1) ______ A linear PMLC model consists of a number of dependent phases that are executed in a sequential order with no feedback loops.
(2) _____ The purpose of the planning process group is to develop and gain approval of a general statement of the goal and business value of the project.
(3) ______ Estimating the total cost of the work belongs to the launching process group.
(4)_______Excellent time management in project management requires the planning, scheduling, monitoring and controlling of all project activities.
(5) _______Databases belong to the electronic communications management.
(6) _______A requirement is a desired end-state whose successful integration into the solution meets more than one needs and delivers specific, measurable, and incremental business value to the organization.
(7) _______Functional requirements specify what the product or service must do.
(8) _____The work breakdown structure is a hierarchical description of some of the works that must be done to meet the needs of the client.
(9) ______The following network-based scheduling means that when A finishes, B may start.
(10) _____ Typical scope change management process does not contain the feedback loop.
Part II. Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Which of the following characteristics does not belong to contemporary project environment?
(a) High Change
(b) More Uncertainty
(c) High Cost
(d) All of Above
2. Project management is an organized common-sense approach that utilizes the appropriate _____ involvement in order to deliver client requirements that meet expected incremental business value.
(a) client
(b) supervisor
(c) engineer
(d) business
3. A project management life cycle is a sequence of processes that includes:
(a) Scoping and Planning
(b) Planning and Launching
(c) Launching and Controlling
(d) All of above
4. Which of the following characteristics belong to the traditional project management?
(a) Low Risk
(b) High Complexity
(c) More Scope Change Requests
(d) None of the above
5. Which of the following belongs to the launching process group?
(a) Establish team operating rules
(b) Resolve problem situations to maintain project progress
(c) Estimate time, cost, and resource requirements and gain approval
(d) All of the above
6. Project risk management process consists of _____
(a) risk identification, risk monitoring and control
(b) risk assessment and risk mitigation
(c) risk assessment only
(d) None of the above
7. Regarding the planning and conducting the project scoping meeting, who should attend such meeting?
(a) Project Manager, Client Group, Core Team Members, Facilitator
(b) Client Group
(c) Core Team Members
(d) The Facilitator
(e) (a), (b) and (c) only
8. Which of the following statements is correct?
(a) Requirement breakdown structure is a subset of the work breakdown structure
(b) Time and cost are hard to estimate is one of the work breakdown structure criteria
(c) One can decompose the planning and management of projects based on work breakdown structure templates
(d) None of the above
9. Which of the following statements is correct?
(a) A distressed project will eventually come to failure
(b) A project that has recently experienced some significant change that will result in its failure
(c) Inconsistent client sign-off can lead the project come to failure
(d) None of the above
10. If the schedule performance index is larger than 1, it means___
(a) ahead of schedule
(b) behind schedule
(c) over budget
(d) under budget
11. What is the intervention process for a distressed project?
(a) Requirements gathering and work breakdown structure construction
(b) Conduct the earned value analysis
(c) Conduct the earned value analysis and root cause analysis
(d) None of the above
12. Which of the following statements is correct?
(a) Lean agile project management implies that any step in the process that contributes business value is to be eliminated.
(b) Adaptive PMLC models are those that proceed from cycle to cycle based on large amount of specifications of the solution
(c) A PMLC model consists of a number of phases that are repeated in groups without feedback loop after each group is completed
(d) None of the above
13. Which of the following belongs to the general corrective actions about a distressed project?
(a) Consider incremental user testing
(b) Consider incremental releases
(c) Implement improvements in development and test environment where needed
(d) None of the above
14. The following diagram is a _____
(a) Work breakdown structure
(b) Root cause analysis
(c) Requirement breakdown structure
(d) Network-based scheduling
15. Which of the following is not an iterative PMLC model?
(a) Evolutionary development waterfall model
(b) Scrum
(c) Adaptive software development
(d) Staged delivery waterfall model
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