1.
Which of the following best describes the main purpose of the project charter?
2.
You have been hired by a contractor who wants you to manage a construction project for one of his clients. The project team has been working for six weeks. You need to determine whether the team is ahead of or behind schedule. Which of the following tools, techniques, activites, or other project artifacts is the best one for you to consult?
3.
You are managing a project with AC = $25,100, ETC = $45,600, VAC = –$2,100, BAC = $90,000, and EAC = $92,100. Your sponsor asks you to forecast how much money you expect to spend on the remainder of the project. Which is the best estimate to use for this forecast?
4.
You are managing a software engineering project when two team members come to you with a conflict. The lead developer has identified an important project risk: you have a subcontractor that may not deliver on time. Another developer doesn’t believe that the risk is likely to happen; however, you consult the lessons learned from previous projects and discover that subcontractors failed to deliver their work on two previous projects. The lead developer suggests that you have two team members take three weeks to research the component being built by the subcontractor, and come up with some initial work that you can fall back on in case that subcontractor does not deliver. You decide to follow the lead developer’s advice over the objections of the other team member. Which of the following best describes this scenario?
5.
You’re managing an industrial design project. Your project is currently in the Initiating phase. The project charter has been created, and you are working on identifying the stakeholders. Which of the following is not something that you should do?
6.
Which is the best description of project scope?
7.
Which enterprise environmental factor defines how work is assigned to people?
8.
Alberto is the project manager of a software implementation project. His company has made an organizationwide decision to move to a new accounting and human resources software package. He has read that some projects to implement the same package have resulted in the loss of personnel data when they tried to import it into the new system. He backs up the data so that it could be restored in the event of such a problem but also buys insurance to cover the cost of keying in the data manually if the implementation doesn’t work. Which response strategies are Alberto using?
9.
In which plan do you define the processes that will be used to keep people informed throughout the project?
10.
You are managing an accounting project when a new CFO is hired at your company. He’ll be affected by all accounting projects in your company. What’s the best thing for you to do?
