Project Management C722, Pre-
Assessment Test / Revised Questions
and Answers / Sure A+
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?
a) Director of operations
b) Production supervisor
c) Project sponsor
d) Financial controller - c) Project sponsor
A firm beings its strategic business initiative of developing a new business model that will allow the firm
to deliver an efficient, tailored service to its customer. To accomplish this, the firm initiates a business
management project.
Which aspect of project management applies to this firm's project?
a) Independent operations
b) Interdependent tasks
c) Regulatory concept
d) External environment - b) Interdependent tasks
A general contractor from Germany is managing a construction project in Norway that will add a new
conference room to an existing office building. The project needs to collect requirements from the client
prior to developing plans to build the new conference room.
Which two actions would prove useful to plan the project's quality?
,a) Defining traceable and verifiable requirements that can be validated at project closure
b) Establishing metrics that describe what to measure and how to measure it
c) Using inventory to protect against defects during project implementation
d) Changing the work plan to account for the project experiencing common variation
e) Using slogans and numerical quotas to exhort resources to work harder - a&b
a) Defining traceable and verifiable requirements that can be validated at project closure
b) Establishing metrics that describe what to measure and how to measure it
A general contractor is managing a construction project that will add a new conference room to an
existing office building. The project was documented in a fixed-price contract that specified a
completion date. The contract includes a damages clause imposing a late completion penalty if the
conference room is not ready for use by the due date. One month into the implementation, the
customer wants to modify the room's lighting equipment. The requested change will delay the project's
critical path by three months.
Which process should be used to maintain the existing baseline?
a) Using a change management system to influence performance
b) Absorbing the change request in the baselines for time and cost
c) Focusing on the original scope
d) Using the risk management system to process change requests - a) Using a change
management system to influence performance
A general contractor is managing a highway construction project that will repair a flood-damaged road.
The Department of Transportation offered an incentive fee if the repairs are completed early. Therefore,
the project manager has established a rewards and recognition program and has communicated this
program to the project team member. The project's recognition program will reward project team
members who add value by accelerating the project while maintaining its ability to deliver the
completed scope correctly.
Which change management phase does this scenario describe?
, a) Preparing for the change
b) Managing the change
c) Reinforcing the change
d) Upgrading the change - c) Reinforcing the change
A general contractor is managing a highway construction project that will repair a flood-damaged road.
The project was documented in a cost-plus-incentive fee contract that specified a completion date of
June 30. The Department of Transportation has offered an incentive for early completion of the repairs.
Which triple-constraint baseline remains unchanged by the effects of the incentive?
a) Scop
b) Time
c) Cost
d) Price - A) scope
A project is an operational necessity to repair a design flaw in the date field that constrains the year
number to two digits, instead of permitting the year to be indicated with four digits. If the project is not
completed before December 31, 1999, many legacy programs are expected to fail or produce
unpredictable outcomes. The marketing department wants to upgrade its existing computer equipment
and have the costs included in the budget for this project. The project team implemented the marketing
department's request without coupling the formal change control procedures.
What has happened to the scope baseline in this scenario?
a) Scope updates have caused an unaffordable scope variance
b) Scope creep has caused a scope variance
c) Scope upgrade has caused a scope variance
d) Scope risks have caused a smaller scope variance - b) Scope creep has caused a scope variance
Assessment Test / Revised Questions
and Answers / Sure A+
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?
a) Director of operations
b) Production supervisor
c) Project sponsor
d) Financial controller - c) Project sponsor
A firm beings its strategic business initiative of developing a new business model that will allow the firm
to deliver an efficient, tailored service to its customer. To accomplish this, the firm initiates a business
management project.
Which aspect of project management applies to this firm's project?
a) Independent operations
b) Interdependent tasks
c) Regulatory concept
d) External environment - b) Interdependent tasks
A general contractor from Germany is managing a construction project in Norway that will add a new
conference room to an existing office building. The project needs to collect requirements from the client
prior to developing plans to build the new conference room.
Which two actions would prove useful to plan the project's quality?
,a) Defining traceable and verifiable requirements that can be validated at project closure
b) Establishing metrics that describe what to measure and how to measure it
c) Using inventory to protect against defects during project implementation
d) Changing the work plan to account for the project experiencing common variation
e) Using slogans and numerical quotas to exhort resources to work harder - a&b
a) Defining traceable and verifiable requirements that can be validated at project closure
b) Establishing metrics that describe what to measure and how to measure it
A general contractor is managing a construction project that will add a new conference room to an
existing office building. The project was documented in a fixed-price contract that specified a
completion date. The contract includes a damages clause imposing a late completion penalty if the
conference room is not ready for use by the due date. One month into the implementation, the
customer wants to modify the room's lighting equipment. The requested change will delay the project's
critical path by three months.
Which process should be used to maintain the existing baseline?
a) Using a change management system to influence performance
b) Absorbing the change request in the baselines for time and cost
c) Focusing on the original scope
d) Using the risk management system to process change requests - a) Using a change
management system to influence performance
A general contractor is managing a highway construction project that will repair a flood-damaged road.
The Department of Transportation offered an incentive fee if the repairs are completed early. Therefore,
the project manager has established a rewards and recognition program and has communicated this
program to the project team member. The project's recognition program will reward project team
members who add value by accelerating the project while maintaining its ability to deliver the
completed scope correctly.
Which change management phase does this scenario describe?
, a) Preparing for the change
b) Managing the change
c) Reinforcing the change
d) Upgrading the change - c) Reinforcing the change
A general contractor is managing a highway construction project that will repair a flood-damaged road.
The project was documented in a cost-plus-incentive fee contract that specified a completion date of
June 30. The Department of Transportation has offered an incentive for early completion of the repairs.
Which triple-constraint baseline remains unchanged by the effects of the incentive?
a) Scop
b) Time
c) Cost
d) Price - A) scope
A project is an operational necessity to repair a design flaw in the date field that constrains the year
number to two digits, instead of permitting the year to be indicated with four digits. If the project is not
completed before December 31, 1999, many legacy programs are expected to fail or produce
unpredictable outcomes. The marketing department wants to upgrade its existing computer equipment
and have the costs included in the budget for this project. The project team implemented the marketing
department's request without coupling the formal change control procedures.
What has happened to the scope baseline in this scenario?
a) Scope updates have caused an unaffordable scope variance
b) Scope creep has caused a scope variance
c) Scope upgrade has caused a scope variance
d) Scope risks have caused a smaller scope variance - b) Scope creep has caused a scope variance
