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.

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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

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

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

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

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

Project Management Final Exam 2019

Project Management Final Exam 2019

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