan. He makes sure it is approves by the key stakeholders. He creates the requirements traceability matrix and then moves on to create the project scope document. The WBS is also creates and the scope baseline is created. Next, Vinny defines the project activities, and defines the sequence of these activities. Once this is done, Vinny estimates the resource requirements and then creates the project baseline. Then Vinny moves on the project execution phase. Which of the following activities are performed during the execution phase of the project?
a)
The Human Resource Management plan is develop
b)
Quantitative Risk Analysis is performed
c)
Human Resources are allocated to the team
d)
Project Risks are monitored
17.
What is the HALO EFFECT on the project?
a)
The tendency of the project team to not listen to the project manager
b)
The tendency to promote people who are good at technical jobs into managerial positions
c)
The tendency of the project manager to always reward the same person
d)
The tendency of the project manager ti hide facts from stakeholders
18.
Which of the following statements about a Resource Histogram and a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) is true?
a)
Both are used in the Control Costs Process
b)
Both are used in Planning Human Resource Management
c)
Resource Histogram is not used in the Plan Human Resource Management
d)
Responsibility Assignment Matrix is not used in the Plan Human Resource Management Process
19.
You are the project manager of an embedded system design project. The project running smoothly with schedule and effort variations within the organizations specification limit. You requested client feedback after meeting the first milestone and saw that client rates your team low on domain expertise. You immediately check the skill assessment performed earlier and find that the rating for domain skills was not done. You add the skills required, rate the people, and identify training needs. You ask all the resources to attend workshops and give them demos to each other to improve the teams capability. Although you manage to correct the problem, you are looking to implement some form of preventive action so that similar problems do not occur again. What is the best preventive action to avoid low feedback scores in team skills?
a)
No action is required; the client is happy because the issue has been addressed
b)
Verify the skills assessment report and update it with ratings and any new skills required, and also schedule training for resources who are falling shorts in specific skills
c)
Remove the unskilled resources and hire skilled resources
d)
Terminate the resources who did not get a good rating on skills
20.
Richard is leading a very large project with a tight timeline. The project is complex in the nature and requires skilled resources. At the beginning of the project, senior management promise Richard that all the supports he need would be provided. Richard creates the Project Management Plan, Project Scope Statement and the WBS. He then estimates the activity duration for each task, creates the project schedule and obtains a sign-off from the end customer. Richard also creates a Risk Management Plan and shares it with the customer. Once all the documents are in place and the project planning phase is complete, Richard feels confident about moving on to the project execution phase. He asks senior management to assign the resources to the project. However, he is told that none of the promised resources are available and that he will have to wait for a month to get these resources allocated to his project. What is Richards best course of action in this situation?
a)
As it is beyond his power to secure the appropriate resources, he should use whatever resources are available instead
b)
Negotiate with senior management to provide the required resources by moving the trained resources to his project, hiring new people, or outsourcing all the project work
c)
Refuse to work on the project
d)
Force resources working on the other projects to work with him