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WorksheetsУБ21-4
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 34mins
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 (WBS)
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
Issues
Costs
Associate the project phase to core tasks in a typical project life cycle: Identify stakeholders
initiating
planning
executing
closing
In what type of meeting does the project manager meet with participants one-on-one in order to cover topics most relevant to them and to better understand their concerns?
Project kick-off
Stakeholder review
Status update
Retrospective
When turning data into a story, a project manager first defines their audience. What is the second step?
Shape the story.
Choose a visual representation.
Collect the data.
Gather feedback.
Which of the following are project manager responsibilities during the initiation phase? Select all that apply.
Create a budget
Get project approval
Define project goals
Determine resources needed
What are the main purposes of a closeout report? Select all that apply.
Serves as a blueprint to document what the team did, how they did it, and what they delivered
Gives the project manager time to meet with the team one last time to complete missing work
Provides an evaluation of the quality of work
Evaluates the project’s performance with respect to budget and schedule
As an Agile project manager, why is it important to value customer collaboration over contract negotiation? Select all that apply.
It saves your organization time and money.
It encourages your team to seek out every opportunity to include the customer or stakeholder during project execution.
It allows the freedom to collaborate with customers early and often.
It reinforces that customer satisfaction is the highest priority when building a high quality and valuable product.
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 (SOW) 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.
Email and chat are examples of what type of project management tool?
Work management
Collaboration
Progress visualization
Scheduling
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.
As a project manager, which three of the following are your organizational sources of power?
Character
Network
Reputation
Role
Fill in the blank: To get the full benefits from Agile, you must adopt not only its processes, but also its _____.
terminology
mindset
software
platform
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.
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: Project management is _____.
the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet the project requirements and achieve the desired outcome
the practice of decision-making that is carefully planned and designed to meet the project requirements
the use of applications that can help you deliver your project on time, and with a successful outcome
the series of tasks that need to be completed to reach a desired outcome
What is the main advantage of the Waterfall methodology over the Agile approach?
Waterfall takes a flexible approach, letting teams make adjustments as they go.
Waterfall allows for easy reorganization of tasks as the project progresses.
Waterfall focuses on reducing waste within an operation.
Waterfall has clearly defined expectations and helps teams avoid expensive changes to a project once it has started.
As a project manager, you identified a process-based problem you’d like to improve. Before implementing a solution, you conduct performance metrics and data collection. This establishes baseline data that will determine success. What DMAIC step did you apply?
Define
Measure
Control
Analyze
When building a Product Backlog, you compare the importance of each Backlog item to the other Backlog items. This helps you rank and organize the Backlog items from highest to lowest priority. You should capture this information in which Backlog item attribute?
Item description
Item effort estimate
Item order
Item value
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
Which of the following best describes why there is increasing demand for project management roles in today’s job market?
Project management is a relatively new job title.
Project management roles are designed to adapt to changes and handle new processes as they come up.
Project management isn’t adequately compensated when compared to similar roles.
There’s significant turnover in the project management field.
The risk management process can provide project managers a better understanding of what information? Select all that apply.
When exactly the risk will occur
Who the project manager needs to consult about a risk
What could go wrong with the project
How could the project manager mitigate the potential risk
Which of the following are important to understand in the planning phase? Select all that apply.
Customer feedback
Risk management
Budgets
Schedules
What is the primary role of the Development Team, also known as Developers?
Help the team understand why their work matters
Maximize the value of the product delivered by the team
Ensure the team is building the right product
Build the product
As a project manager, you and your team conduct a review process. Your goal is to evaluate whether the project is moving toward delivering a high-quality service or product and to prevent defects before they occur. Which quality management concept does this describe?
Quality planning
Quality assurance
Quality standards
Quality control
As a project manager, your team is improving one of your client’s current sales conversion processes. This is a complex project with many steps. It’s also high-risk. One missed step could cost your client significant potential revenue. Which project management methodology is best for this project?
Sequential methodology
Waterfall methodology
Lean Six Sigma methodology
Linear methodology
As a project manager, you create a project plan. In the plan are tasks with clear descriptions, owners, and due dates. In which section of the project plan do these tasks reside?
Scope and goals
Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Budget
Management plans
After receiving multiple bids for your project, you select a vendor you’d like to work with. You’re ready to start the contracting process. Which procurement document do you fill out and send the vendor?
Request for proposal (RFP)
Statement of work (SoW)
Non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
Scope of work (SoW)
Imagine that a restaurant supplier has been asked to develop a new dessert for their client, a popular restaurant chain. Even though they are not contractually required to do so, the project team from the restaurant supplier decides to get the client to approve the recipe for the dessert before beginning development on it. From the restaurant supplier’s perspective, what two dependencies does this scenario demonstrate?
Internal dependency
Discretionary dependency
Mandatory dependency
External dependency
What type of project exists when an incomplete handoff results in a final deliverable that never reaches the customer?
Abandoned project
Never-ending project
Closed project
Scope-protected project
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)
