A Responsibility Assignment Matrix illustrates the connections between the work that needs to be done and the project team members. A RACI chart is a type of Responsibility Assignment matrix where the names of the roles being documented are:
A. Responsible, Administration, Check and Inform
B. Reportable, Actionable, Check and Inform
C. Responsible, Accountable, Consult and Inform
D. Reportable, Actionable, Consult and Implement
You are managing a project to manufacture widgets for a customer. The customer has come to the factory to examine the product, and determines that while the product itself meets its requirements, the manner in which about half the widgets have been packaged does not meet requirements and is insisting they be repackaged. This re-work will require considerable time, resources, and cost to complete. The investigation into how and why the packaging was problematic, revealed that no process was developed to govern how the widget was to be placed in the packaging. The result is that the assembly line workers developed their own processes for packaging. What do you do?
A. Notify the project stakeholders immediately and accept responsibility for the failure to develop and implement a packaging process.
B. Pursue formal disciplinary action against the assembly line manager and the quality manager.
C. Contact the legal department.
D. Crash the project.
The Identify Risks process involves determining which risks may impact a project. It is considered an iterative process. What is the frequency of the iteration?
A. Every month
B. Every fortnight
C. The frequency of iteration will vary based on the situation
D. Every week
Colocation is also referred to as:
A. Strong matrix
B. Weak matrix
C. Tight matrix
D. Balance matrix
As the project manager of a high-visibility project, you are in the process of Identifying risks. You are concerned that the data you collect might be biased. A technique that helps keep the bias out of the data and keeps any one person from having undue influence on the outcome is:
A. Interviewing
B. Round-robin technique
C. Ishikawa technique
D. Delphi technique
A project manager is performing Reserve Analysis as a technique in one of the project management process that he is currently working on. Which of these is likely to be that process?
A. Estimate Reserves
B. Report Costs
C. Estimate Costs
D. Plan Costs
A project charter that formally authorized a project was created. The project charter documented the initial requirements to satisfy stakeholders’ needs and expectations. How often should the project charter ideally be revised?
A. At the beginning, middle and end of a project.
B. Once a month
C. Never
D. As required by the PMO.
A Work Breakdown Structure is a hierarchical illustration of all the work to be done in a project. A WBS component does not represent:
A. products
B. results
C. services
D. project activities
The WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives. This is created as part of:
A. Project Integration Management
B. Project Scope Management
C. Project Procurement Management
D. Project Schedule Management
The termination clause and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism for each procurement in a project is documented in:
A. Scope Statement
B. Agreement
C. Resource Calendars
D. Source Selection Criteria