Question 1

The primary role of project stakeholder management is to ensure that the project will satisfy the stated needs for which it was undertaken.

Accepted Answer

Project management knowledge areas describe the key competencies that project managers must develop. Project stakeholder management includes identifying and analyzing stakeholder needs while managing and controlling their engagement throughout the life of the project.

Question 2

A project's stakeholders include its customers, users, and suppliers.

Accepted Answer

Stakeholders are the people involved in or affected by project activities, and include the project sponsor, project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even opponents of a project.

Question 3

Maturity models, statistical methods, and test plans are examples of tools used in quality management.

Accepted Answer

Quality metrics, maturity models, statistical methods, and test plans are some of the tools used in quality management.

Question 4

One of the main reasons why project management is challenging is because of the factor of uncertainty.

Accepted Answer

A project involves uncertainty. Every project is unique and thus it is sometimes difficult to define its objectives clearly, estimate how long it will take to complete, or determine how much it will cost. This uncertainty is one of the main reasons project management is so challenging.

Question 5

A difference between operations and projects is that operations end when their objectives have been reached, whereas projects do not.

Accepted Answer

Projects are different from operations in that they end when their objectives have been reached or the project has been terminated.

Question 6

Projects should be developed in increments.

Accepted Answer

A project is developed using progressive elaboration. Projects are often defined broadly when they begin, and as time passes, the specific details of the project become clearer. Therefore, projects should be developed in increments.

Question 7

Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top management in the military, computer, and construction industries.

Accepted Answer

Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top management in the military, computer, and construction industries. Today's project management involves much more, and people in every industry and every country manage projects.

Question 8

Every project should have a well-defined objective.

Accepted Answer

A project has a unique purpose. Every project should have a well-defined objective.

Question 9

In order to be realistic, a project manager should always set discrete goals instead of a range of objectives.

Accepted Answer

Because projects involve uncertainty and limited resources, projects rarely finish according to their original scope, time, and cost goals. Instead of discrete target goals, it is often more realistic to set a range of goals.

Question 10

Managing the triple constraint primarily involves making trade-offs between resources and quality.

Accepted Answer

Managing the triple constraint involves making trade-offs between scope, time, and cost goals for a project. Experienced project managers know that one must decide which aspect of the triple constraint is most important.

Question 11

The importance of stakeholders' needs and expectations is limited to the beginning of a project.

Accepted Answer

Stakeholders' needs and expectations are important in the beginning and throughout the life of a project. Successful project managers develop good relationships with project stakeholders to understand and meet their needs and expectations.

Question 12

Questions about how a team will track schedule performance is related to a project's scope.

Accepted Answer

Project scope deals with questions such as, "What work will be done as part of the project?", "What unique product, service, or result does the customer or sponsor expect from the project?", or "How will the scope be verified?"

Question 13

Project procurement management primarily involves identifying stakeholder needs while managing their engagement throughout the life of the project.

Accepted Answer

Project management knowledge areas describe the key competencies that project managers must develop. Project procurement management involves acquiring or procuring goods and services for a project from outside the performing organization.

Question 14

A project manager's primary role is to provide the funding for a project.

Accepted Answer

A project sponsor usually provides the direction and funding for a project.

Question 15

Opponents of a project do not belong to the category of stakeholders.

Accepted Answer

Stakeholders are the people involved in or affected by project activities, and include the project sponsor, project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even opponents of a project.

Question 16

The only responsibility of a project manager is to meet the specific scope, time, and cost goals of a project.

Accepted Answer

Project managers must strive not only to meet specific scope, time, cost, and quality goals of projects but also facilitate the entire process to meet the needs and expectations of people involved in project activities or affected by them.

Question 17

Stakeholder analyses, work requests, and project charters are tools used in integration management.

Accepted Answer

Project selection methods, project management methodologies, stakeholder analyses, work requests, and project charters are some of the tools used in integration management.

Question 18

Responsibility assignment matrices and project organizational charts are examples of tools used in procurement management.

Accepted Answer

Motivation techniques, empathic listening, responsibility assignment matrices, project organizational charts, resource histograms and team building exercises are tools used in resource management.

Question 19

Project resource management is concerned with making effective use of the people involved with a project.

Accepted Answer

Project management knowledge areas describe the key competencies that project managers must develop. Project resource management is concerned with making effective use of the people and physical resources involved with the project.

Question 20

Earned value management is a tool primarily used in resource management.

Accepted Answer

Project budgets, net present value, return on investment, payback analysis, and earned value management are tools used in cost management.

Quiz 1: Introduction to Project Management