You are a Project Manager working on a project to create high efficiency electric motors for a company introducing a new electric golf cart. Your company’s president is keenly interested in the project and requests a chart that shows the number of defects by type ordered by their frequency of occurrence. Which type of chart would BEST meet this request?
A. Pareto diagram
B. Control chart
C. Statistical sampling
D. Scatter diagram
Jane is managing a software development project. During one of the project update meetings, one of the key stakeholders raised a serious concern about the new project management approach being applied on the project. The rest of the stakeholders are comfortable with the new project management approach being used. What should Jane do?
A. Use coercive power to convince the stakeholder to accept the new approach.
B. Request stakeholders to vote for the right approach.
C. Have a separate one-to-one meeting with the stakeholder if the issue is not resolved during the update meeting.
D. Remove the troublesome stakeholder from the stakeholder register.
Why are the approved change requests input to the Direct and Manage Project Work process?
A. Approved change requests may be rejected by the project team during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
B. Approved change requests are implemented by the project team during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
C. Approved change requests are sent to the Change Control Board during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
D. Approved change requests are reviewed by the project team during the Direct and Manage Project Work process.
Emily is worried about her project because many of her tasks are slowly moving and two critical tasks may have the chance of slippage. She conducts a thorough resource analysis and finds out that there are five resources who will be free next week. She would like to use this as an opportunity to assign those resources to finish her tasks early and prevent the project completion date from slipping. This is an example of?
A. Management reserves
B. Resource leveling
C. Crashing
D. Fast tracking
Stakeholder identification is a continuous process. Which of the following statements about stakeholders is incorrect?
A. Positive stakeholders benefit from the outcome of a project
B. A project manager needs to focus on the positive stakeholders since their needs are best served by the project
C. Overlooking negative stakeholders can result in an increased likelihood of failure
D. Stakeholders can have conflicting or differing objectives
You have been managing a construction project in a developing country and are closing down the project. The tools and equipment that was used on the project has to be returned to your company’s European headquarters. A non-governmental organization that builds and repairs medical facilities in this country has come to you to request that this equipment be donated to them. What should you do?
A. Donate all tools and equipment.
B. Refuse the request.
C. Donate only the tools and equipment whose value is below your purchase approval limit.
D. Notify the appropriate management.
You are assigned to prepare the Procurement Management Plan for a project that involves setting up an org-wide supply chain management system. You are looking for a guideline on what type of contracts you can use and what type of contract forms are to be used for this project. Which source will help you obtain this?
A. Each project is unique so you will need to prepare the necessary documentation for this.
B. Department process repository
C. Organizational Process Assets
D. Integrated project Plan
You have landed your dream job, as project manager working in an exotic sports car factory. Your project involves coming up with a smoother ride for the car. You have tasked the engineers to determine which type of suspension and what type of tires will provide the best ride and the most reasonable cost. This relates to which of the following processes?
A. Monitor Risks
B. Manage Quality
C. Control Quality
D. Plan Quality Management
The Project Manager controls the interfacing and overlapping areas of the organization’s procurement processes, and the project schedule with processes from this area:
A. Project Resource Management
B. Project Scope Management
C. Project Risk Management
D. Project Integration Management
John, a project manager, for Code Crashers Inc. has been assigned a project where he must lead a group of inexperienced programmers in developing a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This is very similar to a project that his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006, with some junior programmers. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?
A. Parametric Estimating
B. Bottom Up Estimating
C. Three-point estimate
D. Analogous Estimating