e3d5 Flashcards
You are explaining resource leveling to one of your team members. You can tell any of the following statements about resource leveling, EXCEPT?
A. Resource leveling is necessary when some resources have been over-allocated.
B. Resource Leveling can increase the length of the critical path.
C. The primary purpose of resource leveling is to keep resource usage at a constant level.
D. Resource leveling is applied to a schedule before it has been analyzed by the critical path method.
D. Resource leveling is applied to a schedule before it has been analyzed by the critical path method.
Resource leveling is a schedule network analysis technique. It is applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method.
You are managing a project for a customer that has offered an incentive for meeting all deadlines. At this time, the project is running on a compressed schedule, but is continuing to have regular quality meetings to ensure the output of the project meets the customer’s requirements. Your manager, however, is concerned that the meetings will cause further project delays and missed deadlines, which will in turn result in the loss of potential incentive payments. He insists that the meetings be stopped immediately and that all project effort be focused on making on-time deliveries. What do you do?
A. Cancel all meetings
B. Refuse the request
C. Add project resources
D. Further compress the schedule
B. Refuse the request
Refuse the request and explain to your manager that you are obligated to adhere to all quality management plans for the project. Failing to do so would not only deliver a possibly defective product to the customer, but is also a violation of the PMI Code of Ethics. The Code requires project managers to follow all project processes and polices.
As a senior project manager you have been assigned as mentor for a newly hired junior project manager. You want to explain where the control limits are located on a control chart. Which option will you tell him?
A. Inside the normal distribution curve
B. Within the specification limits
C. Above and below the specification limits
D. Close to the statistical independence point
B. Within the specification limits
The control limits are the dashed lines above and below the mean. ‘Within the specification limits’ is the only answer to address this correctly. Since control limits are the measure you use to determine quality, it follows that your quality should exceed your customer’s need. Otherwise you probably would not do the work. To exceed customer needs, the control limits should fall within the specification limits which are determined according to the customer’s needs.
Place the following actions in the correct sequence for what to do when a change is requested by the customer. Drag and drop the actions to sort them first to last.
- Communicate the status of the change to relevant stakeholders
- Perform the Integrated Change Control Process
- Determine the costs and benefits of the change
- Update the project management plan and project documents
- Submit a change request
- Document the change and analyze it for feasibility
Step One => Document the change and analyze it for feasibility
Step Two => Determine the costs and benefits of the change
Step Three => Submit a change request
Step Four => Perform the Integrated Change Control Process
Step Five => Update the project management plan and project documents
Step Six => Communicate the status of the change to relevant stakeholders
As a new project manager in the company, you have been sent to a training course. During the course you hear the instructor using the expression “halo effect”. You don’t understand the expression and ask from the instructor about the meaning. He explains that “halo effect” refers to the tendency to:
A. hire the best.
B. move people into project management because they have had project management training.
C. promote from within.
D. move people into project management because they are good in their technical fields.
D. move people into project management because they are good in their technical fields.
The “halo effect” refers to the tendency to move people into project management because they are good in their technical fields. This happens frequently, especially in technical companies.
Your company has an emergency and needs contracted work done as soon as possible. Under these circumstances, which of the following would be the helpful to add to the contract?
A. Requirements as to which subcontractors can be used
B. Incentives
C. A force majeure clause
D. A clear contract statement of work
B. Incentives
It is clearly mentioned that this is an emergency situation, and normally there is not enough time in emergency situations to have a clear statement of work or subcontractors requirements. Instead, you probably need to use a cost plus contract with some incentives to motivate the contractor for on-time delivery without expanding the scope.
During the Sequence Activities process, your project team has identified several dependencies to a few related projects that will provide major and critical deliverables to your project. Some of those projects are very similar to your project in terms of their scope and deliverables. In this situation, which of the following processes you should be most concerned about?
A. Sequence Activities
B. Validate Scope
C. Plan Risk Response
D. Control Scope
C. Plan Risk Response
Since there are dependencies to the external projects and those projects should provide you with critical and major deliverables, the biggest concern must be the risks that other projects may cause to yours. It would be better to prevent those problems in the Plan Risk Response process than to just spend effort controlling or validating scope.
As the project manager you are in the middle of the project execution phase when a team member informs you of a cost overrun on a specific work package. What should be your first action in this situation?
A. Implement the change control process
B. Inform the stakeholders
C. Determine the budgeted cost
D. Find the cause of cost overrun
D. Find the cause of cost overrun
The first action should be to analyze the situation. Finding the cause of the cost overrun is the only one of the options that is relevant to analyzing the situation.
You are going to be hired in a company as a project manager, but you are told in the first interview that according to your capabilities, you will be given a coordinator or expeditor role. How is a project expeditor role different from a project coordinator role?
A. A project coordinator cannot make any decisions
B. A project expeditor reports to a higher-level manager
C. They are both the same and they have lower authority than a project manager
D. A project coordinator has some authority and can make some decisions
D. A project coordinator has some authority and can make some decisions
According to the PMBOK® Guide (6th Edition), the project coordinator reports to a higher-level manager and has authority to make some decisions. The project expeditor has no authority to make decisions.
For the first time in your career you are assigned as the manager of a project with 250 stakeholders. You have never dealt with this number of stakeholders in a project. What would be your best course of action in this situation?
A. Find an effective way to gather the requirements of all stakeholders.
B. Not all stakeholders are really important, so eliminate some of them to increase your efficiency.
C. Collect the requirements of the most influential stakeholders.
D. Try to find the most important stakeholders and make sure to satisfy them.
A. Find an effective way to gather the requirements of all stakeholders.
As a project manager you cannot eliminate some stakeholders or consider their requirements according to their degree of importance or influence. You have to consider the requirements of all stakeholders.
