BICSI RTPM EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Phases of a Project - ✔✔Design
Bidding
Construction
Post-Construction
✔✔PM Tools - ✔✔Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)
Gantt - Schedule of activity, bar chart
Critical Path Management
Earned Value Management
✔✔TPM Steps - ✔✔Developing a Plan
Implementing the Plan
Managing/ Tracking the Plan
Closeout the Project
✔✔TPM Knowledge Areas - ✔✔Integration
Scope
Time
Cost
Quality
Human Resources
Communications
Risks
Procurement
Stakeholders
✔✔Human Resource Management - ✔✔Personnel issues, engaging the right people to
do the job, (trained, equipped, motivated)
Project Safety
✔✔Scope Management - ✔✔Development of a scope statement, approved by client
and compay
Scope statement defines type/ amount/ limits of the work to be performed
Scope is the fence around the project
✔✔Integration Management - ✔✔Breaks up multiple small projects to one big project
One big project broken down to multiple small projects
Integration of subteams into project organization with integrated plan
✔✔Time Management - ✔✔Time estimate and schedules
Integration of time schedules from various subteams and calculation of the critical path
of events on the project
,✔✔Cost Management - ✔✔Cost estimate and project budget
✔✔Quality Management - ✔✔Detailed review of the design documentation throughout
the project
If ICT completes build, include test results and workmanship
Client value Items
✔✔Communications Management - ✔✔Scheduled meetings and the use of electronic
media
War room - to post schedule and project results on a whiteboard
✔✔Risk Management - ✔✔Injury
Professional damage
Scheduling conflicts
Errors & omissions
Cost risks
✔✔When should the risk management plan be completed? - ✔✔Before a company
submits a proposal
✔✔Stakeholder Management - ✔✔Identify all internal/ external stakeholders
✔✔Whose job is it to integrate and mitigate the influence and interests of each
stakeholder - ✔✔Project Manager
✔✔Procurement Management - ✔✔Procurement of resources outside of the team,
(materials & subcontractors)
✔✔Client Needs Assessment - ✔✔Starts with a meeting with the client to evaluate their
needs
✔✔ICT Professional must understand: - ✔✔Industry, Business, Technology and
Strategic plans
✔✔ICT Professional should understand: - ✔✔Strengths/ Weaknesses
Vertical Market
Unique Requirements
✔✔Developing a Project Plan by Answering Questions - ✔✔Lessons Learned from
previous projects
What needs done (SOW)
How will accidents be prevented (Safety Plan)
Who will affect or be affected (Stakeholder MGMT)
, Who should participate in project plan (OBS)
Who performs each task (WBS)
When is each task performed (PERT, CPM, Gantt)
What is the Project Budget (EVM)
How will the quality be checked (Quality Plan)
How will risks be assessed (Risk plan)
How will communication be tracked (Comm MGMT)
✔✔Lessons Learned Questions - ✔✔What went right/ wrong
What produced best results
What processes can be improved
Did we learn anything
✔✔Corrective Action Plan - ✔✔Should be developed for the purpose of continuous
quality
✔✔Request for Proposal (RFP) - ✔✔Invitation for a contractor to submit proposal for a
service
✔✔What dictates scope but leaves the decisions to the firm? - ✔✔RFP
✔✔It is advisable for the project manager to send the 90% draft of the RFP to the: -
✔✔Project Manager's Legal Team
✔✔Parts of the RFP - ✔✔Cover Letter
Executive Summary
Background
Description of Solution
Concept Drawing
Projected Pricing
Business References
✔✔Code of Silence - ✔✔An oath by a solicitor, or other employee, not to disclose any
information in regards to the RFP
✔✔Violating the Code of Silence: - ✔✔will automatically disqualify the proposal and the
company could be further penalized in future RFP submittals
✔✔Design Team Members - ✔✔Owner
Architect
Professional Engineer
Consultant
✔✔Owner - ✔✔Defines requirements, provides approval @ each design phase
GRADED A+
✔✔Phases of a Project - ✔✔Design
Bidding
Construction
Post-Construction
✔✔PM Tools - ✔✔Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)
Gantt - Schedule of activity, bar chart
Critical Path Management
Earned Value Management
✔✔TPM Steps - ✔✔Developing a Plan
Implementing the Plan
Managing/ Tracking the Plan
Closeout the Project
✔✔TPM Knowledge Areas - ✔✔Integration
Scope
Time
Cost
Quality
Human Resources
Communications
Risks
Procurement
Stakeholders
✔✔Human Resource Management - ✔✔Personnel issues, engaging the right people to
do the job, (trained, equipped, motivated)
Project Safety
✔✔Scope Management - ✔✔Development of a scope statement, approved by client
and compay
Scope statement defines type/ amount/ limits of the work to be performed
Scope is the fence around the project
✔✔Integration Management - ✔✔Breaks up multiple small projects to one big project
One big project broken down to multiple small projects
Integration of subteams into project organization with integrated plan
✔✔Time Management - ✔✔Time estimate and schedules
Integration of time schedules from various subteams and calculation of the critical path
of events on the project
,✔✔Cost Management - ✔✔Cost estimate and project budget
✔✔Quality Management - ✔✔Detailed review of the design documentation throughout
the project
If ICT completes build, include test results and workmanship
Client value Items
✔✔Communications Management - ✔✔Scheduled meetings and the use of electronic
media
War room - to post schedule and project results on a whiteboard
✔✔Risk Management - ✔✔Injury
Professional damage
Scheduling conflicts
Errors & omissions
Cost risks
✔✔When should the risk management plan be completed? - ✔✔Before a company
submits a proposal
✔✔Stakeholder Management - ✔✔Identify all internal/ external stakeholders
✔✔Whose job is it to integrate and mitigate the influence and interests of each
stakeholder - ✔✔Project Manager
✔✔Procurement Management - ✔✔Procurement of resources outside of the team,
(materials & subcontractors)
✔✔Client Needs Assessment - ✔✔Starts with a meeting with the client to evaluate their
needs
✔✔ICT Professional must understand: - ✔✔Industry, Business, Technology and
Strategic plans
✔✔ICT Professional should understand: - ✔✔Strengths/ Weaknesses
Vertical Market
Unique Requirements
✔✔Developing a Project Plan by Answering Questions - ✔✔Lessons Learned from
previous projects
What needs done (SOW)
How will accidents be prevented (Safety Plan)
Who will affect or be affected (Stakeholder MGMT)
, Who should participate in project plan (OBS)
Who performs each task (WBS)
When is each task performed (PERT, CPM, Gantt)
What is the Project Budget (EVM)
How will the quality be checked (Quality Plan)
How will risks be assessed (Risk plan)
How will communication be tracked (Comm MGMT)
✔✔Lessons Learned Questions - ✔✔What went right/ wrong
What produced best results
What processes can be improved
Did we learn anything
✔✔Corrective Action Plan - ✔✔Should be developed for the purpose of continuous
quality
✔✔Request for Proposal (RFP) - ✔✔Invitation for a contractor to submit proposal for a
service
✔✔What dictates scope but leaves the decisions to the firm? - ✔✔RFP
✔✔It is advisable for the project manager to send the 90% draft of the RFP to the: -
✔✔Project Manager's Legal Team
✔✔Parts of the RFP - ✔✔Cover Letter
Executive Summary
Background
Description of Solution
Concept Drawing
Projected Pricing
Business References
✔✔Code of Silence - ✔✔An oath by a solicitor, or other employee, not to disclose any
information in regards to the RFP
✔✔Violating the Code of Silence: - ✔✔will automatically disqualify the proposal and the
company could be further penalized in future RFP submittals
✔✔Design Team Members - ✔✔Owner
Architect
Professional Engineer
Consultant
✔✔Owner - ✔✔Defines requirements, provides approval @ each design phase
