WGU Project Management C722 Questions with
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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 Ans✓✓✓ c. Project sponsor
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?
,a. Independent operations
b. Interdependent tasks
c. Regulatory concept
d. External environment Ans✓✓✓ b. interdependent tasks
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?
a. Timely payment of liabilities
b. Liaison with regulatory agencies
c. Improvement in product design
,d. Environmental scanning Ans✓✓✓ c. Improvement in product design
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?
Choose 2 answers
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
Ans✓✓✓ 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 Ans✓✓✓ a.
using change management 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 members. 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.
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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 Ans✓✓✓ c. Project sponsor
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?
,a. Independent operations
b. Interdependent tasks
c. Regulatory concept
d. External environment Ans✓✓✓ b. interdependent tasks
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?
a. Timely payment of liabilities
b. Liaison with regulatory agencies
c. Improvement in product design
,d. Environmental scanning Ans✓✓✓ c. Improvement in product design
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?
Choose 2 answers
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
Ans✓✓✓ 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 Ans✓✓✓ a.
using change management 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 members. 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.
