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1. Management has asked you to write a feasibility study for a potential project. You’ve never written a feasibility study before, so you seek out some facts about the studies. A feasibility study is an example of which one of the following?
a. A phase deliverable
b. A requirement for all project plans
c. A subsidiary project plan
d. A report to determine whether a project is successful
2. You are a new project manager for your organization. You are operating within a strong matrix organizational structure. Your expected level of authority is which one of the following?
a. High to total
b. Moderate to high
c. Low to moderate
d. Limited
3. You are a project manager in the Coil Production Company. Your organization has a balanced-matrix structure. You have been assigned a new project that will create a new coil for manufacturing. Who should charter this project?
a. You, because you are the project manager
b. Each project team member’s functional manager
c. The customer that will purchase the new coil
d. An executive in the organization who has control over all the needed resources that the project will require.
4. The authority the project manager can expect to have in a project is dependent on the organizational structure the project manager is operating within. Which individual has the power in a functional organization to approve the project plan?
a. The customer
b. The project manager
c. The program manager
d. The functional manager
5. Constraints and assumptions can affect the project manager’s ability to plan and manage the project. All constraints and assumptions should be documented. All of the following are assumptions, except for which one?
a. There is a 10 percent allowance of time for travel delays.
b. The weather will be acceptable for construction during the summer months.
c. The project team will work on the project Monday through Friday only.
d. The project must be completed by December 31.
6. Management would like every computer in the company to run the same operating system. As it is now, IT support must manage eight different operating systems. What must first be established before the project can begin?
a. Control quality mechanisms
b. Project charter
c. A plan to inventory all of the current hardware to determine which operating system the project should install
d. Identification of what software is needed on each computer
8. Alice is the project manager for her organization and she’s leading a software development project. She has just reached the end of the first phase of her project. What may happen at the end of each project phase?
a. Murder board review
b. Phased gate estimating
c. Project team reviews
d. Lessons learned updates