1. The four types of project closures are:

a. normal, premature, perpetual, failed

b. crashed, finished, successful, unsuccessful

c. finite, infinite, continuous, discrete

d. none of these

2. Implementing the closure process includes several wrap-up activities. Many organizations develop lengthy lists for closing projects as they gain experience. These are very helpful and ensure nothing is overlooked. Implementing closedown includes the following six major activities:

Getting delivery acceptance from the customer.

Shutting down resources and releasing to new uses.

Reassigning project team members.

Closing accounts and seeing all bills are paid.

Delivering the project to the customer.

Creating a final report.

a. true

b. false

3. Postproject audits concentrate on project progress and performance and check if conditions have changed. For example, have priorities changed? Is the project mission still relevant? In rare cases, the audit report may recommend closure of a project that is in process.

a. true

b. false

4. The purpose ofprogram evaluationis to assess how well the project team, team members, and program manager performed.

a. true

b. false

5. The conditions for completing and transferring the project should be set before the project begins.

a. true

b. false

6. Expatriate project managers should operate within the laws and regulations of the country in which the main office is located. Political stability and local laws strongly influence how projects will beimplemented. Typically, these laws favor protection of local workers, suppliers, and environment.

a. true

b. false

7. Before beginning a project in a foreign land, project planners and managers need to study carefully the unique characteristics of the geography of that country. They need to factor into project plans and schedules such items as climate, seasons, altitude, and natural geographical obstacles.

a. true

b. false

8. As the project manager studies the factors contributing to international site selection, he will see that inherent in all of these factors is the risk level senior management and directors are willing to accept for the potential rewards of a successful international project.

a. true

b. false

9. Americans are often criticized for being patriarchal; that is, they view the world solely through their own eyes and perspectives. People with a patriarchial perspective do not recognize that other people have different ways of living and working effectively. American patriarchial attitudes probably reflect the huge domestic market of the United States, the geographic isolation of the United States, and the reality that English is becoming the international business language in many parts of the world.

a. true

b. false

10. While there is growing appreciation for screening people for foreign assignments, the number one reason for selection is that the personnel assigned are the best people available for the technical challenges of the project (Mendenhall et al., 1987). Technical know-how takes precedence over cross-cultural sensitivity or experience. As a consequence, training is critical to fill in the cultural gaps and prepare individuals to work in a foreign land.

a. true

b. false

11. In a ___________________, the total cost for each duration is the sum of the indirect and direct costs.

a. project cost-duration graph

b. program cost-duration curve

c. program cost-duration graph

d. project cost-duration matrix

12. If possible and practical, you want to push the estimating process down to the work package level fortop-down estimatesthat establish low-cost, efficient methods. This process can take place after the project has been defined in detail. Good sense suggests project estimates should come from the people most knowledgeable about the estimate needed.

a. true

b. false

13. Avirtual project teamis one in which the team members are geographically situated so that they may seldom, if ever, meet face-to-face as a team.

a. true

b. false

14. Postproject audits concentrate on project progress and performance and check if conditions have changed. For example, have priorities changed? Is the project mission still relevant? In rare cases, the audit report may recommend closure of a project that is in process.

a. true

b. false

15. The first team meeting sets the tone for how the team will work together. If it is disorganized, or becomes bogged down with little sense of closure, then this can often become a self-fulfilling prophecy for subsequent group work. On the other hand, if it is crisply run, focusing on real issues and concerns in an honest and straightforward manner, members come away excited about being part of the project team. This first meeting is referred to as a _____________________.

a. program kick-off meeting

b. project kick-off meeting

c. town hall meeting

d. rally

16. In many cases, the size and scope of the project do not warrant an elaborate WBS or OBS. One tool that is widely used by project managers and task force leaders of small projects is theresponsibility matrix(RM). The RM (sometimes called a linear responsibility chart) summarizes the tasks to be accomplished and who is responsible for what on a project.

a. true

b. false

17. It is important to remember that, if resources are truly limited and activity time estimates are accurate, the time-constrained schedulewillmaterialize as the project is implementednotthe resource-constrained schedule!

a. True

b. false

18. The project network is an audio flow diagram of the sequence, interrelationships, and dependencies of all the activities that must be accomplished to complete the project

a. True

b. false

19. A good ____________ system appropriately balances the needs of both the parent organization and the project by defining the interface between the project and parent organization in terms of authority, allocation of resources, and eventual integration of a. project outcomes into mainstream operations.

b. program management

c. social

d. project management

financial

20. A status report is analogous to a camera snapshot of a project at a specific point in time. The status report uses earned value to measure schedule and cost performance. Measuring earned value begins at the work package level. Work packages are in one of three conditions on a report date:

Not yet started.

Finished.

In-process or partially complete.

a. true

b. false