460 CH1
Project Management Mastery Quiz
Test your knowledge of project management principles and practices with our comprehensive quiz! This quiz covers essential concepts, tools, and the differences between operations and projects, designed for anyone looking to enhance their understanding.
- 63 Questions on key project management topics
- Multiple choice format for engaging learning
- Great for aspiring project managers and seasoned professionals alike!
Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top management in the military, computer, and construction industries.
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A difference between operations and projects is that operations end when their objectives have been reached, whereas projects do not.
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Every project should have a well-defined objective
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Projects should be developed in increments.
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A project manager’s primary role is to provide the funding for a project.
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One of the main reasons why project management is challenging is because of the factor of uncertainty.
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Questions about how a team will track schedule performance is related to a project’s scope.
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In order to be realistic, a project manager should always set discrete goals instead of a range of objectives
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Managing the triple constraint primarily involves making trade-offs between resources and quality.
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The only responsibility of a project manager is to meet the specific scope, time, and cost goals of a project.
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A project’s stakeholders include its customers, users, and suppliers.
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Opponents of a project do not belong to the category of stakeholders.
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The importance of stakeholders’ needs and expectations is limited to the beginning of a project.
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Project procurement management primarily involves identifying stakeholder needs while managing their engagement throughout the life of the project.
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The primary role of project stakeholder management is to ensure that the project will satisfy the stated needs for which it was undertaken.
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Project resource management is concerned with making effective use of the people involved with a project
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Stakeholder analyses, work requests, and project charters are tools used in integration management
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Earned value management is a tool primarily used in resource management.
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. Responsibility assignment matrices and project organizational charts are examples of tools used in procurement management.
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Maturity models, statistical methods, and test plans are examples of tools used in quality management.
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Project managers work with the project sponsors to define success for particular projects.
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Good project managers assume that their definition of success is the same as the sponsors.
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Program managers are change agents.
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Effective program managers recognize that managing a project is much more complex than managing a program.
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Individual projects always address strategic goals whereas portfolio management addresses tactical goals.
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It is mandatory for project managers working on large information technology projects to be experts in the field of information technology
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To be a successful manager, the only skills an IT project manager needs to possess are excellent technical skills.
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The introduction of new software makes basic tools, such as Gantt charts and network diagrams, inexpensive and easy to create.
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The enterprise project management software, which aids project and portfolio management, is a low-end tool.
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Which characteristic highlights a difference between projects and operations?
A. Projects are undertaken to sustain an organization’s business whereas operations are not.
B. Operations are undertaken to create unique products, services, or results whereas projects are not.
C. Projects are temporary endeavors whereas an organization’s operations are ongoing in nature.
D. Operations have well-defined objectives whereas projects do not need to have a unique purpose.
Which objective is true of projects?
A. They have an indefinite beginning and end.
B. They have a unique purpose.
C. They are developed using regressive elaboration.
D. They are permanent in nature.
The role of a _____ is to provide direction and funding for a project.
A. Project sponsor
B. Project manager
C. Support staff member
D. Project team
Galaxy, a construction company, buys a particular brand of tiles manufactured by Tiles and Floors, an eco-friendly tile manufacturing company. However, Tiles and Floors has declared bankruptcy and closed down. At present, Galaxy is facing a crisis because there are no other manufacturers in the market that supplies eco-friendly tiles. Which constraint is Galaxy currently facing?
Resources
Time
Scope
Cost
Steve, an engineer in a construction company, is at present working on a home construction project. The home is being built for the Robinson family, the owners of the home. Steve is working with his project team and support staff to ensure the project is completed on time. In such a scenario, the project sponsor is _____.
Steve
The support staff
The project team
The Robinson family
Which knowledge area involves defining and managing all the work required to complete the project successfully?
Project resource management
Project scope management
Project time management
Project cost management
Which project management knowledge area ensures that the project will satisfy the stated or implied needs for which it was undertaken?
Project cost management
Project time management
Project risk management
Project quality management
Which project management knowledge area primarily involves generating, collecting, disseminating, and storing project information?
Project cost management
Project procurement management
Project time management
Project communications management
Project procurement management mainly involves:
A. Making effective use of the people involved with the project.
B. Buying goods and services for a project from outside the performing organization.
C. generating, collecting, disseminating, and storing project information.
D. Identifying and analyzing stakeholder needs while managing and controlling their engagement
Which project management knowledge area is an overarching function that affects and is affected by the different knowledge areas?
Project cost management
Project stakeholder management
Project integration management
Project communications management
An important tool for project scope management is _____.
Fast tracking
A kickoff meeting
A Gantt chart
A work breakdown structure
Which tool is most likely to be used in project schedule management?
Payback analysis
Impact matrices
Gantt charts
Fishbone diagrams
Fast tracking is an example of a tool used in _____ management.
Schedule
Quality
Communication
Risk
In which of the following areas of management is payback analysis most likely to be used?
Resource
Communication
Cost
Quality
A _____ is a tool used in quality management.
Probability matrix
Checklist
. Request for proposal
Critical path analysis
Team building exercises and motivation techniques are tools used in _____ management.
Procurement
Scope
Resource
Cost
Which tool can best help in efficient communication management?
Kick-off meetings
Impact matrices
Requests for quotes
Fast tracking
A _____ is a tool used in risk management
Work breakdown structure
Project organizational chart
Critical path analysis
Probability matrix
Which statement is true of project management?
A. It is a simple discipline with a limited scope.
B. It has specific tools which work universally across all kinds of projects.
C. It does not guarantee successes for all projects.
D. Its framework consists solely of project management knowledge areas.
Which of the following is true of program managers?
A. They report to project managers who represent the next level in the hierarchy.
B. They recognize that managing a program is simpler than managing a project.
C. They provide leadership and direction for project managers heading the projects within a program.
D. They are responsible solely for the delivery of project results.
Which goal distinguishes project management and portfolio management?
A. Project management involves making wise investment decisions whereas portfolio management does not.
B. Portfolio management is an easy task whereas project management is a more difficult task.
C. Portfolio management asks questions like, “Are we carrying out projects efficiently?” whereas project management asks questions such as “Are we investing in the right areas?”
D. Project management addresses specific, short-term goals whereas portfolio management focuses on long-term goals
A difference between strategic and tactical goals is:
A. Strategic goals are more specific than tactical goals.
B. Tactical goals encompass broader dimensions than strategic goals.
C. Tactical goals are more important for a project than strategic goals.
D. Strategic goals are long-term in nature whereas tactical goals are short-term.
Which of the following questions reflects the strategic goals of project portfolio management?
A. Are we carrying out projects well?
B. Are projects on time and on budget?
C. Are we investing in the right areas?
D. Do stakeholders know what they should be doing?
Martha works as a project manager at a bank. Due to certain changes in external factors, Martha needs to make a few alterations in the tactical goals of her project. In such a scenario, which of the following will best help Martha cope with the change?
Negotiation
Project environment knowledge
Motivation
Soft skills
Joe is a project manager in an IT company and has over the years, gained substantial knowledge in his area of work. However, while managing his team, he often loses his temper. In addition, he fails to be an active listener when his team members approach him with work related challenges. In which of the following areas does Joe need to develop his skills in?
Application area knowledge
Project environment knowledge
Standards and regulations
Human relations skills
Which attribute best defines the role of leaders?
A. They focus on short-term objectives.
B. They work on achieving primarily tactical goals.
C. They work solely toward day-to-day details of meeting specific tasks.
D. They inspire people to reach goals.
A Gantt chart is a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a ____ format.
Calendar
line graph
Bar graph
Pie chart
A _____ is an organizational group responsible for coordinating the project management function throughout an organization
Project Management Office
Project Management Professional
Project Management Center
Portfolio Group
Which organization provides certification as a Project Management Professional?
PMS
PMC
PMI
PMP
Which of the following refers to a set of principles that guides decision making based on personal values of what is considered right and wrong?
Ethics
Civics
Laws
Politics
Which attribute is true of low-end tools of project management software?
A. They are designed for especially large projects with multiple users.
B. Their main advantage is that they have unlimited functionality.
C. They provide basic project management features.
D. They are referred to as enterprise project management software.
Which type of tool is usually recommended for small projects and single users?
Low-end
Midrange
High-end
Upper range
Enterprise project management software is also known as a _____ tool of project management software.
Baseline
Midrange
Low-end
High-end
What is a difference between low-end and midrange tools of the project management software?
A. Low-end tools are designed to handle primarily multiple users whereas midrange tools are created to handle single users.
B. Low-end tools provide robust capabilities to handle dispersed workgroups whereas midrange tools do not.
C. Midrange tools provide basic project management features whereas low-end tools offer enterprise and portfolio management functions.
D. Midrange tools are designed to handle larger projects than low-end tools.
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