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ITPM Head First PMP 2

ITPM Head First PMP 2

ITPM Head First PMP 2

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This flashcard set covers university-level project management, focusing on key concepts like project scope, risk management, stakeholder communication, and team dynamics. It delves into processes such as planning, execution, monitoring, and closing, with a strong emphasis on handling changes, conflicts, and project documentation. Ideal for students and professionals aiming to master project management principles and practices, this set provides practical insights and strategies for effective project control and delivery.
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200
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22
Langue
Anglais
Catégorie
Informatique
Niveau
Université
Créé / Mis à jour
14.05.2014 / 12.08.2024
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Which of the following is NOT true of obtaining project plan approval?
Joe is a project manager on an industrial design project. He has found a pattern of defects occurring in all of his projects over the past few years and he thinks there might be a problem in the process his company is using that is causing it. He uses Ishikawa diagrams to come up with the root cause for this trend over projects so that he can make recommendations for process changes to avoid this problem in the future. What process is he doing?
Which of the following shows roles and responsibilities on your project?
Brandi is a project manager on a software project. About halfway through development, her team found that they had not estimated enough time for some of the technical work they needed to do. She requested that the new work be added to the scope statement and that the time to do the work be added to the schedule. The change control board approved her change. What's her next step?
Your project has a virtual team. Half of your team members are located in another country, where they are working for a subcontractor. You want to promote the top performing foreign team member to a leadership position, but you are told by the other team members that women are not allowed to hold positions of authority. When you bring it up with their manager, you are informed that it is the subcontractor's policy not to promote women, and that in their country, it is culturally considered offensive for a man to take orders from a woman. What is the BEST way to respond to this situation?
Which of the following is NOT a source of information about specific project constraints and assumptions?
When do you perform stakeholder analysis?
A team member approaches you with a change that could cut your schedule down by a month. What is the first thing you should do?
When are the most expensive defects most likely to be introduced into a product?
You are the project manager for a railroad construction project. Your sponsor has asked you for a forecast for the cost of project completion. The project has a total budget of $80,000 and CPI of .95. The project has spent $25,000 of its budget so far. How much more money do you plan to spend on the project?
Which of the following best describes decomposition?
Which is the BEST definition of quality?
In which plan do you define the processes that will be used to keep people informed throughout the project?
Which enterprise environmental factor defines how work is assigned to people?
You are currently performing the Conduct Procurements process. You are considering two bids from companies on your qualified sellers list. Your project is on a tight budget, and you have been instructed by senior management to consider the cost over any other criteria. You used the company that submitted the lower bid on a previous project, and you were not happy with their work. The company that submitted the higher bid has a reputation for treating their clients well, flying project managers first class, and giving them accommodations in five-star hotels. What is the BEST way to handle this situation?
Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Perform Quality Control process?
A project manager is working in a country where it is customary to pay the police for private protection services. The project manager's supervisor tells him that in another country, that would be considered a bribe. What is the BEST way for the project manager to proceed?
Which conflict resolution technique is most effective?
Which of the following is NOT an input to Perform Quality Control?
You have just delivered a product to your client for acceptance, when you get a call that some features they were expecting are missing. What's the first thing you should do?
You are managing a software project. You are partway through the project, and your team has just delivered a preliminary version of part of the software. You are holding a weekly status meeting, when one of the team members points out that an important stakeholder is running into a problem with one of the features of the current software. The team member feels that there is a risk that the stakeholder will ask for a change in that feature, even though that change would be out of scope of the current release—and if the stakeholder requests that change, there is a high probability that the change control board would approve the change. What is the BEST action to take next?
Tom is the project manager of an accounting project. He has just finished defining the scope for the project and is creating the WBS. He goes to his organizational process asset library and finds a WBS from a past project to use as a jumping off point. Which of the following describes the asset that Tom is using?
Which of the following BEST describes the main purpose of the project charter?
You are the project manager for a software development project. When you need to get staff from the manager of the QA department, he suggests a few test engineers with performance problems for your team. Which is the BEST response to this situation?
You are managing a construction project using a firm fixed price (FFP) contract. The contract is structured so that your company will be paid a fee of $85,000 to complete the work. There was a $15,000 overhead cost that your company had to cover. It's now three months into the project, and your costs have just exceeded $70,000. The project has now consumed the entire fee, and your company will now be forced to pay for all costs on the project from this point forward. What's the BEST way to describe this situation?
A project manager is reporting the final status of the closed contract to the stakeholders. Which form of communication is appropriate?
You are managing a software engineering project. Your team is having trouble completing their object design tasks. One of your team members tells you that her friend at another company sent her a copy of a software package they own that will help your team meet its deadline. Without that software package, your project will probably be late. But you don't have enough money in the budget to purchase it. What's the BEST way to handle this situation?
You are managing a project with a total budget of $450,000. According to the schedule, your team should have completed 45% of the work by now. But at the latest status meeting, the team only reported that 40% of the work has actually been completed. The team has spent $165,000 so far on the project. How would you BEST describe this project?
Which of the following is the correct order of the Monitoring & Controlling processes for Scope Management?
You are working on a construction project. You, your team, and your senior manager all feel that the work is complete. However, one of your important clients disagrees, and feels that one deliverable is not acceptable. What is the BEST way to handle this conflict?
One way the Close Project or Phase process differs from Close Procurement is:
Which of the following contracts has the MOST risk for the buyer?
You are managing a software project. During a walkthrough of newly implemented functionality, your team shows you a new feature that they have added to help make the workflow in the product easier for your client. The client didn't ask for the feature, but it does look like it will make the product easier to use. The team developed it on their own time because they wanted to make the client happy. You know this change would never have made it through change control. What is this an example of?
While identifying risks for a new construction project, you discover that a chemical you are using on your building cannot be applied in rainy conditions. You also learn that your project will be ready for the chemical application around the time when most of the rainfall happens in this part of the country. Since the project can't be delayed until after the rainy season and you need to make sure the building gets the chemical coating, you decide that your team will just have to allow enough time in the schedule for nonworked rain days. This is an example of which strategy?
You are managing a construction project. During your risk identification interviews you learn that there has been a string of construction site thefts over the past few months in the area where your will be building your project. The team agrees that it's unlikely that people will be able to steal from your site. Even if thieves could get around your security, it's even more unlikely that your project will lose a significant amount of material if a theft does occur. You decide to monitor the risk from time to time to be sure that it continues to have a low probability and impact. Where do you record the risk so that you don't lose track of it?
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Project Management Plan?
You are developing the project scope statement for a new project. Which of the following is NOT part of creating a project scope statement?
Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique of Estimate Costs?
You're managing a construction project to install several hundred air conditioner panels in a new office building. Every floor has identical panels. The customer, a construction contracting company, has provided specifications for the installations. The team is using a process to install and verify each panel. As the team completes each panel, your team's quality control inspector measures it and adds the data point to a control chart. You examine the control chart, and discover that the process is out of control and you need to take close look at it immediately. Which of the following BEST describes what you found on the control chart?
Your project files need to be sent via overnight mail to your company's central office. If the files do not arrive tomorrow, your company will not be able to deliver the project on time and you will lose an important client. The deadline cannot be negotiated. The team worked right up to the last minute in order to give you the files. Due to a traffic jam, you are running late and the overnight delivery company will close in five minutes. You can only make it if you drive over the speed limit. Which of the following is correct?
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