WorksheetsУБ21-3
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 26mins
Which skill should a project manager use when dealing with change and ambiguity?
Escalating risks
Effective organizational skills
Enabling decision-making
Flexibility
As a project manager, you have a weekly video conference with stakeholders as part of your communication plan. What two additional details should the communication plan include?
Location
Goal
Key dates
Duration
Tools like Gantt charts and Kanban boards help benefit team members in what three ways?
They can translate project contracts like the statement of work into number and dollar amounts
They provide clear context about work project details
They can illustrate when they need to complete their individual tasks.
They can demonstrate how their individual tasks connect to other tasks in the project
During a Retrospective, you discover that your team cannot deliver the product on schedule because you set an unrealistic expectation with your stakeholders. What can you do to ensure a healthy roadmap management plan going forward? Select all that apply.
Promote knowledge sharing between the Product Owner and the Development Team.
Agree up front about how to handle new ideas and opportunities.
Simplify the roadmap by scaling back the project scope.
Hold regular roadmap reviews with the entire team.
Associate the project phase to core tasks in a typical project LC: Create list of individual tasks
initiating
planning
executing
closing
In which project phase does it help to ask questions such as: “Who are the stakeholders?”, “What skills and resources will the project require?”, and “What are the client’s or customer’s goals?”
Initiate the project
Close the project
Execute the project
Make a plan
How does tracking and measuring progress benefit a project? Select all that apply.
Builds confidence that the project will finish on time, in scope, and within budget
Helps team members and stakeholders stay on top of deadlines and goals
Disregards new risks so the team can focus on current tasks
Makes project information transparent
Agile project management works well with projects that take an iterative approach. What does this mean? Select all that apply.
The team operates within many short blocks of time
Project processes are repeated many times during the life cycle of the project
Project deliverables improve continuously based on feedback
The project will take longer to complete
What can you do to determine if a goal is relevant?
Ask a project manager on another team.
Consider if the goal matches the organization’s other needs and priorities.
Compare it to the project goals of the organization’s three closest competitors.
Compare it to goals the organization set in previous years.
Fill in the blank: _____ is the method where a project manager reviews all individual tasks and rolls the tasks into manageable chunks that lead to a milestone.
Top-down scheduling
Goal scheduling
Team scheduling
Bottom-up scheduling
Which of the following best describes the difference between in-scope and out-of-scope?
Items within the project boundaries that are contributing to the project’s overall goal and items that are not
Tasks you believe your team should complete first and tasks the team believes they should complete first
Problems the project manager can easily recognize and problems the project managers cannot recognize
Goals you believe your team needs to meet and goals the stakeholders believe the team needs to meet
As a project manager, the project is your number one priority. However, you have team members with competing priorities from other projects. You want to influence them to make your project their priority. To do this, you bridge the high-level goals of the project and the day-to-day perspective of the team. You collaborate to find an outcome that works for everyone. What interpersonal skill did you mainly use in this scenario?
Ask the right questions
Practice patience
Negotiate effectively
Build trust
As a project manager, you’re identifying task dependencies. Task B cannot start until Task A is complete. Which type of dependency does this situation represent?
Finish to Finish (FF)
Start to Finish (SF)
Start to Start (SS)
Finish to Start (FS)
As a project manager creating a story, you ask yourself questions like: “Does the story answer the initial question and demonstrate the solution?”, “Is it original and does it offer a unique point of view?”, and “What is the compelling takeaway for the audience?” In what storytelling step should you ask these questions?
Shape the story
Find the data
Filter and analyze the data
Get feedback
Define the audience
A Product Owner writing a user story needs the story to fit within the planned Sprint. If the user story is too large, they break it down into multiple, scaled-down stories in order to meet which of the I.N.V.E.S.T. story writing criteria?
Valuable
Estimitable
Negotiable
Independent
Small
What are some tactics to handle external scope creep? Select all that apply.
Limit communication outside the team once the project begins
Define the project’s requirements
Tell team members to ignore outside requests that will add project tasks
Suggest alternative solutions to your customer's or stakeholder's proposed changes
Which part of a risk management plan should include a brief introduction to the normal conditions of the project and an outline of potential risks?
An executive summary
A probability and impact matrix
A risk register
A mitigation plan
Which meeting type is the official beginning of the project and serves as a way to align the team’s understanding of the project goals with actual plans and procedures.
Project kick-off
Project review
Status update
Stakeholder review
Imagine you are project managing a merger between two healthcare companies. The project is large and complex, so you send out weekly emails highlighting the most important tasks. Which aspect of effective team building does this scenario demonstrate?
Prioritize tasks
Celebrate team success
Listen and ask questions
Promote psychological safety
What does stakeholder analysis enable project managers to do? Select all that apply.
Select the right projects
Avoid surprises down the road
Predict project outcomes
Build necessary partnerships
Fill in the blank: A potential event that can impact your project if it occurs is called a(n) _____.
problem
issue
delay
risk
In what two ways can project managers listen and communicate effectively?
Ask team members how they prefer to communicate
Hold regular team meetings
Celebrate team success and milestones
Create motivation by rewarding good work
What are the components of a typical value roadmap?
A product vision, a mission statement, and development plans
A product roadmap, a vision statement, and development plans
A product vision, a product roadmap, and release plans
A product roadmap, a mission statement, and release plans
Fill in the blank: Project management is valuable to businesses because it _____.
helps ensure that a project delivers the expected outcomes on time and within budget
helps ensure that a project sticks to long-term and short-term deadlines
helps ensure that a project delivers goods or services that meet the customer’s needs
helps ensure that a project centralizes communication—both in real time and all at once
Which three of the following are benefits of project planning?
It helps you map out the full project.
It helps you brainstorm preliminary goals for the project.
It helps individuals assigned to your project become a strong team by working together.
It gives you time to identify and prepare for risks that could impact your project.
Which of the following scenarios represent possible opportunities that could arise from a risk? Select all that apply.
Completing a milestone ahead of schedule
Adopting a new spreadsheet software to streamline and simplify tasks in the future
Hiring a new supplier of an item required to complete a product shortly before the project closes
Adding two team members from another team to meet the project deadline
As a project manager, you collect opinion-based feedback surveys in an effort to improve a product. What do you call this type of data?
Key performance indicator data
Quantitative data
Qualitative data
Projection data
Fill in the blank: _____ is how a project manager oversees the financial components of a project and mitigates project issues and risks as they come up.
Budgeting and controlling costs
Planning and organizing
Managing tasks
Removing unforeseen barriers
During which phase of the project life cycle does a project manager hand off all remaining deliverables?
Make a plan
Execute and complete tasks
Initiate the project
Close the project
Which of the following risk types most commonly impact projects? Select all that apply.
Inherent risks
Time risks
Budget risks
Scope risks
As a project manager, you track the number of open and closed tasks per team member. What do you call this type of data?
Observational data
Quantitative data
Qualitative data
Interview data
Imagine that the main supplier for a construction project runs out of steel girders and needs to obtain more to complete the order. Which key component of project initiation does this scenario concern?
Goals
Scope
Resources
Deliverables
Fill in the blank: The four common ways to mitigate risk include _____.
accept it, disregard it, reduce or control it, and transfer it
accept it, ignore it, reduce or control it, and transfer it
avoid it, accept it, reduce or control it, and transfer it
avoid it, accept it, disregard it, and transfer it
As a project manager, you create a project plan. In the plan are documents that help keep a project organized and on track, particularly if a risk arises or a change occurs. In which section of the project plan are these documents linked?
Budget
Work breakdown structure
Project scope and goals
Management plans
Which of the following are common components of a project status report? Select all that apply.
Roles and responsibilities
Summary
Milestones and tasks
Costs
Issues
What is the purpose of a stakeholder analysis?
Determine which stakeholders to exclude from a project
Identify stakeholders and determine their involvement in a project
Talk to stakeholders and learn about their interests
Meet with stakeholders to make major project decisions
Define a risk as it relates to project management
A risk is a measurement that estimates the impact of known problems.
A risk is an event that might occur and could impact a project in the future.
A risk is a known problem that has already impacted a project.
A risk is a measurement that estimates the potential impact of events that could occur in the future.
Which steps should be taken when updating a risk management plan? Select all that apply.
Add newly-identified risks.
Remove risks that are no longer relevant.
Move the plan to a confidential folder.
Include any changes in the mitigation plans.
A team member is working on a very specific solution involving a new technology. Teammates work together to speed up their progress. With their teammates’ help, they get it across the finish line. What core Scrum value is embodied in this scenario?
Respect
Courage
Focus
Openness
Fill in the blank: _____ is how a project manager makes use of productivity tools and creates processes. The project manager may need to use certain tools and processes to do tasks like create a schedule and share information.
Removing unforeseen barriers
Budgeting and controlling costs
Managing tasks
Planning and organizing
Which quality management concept—often set at the beginning of a project—uses multiple guidelines, such as reliability and usability, to ensure its desired outcome?
Quality control
Quality planning
Quality standards
Quality assurance
Imagine a tech company wants to use another firm’s processor in its new laptop. The project manager writes to the firm’s CEO about the mutual benefits and projected sales numbers. Which steps of effective influencing is the project manager demonstrating? Select all that apply.
Establish credibility
Provide evidence
Frame for common ground
Connect emotionally
Email and chat are examples of what type of project management tool?
Work management
Collaboration
Progress visualization
Scheduling
As a project manager, you're explaining to your team the difference between a milestone and a task. How would you explain a task to the team?
Tasks are activities that have a flexible finish date because milestones often change.
Tasks are milestones with a flexible finish date.
Tasks are activities to finish in a set period of time that help reach a milestone.
Tasks are milestones that are shorter to complete.
Which of the following are true of risk management? Select all that apply.
It helps determine how to mitigate potential risks
It is a one-time exercise at the start of a project
It reveals what could go wrong with a project
It helps identify who a project manager should consult about a potential risk
