When would Rolling Wave Planning be useful in a project?
A. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to help you achieve the appropriate level of detail in each work package at the right time. B. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to determine the correct sequencing for long term items. C. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to help you organize team member’s activities within a large project group. D. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to help you determine which activities are more important and should be done first.
A. You should use Rolling Wave Planning to help you achieve the appropriate level of detail in each work package at the right time.
During a cost performance review with certain senior officers from the finance department, you discover that there are certain inconsistencies in the way cost performance reporting is done, and you obtain data that shows these officers are deliberately misleading senior management. What should you do?
A. Write an anonymous letter to senior management about these activities. B. Bring this to the notice of senior management even though there are no formal policies in place for whistle-blowers. C. Do nothing, but make sure that the data for your project is clean. D. Do nothing. The corrupt behavior of the finance department officials has nothing to do with your project.
B. Bring this to the notice of senior management even though there are no formal policies in place for whistle-blowers.
A research project needed to be carried out under largely undefined, uncertain and rapidly changing environmental conditions. If this project is carried out as a multi-phase project, which of the following phase-to-phase relationships best suits it?
A. Overlapping relationship B. Sequential relationship C. Iterative relationship D. Boxed relationship
Emily has been assigned as the project manager of a project. After a detailed discussion with the project management team, she decides to come up with a quality management plan that is informal and broadly framed. What would your comment on this be?
A. This is incorrect. A quality management plan should be formal but broadly framed. B. This is incorrect. A quality management plan should be formal and highly detailed. C. This is fine. The style and detail of the quality management plan is determined by the requirements of the project. D. This is incorrect. A quality management plan should be informal and highly detailed.
C. This is fine. The style and detail of the quality management plan is determined by the requirements of the project.
A project manager is preparing the WBS for a software project. The WBS includes all the product and project work but excludes the project management work. From the following choices, select a statement that correctly describes this situation.
A. This is incorrect. Product work and project management should be included as part of the WBS, but project work should be excluded. B. This is incorrect. Project work and project management should be part of the WBS but product work should be excluded. C. This is incorrect. Product work, project work and project management work should all be included in the WBS D. This is correct. Product and project work should be included as part of the WBS, but project management work should be excluded.
C. This is incorrect. Product work, project work and project management work should all be included in the WBS
While preparing a human resource plan, a project manager documented that one of the senior programmers in the team would make decisions on whether the quality of deliverables from the project met the project’s documented standards. Which of the following aspects of a human resource plan does this address?
A. Competency B. Responsibility C. Authority D. Role
Projects, portfolios and programs are different entities in an organization. Which of the following choices states a correct relationship between them?
A. A portfolio consists of a collection of projects or programs that are grouped together to achieve strategic business objectives. The projects or programs need not be directly related. B. A project is a collection of programs and portfolios that are grouped together to achieve the project objectives. C. A program consists of a collection of projects or portfolios that are grouped together to achieve strategic business objectives. D. A program is a collection of projects that are grouped together for convenience. It may include unrelated work if the work is under the same business division.
A. A portfolio consists of a collection of projects or programs that are grouped together to achieve strategic business objectives. The projects or programs need not be directly related.
Emily’s project is in execution. Emily is currently planning to execute the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process. She has gathered the stakeholder management plan, the recent change log, and the necessary organizational process assets. Which of the following is a key input to this process that is still missing from this list?
A. Communications methods B. Stakeholder register C. Stakeholder management strategy D. Communications management plan
As the project manager of a development project, you are aware that there is a slight defect in the product developed, as a result of which it will fail to meet certain regulatory standards. This was due to faulty requirements. You are also aware that the product will continue to function properly even though it fails to meet that standard. Your customer manager asks you to certify that the product meets the necessary regulatory standards, stating that this will not be verified when the report is submitted to the necessary authorities, so there is no issue with your certifying. Your stance is that:
A. You certify the product. Regulations are anyway guidelines in the industry. Not meeting a regulation does not mean anything. B. As a one-off instance, you will certify the product to make sure the project goes through successfully. C. You will not certify that a product meets certain regulations when it does not, even though the product continues to function well. D. You certify the product, but you document your conversation with your customer manager for future purposes.
C. You will not certify that a product meets certain regulations when it does not, even though the product continues to function well.
You are working with your customers on completed deliverables in your electronic parts manufacturing project. Since these parts are exported to other countries, they need more testing before your customers accept them. In this scenario, which of the following statements about the completed deliverables is CORRECT?
A. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must be forwarded to the close project or phase process B. Deliverables formally accepted by customers must be moved to organizational process assets C. Deliverables formally accepted by customers are forwarded to the validate scope process D. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must require a change request for defect repair
D. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must require a change request for defect repair