1123 - Final Exam
1123 - Final Exam
2. A new project manager is identifying the resources she will need to complete the project. The best
thing for her to look at to determine resource requirements is the?
a. Structure Work Breakdown
b. Project schedule
c. Resource Gantt Chart
d. Resource Levelling Chart
3. You want to display on your wall a graphic scheme showing the importance of your key stakeholders
with respect to their interest and power. Which of the following will you use?
a. Power/ Interest Scale
b. Power/ Interest grid
c. Power/ Influence grid
d. Interest / Influence grid
5. As Per PMBOK 6, Which of the following is not an input f_o_r_ _a_ _P_r_o_c_e_s_s_ _c_a_l_l_e_d_
_“D_e_v_e_l_o_p_ _P_r_o_j_e_c_t_ _M_a_n_a_g_e_m_e_n_t_ _P_l_a_n_” _
a. Scope of Work
b. Project charter
c. Enterprise environmental factors
d. Organizational process assets
6. Which of the following should be determined before project plan development starts?
a. Constraints and assumptions
b. Project plan updates
c. Work authorization system
d. Stakeholder skills and knowledge
11. Another project manager in your company is having difficulty managing his project. You have found
that he has not used a project charter and that is probably the cause of the problem. How can you help?
a. Work with his boss to get him a mentor
b. Talk to him about his project and offer help in creating a project charter
c. Develop a draft charter for his use
d. Provide him with a copy of an article about project charters
2 Which one of the following can be included as a purpose of Project Integration Management?
Select one:
Making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives
Making choices about resource allocations
It includes all of the above
Managing the interdependencies among the project management knowledge areas
4 A large, one-year telecommunications project is about halfway done when you take the place of the
previous project manager. The project involves three different sellers and a project team of 30 people.
You would like to see the project's communications requirements and what technology is being used to
aid in project communications. Where will you find this information?
a. Communications management plan
b. Project management plan
c. Cantt chart
d Communications distribution plan
5. Typically, in an I project environment, the body responsible for approving or rejecting change requests
is known as,
A Board of Directors
b. Project Management Office
c Chance Control Board
d. MD's Office
8. Documents business needs, current understanding of the customer's needs, and new product, service, or
result that it is intended to satisfy
a. Perform Integrated Change Control
b. Develop Project Management Plan
c Develop Project Charter
d. Close Project or Phase
9. What is not correct about the Project Charter?
Select one:
A. A formally authorizes a project or a phase
b. Contains high-level information
c Documents initial requirements
d. forms the basis for the Business Case of the same project
10. Select the appropriate output from the process called *Close Project or Phase*
a. Approved Change Request
b. Project Management Plan
c. Lessons Learned Register
d. final product, service or result transition
12. "The process of defining, preparing, and coordinating all subsidiary plans and integrating them into a
comprehensive project management plan:
a Close Project or Phase
b. Develop Project Charter
c. Perform Integrated Change Control
d. Develop Project Management Plan
16 Select the appropriate output from the process called Perform Integrated Change Control
Select one:
A Work performance data
B Lessons Learned Register
C Project Management Plan
D Approved Change Request
17. A project had poor project meetings since its inception. There have been complaints that information
does not get to the right people, some people are talking too much during the meeting, and the right
people are not there to resolve issues. What is MOST likely missing from this project?
A scope management plan
B Communications Management Plan
C A responsibility char
d. A resource matrix
18. Integrating Activities do not include
a. Perform activities to produce project deliverables.
b. Prepare a project management plan using a structured approach
c Measure and monitor all aspects of the project's progress and take appropriate actions to meet
project objectives
d. identifying Stakeholders
19. What is a valid reason to revise cost estimates, activity sequences, schedule dates, resource
requirements, and/or analysis of risk response alternatives during an ongoing project?
a. change has occurred
b. rejected change requests
c Project Sponsor or CEO has given new instructions
d. An approved change request
21. "The process of finalizing all activities across all of the Project Management Process Groups to
formally complete the project or phase.
A Perform Integrated Change Control
B Develop Project Management Plan
C Close Project or Phase
d. Develop Project Charter
22. One very popular method of defining strategic objective is known as:
A Moscow
b. SMART
c. OBOCAT
d. MBWA
23. Which of the following should be determined before project plan development starts?
Work authorization system
Constraints and assumptions
Project plan updates
Stakeholder skills and knowledge
25. The process that allows for document changes within the project to be considered in an integrated
fashion while reducing project risk, which often arises from changes made without consideration to
overall project objectives or plans.
a. Monitor and Control Project Work
b. Direct and Manage Project Work
c. Perform Integrated Change Control
d. Develop Project Management Plan
26. What could be the best approach to engage your stakeholder, failing in the category of “low
power high interest” in a power interest grid?
A. Manage Closely
B. Keep monitoring
C. Keep Informed
D. Keep Satisfied
28. During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to
add work to the project statement of work. The project manager had access to correspondence
about the project before the Charter was signed and understands that the project sponsors
especially denied the work mentioned by this stakeholder; the best thing for the project
manager would be to:
A. Evaluate the importance of adding the scope of work.
B. Add the work if there is time available in the project schedule.
C. Tell the stakeholder the requested change cannot be added to the project
D. Let the sponsor know of the stakeholder request.
It provides lessons learned and the release of organizational resources lo pursue new
endeavours.
a. Close Project or Phase
b. Develop Project Management Plan
c. Close Project or Phase
d. Develop Project charter
As per our learning during this course, what are the two components of knowledge*
A Tacit and Implicit
b. Explicit and Tacit
c Implicit and Explicit
d. Explicit and Implicit
6 About midway through the project, the project manager learns that most members of
the project team do not
review the weekly project updates. What should the project manager do?
a. Improve the layout of the weekly project updates to encourage reading by team
members
b. Review roles and responsibilities with all of the team members.
c. Revise the communications plan appropriately to meet the informational needs of the
stakeholders
d Create a signature log so team members can indicate when they have read the reports
Clear my choice
8 Project managers spend of their time communicating with team members and other
project stakeholders, whether they are internal or external to the organization.
A 70%
B 90%
C 60%
D 50%
The Project Selection Committee of Trent International Inc. has decided on the following
criteria for the project selection.
Use of New Technology= 10, High Standards = 8, Attract Young people = 5, Cost effective
=5
The points given to projects for the four projects under discussion are as follows
Project Alpha- New Technology=5, High Standards = 3, Attract Young people=5, Cost
effective =2
Project Beta- New Technology = 5, High Standards - 2. Attract Young people- 3. Cost
eftectne=5
Project Gara- New Technology= 1. High Standards - 5 Attract Young people -3, Cost
effective=3
Project Theta- New Technology=2, High Standards = 4, Attract Young peeple-1, Cost
etfective=2
Which project should be selected as per the multi-criteria decision analysis technique?
A Gama
B Beta
C Thes
D Alpha
Your manager gives you the project charter that includes the high-level project
requirements and asks you to begin working immediately and come up with a project
schedule. What should you do FIRST?
A. Begin estimating the activities necessary to satisfy the project requirements.
b. Identify à project team and obtain approval for their participation in the project from
their functional managers
c Create work activities and then begin to assign the activities to project resources
d. Identify the stakeholders to make sure their requirements are included in the plan to
be prepared by you
Select the appropriate output from the process called Direct and Manage Project Work
A Work performance data
b. Approved Change Request
C Project Management Plan
d. Lessons Learned Register
16 What could be the best approach to engage your stakeholders falling in the category
of "High Power Low Interest" in a Power Interest grid.
a. Manage Closely
b. Keep Satisfied
C Keep Informed
d Keep Monitoring
Select the appropriate output from the process called "Develop Project Management
Plan
a. Approved Change Request
b. Lessons Learned Register
C Work performance data
d. Project Management Plan
You are the project manager for Spade International. Since you don t sleep much, you
get a lot of project work done. You're considering recommending a project that costs
$575,000; expected inflows are $25,000 per quarter for the first two years and then
$75,000 per quarter thereafter. What is the payback period?
A 39 months
B 40 months
C 38 months
D 41 months
The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management
plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project's objectives is known
as:
A Direct and Manage Project Work
B Perform Integrated Change Control
C Monitor and Control Project Work
D Develop Project Management Plan
A medical doctor who has volunteered to actively participate in a project relating to the
use of information technology for treating chronic health problems would be an
example of a stakeholder.
A Sponsor of
B Resistant
C Neutral
D Leading
21 You have to create a new project in MS Project. If, in your opinion, you can start a
project Today, you need 6 months to complete this Project. Select the most appropriate
option you will use in Project Information Menu.
A Select start date Today's date and curation of a project as 6 Months.
B Select the end date as after b months from Today's date.
C Select start date as Today's date and End Date as after 6 months
d Select Start date as on Today's date.
24 What could be the best approach to engage your stakeholders falling in the category
of "High Power High Interest" in a Power Interest grid.
A Keep Informed
B Manage Closely
C Keep Monitoring
D Keep Satisfied
25 Project information has been distributed according to the communications
management plan. Some project deliverables have been changed. Those changes were
made according to the change control plan. One stakeholder expressed surprise to the
project manager upon being informed of a previously published change to a project
deliverable. All stakeholders received the communication containing notification of the
change.
What should the project manager do?
a. Review the communications plan and make revisions. It is necessary
b. Address the situation in the next steering committee meeting, so others do not
miss published changes
c. Determine why the stakeholder did not receive the information and let him know
when it was published
d. Ask the functional manager why the stakeholder did not understand his
responsibility
26 You have four projects from which to choose one. Project A is being done over six
years and has a Net Present Value (NPV) of $70,000. Project B is being aune over three
years and has an NPV of $30 000; Project C is being done over a five-year period and has
an NPV of 540,000. Project D is being done over a four-year period and has an NPV of
$60,000. Which project would you choose?
Project D
Project A
Project B
Project C
27 One of the problems with projects has been that the knowledge gained by the
project teams is lost when they go away from the project. Hence, a new process
Manage Project Knowledge, has been added in the Integration Knowledge Area of the
PMI's framework. A key output of this pro. cess is?
A Stakeholder Register
B SharePoint Register
C Lesson's Learned Register
D Risk Register
The Project Selection Committee of Trent International Inc. has decided the following
criteria for the project
Use of New Technology= 10, High Standards - 8, Attract Young people - 5, Cost effective
=5
The points given to projects for the four projects under discussion are as follows:
Project Alpha- New Technology-5, High Standards = 3. Attract Young people-5, Cost
effective=2
Project Beta- New Technology=5, High Standards = 2. Attract Young people= 3, Cost
effective-5
Project Gam- New Technology= 1. High Standards - 5. Attract Young people =3, Cost
effective=3
Project Theta- New Technology=2, High Standards = 4, Attract Young people= 1, Cost
effective =2
What is the total score for Project Alpha?
a 30
b. 100
c 67
d 109
40 Select the appropriate output from the process called *Close Project or Phase
a. Approved Change Request
b. Project Management Plan
c. Lessons Learned Register
d. Final product, service or result transition