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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Review Questions
1. Who is responsible for integrating the activities of a project?
The project manager
The project manager and the project team
The project manager and subject matter experts
The sponsor and the project manager
2. Your project has a tight deadline, and planning needs to start immediately; otherwise, there may be risks of delays. The sponsor has not signed the project charter and will not be available for another two weeks. What should you do?
Explain the urgency of the situation to the sponsor but start planning the project. You can have the sponsor sign the project charter when they are available.
Explain the urgency of the situation to the sponsor but do not start work until you have a signed project charter.
Explain the urgency of the situation to the sponsor and escalate to senior management for resolution.
Explain the urgency of the situation to the sponsor and request senior management assign another sponsor.
3. Which of the following are not components of the project management plan? (Choose two.)
Risk management plan
Schedule baseline
Requirements documentation
Resource management plan
Risk register
4. You are an experienced team facilitator recently hired by your company to lead its first agile project. Your team members are asking which artifacts they will need to update as the project progresses. Which of the following is not an artifact used in Agile?
Sprint backlog
Product backlog
Schedule baseline
Burndown chart
5. Which of the following is work performance information?
“We have spent $80,000 so far on this deliverable.”
“We are four weeks into the project and have completed 50 tasks.”
“We are 10 percent complete.”
“We are 10 percent over budget.”
6. You are managing a project using a new approach for your organization. There are three distinct phases that are divided into several short iterations, and each iteration will deliver a valuable product to the organization. What are these products best described as?
Minimum business increment
Deliverables
Minimum viable product
Requirements
7. You are in a meeting with your team. You present some reports, show a PowerPoint presentation, and discuss your own past experiences to offer insight on how to improve certain procedures on the project. Which of the following is true?
You are discussing lessons learned, which is tacit knowledge, but your experience is explicit knowledge.
Your reports and PowerPoint presentation would be classified as explicit knowledge, whereas your experience would be tacit knowledge.
Your reports and PowerPoint presentation would be classified as tacit knowledge, whereas your experience would be lessons learned knowledge.
Your reports and PowerPoint presentation would be classified as tacit knowledge, whereas your experience would be explicit knowledge.
8. You are managing a small construction project, and one of the team leads informs you that there is a problem with the plumbing, but it will be a quick and easy fix. What should you do next?
Tell the team member to go ahead and make the fix.
Perform an impact assessment.
Create the change request.
Notify the change control board.
9. The agile team and product owner are in a meeting discussing a feature, but there is much confusion between team members about the coding. After some discussion, it transpires that one developer was looking at a piece of code from the day before and another from an hour ago. What did the team probably fail to do?
Implement an adequate file management system.
Update the communication management plan.
Communicate with one another.
Implement an adequate configuration management system.
10. Regarding change, the project manager’s attention is best spent doing which of the following?
Informing the sponsor and stakeholders of changes
Tracking and recording changes
Building relationships with the change control board members
Preventing unnecessary changes