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Project Management Fundamentals, Exams of Nursing

University of Phoenix (UOPX)Nursing

A comprehensive overview of key project management concepts and principles, covering topics such as project planning, execution, control, and closure. It delves into the various processes, tools, and techniques used in effective project management, including scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, risk management, and stakeholder management. The document also explores the roles and responsibilities of project managers, as well as the importance of communication, teamwork, and leadership in successful project delivery. By studying this document, readers can gain a deeper understanding of the essential elements of project management and how to apply them to ensure the successful completion of projects.

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1. The process of establishing clear and achievable objectives,
measuring their achievement, and adjusting performance in accordance
with the results of the measurement is called: - Precise Answer
✔✔Management by Objectives
2. During the full life cycle of the project, a plot of the project's expected
expenditures will usually follow a characteristic S curve. This indicates
that: - Precise Answer ✔✔The bulk of the project budget will be spent
in the execution phase
3. In which project lifecycle phase would you expect to have the greatest
influence on overall project cost? - Precise Answer ✔✔Concept
4. Requirement is - - Precise Answer ✔✔Quantified and documented
needs of stakeholders, customer, and sponsor
5. TQM is - - Precise Answer ✔✔Total Quality Management: A
common approach to implementing a quality improvement program
6. Which describes Management Information Systems? - Precise Answer
✔✔Software that an enterprise uses to support business and
administrative operations
7. The type of planning that is equated with more specific data or is
detailed in nature is called: - Precise Answer ✔✔Tactical
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  1. The process of establishing clear and achievable objectives, measuring their achievement, and adjusting performance in accordance with the results of the measurement is called: - Precise Answer ✔✔Management by Objectives
  2. During the full life cycle of the project, a plot of the project's expected expenditures will usually follow a characteristic S curve. This indicates that: - Precise Answer ✔✔The bulk of the project budget will be spent in the execution phase
  3. In which project lifecycle phase would you expect to have the greatest influence on overall project cost? - Precise Answer ✔✔Concept
  4. Requirement is - - Precise Answer ✔✔Quantified and documented needs of stakeholders, customer, and sponsor
  5. TQM is - - Precise Answer ✔✔Total Quality Management: A common approach to implementing a quality improvement program
  6. Which describes Management Information Systems? - Precise Answer ✔✔Software that an enterprise uses to support business and administrative operations
  7. The type of planning that is equated with more specific data or is detailed in nature is called: - Precise Answer ✔✔Tactical
  1. What are the different types of costs in Microsoft Project? - Precise Answer ✔✔Fixed Cost, Cost Per Use, Standard Cost, Overtime Cost
  2. What is the name of PMI's Organization maturity model for project management? - Precise Answer ✔✔OPM
  3. A group of related projects that are managed in a coordinated way that usually includes an element of ongoing activity is called a: - Precise Answer ✔✔Program
  4. Project constraint could be on - - Precise Answer ✔✔Cost, resources, schedule
  5. What is true about Project Management Office (PMO)? - Precise Answer ✔✔Support Project Managers by coaching and mentoring PMO is a project stakeholder PMO can terminate projects if required to keep business objectives consistent
  6. Projects require project management while operations require business process management or operations management. Projects can intersect with operations at various points during the product lifecycle. Which of the following is not a stage to represent this? - Precise Answer ✔✔At each Executing phase
  1. A Project Manager should support making changes during Execution
    • Precise Answer ✔✔When they are warranted and inline with the strategic goals of the organization
  1. Conducting Lessons Learned is a critical part of - - Precise Answer ✔✔Closing
  2. Which is not a process from the Planning Process Group? - Precise Answer ✔✔Perform Quality Assurance
  3. The Change Management Plan should be included in which of the following? - Precise Answer ✔✔Project Management Plan
  4. Who is a Project Initiator? - Precise Answer ✔✔A person or organization that has the ability and authority to start the project
  5. Who does the Project Integration? - Precise Answer ✔✔Project Manager
  6. Which of the following is true about Project Plan? - Precise Answer ✔✔Project Plan needs to have the buy in of the entire project team
  7. Which of the following statements is MOST True? - Precise Answer ✔✔The project charter names and authorizes the project manager
  1. The project is characterized by frequent changes to the project charter. Authorizing project charter changes should typically be the responsibility of __________ - Precise Answer ✔✔Senior management
  2. Define a Defect repair? - Precise Answer ✔✔The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component
  3. Facilitating a change to the project schedule involves each of the following, except, - Precise Answer ✔✔replacing the original schedule baseline When is the project charter developed? - Precise Answer ✔✔initiation
  4. A budget change is requested and approved during the execution/control phase of the project. What is your MOST appropriate action following approval? - Precise Answer ✔✔Integrate budget changes but maintain the original cost baseline
  5. Which is NOT an output from the 'Direct and Manage Project Execution' process? - Precise Answer ✔✔Project management plan
  6. Who performs and documents lessons learned? - Precise Answer ✔✔Project manager and Team
  1. A project manager is reviewing the work breakdown structure for her project. The WBS for the project represents: - Precise Answer ✔✔All the work that must be completed for the project
  2. When decomposing project work during WBS creation, which of the following activities is not part of the process : - Precise Answer ✔✔Assigning work to a specific resource
  3. In a very large project having a budget of $5 million and a project team of over one hundred persons, the project manager constructs a work breakdown structure. The project manager will do the WBS to the detail level of which of the following? - Precise Answer ✔✔Work Package
  4. The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions is: - Precise Answer ✔✔Project scope
  5. Which of the following is NOT a tool and technique for the 'Define Scope' process? - Precise Answer ✔✔Decomposition
  6. Which of the following are the Requirement workshops that are focused sessions that bring key cross functional stakeholders together to define product requirements? - Precise Answer ✔✔Facilitated workshops
  1. The method of reaching a group decision where the largest block in a group decides even if a majority is not achieved is known as : - Precise Answer ✔✔Plurality
  2. Job Shadowing - Precise Answer ✔✔an observation technique that is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user perform his or her job
  3. Which of the following may NOT be included in the Project Scope Statement? - Precise Answer ✔✔Product verification criteria
  4. Which of the following are not INPUT to the 'Validate Scope' process? - Precise Answer ✔✔Accepted deliverables
  5. What is Decomposition? - Precise Answer ✔✔Breaking down a deliverable into smaller pieces so that it can be properly managed
  6. Which is the tool and technique for the 'Control Scope' process? - Precise Answer ✔✔Variance analysis
  7. You are the project manager of a project that is in its early phase. You need to estimate the duration of implementing the project. Based on your experience with similar past projects, you estimate a 6-month implementation time. What is this type of estimation technique called? - Precise Answer ✔✔Analogous Estimating

the task was 75% complete. What is the cost performance index? - Precise Answer ✔✔1.

  1. Which of the following is considered to be a simulation technique? - Precise Answer ✔✔Monte Carlo analysis
  2. In the first attempt in resource leveling the project schedule, what would you expect to occur? - Precise Answer ✔✔The overall project duration will increase
  3. A project manager would like to manage his project in such a way that he will be able to predict the duration of the project more accurately, even though the estimates for the duration of the activities have a lot of variability. The project manager should use which method to more accurately predict the project completion date? - Precise Answer ✔✔PERT
  4. The project manager will use the PERT method of scheduling for the project that she is working on. Using the PERT calculation, the variance for the project is found to be 25 days and the duration of the project is found to be 169 days. What is the range of values for the project duration such that there will be at least a 95% probability that the actual project completion will fall between the high and low value of the range of values? - Precise Answer ✔✔159 - 179 days
  5. Of the following, which is NOT a tool and technique for the 'Sequence Activities' process? - Precise Answer ✔✔Milestone list
  1. Which of the following represents a progressive elaboration planning technique where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail and future work is planned at a higher level of the WBS? - Precise Answer ✔✔Rolling Wave Planning
  2. Which dependency or logical relationship of Activity-On-Node is depicted when we say - The completion of the successor activity depends upon the completion of the predecessor activity - Precise Answer ✔✔Finish to Finish
  3. Which is the output from the 'Estimate Activity Resources'? - Precise Answer ✔✔Resource breakdown structure
  4. For a project with the following data, evaluate the project's burn rate : PV = $750,000, EV = $750,000 and AC = $900,000 - Precise Answer ✔✔1.
  5. Post-mortem analysis after scheduled finish date of a project shows a CPI of 0.8 and an SPI of 1.25. What is a plausible explanation for that? - Precise Answer ✔✔The project was terminated early. At that time, it was over budget and ahead of schedule
  6. Which of the following about Budgets is not true, - Precise Answer ✔✔Budgets need not be approved
  7. What does a CPI value of greater than 1 indicate? - Precise Answer ✔✔Cost under run of the estimates
  1. A project was estimated to cost $1.5M and scheduled to last 6 months. After three months, the earned value analysis shows the following - EV = $650,000, PV = $750,000, AC = $800,000. What is the Schedule Variance? - Precise Answer ✔✔-$
  2. To distinguish top down estimates from bottom up estimates, it would be correct to say that the bottom up estimate would be: - Precise Answer ✔✔More accurate
  3. Which of the following mechanisms or processes is adopted to validate that the work is done to the customer satisfaction/requirement even before you present it to the customer? - Precise Answer ✔✔Variance analysis
  4. The Upper Control Limit (UCL) and Lower control limit (LCL) on a typical control chart indicate what? - Precise Answer ✔✔Acceptable range of variation in the process
  5. You have discovered a problem and are trying to determine the cause. The process whereby you identify the variables that have the most influence on the project by holding all the variables constant and changing one at a time is called: - Precise Answer ✔✔Design of experiment
  6. The totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs is the definition for: - Precise Answer ✔✔Quality
  1. One of the fundamental tenets of quality management is that quality:
  • Precise Answer ✔✔Is planned in and not inspected in
  1. A category or rank given to products that have the same functional use but different technical characteristics is called the product's: - Precise Answer ✔✔Grade
  2. In a manufacturing process that is being controlled by control charts, there are variables occurring that will affect the process output. Variations in the process that are considered to be normal process variables are called: - Precise Answer ✔✔Common causes
  3. Which of the following best represents the term - Cost of Quality? - Precise Answer ✔✔cost of ensuring quality objectives
  4. A responsibility assignment matrix ___________________________ - Precise Answer ✔✔Shows assignment and levels of authority and does not indicate time
  5. Herzberg divided motivation factors into two classes: satisfiers and dissatisfiers. Examples of satisfiers are: - Precise Answer ✔✔Sense of personal achievement, work satisfaction
  6. The skill of listening involves more than just hearing the sounds. One of the characteristics of a good listener is that he or she: - Precise Answer ✔✔Repeats some of the things said
  1. Which of the following is NOT an input to the 'Develop Human Resource Plan'? - Precise Answer ✔✔Expert Judgment
  2. Which of the following is TRUE about Progress Reports, a report that informs the stakeholders about the progress of the project? - Precise Answer ✔✔They allow stakeholders to judge the performance of the project according to its plan
  3. The three principal interests in maintaining good document control are: - Precise Answer ✔✔Effective communication, ability to reconstruct why decisions were made and historical value
  4. Your project manager wants to handle communications well in his project. In order to do this he has chosen to write a communications plan. Of the items listed below, which one is not part of the communications plan? - Precise Answer ✔✔Project organizational structure
  5. Which of the following techniques allows for the participants to be anonymous? - Precise Answer ✔✔Delphi technique
  6. In the communications model, communications between the sender and the receiver often are affected by communications barriers. These include all of the following except: - Precise Answer ✔✔Lack of a communications device
  1. Formal written communication with the customer is required when : - Precise Answer ✔✔Customer requests some additional work not covered under the contract
  2. When you want to report on the actual project results vs. planned results, you use? - Precise Answer ✔✔Variance report
  3. The Power /interest grid groups the stakeholders based on - - Precise Answer ✔✔Level of authority (power) and their level of concern (interest).
  4. Which of the following is NOT an input to the 'Plan Communications' process? - Precise Answer ✔✔Communications technology
  5. You are attending the status meeting along with 7 other project team members and the project manager. How many communication channels are available in the status meeting? - Precise Answer ✔✔ 36
  6. Two vendors offer to sell similar electronic components, which are integrated at the vendor's site. To avoid risk while evaluating the bids, the project manager views such items as the vendors'? - Precise Answer ✔✔Price, experience, delivery means
  7. Which of the following techniques is used to evaluate the degree to which the data about risks is useful for risk management? - Precise Answer ✔✔Data Quality Assessment

management reserve? - Precise Answer ✔✔To take care of the risks that could not be identified by the project team

  1. Looking at the trend of natural disasters that have occurred in India in the past 5 years, your company is adamant to buy an insurance against earthquakes, as the other disasters do not seem prevalent in the area where the work is to be done. Which of the risk response strategies does this belong to? - Precise Answer ✔✔Transference
  2. Tools and Techniques for Quantitative Risk Analysis are all of the following EXCEPT, - Precise Answer ✔✔Risk Register
  3. The recycling project manager has determined that the risks associated with handling certain hazardous chemicals are too high. He has decided to allow an outside company that specializes in handling hazardous materials to complete this portion of the project, and so has outsourced the handling of the chemicals to an experienced contractor. Which of the following is it an example of? - Precise Answer ✔✔Transference
  4. As part of risk identification, you are tasked with using a technique called SWOT. Which of the following describes SWOT? - Precise Answer ✔✔Analysis of strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats
  5. As part of planning, you are identifying risks and impacts of risk on your project. Chris, a project team member, is confused by what risk means. Your explanation is that a risk is a (an) ___________________

occurrence of event that can affect the project for good or bad.: - Precise Answer ✔✔Uncertain

  1. Which is not an example of a correctly handled Contract closure procedure? - Precise Answer ✔✔Early termination of a contract because of an immaterial breach
  2. A project manager makes a narrative description of the work that must be done for her project. This is called a - Precise Answer ✔✔Statement of work
  3. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product, service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it, is called as - - Precise Answer ✔✔Contract
  4. The Project Management Head intends to hand over an infrastructure project to Tom, the project manager. But within the senior management of the organization, there are varied views about this project; some senior management people in the organization are against taking up the project because they feel that it is better to buy the same product from an outside source while, others feel that building the product in-house is a better option. Which of the following tools will help Tom decide whether the product should be purchased or developed in-house? - Precise Answer ✔✔Make-or-Buy Analysis
  5. The primary advantage of a fixed price contract with the vendor is:
  • Precise Answer ✔✔cost risk is lower