ITM750 Midterm Practice Questions
By 2027, employers will need over ____________ million individuals working in project management–oriented roles.
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Which of the following is not a potential advantage of using good project management?
Lower cost of capital
A ____________ is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
project
Which of the following is not an attribute of a project?
Projects involve little uncertainty.
Which of the following is not part of the triple constraint of project management?
Meeting communications goals
____________ is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.
Project management
Project portfolio management addresses ____________ goals of an organization, while project management addresses ____________ goals.
strategic, tactical
Several application development projects done for the same functional group might best be managed as part of a ____________.
program
Which of the following is not true?
PMI’s talent triangle includes leadership and information technology skills along with
project management.
What is the name of one of the popular certifications provided by the Project Management
Institute?
Project Management Professional (PMP®)
Which of the following is not part of the three-sphere model for systems management?
Information
Which of the four frames of organizations addresses how meetings are run, employee dress
codes, and expected work hours?
Symbolic
Personnel in a ____________ organizational structure often report to two or more bosses.
matrix
Project work is most successful in an organizational culture where all of the following characteristics are important except ____________.
control
A ____________ is a product or service, such as a technical report, a training session,
or hardware, produced or provided as part of a project.
deliverable
Which of the following statements is false?
A product life cycle is the same as a project life cycle.
Which of the following terms describes a framework of the phases involved in developing
information systems?
Systems development life cycle
The nature of IT projects is different from the nature of projects in many other industries
because they are very ____________.
diverse
What term describes an organization’s acquisition of goods and services from an outside
source in another country?
Offshoring
____________ is the leading agile development method.
Scrum
A ____________ is a series of actions directed toward a particular result
process
____________ processes include coordinating people and other resources to carry out
project plans and create the products, services, or results of the project or phase.
Executing
Which process group normally requires the most resources and time?
Executing
What methodology was developed in the United Kingdom, defines 45 separate
subprocesses, and organizes them into eight process groups?
PRINCE2
Which of the following outputs is often completed before initiating a project?
Business case
A work breakdown structure, project schedule, and cost estimates are outputs of the
____________ process.
planning
Initiating involves developing a project charter, which is part of the project ____________
management knowledge area.
integration
____________ involves measuring progress toward project objectives and taking corrective
actions.
Monitoring and controlling
Which of the following is not a typical reason that project teams would use a predictive
approach versus an agile approach to managing a project?
The project has unclear up-front requirements
Many people use ____________ to have a standard format for preparing various project
management documents
templates
If estimates for total discounted benefits for a project are $120,000 and total discounted
costs are $100,000, what is the estimated return on investment (ROI)?
20 percent
Which of the following processes is not part of project integration management?
Developing the project business case
What is the last step in the four-stage planning process for selecting IT projects?
Resource allocation
Which of the following is not a best practice for new product development projects?
Selecting projects that will take less than two years to provide payback
A new government law requires an organization to report data in a new way. Which of the
following categories would include a new information system project to provide this data?
Directive
A ____________ is a document that formally recognizes the existence of a project and
provides direction on the project’s objectives and management.
project charter
Which of the following items is not normally included in a project charter?
A Gantt chart
____________ ensures that the descriptions of the project’s products are correct and
complete.
Configuration management
Which of the following is not a suggestion for performing integrated change control?
Minimize change
What tool and technique is used for all processes of project integration management?
Expert judgment
____________ refer(s) to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and
the processes used to create them.
Scope
Which tool or technique for collecting requirements is often the most expensive and time
consuming?
Interviews
A ____________ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that
defines its total scope.
WBS
What approach to developing a WBS involves writing down or drawing ideas in a nonlinear
format?
Mind mapping
Assume that you have a project with major categories called planning, analysis, design, and
testing. What level of the WBS would these items fall under?
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Which of the following is not a best practice that can help in avoiding scope problems on IT
projects?
Don’t involve too many users in scope management.
What constitutes requirements for agile projects?
The backlog
Scope ____________ is often achieved by a customer inspection and then sign-off on key
deliverables.
validation
Which of the following is not a suggestion for improving user input?
Only have meetings as needed, not on a regular basis.
Project management software helps you develop a ____________, which serves as a basis
for creating Gantt charts, assigning resources, and allocating costs.
WBS