Introduction To Project Management Chapter # 1
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Overview: As a new learner to this course, you will be introduced to Project Management five process areas and nine Knowledge areas. Expect a timed quiz after each chapter to assess your knowledge base and testing skills. The featured exercises and quizzes will facilitate your vocabulary and process concepts. Objective: The purpose of this quiz is to assess your understanding of Project Management Chapter 1. You should practice answering each question under 60 seconds. You have a maximum of 12 minutes to finish this quiz. Take this quiz for information review and Time Testing Practice (TTP). Goal: If you score 80%-85% correct you are ready for the next section and will be awarded a certificate. Email a copy of your ceritficate to my attention: [email pro
- 1.
- A.
Buying clothes from the market on a special sale.
- B.
Planning for your friends wedding.
- C.
Building a bridge across the Amazon river.
- D.
Cleaning the office building every day.
- 2.
- A.
Individuals participating must know each other for Delphi technique to be successful.
- B.
Delphi technique is most commonly used to obtain expert opinion
- C.
In Delphi technique participants are generally anonymous
- D.
Delphi provides expert opinion
- 3.Raymond, you are the project manager of Exodus project. Mid-way through the project a key component was stolen. This was not planned. The team met after the event and managed to make the product work without the stolen component. This is an example of -
- A.
Risk mitigation
- B.
Transfer of risk
- C.
Work-around
- D.
Accepting the consequences passively
- 4.According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is the lowest level which must be met before other levels can be met.
- A.
Esteem
- B.
Physiological
- C.
Social
- D.
Safety
- 5.Ruth Washington is an excellent engineer. The management assumes that since she is a good technical performer, she will be a good project manager too. Based upon this, Ruth was promoted to Project Manager. This is an example of
- A.
Halo Effect
- B.
Expectancy Theory
- C.
McGregory Theory of X and Y
- D.
Herzberg Theory
- 6.Which of these is an example of processes in the closing phase?
- A.
Project Closure
- B.
Scope Closure
- C.
Close Project
- D.
Scope Verification
- 7.Most common cause of conflicts in a project is
- A.
Schedules
- B.
Technical opinions
- C.
Personal Issues
- D.
Project priorities
- 8.What percentage of Project Manager's time is spent on communicating?
- A.
35
- B.
50
- C.
75
- D.
90
- 9.Which process identifies the project manager?
- A.
Project Planning
- B.
Develop Project Charter
- C.
Scope Planning
- D.
Project Selection Process
- 10.You are using straight line depreciation to compute the value of your computer after three years. If the current cost is $1000, what will be the value after three years assuming that the computer's life is five years.
- A.
$0
- B.
$400
- C.
$500
- D.
$600
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