MIDTERM PRACTICE
The role of a is to provide direction and funding for a project.
project sponsor
Galaxy, a construction company, buys a particular brand of tiles manufactured by Tiles and Floors, an
eco-friendly tile manufacturing company. However, Tiles and Floors has declared bankruptcy and closed
down. At present, Galaxy is facing a crisis because there are no other manufacturers in the market that
supplies eco-friendly tiles. Which of the following constraints is Galaxy currently facing?
Resources
Steve, an engineer in a construction company, is at present working on a home construction project. The
home is being built for the Robinson family, the owners of the home. Steve is working with his project
team and support staff to ensure the project is completed on time. In such a scenario, the project
sponsor is .
the Robinson family
Which of the following tools can best help in efficient communication management?
Kick-off meetings
Which of the following is true of program managers?
They provide leadership and direction for
project managers heading the projects
within a program.
Martha works as a project manager at a bank. Due to certain changes in external factors, Martha needs
to make a few alterations in the tactical goals of her project. In such a scenario, which of the following
will best help Martha cope with the change?
Project environment knowledge
Joe is a project manager in an IT company and has over the years, gained substantial knowledge in his
area of work. However, while managing his team, he often loses his temper. In addition, he fails to be an
active listener when his team members approach him with work related challenges. In which of the
following areas does Joe need to develop his skills in?
Human relations skills
Which of the following project management knowledge areas primarily involve generating, collecting,
disseminating, and storing project information?
Project communications management
Examples of processes include acquiring and developing the project team, performing quality
assurance, distributing information, managing stakeholder expectations, and conducting procurements.
executing
The project integration management knowledge area maps to the process group through the
activities of developing project charters.
Initiating
The project scope management knowledge area maps to the process group through the activities
monitoring and controlling
Developing a is a planning process that occurs in the Project Integration Management knowledge
area.
project management plan
Which of the following is true about the agile method?
It uses several iterations or deliveries of
software instead of waiting until the end
of the project to provide a product.
Which of the following project parameters would be compatible with the use of the agile approach?
Projects that have more flexible
scheduling
Which of the following activities is a part of the planning process of the Scrum?
Creating sprint backlog
A is an important Scrum artifact used to graphically display progress on each sprint during the
monitoring and controlling process.
burndown chart
An IT company revises its process parameters in response to complaints from vendors that products
were not ready on time. This would be an example of .
a corrective action
Which of the following is a proactive process undertaken to reduce the probability of negative
consequences associated with project risks?
Preventive actions
should result in improvements in project performance.
Corrective actions
The section of the project management plan describes how to monitor project progress and
handle changes.
project controls
The business case includes information on
the project objective, high-level
requirements, and time and cost goals
The section of the project management plan describes how to monitor project progress and
handle changes.
project controls
The project schedule information section of the project management plan includes .
an elaborate timetable
involves reviewing the project charter, requirements documents, and organizational process
assets to create a scope statement, adding more information as requirements are developed and change
requests are approved.
Defining scope
involves formalizing acceptance of the project deliverables and during this phase the key project
stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the
deliverables.
Validating scope
In the approach for constructing a WBS, you use a similar project’s WBS as a starting point.
analogy
In the approach, team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as
possible and then aggregate the specific tasks and organize them into summary activities, or higher
levels in the WBS.
bottom-up
uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders—the
sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on—to jointly define and design information
systems.
JAD
refers to the process of developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system.
Prototyping