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1.Common principles for Project Initiation include all of the following EXCEPT:

Select one:

a. Invest in creativity

b. Communicate frequently

**c. Clarify the problem before proposing a solution

d. Involve a wide variety of stakeholders

2. Failing to manage and control resources efficiently is a source of _________ for successful project completion.

Select one:

a. Documentation

b. Concern

c. Risk

d. Validation

3. In setting up the sequence of project events, many project managers find it useful to mark significant events in the life of the project, called _______.

Select one:

a. Project phase completion deadlines

b. Project markers

c. Milestones

d. Predecessors

4. Our author's discussion on "Realistic Scheduling" notes that the key steps involved in planning a project include all of the following EXCEPT:

Select one:

a. Identify task relationships

b. Manage budget

c. Calculate initial schedule

d. Build work breakdown structure (WBS)

5. Stakeholders participate in different ways on the project. The two key questions you need to ask are:

Select one:

a. What meetings should stakeholders attend / Who should be assigned to key project phase meeting reviews?

b. When should stakeholders be notified of changes / How often should they be updated?

c. What is your role on the project / How do you want to be communicated?

d. Who needs the information / What information is needed?

6. The "5 C's" of written communications are supported by communications skills listed below EXCEPT:

Select one:

a. Aware of cultural and personal differences

b. Listening actively

c. Developing performance appraisals

d. Enhancement of skills

7. The ADKAR building blocks of managing change and communicating to stakeholders stands for:

Select one:

a. Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reactions

b. Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reactions

**c. Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement

d. Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Actions and Reinforcement

8. The globalization of projects has promoted the need for ____________ that work on the same project, but are not co-located at the same site.

Select one:

a. Matrixed teams

b. Cross-functional teams

c. Projectized teams

d. Virtual or distributed teams

9. The project manager should be aware of different team dynamics and aspects that influence the team, including all of the following EXCEPT:

Select one:

a. Geographical location of team members

b. Project budget

c. Organizational change management

d. Cultural issues and organizational uniqueness

10. The two primary parts of successful communications includes developing a communications strategy, and _______.

Select one:

a. Project outcome communications

b. The development of key messages that constitute the project's communications

c. Communications design

d. Communications development

11. This focus refers to the position of the stakeholder or group with respect to the project team that will affect the format and content of the message.

Select one:

a. Hierarchical

b. Official

c. Concentrated

d. Expanded

12. This form of a project team occurs when the team functions with a absence of centralized control, and is an emerging trend.

Select one:

a. Project Charter

b. Matrixed teams

c. Projectized teams

d. Self-organizing teams

13. This includes the processes necessary to ensure that the information needs of the project and its stakeholders are met through development of artifacts and implementation of activities designed to achieve effective information exchange.

Select one:

a. Monitor communications

b. Project management planning

c. Project communications management

d. Communications development

14. This is an emerging trend in project communications, in the form of infrastructure, social media services, and personal devices that has changed how organizations and their people communicate and do business.

Select one:

a. Inclusion of stakeholders in project reviews

b. Inclusion of stakeholders in project meetings

c. Social computing

d. Emotional intelligence

15. This is describes as the "longest path through the project network, meaning the longest duration (not necessarily the most tasks). Also defined as all of the tasks with zero or negative float.

Select one:

a. Baseline schedule

b. Baseline measure

c. Baseline path

d. Critical path method

16. This is one of the most widely used models for managing change, where Practitioners say it makes sense, is easy to explain to others, and helps them see and unlock numerous and various types of change.

Select one:

a. Change Management Methodology

b. ADKAR model

c. Change Model Curve

d. Kotter model

17. This is the primary output of the "Plan Resource Management" process (choose the BEST answer according to class readings).

Select one:

a. Project document updates

b. Allocated resources

c. Resource Management Plan

d. Project charter

18. This is the process of defining how to estimate, acquire, manage, and utilize physical and team resources.

Select one:

a. Resource development

b. Resource estimation

c. Plan resource management

d. Resource scheduling

19. This is the process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing and controlling the project schedule. (Choose the BEST answer according to class readings).

Select one:

a. Estimate activity durations

b. Schedule control

c. Plan schedule management

d. Schedule review

20. This is the process of estimating team resources and the type and quantities of material, equipment and supplies necessary to perform project work.

Select one:

a. Plan resource management

b. Acquire resources

c. Resource planning

d. Estimate activity resources

21. This is the process of identifying and documenting relationships among project activities.

Select one:

a. Control schedule

b. Activity management

c. Define activities

d. Sequence activities

22. This is the written strategy for getting the right information to the right people at the right time.

Select one:

a. ADKAR model

b. Communications model

c. Communications plan

d. Change acceptance modeling

23.This process ensures the physical resources assigned and allocated to the project are available as planned.

Select one:

a. Control resources

b. Resource allocation

c. Resource plan verification

d. Resource plan approval

24. This relationship states that one task must be completed before its successor task can begin.

Select one:

a. Finish to finish

b. Start to start

c. Finish to start

d. Start to finish

25. This stage of the ADKAR change model refers to having the user obtain a "true understanding of the motivations and triggers for the change."

Select one:

a. Awareness

b. Desire

c. Reinforcement

d. Knowledge

26. This stage of the ADKAR change model refers to the "ultimately personal decision by an individual to take part in the change."

Select one:

a. Knowledge

b. Ability

c. Desire

d. Awareness

27. This will help you determine the early start (ES) and early finish (EF) for each task, and is so-named because it involves working through a network diagram from start to finish.

Select one:

a. Forward pass

b. Baseline estimate

c. Backward pass

d. Critical path

28. To consider whether a project is worthwhile, it is useful to reflect on these three dimensions suggested by the design firm IDEO:

Select one:

a. Scope, budget and quality

b. Viability, feasibility, desirability

c. Viability, clarity, knowledge

d. Viability, cost and performance

29. Within Project Schedule Management, this approach is typically used in a Kanban system and based on the Theory of Constraints and pull-based scheduling concepts.

Select one:

a. Just in time scheduling

b. Rolling wave planning

c. Iterative scheduling

d. On-demand scheduling

30. Within Project Schedule Management, this is an emerging trend that is a form of rolling wave planning based on adaptive life cycles, such as the agile approach for product development.

Select one:

a. On-demand scheduling

b. Incremental value scheduling

c. Iterative scheduling with backlog

d. Schedule wave planning