Which of the following results is produced in the Business Area analysis stage of project planning?

a.

Identification of key business areas

b.

Documentation of key business processes that could benefit from Information Technology

c.

Definition of potential IT projects that can be undertaken.

d.

Selection of potential IT projects that would be beneficial.

Question 2

10. Which of the following statements is true about a work package?

a.

A work package is at the highest level of the WBS.

b.

A work package consists of a hierarchy of tasks.

c.

A work package represents work that the project manager controls.

d.

Procurement of products is normally excluded from work packages

Question 3

11. Which process involves identifying and modeling business events, who initiated them, and how the system should respond to them?

a.

Prototyping

b.

Joint Application Development (JAD)

c.

Rapid Application Development (RAD)

d.

Use case modelling

Question 4

12. Which of the following statements represent good practice regarding user input into scope control?

a.

The project sponsor should preferably be a representative from the IT department.

b.

The IT department should sign off on deliverables at project meetings.

c.

Make sure that hardware or software products work prior to delivery.

d.

Project teams normally exclude future project users.

Question 5

13. Which one of the following is an output of the process of Sequence Activities as part of project schedule management?

a.

Activity list

b.

Duration estimates

c.

Project schedule network diagrams

d.

Work performance information

Question 6

14. Which of the following statements is not true of a project milestone?

a.

A milestone has a unit duration of 1 day.

b.

A milestone is a marker to help identifying necessary activities

c.

Milestones are the most important events in the project

d.

A project review meeting may be a milestone.

Question 7

15. Which of the following statements is not true about network diagrams?

a.

All items on the work breakdown structure needs to be shown on the network diagram.

b.

Every activity on the network diagram needs to be completed in order to finish the project.

c.

Network diagrams are the preferred technique for showing activity sequencing.

d.

Project networks may be broken down into several smaller network diagrams.

Question 8

16. The critical path is the _____ path through a network diagram, and it represents the _____ amount of slack or float.

a.

Longest; longest

b.

Longest; shortest

c.

Shortest; longest

d.

Shortest; shortest

Question 9

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17. The fact that you cannot do training before a system has been installed is an example of which type of task dependency?

a.

Finish-to-start

b.

Start-to-start

c.

Finish-to-finish

d.

Start-to-finish

Question 10

18. Which of the following is not true about project schedule tradeoffs?

a.

It may be possible to renegotiate the schedule with stakeholders.

b.

It may be possible to reallocate resources on the project to the critical path.

c.

It may be acceptable for the project to finish behind schedule.

d.

The project team should preferably adopt a reactive approach in managing the project schedule.

Question 11

19. An activity on your project was scheduled to have a duration of two days. There was slack of an additional two days after the activity. In the end the activity took four days to complete. Of what is this an example?

a.

Murphys Law

b.

Parkinsons Law

c.

Crashing

d.

Feeding buffer

Question 12

2. What type of analysis involves calculating the expected net monetary gain or loss from a project by discounting all expected future cash inflows and outflows to the present point in time?

a.

Cost of capital

b.

Net present value

c.

Cash flow

d.

Payback value

Question 13

20. Which of the following statements is true about activity slack on projects?

a.

Free slack is the amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early start without delaying the project finish date.

b.

Total slack is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start of immediate following activities.

c.

A forward pass determines the late start for each activity.

d.

A backward pass determines the late finish date for each activity.

Question 14

3. When does payback occur?

a.

When the net cumulative benefits minus costs equal one

b.

When the net cumulative benefits equal the net cumulative costs

c.

When the net costs are lower than the cumulative benefits

d.

When the cumulative benefits are double the cumulative costs

Question 15

4. Which of the following statements is true about the use of project management software?

a.

Project management software allow people to undertake project management scheduling while eliminating the need to understand the concepts behind project scheduling.

b.

Project management software eliminates the risks for blatant errors by managers and software professionals.

c.

Decision support models and communications software are examples of project management software.

d.

Project management software eliminates the need to understand project-specific issues.

Question 16

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5. What is the document that formally recognizes the existence of a project and provides direction on the projects objectives and management?

a.

Project charter

b.

Contract

c.

Business case

d.

Project management plan

Question 17

6. Which statement best describes scope?

a.

Each level of work that is outlined in a work breakdown structure

b.

The end product created as part of a project that is delivered to the client

c.

Tasks that are decomposed into smaller tasks in a work breakdown structure

d.

Work involved in creating the products and the processes used to create them

Question 18

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7. Which process involves generating ideas by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization?

a.

Variance

b.

Benchmarking

c.

Prototyping

d.

Decomposition

Question 19

8. Which technique used for creating a WBS uses branches radiating from a core idea to structure thoughts and ideas instead of writing down tasks in a list or immediately trying to create a structure for tasks?

a.

Analogy

b.

Bottom-up

c.

Top-down

d.

Mind mapping

9. What process involves formal acceptance of the completed project scope by the stakeholders?

a.

Scope validation

b.

Scope planning

c.

Scope control

d.

Scope baseline