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WorksheetsIT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
A Project Sponsor appointed a Project Manager to a new project and asked her
to get started immediately - even before the charter got approved. What should the
Project Manager do?
Ask some project manager to take over
Start critical activities
Push to create and approve the chatter
Start with team up and planning
Which of the following is not required at the requirements elicitation and
analysis stage of an IT project management lifecycle?
Interviewing users and their managers
Examining documentation describing the current operations.
Incentivising key stakeholders
Analysing operational records created by the current system.
What is referred to as the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and
techniques to project activities to meet an IT project requirement?
Requirement elicitation
Scope management
Schedule Management
IT Project Management
Where a new application is to be built, the elements to be designed include all
except
Input
Process
Requirement statement
Output
What most important purpose does a project chatter serve for the IT-Pmiect
Manager?
Describes the cost of the project
Describes the project float
Describes the project scope
Describe the project Process Design
In identifying a business case for an IT project, what can be refer to as
feasibility report which, among other things, presents the business with a range of
options aimed at providing a solution?
Project Statement of Work
Deliverable
Milestone Chart
Project Charter
In identifying a business case for an IT Project, What is referred to as the
analysis of the benefits vis-a-vis the estimated costs and the. ability of the
organisation to have the resources to pay for the investment?
Technical Constraint Analysis
Time Constraint Analysis
Organisational Constraint Analysis
Budget Constraint
What determines the organization’s ability to cope with the changes that a new
IT Project Development will demand or what the project may prevent from being
developed any further
Technical Constraint Analysis
Time Constraint Analysis
Organisational Constraint Analysis
Budget Constraint Analysis
Generally, IS/IT projects are formed for what objective?
To take over the business as usual
To ensure that the organization gains technological leadership.
To solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity.
To maintain a corporate image
What ordinarily distinguishes an IT project him a business as usual?
Its uniqueness
Its ubiquity
It’s technicality
Its enterprise approaches
What are most information and communication technology (ICT) projects
looked on as in a business value chain?
Innovation activity
Support activity
Technical activity
Administrative activity
IT Project may include all the following except
Hardware Development
Software development
Knowledge based system
Strategy development
The kind of software developed from a purchased unamended commercial
package to which an additional software has been integrated to suit the user
requirement is known as
A customized Software
A standard off-the-shelfsoftware
Bespoke Software
A standard plus Software
What type of software is developed to enable the end-user to complete tasks?
Bespoke Software
Application Software
System Software
Server-side software
Who in the IT project management value chain champions the project at the
highest level in the company and gets rid of organizational obstructions?
The IT Project Manager
The IT Project Sponsor
The IT Project Steering Committee
The IT Project Director
Who does the IT project manager receive his or her authority from?
The IT Project sponsor
The IT Project Team Leader
The IT Project Steering Committee
IT Project Stakeholders
Which of the following is not one of the key roles adopted by the IT Project
Team Leader?
The Boss of the IT Project
Negotiator
Coach
Initiator
The heart, as well as the true engine of the work of any IT Project, lies with
The IT Project Team Leader
IT Project Steering Committee
IT Project Stakeholders
The IT Project Team membership
Dividing a development method of an IT Project into a number of processes is
a widely accepted practice in IT project management?
Project Management Activities
Project Gantt Chart development
Project Development lifecycle
Project requirements elicitation and analysis
An IT Project initiation clarifies two main issues which involve
Identifying Project value and the team to create it
Identifying Project objectives and the requirements to achieve them
Identifying Project requirements and the manager to coordinate them
Identifying Project cost and the justification for funding it
The term of reference that is drawn up after the business case for an IT Project is established would normally
Outline the business value of the proposal and authorize staff to carry it out
Outline the scope of the proposal to be investigated and authorise staff
to carry out the investigation
Outline the charter of the project and authorise a project manager and
the project team to carry out the investigation
Outline the scope and authority of staff to carry out the investigation
If an IT Project proposal is accepted by the organisation, the project that
emerges should NOT have one of the following attributes.
A defined start point
A budget estimate
A set of objectives
A unique purpose
Successful IT projects are those projects that have all the following except
enable the stated objectives to be
delivered with float time.
deliver a system that performs to agreed specifications, including those
relating to quality.
satisfy the project sponsor and other interested i.e.
stakeholders
Factors that can negatively affect the success of an IT project include all the
following except
Advances in technology during the project's execution
Timely delivery of outcomes Within budget.
Infrastructure changes that impact security and data management
Unknown dependent relationships among hardware, software, network
infrastructure and data
Which of the following statement is TRUE regarding the initiating process
?
Initiating process group includes the development project charter and
identify stakeholders' process.
Risk is lowest during the initiating process group
The project has the highest profitabilityq of projoa.suooess during the
Initiating process group
The project manager and the team are always identified as part of the
initiating process group
Which of the following is NOT true about the project charter?
It states what the project is, what the project will deliver, and how all
the processes will be managed
It provides the Project Manager with the authority to assign
organisational resources
It formally authorizes the project
It details the business justification of the project
Your project has just been completed, and one of your subcontractor has sent
you the air tickets for you and your family to have a one-month holiday in Dubai
to thank you for your business. What is the BEST way to respond?
Thank the subcontractor, but do not give him preference in any future
contract .
Thank the subcontractor, but politely refuse the gift
Ask for tickets for the entire team, so that it is fair to everyone
Report the subcontractor to BNI for investigation for attempting to
corrupt you.
IT Projects have a terrible track record. In what circumstance is this statement?
High prospensity to meet scope successfully
High propensity to fail
High propensity to be very sophisticated
The high spate of incompetence among IT project managers
Which of the following
may not be an advantage of using a formal IT project management process
Better control of financial, physical, and human resource
Shorter development times
Higher cost
Higher quality and increased in reliability
What in IT Project Management can be described as temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or results
A project
A milestone
An activity
A deliverable
In contrast with a Project, what is described as work done to sustain the
business?
An IT Project Management
Operations or business as usual
Business Objectives
Business Process
Which of the following is not an example of an IT Project?
A team of students creates a Smartphone application and sells it online
A company develops an innovative corporate governance model
A small software development team adds a new feature to an internal
software application for the finance department
A college upgrades its technology infrastructure to provide wireless
Internet access across the whole campus
Which of the following cannot be classified among top contemporary strategic
technologies?
Internet of things, Mobile-centrrc applications, and interfaces
Contextual and social media user experience
Flash drive storage devices
Cloud Computing
Who will usually champion an IT project idea, provides the direction, and look
for funding for the project?
The Project Manager
The project sponsor
The Steering Committee
The Project initiator
Project gets strive to meet the triple constraint to avoid scope creep
What constitute the triple constraint?
Time, Schedule, and Cost
Scope, Cost and Time
Scope, Cost and Stakeholders
Quality, Cost and Scope
Who responsibility is it to help their organizations make wise investment
decisions by helping to select and analyze projects from strategic perspective?
Portfolio managers
IT Project Manager
Risk Managers
Project Sponsors
IT Project Management what concept is loosely defined as a set of
principles that guide our decision making based on personal values of what is
"right" and "wrong"?
Policy
Roster
Disciplinary procedures
Ethics
The direction of the arrows on the lines in a PERT Chart indicates.
Project manager's schedules
The sequence of tasks
The dependence of tasks
The concurrence of tasks
Most information technology systems are looked on as what activities to the
business?
Business
Support
Primary
Critical
A quantitative technique used to determine how long it will take to recover the
initial investment cost of an IT project is known as...
Return on Investment (ROI)
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
Net present value (NPV)
Payback period
