Waterfall_Initiating

Question 1

Project success measures define in clear terms the criteria by which project success will be evaluated. What three questions do detailed and well constructed project success measures answer

Answer 1

What Does success look like?

How will success be measured?

What factors may impact success?

Question 2

What is the term for an individual who is involved with or impacted by a project

Answer 2

Stakeholder

Question 3

What is the definition of a project?

A. Permanent endeavor that produces repetitive outputs
B. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result
C. Temporary endeavor that produces repetitive outputs
D. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a temporary business process or product

Answer 3

B. Temporary endeavor undertake in to create a unique product, service, or result

Question 4

Name the two processes in the initiating Process Group

Answer 4

Develop Project Charter

Identify Stakeholders

Question 5

What document describes the necessary information to determine if a project is worth the required investment

A. Service level Agreement

B. Cost Baseline

C. Memorandum of understanding

D. Business Case

Answer 5

D. Business Case

Question 6

Who’s the person assigned by the performing organization to be responsible for achieving the projects objectives?

A. Program manager

B. Project Manager

C. Functional manager

D. Portfolio Manager

Answer 6

B. Project manager

Question 7

Power, Urgency, an legitimacy are attributes of which stakeholder classification model

A. Salience

B. Influence-Impact

C. Power-Interest

D. Power-Influence

Answer 7

A. Salience

Question 8

True or False:

Without approval from the project sponsor, there is no project

Answer 8

True

Question 9

True or False:

The business case is used to record all assumptions and constraints known at any point during the project

Answer 9

False:

The assumption log is used to record all assumptions

Question 10

True or False:

It is critical to identify all stakeholders as early as possible?

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or False:

The stakeholder register is rarely updated throughout the life of the project

Answer 11

False:

The stakeholder register is updated as new stakeholder information is discovered

Question 12

What is the definition of the project charter

Answer 12

A project charter formally documents the high level details of a project as well as several key elements that structure and organize the formation of a project

Question 13

What is the assumption log ?

Answer 13

The Assumption log is used to record all assumptions and constraints known at any point during the project

Question 14

What process creates the assumption log

Answer 14

The assumption log is one of the two major outputs of the Develop Project Charter process

Question 15

What is the stakeholder register

Answer 15

The stakeholder register is a document used to record pertinent information on every stakeholder

Question 16

What process creates the Stakeholder register

Answer 16

The Stakeholder register is created during the identify Stakeholders process

Question 17

What is the difference between a project charter and a business case

Answer 17

Project Charter formally documents the high level details of a project and after approval by the sponsor, formally authorizes the project

The business case helps to define the objective, purpose, and assumptions of a project to determine if the benefits of the achieving the objectives are worth the investment

Question 18

Which of the following is not a goal of the Initiating Process Group?

A. Define the Project
B. Obtain project approval
C. Define the scope
D. Identify and start to understand the stakeholders

Answer 18

C. Define the scope

The Scope is defined in the Planning Process Group

Question 19

What is the main goal of the Develop Project Charter (4.1) process?

Answer 19

The Develop Project Charter Process focuses on developing and gaining sponsor approval of the project charter

Question 20

What is the Main goal of the identify stakeholders process

Answer 20

The identify stakeholders process identifies, analyzes, and classifies all stakeholders that could impact or be impacted by the project

Question 21

Which of the following is not in input to the Develop Project Charter process

A. Business Case
B. Project management plan
C. Agreements
D. EEF’s and OPA’s

Answer 21

B. Project Management Plan

Question 22

Early in the project, what are two important inputs to identify stakeholders

Answer 22

Project Charter
Business Case

Question 23

Stakeholder ___________ and __________ helps the team design ways to appropriately engage each stakeholder

Answer 23

Identification
Analysis

Question 24

Which of the following is a method of eliciting information from groups or individuals, such as team members or subject matter experts
A. Brainstorming
B. Data analysis
C. Bidder conference
D. EEF

Answer 24

A. Brainstorming

Question 25

What is a mapping technique used to identify where stakeholders are perceived to be relative to their power and interest in the project

Answer 25

Power Interest grid

Question 26

How should stakeholders with high power and high interest be classified or managed

Answer 26

High powered and high interest stakeholders should be managed closely

Question 27

Listen the following processes in the order in which they should be completed’
. Create WBS
. Collect Requirements
. Plan Scope Management
. Define Scope

Answer 27

1. Plan Scope Management
2. Collect Requirements
3. Define Scope
4. Create WBS

Question 28

A Project ______ meeting is a common practices to clearly communicate project objectives and build team and stakeholder Buy-in

Answer 28

Kickoff

Question 29

What is the major output created by the four scope management processes in the Planning Process Group

Answer 29

Scope Baseline

Question 30

_________ Defines all the necessary work that is required to complete the project

Answer 30

Project Scope

Question 31

A _____ is a condition or capability that must be present in the finished product to satisfy a business need

Answer 31

Requirement