Knowledge Assessment Quiz

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Knowledge Assessment Quiz

Test your project management knowledge with our engaging Knowledge Assessment Quiz! This quiz challenges your understanding of essential concepts and best practices in project management, configuration management, conflict resolution, and more.

Perfect for aspiring project managers, this quiz features:

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12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by AnalyzingApple57

The project sponsor has approached you with a dilemma. At the annual stakeholders’ meeting, the CEO announced that the project you're managing will be completed by the end of this year. The problem is that this is six months prior to the scheduled completion date. It's too late to go back and correct her mistake, and now stakeholders expect implementation by the announced date. You must speed up the delivery date of this project. Your primary constraint before this occurred was the budget. Choose the best action from the options listed to speed up the project.

A. Hire more resources to get the work completed faster

B. Ask for more money so that you can contract out one of the phases you had planned to do with in-house resources.

C. Utilize negotiation and influencing skills to convince the project sponsor to speak with the CEO and make a correction to her announcement.

D. Examine the project management plan to see whether there are any phases that can be fast tracked, and then revise the project management plan to reflect the compression of the schedule.

Which of the following statements regarding configuration management is not true?

A. Configuration management involves managing changes to the project baselines.

B. Change control systems are a subset of the configuration management system.

C. Configuration management focuses on the specifications of the deliverables of the project

D. Configuration management validates and improves the project by evaluating the impact of each change.

Name the difference between the agile iterative approach and the agile incremental approach as discussed in the Agile Practice Guide (PMI®, 2017).

A. Incremental uses prototypes and iterative helps in performing the work faster and in speeding up the project.

B. Incremental focuses on learning optimization and iterative focuses on speed of delivery.

C. Iterative plans the work at the beginning of the project before starting work, and incremental plans the work at the beginning of each iteration

D. Iterative uses prototypes and incremental helps in performing the work faster and speeding up the project.

During your project meeting, a problem was discussed, and a resolution to the problem was reached. During the meeting, the participants started wondering why they thought the problem was such a big issue. Sometime after the meeting, you received an email from one of the meeting participants saying they've changed their mind about the solution reached in the meeting and need to resurface the problem. The solution reached during the initial project meeting is a result of which of the following conflict resolution techniques?

A. Collaborate

B. Forcing

C. Smoothing

D. Storming

According to the PMBOK® Guide, which of the following names all the components of an interactive communication model?

A. Encode, transmit, decode

B. Encode, transmit, decode, acknowledge, feedback/response

C. Encode, transmit, decode, feedback/response

D. Encode, transmit, acknowledge, decode

During your project meeting, a problem was discussed, and the project sponsor described the resolution they wanted the project team to implement. The project manager tried to interject with another idea that might solve the issues but the sponsor didn't want to discuss the idea. Which of the following conflict resolution techniques does this question describe?

A. Collaborate

B. Forcing

C. Smoothing

D. Storming

You've been assigned as a project manager on a research and development project for a new dental procedure. You're working in the Project Scope Management Knowledge Area. What is the purpose of the scope management plan?

A. The scope management plan describes and documents a scope baseline to help make future project decisions.

B. The scope management plan decomposes project deliverables into smaller units of work.

C. The scope management plan describes how project scope will be developed and how scope changes will be managed.

D. The scope management plan describes how cost and time estimates will be developed for project scope changes.

14. Which of the following statements regarding Ishikawa diagrams are true?

A. Ishikawa diagrams are also called cause-and-effect diagrams.

B. Ishikawa diagrams are also called fishbone diagrams.

C. Ishikawa diagrams help identify the root cause of the problem.

D. Ishikawa diagrams are also known as why-why diagrams.

E. A, B, C, D

F. A, B, D

All of the following statements are true regarding risk events except which one?

A. Project risks are uncertain events

B. If risks occur, they can have a positive or negative effect on project objectives.

C. Unknown risks can be threats to the project objectives, and nothing can be done to plan for them.

D. Risks that have more perceived rewards to the organization than consequences should be accepted.

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