WGU C176 : Post Assessment Exam Questions With Complete Solutions

A project manager wants to review a document to know when and how the project information will be delivered to the stakeholders. Which of the following will he use? A Communication plan B Project charter C Organizational chart D Dashboard information ANS - Communication plan You have been assigned as a project manager for your company. You need to create a work breakdown structure for your project. What will you use to accomplish the task? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply. A Process diagram B Scatter diagram C Outline form D Tree structure diagram ANS - Outline form Tree structure diagram In which of the following organizations do benched resources occur? A Functional B Projectized C Adhoc D Matrix ANS - Projectized Your project team members are working from different geographical locations. Which of the following factors do you need to consider while dealing with them? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply. A Cultural differences B Technology barriers C Time zone differences D Programming language differences ANS - Cultural differences Technology barriers Time zone differences You're entering all the activities of the project with their durations to depict when the project is scheduled to end. Which of the following are you building? A Gantt chart B Scatter diagram C Fishbone D Pareto chart ANS - Gantt chart You and your team members are working on a project for four weeks. You noticed that one of your team members named Alice is falling behind schedule in the project. What will you do? A Hold a meeting with team member Alice. B Hold a meeting with other team members to make up the schedule slippage. C Hold a meeting with project stakeholders to communicate the delay. D Hold a meeting with the functional manager of Alice. ANS - Hold a meeting with team member Alice. Annie has been assigned as a project manager for her organization. She is analyzing the earned value of work completed compared to the actual cost of the project. This type of analysis is an example of which of the following? A Burn rate B Schedule variance C Cost variance D Cost baseline ANS - Cost variance What key meeting serves to introduce team members, review project goals and objectives, stakeholder expectations, and roles and responsibilities of team members? A Project overview B Project status meeting C Project kickoff D Project review ANS - Project kickoff Which of the following is the drawback of a projectized organization? A Competing demands for resources. B Reassigning project team members once the project ends. C Project managers have limited to no authority. D Project team members are loyal to the functional manager. ANS - Reassigning project team members once the project ends. Which of the following are the types of vendor-centric documents? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply. A Cease-and-desist letter B Statements of work C Service level agreements D Business case ANS - Cease-and-desist letter Statements of work Service level agreements You're testing one of the applications and find that the application is supporting 80 concurrent users where the requirement was to support 400 concurrent users. Where this should be reported? A Project scope statement B Communication plan C Risk trigger D Issue log ANS - Issue log Which of the following is defined as the cost of work that has been authorized and budgeted for a specific schedule activity or WBS component during a given time period or phase? A SPI B EV C AC D PV ANS - PV You're a project manager for your organization and are creating a time estimate for your project. Your project will require the installation of 1,500 doors on your organization's campus; the doors are fireproof and mandated by law. Roger, a project team member, estimates that each door will take 1.5 hours to install and test successfully; you've used that figure to estimate a total installation time for all doors at 2,250 hours of labor. What type of estimate have you created? A Bottom-up B Rough order of magnitude C Parametric D Expert judgment ANS - Parametric Which of the following includes final project acceptance criteria? A Procurement plan B Integration plan C Scope statement D Project charter ANS - Scope statement Why is it important to complete a formal project closure process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply. A To confirm that the customer accepts the final deliverables B To gather additional scope requirements that need to be entered into the project scope statement C To confirm that key stakeholder will work with all vendors in the future D To confirm that contract was completed accurately and satisfactorily ANS - To confirm that the customer accepts the final deliverables To confirm that contract was completed accurately and satisfactorily You, a project manager, want to gather more information about the goods you need to procure for your organization. Also, you need to get an idea for the estimated cost of the goods. What will you use to accomplish the task? A WBS B RFI C RFP D SOW ANS - RFI Which of the following functions are provided by a PMO (project management office)? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply. A Run interference and remove roadblocks B Governance process for managing projects and setting priorities C Standards of performance including consequences of non-performance D Cost estimates for deliverables or other project work purchased from outside an organization ANS - Governance process for managing projects and setting priorities Standards of performance including consequences of non-performance