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Project Management Framework Ques 1: Earlier you were working at the helpdesk of ABC company managing a team. Your job primarily involved handling customer queries, analyzing customer feedback, and supervising your team. You have recently been re-assigned to a new project involving integration of the helpdesk activities with an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) package. This project will improve efficiency in the company and help in integrating all inter-related activities. All the following could be the possible differences between helpdesk and the present project EXCEPT: 1. The objective of the project is to meet strategic objectives of the company. The objective of the helpdesk was to sustain the business. 2. A project has to be planned, executed, and controlled, and it is not so in the case of helpdesk 3. As part of the project, you are creating a new information system, but nothing unique was being created as part of the helpdesk activities. 4. Unlike a project, helpdesk was an ongoing operational activity. Ques 2: You have reached the end of the design phase of your project. You decide to call a "phase end review" for obtaining authorization to close the design phase and initiate the next phase (i.e., execution phase) of your project. Your manager disagrees with your suggestion. He wants a "kill point" to formally end the design phase of the project. In this context, you should: 1. Disagree with your manager because you know that phase end reviews should be used at the end of each phase of the project 2. Agree with your manager 3. Escalate this issue to the project sponsor 4. Take advice from a senior project manager about what should actually be done at the end of each phase of the project Ques 3 : When dealing with stakeholders, all the following statements are correct EXCEPT: 1. Project manager must try to satisfy even the implicit requirements of stakeholders. 2. Only those stakeholders who are project team members should be involved in the creation of project plan. 3. Both stated and unstated needs of stakeholders should be properly identified. 4. Some stakeholders may provide conflicting requirements. Ques 4 : The following statements about stakeholders are correct EXCEPT: 1. Stakeholders may exert influence over the project. 2. Stakeholders' responsibilities remain stable throughout the project life cycle. 3. Some stakeholders benefit from a successful project. 4. Identifying stakeholders can be difficult Ques 5 : What are the basic types of phase-to-phase relationships? 1. Sequential, concurrent, and overlapping 2. Iterative, sequential, and concurrent 3. Sequential, overlapping, and iterative 4. Overlapping, iterative, and concurrent Project Integration Management Ques 1 : Your customer wants some change to be effected in the project scope. You determine that the change in scope will not impact the project schedules but will cost the project an additional S 50,000. What should you do FIRST? 1. Try crashing or fast tracking the project. 2. Do not allow the customer to change the project scope. 3. Let the customer know about the impact of the change in project scope and ask for additional funding 4. Discuss with your project sponsor. Ques 2: The project charter has been developed, and the project has been formally authorized. A full-time project manager is appointed for the project. There is clarity about the business needs, high-level project description, and product requirements that the project is to address. A summary budget has also been approved. Given this information, what activity should the project manager perform FIRST? 1. Perform the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives, 2. Define, prepare, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project management plan. 3. Track, review, and regulate the progress to meet the project objectives defined in the project management plan. 4. Review all change requests, approve changes, and manage changes to the deliverables, organizational process assets, project documents, and the project management plan. Ques 3 : You are the project manager responsible for developing a software application based on customer requirements. Which technique do you use in order to consider the customer's change request? 1. Additional planning 2. Project selection methods 3. Expert judgment 4. Corrective action Ques 4 : A project management plan should be realistic so that it can be used to manage a project successfully. Which of the following is the BEST method to prepare a realistic project management plan? 1. Project manager creates the project management plan based on inputs from the sponsor and the functional manager 2. Sponsor creates the project management plan based on inputs from the project manager and the functional manager. 3. Project manager creates the project management plan based on inputs from the team. 4. Sponsor creates the project management plan based on inputs from all the stakeholders. Ques 5 : You are nearing project completion and want to get feedback about the overall project performance. From project management perspective, a project is considered to be successful when: 1. The project manager announces the completion of the project. 2. The project meets the stated project objectives. 3. The sponsor announces the completion of the project. 4. The customer is happy because you provided additional features which she had not expected
