Assignment 1

1.A project is:

A. A set of sequential activities performed in a process or system.

B. A revenue-generating activity that needs to be accomplished while
achieving customer satisfaction.
C. An ongoing endeavor undertaken to meet customer or market
requirements.
D. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product,
service, or result.

2. Project management is:

A. The integration of the critical path method and the Earned Value
Management system.
B. The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to
project activities to meet the project requirements.
C. The application of knowledge, skills, wisdom, science, and art to
organizational activities to achieve operational excellence.
D. A subset of most engineering and other technical disciplines.

3. Portfolio management refers to:

A. Managing various contents of the project file.

B. Managing the levels of the levels of financial authority to facilitate
C. project decision making
D. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve
strategic objectives.
E. Applying resource leveling heuristics across all the organization’s
strategic objectives.

4. All of the following are questions that the key stakeholders and
project managers should answer to develop the project success
measures EXCEPT:

A. What does success look like for the project?

B. How will success be measured?
C. What are the communication requirements?
D. What factors may impact success?

5. A program is a:
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A. Group of related tasks lasting one year or less.

B. Group of related projects, subsidiary programs, and program
activities managed in a coordinated manner.
C. Large projects with significant cost and resource requirements.
D. Sequence of activities constituting a major project.

6. All of the following are true about projects and operations

EXCEPT:

A. Operations are ongoing endeavors that produce repetitive outputs,

with resources assigned to do basically the same set of tasks
according to the standards institutionalized in a product life cycle,
whereas projects are temporary endeavors.
B. Projects require project management activities and skill sets,
whereas operations require business process management,
operations management activities, and skill sets.
C. Projects can intersect with operations at various points during the
product life cycle. At each point, deliverables and knowledge are
transferred between the project and operations for implementation
of the delivered work.
D. Because of their temporary nature, projects cannot help achieve an
organization’s long-term goals. Therefore, strategic activities in the
organization can be generally addressed within the organization's
normal operations.

7. Your job responsibility is to align components (projects,

programs, or related operations) to the organizational strategy,
organized into portfolios or subsidiary portfolios to optimize project
or program objectives, dependencies, costs, timelines, benefits,
resources, and risks. This is known as:

A. Components management.
B. Process management.
C. Program management.
D. Portfolio management.

8.The collection of generally sequential and sometimes overlapping

project phases, whose name and number are determined by the
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management and control needs of the organization or organizations

involved in the project, is known as the:

A. Project waterfall.
B. Project life cycle.
C. Project life stages.
D. Project Management Process Groups .

9. All of the following are true about project phases and the project
life cycle EXCEPT:

A. Stakeholder influences, risk, and uncertainty are greatest at the start

of the project. These factors decrease over the life of the project.
B. The ability to influence the final characteristics of the project's
product, without significantly impacting cost, is highest at the start
of the project and decreases as the project progresses toward
completion.
C. The cost of changes and correcting errors typically increases
substantially as the project approaches completion.
D. Cost and staffing levels are generally steady throughout the project
life cycle .

10.All of the following statements about the project life cycle and the
product life cycle are true EXCEPT:

A. In the project predictive life cycle, the project scope and the time and
cost required to deliver that scope are determined as early in the
project life cycle as practically possible.
B. In the project iterative and incremental life cycles, project phases
intentionally repeat one or more project activities as the project
team’s understanding of the product increases.
C. The product life cycle is the series of phases that represent the
evolution of a product, from concept through delivery, growth,
maturity, and to retirement
D. The product life cycle is contained within the predictive project life
cycle.

11. You are managing a project in which you intend to respond to

high levels of change and ongoing stakeholder involvement. The most
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suitable project life cycle for your project is the:

A. Predictive life cycle.

B. Adaptive life cycle.
C. Waterfall life cycle.
D. Configuration management life cycle.

12. Enterprise environmental factors refer to both internal and

external environmental factors that surround or influence a project's
success. All of the following are true about these factors EXCEPT:

A. Enterprise environmental factors include organizational culture,

structure, and processes.
B. Enterprise environmental factors include government or industry
standards, such as regulatory agency regulations, codes of conduct,
product standards, quality standards, and workmanship standards.
C. Enterprise environmental factors include information technology
software (e.g., an automated tool, such as a scheduling software

tool, a configuration management system, an information collection

and distribution system, or web interfaces to other online automated
systems).
D. Enterprise environmental factors exclude personnel administration
functions (e.g., staffing and retention guidelines, employee
performance reviews and training records, and time tracking)
because these are considered to be functions of the human resources
department .

13. The types of project management office (PMO) structures in

organizations include all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Supportive PMOs that provide a consultative role to projects by

supplying templates, best practices, training, access to information,
and lessons learned from other projects.
B. Controlling PMOs that provide support and require compliance
through various means.
C. Harmonizing PMOs that strive to reduce conflict and improve
harmony among project team members.
D. Directive PMOs that take control of the projects by directly
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managing the projects.

14. A primary function of a project management office (PMO) is to

support project managers in a variety of ways, which may include all
of the following EXCEPT:

A. Intervening in project execution directly and without involving the

project manager.
B. Managing shared resources across all projects administered by the
PMO.
C. Identifying and developing project management methodology, best
practices, and standards.
D. Coaching, mentoring, training, and oversight .

15. Governance is the framework within which authority is

exercised in organizations. This framework includes all of the
following components EXCEPT:

A. Rules.
B. Policies.
C. Techniques.
D. Relationships.

16. Which of the following best describe management elements?

A. Management elements are the components that comprise the key

functions or principles of general management in the organization.
B. Management elements are the project management principles that
guide how projects are executed in the organization.
C. Management elements are established by PMOs to guide project
implementation.
D. Management elements are influenced by the governance
framework, established for effective implementation of projects.

17. All of the following are generally true about leadership in a

project environment EXCEPT:

A. It involves focusing the efforts of a group of people toward a

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common goal and enabling them to work as a team.

B. It is the ability to get things done through others.
C. Respect and trust, rather than fear and submission, are the key
elements of effective leadership.
D. Although important throughout all project phases, effective
leadership is critical during the Closing phase of a project when the
emphasis is on stakeholder acceptance of the project.

18. Project managers spend the majority of their time

communicating with team members and other project stakeholders.
To communicate effectively, the project manager should generally
perform all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Calculating the potential number of communication channels

accurately.
B. Developing finely tuned skills using multiple methods of
communication.
C. Incorporating feedback channels.
D. Seeking to understand project stakeholders' communication needs .

19. All of the following are components of culture EXCEPT:

A. Values.
B. Norms.
C. Intelligence.
D. Beliefs.

20. The following are all key competencies of a project manager

EXCEPT:

A. Technical project management.

B. Operational management.
C. Leadership.
D. Strategic management .

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