CH. 1 INTRODUCTION

Question 1

A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.

Answer 1

A Project

Question 2

Determining the appropriate combination of processes, inputs, tools and techniques, outputs and life cycle phases to manage a project

Answer 2

TAILORING

Question 3

Unique and verifiable product, result, or capacity to perform a service that is required to complete a process, phase or project

Answer 3

DELIVERABLE

Question 4

Types of Deliverables?

Answer 4

TANGIABLE AND INTANGIABLE

Question 5

Net quantifiable benefit derived from a business endeavor, according to PMI definition

Answer 5

BUSINESS VALUE

Question 6

Organizational leaders initiate projects in response to which factors acting upon their organizations?

Answer 6

• Regulatory, legal, and social
• Stakeholder needs
• Business and Technological Strategy Change
• Create, improve, fix products, processes, or services.

Question 7

A series of phases that a project passes through from its start to completion

Answer 7

PROJECT LIFE CYCLE

Question 8

A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables

Answer 8

PROJECT PHASE

Question 9

Name three types of project phases

Answer 9

SEQUENTIAL, ITERATIVE, OR OVERLAPING

Question 10

Name two main types of project life cycles

Answer 10

• PREDICTIVE

- ADAPTIVE

Question 11

Name the types of development life cycles according to PMBOK

Answer 11

• PREDICTIVE,
• ITERATIVE,
• INCREMENTAL,
• ADAPTIVE,
• HYBRID MODEL

Question 12

What is held at the end of each phase of the project

Answer 12

A PHASE GATE

Question 13

Project life cycle is managed by a series of P.M. activities that known as …

Answer 13

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESSESS

Question 14

Depending on number of iterations in PMLC, processes are categorized as …

Answer 14

• PROCESSESS USED ONCE,
• PERIODICALLY, and
• CONTINUOUSLY

Question 15

Name five process management process groups

Answer 15

• INITIATING,
• PLANNING,
• EXECUTING,
• MONITORING & CONTROLLING,
• CLOSING

Question 16

Name two project management business documents

Answer 16

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT BUSINESS CASE and

- PROJECT BENEFITS MANAGEMENT PLAN

Question 17

Document that describes how and when the benefits of the project will be delivered, and describes the mechanizms that should be in place to meassure those benefits

Answer 17

PROJECT BENEFITS MANAGEMENT PLAN

Question 18

Document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

Who issues this document?

Answer 18

THE PROJECT CHARTER.

Issued by: THE PROJECT SPONSOR

Question 19

Document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored, and controlled

Answer 19

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN

Question 20

One of the major criteria that project success should be measured with consideration toward

Answer 20

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Question 21

Every project management process produces one or more _____ from one or more _____ by using the appropriate project management tools and techniques.

Answer 21

OUTPUTS, INPUTS