Starting the Project Flashcards
Monthly audits were performed to determine if project activities comply with corporate policies, procedures, and best practices. Throughout the project, the results of the monthly audits indicated that the team was in compliance. However, at the end of the project, it was determined that some of the project activities did not comply with organizational policies.
What most likely caused these compliance gaps to be missed during the audits?
A. The audits were conducted by one of the project team members
B. The audits were conducted by an auditor external to the organization
C. The audits were conducted by the company’s internal audit department
D. The audits were conducted by the project management office (PMO)
A. The audits were conducted by one of the project team members
While performing monitoring and controlling activities, the project manager discovers inconsistencies between the project management plan and the project’s actual performance. She now needs to determine corrective actions to minimize the impact of the inconsistencies on the project.
In what project document would she have documented the inconsistencies and would look at to review them?
A. Issue log
B. Change log
D. Quality report
E. Assumption log
A. Issue log
After the project team has completed their first iteration, you are requested to provide the project’s status report to the sponsor. You collect the following data:
The cost baseline for the entire project is $528,000
The schedule baseline provides for six two-week iterations
The actual costs associated with the first iteration were $80,000
The team completed 45 of 50 story points planned for the first iteration
What should you report to the sponsor?
A. The team’s velocity in the first iteration is 50
B. The SPI for the first iteration is 0.9
C. The CPI for the first iteration is 1.1
D. The team’s velocity in the first iteration is zero
B. The SPI for the first iteration is 0.9
A project manager is estimating the length of time the project will take. The project manager worked on a comparable project two years ago that installed 10 miles of guardrails at a rate of 1 mile a day and similar weather conditions, using the same size crew on the same type of highway.
What estimating technique would be the appropriate option for the project manager to use during his duration estimate?
A. Bottom-up estimating
B. Analogous estimating
C. Three-point estimating
D. Parametric estimating
D. Parametric estimating
A project manager is explaining the roles and responsibilities for the quality assurance process with the project team.
Who will play a role in this process?
A. The project manager along with the project team
B. The project manager, project team, and management of the performing organization
C. The project manager, project team, project sponsor, management of the performing organization, and the customer
D. The project sponsor along with the project manager and project team
C. The project manager, project team, project sponsor, management of the performing organization, and the customer
A project manager invited several vendors to a pre-bid conference. After a private conversation with one of the vendors who had an inquiry about a new mandatory government requirement, the project manager sent an email to the vendor to address the question. The project manager realizes that the requirement should have been included in the project scope baseline and the statement of work (SOW).
What should the project manager do in this situation?
A. No further action is needed as the vendors questions have been answered
B. Update the SOW, submit a change request to update the scope baseline, and communicate the changes to all vendors
C. Update the statement of work and the cost baseline, and hold another pre-bid conference
D. Update the statement of work in the scope baseline, and communicate the changes to all vendors
B. Update the SOW, submit a change request to update the scope baseline, and communicate the changes to all vendors
A project manager creates a procurement statement of work (SOW) from the project scope baseline. The scope of the SOW, however, is not yet well defined, therefore the project manager decides to contract with a vendor to provide an Agile team of programmers. The contract is structured with fixed-price increments based on user stories.
How might the project manager verify that the vendor has met the contractual obligations?
A. Wait until the team completes the development of all user stories specified in the SOW
B. Validate the user stories as soon as they are completed at any point during a sprint
C. Conduct a procurement audit with the vendor each time a sprint retrospective is held
D. Request the product owner to approve or reject user stories during a sprint review
D. Request the product owner to approve or reject user stories during a sprint review
The project team just completed its fourth Sprint. As a part of the Control Costs process, you determine that the team’s average velocity is 25 points per Sprint, and the team has earned one-third of the total number of story points required to complete the entire project. The average cost per story point is $575.
What is the estimate to complete the remaining work?
A. $14,375
B. $115,000
C. $57,500
D. $172,500
B. $115,000
Gold plating had been an issue with your current software development project. However, you found that ever since instituting daily stand-up meetings, no more features or functionalities that the customer did not request have been introduced into the project.
What is your best course of action to prevent gold plating for the remainder of the current project and on future projects?
A. Gold plating adds customer value and should not be prevented
B. Ensure that the scope management plan includes daily stand-up meetings
C. Bring up the topic during the project retrospective
D. Capture the best practice in the lessons learned register
D. Capture the best practice in the lessons learned register
The project team reports that they have finished creating the requirements management plan, the requirements documentation, and the requirements traceability matrix. The team informs that they are going to start working on the project work breakdown structure (WBS) next.
What has the project team forgotten to do?
A. Create the project scope statement
B. Perform the Validate Scope process
C. Complete the project management plan
D. Update the Lessons Learned register
A. Create the project scope statement
