Deck 2 Flashcards
Whose responsibility is it to manage stakeholder engagement on a project?
Project manager
Which of the following is an output of Manage Project Team process?
Organizational process assets update
Which of the following is an example of an estimate activity resource tool?
Scheduling software tool
How to calculate schedule variance?
SV = earned value minus planned value.
Earned value is obtained by multiplying each activities planned value times its percentage complete and summing. The total planned value is the sum of the planned values of the activities that should have been completed according to the approved plan. Schedule variance, is earned value minus planned value, in dollars.
Work performance data is an important input the validate scope process. Work performance data is an output of which of the following processes?
Direct and manage project work.
Which of the following statements is true considering stakeholder influence on a typical project with a predictive plan-driven life cycle?
Stakeholder influence is greatest at the start of the project and decreases in the execution phase.
In your project, two key stakeholders are in continuous conflict with one another. As a PM, you have spent many hours resolving their conflict, to no avail. What should you do next?
Refer to the communications management plan for the escalations process.
What is the process of monitoring the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes tot he cost baseline?
Monitor and control project work
Which of the following processes produces the work performance data
Direct and manage project work
The engineers of a project have a brainstorming session to generate ideas for reducing the costs of the project from now on. In which process group and knowledge area will these ideas be implemented?
Project execution/ procurement management
What does it mean if SPI is 0.97?
The project is behind schedule
Once the quality management plan is in place, it is time to start the perform quality assurance process. To perform this process, which three items should be used?
Quality metrics, process improvement plan and quality control measures
Serena is responsible for ensuring that the engine part suppliers are performing as expected according to their contracts. What is Serena responsible for on the project?
Ensuring that the project team members do not spend more time than expected processing returns of defective engine parts to the suppliers.
After stakeholder information is collected, the PM will start the planning phase. Which of the processes should be performed first?
Plan scope management.
The process of monitoring and recording results from the execution of quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes is known as
Control quality
The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint is known as
Free float
In which of the following processes are various measurements such as percent of work completed and number of chnage requests on project activities and deliverables, collected, analyzed and transformed into work performance information?
Control stakeholder engagement
What should be included in the support documentation for your project cost estimates?
Range of possible estimates
Your project isin the final stages of execution. What is the amount of stakeholders influence at this stage compared to the early stages?
Decreased
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the manage communications process?
This process ends when the last project deliverable has been delivered and accepted.
How to calculate total planned value?
Total planned value is the projects budget at completion. This is the sum of the planned value of all the tasks.
What helps the project team members group potential causes of risk that may be encountered on a project?
Risk breakdown structure.
IN what process group would a celebration in which you share the developments, challenges and lessons learned so far?
Direct and manage project work
What are the four inputs of the manage communications process?
Communications management plan
Organizational process assets
Work performance reports
Enterprise environmental factors
