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    1.Which of the following are the essential characteristics that make a group of activities a project?

    1. It takes multiple individuals to perform these activities, and it creates a new product.

    2. The work is managed by a project manager.

    3. The group has a plan and a budget.

    4. The group has a start date and a finish date, and its outcome will be a new product.

    2.Which of the following is a project?

    1. Running a donut shop

    2. Building another library in your area

    3. Keeping a network up and running in a university department

    4. Running a warehouse

    3.Which of the following are the process groups?

    1. Starting, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing

    2. Initiating, organizing and preparing, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing

    3. Initiating, planning, implementing, monitoring and controlling, and closing

    4. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing

    4.Which of the following is not a project management knowledge area?

    1. Project procurement management

    2. Project risk management

    3. Project quality management

    4. Project team management

    5.Which of the following is the best definition of progressive elaboration?

    1. Taking the project from concept to project management plan

    2. Taking the project from conception to completion

    3. Taking the project from initiating to closing

    4. Decomposing the project objectives into smaller, more manageable work pieces

    6.In which of the following organizational structures does the project manager have the greatest authority?

    1. Functional

    2. Projectized

    3. Matrix

    4. Leveled

    7.In which of the following organizational structures does the project manager have the least authority?

    1. Functional

    2. Projectized

    3. Matrix

    4. Leveled

    8.Your project depends on two business partners, On The Fly Inc. (OTF) and The Sure Thing Inc. (ST), delivering their products to you on time. The chances are three out of four that OTF will make the delivery in time and two out of three that ST will not make the delivery on time. The probability that OTF and ST will both deliver in time is equal to:

    1. 0.25

    2. 0.5

    3. 5/7

    4. 4/7

    9.All of the following are true about a project except:

    1. Cost is low and stakeholder influence is highest in the beginning.

    2. Staffing levels and the ability to influence the product characteristics are both low at the end of the project.

    3. When the project is executing, both cost and stakeholders’ influence are at the highest.

    4. Uncertainty is at its highest at the beginning of the project.

    10.Both projects and operations share all the following characteristics except:

    1. Performed by individuals

    2. Planned, executed, monitored and controlled, and closed

    3. Limited by constraints

    4. Performed to achieve the strategic objectives of the organization

    11.You are being interviewed by a functional manager who says, “We have this huge undertaking of launching an online education website that contains different components, such as designing the website, developing the content, developing the administrative system including registration and payment, marketing the courses on the website, integrating different components of the website, and finally going live. Each component is functionally complex and large enough that it will be better served under a different management.” The manager is most likely describing a:

    1. Project

    2. Program

    3. Operation

    4. Portfolio

    12.Effective project management requires that a project manager must have the following characteristics:

    1. Project management knowledge, the ability to apply the knowledge effectively to the project at hand, and computer expertise

    2. Project management knowledge, leadership skills, and expertise in the application area of the project

    3. Project management knowledge, the ability to apply the knowledge effectively to the project at hand, and personal style and behavior, including personal effectiveness and leadership

    4. Project management knowledge, the ability to apply the knowledge effectively to the project at hand, and project management experience

    13.The role of a project manager is more of a coordinator or an expediter in organizations with the following structure(s):

    1. Strong matrix and weak matrix

    2. Projectized

    3. Functional and weak matrix

    4. Hierarchical

    14.The project manager is responsible for achieving project objectives in an organization with the following structure(s):

    1. Projectized only

    2. Strong matrix and projectized only

    3. Matrix and projectized only

    4. All structures

    15.You have just joined an organization as a project manager and are studying the enterprise environmental factors of the organization to find out how you can leverage them for the success of your upcoming projects. Enterprise environmental factors may have what kind of influence on the projects?

    1. Positive only

    2. Negative only

    3. Positive or negative

    4. None

    16.Which of the following is not an example of a project selection method?

    1. Enterprise environmental factors

    2. Scoring models

    3. Cost benefit ratio

    4. Constrained optimization methods

    17.Your company runs a website that makes digital music downloads available to end users. You have been assigned a project that involves adding parental guidance warnings attached to various downloads. This project originated due to which of the following?

    1. Business requirements that may include legal requirements

    2. Opportunity

    3. Problems

    4. Internal business needs


      

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