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WorksheetsPRM chapter 1
Total questions: 69
Worksheet time: 48mins
Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top
management in the military and construction industries.
True
False
One attribute that helps define a project is that a project has a unique purpose.
True
False
Projects should go on indefinitely: they do not have a definite beginning, middle, or end.
True
False
A program is a group of projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from
managing them individually.
True
False
A project never involves uncertainty.
True
False
Questions about how long a project’s schedule should be are related to the issue of the project’s scope.
True
False
Managing the triple constraint involves making trade-offs between scope, time, and cost goals for a
project.
True
False
Much of the knowledge needed to manage projects is not unique to the discipline of project management.
True
False
Project managers must understand general management concepts such as organizational behavior,
financial analysis, and planning techniques.
True
False
The role of a project manager is different from the role of a corporate manager or executive.
True
False
It would be very easy for someone with little or no background in information technology to become the
project manager for a large information technology project.
True
False
Project management is the silver bullet that guarantees success on all projects.
True
False
Determining the relationships among tasks is not essential in helping to improve project scheduling.
True
False
The project manager’s challenge is to understand the concepts of project management and determine what
tools and techniques should be applied on specific projects and in specific organizations.
True
False
No matter what industry you work in, you need to understand the problems at hand if you are to manage
projects successfully.
True
False
MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE
The U.S. spends $2.3 trillion on projects every year, an amount equal to one-tenth of the nation’s gross
domestic product.
(a)
MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE
Resources include people, hardware, software, or other assets.
(a)
MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE
A good project officer is crucial to a project’s success because he or she works with the project sponsors,
the project team, and the other people involved in a project to meet project goals.
(a)
MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE
The limitations of scope, time, and cost goals are sometimes referred to as the triple bind.
(a)
Because of the uncertain nature of projects and competition for resources, it is rare to complete many
projects according to the exact scope, time, and cost plans originally predicted.
(a)
The 2001 Standish Group report showed decided decline in information technology project management
compared to the 1995 study.
(a)
The 2001 Standish Group report showed that time overruns significantly increased compared to the 1995
study.
(a)
The 2001 Standish Group report showed that the average cost of a project has been more than cut in half.
(a)
Since projects are unique, permanent, and involve various resources, project managers must focus on
integrating all the various activities required to complete the project successfully.
(a)
The Manhattan Project cost almost $2 billion in 1966.
(a)
Today’s project managers still use the Gantt chart as the primary tool to communicate project schedule
information, but with the aid of computers, it is no longer necessary to draw the charts by hand.
(a)
New software makes basic tools, such as Gantt charts and network diagrams, inexpensive, easy to create,
and available for anyone to update.
(a)
Summary charts made with enterprise project management software often show status as green to indicate
things are going well, yellow to indicate that there are some problems, and blue to indicate major
problems.
(a)
PMI developed a PMP code of professional conduct that all applicants must agree to in order to become
certified project management professionals (PMPs).
(a)
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 ____ 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
What works on one project may not work on another, so it is essential for project managers to continue to
develop their knowledge and ____ in managing projects.
time
resources
funding
skills
Although information technology project managers need to draw on their information technology
expertise or the expertise of key team members, they must spend ____ time becoming better project
managers and ____ time becoming information technology experts in order to successfully lead their
project teams.
less/less
more/less
less/more
more/more
Most people agree that the modern concept of project management began with the ____.
Great Wall of China
first space shuttle
Egyptian pyramids
Manhattan Project
____ was the key industry behind the development of several project management techniques.
NASA
The military
Steel manufacturing
Marine biology
In ____, Henry Gantt developed the famous Gantt chart as a tool for scheduling work in factories.
1817
1917
1927
1957
A Gantt chart displays a project’s start and finish dates in a ____ format.
pie chart
line graph
bar graph
calendar
The longest path through a network diagram that determines the earliest completion of a project is called
the ____ path.
essential
important
critical
vital
By the ____, the military had begun to use software to help manage large projects.
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
____ was an early project management software product that helped managers analyze complex schedules
for designing aircraft.
Artemis
Columbia
Vega
Oberlin
____ project management software integrates information from multiple projects to show the status of
active, approved, and future projects across an entire organization and provides links to more detailed
information.
Investment
Active
Enterprise
Budget
Being an information technology project manager involves understanding project management, the
information technology function, and the ____ environment of the project.
social
Computer
business
spatial
A PMO, or Project ____ Office, is an organizational group responsible for coordinating the project
management function throughout an organization.
Management
Money
Municipal
Marketing
There are several project management degree programs available, and a(n) ____ number of people are
earning Masters degrees and doctorates in project management.
unchanging
Increasing
decreasing
steady
PMI provides certification as a Project Management ____ (PMP)--someone who has documented
sufficient project experience and education, agreed to follow the PMI code of professional conduct, and
demonstrated knowledge of the field of project management by passing a comprehensive examination.
Producer
Practitioner
Professional
Professor
By the end of 2002, there were approximately ____ people certified by PMI.
1,000
5,000
50,000
500,000
____ tools are often recommended for small projects and single users.
Low-end
Midrange
High-end
Expensive
____ tools, sometimes referred to as enterprise project management software, provide robust capabilities
to handle very large projects.
Low-end
Midrange
High-end
Inexpensive
The figure above is an example of a(n) ____ management tool.
portfolio
information
technology
Project
The Project Management ____, a Web site for people involved in project management, provides an
alphabetical listing of and links to hundreds of products that help manage projects.
Center
Alliance
Consortium
Facility
The “CHAOS” study found that more than 31 percent of information technology projects were
(a) before completion, often due to poor project management.
A(n) (a) is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or
service.
The question: “what unique product or service does the customer or sponsor expect from the project?” is
related to the (a) of the project.
The question “how much money should be spent to complete the project?” is related to the project’s
(a) .
The figure above illustrates that each of the three dimensions of the triple constraint has a(n)
(a) or goal based on expectations for scope, time, and cost at the beginning of
the project.
Project management tools and (a) assist project managers and their teams
in carrying out scope, time, cost, and quality management.
General or (a) managers also focus on a particular discipline or
functional area.
A(n) (a) chart is a standard format for displaying project schedule information
by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format.
As computer hardware became smaller and more (a) and software
became graphical and easy to use, project management software became less expensive and more widely
used.
The Project Management (a) (PMI), an international professional society
for project managers, has continued to attract and retain members, reporting more than 100,000 members
worldwide in early 2003.
Because there are so many people working on projects in various industries, PMI has created Specific
(a) Groups (SIGs) that enable people to share ideas about project
management in their particular application areas, such as information systems.
(a) tools, a step up from low-end tools, are designed to handle larger
projects, multiple users, and multiple projects.
