Project Planning and Control
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Course Introduction
Project Planning and Control introduces students to the fundamental principles and techniques required for effective management of projects from inception to completion. The course covers project life cycles, work breakdown structures, scheduling methods such as Gantt charts and critical path analysis, resource allocation, budgeting, risk management, and quality control. Students learn how to use project management software and tools to develop project plans, monitor progress, and adapt to changes. Emphasis is placed on both the strategic and operational aspects of controlling projects to meet established goals, deadlines, and budgets, preparing students to successfully oversee projects in a variety of professional contexts.
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Project Management in Practice 4th Edition by Samuel
J. Mantel Jr
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Chapter 1: The World of Project Management
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Q1) A primary purpose of forming projects is to assign the responsibility for accomplishing some organizational task to a specific person or small group.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Having responsibility for the outcome of a project without the authority of rank or position is common in project management.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a trend in project management?
A) achieving strategic goals
B) improving project effectiveness
C) quasi projects
D) reductive projects
E) achieving routine goals
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Manager, the Organization, and the Team
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Q1) It is more important for project team members to focus on their specific project activities than on the project's overall results.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Morale of the project team is a key responsibility of the project manager.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) An advantage of pure project organization is its great depth of technical knowledge. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) When it comes to assigning individuals to work on projects,functional managers and project managers are often in conflict.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Planning the Project
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Q1) A disadvantage of empowerment is the lack of timely feedback.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) It is acceptable to restrict the launch meeting to brainstorming a problem.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) The process of managing the way different departments or groups work together is called integration management.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The primary purpose of the launch meeting is to develop the project plan and budget.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Budgeting the Project
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Q1) Organizational tradition has little or no impact on the firm's project budgeting.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A budget is a plan for allocating resources to project activities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a sub-process associated with risk management?
A) risk identification
B) risk measurement
C) qualitative risk analysis
D) quantitative risk analysis
E) risk response planning
Q4) Individual elements of project budgets are generally more accurate in bottom-up budgeting.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Budgeting a project is often more difficult than budgeting routine activities.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Scheduling the Project
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Q1) "Merger" is a term used to describe the situation in which two or more paths in a network join together.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is a merger and what problems do mergers create?
A)True
B)False
Q3) The difference between the LST and EST is called slack.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following terms is most closely associated with a task required by the project?
A) activity
B) event
C) milestone
D) network
E) path
Q5) The difference between EST and LFT is called slack.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Allocating Resources to the Project
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Q1) Projects often compete with each other for the same resources.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Applying "line balancing" techniques to balance the capacity of a project typically yields significant benefits.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A task has a normal duration of 9 days and a crash duration of 7 days.Its normal cost is $40 and its crash cost is $100.What is the crash cost per day?
A) $140
B) $70
C) $50
D) $40
E) $30
Q4) A task's duration is a function of both the amount of labor required to complete the task as well as the calendar time required to complete it.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Monitoring and Controlling the Project
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Q1) Weekly progress report meetings should be rarely held.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Project monitoring and control can be thought of as opposite sides of project selection and planning.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An overload of reporting is just as dangerous as underreporting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The purpose of control is to ensure that all interested parties have the information they need.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is most closely associated with ordinal rankings?
A) frequency counts
B) raw numbers
C) indicators
D) subjective numeric rankings
E) surrogates
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Chapter 8: Evaluating and Terminating the Project
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Q1) Organizational structure should be addressed in the project final report.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the text,which of the following is NOT an item to consider for project evaluation report recommendations?
A) communication with the client and senior management
B) locating opportunities for technological advances
C) locating opportunities to crash the project
D) improving the project-management process
E) improving the organization's used of projects
Q3) Project evaluation should NOT be limited to an after-the-fact analysis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following information should NOT be contained in a audit report?
A) Introduction
B) final comments
C) Risk analysis
D) future project status
E) Project RACI matrix
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