Project Management Fundamentals
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Course Introduction
Project Management Fundamentals introduces students to the core principles, tools, and techniques essential for effective project planning and execution. The course covers the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closing. Students explore topics such as scope definition, time and cost management, risk assessment, resource allocation, team dynamics, and communication strategies. Through case studies and practical exercises, learners gain hands-on experience in applying industry-standard project management methodologies and best practices, preparing them to manage projects successfully in a variety of professional contexts.
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Information Technology Project Management 8th Edition by Kathy Schwalbe
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management
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Q1) A _____ is a tool used in risk management.
A)work breakdown structure
B)project organizational chart
C)critical path analysis
D)probability matrice
Answer: D
Q2) Fast tracking is an example of a tool used in _____ management.
A)time
B)quality
C)communication
D)risk
Answer: A
Q3) The only responsibility of a project manager is to meet the specific scope, time, and cost goals of a project.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) _____ is "the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements."
Answer: Project management
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Chapter 2: The Project Management and Information Technology Context
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Q1) Project work is most successful in an organizational culture where activities are organized around individuals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) _____ refers to a set of shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that characterize the functioning of an organization.
A)Chain of command
B)Line of control
C)Organizational culture
D)Organizational structure
Answer: C
Q3) According to the symbolic frame, the most important aspect of any event in an organization is not what actually happened, but what it means.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Sprint planning is part of the basic ______.
Answer: Scrum framework
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Chapter 3: The Project Management Process Groups: A Case Study
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Q1) A _____ is usually not necessary to the Scrum method.
A)team contract
B)velocity estimate
C)Gantt chart
D)product backlog
Answer: A
Q2) The DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) methodology of the Six Sigma projects, is used to improve an existing business process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A(n) _____ is the person responsible for the business value of the project and for deciding what work to do and in what order when using a Scrum method.
Answer: product owner
Q4) The most time and money should be spent on Answer: executing execution project execution
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Chapter 4: Project Integration Management
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Q1) Projects that address broad organizational needs are likely to fail.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ refer to undesirable situations that prevent an organization from achieving its goals.
Q3) It is necessary that IT project managers have prior technical experience in creating and managing IT products.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The number of interfaces in a single project is limited, and does not depend on the number of people involved in the project.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In the _____ stage of selecting information technology projects, organizations select information technology projects.
A)project planning
B)business area analysis
C)resource allocation
D)information technology strategy planning
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Chapter 5: Project Scope Management
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Q1) Generating ideas by comparing specific project practices or product characteristics to those of other projects or products inside or outside the performing organization is known as _____.
A)variance
B)benchmarking
C)prototyping
D)decomposition
Q2) Which of the following is recommended for the creation of a good WBS?
A)Any WBS item should be the responsibility of all the people working on it.
B)A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS.
C)Each WBS item should be created assuming that the requirements are inflexible.
D)The work content of a WBS item is independent of the WBS items below it.
Q3) Scope creep if not managed well can lead to the failure of information technology projects.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A(n) _____ is a document that describes detailed information about each WBS item.
Q5) _____ is the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger.
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Chapter 6: Project Time Management
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Q1) Duration estimates can be provided as a discrete number, a range, or as a(n)
Q2) Start-to-finish relationships are the most frequently used dependencies between activities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the Theory of Constraints? Describe critical chain scheduling, an application of the Theory of Constraints.
Q4) Which of the following is a silimarity between scope control and schedule control?
A)Both are initial processes of project time management.
B)Both of their primary goals is to define project goals and miestones.
C)Both are portions of the integrated change control process under project integration management.
D)Both of these processes should occur before estimating activity durations.
Q5) A(n) _____ Gantt chart compares planned and actual project schedule information.
Q6) The _____ is based on the fact that any complex system at any point in time often has only one aspect or constraint that limits its ability to achieve more of its goal.
Q7) _____ occurs when a resource works on more than one task at a time.
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Chapter 7: Project Cost Management
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Q1) Budgetary estimates are made even before a project is officially started.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Variances are calculated by subtracting the actual cost from _____.
A)earned value
B)schedule variance
C)planned value
D)rate of performance
Q3) Parametric models are reliable when the models are flexible in terms of the project's size.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The budget is one of the three values of earned value management and is also known as _____.
A)earned value
B)actual cost
C)indirect cost
D)planned value
Q5) What are the three basic types of cost estimating? Describe each type.
Q6) Describe three tools used in developing a good cost estimate.
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Chapter 8: Project Quality Management
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Q1) _____ addresses how well a product or service performs the customer's intended use.
A)Reliability
B)Performance
C)Maintainability
D)Functionality
Q2) Frameworks for helping organizations improve their processes and system are called Six Sigma charts.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Watts S. Humphrey defines a(n) _____ as anything that must be changed before delivery of the program.
Q4) _____ is a technique that helps identify which variables have the most influence on the overall outcome of a process.
A)Design of experiments
B)Backward pass
C)Activity-on-arrow
D)Crashing
Q5) _____ measures how much variation exists in a distribution of data.
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Chapter 9: Project Human Resource Management
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Q1) Microsoft Project 2010 does not lend itself to project human resource management.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Resource _____ aims to minimize period-by-period variations in resource loading by shifting tasks within their slack allowances.
Q3) _____ is based on an individual's personal charisma.
A)Legitimate power
B)Coercive power
C)Reward power
D)Referent power
Q4) _____ causes people to do something for a reward or to avoid a penalty.
Q5) A RAM is used only to assign detailed work activities.
A)True
B)False
Q6) According to Blake and Mouton, project managers who use the _____ mode retreat from an actual or potential disagreement.
Q7) Herzberg called factors that cause job satisfaction _____.
Q8) In the DISC profile, the letter "S" represents _____.
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Chapter 10: Project Communications Management
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Q1) _____ address where the project stands in terms of meeting scope, time, and cost goals.
A)Technical reports
B)Status reports
C)Progress reports
D)Lessons-learned reports
Q2) A(n) _____ can be a vehicle for fostering team building and reinforcing expectations, roles, relationships, and commitment to the project.
Q3) Minutes must be a comprehensive report of the meeting that was scheduled.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The formula to determine the number of communication channels is _____, where n is the number of people involved.
A)n (n-1)/2
B)n(n+1)/2
C)n (n+1)/n(n-1)
D)n(n-1)/n(n+1)
Q5) A(n) _____ must include suggested methods or technologies for conveying the information.
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Chapter 11: Project Risk Management
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Q1) Explain decision trees and expected monetary value.
Q2) _____ applies to positive risks when the project team cannot or chooses not to take any actions toward a risk.
A)Risk enhancement
B)Risk acceptance
C)Risk sharing
D)Risk exploitation
Q3) The main output of qualitative risk analysis is updating the ________.
.
Q4) The psychology literature shows that individuals, working alone, produce fewer ideas than the same individuals produce through brainstorming in small, face-to-face groups.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The risk register can be created with a simple Microsoft Word or Excel file.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A project _____ is an uncertainty that can have a negative or positive effect on meeting project objectives.
Q7) Risk utility rises at a decreasing rate for a(n) _____ person.
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Chapter 12: Project Procurement Management
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Q1) Which of the following is an output of the contract closure process?
A)Procurement statements of work
B)Updates to organizational process assets
C)Resource calendars
D)Work performance information
Q2) Which of the following is true of lump-sum contracts?
A)They incur a high degree of risk for the buyer.
B)They involve a fixed total price for a well-defined product or service.
C)They consist of a fee based on the satisfaction of subjective performance criteria.
D)They are also known as cost-reimbursable contracts.
Q3) In procurement management, evaluation of any change should include a(n) _____ analysis.
Q4) _____ refers to the process of acquiring goods and/or services from an outside source.
Q5) While outsourcing, organizations should protect strategic information because it can become vulnerable in the hands of suppliers.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Procurement statements of work are an output of the _____ process.
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Chapter 13: Project Stakeholder Management
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Q1) A(n) _____ stakeholder is one who is oblivious to a project and its potential impact.
Q2) Though stakeholders cannot be controlled, their level of engagement can be controlled.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One of the main outputs of the _____ process are the issue logs.
A)Planning stakeholder management
B)Identifying stakeholders
C)Managing stakeholder engagement
D)Controlling stakeholder engagement
Q4) A(n) _____ is a tool used to group stakeholders based on their level of authority and their level of concern for project outcomes.
Q5) Groups representing consumer, environmental, or other interests can be identified as project stakeholders.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Government officials and concerned citizens would be classified as _____ project stakeholders.
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