Intro 3

The work of the first phase of your project has come to end. What should you ensure is done BEFORE beginning the next phase?

The project is in the planning process group when three stakeholders come to the project manager asking for information on the company’s new project management methodology, where it came from and why it is different from how they manage projects. These stakeholders are also friends of the project manager and the entire group has worked together for years. The project is using some new terms like “corrective action” that are making some stakeholders nervous as they are unsure if the way the project will be managed is going to change along with new terms. What should the project manager do??

If you have to choose one of the following as NOT being a project, which one will it be??

A project team member is talking to another team member and complaining that many people are asking him to do things. If he works in a functional organization, who has the power to give direction to the team member?

Two project managers have just realized that they are in a weak matrix organization and that their power as project managers is quite limited. One figures out that he is really a project expediter and the other realizes he is really a project coordinator. How is a project expediter different from a project coordinator??

Which is the main difference between project expediter and project coordinator??

The project team has just completed the initial project schedule and budget. The NEXT thing to do is:?

In creating the project management plan for a construction project, a team would typically be involved in creating all of the following EXCEPT.?

What will the project team create as a result of performing monitoring and controlling on a project??

A project manager has confided in you that he is struggling with the whole concept of project management. He is constantly being handed down unreasonable demands by the customer and is trying to balance that with unreasonable and often opposing demands from senior management and stakeholders. He is worried that the two projects he is managing may fail and asks you for help. What is the BEST thing you can do in this case?

Behavioral competencies that include proficiencies in communications skills and conflict resolution are known as:

Four project managers are having lunch together and discussing their projects. Most of the time they are just complaining about how hard projects are to manage in their company. Some complains about the lack stakeholders availability and focus on projects. Others talk about how hard it is to get people to cooperate and perform. One project manager wants to focus on the advantages of the matrix type organization they all work in for their projects. Which of the following would he mention?

The project team is working on manufacturing a good selling product, but they are having difficulty creating a project charter. What is the BEST description of the real problem??

Susan is about to review her project stakeholder engagement plan to make some necessary adjustments. She has got her project management plan, some agreements of the identified providers. Which of the following inputs is still missing for this process?

A project manager is trying to complete a software development project, but cannot get enough attention for the project. Resources are focused on completing process related work and the project manager has little authority to properly assign resources. What form of organization must the project manager be working in?

A Project manager is managing three project simultaneously. These three projects, A, B, and C are related to each other, Project A is to customize a software application X, Project B is to deploy X to the whole organization and C is to train users according to their roles in X. How would you describe the situation??

A director of a medium organization contracts you to define a framework that enables them to consistently and predictably deliver the strategy, improving project performance and implement a sustainable competitive advantage. He wants you to implement:

A project manager gets a call from a team member notifying him that there is a variance between the speed of a system on the project and the desired or planned speed. the project manager is surprised because that performance measurement was not identified in planning. If the project manager then evaluates whether the variance warrants a response, he is in what kind of project management process?

A detailed project shcedule can be created only after creating the:

If the team is in the process of updating a schedule on a project with actuals from the project, which of the following would they use?