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All the material after question 50. Excluding a lot of questions about Agile methods and questions with all options as correct and some duplicates.

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Project Management Concept Test Questions #2

Question 1 of 41

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Projects may be initiated by any of the following except____.

Select one of the following:

  • Project team

  • Sponsor

  • PMO

  • CEO

Explanation

Question 2 of 41

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What is required for a project to start and continue running?

Select one of the following:

  • Having a Sponsor

  • Scope approved

  • Action plan approved

  • Budget approved

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 3 of 41

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What makes the Steering committee approve the (reviewed) budget?

Select one or more of the following:

  • In a non-profit, if the total cost is equal to or less than available funding.

  • In non-profit organization, If the total cost is less than estimated revenues from direct results.

  • In profit organization if the total cost is equal to or less than available funding.

  • In profit organization, If the total cost is less than estimated revenues from direct results.

Explanation

Question 4 of 41

1

According to psychological research, what is most important for increasing motivation and productivity in a team?

Select one of the following:

  • Respect

  • Setting clear goals

  • Encouragement and emotional support

  • Support on seeing and making progress

Explanation

Question 5 of 41

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What is, according to teamwork research, an ideal team-size?

Select one of the following:

  • 5-9 people

  • 10-15 people

  • 2-3 people

  • 12-18 people

Explanation

Question 6 of 41

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What is true nowadays about a successful PM during managing and working a project?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Is a classical manager

  • Is a leader

  • Has highest technical skills and expertise.

  • Is always giving and getting feedback

  • Is very skillful in conflict resolution

  • Is always under pressure

Explanation

Question 7 of 41

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What are the most important principles in leadership?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Always has the last saying on any issue

  • Dare to be honest to oneself and the others

  • Never be something that you are not

  • Never empower team members

  • Master the subject in Question

  • Is a giant in the mildest group of Dwarfs

Explanation

Question 8 of 41

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Which of the following describes a Clam Personality?

Select one of the following:

  • A person who is always both seeking and giving feedback

  • A person who is always seeking feedback but rarely giving any feedback

  • A person who is always giving feedback but rarely seeking any feedback

  • A person who is never seeking nor giving feedback

Explanation

Question 9 of 41

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What is the best personality type for a successful PM/PL?

Select one of the following:

  • Open

  • Questioner

  • Opinionator

  • Clam

  • It depends

Explanation

Question 10 of 41

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Which form of feedback is more important?

Select one of the following:

  • Giving Feedback

  • Receiving feedback

  • Both are equally important

Explanation

Question 11 of 41

1

A successful leader gives the team members……

Select one or more of the following:

  • Opportunity to grow

  • A feeling of belonging

  • Protection against taking risks and stepping out of their comfort zone

  • The ability to trust despite perhaps not liking the leader

  • A positive attitude and commitment

  • The desire to follow guidance

  • Never show them personality shortfalls/problems

Explanation

Question 12 of 41

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What make PM continue get more projects to manage?

Select one of the following:

  • Success in completing previous projects

  • Ability to handle challenges

  • Ability to lead a team

  • All the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 13 of 41

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Which of the following is most effective in dealing with annoying employee?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Giving him/her more attention

  • Disregarding or ignoring him/her

  • Giving him/her more responsibility

  • Leaving him/her without responsibility

  • Giving him/her more attention and close supervision

  • Giving him or her more freedom

  • Best is to use a combination of more than one of the above

  • Always start with the positive attitude. If it does not work go to the negative, but do not continue so for a long time

Explanation

Question 14 of 41

1

Which is the best situational leadership Approach?

Select one of the following:

  • Coaching/selling

  • Participating

  • Delegating

  • Telling

  • All are good. The situation dictates which is best.

Explanation

Question 15 of 41

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Which is the best style of conflict resolution to start with?

Select one of the following:

  • Forcing

  • Avoiding

  • Compromising

  • Collaborating

  • Accommodating

  • Depending on the conflict, situation and conflicting parties, any can be the best starting point

Explanation

Question 16 of 41

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How can we identify the level of experience of the project manager?

Select one of the following:

  • Experienced PM has limited number of tools and techniques that he/she has identified to be most effective by experience.

  • An experienced PM has one leadership style that he/she has identified to be most effective by experience.

  • By the number of projects he/she concluded.

  • By how well he/she balances his/her life.

  • By how well he/she manage to delay conflicts.

Explanation

Question 17 of 41

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What is the PM/PL worst enemy?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Not good at communication (giving and/or receiving feedback)

  • Poor self-image

  • Too much self-confidence

  • Bad life balance

  • Not being trusted/respected by the team

  • Not lovable/popular personality

Explanation

Question 18 of 41

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Which of the following best describes challenges facing successful management and working of a project?

Select one of the following:

  • The project Manager is an outsider (unknown)

  • One or more members of the team have problem working together or have personal grudges.

  • One or more members of the team has personality problems

  • Not good communication and/or feedback within the team and/or with other stakeholders

  • One or more members of the team are burned out and/or cannot be motivated

  • One or more member of the team are forced to work together

  • The working conditions are unsuitable

  • Having one or two of the above is fact of life for project teams. Having 3 or 4 is a true challenge. Having 5 or 6 is a high risk. Having all can be a guaranteed one way ticket to failure.

Explanation

Question 19 of 41

1

One of a project manager’s main tasks is establishing sufficient project control through seeing to that:

Select one or more of the following:

  • Work is structured according to scope

  • Progress is evaluated and followed up

  • Risks are assessed

  • Scope is changed when deviations occur

Explanation

Question 20 of 41

1

What are the basic types of organizational environments - project management perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Hierarchical (Functional or Divisional)

  • Matrix (weak, balanced and strong)

  • Projects/program based

  • Composite (New)

  • All the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 21 of 41

1

Does the organizational structure/environment have an impact on the way projects´ are executed?

Select one of the following:

  • It is one of the dominating factors

  • It is the only dominating factor

  • It has no effect

  • It depends

Explanation

Question 22 of 41

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Which of the following is major black-hole in traditional project management

Select one of the following:

  • Project-based structure is the best structure for an organization that aims at high success rate in project execution

  • Vast majority (if not all) organizations try to say that they are more project friendly than reality.

  • Traditional Project Management is more systematic than Agile PM frameworks thus they are more suitable for traditional industries.

Explanation

Question 23 of 41

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What is true about Execution Phase?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Its the longest stage about 70% to 90% of the project lifetime.

  • Prevention costs are much less than curative measures.

  • It is possible to modify the scope at any point of time as long as the project is not closed.

  • The modifications are made to respond to changes in the project external environment and work progress.

  • A project is not completed/finished unless the closure/hand over stage is completed.

Explanation

Question 24 of 41

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Which are activities that should be done at the initiation of project execution?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Acquire all resources

  • Staff the project team

  • Communicate with stakeholders

  • Monitor activities

  • Review and modify action plan and budget.

  • Kick-of meeting

Explanation

Question 25 of 41

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Which of the following is vital stage to any project but not part of the project life cycle?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Idea

  • Initiation

  • Planning

  • Execution

  • Closure/handover

  • Impact assessment

Explanation

Question 26 of 41

1

Is the establishment of a project for improving of current recreational services in all Sheraton hotels (worldwide) a principle project?

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 41

1

What is(are) true as an important aspects needed to achieve successful enterprise project management?

Select one of the following:

  • The CEO choose which projects to initiate

  • Each project manager in liaison with the financial manager allocates resources for his/her project.

  • Each PM achieve project execution success in his/her own way.

  • There must be a process for communication within each project only.

  • The enterprise process and approaches are updated (as needed) based on changes in the external environment and lessons learned

  • None of the above is true

Explanation

Question 28 of 41

1

Please classify the following:
A project for developing version XX of Autocad program.

Select one of the following:

  • Project

  • Principle Project

  • Sub-Project

  • Program

  • Portfolio

Explanation

Question 29 of 41

1

Please classify the following:
A project for developing 2018 version of Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc).

Select one of the following:

  • Project

  • Principle Project

  • Sub-Project

  • Program

  • Portfolio

Explanation

Question 30 of 41

1

Please classify the following:
Projects for developing 2018 version of Word, Excel and Power Point.

Select one of the following:

  • Projects

  • Principle Projects

  • Sub-Projects

  • Program

  • Portfolio

Explanation

Question 31 of 41

1

Please classify the following:
Projects aiming at continuous development of education quality in Uppsala University.

Select one of the following:

  • Project

  • Principle Project

  • Sub-Project

  • Program

  • Portfolio

Explanation

Question 32 of 41

1

Please classify the following:
Projects aiming at building 1000 new apartments in five different sites in Uppsala.

Select one of the following:

  • Project

  • Principle Project

  • Sub-Project

  • Program

  • Portfolio

Explanation

Question 33 of 41

1

Please classify the following:
A project can be listed under two programs and/or principle projects in the same time.

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

  • Difficult to say because not enough data

Explanation

Question 34 of 41

1

In the project management career ladder the posts’ titles are unified worldwide.

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

  • Difficult to say because not enough data

Explanation

Question 35 of 41

1

What initiates change?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Change can be initiated from within the organization

  • Change can be initiated from outside the organization

  • Need to review and improve processes, strategies and/or methods

  • Focus on creating a sustainable approach, where principles and methods produce results over time.

  • To increase revenues/profits or decrease costs

  • To become more effective or more efficient

Explanation

Question 36 of 41

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Which of the following is(are) true about projects and change?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Change and Projects are not related.

  • Projects are effective change through disciplined approach to identify the scope, tasks, activities and deliverables to achieve new state.

  • Change is achieved through undisciplined approach to empower people to change behavior and process to success in the new state.

  • Project Management and Change Management are nonrelated.

  • Project Management is defining, planning and implementing a change.

  • Change Management is managing the hard side of change.

Explanation

Question 37 of 41

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What of the following is(are) true about Change management leader?

Select one of the following:

  • Has to be the CEO or one of the Senior manager of the company.

  • Change management leader is preferably one of the junior employees of the organization.

  • He/she role is not related to projects or program management.

  • Organization support has no impact on his/her success in achieving change.

  • None of the above is true.

Explanation

Question 38 of 41

1

Which of the following issues is(are) important for Change Leader?

Select one of the following:

  • Do all the work yourself.

  • Hurry or force change, do not wait for employees support.

  • Make sure on becoming a friend with everyone.

  • Come up with all solutions yourself.

  • None of the above is true.

Explanation

Question 39 of 41

1

Which of the following affects the success of change projects/initiatives?

Select one of the following:

  • Duration, long duration usually results in failure.

  • Integrity, project team is cohesive and well led.

  • Commitment, project team are committed to the change project activities only.

  • Effort, the project team must exhaust double the effort during change project execution.

Explanation

Question 40 of 41

1

Who is responsible for the organization competence development?

Select one of the following:

  • Board / Owner / Stock holders

  • Top management

  • Project Managers

  • Employees / Staff

  • External service provider (consultants, training centers, etc)

Explanation

Question 41 of 41

1

What is Collective memory?

Select one of the following:

  • It is collective experiences and knowledge that is conveyed from one generation to the next

  • It is the relationship between mentor and mentee.

  • It is the relationship between master and apprentice

  • It is the information passed through formal networking

  • It is also called Wisdom of age

Explanation

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