Chapter 10 Test

Question 1

You are working on a project that was proceeding well until a manufacturing glitch occurred that requires corrective action. It turns out the glitch was an unintentional enhancement to the product, and the marketing people are enthused about its potential. The corrective action is canceled, and you continue to produce the product with the newly discovered enhancement. As the project manager, you know that a variance has occurred. Which of the following is not true?

A. Common causes of variance are situations that are unique and not easily controlled at the operational level.
B. Random variances, known or predictable variances, and variances that are always
present in the process are known as common causes of variance.
C. Inspection determines whether measurements fall within tolerable results.
D. Scatter diagrams display the relationships between an independent and a dependent variable to show variations in the process over time.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

You have just left a meeting with the project sponsor where you were advised that your
project has been canceled because of budget cuts. You have called the project team together to fill them in and to review the remaining activities to close out the project. Several of your team members question the benefit of doing a lessons learned review on a project that has been canceled. What should your response be?

A. Advise the team that part of the review time will be spent on documenting the failure of the lack of clear requirements from the customer.
B. Tell the team they need to do this to be able to stay on the project payroll another week while they look for a new assignment.
C. Inform the team that a final report is a requirement from the PMO, regardless of how
the project ends.
D. Explain that there is value both to the team and for future projects in analyzing the
phases of the project that have been completed to date to document what went right,
what went wrong, and what you would change.

Question 3

You have just left a meeting with the project sponsor where you were advised that your
project has been canceled because of budget cuts. You have called the project team together to fill them in and to review the remaining activities to close out the project. Which of the following describes the type of project ending this project experienced?

A. Extinction
B. Starvation
C. Addition
D. Integration

Question 4

Which of the following measurement tools are used to measure operational or performance goals for projects?

A. KPIs
B. Key objectives
C. Balanced scorecard
D. Key results
E. All of the above

Question 5

Which of the following is the “best” type of project ending?

A. Extinction
B. Addition
C. Integration
D. Starvation

Question 6

What is the primary purpose of a formal sign-off
at the conclusion of the project work?

A. The sign-off allows the project manager to start a new assignment.
B. The sign-off means the project team is no longer accountable for the product of the
project.
C. The sign-off is the trigger for releasing team members back to their functional
organization.
D. The sign-off indicates that the project meets the documented requirements and the customer has accepted the project deliverables.

Question 7

Which of the following charts is a type of histogram?

A. Scatter diagram
B. Fishbone
C. Pareto chart
D. Run chart

Question 8

What is the focus of the lessons learned report?

A. The report should cover both the positive and negative aspects of the project, with suggestions for improvement.
B. The report should primarily summarize the results of the project schedule, the budget, mand any approved scope changes.
C. The report should focus on the project deliverables and any issues that were created by the customer.
D. The report should cover what went well during the project and should determine which team member or business unit was responsible for failures or issues.

Question 9

Your project concerns writing a new software app to track physical activity such as running, biking, and walking, including time spent on the activity, heart rate, and speeds. You’ve performed some preliminary testing and discovered some changes need to be made to the code. Once the changes are made, you’ll test again to ensure the app is working as expected, starting with logging in, tracking each activity, and measuring each criterion for accuracy. What type of testing does this question describe?

A. Regression
B. End-to-end
C. Unit
D. User acceptance

Question 10

You are in the Monitoring and Controlling phase of the project. Several problems have come to light, and you want to know what the causes of the problems are that are generating the effect. You hold a brainstorming meeting with key team members and plot the cause and effect scenarios on this type of chart.

A. Pareto chart
B. Histogram
C. Fishbone diagram
D. Scatter diagram

Question 11

This document records items that usually arise during a status meeting. They concern the project but do not generally impact the project work directly. This document contains a description, an owner, and status, among other items.

A. Status report
B. Action items log
C. Issue log
D. Meeting minutes

Question 12

Your team is working on some configuration and coding changes to your human resource software program. The coding changes have just started, and you want to perform a test that will identify simple failures and look at the most critical functions of the program before proceeding. What type of test does this describe?

A. Unit
B. Integration
C. Smoke
D. Performance

Question 13

Your project evolved over time into an ongoing operation. What type of project ending
is this?

A. The project ending is because of extinction.
B. The project ending is because of starvation.
C. The project ending is because of integration.
D. The project ending is because of addition.

Question 14

Which of the following charts are cause-and-
effect diagrams or used to determine if there is a
cause-and-effect correlation between two numerical variables? (Choose two.)

A. Pareto chart
B. Ishikawa diagram
C. Run chart
D. Scatter diagram
E. Histogram

Question 15

This document is produced at the end of the project and reports the final project outcomes.

A. Lessons learned
B. Status report
C. Project close report
D. Postmortem analysis

Question 16

You’re a project manager for a large project. You’re in the middle of the Executing phase. The project sponsor has decided to cancel the project because of unexpected cost overruns and resource shortages. What are your next steps? (Choose two.)

A. Change vendors to obtain a lower bid for hardware and software components.
B. Prepare project closure documents.
C. Perform a lessons learned analysis and release resources.
D. Ask the sponsor to allow you to redesign the project with fewer deliverables.
E. Ask the stakeholders to speak to the sponsor.

Question 17

You are at the end of the project and need to obtain final sign-off
and create the project closure report. According to CompTIA, before obtaining sign off, what should you do?

A. Inspect the deliverables.
B. Perform verification and validation of the product of the project.
C. Test the product of the project.
D. Audit the deliverables.

Question 18

All of the following are true regarding the release of team members except for which one?

A. Team members are released after lessons learned are documented.
B. The project manager should perform a final performance appraisal for team members when they’re released from the project.
C. The project manager should inform the functional managers well in advance of the team members’ release date.
D. The project manager should communicate with the team members about their upcoming release date.

Question 19

Your project has experienced some setbacks, and your stakeholders are not happy with
progress. A hurricane wiped out one of your vendor’s warehouses, and you are scrambling for parts. The hurricane was unexpected and unusual for that area. You work with the vendor and your procurement department to find other suppliers who may have the parts you need. Which of the following is the best option given this scenario?

A. Cancel the project.
B. This is a risk that has come about, and you should implement the response plan.
C. This is an issue that should be recorded and tracked in the issue log.
D. This is a KPI that the vendor has not met.

Question 20

Who is responsible for authorizing the closure of the project?

A. Stakeholders
B. Project manager
C. Executive team members
D. Sponsor