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Project Management Concept Test Questions #2

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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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Question 1

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Projects may be initiated by any of the following except____.
Answer
  • Project team
  • Sponsor
  • PMO
  • CEO

Question 2

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What is required for a project to start and continue running?
Answer
  • Having a Sponsor
  • Scope approved
  • Action plan approved
  • Budget approved
  • All of the above

Question 3

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What makes the Steering committee approve the (reviewed) budget?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 4

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According to psychological research, what is most important for increasing motivation and productivity in a team?
Answer
  • Respect
  • Setting clear goals
  • Encouragement and emotional support
  • Support on seeing and making progress

Question 5

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What is, according to teamwork research, an ideal team-size?
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  • 5-9 people
  • 10-15 people
  • 2-3 people
  • 12-18 people

Question 6

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

Question 7

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What are the most important principles in leadership?
Answer
  • 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

Question 8

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Which of the following describes a Clam Personality?
Answer
  • 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

Question 9

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What is the best personality type for a successful PM/PL?
Answer
  • Open
  • Questioner
  • Opinionator
  • Clam
  • It depends

Question 10

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Which form of feedback is more important?
Answer
  • Giving Feedback
  • Receiving feedback
  • Both are equally important

Question 11

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A successful leader gives the team members……
Answer
  • 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

Question 12

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What make PM continue get more projects to manage?
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  • Success in completing previous projects
  • Ability to handle challenges
  • Ability to lead a team
  • All the above
  • None of the above

Question 13

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

Question 14

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Which is the best situational leadership Approach?
Answer
  • Coaching/selling
  • Participating
  • Delegating
  • Telling
  • All are good. The situation dictates which is best.

Question 15

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Which is the best style of conflict resolution to start with?
Answer
  • Forcing
  • Avoiding
  • Compromising
  • Collaborating
  • Accommodating
  • Depending on the conflict, situation and conflicting parties, any can be the best starting point

Question 16

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

Question 17

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What is the PM/PL worst enemy?
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  • 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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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One of a project manager’s main tasks is establishing sufficient project control through seeing to that:
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  • Work is structured according to scope
  • Progress is evaluated and followed up
  • Risks are assessed
  • Scope is changed when deviations occur

Question 20

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What are the basic types of organizational environments - project management perspective?
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  • Hierarchical (Functional or Divisional)
  • Matrix (weak, balanced and strong)
  • Projects/program based
  • Composite (New)
  • All the above
  • None of the above

Question 21

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Does the organizational structure/environment have an impact on the way projects´ are executed?
Answer
  • It is one of the dominating factors
  • It is the only dominating factor
  • It has no effect
  • It depends

Question 22

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

Question 23

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What is true about Execution Phase?
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  • 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.

Question 24

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Which are activities that should be done at the initiation of project execution?
Answer
  • Acquire all resources
  • Staff the project team
  • Communicate with stakeholders
  • Monitor activities
  • Review and modify action plan and budget.
  • Kick-of meeting

Question 25

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Which of the following is vital stage to any project but not part of the project life cycle?
Answer
  • Idea
  • Initiation
  • Planning
  • Execution
  • Closure/handover
  • Impact assessment

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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Please classify the following: A project for developing version XX of Autocad program.
Answer
  • Project
  • Principle Project
  • Sub-Project
  • Program
  • Portfolio

Question 29

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Please classify the following: A project for developing 2018 version of Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc).
Answer
  • Project
  • Principle Project
  • Sub-Project
  • Program
  • Portfolio

Question 30

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Please classify the following: Projects for developing 2018 version of Word, Excel and Power Point.
Answer
  • Projects
  • Principle Projects
  • Sub-Projects
  • Program
  • Portfolio

Question 31

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Please classify the following: Projects aiming at continuous development of education quality in Uppsala University.
Answer
  • Project
  • Principle Project
  • Sub-Project
  • Program
  • Portfolio

Question 32

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Please classify the following: Projects aiming at building 1000 new apartments in five different sites in Uppsala.
Answer
  • Project
  • Principle Project
  • Sub-Project
  • Program
  • Portfolio

Question 33

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Please classify the following: A project can be listed under two programs and/or principle projects in the same time.
Answer
  • True
  • False
  • Difficult to say because not enough data

Question 34

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In the project management career ladder the posts’ titles are unified worldwide.
Answer
  • True
  • False
  • Difficult to say because not enough data

Question 35

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What initiates change?
Answer
  • 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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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Which of the following affects the success of change projects/initiatives?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 40

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Who is responsible for the organization competence development?
Answer
  • Board / Owner / Stock holders
  • Top management
  • Project Managers
  • Employees / Staff
  • External service provider (consultants, training centers, etc)

Question 41

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What is Collective memory?
Answer
  • 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
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