PMO Essential

A Project Manager should ____ when dealing with High Power and High Interest Stakeholders:

• Keep satisfied

• Keep informed

• Engage closely

• Minimal effort

The major disadvantage of using Bar Charts to manage a project is that Bar Charts:

• Do not show dependencies between activities

• Are ineffective for projects under one year in length

• Are ineffective for projects under $ 1 million in size

• Do not identify start and end dates of a schedule

The following statements are the potential benefits of a PMO, EXCEPT:

• Improved reliability of the information provided

• Better project prioritization

• Manage resource allocation

• Increased visibility of project progress

You are working on a new product development that requires review and approval from a regulatory body. Which of the following describe the type of dependencies in your project?

• Mandatory

• Discretionary

• Internal

• External

One of the most common reasons why projects undergo scope changes is:

• Poor Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Poorly defined Statement of Work

• Lack of resources

• Lack of funding

The following techniques for schedule compression does not incur additional costs, EXCEPT:

• Resource leveling

• Crashing

• Doing series work in parallel

• All of the above or none of the above

During a project team meeting, a team member suggested an enhancement to the scope that is beyond the scope of the project charter. The project manager points out that the team needs to concentrate on completing all the work required. This is an example of:

• Change management

• Stakeholder engagement

• Product enhancement

• Scope management

Activities on the critical path are :

• A – B – F

• A – D – E – F

• A – C – E – F

• All of the above or none of the above

If your staff asked for permission to delay the execution of activity B, what would be your response to him/her?

• Reject the request since Activity B is critical

• Accept the request without any limitation

• Accept the request and limit the delay by one unit of time

• Accept the request and limit the delay by two unit of time

If your sponsor asked you to accelerate the project, what would be your suggestion to him/her?

• Crashing Activity B

• Adding more resources to Activity B

• Perform resource leveling of Activity B to other activities on the critical path

• All of the above or none of the above