e4d1 Flashcards
As the project manager at the buyer organization, you extend a formal invitation that contains a scope of work that seeks a response that will describe the methodology and results that will be provided to your organization. This is called:
A. Request for proposal
B. Request for bid
C. Request for information
D. Invitation to bid
A. Request for proposal
Since you are sending out a scope of work along with the invitation, and you are giving the potential sellers the methodology of the project execution and the results, they should provide you with a proposal. Hence, this is called a Request for Proposal.
As the manager of a small construction project, you are nearing project closing when a previously unidentified risk is identified by one of the team members. The risk could affect the project success and on time completion. What should your next action be?
A. Develop risk mitigation plans
B. Develop a workaround
C. Inform your managers about the newly discovered risk and its impacts
D. Qualify the risk
D. Qualify the risk
According to the PMBOK® Guide (6th Edition), the next step after identifying a risk is always to perform qualitative risk analysis.
As the project manager currently involved in the Scope Management Plan processes, you have obtained a large number of ideas during sessions to gather product and project requirements. Which of the following techniques is best suited to have these ideas sorted into groups for review and analysis?
A. Affinity diagrams
B. Brainstorming
C. Facilitated workshops
D. Mind mapping
A. Affinity diagrams
The affinity diagram allows large numbers of ideas to be sorted into groups for further review and analysis. It is one of the group creativity techniques used in gathering of requirements.
A project manager must have some work done by an outside contractor. This work has a great deal of risk associated with it, and it has become very difficult to find a contractor willing to take on the job. Which of the following types of contracts would offer the greatest incentive to the contractor?
A. Cost plus fixed fee
B. Cost plus incentive fee
C. Firm fixed price
D. Cost plus percentage of cost as an award fee
D. Cost plus percentage of cost as an award fee
In the cost plus percentage of cost as an award fee type of contract, the contractor has the highest possible incentive.
You are managing a design project and you should gradually submit to your customer the project deliverables including drawings and documents as they get completed. One of your designers approaches you and gives you a completed document to be submitted to the customer. When skimming through the document you realize that the document is shorter than what you expect according to your past experience. What should be your first action in this situation?
A. Call the team member for a meeting
B. Perform scope verification against the baseline
C. Perform quality control
D. Call the functional manager of your team member to make sure that the document is correct
B. Perform scope verification against the baseline
The purpose of scope verification is to compare the deliverable to the requirements or scope statement, WBS or WBS dictionary. The project manager might have misunderstood and it would be best to check before talking to the team member.
Getting human resources assigned when there is no one co-located with the necessary skill sets is known as which one of the following options?
A. Negotiation
B. Procurement management
C. Virtual teams
D. Pre-assignment
C. Virtual teams
Virtual teams is the ability to leverage resources possessing the skills needed but who are not co-located with the project team.
You are working in an organization which handles several projects every year. Who should be in charge of determining the project priorities in such an organization?
A. The project team
B. The project manager
C. The project management team
D. The project management office
D. The project management office
Since this is about the priorities of the projects compared to each other, the decision should be made by an entity that has oversight to all of the projects. Project manager, project team, and the project management team are all the entities which have authorities only within the boundaries of a specific project.
You are managing a highway construction project. Which of the following quality tools could you implement to ensure that your project team members are completing all of the required steps during an installation procedure?
A. WBS
B. Requirements documentation
C. Checklists
D. Design of experiments
C. Checklists
Checklists are a simple but effective quality management tool that the project manager can use to ensure the project team is completing all of the required work.
You are in the process of project cost estimation. Which one of the following is not required to estimate the project?
A. Risks
B. Network diagram
C. WBS
D. Change control system
D. Change control system
A change control system is not required to obtain estimates, but without the other three choices, you cannot develop the estimates. You need the WBS to define the activities, the network diagram to see the dependencies, and the risks to determine contingencies. (These are high-level risks, not the detailed risks we identify later in the planning process group.)
As a project manager you see that the updated project schedule shows 2 weeks delay compared to the baseline schedule. You decide to take actions to bring the project forecasted completion date back to the original planned one in the baseline. This action could be best described as?
A. Preventive action
B. Lessons learned
C. Corrective action
D. Delay analysis
C. Corrective action
When you find a variance between a projects actual and planned performance the best course of action is to take corrective actions. Preventive actions are taken to avoid such variances in future.
