As the Project Manager on the construction of a new hotel you have developed a project management plan that you believe is realistic and will be formally approved. The organizational assets that influenced the development of the plan may include all of the following except:
A. Project management plan templates
B. Risk register from a past project
C. Change control procedures
D. Business case for the project
The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives and create required deliverables. The ‘Create WBS’ is a process under which Knowledge Area?
A. Project Schedule Management
B. Project Integration Management.
C. Project Scope Management
D. Project Cost Management
An organization wishes to ensure that the opportunity arising from a risk with positive impact is realized. This organization should:
A. Exploit the risk
B. Mitigate the risk
C. Accept the risk
D. Avoid the risk
A project management team came up with certain metrics such as defect frequency, failure rate, availability and reliability. These are usually defined as an output of what process?
A. Plan Quality Management
B. Define Scope
C. Collect Requirements
D. Manage Quality
Accepted deliverables are an input to the Close Project or Phase process. These deliverables would have been accepted through which of the following processes?
A. Validate Scope
B. Control Quality
C. Control Scope
D. Manage Quality
A Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) would be used to breakdown the project by type of resources. The RBS is an example of a:
A. Linear chart
B. Matrix chart
C. Flow chart
D. Hierarchical chart
You are a consulting project manager with over 15 years experience running software development projects. You have been engaged to manage a finance application project for a new customer. However on the first day onsite at the customer’s headquarters you are told the project has been cancelled, but there is a need for a project manager to manage a major infrastructure project to deploy a large number of servers and storage devices. The customer asks if you would be interested in leading this project. You have never managed this type of project before but would be interested in the challenge. Which of the follow is the best response?
A. Do not mention your lack of experience, but ask for more information about the project. After reviewing the information and see that you could probably wing the project, accept the project.
B. Accept the job with the caveat you can bring in any needed resources to work on the project, then hire a project manager you know that works in this area to handle the implementation details.
C. Decline the opportunity, citing your lack of experience and knowledge in this area.
D. Do not mention your lack of experience and accept the job.
Midway through the Collect Requirements process, a project manager finds that there are lots of unresolved issues. Which of the following is usually the best way to discover and resolve issues?
A. Interviewing
B. Use of a stakeholder register
C. Questionnaires
D. Facilitated workshops
Which of these items are important to address when determining each person’s role in the project team?
A. Role, authority, responsibility, and competency
B. Role, responsibility, and competency
C. Role and responsibility
D. Role, authority, and competency
Your organization has recognized a need to replace the legacy manufacturing system with a modern software application to reduce delivery delays and process downtime. Your IT director anticipates a project to fulfill this business need, however, he warns that the new project’s budget cannot exceed $75,000 due to shortages in the department budget. He also indicates that no additional staff will be allocated to this project other than the existing IT staff. If you are assigned as a project manager to this project, you would document these initial project conditions as:
A. Project assumptions in the project charter
B. Project restrictions in the project management plan
C. Project constraints in the project charter
D. Project conditions in the project cost management plan and human resource management plan