Unit 2 Test Review

Question 1

Rhonda was just assigned to be a project manager over a five-year data management project that started last year. What document will help her become familiar with how the project is being executed, monitored and controlled, and closed?

Answer 1

Project Management plan

Question 2

Which activity must happen before a project can officially close?

Answer 2

The customer has to formally accept the final product

Question 3

Jen’s company requires her to close out any contracts with outside vendors and perform a lessons learned activity with her team before releasing all resources for other projects. This output is commonly referred to as:

Answer 3

Closure

Question 4

A project manager has discovered that a project is outside the original scope.
The project manager has requested a change to bring expected future performance of the project work back in line with the project management plan. What type of change implementation has the project manager requested?

Answer 4

Corrective Action

Question 5

Louise is signing off on the sale agreement paperwork so she can receive payment for the real estate project. What process is Louise undergoing?

Answer 5

Project close

Question 6

Christian is a project manager and would like to gain an understanding of the customer’s needs, the budget, and the milestones needed to achieve the project objectives. Which should he review?

Answer 6

Project charter

Question 7

Jen is a construction project manager. Her current project has been halted due to a shortage in the demand for housing. The housing shortage impact on the success of the project can be referred to as:

Answer 7

Enterprise environment factors

Question 8

Stephanie is documenting the successes and failures of her team’s project.
This information will be used to inform future projects and is referred tg as:

Answer 8

Lessons learned

Question 9

Rodney is trying to prove to his parents that a college degree will be worth the investment. To justify the cost of the collese degree, he prepares a document highlighting why thesolle degree is needed and the enem nim snee he completes the degree. Teement en prepara

Answer 9

Business case

Question 10

Luke and his team have been working on a new home construction project.
The project scope statement originally included a three bedroom and two bathroom ranch-styled home. The customer called and asked to have a small shed built in the backyard with extra materials left from the home construction. This uncontrolled expansion without adjustments to time, cost, and resources is referred to as:

Answer 10

Scope creep

Question 11

A team is developing the project charter and is determining the valuable inputs used for completing the project. The inputs) that the team should least likely consider when developing the project charter would be the:

Answer 11

Project management plan

Question 12

Mary would like to add extra windows to the sunroom project she is having built onto her home. The extra windows were left out of the description she provided when the project began. What should Mary do next?

Answer 12

Submit a change request

Question 13

A couple is planning a wedding. They begin to discuss and write down the details of the wedding project. They determine a price they are willing to pay for the invitations, photographer, and food. They also write down that they would like an outdoor wedding ceremony. What is the couple creating for their wedding project?

Answer 13

Statement of work

Question 14

Trey creates a project charter for a birthday party he is hosting. In his catering order, he requests three items:
1. A three-layer chocolate cake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting
2. A dozen sugar cookies
3. A carafe of French roast coffee
The catering manager would refer to the cake, cookies, and coffee as the project:

Answer 14

Deliverable

Question 15

A customer calls the project manager and informs her of a minor change to a requirement on the project. What is the first thing that the project manager should do?

Answer 15

ask the customer to provide a formal change request

Question 16

As a construction company’s project manager, Elizabeth leads a team that is painting a house. She agreed with the homeowner to apply two coats of paint to each room. After the second day of the project, the homeowner pulls Elizabeth aside and asks her to instead put one coat of paint on the walls and a third coat of paint on the trim work. This is an example of project:

Answer 16

Scope creep

Question 17

A customer wishes that her website could display a Twitter feed based on the user login, an option excluded from the project scope. Glenn, the project manager for the website team, works extra hours outside his normal schedule to add this feature without charging more money. He is doing this to impress the customer, because she will renew the contract funding next month. The extra functionality that Glenn is adding outside the project scope is:

Answer 17

Gold platting

Question 18

Petrina is the sponsor of a time-sensitive project that must deliver the expected output on a specific date or her organization will face severe penalties. Her expectation at the initiation of the project is to have a detailed report of the project status every Friday throughout the project. On the third status check, the project manager lacks that information. What output is the project manager missing?

Answer 18

Deliverable

Question 19

Amy has recently completed her newest graphic novel that has taken more than two years to write. The only deliverable included in the project scope statement was a twelve-chapter illustrated novel. Her publisher was so excited about the story that he has asked for Amy to convert the book into a screenplay. This uncontrolled expansion without adjustments to time, cost, and resources is referred to as:

Answer 19

Scope creep

Question 20

John is planning his wedding. He has never been married and seeks input from his sister, Lauren. Lauren owns her own wedding planning business.
John is using which tool and technique to guide his wedding project?

Answer 20

Expert judgement

Question 21

Carol develops a detailed description of the project objectives, assumptions, deliverables, and cost for her construction project charter. The narrative description of the project deliverables that she is developing is a/an:

Answer 21

Statement of work

Question 22

Lauren is a project manager who is determining the need for a curriculum project. She is researching the job market to make a business case for the project. Which project management process is Lauren performing?

Answer 22

Initiation

Question 23

Brian would like to purchase his first home. He is unsure of the inputs needed to help him manage the details of this project. He sets up an appointment with his Uncle Joe, who has owned many real estate properties and is very familiar with the process, to discuss his home buying project. Which tool or technique is Brian using for input into his home purchase project?

Answer 23

Expert judgement

Question 24

An employee has been asked to evaluate a project that is experiencing some performance challenges. She asked the project manager to call a meeting with the project sponsor. The project manager replies that he does not know who the project sponsor is. The employee decides to review the initial project document. Which document should she request?

Answer 24

Project charter

Question 25

Anu is a project manager for a construction company building a new home for Mia. After two weeks of the project, Mia comes to Anu and asks for an additional bedroom to be added to the home project. Anu tells Mia that they will need to meet to discuss the project. This is known as:

Answer 25

Change control

Question 26

Angela is a project manager leading a curriculum project. She is working with her team to create an interior design curriculum project for students in her state. Which project management process is Angela performing?

Answer 26

Execution

Question 27

Eugene holds a meeting with his project team to discuss and document what succeeded and failed in their recent project.
What process is Eugene facilitating?

Answer 27

Lessons learned

Question 28

George has described a project to rebuild an antique car. He has defined how much of his personal money he has saved to spend on this project. Kelly will be leading a team that will be executing the deliverables for the project. Who can approve the project?

Answer 28

Project sponsor

Question 29

‘The magazine will feature 10 items and will be completed over six months. The cover will be printed in color. The bound pages will be printed in black and white.” This description belongs in the graphic design project:

Answer 29

Statement of work

Question 30

Angela is a project manager who leads a curriculum project.
She is creating an outline of what each team member needs to complete by when to ensure the deliverable is on time, under budget, and within the scope of the project. Which project management process is Angela performing?

Answer 30

Planning

Question 31

Which tool or technique would be useful when developing the project charter?

Answer 31

Expert judgement

Question 32

Delores has just been assigned to be a project manager of a team, and she would like to find out more about a project. She is unsure of who can authorize the project. What document should Delores consult?

Answer 32

Project charter

Question 33

Cheryl is a project manager leading a conference project. She prepares a document that describes the products and services to be delivered by her team to the stakeholders. She will use this document during the initiation phase to highlight the conference project objectives, assumptions, schedule, and price. What document is Cheryl preparing?

Answer 33

Project statement of work

Question 34

Alan has just been assigned as the project manager for a software development project his company has been awarded. He has been asked to create the project charter and send it to the project sponsor for approval. The main input he needs to develop the project charter is the project statement of work. What should Alan do to obtain the project statement of work?

Answer 34

He should contact the project sponsor or the customer for the statement of work.

Question 35

After discovering that some project work failed to be performed according to plan, a project manager analyzes the situation. She then presents what needs to occur to correct the problems to Austin. Austin requests a change in the project to reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks. What type of change request is Austin making?

Answer 35

Preventive action

Question 36

A project manager is implementing a variety of approved changes to a project. Which would least likely be a type of approved change?

Answer 36

Lessons learned