Test Questions Flashcards
You are conducting stakeholder interviews to elicit requirements for your new project. As the interviewees are talking, you are evaluating their body language and tone, asking relevant questions and seeking clarity. What are you doing?
Effective listening
System used for scheduling, critical path calculations and will assist with WBS, work authorization, resource tracking and reporting.
PMIS
Linear Programming, Integer Algorithms, Dynamic Programming and multi-objective programming are examples of?
Constrained Optimization Methods used to predict success on complex projects
Project Alpha has an expected IRR of 8% but is expected to take three years to complete. Project Beta has an expected IRR of 5% but will only take nine months to complete. Which project should your company decide to work on?
Project Alpha
*For IRR questions, always choose the project with the highest IRR.
<> signals there could be an issue, while <> tells us the severity of the issue?
WORK PERFORMANCE Information signals there is an inconsistency to plan, while PERFORMANCE MEASURES will tell us how that inconsistency is to the project
Your organization often groups together related projects into programs. Some projects, programs, and operations are also managed as portfolios to achieve strategic objectives. Which of the following is a framework in which the management of portfolios, programs, and projects are integrated with organizational enablers to achieve strategic objectives?
Organizational Project Management (OPM) is defined as a framework in which portfolio, program and project management are integrated with organizational enablers to achieve strategic objectives.
The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
A project comprises of activities A, B, C and D. The longest path includes activities A, C, and D which take two days, ten days and 20 days respectively. Activity B, on the other hand, takes eight days to complete. If activity D takes two extra days to complete, what is the shortest possible project duration?
34
The critical path for this project is A-C-D, and it, therefore, determines the shortest possible project duration as 2+10+20 = 32 days. As D needs two more days to complete, 32+2 = 34 days becomes the new project duration.
Treating others with conduct that may result in harm, fear, humiliation, manipulation, or exploitation. For example, berating a project team member because they’ve taken longer than expected to complete a project assignment may be considered humiliation.
Abusive manner
A situation where a project manager may have two competing duties of loyalty. For example, purchasing software from a relative may benefit the relative, but it may do harm to the performing organization.
Conflict of interest
A project manager’s responsibility to be loyal to another person, organization, or vendor. For example, a project manager has this to promote the best interests of an employer rather than the best interests of a vendor.
Duty of loyalty
A person who is serving in the capacity of a project manager or contributing to the management of a project, portfolio of projects, or program. For example, a program manager is considered to be a XXX under this definition.
Practitioner
6 Generally acknowledged techniques for resolving conflict
Withdrawal/Avoiding
Smoothing/accommodating
Forcing/directive
Compromising/reconcile
Confronting/problem solving
Collaborating
A process is Out of Control when ___ data points exceed Control Limits,
or ___ consecutive points are above or below the mean.
1 / 7
Control Chart
Continuous Delivery is facilitated by which Agile Framework
Kanban
Term for the duration to which an Agile Event must not exceed
Time box
Which process is used to implement approved change requests:
A. Develop Project Management Plan
B. Perform Integrated Change Control
C. Monitor and Control Project Work
D. Direct and Manage Project Work
D. Direct and Manage Project Work
- note: the question refers to implementation of an approved change request. If the change request had not yet been approved, then the Perform Integrated Change Control would facilitate the process of obtaining approval.
The process Direct and Manage Project Work will produce the following as output (select 3)
Deliverables
Work Performance Data
Work Performance Reports
Change Requests
Schedule Forecasts
Deliverables
Work Performance Data
Change Requests
Which of the following are among the Tools and Techniques of the process Collect Requirements (select 3):
A. Observation/Conversation
B. Focus Groups
C. Inspection
D. Interviews
E. Decomposition
A
B
D
You are the project manager for your organization and your organization utilizes an agile approach to project management. The development team is rating the difficulty of completing the requirements in the current sprint. What term describes rating of the requirements to determine how many requirements can be completed in a sprint?
Story Points
Requirements are written as user stories. Story points score the difficulty of the tasks needed to complete a user story in a sprint.
Performance Baseline includes these 3:
Many projects use a combination of the three to get a fuller picture of the project’s performance during the execution phase
Scope, cost and schedule baseline
Once the make-or-buy analysis is completed, which document defines the project delivery method?
A. Procurement statement of work (SOW)
B. Procurement strategy
C. Terms of reference
D. Change request
B. Procurement strategy
A project manager is preparing to meet with three crucial project stakeholders on a new project. Which tools and techniques can the project manager use to capture stakeholder interest?
A. Review stakeholder register and meeting
B. Data analysis and communication skills
C. Data gathering and data analysis
D. Communication skills and cultural awareness
C. Data gathering and data analysis
*Preparing=planning/new project/capture
Which kind of communication should the project manager use when creating reports for government bodies?
A. Hierarchical
B. External
C. Formal
D. Official
D. Official
Official. Annual reports; reports to regulators or government bodies.