Sample Quiz

Termination by addition occurs when:

Once the project was successfully concluded, the team members returned to their roles in the organization, occasionally congregating at the water cooler to relive their halcyon days of yore. No one could argue that their project was:

Which of these project closeout management steps listed is ongoing until the very end of the closeout process?

Under the BOT option for a project:

A research study on the critical success factors for projects found that an important determination of whether the project is successful is the element of:

The goal of a lessons-learned meeting is to recapitulate the series of events:

Which statement about project closeout activities is BEST?

All projects are unique:

Binding arbitration:

In non-binding arbitration:

The primary goal in requiring a project final report is to:

Termination by addition and termination by integration both represent successful project completion.

The build, operate, transfer option for projects requires the project contractor to take initial ownership of the project in order to make sure it works, thus mitigating risk in the short run.

Closeout activities are typically among the highest priority activities in a project.

A classic early warning sign of project failure is the realization that a product being developed was targeting a market that few new products and firms were entering.

For the project manager, leadership is:

Which statement regarding the duties of leaders and managers is BEST?

It is most important that a project manager:

Project management is first and foremost:

Which of these behaviors is BEST for managing an intercultural project team?

Which of the following personality traits is most likely a suboptimal match for project management work?

Leadership may be part of a manager's job but other managerial roles are not necessarily part of a leader's job.

One way to distinguish the two roles is to realize that leaders aim for efficiency while managers aim for effectiveness.

Emotional intelligence is a more important measure of leadership effectiveness than technical skill, analytical ability, and intelligence.

One way an organization can develop a core of project management professionals is to administer personality tests and match people attuned to project work to projects.

The first step in the control cycle is:

Project goal setting includes setting a baseline plan, which is predicated on:

A project manager that uses milestones as a project control device is using a:

A tracking Gantt chart:

Earned value management jointly considers the impact of:

Planned value is:

A project manager can calculate the projected budget to completion by using the:

The project control cycle is continuous.

One step in earned value management is to create usage schedules for activities and resources.

Since a project may get ahead of or fall behind schedule, a calendar date cannot be a milestone.

The first step in assembling a project team is to:

Which two steps of project team building are out of sequence?

A project manager can identify the skills needed for the project from the:

Stacey noted that the client was a cantankerous old man and that her current project team lacked the requisite skills to work with him. Time was running short, so the BEST approach to making sure the project team had the necessary skills was to:

A key determinant of project success is a:

Which of the following phenomena would be most likely to occur if the project team did NOT have clear and commonly understood project goals?

Conflict is not a state, but a:

Two research studies conducted over a decade apart discovered that the major sources of conflict within project teams are:

When negotiating, it is important to:

Managers involved in negotiation should:

If preferred project team members are not available, the project manager should notify top management of the consequences.

Project managers are best able to promote a sense of enthusiasm within the project team when they create an environment that is challenging, supportive, and personally rewarding.

The two main challenges that virtual project teams face are building trust and establishing the best modes of communication.

The behavioral view of conflict is that conflict has a negative effect on organizations.

When negotiating, it is important to remember that for every position, there are usually several alternatives that can satisfy it.

Traditional approaches to project management concentrate primarily on thorough planning up front.

In Agile Project Management, projects evolve rather than are executed.

Traditional project management requires a significant degree of predictability to be effective.