Lesson 10 – Assessment

1. You are the project manager of a project whose team has interacted with a number of stakeholders. You feel that in order to have a very objective project performance appraisal, you would like to obtain feedbacks for the project team members from all the people they have worked with, including superiors, peers and subordinates. Team performance assessments are carried out during which of the following processes?

2. Which of the following is not a tool and technique of the Plan Resource Management process?

3. A team decides that an agile approach fits the needs of the next phase in their project. Unfortunately, there are team members who have not had the appropriate agile training. How should the project manager respond to the lack of agile training?

4. The project manager schedules an iteration review and learns that a few key stakeholders do not approve of how a feature has been developed. What should the project manager do first in order to address this issue?

5. A project team is small and the team members have known each other for a long time. The team’s project is in the execution phase. Recently, a team member told the new project manager that another team member has been complaining about how the project is being managed among other grievances.  How should this new project manager respond?

6. A project manager receives complaints from a project sponsor because of a delay in developing a prototype. The project manager responds that the delay was due to a lack of knowledge in a specific skill that was needed by the cross-functional project team. How could the project manager avoid this type of situation in the future?

7. Schedule performance issues are occurring on a project. After assessing the issue, the project manager determines that the cause is the expertise levels of project resources. Specifically, a few of the senior-level resources check irrelevant details, and some inexperienced resources take too much time to complete tasks. The project manager needs to enhance team performance. Which action is appropriate to take?

8. Multiple new members are added to an ongoing project. Although all original team members received basic training on the specifics of the business operation that the project supports, the new members do not have the same basic understanding. This lack of understanding results in decreased productivity. How should the project manager respond to this issue?

9. A technology development project has the following characteristics: -It requires a highly skilled resource that is unavailable locally. -The project manager has identified a resource who can work on site, but the resource lives in a different country and requires a work visa. -The work visa process is taking more time than anticipated. What should the project manager do?

10. All of the followings are techniques used for the Acquire resources process, except?

11. You are managing a project. An audit team wants to know where they can find information on training plans for the project team members and certification requirements. This would be found in the:

12. Which of the following is not among the processes of Project Resources Management?

13. You have just been assigned a project manager for a large telecommunications project. This one-year project is about halfway done the project team consist of 5 sellers and 20 of your company’s employees. You want to understand who is responsible for doing what on the project. Where would you find this information?

14. Project performance appraisals are different from team performance assessments in that project performance appraisals focus on: