Initiating
Planning
Executing
Monitoring & Controlling
Closing
100

The project charter is signed off by

Who is the sponsor or customer?

100

This is a formal, approved document that defines how the project is managed, executed, and controlled.

What is the Project Management Plan?

100

During this process the team is executing the work packages and creating the project deliverables.

What is direct and manage project work?

100

During this process, every change to the project needs to be processed.

What is perform integrated change control?

100

True or False.  When a project is terminated before completion, the close project process must still be completed.

What is true?

200

The project charter give the project manager the authority to

What is spend money or allocate resources.

200

When the scope is expected to have many changes, this development approach is best.

What is an agile approach?

200

Determining if project activities comply with organizational and project policies, processes, and procedures is performed with this tool.

What is an audit (or quality audit)?

200

Agile projects are concerned with lead time and cycle time.  Of the two, this one is the length of time to go through part of a work process.

What is cycle time?

200

After a project is closed, this happens to the team.

What is released?

300

A stakeholder on a project is described as

What is anyone with an interest in the project?

300

The decomposition of project deliverables into progressively smaller components is known as this.

What is a work breakdown structure?

300

This type of conflict resolution is highly favored as it it proactive, direct, and deals with the root of the problem.

What is problem-solving?

300

When a contract is terminated for cause, the seller typically is paid for work completed but not this type of work.

What is work in progress?

300

Closing a procurement is completed in this process step?

What is control procurement?

400

A stakeholder analysis grid can be used to understand stakeholders in these two main categories.

What are interest in project and influence of power?

Accepted answers include

Power/Interest     

Impact/Interest


400

Fast track or crash.  This type of schedule compression always adds risk to a project.

What is fast track?

400

Sellers are selected and contracts are awarded during this process step.

What is conduct procurements?

400

In an agile project this process step can be done at any point in the project to get formal acceptance of deliverables.

What is validate scope?

400

The accepted deliverables that are handed off in the close project process flow out of this process.

What is validate scope?

500

The main output of the identify stakeholder process is

What is the stakeholder register?

500

Your team currently has 5 members.  Three more members will be added.  That will increase the number of communication channels by this number.

What is 18?

500

Tuckman's ladder of team development defines these 5 levels of performance.  List them in the correct order.

What are forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning?

500

Your construction project calls for 20 miles of sidewalk at a cost of $15,000 per mile and completion time of 8 weeks.  Two weeks in you have completed 4 miles.  Determine the Planned Value and Earned Value.

What are $75,000 (PV) and $60,000 (EV)?

500

This is the main document updated in the Close Project process.

What is the lessons learned register?