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40 Cards in this Set
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You work for a software development company that has followed the waterfall development model for more than 20 years. Lately, a number of customers have complained that your company is taking too long to complete its projects. You attended a class on agile development methods and believe that if the company used the agile approach, it could provide products to clients in a shorter time period. However, it would be a major culture change to switch from the waterfall methodology to the agile approach and to train staff members in this new approach. You mentioned this idea to the director of the PMO, and although she liked the idea, she would need approval from the company’s portfolio review board to move forward with it. She suggested that you document this idea in a—
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d. Business case
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You are managing a large project with 20 key internal stakeholders, eight contractors, and six team leaders. You must devote attention to effective integrated change control. This means you are concerned primarily with—
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a. Reviewing, approving, and controlling changes
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You plan to hold a series of meeting as you execute the project plan. While different attendees will attend each meeting, a best practice to follow is to:
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b. Not mix the types of meetings on your project
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a. Project charter
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You have assembled a core team to develop the project management plan for the next generation of fatigue fighting drugs. The science is complex, and the extended team of researchers, clinicians, and patients for trials exceeds 500 people. The content of your project management plan will be directed primarily by two factors. They are—
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d. Application area and complexity
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When you established the change control board for your avionics project, you established specific procedures to govern its operation. The procedures require all approved changes to baselines to be reflected in the—
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d. Project management plan
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You are beginning a new project staffed with a virtual team located across five countries. To help avoid conflict in work priorities among your team members and their functional managers, you ask the project sponsor to prepare a—
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b. Project charter
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The purpose of economic value added (EVA) is to—
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d. Evaluate the return on capital percent versus the cost of capital percent
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Facilitation techniques are used throughout project management. Your company is embarking on a project to completely eliminate defects in its products. You are the project manager for this project, and you are developing your project charter. To assist you, which of the following facilitation techniques did you use?
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c. Meeting management
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The direct and manage project work process truly is important in project management. It affects many other key processes and uses inputs from others. Working with your team at its kickoff meeting, you explain the key benefit of this process is to—
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b. Provide overall management of the project work
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You are managing a project in an organization is characterized by with rigid rules and policies and strict supervisory controls. Your project, sponsored by your CEO who is new to the company, is to make the organization less bureaucratic and more participative. You are developing your project management plan. Given the organization as it now is set up, as you prepare your plan, you can use which of the following organizational process assets—
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b. Guidelines and criteria
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You are fairly new to managing a project but have been a team member for many years. You are pleased you were selected to manage your company’s 2015 model line of hybrid vehicles. You are now planning your project and have been preparing the subsidiary plans as well. You realize some project documents also are required to help manage your project. An example of one that you believe will be especial helpful is the—
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d. Project statement of work
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You work for a telecommunications company, and when developing a project management plan for a new project, you found that you must tailor some company processes because the product is so different than those products typically produced by your company. To tailor these processes, you will follow—
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a. Standardized guidelines and work instructions
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You are implementing a project management methodology for your company that requires you to establish a change control board. Which one of the following statements best describes a change control board?
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b. Used to review, evaluate, approve, delay, or reject changes to the project
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An automated tool, project records, performance indicators, data bases, and financials are examples of items in—
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b. Project management information systems
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You realize that projects represent change, and on your projects, you always seem to have a number of change requests to consider. In your current project to manage the safety of the nation’s cheese products and the testing methods used, you decided to prepare a formal change management plan. An often overlooked type of change request is—
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b Updates
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You have been directed to establish a change control system for your company, but must convince your colleagues to use it. To be effective, the change control system must include—
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a. Procedures that define how project documents may be changed
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You are working on the next generation of software for mobile phones for your telecommunications company. While time to market is critical, you know from your work on other projects that management reviews can be helpful and plan to use them on your project. You are documenting them as part of your—
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d. Project management plan
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Your cost control specialist has developed a budget plan for your project to add a second surgical center to the Children’s Hospital. As you analyze cash flow requirements, you notice that cash flow activity is greatest in the closing phase. You find this unusual because on most projects the largest portion of the budget spent during—
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d. Executing
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You are project manager for a systems integration effort and need to procure the hardware components from external sources. Your subcontracts administrator has told you to prepare a product description, which is referenced in a—
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a. Project statement of work
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Because your project is slated to last five years, you believe rolling wave planning is appropriate. It provides information about the work to be done—
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c. For successful completion of the current and subsequent project phases
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You want to minimize the impact of changes on your project, yet you want to ensure that change is managed when and if it occurs. This can be done through each of the following ways EXCEPT—
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d. Ensuring that project scope changes are reflected in changes to product scope
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You are managing a project to introduce a new product to the marketplace that is expected to have a very long life. In this situation, the concept of being temporary, which is part of the definition of a project,—
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b. Does not apply to the product to be created
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When closing a project, it is a best practice to—
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d. Review the scope baseline
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All the following are project baselines that are generally part of the project management plan EXCEPT—
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a. Technical
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You are responsible for a project management training curriculum that is offered throughout the organization. In this situation, your intangible deliverables are—
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a. Employees who can apply the training effectively
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Working on your project management training curricula project, you decided it would be beneficial to you to become an active member of the Project Management Institute as part of the objectives of your project is to ensure it is aligned with PMI®’s best practices. To complement PMI®’s Work Breakdown Structure Practice Standard, you learned PMI® was requesting volunteers to participate in development of a similar standard on the Scope Statement. You volunteered, and now the Standard is issued. This is an example of:
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b. Corrective action
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Ideally, a project manager should be selected and assigned at which point in the project life cycle?
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a. During the initiating processes
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Closing a project phase should not be delayed until project completion because—
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a. During the initiating processes
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As you are working on your telecommunications project, even though you are using agile methods, you realize you are preparing an extensive amount of data and information. You regularly share data with your project team. Your last team meeting focused on the number of change requests and also the start and finish dates of activities in your schedule. They are examples of—
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c. Work performance data
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Project management processes describe project work, while product-oriented management processes specify the project’s product. Therefore, a project management process and a product-oriented management process—
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a. Overlap and interact throughout the project
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The close project or phase process addresses actions and activities concerning all of the following EXCEPT—
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d. Documentation that completed deliverables have been accepted
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You are a personnel management specialist recently assigned to a project team working on a team-based reward and recognition system. The other team members also work in the human resources department. The projectcharter should be issued by—
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c. A sponsor
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Your project is proceeding according to schedule. You have just learned that a new regulatory requirement will cause a change in one of the project’s performance specifications. To ensure that this change is incorporated into the project management plan, you should—
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c. Prepare a change request
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Different types of project phases are used on projects, and each phase culminates in the completion of at least one deliverable. The high-level nature of these phases means they are an element of the project life cycle. Some phases start before others complete. If this approach is followed, it may result in—
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d. More rework
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Assume your company is a leader in the market in production of cereal products. It has been in this market for over 50 years. You are the project manager for a new product that is a derivative from the company’s core product. As you determine a life cycle for this project, you believe you should follow one that is—
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b. Predictive
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Oftentimes when a project is terminated, senior managers will replace the project manager with an individual who is skilled in closing out projects. If this is done, the first step for the termination manager should be to—
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c. Conduct an immediate review of the work packages
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On your project you want to avoid bureaucracy, so you adopt an informal approach to change control. The main problem with this approach is—
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c. There are misunderstandings regarding what was agreed upon by stakeholders
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Projects are supposed to succeed, not fail. However, termination is an option to consider when all but which one of the following conditions exist?
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b. There are new stakeholders.
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All projects involve some extent of change, because they involve work that is unique in some fashion. Therefore, it is important that a project management plan includes a—
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b. Configuration management plan
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