Exam 1 Flashcards
The ____ field includes the top skills employers look for new college graduates.
a. communications
b. project management
c. financial management
d. customer service
b. project management
Which of the following is not a potential advantage of using good project management?
a. shorter developpement time
b. higher worker moral
c. lower cost of capital
d. higher profit margins
c. lower cost of capital
A ____ is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
a. program
b. process
c. project
d. portfolio
c. project
Which of the following is not an attribute of a project?
a. Projects are unique
b. Projects are developed using progressive elaboration
c. Projects have a primary customer or sponsor
d. Projects involve little uncertainty
d. Projects involve little uncertainty
____ is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet projet requirements.
a. Project management
b. Program management
c. Project portfolio management
d. Requirements management
a. Project management
Which of the following is not part of the triple constraint of project management?
a. meeting scope
b. meeting time goals
c. meeting communications goals
d. meeting cost goals
c. meeting communications goals
Project portfolio management addresses ____ goals of an organization, while project management addresses ____ goals.
a. strategic, tactical
b. tactical, strategic
c. internal, external
d. external, internal
a. strategic, tactical
Several application development projects done for the same functional group might best be managed as part of a ____.
a. portfolio
b. program
c. investment
d. collaborative
b. program
Which of the following is not true?
a. Most American companies have a project management office
b. You carn eran an advanced degree in project management from hundreds of colleges and universities
c. Employers are looking for project management skills in new graduates
d. Project management certification does not affect pay
d. Project management does not affect pay
What is the name of one of the popular certifications provided by the Project Management Institute?
a. Certified Project Manager (CPM)
b. Project Management Professional (PMP)
c. Project Management Expert (PME)
d. Project Management Mentor (PMM)
b. Project Management Professional (PMP)
Which of the following is not part of the three-sphere model for SYSTEM management?
a. business
b. information
c. technology
d. organization
b. information
Which of the four frames of organizations addresses how meetings are run, employee dress codes, and excepted work hours?
a. structural
b. human resources
c. political
d. symbolic
d. symbolic
Personnel in a ____ organizational structure often report to two or more bosses.
a. functional
b. project
c. matrix
d. hybrid
c. matrix
Project work is most successful in an organizational culture where all of the following characteristics are important except ____.
a. member identity
b. group emphasis
c. risk tolerance
d. control
d. control
A ____ is a product or service, such as a technical report, a training session, or hardware, produced or provided as part of a project.
a. deliverable
b. product
c. risk tolerance
d. tangible goal
a. deliverable
Which of the following statements is false?
a. An analysis project life cycle is a collection of project phases
b. A product lifecycle is the same as a project lifecycle
c. The waterfall approach is an example of a predictive life cycle model
d. Agile is an example of an adaptative life cycle model
b. A product lifecycle is the same as a project lifecycle
Which of the following terms describes a framework of the phases involved in developing information systems?
a. systems development life cycle
b. rapid application development
c. predictive life cycle
d. extreme programming
a. systems development life cycle
The nature of IT projects is different from the nature of projects in many other industries because they are very ____.
a. expensive
b. technical
c. diverse
d. challenging
c. diverse
What terms describes an organization’s acquisition of goods and services from an outside source in another country?
a. globalization
b. offshoring
c. exporting
d. global sourcing
b. offshoring
____ is the leading agile development method.
a. Extreme programming
b. Sprint
c. Kanban
d. Scrum
d. Scrum
A ____ is a series of actions directed toward a particular result.
a. goal
b. process
c. plan
d. project
b. process
____ processes include coordinating people and other resources to carry out project plans and create the products, services, or results of the project or phase.
a. Initiating
b. Planning
c. Executing
d. Monitoring and controlling
e. Closing
c. Exectuting
Which process group normally requires the most resources and time?
a. initiating
b. planning
c. executing
d. monitoring and controlling
e. closing
c. executing
What mwthodology was developped in the UK, defined 45 separate subprocesses, and organizes them into eight process groups?
a. Sis Sigma
b. RUP
c. PMBOK Guide
d. PRINCE2
d. PRINCE2
Which of the following outputs is often completed before initiating a project?
a. stakeholder register
b. business case
c. project charter
d. kick-off meeting
b. business case
A work breakdown structure, project schedule, and cost estimates are outputs of the ____ process.
a. initiating
b. planning
c. executing
d. monitoring and controlling
e. closing
b. planning
Initiating involves developing a project charter, which is part of the project ____ management knowledge area.
a. integration
b. scope
c. communications
d. risk
a. integration
____ involves measuring progress toward project objectives and taking correctives actions.
a. initiating
b. planning
c. executing
d. monitoring and controlling
e. closing
d. monitoring and controlling
Which of the following is not a typical reason that project teams would use a predictive approach versus an agile approach to managing a project?
a. The project has unclear up-front requirements
b. The project team is inexperienced and dispersed
c. Large risks are involved
d. The completion date is fairly rigid
a. The project has unclear up-front requirements
Many people use ____ to have a standard format for preparing various project management documents.
a. methodologies
b. templates
c. project managemenent softwares
d. standards
b. templates
Which of the following processes is not part of project integration management?
a. developing the project business case
b. developing the project charter
c. developing the project management plan
d. closing the project of phase
a. developing the project business case
What is the last step in the four-stage planning process for selecting IT projects?
a. IT strategy planning
b. business area analysis
c. mind mapping
d. resources allocation
d. resources allocation
Which of the following is not a best practice for new product development projects?
a. aligning projects and resources with business strategy
b. selecting projects that will take less than two years to provide feedback
c. focusing on customer needs in identifying projects
d. assigning project managers to lead projects
b. selecting projects that will take less than two years to provide feedback
A new government law requires an organization to report data in a new way. Which of the following categories would include a new information system project to provide this data?
a. problem
b. opportunity
c. directive
d. regulation
c. directive