Project Management Fundamentals
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Project Management Fundamentals provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles, processes, and tools essential for effective project management. This course covers the project life cycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, while emphasizing key concepts such as scope, time, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder management. Students will learn to apply industry-standard methodologies, utilize project management software, develop schedules and budgets, and implement communication strategies to ensure project success. Case studies and practical exercises foster critical thinking and prepare students to manage real-world projects across various industries.
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Information Technology Project Management 9th Edition by Kathy Schwalbe
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management
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Q1) Which type of tool is usually recommended for small projects and single users?
A) Low-end
B) Midrange
C) High-end
D) Upper range
Answer: A
Q2) Team building exercises and motivation techniques are tools used in _____ management.
A) procurement
B) scope
C) resource
D) cost
Answer: C
Q3) Effective program managers recognize that managing a project is much more complex than managing a program.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) High-end tools are generally licensed on a(n) _____ basis.
Answer: per-user
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Chapter 2: The Project Management Information
Technology Context
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Q1) _____ is an organization's acquisition of goods and services from an outside source.
Answer: Outsourcing
Q2) Projects must operate in a broad organizational environment, and project managers need to consider projects within the greater organizational context. Which approach describes the holistic view of carrying out projects within the context of the organization?
A) Linear analysis
B) Systems thinking
C) Reductionism
D) The silo approach
Answer: B
Q3) The same organization can have different subcultures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Three general classifications of organizational structures are _____, project, and matrix.
Answer: functional
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Chapter 3: The Project Management Process Groups
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Q1) What tool provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance?
A) scope statement
B) cost management plan
C) work breakdown structure
D) project charter
Answer: C
Q2) What is a work breakdown structure?
Answer: The WBS is a very important tool in project management because it provides the basis for deciding how to do the work. The WBS also provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance.
Q3) The WBS provides a basis for creating the project schedule and performing earned value management for measuring and forecasting project performance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Project Integration Management
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Q1) A Gantt chart is the same as a project management plan.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which stage of information technology planning outlines business processes that are central to achieving strategic goals and helps determine which ones could most benefit from information technology?
A) project planning
B) business area analysis
C) resource allocation
D) information technology strategy planning
Q3) A SWOT analysis, being a linear process, cannot be performed using the nonlinear mind mapping technique.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Projects that address broad organizational needs are likely to fail.
A)True
B)False
Q5) _____ refer to undesirable situations that prevent an organization from achieving its goals.
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Q6) What is a weighted scoring model? How is it created?
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Chapter 5: Project Scope Management
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Q1) A hierarchy is used to show the levels of _____ in the WBS.
Q2) Mind mapping can be used for developing WBSs using which approach?
A) analogy approach only
B) bottom-up or analogy approach
C) top-down or bottom-up approach
D) any approach
Q3) Deliverables are only product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software.
A)True
B)False
Q4) During which approach do team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible and then aggregate the specific tasks and organize them into summary activities, or higher levels in the WBS?
A) analogy
B) bottom-up
C) top-down
D) mind mapping
Q5) List and briefly describe the six main processes involved in project scope management.
Q6) _____ involves developing a working replica of the system or some aspect of the system.
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Chapter 6: Project Schedule Management
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Q1) _____ involves the processes required to ensure timely completion of a project.
Q2) The critical path on a project can change as the project progresses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In an AOA network diagram, what occurs when two or more activities follow a single node?
A) combinations
B) buffers
C) mergers
D) bursts
Q4) A(n) _____ is a schematic display of the logical relationships among project activities and?their sequencing.
Q5) Which is an output of schedule control?
A) change requests
B) activity attributes
C) resource requirements
D) milestones lists
Q6) Describe critical path analysis. How is the critical path calculated?
Q7) SMART criteria are guidelines suggesting that milestones should be _____.
Q8) A white diamond on a Tracking Gantt chart represents a(n) _____.
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Chapter 7: Project Cost Management
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Q1) Which process involves allocating the overall cost estimate to individual work items to establish a baseline for measuring performance?
A) determining the budget
B) finalizing policies for project costs
C) controlling costs
D) estimating costs
Q2) The formulas for variances and indexes start with EV, the earned value.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which costs are difficult to measure in monetary terms?
A) Intangible costs
B) Direct costs
C) Tangible costs
D) Fixed costs
Q4) Which process results in a cost baseline as a main output?
A) cost controlling
B) cost estimating
C) cost budgeting
D) cost planning
Q5) The main output of the planning cost management process is a(n) _____.
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Chapter 8: Project Quality Management
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Q1) Which addresses the ease of performing maintenance on a product?
A) reliability
B) performance
C) maintainability
D) functionality
Q2) The _____ model focuses on defining user requirements and planning software projects.
Q3) Which term is used for the ability of a product to be used as it was intended?
A) conformance to requirements
B) fitness for use
C) critical chain scheduling
D) free slack
Q4) Project managers are ultimately responsible for quality management on their projects.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The term _____ means a product can be used as it was intended.
Q6) _____ diagrams trace complaints about quality problems back to the responsible production operations.
Q7) What are the three main outcomes of quality control? Briefly describe each.
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Chapter 9: Project Resource Management
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Q1) Managers who believe in Theory Y assume that workers dislike and avoid work if possible, so managers must use coercion, threats, and various control schemes to get workers to make adequate efforts to meet objectives.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) is a matrix that maps the work of the project as described in the OBS to the people responsible for performing the work as described in the WBS.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which type of power is based on an individual's personal charisma?
A) legitimate
B) coercive
C) reward
D) referent
Q4) Assignment, budget, promotion, money, and penalty influence bases are automatically available to project managers as part of their position.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Project Communications Management
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Q1) Status reports should be written in a consistent format, regardless of the stakeholders' needs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which document predicts future project status and progress based on past information and trends?
A) progress reports
B) status reports
C) forecasts
D) project updates
Q3) During which phase must project teams address important considerations for managing information (and often end up updating business processes through improved communications)?
A) closing
B) execution
C) planning
D) monitoring and controlling
Q4) Describe the concepts of informal methods for distributing information. How do they compare to formal methods for distributing information?
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Chapter 11: Project Risk Management
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Q1) Risk events refer to specific, certain events that may occur to the detriment or enhancement of the project.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The term _____ is used to describe risks that the project team has identified and analyzed.
Q3) _____ risks are risks that remain after all of the response strategies have been implemented.
Q4) _____ are unplanned responses to risk events used when project teams do not have contingency plans in place.
A) Workarounds
B) Fallback plans
C) Contingency plans
D) Triggers
Q5) A(n) _____ is a list of risks that are low priority, but are still identified as potential risks.
Q6) List and briefly describe four methods for identifying risks.
Q7) _____ is the product of a risk event probability and the risk event's monetary value.
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Chapter 12: Project Procurement Management
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Q1) Project procurement management consists primarily of two processes: assessing procurements and controlling procurements.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Make-or-buy analysis involves comparing the internal costs of providing a product with the cost of outsourcing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In project procurement management, obtaining seller responses, selecting sellers, and awarding contracts is part of the _____ process.
A) planning
B) conducting procurements
C) controlling
D) closing
Q4) If an SOW is used as part of a contract to describe only the work required for that particular contract, it is called a(n) _____.
Q5) How is a statement of work (SOW) different from a contract statement of work? What are some of the requirements for creating a contract SOW?
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Chapter 13: Project Stakeholder Management
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Q1) A(n) _____ is a technique for analyzing information to determine which stakeholders' interests to focus on and how to increase stakeholder support throughout the project.
Q2) The stakeholder register is the output of the _____ stakeholders process of project stakeholder management.
A) identifying
B) planning
C) executing
D) monitoring
Q3) Scope, time and cost goals in order of importance can be ranked on a(n) _____.
A) requirements traceability matrix
B) expectations management matrix
C) responsibility assignment matrix
D) probability matrix
Q4) The stakeholder management plan is always a formal document.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A(n) _____ is a tool that helps clarify expectations and lists project measures of success as well as priorities, expectations, and guidelines related to each measure.
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