TEXT 1 & 2

Question 1

When the receiver of the communication restates what the sender has said so that they can clarify the message and get more details, this communication called

Answer 1

Active listening

Question 2

If you’re the project manager, and you are negotiating with the client over price, schedule, etc. what should you both be negotiating for?

Answer 2

Fair agreement

Question 3

IF you’re the project manager of a systems upgrade, you want to influence the org and team for the better. Which two skills are VIP?

Answer 3

Communications and positive

Question 4

Which skill does a project manager use the most?

Answer 4

Communication

Question 5

What skills are on the PMI Talent Triangle?

Answer 5

Power Skills, Business Acumen, and Ways of Working

Question 6

The power skills of a leader include the ability to manage relationships and conflict. What activity best represents this power skill?

Answer 6

Building trust

Question 7

What’s the difference between management and leadership?

Answer 7

Management - about getting things done.
Leadership - motivating people

Question 8

Leadership is a desirable PM trait. Name 3 attributes of leadership.

Answer 8

Respect for others
Problem solving ability
Desire to learn and improve

Question 9

When you have competing stakeholders that are threatening the project, what do you need to understand?

Answer 9

Understand the formal and informal org structure systems

Question 10

When you have a deep understanding of your subject….

Answer 10

Expert

Question 11

When the team admires a project manager bc they’ve worked with them or they have a positive reputation?

Answer 11

Referent

Question 12

When a project manager can reward with a good review or a bonus what kind of power do they have?

Answer 12

Reward

Question 13

Servant leader

Answer 13

puts others first & focuses on their needs

Question 14

As a PM for your department, you have to use some positional power to keep people moving forward. You have to align, motivate, and inspire, but you also need to have a critical management skill….

Answer 14

Focus on the next project achievements

Question 15

Give an example of project integration management at the context level.

Answer 15

Social networking, texting, virtual teams to stay connected

Question 16

You’re a PM and your team is having some trouble with new material the project w utilize. You gather the team and have an active problem solving session. How do you “active problem solve”?

Answer 16

Define the problem and the desired solution

Question 17

A Functional manager who well liked andhas a good reputation with his team has what kind of power?

Answer 17

Personal/referent

Question 18

On a project team, if the top performers are praised and the bottom ones are sanctioned, what kind of leadership is this?

Answer 18

Transitional leadership

Question 19

You’re a PM with 7 people on the team. Who executes a project plan and creates deliverables?

Answer 19

Project team

Question 20

Communication is VIP. You have to determine who needs the info, when they need it, and the best ________ to deliver the message.

Answer 20

Modality

Question 21

To influence an organization, a PM must understand two things..

Answer 21

Explicit (formal) Org Systems
Implied (informal) Org Systems

Question 22

What does active problem solving begin with?

Answer 22

Defining the problem - you have to know the cause and effect of the problem

Question 23

What are project team members responsible for?

Answer 23

Executing the project plan
Creating project deliverables

Question 24

What’s the central theme of Agile project management?

Answer 24

Change is expected and welcomed

Question 25

What is predictive project management?

Answer 25

Traditional method in which everything is predicted up front. Define requirements, develop a plan, resist scope changes

Question 26

What is Agile project management?

Answer 26

Flexible management with lots of change. Requirements are prioritized nd changes happen but they are prioritized too

Question 27

Scrum

Answer 27

an Agile method that incorporates product and project management. USed in software a lot

Question 28

Kanban

Answer 28

An Agile method that focuses on "starting where you are" and uses the Kanban board to create visuals of the work flow (WIP)

Question 29

Lean Principles

Answer 29

IT works in 3 phase cycles: Building, Measuring, and Learning

Question 30

Extreme Programming

Answer 30

Software development where they code together and cross check it

Question 31

Disciplined Agile

Answer 31

Combines agile and lean -can practice with other frameworks too l

Question 32

Disciplined Agile's main differentiators...

Answer 32

1. Process goal driven results. They define the process goals that a team can work towards. 2. Scaling Agile to the enterprise level

Question 33

Enterprise environmental factors

Answer 33

conditions that are outside of the PM's control. Things like org policy or laws

Question 34

Internal Enterprise Environmental Factors

Answer 34

Conditions the org creates for the PM 1. culture, structure, governance 2. geographic distribution of resources 3. infrastructure 4. resource availability 5. employee capability 6. IT software

Question 35

External Enterprise Environmental factors

Answer 35

1. Marketplace conditions 2. Social & cultural 3. Legal restrictions 4. Commercial databases 5. Academic research 6. Industry standards 7. Financial situations 8. Physical environments

Question 36

The resources in your project are located in a variety of cities. What kind of distribution of resources is this?

Answer 36

Enterprise environmental factor

Question 37

Name some enterprise environmental factors

Answer 37

1. Employee Capability 2. Infrastructure 3. Org Culture

Question 38

When there are a lot of govt regs that affect how you manage a project...

Answer 38

External enterprise environmental factors

Question 39

You're a PM working with a project team to identify project phases. You use plans and docs from other older projects. what kind of resources are these?

Answer 39

Organizational process assets

Question 40

What does a governance framework refer to?

Answer 40

1. Alignment with org mission 2. Performance on time, cost, and scope 3. Communications with stakeholders

Question 41

Org resources are pooled into one project team where the functional managers have less power than the project manager?

Answer 41

Strong matrix

Question 42

Project team member that work on projects full time usually follow what kind of structure?

Answer 42

Project oriented

Question 43

Project manager divides things with a project sponsor as they try to identify phases. Why do you divide things into phases?

Answer 43

To provide better management and control fo the project

Question 44

If you're a project manager for a team and one of your teammembers has a functional manager assigning them work. What kind of structure is this?

Answer 44

weak matrix

Question 45

When is the likihood of failing to achieve the objective the highest?

Answer 45

AT the start of the project

Question 46

If you work for a project oriented company, who makes decisions?

Answer 46

Functional managers

Question 47

You're a Pm that has been given forms, templates, software, etc. to help manage the project. What kind of project management is this?

Answer 47

Supporting

Question 48

If you're a PM working for a functional manager and they insist you start working now but you disagree. what do you do?

Answer 48

You have to listen to the functional manager

Question 49

You're a PM in a PMO. Your project resources are shared among several projects. Who do the team members report to?

Answer 49

Each of the PM's

Question 50

If you're in a weak matrix company who makes the decisions on change control?

Answer 50

Functional managers

Question 51

You're a PM with a PMO. You have been avoiding the negative stakeholders. Your functional manager tells you to get on it. What kind of PMO is this?

Answer 51

Controlling

Question 52

Cultural attributes of an org:

Answer 52

1. Policies & procedures 2. Work ethics 3. View of authority relationships

Question 53

When the PM uses a project management plan based on a recent project, how can you get ahead of writing the PM plan?

Answer 53

Look for the organizational process asset from the previous projects

Question 54

You're a PM in a project oriented structure. Who has full authority over the project funding?

Answer 54

the PM