ISDS 351 FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS
What is a project? - Answer -A project is "a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a
unique product, service, or result."
What are some IT Project Examples? - Answer -making a smartphone app, updating
information systems, creating an enterprise resource management system, and more
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What are some attributes for a project? - Answer -- A project has a unique purpose
- A project is temporary
- A project is developed using progressive elaboration
- A project requires resources, often from various areas
- A project should have a primary customer or sponsor
- A project involves uncertainty
What is a project sponsor? - Answer -A project sponsor usually provides the direction
and funding for the project
What are the constraints of the Project? - Answer -every project is constrained in
different ways, often by its scope, time, or cost goals. These limitations are sometimes
referred to in project management as the triple constraint.
What is project management? - Answer -Project management is "the application of
knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project
requirements."
Who are the stakeholders in project management? - Answer -Stakeholders are the
people involved in or affected by project activities, and include the project sponsor,
project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even opponents of the
project.
What are the project management knowledge areas? - Answer -The characteristics that
describe the key competencies that project managers must develop.
- Project Scope Management
- Project time management
- Project cost management
- Project quality management
- Project human resource management
- Project Communications management
- Project Risk management
- Project procurement management
- Project stakeholder management
- Project integration management
,Project scope management - Answer -involves defining and managing all the work
required to complete the project successfully
Project time management - Answer -includes estimating how long it will take to
complete the work, developing an acceptable project schedule, and ensuring timely
completion of the project.
Project cost management - Answer -consists of preparing and managing the budget for
the project
Project quality management - Answer -ensures that the project will satisfy the stated or
implied needs for which it undertaken
Project human resources management - Answer -is concerned with making effective
use of the people involved with the project
Project communications management - Answer -involves generating, collecting,
disseminating, and storing project information
Project Risk management - Answer -Project risk management includes identifying,
analyzing, and responding to risks related to the project
Project procurement management - Answer -involves acquiring or procuring goods and
services for a project from outside the performing orgranization.
Project Stakeholder management - Answer -includes identifying and analyzing
stakeholder needs while managing and controlling their engagement throughout the life
of the project.
Project Integration Management - Answer -is an overaching function that affects and is
affected by all of the other knowledge areas.
What are project management tools and techniques: Integration Management - Answer
-Tools and Techniques:
- Project Selection Methods
- Project Management Methodologies
- Stakeholder analyses
- Work Requests
- Project Charters
- Project Management Plans
- Change control boards
- Project review meetings
Super Tools
- Project management software
- Change Requests
, - Lessons-learned report
What are project management tools and techniques: Scope Management - Answer -
Tools and Techniques:
- Statements of work
- Scope Management plans
- Scope verification techniques
- Scope change controls
Supertools
- Scope statements
- Work breakdown structures
- Requirements analyses
What are project management tools and techniques: Time management - Answer -
Tools and Techniques
- Project Network Diagrams
- Critical Path Analyses
- Crashing
- Fast tracking
- Schedule performance
- measurements
Supertools
- Gantt Charts
What are project management tools and techniques: Cost Management - Answer -
Tools and Techniques
- Project Budgets
- Net present value
- Return on investment
- Payback analyses
- Earned value management
- Project portfolio management
- cost esimates
- cost management plans
- cost baselines
What are project management tools and techniques: Quality Management - Answer -
Tools and Techniques
- Quality metrics
- checklists
- quality control charts
- pareto diagrams
- fishbone diagrams
- maturity models
What is a project? - Answer -A project is "a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a
unique product, service, or result."
What are some IT Project Examples? - Answer -making a smartphone app, updating
information systems, creating an enterprise resource management system, and more
page 5.
What are some attributes for a project? - Answer -- A project has a unique purpose
- A project is temporary
- A project is developed using progressive elaboration
- A project requires resources, often from various areas
- A project should have a primary customer or sponsor
- A project involves uncertainty
What is a project sponsor? - Answer -A project sponsor usually provides the direction
and funding for the project
What are the constraints of the Project? - Answer -every project is constrained in
different ways, often by its scope, time, or cost goals. These limitations are sometimes
referred to in project management as the triple constraint.
What is project management? - Answer -Project management is "the application of
knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project
requirements."
Who are the stakeholders in project management? - Answer -Stakeholders are the
people involved in or affected by project activities, and include the project sponsor,
project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even opponents of the
project.
What are the project management knowledge areas? - Answer -The characteristics that
describe the key competencies that project managers must develop.
- Project Scope Management
- Project time management
- Project cost management
- Project quality management
- Project human resource management
- Project Communications management
- Project Risk management
- Project procurement management
- Project stakeholder management
- Project integration management
,Project scope management - Answer -involves defining and managing all the work
required to complete the project successfully
Project time management - Answer -includes estimating how long it will take to
complete the work, developing an acceptable project schedule, and ensuring timely
completion of the project.
Project cost management - Answer -consists of preparing and managing the budget for
the project
Project quality management - Answer -ensures that the project will satisfy the stated or
implied needs for which it undertaken
Project human resources management - Answer -is concerned with making effective
use of the people involved with the project
Project communications management - Answer -involves generating, collecting,
disseminating, and storing project information
Project Risk management - Answer -Project risk management includes identifying,
analyzing, and responding to risks related to the project
Project procurement management - Answer -involves acquiring or procuring goods and
services for a project from outside the performing orgranization.
Project Stakeholder management - Answer -includes identifying and analyzing
stakeholder needs while managing and controlling their engagement throughout the life
of the project.
Project Integration Management - Answer -is an overaching function that affects and is
affected by all of the other knowledge areas.
What are project management tools and techniques: Integration Management - Answer
-Tools and Techniques:
- Project Selection Methods
- Project Management Methodologies
- Stakeholder analyses
- Work Requests
- Project Charters
- Project Management Plans
- Change control boards
- Project review meetings
Super Tools
- Project management software
- Change Requests
, - Lessons-learned report
What are project management tools and techniques: Scope Management - Answer -
Tools and Techniques:
- Statements of work
- Scope Management plans
- Scope verification techniques
- Scope change controls
Supertools
- Scope statements
- Work breakdown structures
- Requirements analyses
What are project management tools and techniques: Time management - Answer -
Tools and Techniques
- Project Network Diagrams
- Critical Path Analyses
- Crashing
- Fast tracking
- Schedule performance
- measurements
Supertools
- Gantt Charts
What are project management tools and techniques: Cost Management - Answer -
Tools and Techniques
- Project Budgets
- Net present value
- Return on investment
- Payback analyses
- Earned value management
- Project portfolio management
- cost esimates
- cost management plans
- cost baselines
What are project management tools and techniques: Quality Management - Answer -
Tools and Techniques
- Quality metrics
- checklists
- quality control charts
- pareto diagrams
- fishbone diagrams
- maturity models
