The process of identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, required skills, and reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan is known as:
A. Develop Project Team. B. Manage Project Team. C. Acquire Project Team. D. Plan Human Resource Management.
The process of establishing the policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule is known as:
A. Plan Schedule Management. B. Develop Project Charter. C. Develop Schedule. D. Plan Scope Management.
A project manager is internally recruiting resources for a project. The project is challenging and will require interaction with several countries in which the company operates. Usually, team members must travel to other time zones and work long hours. Since this is
a matrix organization, the project manager agrees with the functional manager to provide specific resources, but the resources are unmotivated due to the challenging nature of the work.
What should the project manager do?
A. Include this as a risk, and add a reserve for time zone delays to ensure that resources do not complain during project execution. B. Ensure that the functional line provides only those resources who work properly in this context, and motivate them to work for success. C. Meet with the selected resources to understand their expectations and how these conflicts can be prevented. D. Make sure that all preassigned resources are aligned with their time zones, and track team motivation during project execution.
After joining a project during its initiation phase, a project manager learns that two key stakeholders disagree on project priorities.
What should the project manager do?
A. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor. B. Log a risk describing how these competing expectations will impact the project. C. Conduct a stakeholder analysis to understand and align project expectations. D. Ask team members for advice.
A project manager is ready to start a new project that has a clearly defined scope, assumptions, and constraints. What should the project manager do to ensure that all key stakeholders have a common understanding of the projects scope and deliverables?
A. Distribute the approved project charter B. Hold a product scope definition meeting with the client C. Apply the action plan used in previous projects to prevent issues D. Send weekly project status reports
A new project is being executed with a team working locations. What should the project manager first consider when leading a geographically dispersed team?
A. Project team size B. Time zones C. Project goals D. Cultural differences
During the initiation phase of a global project, the project manager realizes that the exchange rate included in the business case is different than the current exchange rate. What should the project manager do?
A. Ask the project sponsor to consider terminating the project B. Conduct a cost-benefit analysis with the project sponsor to evaluate the projects viability C. Include the exchange rate in the assumption log and the exchange rate risk in the project charter D. Issue a change requests to update the exchange rate in the project charter
A project team is developing a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system under a tight deadline. During quality assurance testing, a number of issues are detected. However, the developers mistrust quality assurance and are uncooperative.
What should the project manager do to address the conflict?
A. Persuade the developers to cooperate with the application of the quality assurance plan, and communicate this to stakeholders B. What until the deliverables are ready before directing the development team to adhere to the quality assurance plan C. Explain the quality assurance plan to all team members, make the required changes, and gain consensus on the plan going forward D. Hire a conflict resolution specialist to address the concerns, then implement the recommended changes
