PMI Review

Project Manager.

Who is responsible for overseeing the daily activities of a project from start to finish?

Forcing.

The project team is arguing about the start date of an important task in the project. The project sponsor intervenes and sets the start date. Which type of conflict resolution technique is the project sponsor using?

Project Manager.

Recent feedback from a client requires adjusting the scope of a project as well as something additional funding. Who needs to provide the approval to move forward with the changes?

Predictive.

You need to select a project management approach for your team. Key considerations include the team has worked on similar projects, the deliverable must comply with standards and regulations, project tasks are well defined, and the project deliverable is clear. What project management approach should you choose?

The director? Your client.

The Community Center Director hires your project team to build a playground for the families in the community. Upon completion of the playground, who is responsible for the acceptance of the project?

The project will take additional time to complete.

You are managing a project that is experiencing significant scope creep. What is the impact of the project?

An external supplier who provides goods and services to a project.

What is a vendor?

Approval by the project sponsor and customer.

Which action signifies the formal acceptance of the final project?

Determine the cost difference and discuss options with the customer.

You are an event coordinator for an upcoming party. The customer changes the party date. You know that this change will result in an increase in cost. What should you do to resolve the budget variance?

2. Identify the change.

You have received a request to add a new scope item to your project and need to follow the change management process. Move the four actions in the answer area and place them in the correct order.

2. Assess the change impact.

3. Assess the change impact.

3. Approve or deny the change?

4. Approve or deny the change?

4 Implement the approved change.

4 Implement the approved change.

The purchasing of external goods and services needed to complete a project.

What is Project Procurement?

To document a change in scope and any impact to the project.

What is the purpose of following a change management process?

Assess the change impact.

You are the project manager for a small construction project. You receive an updated. Which stage of the change management process are you beginning?

WBS - work breakdown structure.

And. Your project team is using an agile project delivery method. In preparation for an upcoming meeting, your manager asks you to review the prioritized list of deliverables. What should you review?

Discover what personally motivates each team member.

As a project manager. How should you encourage your team to be focused, energized, and positive for the duration of the project?

Team members must wait to start a task until another task has completed.

Which scenario demonstrates a schedule dependency?

Resource management plan.

You are evaluating the skills needed in your project team to successfully complete a project. Which component of the project management plan are you working on?

To decompose the project work into assignable work activities.

What is the primary goal of creating a Work Breakdown Structure? WBS?

Create a detailed project plan that includes all of the project activities.

As a project manager. Which activity should you perform when using a predictive project management approach?

Analogous historical estimation.

You are estimating the cost of a project by using the budget from a similar project last month. Which type of budget estimation technique are you using?

You need to speak with the project manager about changing the location and wait for approval.

You are one of the team members planning a small community event. The project manager assigns you the task of planning for the event at a specific location. You find a better location and you want to alert your team to the change of the location. What responsibility and authority do you have regarding your assigned task?

Project work that has been completed.

As project manager. What information do you need to include in a status update to your boss?

A unique output of a project.

What is a deliverable?

You should add the feature to the scope statement.

You are part of a project team that is working on developing a new app. Never suggest that you add a feature to the app. Project manager says that the feature is beyond the scope. What should you do if the product feature is out of scope?

Sharing best practice approaches among the team members.

What is the benefit of creating a lessons learned document?

The scope increases and the cost to the customer increases.

What impact does gold plating have on an object?

Continuous refinement of the product based upon stakeholder feedback.

What is a key characteristic of an adaptive project management approach?

Scope management plan.

Which component of the project management plan outlines the work needed to meet project objectives and deliverables?

Reliance on customer input throughout the project - adaptive.

Predictive and adaptive project management approaches have different key characteristics for each key characteristic, Select. Detective or adaptive? New life.

Increased flexibility to make project adjustments - adaptive.

Increased flexibility to make project adjustments - adaptive.

Completion of project according to the project management plan created at the beginning of the project.

Completion of project according to the project management plan created at the beginning of the project.

Predictive.

Project charter.

Which project document authorizes the project manager to begin working on a project?

Your manager explains that the project team starts every new project with a design stage where they create a design, Test the design, Make updates to the design, Return final design. After the design stage.

Your manager explains that the project team starts every new project with a design stage where they create a design, test the design, make updates to the design, return the final design. After the design stage.

Scrum.

They create follow a detailed project plan for all the. The project deliverables. Which project management approach are they using?

You have contracted an external supplier to provide a tool needed for the development phase in the project. The tool has been delivered and the project team finds the tool acceptable and they are using it.

You have contracted an external supplier to provide a tool needed for the development phase in the project. The tool has been delivered and the project team finds the tool acceptable and they are using it.

To inform the procurement team that the new tool has been delivered.

Why should you now close the contract with the supplier?

Summarizes, the business case for the project is the project purpose.

From the east on the left to its description on the right. Match the terminology with the summary.

Outlines the expected end result or outcome of the project is the objective.

Outlines the expected end result or outcome of the project is the objective.

Defines a key point in time that means the project is progressing as expected. Is the milestone.

Defines a key point in time that means the project is progressing as expected. Is the milestone.

It ensures procedures are followed to meet standards for performance.

What role does Quality Assurance play in the project development process?

A scope statement.

In a project, what describes work that should be included and work that should be excluded?

The series of phases that a project passes through from its start to its completion.

What is a Project Life Cycle?

Notify your supervisor that your aunt's bakery is on the list.

You were one of the event planners for a large town festival. You are in. Reviewing a list of potential bakeries that will supply the desserts for the festival. When you review the list, you notice your favorite aunt owns one of the bakeries, but no one else on your team knows this information. According to project management ethical guidelines, what should you do?

Define deliverables and deadlines.

Which project characteristics suggests that a predictive project management approach should be used?

To keep historical record of project activities.

Why should you archive project documents and processes?

Request a team meeting to decide on corrective action.

The customer states that the packaging for the new product being developed must be easy for everyone to open. During product testing, only 60% of the people were able to open the package easily. What should the project manager do at this point?

An external supplier who provides goods and services to a project.

What is a vendor?

To document all modifications and formalize their approval.

Which statement describes the main purpose of using a change management process?

Adaptive.

You need to select a project management approach for an upcoming project. Key considerations include: 1) You are working with new technologies and processes. 2) the scope of the project is unclear. 3) the client wants to be informed and involved in all phases of the project. 4) You have a highly qualified and motivated team. 5) the project requires significant amount of testing and retesting.

It encourages customers to provide continuous feedback.

How does an adaptive project management approach engage customers?

Scope Statement.

What describes a project's requirements, including major deliverables and exclusions of the project?

They work on the highest priority items in the product backlog.

In an adaptive project management approach, which statement describes the actions of team members?

A result created as an outcome of a project.

What is a deliverable?

To communicate project deliverable deadlines.

What is the purpose of including a schedule in the project management plan?

You should add the feature to the scope statement.

You are part of a project team that is working on developing new app. A team member suggests that you add a feature to the app. The project manager says that the feature is out of scope. What should you do if a product featured is out of scope?

The scope increases and the cost to the customer increases.

What impact does gold plating have on a project?

The project charter.

Which document is issued by the project sponsors to formally authorize the existence of a project and is the starting point for initial project?

You need to get approval from the project manager before asking for help.

You are a project team member working on a community festival. Your project manager assigns you to the task of creating a map of all the games, rides, and vendors at the festival. You want to take another team member off their assigned task to help you, which will save you half the time. What responsibility and authority do you have regarding your assigned task?

Bottom up.

You are creating a budget for your project by calculating the accurate cost of each activity in the project. Which method of budget development are you using?

Withdrawal.

You are an event planner for an upcoming wedding. In your meeting with the couple, they often disagree with the colors and the styles for the wedding decorations. When you try to get involved, it tends to make the disagreement worse, so you decide to give them time to talk about their choices. Eventually the couple agrees on a joint decision. Which conflict resolution technique are you using?

Meet the customer to understand the basis of their concern.

At a team meeting, your project sponsor states the customer is concerned that the software being developed will not perform reliably. As the project manager you should respond?

The project manager.

You are the project manager on an interior design project. The floor tiles in the original project plan are no longer available. Who has the authority to choose a new style for the replacement tiles?

Bring the situation to the attention of the project manager.

You are a team member working on a project. All the team members signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and promised not to share project information with other people outside the project team. You witness a team member talking about the project to someone outside the project team. According to project management ethical guidelines, what should you do?

A status update.

You provide the following information to your boss: 1) work planned vs work completed 2) budget planned vs budget spent 3) Issues or roadblocks. Which type of communication are you providing?

Team members.

Who is responsible for completing project deliverables?

To ensure products meet specifications and requirements.

Why is quality assurance included in the project development process?

It ensures that the work described in the contract was completed as specified.

Why is contract closure an important element of project closing?

To inform project teams of the new approach.

While working on your current project, the team learned a new, creative approach to managing project resources. What is the benefit of reporting the new approach in the lessons learned document?

A description of the business need.

What should you include in the project purpose section of the project charter?

Assess the change impact.

You are an event coordinator and meet with the customer to review the current status of the project. When reviewing the event a change in the design work. Which stage of the change management process does this represent?

Adaptive The project is executed in sprints - Adaptive The client is flexible to what the end deliverable will look like - Adaptive The project has clear deliverables, specific deadlines, and follows the project plan closely - Predictive.

Predictive and adaptive project management approaches have different key characteristics. For each project description select Adaptive or Predictive.

The project will take additional time to complete.

You are managing a project that is experiencing scope creep. What is the impact on the project?

Defined deliverables and deadlines.

Which project characteristic suggests that a predictive project management approach should be used?

The purchase of external goods and services needed to complete a project.

What is project procurement?

A relationship between two or more tasks.

What is a dependency?

1) Initiating the project 2) Organizing and preparing 3) Carrying out the work 4) Ending the project.

Life cycle phases in the correct order.

Planning is completed for the entire scope of the project at the beginning.

Which statement describes a characteristic of a predictive project management approach?

To provide reference material for teams working on similar projects.

During a project, your team develops new procedures to create certain product features more efficiently. Why should the team archive the project documents and new procedures?

1) You request a cost estimate for 15 gallons of paint - Identify the change 2) 15 gallons of paint are delivered to the construction site - Assess the change impact 3) The sponsor tells the purchasing manager to buy 15 gallons of additional paint - Implement the approved change 4) The construction manager informs you that team will need an additional 15 gallons of paint - approve the change.

Select the correct change management process steps for a house painting project.

Discuss the options with the customer to correct the issues and gain their approval on the course of action.

You are a project coordinator working on building a new house. You are meeting with the customer to review progress when they notice that the kitchen cabinets that were installed do not match the kitchen cabinets that were selected as part of the scope. What should you do to resolve variance?

Approval by the project sponsor or customer.

Which action signifies the formal acceptance of the final product?

Schedule.

You are the project manager for an upcoming bicycle race. You discover that road construction nearby may interfere with the path of the race. Which part of the project management plan should you update?

The project manager discovered how to motivate each team member individually.

A project team is having difficulty meeting deadlines and focusing on tasks that need to be completed. After meeting with each team member, the project manager decides to offer a paid bonus to three of them, extra time off to two of them, and the ability to work remotely to the remaining two members if they complete the project on time. Why did the project manager decide to provide