Lesson 1 – Assessment

1. The Director of Marketing in your organization approaches you and requests that you change the visitor logon screen on the company’s website to include a username with at least six characters. This is considered which of the following?

2. Your company manufactures small kitchen appliances. It is introducing a new product line of appliances in designer colors with distinctive features for kitchens in small spaces. These new products will be offered indefinitely starting with the spring catalog release. Which of the following is true?

3. What is the application of knowledge, skills and a set of tools and techniques to describe, organize, and monitor the work of project activities to meet the project requirements?

4. You are the project manager for a medium size construction project. The project objective is to construct a set of outbuildings to house the Olympic support team that will be arriving in your city 13 months from the project start date. Resources are not readily available because they are currently assigned to other projects. Jack, an expert crane operator, is needed for this project two months from today. Which of the following skills will you use to get Jack assigned to your project?

5. What is one of the characteristics of a functional organization?

6. You have been assigned to a project in which the objectives are to direct customer calls to an interactive voice response system before being connected to a live agent. You are in charge of the media communications for this project. You report to the project manager in charge of this project and the VP of marketing, who share responsibility for this project. Which organizational structure do you work in?

7. A project manager is trying to complete a software development project, with team members that reports to functional managers too. However,  resources are focused on completing process-related to work, and the project manager has little authority to assign resources. What type of organization is this project manager working in?

8. Ann is a project team member talking to Ken another team member and complaining that many people are asking her to do things. If she works in a functional organization, who has the power to give direction to the Ann?

9. Who has the most power in projectized organization?

10. All the following are characteristics of a project except:

11. As a project manager, you have had to develop skills to help plan and manage project successfully. Which skills would best help you encourage project teams to reach levels of high cooperation and achievement, promote a positive relationship with vendors on a project, and involve stakeholders appropriately through all aspect of the project?

12. The difference between a project, program, and a portfolio is?

13. Operational work is different from project work in that operational work is:

14. Company procedures require the creation of lessons learned register. Which of the following is the best use of lessons learned?

15. A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the best way to accomplish this?

16. A form of project organization where power is evenly shared between the Functional & Project Manager is called?

17. The collection of generally sequential and sometimes overlapping project phases is called?

18. The decision to move from one phase to another is known as which of the following? (Choose three)