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Chapter2 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Your project is to be performed outdoors. You are only four days from the big event, and there is a hurricane headed for shore. This is an example of which of the following? | Risk |
| Risks | are potential future events that pose either opportunities or threats to the project. This is a potential event that would have negative consequences to the project if it were to occur. |
| This component of the project charter describes the characteristics of the product of the project. | Project description |
| The project description | describes the characteristics of the product, service, or result of the project. |
| The Initiating process includes which task? | Approving a project and authorizing work to begin |
| The Initiating process concerns | the formal acceptance of the project and authorizes the project manager to start the project work. Assigning work to project team members, sequencing project activities, and coordinating resources occur in the Planning process. |
| This person is responsible for authorizing the project to begin and signing the project charter. | Project sponsor |
| The project sponsor | authorizes the project to begin and approves and signs the project charter. |
| Beginning one phase of a project before another has finished is an example of what? | Fast tracking |
| Fast tracking | involves starting the next phase of the project before the prior phase is completed in order to shorten the project schedule. |
| A primary role of the project manager includes informing this person of changes, status, conflicts, and issues on the project. | The project sponsor |
| A key role of the project manager | is informing the sponsor of changes, status, issues, and conflicts on the project. The project requestor and stakeholders should be informed as well, but the primary role of the project manager involves informing the sponsor and keeping them updated. |
| Which of the following is not a component of a high-level requirements document or product description? | Testing scenarios |
| A high-level requirements document | contains the problem statement, objectives, strategic value, functional and technical requirements, timing, and historical data. Testing scenarios would not be created at this point in the project. |
| Which stakeholder assigns employees to the project? | Functional manager |
| The functional manager | provides the employees performing the work of the project. |
| Which five of the following options are process groups in the project management process groups? | Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. |
| The five process groups are | Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. Options A, D, and E are Knowledge Areas. |
| This process is where the work of the project is performed. | Executing |
| The Executing process | is where the work of the project is performed. |
| Which of the following is true concerning the project charter? | Authorizes the start of the project work |
| The project charter | formally approves the project and authorizes work to begin. The project schedule and cost estimates are developed later in the planning process. |
| You receive a confusing request from the marketing department to develop a new billing system. What is the first step you should take? | You meet with the marketing person to identify and clarify the request. |
| Jack is a stakeholder on the project. He's quite enamored with the project and serves to provide enthusiasm, critiques, energy, communication, and motivation for your project. What is Jack's role? | Project champion |
| The project champion | is someone who understands the goals of the project and serves as a voice of enthusiasm throughout the organization regarding the benefits of the project. |
| The project sponsor | is an individual who is authorized to expend the resources necessary to bring about the deliverables of the project. In this question, we really don't have enough information to make a good decision about identifying the project sponsor. |
| Identify the items that should not be included in a project charter. Choose two. | Anticipated budget and Business case |
| The project charter | includes high-level costs for the project but not an anticipated budget. The business case is its own document and is not part of the project charter. |
| The statement of work (SOW) | is a document that indicates the requirements of the project and outlines the type of work that needs to be completed. |
| You're undertaking a new project in which users will connect to an application running on a server and post information to a database. At first glance, what types of IT resources do you think you'll need? Choose three. | Database administrator, Application developer, and Server administrator |
| Randy work on past projects and have identified him in the project charter as one of the team members who will work on the project. You've scheduled a meeting to talk to Randy's functional manager next week. what conditions does this describe? | Assumption |
| Assumptions | are things believed to be true. In this case, you have not verified Randy's availability and are assuming the functional manager will agree to assign him to the project. |
| From the following options, select those that best describe the definition of a deliverable. (Choose three.) | Has measurable outcomes or results, Is a specific item that must be produced to consider the project complete, Is tangible and easily verified |
| Deliverables | are measurable outcomes or results or are specific items that must be produced in order to consider the project complete. are tangible and are easily measured and verified. |
| From the following options, select the one that does not describe a constraint. | Project situations are believed to be true. |
| Constraints | restrict or dictate the actions of the project team and may take the form of budget, resources, schedules, or other limitations. Situations believed to be true are assumptions. |
| project management consists of five process groups: | Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. Each of these process groups consists of individual processes that each have inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs. |
| The primary output of the Initiating process group | is the project charter. |
| Initiation | is the formal authorization for the project to begin. It starts with a project request that outlines the high-level requirements, or the product description. |
| There are three types of high-level requirements: | functional, business, and technical. |
| Project stakeholders | are anyone who has a vested interest in the outcomes of the project. Some project stakeholders you will likely encounter include the project sponsor, team members, functional managers, customers (both internal and external), and end users. |
| A project sponsor | is an executive in the organization who has the authority to assign budget and resources to the project. |
| who serve as final decision makers on the project and sign and approve the project charter. | Project sponsors |
| project charter should contain | the project description, project approach, stakeholders, goals and objectives, problem statement, high-level deliverables, milestones, costs, assumptions, constraints, and risk. |
| Be able to define the Initiating process. | Initiation authorizes the project to begin. |
| Understand the three categories of requirements. | Functional requirements define how the user will interact with the system. |
| Business requirements | are the big picture of what the business wants from the system. |
| Technical requirements | define what the system does to perform the functional requirements. |
| Be able to define a project sponsor and the stakeholders common to most projects. | A project sponsor and A stakeholder |
| A stakeholder | is an organization or someone who has a vested interest in the project and has something to gain or lose from the project. |
| Be able to describe a project charter and list the key components. | provides formal approval for the project to begin and authorizes the project manager to apply resources to the project. |
| project charter key components | the problem statement, deliverables, milestones, costs, assumptions, constraints, risks, stakeholders, and project description. |
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