ITPM Quiz 5 Exam Questions And Answers 100% Verified
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ITPM Quiz 5 Exam Questions And Answers 100% Verified
During executing, the project manager determines that a change is needed to material purchased for the project. The project manager calls a meeting of the team to plan how to make the change. This is an example of:
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Management by objec...
ITPM Quiz 5 Exam Questions And Answers
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During executing, the project manager determines that a change is needed to material purchased for
the project. The project manager calls a meeting of the team to plan how to make the change. This is
an example of:
Answers:
Management by objectives
Lack of a change management plan
Good team relations
Lack of a clear work breakdown structure
Lack of a change management plan
Response Feedback:
The project manager is asking how to make a change. Such a question cannot be resolved using
management by objectives, team relations, or a work breakdown structure. The procedures, forms,
sign-offs, and other similar requirements for handling changes should have already been determined
in the change management plan. Because they were not, the project manager will waste valuable
work time trying to figure it out after the fact.
In the middle of the project, the project manager is informed by her scheduler that the project control
limits are secure. That same morning, she receives a note from a team member about a problem he is
having. The note says, "This activity is driving me crazy, and the manager of the accounting
department won't help me until the activity's float is in jeopardy: In addition, the project manager has
emails from a minor stakeholder and 14 emails from team members. While she is reading the emails,
a team member walks into the project manager's office to tell her a corrective action was
implemented by a team member from the project management office but was not documented.
What should the project manager do next?
Answers:
A. Report the documentation violation to the project management office, evaluate the security of the
control limits, and review the emailing rules in the communications management plan.
B. Clarify the re
C
Response Feedback:
Notice how much information is thrown at you in this question. It is important to practice reading
through questions to discover what is important and what is simply background information. In this
question, the only thing relevant was the corrective action taken. Once you discover what the primary
issue is, look at the choices to find out which is best for addressing that issue. What is the primary
issue here? Did you realize the team member's note is about a non-critical path activity? ("Until the
project float is in jeopardy" means there is float; thus, the activity is not on the critical path.) So, is the
issue the non-critical path activity or the documentation? You might disagree with the logic, but in
this case, the answer is the documentation. In the real world, problems often repeat. Without a
record of what was done, there is no opportunity to consider the same solution for future problems.
Documentation is critical to projects. Because the change log becomes part of the historical records
database, it is best to first record the corrective action taken, then discuss the value of documentation
at the next team meeting, and, finally, smooth the team member's issue with the accounting
department.
Which of the following is included in a project charter?
Answers:
A risk management strategy
Work package estimates
Detailed resource estimates
The business case for the project
The business case for the project
Response Feedback:
, A risk management strategy and work package estimates are not created until project planning, but
the project charter is created in initiating. A project charter may include the names of some resources
(the project manager, for example), but not detailed resource estimates. Of the choices given, only
the business case for the project is included in the project charter
An output of the Close Project or Phase process is the creation of
Answers:
Project archives
A project charter
A project management plan
A risk management plan
Project archives
Response Feedback:
The project charter is created in initiating. The project management plan and risk management plan
are the outputs of project planning. Project records, including the charter and all management plans,
are archived in the Close Project or Phase process.
The project was going well when all of a sudden there were changes to the project coming from
multiple stakeholders. After all the changes were determined, the project manager spent time with
the stakeholders to find out why there were changes and to discover any more.
The project work had quieted down when a team member casually mentioned to the project manager
that he added functionality to a product of the project. "Do not worry;' he said, "I did not impact
schedule, cost, or quality!" What should the project manager do first?
Answers:
A. Ask the team member how the need for the functionality was determined.
B. Hold a meeting to review the team member's completed work.
C. Look for other added functionality.
D. Ask the team member how he knows there is no schedule, cost, or quality impact.
Ask the team member how he knows there is no schedule, cost, or quality impact.
Response Feedback:
Notice that the first paragraph is extraneous. Also, notice that the question states that the change has
already been made. The project manager's actions would be different if the change had not been
made. The project manager, with the help of others, must determine how the change impacts the
project as a whole. Asking the team member how he knows there is no impact on schedule, cost, or
quality is the best answer. This begins the project manager's analysis of the impacts of the project as a
whole by finding out what analysis has already been done. This change minimally involves a change to
the scope baseline, and likely other baselines as well. A change request must ultimately be submitted
to integrated change control, but that is not listed as an option.
You are the project manager for an existing year-long project that must be completed. Your company
just won a major new project. It will begin in three months and is valued at $2,000,000. The new
project has a greater starting value and is therefore likely to have a higher priority than your project.
It may affect your resources. You are concerned about how you will manage your project so that both
projects can be implemented successfully. What is the first thing you should do when you hear of the
new project?
Answers:
Ask management how the new project will use resources.
Resource level your project.
Crash your project.
Ask management how the new project will affect your project.
Ask management how the new project will use resources.
Response Feedback:
You do not have enough information to consider resource levelling or crashing this project. As you
work on any project, you need to constantly re-evaluate the project objectives and how the project
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