Project Management Final Exam 2019

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Project Management Final Exam 2019

Test your knowledge and skills in project management with our comprehensive final exam quiz designed for aspiring project managers. Whether you are preparing for certification or simply want to assess your understanding, this quiz covers essential topics and concepts.

  • 38 challenging multiple choice questions
  • Immediate feedback on your answers
  • Perfect for students and professionals alike
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A new software package is being developed, and, logically, the software is designed before the code is written, and the code is written before it is tests. These activities are dependent on each other by_________________constratints.
Resource
Technical
Time
Schedule
Jagjeet, the project manager, is scheduling a run of a produce system test at the same time he us building a marketing prototype. Which type of constraint is this?
People
Time
Equipment
If the critical path is delayed on a project and the project manager adds resources to reduce the delay, the project manager knows the project is
Ahead of schedule
Resource constrained
Overall allocated
Time Constrained
Janet wants to reallocate resources in her time-constrained project to utilize her resources better. She would first identify activities with the
Smallest duration
Least slack
Most Slack
Highest Cost
In a resource constrained project the second priority in assigning resources is often given to activities with the
Smallest duration
Least Slack
Most Slack
Highest Cost
Which of the following is NOT a problem associated with scheduling multi-project resources?
Resource bottleneck
Overall schedule slippage
Delays in one project can delay other projects
Decline in project quality
Bad weather has created delays in a project. This is an exmaple of crashing due to
Time to Market
Incentive contracts
Unforeseen project delays
High overhead
As a project is crashed and project duration is reduced direct cost typically
Become unreliable
Stay the same
Decrease
Increase
Which one of these is NOT not one of the common options for cutting project costs?
Move the completion date further out
Reduce project scope
Have owner take more responsibility
Outsource project activities
Which of the following is NOT involved in risk control
Initiating contingency plans
Establishing contingency funds
In a certain event or condition that if it occurs has a positive or negative effect on the project objectives is termed as
Random chance
A Hazard
Which of the following is NOT one of the potential responses to a specific risk event:
Retain it
Ignore it
Risks that can result to system or process that will not work are known as:
Funding Risks
Technical Risk
Risk are evaluated in terms of
Likelihood and cost
Likelihood and impact
Tools such a risk management form and a risk severity matrix are used to do
Identify risk
Assess risk
The risk management tool that is divided into 3 color coded zones representing major, modern and minor is called
Severity matrix
Impact Assessment
Alice is trying to relocate resources in a time constrained project to create smoother resource utilization she should first identify activities with the:
Look for smallest duration
Look for the most slack
When considering the sequence and scheduling of activities which of the following is NOT one of the types of project network constraint:
Physical
Time
Which of the ff is NOT one of the more common problems associated with scheduling multi-project resources:
Resource bottlenecks
Decline in Quality
In a resource constraint project the second priority, in assigning resources usually given to which of the following:
Smallest duration
Least slack
Compressing activities on a project with a sensitive project networks will:
Improve cost time crashing success
Could increase risk of delay of the project and no flexibility
Adverse weather, design flaws, and equipment breakdown can create negative slack, this is an example of a need to reduce the project duration which is caused by
Time to market
Unforeseen project delays
Without any form of planning the president of the software company remarks in a speech that a new technological advance software will be available in one year this might lead to a project that must be done faster than we anticipated. This is an example of reducing project duration which is caused by:
High overhead
Imposed deadline
As a project is crashed and the project duration is reduced the direct cost typically become
Unreliable
Increase
One difference between project management and project leadership is that the project management includes:
Aligning people to meet new directions
Managing results against the plan
Which of the following will be defined as the ability to lead and manage yourself by establishing a sense of who you are, what you stand for and how you behave or act
Personal integrity
Sense of purpose
Why do project managers need to understand their organizations mission and strategy
So that they can make appropriate decisions and adjustments and be an effective advocate for the people that are working with them
To get the job done and increase opportunity for their own promotions
When project managers recognise that if they want participant to exceed project expectations, they are leading by example through which of the following aspects:
Urgency
Standards of performance
One way you build a supportive social network
ACWPI
MBWA manage by walking around
The first project meeting is critical to the early functioning of a project team which of the following is NOT TRUE regarding this meeting
The meeting should be productive, well organized and realistic.
The meeting will need to be as long as necessary to cover the main objective of the first meeting.
Strategies to manage dysfunctional conflict among the employees would NOT include______ conflict
Accept
Encourage
When project teams get too used to not having to go to normal approvals to get something done we can call this:
Going Native
Bureaucratic bypass syndrome
Researchers have found that high performance team have certain norms for team interaction which of the following is NOT one of the norms
Acceptable to get into trouble but don't surprise people
When a decision has to be made everyone should agree on it before they move forward
Which of the following is NOT an element of good negotiation
Avoid dealing with unreasonable people
Negotiation is not a contest
Which of the following is TRUE in regard to negotiation when managing project
It cannot be viewed as a contest
It is a competitive contest
Traditional approaches to project management concentrate firmly on:
Change
Thorough planning upfront
In order to hedge against unpredictability within a project agile project management uses what:
Different risk management process
Adaptive and experimental approach
While agile management is not consist of one set method most methods are based on similar principles. Which of the following agile management principles would be described when teams reflect, teams learn, and they adapt to change and when the project work updates client:
Focusing on customer value
Continuous improvement
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