Project Environment

Question 1

What are the types of factors used in the PMBOK?

Answer 1

1) EEF - Enterprise Environmental Factors

2) OPA - Organizational Process Assets

Question 2

What is defined as conditions outside the control of the project team that impact the project?

Answer 2

EEFs - Enterprise Environmental Factors

Question 3

What type of factors does a project team or company have controler over becuase the factors are organizational specific factors?

Answer 3

OPAs - Organizational Process Assets

Question 4

What are internal EEFs?

Answer 4

• Organizational culture and structure
• Geographic distribution
  - Facilities and resources
• Infrastructure
• IT software
• Resource availability

Question 5

What are external EEFs?

Answer 5

• Market conditions
• Legal restrictions
• Commercial databases
• Physical environmental elements
• Financial considerations
  
  • Exchange rates, interest rates, tariffs

Question 6

What are defined as the plans, processes, and knowledge bases internal to the organization?

Answer 6

OPA - Organizational Process Assets

Question 7

What are the two forms of OPA?

Answer 7

1) Processes, policies, and procedures

2) Corporate knowledge base

Question 8

What type of OPAs are the following:

• Guidelines
• Standards
• Templates
• Procedures
  
  • Change Contro

Answer 8

Processes, policies, and procedures

Question 9

What type of OPAs are teh following:

• Project files from past projects
• Data repositories
  
  • Lessons learned
  • Issue and defect management
  • Financial data

Answer 9

Corporate knowledge base

Question 10

What are the six must know organizational structure types?

Answer 10

• Functional (centralized)
• Matrix - Weak
• Matrix - Balanced
• Matrix - Strong
• Project-oriented
• Hybrid

Question 11

What are established to provide support and guidance to projects.

Answer 11

PMO - Project Management Office

Question 12

What are the three types of PMO? (Project Management Office)

Answer 12

• Supportive
• Controlling
• Directive

Question 13

What type of PMO provides training, templates, best practices, lessons learned in a consultative role?

Answer 13

Supportive

PMO has low level of control

Question 14

What type of PMO has project managers assigned that reprot directly to the PMO?

Answer 14

Directive

PMO has high level of control

Question 15

What type of PMO will define specific frameworks and methods to be used?

Answer 15

Controlling

PMO has medium level of control

Question 16

List the diffrent project roles

Answer 16

• Program and portfolio managers
• Project manager
• Sponsor
• Stakeholders
• Project Coordinators when project managers are not used

Question 17

What project role is responsible for the successful completion of programs and portfolios?

Answer 17

Program and portfolio managers

Question 18

What project role are individuals who are involved and/or impacted (positively/negatively) by a project?

Answer 18

Stakeholders

Question 19

What project role is used when a project manager is not used?

Answer 19

Project coordinator

Question 20

What project role is used when an individual is responsible for leading the team to achieve the project objectives?

Answer 20

Project manager

Question 21

What project role provids project resources and is accountable for enabling project success?

Answer 21

Sponsor

Question 22

What are we always thinking about when we think about stakeholders?

Answer 22

How to best comunicate with the stakeholders.