Tom is the project manager for his organization and he's creating a project network diagram for this project. He has created his project network diagramming with the consideration of the availability of project resources. What network diagramming approach has Tom used in this example?
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Which of the following charts provides a useful framework that helps you in deciding which risks need your attention?
What forecasting method would your project use if your project customer requires an autoregressive moving average for performance forecasting?
You are the project manager for your organization and would like to use a time and materials contract for a small project. What must a time and materials contract have to safeguard the project?
You are the project manager for your organization and are planning the project work with your project team. You are currently breaking down the project scope into work packages to determine an accurate time and cost estimate. What document are you and the project team creating?
Alan works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He is working on the office renovation project. The office has 200 doors. All doors have to be glassed and painted. Before each door can be painted, the glasses must be fitted in them at least 12 hours before. Alan has arranged these tasks with a finish to start relationship between glassing and painting. What else should Alan do to account for the twelve hours of maintenance time?
Jane works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. She is calculating the estimated activity durations for her project. She is using parameters such as duration, budget, size, weight, and complexity from a previous similar project as the basis for estimating the new project. Which of the following estimate activity duration techniques is she using in the project?
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You are currently working with the project stakeholders to identify risks in your project. You understand that the qualitative risk assessment and analysis can reflect the attitude of the project team and other stakeholders to risk. Effective assessment of risk requires management of the risk attitudes of the participants. What should you, the project manager, do with assessment of identified risks in consideration of the attitude and bias of the participants towards the project risk?
Identify Risks is the process of determining which risks may affect the project. Which of the following are inputs of the Identify risks process?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Which of the following statements about Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) are true?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Which of the following is a formal documentation that indicates the completion of the project or phase and the transfer of the completed project deliverables to the operations group or to the next phase?
Holly is the project manager of the GHH Project. During risk identification and the subsequent risk analysis process she has identified a risk with a high probability and high impact for her project.
She and the stakeholder agree that the project management plan should be changed to eliminate the risk threat entirely. What risk response has Holly used in this instance?
You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves development of a new interface for your existing time management system. You know that developers are available in your organization, and would like to use them. However, your program manager thinks that an outside company needs to be engaged to complete this development. Which of the following will help you to convince your project manager to use the internal resources?
Which of the following is described in the statement below?
"It is an approved time-phased budget that monitors and measures cost performance throughout the project life cycle."
Billy is the project manager of the PQW Project and she has an assigned project budget of $655,000. Currently she is 80 percent complete with the project though she was scheduled to be 100 percent done by this date. She has spent $490,000 to date and other than the project schedule, which was delayed because of a vendor, the project is going well. What should Billy report as her schedule performance index for this project?
Which of the following is described in the statement below?
"It is a monetary calculation of the quality performance of an organization. It is the monetary figure used by project management personnel in the decision making process."
Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.
______is the measure of chance that, due to unfavorable events, the planned or budgeted cost of events can be exceeded
Wanda is the project manager for her organization and is creating a checklist for her project team. In this project the team will be installing electrical fixtures throughout an office building and she wants to confirm that the installations will be done correctly each time. Her goal is that the project deliverables will be of quality throughout the project installation process. In what project process will Wanda's team use the checklist?
Which of the following processes is used to obtain formal acceptance of the project scope by the stakeholders?
Which of the following is a process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope?
Which of the following are inputs of the Perform Quality Control process?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Which of the following is described in the statement below?
"It measures the quality objectives of the project. It provides the foundation for measuring and reporting quality performance as part of the performance measurement baseline."
Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.
A ______ is performed to identify successes and failures that warrant recognition in the preparation or administration of other procurement contracts on the project, or on other projects within the performing organization.
How many stages are there in the project life cycle?
Alan works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He is working on the office renovation project. The office has 200 doors. All doors have to be glassed and painted. Before each door can be painted, the glasses must be fitted in them at least 12 hours before. Alan has arranged these tasks with a finish to start relationship between glassing and painting. What else should Alan do to account for the twelve hours of maintenance time?
You are the project manager for the NHQ Project. Your project has 76 stakeholders. Two of your key stakeholders, Nancy Smith, the COO, and Chuck Thomas, the CIO, need to contribute information to one another and to you, the project manager, in order for the project to move forward. It comes to your attention that Chuck and Nancy are in disagreement with one another and won't communicate. This disruption has caused your project to come to a standstill. What component of the communication model does this scenario represent?
Which of the following is the delay between tasks that have a dependency?
Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.
A _______ is a scale of values for the vendors where not all of the values are of the same weight
Your project uses a piece of equipment that if the temperature of the machine goes above 450 degree Fahrenheit the machine will overheat and have to be shut down for 48 hours. Should this machine overheat even once it will delay the project's end date. You work with your project to create a response that should the temperature of the machine reach 430, the machine will be paused for at least an hour to cool it down. The temperature of 430 is called what?
You work as a Project Manager for PassGuide Inc. You are developing the schedule for your project. Your project deals with the construction of a new building for PassGuide Inc. You want to break the project into small, individual, and manageable components. Which of the following tasks will you perform in the above scenario?
Which of the following is the process of monitoring cost performance and controlling changes to the cost baseline?
You are a Project Manager in your organization who is managing a considerably huge budget project to develop new software. Considering the varied nature of your stakeholder group, you would like to put together a plan as to what information the stakeholders need, and how to provide that information. What is the document that you would need, and as part of which process group would you achieve this?
Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.
The______ defines the period in which, during the development of the project scope statement, a clear and very thorough project scope statement narrative is documented.
Which of the following are inputs of the perform quality assurance process?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Which of the following documents is described in the statement below?
"It is an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do an act which is enforceable in the court of law."
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to improve the competencies and interaction of team members to enhance project performance. Which of the following processes will help you to accomplish the task?
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are performing steps to carry out and finish the project according to the measures drawn through the planning stage. Which of the following stages of the project are you working on?
Which of the following types of organizational structures represents a hierarchy where every member has one leader and the employees are grouped by the area of expertise?
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are performing a task to generate a hierarchical list of resources related by function and resource type that is used to facilitate planning and controlling of project work. Which of the following components of project management will you use to accomplish the above task?
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You want to demonstrate how a process performs over time and when a process is subject to special cause variation, resulting in an out-of-control condition. Which of the following Perform Quality Control tools will help you accomplish the above task?
Which of the following theories describes the statement below?
"It states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job satisfaction, while a separate set of factors cause dissatisfaction."
Which of the following elements facilitates people to know large amounts of information as a picture rather than a table of names and numbers?
Gary has identified a project risk that could injure project team members. He does not want to accept any risk where someone could become injured on this project so he hires a professional vendor to complete this portion of the project work. This workaround to the risk event is known as what type of risk response?
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. Which of the following risk response planning techniques will you use to shift the impact of a threat to a third party, together with the ownership of the response?
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. A new project has been proposed to change all keyboards of every computer in your organization. There are 1,600 keyboards that will need to be removed and replaced with wireless keyboards. What document will you first need to start this project?
Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.
______is the best method to achieve the final equitable settlement for all outstanding issues, claims, and disputes
In which of the following process groups is the initial scope defined and are the initial finances committed?
Which of the following are outputs of the Plan Quality process?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Which of the following documents refers specifically to the input output mechanism that serves the purpose of providing a narrative description of the sum of the scope of the project?
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are in a constant effort to improve business processes, procedures, and operations. Which of the following management techniques are you using for the above task?
You work as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. You are using the three point estimate to calculate the estimated activity durations for your project. If you have an optimistic estimate of 10 days, a pessimistic estimate of 19 days, and a most likely estimate of 13, which of the following is the expected activity duration for your project?
Which of the following are the prime reasons behind the use of the Critical path method in a project?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.
______describes the utilization of formal econometric techniques to evaluate the aggregate risk in a financial portfolio
Jeff works as a project manager for PassGuide Inc. He has to adjust the amount of time between two activities. He wants to delay the start of the second activity by 14 hours. Which of the following scheduling components will Jeff add to the second activity?
Which of the following is described in the statement below?
"It means that feedback regarding performance is provided to the person being evaluated from many sources, including superiors, peers, and subordinates."
You are the project manager of the GYG Project. A new scope change is being considered for your project. You are concerned, however, that the scope change may add costs, risks, and adversely affect the project schedule. What project management process is responsible for evaluating the full effect of a proposed scope change on your project?
Kelly is the project manager for her organization and is managing a project to create new software. In this project some of the project team members have misunderstood the project requirements and have added features to the software that were not requested. Kelly needs to examine the amount of time it took to create these features and determine if the changes should be kept or discarded. What scope control tool and technique would help Kelly determine the magnitude of this variation?
You are the project manager of the NJYO Project and are working with your project team to create the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). This project will span all areas of the matrix organization and your project team doesn't really know the resources from the other departments. Some of the project team members have asked that you excuse them from the WBS when the section of the project scope doesn't apply to them. You tell them 'No'. Why?
Which of the following are outputs of the Develop Project Team process?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.