PMBOK Guide 7th Edition (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge)

Question 1

What are the eight project performance domains?

Answer 1

1. Stakeholders
2. Team
3. Development approach and Life Cycle
4. Planning
5. Project work
6. Delivery
7. Measurement
8. Uncertainty

Question 2

What are the steps to engage stakeholders effectively?

Answer 2

1. Identify
2. Understand
3. Analyze
4. Prioritize
5. Engage
6. Monitor

Question 3

Which aspects corresponds to (1) understand & (2) analyze stakeholders?

A
* feelings
* beliefs
* emotions
* values

B
* Power
* Impact
* Attitude
* Beliefs
* Expectations
* Degree of Influence
* Proximity to the project
* Interest in the project
* Other aspects surrounding stakeholder interaction with the project

Answer 3

A) Understanding
B) Analyzing

Question 4

Match the following to the below characteristics:

Push
Pull
Interactive

*Information sought by the stakeholder such asgoing to intranet to find communication policies or templates, running internet searches, using online repositories, etc.
* Communication sent to the stakeholder such as memos, emails, status reports, voicemail, etc.
* An exchange of information such as conversations, phone calls, meetings, brainstorming, product demos, etc.

Answer 4

*Pull - Information sought by the stakeholder such asgoing to intranet to find communication policies or templates, running internet searches, using online repositories, etc.
* Push - Communication sent to the stakeholder such as memos, emails, status reports, voicemail, etc.
* Interactive - An exchange of information such as conversations, phone calls, meetings, brainstorming, product demos, etc.

Question 5

Which corresponds to (1) management & (2) leadership?

A: influencing, motivating, listening, enabling and other other activitieis having to do with the project team

B: focus on means of meeting project objectives, such as having effective processes, planning, coordinating, measuring, and monitoring work, among others

Answer 5

A) Leadership
B) Management

Question 6

Which leadership style focuses on understanding and adressing the needs and development of project team members in order to enable the highest possible project team performance?

Answer 6

Servant leadership

Question 7

What is the difference between accuracy and precision as it relates to quality managment?

Answer 7

Accuracy is an assessment of correctness and precision is an assessment of exactness

Question 8

What is crashing?

Answer 8

A schedule compression method used to shorten the schedule duration for the least incremental costs by adding resources

Question 9

What is fast tracking?

Answer 9

A schedule compression method in which activities or phases normally done in sequence are performed in parallel for at least a portion of their duration

Question 10

What is the difference between deterministic and probabilistic estimating?

Answer 10

• Deterministic estimates - (also known as point estimates) present a single number or amount (i.e. 36 months)
• Probabilistic estimates. - include a range of estimates along with associated probabilities within the range

Question 11

What does the below definition refer to?

Definition: When the work of a successor activity is accelerated, such as starting a successor activity before the predecessor has finished?

Answer 11

Lead

Question 12

What does the below definition refer to?

Definition: When the work of a successor activity is delayed?

Answer 12

Lag