Chapter 02 Organizational

A hospital is installing a new hospital management system to enable IT hospital functioning. For this purpose, representatives from several departments are selected to create a task force assigned to implement the project. This organization structure is called?

• Functional Organization
• Projectized Organization
• Composite Organization
• Balanced Matrix Organization

A project manager is identifying relevant enterprise environmental factors on his project. Which of the following is NOT a valid example?

• Organizational Culture and processes
• Stakeholder Risk Tolerances
• Employee performance Review records
• Historical lessons learned knowledge base

A project manager is working on constructing a new bridge, but he is not getting enough project attention. Resources are occupied in doing process related work and the project manager has little authority to assign resources. What form of organization is the project being performed?

• Functional
• Strong Matrix
• Projectized
• Weak Matrix

You are a project manager currently finding all of the risks on the project. As a part of this activity, you would like to know the risk attitude and organization policies and procedures for risk management. Which of the following should you refer for this purpose?

• Enterprise and Environmental Factors
• Stakeholder Register
• Risk Management Plan
• Project Documents

Mansour works for a consulting company that regularly acquires project teams for any new assignments. Once the assignment is over, the team is dissolved. What kind of organization is Mansour working for?

• Matrix
• Projectized
• Functional
• Balanced Matrix

Which of the following phase-to-phase relationships reduces uncertainty but may eliminate options for reducing the schedule?

• Overlapping relationship
• Sequential relationship
• Iterative relationship
• Continuous relationship

Which of the following regarding risk and cost of changes is true?

• Risk and cost of changes are highest at the beginning of the project
• Risk is highest and cost of changes is lowest at the beginning of the project
• Risk is lowest and cost of changes is highest at the beginning of the project
• Risk and cost of changes are lowest at the beginning of the project

John was assigned to a new software development project. At the end of a change control board meeting, the project manager asks John to complete the paperwork required to make the changes. This is an example of?

• Project Coordinator Position
• Change control board Member
• Program Management Position
• Project Expeditor Position

Uncertainty is usually the least in which project life cycle phase?

• Project execution
• Project planning
• Project closure
• Project initiation

You are managing a complex project which requires some highly skilled resources on embedded design. You obtain these resources from the organization pool. You specify the duration for which they would be required. Once your project activity is complete, you need to free these resources for reassignment. You are working in which kind of organization structure?

• Functional
• Projectized
• Matrix
• Tight Matrix