Introduction

Question 1

An adaptive project life cycle in which the deliverable is produced through a series of iterations that successively add functionality within a predetermined time frame is called:

Answer 1

Incremental life cycle

Question 2

Your job responsibility is to align components (projects, programs, or related operations) to the organizational strategy, organized into portfolios or subsidiary portfolios to optimize project or program objectives, dependencies, costs, timelines, benefits, resources, and risks. This is known as:

Answer 2

Portfolio management

Question 3

A form of project life cycle that may also be referred to as waterfall life cycle. Project scope, time, and cost are determined in the early phases of the life cycle.

Answer 3

Predictive life cycle

Question 4

Project management processes:

Answer 4

(1) May be overlapping activities that occur throughout the project. (2) Logically linked by the outputs they produce

Question 5

A documented economic feasibility study used to establish the validity of the benefits of a selected component lacking sufficient definition and that is used as a basis for the authorization of further project management activities is:

Answer 5

Business case

Question 6

Governance is the framework within which authority is exercised in organizations. This framework includes:

Answer 6

Rules, policies, procedures, norms, relationships, systems, and processes (includes but not limited to)

Question 7

Processes, policies, and procedures for conducting project work during executing, monitoring and controlling?

Answer 7

Change control procedures, traceability matrices, financial controls procedures, issue and defect management procedures, resource availability control and assignment management, organizational communication requirements, procedures for prioritizing, approving and issuing work authorizations, templates, standardized guidelines, work instructions, proposal evaluation criteria, and performance measurement criteria, and product, service or result verification and validation procedures.

Question 8

The interaction of multiple factors within an individual organization creates a unique system that impacts the project operating in that system. What are system factors?

Answer 8

Projects operate within the constraints imposed by the organization through their structure and governance framework. The system factors include but are not limited to: management elements, governance frameworks, and organizational structure types.

Question 9

The types of project management office (PMO) structures in organizations include:

Answer 9

Controlling (provide support and require compliance through various means);

Supportive (provide a consultative role to projects by supplying templates, best practices, training, access to information, and lessons learned from other projects);

Directive (take control of the projects by directly managing the projects)

Question 10

What are examples of internal and external enterprise environmental factors (EEFs)?

Answer 10

Internal EEFs: Org culture, structure, and governance; geographic distribution of facilities and resources; infrastructure; information technology software; resource availability; employee capability.

External EEFs: marketplace conditions, social and cultural influences and issues, legal restrictions, commercial databases, academic research, government or industry standards, financial considerations, physical environment elements

Question 11

Leadership and management are ultimately about being able to get things done, and power plays an important part. What are the best ways to describe the various forms of power.

Answer 11

Include but not limited to: Positional, informational, referent, situational, personal or charismatic, relational, expert, reward-oriented, punitive or coercive, ingratiating, pressure-based, guilt-based, persuasive, avoiding

Question 12

To communicate effectively, the project manager should:

Answer 12

Communicate predictively and consistently

Question 13

Role of project manager includes:

Answer 13

Project management knowledge, technical knowledge, understanding and experience. Provides project team with leadership, planning and coordination. Provide written communications and communicates in real time with the team using meetings and verbal or nonverbal cues.

Question 14

Which are types of project manager leadership styles?

Answer 14

Laissez-faire, transactional, servant leader, transformational, charismatic, interactional

Question 15

Culture is a personal characteristic or trait that includes these components:

Answer 15

Measure of sensitivity to other cultures including values, norms and beliefs

Question 16

Why is project tailoring necessary?

Answer 16

Each project is unique; therefore, not every process, input, tool, technique, or output is required on every project.

Question 17

PMBOK guide is the standard for:

Answer 17

Managing most projects most of the time. Guide is based on descriptive practices, rather than prescriptive practices. Therefore the standard identifies the processes that are considered good practices on most projects, most of the time.

Question 18

Which of the following describes project tailoring?

Answer 18

Determining the appropriate combination of artifacts (processes, inputs, tools, techniques, outputs, and life cycle phases, EEFs, and OPAs) to manage a project.

Question 19

What is the purpose of the Standard of Project Management?

Answer 19

Identifies the processes that are considered good practices on most projects, most of the time.

Question 20

Which are considerations for project tailoring?

Answer 20

Tailoring is necessary because each project is unique. Tailoring should address the competing constraints of scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality and risk. Project manager should also consider the varying levels of governance that may be required and within which the project will operate, as well as considering the culture of the organization.