Project Management
Iron Triangle
Meeting the client’s quality requirements by investing additional resources in the project
may lead to overworking and employee attrition.
The construction project management team develops the project charter, which is a document that
formally authorizes the project's existence and provides the project manager with the authority to
apply contractual and organizational resources to project activities. The project charter is
developed..
... once at the beginning of the project and/or at predefined points during the project's
lifecycle.
Which of the following is not considered a project?
Developing a financial report for your next monthly financial meeting
You work for a contractor that just won a major new high-rise building project in central
Gothenburg. It will begin next spring and is valued at 20 million SEK. You are the project manager for
an existing construction project. What is the first thing you should do once you hear of the new
project?
Ask the top management about how the new project will affect your project
Implementing project quality management means methodically implementing the organization's
quality policy into project quality criteria in order to:
Meet the stakeholders goals
Which of the following is considered to be one of the project manager's responsibilities?
Managing the project's scope, time and cost in order to assure the best possible quality
according to the stakeholders' expectations
Which of the following statements pertaining processes and/or knowledge areas, as they are
understood by PMBOK, is not true?
Processes are fundamentally linear and do not participate in cycles and/or feedback loops in
any knowledge area.
Which of the following statements is not true when you are closing a project or a phase during
project integration management?
Finalizing the most important activities and leaving aside the ones that could not be
completed.
Which of the following statements describes what a project program is?
A group of interrelated projects, subsidiary programs, and included activities managed in a
coordinated manner.
Which of the following is not a key concept of project cost management?
Project cost management necessarily includes the analysis of the financial performance of
the project.
In conventional roofs, placing the waterproofing layer on top of the thermal insulation layer is
considered a best practice. Doing so allows the use of almost all thermal insulation materials
regardless of their behavior in the presence of water, as the waterproofing (if done correctly)
protects them from contact with water. This also means that the activity of installing the thermal
insulation layer must be performed before the activity of installing the waterproofing layer. What
kind of dependency describes those activities' relation according to project schedule management?
Discretionary dependency.
You work as a site manager for a warehouse project in a dense industrial area. Which of the
following does not fall into your area of responsibility
Managing the production line of the prefabricated elements that are used in some parts of
the project.
There had been severe maritime risks identified in the risk management plan during the construction
of the Öresund bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark. Which of the following statements can best
describe the planning of relevant risk responses?
The probability and impact of a risk should always be considered, but a desirable course of
action might mean the acceptance and/or management of even severe risks - depending on
the project conditions and stakeholders' expectations.
Which of the following best describes what a project scope is?
It is the description of the required work that is necessary to complete the project.
Being a leader or a manager? A project manager
can employ both leadership and management skills in a way that may vary per project and
have to do with the manager's distinct behavioral characteristics, self-perception, and
project role.