Please answer all questions.

1) Authorized work

Group of answer choices

a) Work that management or others in authority approve.

b) A graphical scheduling technique used to assign resources when project work consists of repetitive tasks. It focuses on maximizing resource use and reducing time wastage due to interruptions.

c) A phase in the portfolio life cycle that involves balancing a portfolio's components based on risk, costs, and use of resources. It is an aspect of organizational project management.

d) A project's earned value minus its actual cost. A negative cost variance indicates that a project is running over budget. A positive cost variance indicates that a project is running below budget.

2) Project manager

Group of answer choices

a) The person tasked with initiating, planning, executing, and closing a coordinated work effort, and with managing all aspects of work performance through these phases. These individuals are able to use organizational resources for the accomplishment of tactical objectives. They serve as contact points for sponsors, program managers, and other stakeholders.

b) A task in which the time required for completion is fixed.

c) Used to define the sum of unique skills that team members bring to a project. These skills can be harnessed for collective benefit.

d) These indicate the number and type of personnel required to do project work over periods of time.

3) The entire process used to build its deliverables. These patterns or models are typically divided into a number of phases. A variety of models are in use in project management.

Group of answer choices

a) Network path

b) Life cycle

c) Planned value (PV)

d) Lateral thinking

4) Question

The people who will directly benefit from a project. A team typically executes a project with specific attention to their requirements.

Group of answer choices

a) Life cycle

b) Client/customer

c) PEST analysis

d) BOSCARD

5) Project activities that management or others with decision-making capacity approve.

Group of answer choices

a) Change freeze

b) Authorized work

c) Change control board

d) Concurrent engineering

6) An element of a project business case that states the consequences, if any, of not undertaking the project.

Group of answer choices

a) Path convergence

b) Functional manager

c) Functional requirements

d) Do nothing option

7) A method of measuring work performance that improves upon traditional earned value management. Earned value management tracks time variance only in terms of money and not in terms of time and thus does not accurately indicate work performance by the end of a project. To address this discrepancy, this method uses the same data as traditional earned value management but tracks time performances separately.

Group of answer choices

a) Earned schedule

b) Budget

c) Cost engineering

d) Flowchart