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1. Project management knowledge areas describe the key competencies that project managers must develop. Which one of the following is not among the 10 project management knowledge areas?
a. Environment management
b. Cost management
c. Human resource management
d. Stakeholder management
2. In the 2001 work titled “Delivering Projects: What the Winners Do”, Dragan Milosevic and And Ozbay identified four significant best practices adopted by organizations that excelled in project delivery – the “winners”. Which one of the following does not belong to this list of best practices?
a. Develop a streamlined project delivery process
b. Measure project health using metrics
c. Use an integrated toolbox
d. Select winnable projects
3. Research on virtual teams has identified a number of factors that influence their success. Which one of the following is not part of this list given in the textbook?
a. Leadership style
b. Task-technology fit
c. Distance
d. Team life cycles
4. Traditional project management has our general phases: concept, development, implementation, and close-out. A project deliverable is a product or service, such as a technical report, a training session, a piece of hardware, or a segment of software code, produced or provided as part of a project. Each phase of project management has its own set of deliverables. Which one of the following is a deliverable at the concept phase?
a. Budgetary cost estimate
b. Project management plan
c. Performance report
d. Business case
5. You are a project manager in a business that has functional organizational structure. Which of the following actions is most important for you?
a. Become the technical expert in the project
b. Fight for full control over the project budget
c. Ask for a fully dedicated project team reporting only to you
d. Obtain a strong project sponsor who has the power to influence within the organization
6. Projects are of many different varieties – big, small, intense, slow paced, short, long and so on. However, they have certain defining attributes. Which one of the following attributes should a project have?
a. It is a repetitive work
b. It is a one-time work
c. The work has been done before but not frequently
d. The work has not been done before but will be repeated in future
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