TEST YOUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE

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1) The golden rule when it comes to resolving conflicting requirements between stakeholders are to.......?
A) Give them extras	B) Resolve conflict in favour of senior management	C) Resolve conflict in favour of your business	D) Resolve conflict in favour of client
2) Which are the best skills and experience for a project manager to have?
A) Good management knowledge	B) Good project management knowledge	C) Solid technical knowledge	D) General management, project management and technical skills
3) Who should contribute to the development of the project plan?
A) Project manager only	B) Entire team, including project manager	C) Senior management only	D) Planning department
4) Lesson learned are completed by?
A) Project manager	B) Project team	C) Stakeholders	D) Management
5) Most important role of senior management on a project is?
A) Support project manager	B) Help prevent unnecessary changes to project objectives	C) Help define project risks	D) Finance the project
6) The WBS usually?
A) determine project scope	B) Make it easier to assign resources to activities	C) Contains assumptions and constraints	D) define project priorities
7) What is the 80 hour rule?
A) Refers to amount of work one person can do in 80 hours	B) Each task should be broken down in work packages that require no more than 80 hours to complete	C) Progress reports should be delivered every 80 working hours	D) the Dehli techniques uses the 80 hours rule to make complex risk calculations
8) When crashing tasks you should consider the costs and what else?
A) Risk impact	B) Quality impact	C) Customer's opinion	D) WBS
9) What is crashing?
A) Taking action to determine greatest duration compression for the least costs	B) Ending project because of unforeseen problems	C) Re-doing the WBS	D) Involving senior management in the project planning
10) What is earned value?
A) Amount of future value of a present investement	B) Actual hours worked on the project multiplied by budgetted labour rate	C) Budgetted value of work actually accomplished	D) PV-AC
11) What type of contract to use for transferring project risks to a supplier?
A) Cost plus fixed fee	B) Cost plus incentive fee	C) Fixed price	D) Cost plus material
12) 80% of problems caused by 20% of the work is called?
A) Edward Deming principal	B) Pareto principal	C) Ishikawa principal	D) Philip Crosby principal
13) What is "Kaizen"?
A) Innovation	B) Continues improvement	C) Quality control	D) Quality audit
14) Which is the lowest level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
A) Self esteem	B) Physological needs	C) Security	D) Social acceptance
15) Co-location, also called war-room or tight matrix, can help with improving?
A) Customer relations	B) Team performance	C) Stakeholder management	D) Schedule management
16) In the communication model the sender is responsible for?
A) Ensuring receiver agrees with the message	B) Scheduling communication exchange	C) Confirming message is understood	D) Present message in most agreeable manner
17) Which tools are used for communication planning?
A) Cost benefit analysis	B) Variance analysis	C) Stakeholder analysis	D) Performance reports
18) The contingency plan is executed when?
A) A risk is identified	B) An identified risk occurs	C) When a workaround is needed	D) Only when an unplanned risk occurs
19) Management reserves are used to address which type of risks?
A) Unknown unknowns	B) Known unknowns	C) Business risks	D) Pure risks
20) A narrative description of products and services to be supplied under contract is called?
A) WBS	B) Project plan	C) Statement of work	D) Charter
21) Which of the following is an advantage of centralised contracting?
A) Project manager has control	B) Increases company expertise in contracting	C) Contracting staff are more familiar with project	D) More flexibility and adaptability to project needs
22) A project team member has been late for the past week and his work is deteriorating and he is missing deadlines. How would you deal with this situation?
A) Report team member to functional manager	B) Call team meeting to discuss issues with team	C) Give member written warning	D) Call member into private meeting to discuss issues in private
23) You have taken over from another project manager and find that he/she has not been reporting the project progress in terms of costs and schedule correctly. The progress reports shows that project is under budget and ahead of schedule but in fact the project is 15% over budget and 10 days behind schedule. What should you do next?
A) File a change request	B) Call team meeting and arrange for overtime without compensation to bring project in line with progress reports	C) Compile progress report which reflects the correct situation	D) Keep on reporting as before but make sure that the team catch op so that the project can finish on time and within budget