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Interdependent tasks - Answer A firm begins its strategic business initiative of developing a
new business model that will allow the firm to deliver an efficient, tailored service to its
customers. To accomplish this, the firm initiates a business management project.
Which aspect of project management applies to this firm's project?
Improvement in product design - Answer A firm begins its strategic business initiative of
developing a new business model to enhance its competitiveness.
What can be identified as a strategic business initiative for this firm?
Project sponsor - Answer A firm begins a strategic business initiative of developing a new
business model that will allow the firm to deliver an efficient, tailored service to its customers.
Which stakeholder would have triggered this strategic business initiative?
Closing process group - Answer Which group is included in the five process groups?
PRojects IN a Controlled Environment - Answer What does PRINCE2 stand for?
Executing - Answer Which PMBOK process group is described as the delivery part of project
management where the main activity happens?
Lines of authority are clear. - Answer Which advantage does the functional
(departmentalized) organizational structure provide for a firm with multiple projects?
The U.S. Department of State & The U.S Department of Energy - Answer Which two
organizations are examples of organizations with the functional organizational structure?
Project team members gain access to historical data from other projects. - Answer An
organization expects to use a project management office (PMO) to support multiple projects
that will be implemented within a projectized organizational structure.
,Which implied effect is a benefit to this organization?
Projects will coordinate resource usage by monitoring the status of shared resources. - Answer
Regardless of the organizational structure used to manage a project, an organization elects to
use a project management office (PMO).
Which benefit will this organization gain?
Planning - Answer During a certain project phase, specific blueprints are drawn and
approved, materials and labor costs are estimated, prototypes are created, and work activities
and tasks are identified. Also, quality expectations, measurements, and costs are defined.
During which project phase do these activities occur?
Collecting customer requirements 1
Developing the work breakdown structure 2
Working to produce project deliverable 3
Customers evaluating the project outcomes 4
Capturing lessons learned 5 - Answer Place the project activities in order of occurrence from
first (1) to last (5).
Executing - Answer During which life cycle phase is the vast majority of the actual work to
produce the project's deliverables completed?
Deliverable - Answer What is the correct term for an intermediate outcome of project work,
such as a signed contract or obtaining a construction permit?
User training - Answer Which deliverable from a work breakdown structure (WBS) is not
specific enough to measure its completion at project closure?
Sequence of project phases - Answer he following table shows the Level 1 work breakdown
structure (WBS) for Project A.
WBS ID Description
, 0.0 Project A
1.0 Project started
2.0 Feasiblity
3.0 Design
4.0 Development
5.0 Manufacturing
6.0 Distribution
7.0 Project completed
Which approach did the project manager use to structure the WBS?
WBS dictionary and project scope statement - Answer WBS Project:
0.0 Project O
1.0 Project Start
2.0 Feasibility
3.0 Design
4.0 Development
5.0 Manufacturing
6.0 Distribution
7.0 Project Completed
Terminating the project as soon as possible and releasing the project's resources - Answer
For the following collapsed work breakdown structure (WBS) for Project O, the project's
steering committee held a phase gate review of the Feasibility results. That review determined
that the project's proposed design would be obsolete before it would reach the marketplace.
WBS ID Description
0.0 Project O
1.0 Project started
2.0 Feasibility
3.0 Design
4.0 Development
5.0 Manufacturing
6.0 Distribution
7.0 Project completed
Which action should the project manager initiate?