The document contains 10 exam questions testing knowledge of project management concepts like process groups, stakeholders, organization types, and phase relationships. It asks the reader to identify the process group where certain project activities would occur, which knowledge area addresses contract management issues, and properties of overlapping versus sequential project phases. The answers provided explain the reasoning behind each multiple choice response.

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1. You’re a project manager working on a software engineering project. The programmers have
started building the software, and the testers have started to create the test environment. Which
process group includes these activities?
InitiatingA.
PlanningB.
ExecutingC.
ClosingD.
2. Which of the following is not a stakeholder?
The project manager who is responsible for building the projectA.
A project team member who will work on the projectB.
A customer who will use the final productC.
A competitor whose company will lose business because of the productD.
3. A project manager runs into a problem with her project’s contractors, and she isn’t sure
if they’re abiding by the terms of the contract. Which knowledge area is the BEST source of
processes to help her deal with this problem?
Cost ManagementA.
Risk ManagementB.
Procurement ManagementC.
Communications ManagementD.
4. You’re a project manager for a construction project. You’ve just finished creating a list of all of
the people who will be directly affected by the project. What process group are you in?
InitiatingA.
PlanningB.
ExecutingC.
Monitoring & ControllingD.
5. Which process group contains the Develop Project Charter process and the Identify
Stakeholders process?
InitiatingA.
ExecutingB.
Monitoring and ControllingC.
ClosingD.
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6. Which of the following is NOT a project?
Repairing a carA.
Building a highway overpassB.
Running an IT support departmentC.
Filming a motion pictureD.
7. A project manager is running a software project that is supposed to be delivered in phases. She was
planning on dividing the resources into two separate teams to do the work for two phases at the same time,
but one of her senior developers suggested that she use an Agile methodology instead, and she agrees. Which
of the following BEST describes the relationship between her project’s phases?
Sequential relationshipA.
Iterative relationshipB.
Constrained relationshipC.
Overlapping relationshipD.
8. Which of the following is NOT true about overlapping phases?
Each phase is typically done by a separate teamA.
There’s an increased risk of delays when a later phase can’t start until an earlier one endsB.
There’s an increased risk to the project due to potential for reworkC.
Every phase must go through all five process groupsD.
9. You’re the project manager for an industrial design project. Your team members report to you, and you’re
responsible for creating the budget, building the schedule, and assigning the tasks. When the project is
complete, you release the team so they can work on other projects for the company. What kind of organization
do you work in?
FunctionalA.
Weak matrixB.
Strong matrixC.
ProjectizedD.
10. You’re a project manager working in a weak matrix organization. Which of the following is NOT true?
Your team members report to functional managersA.
You are not in directly charge of resourcesB.
Functional managers make decisions that can affect your projectsC.
You have sole responsibility for the success or failure of the projectD.
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1. Answer: C
The Executing process group is the one where the team does all the work. You’ll get a good feel for the
process groups pretty quickly!
2. Answer: D
One of the hardest things that a project manager has to do on a project is figure out who all the
stakeholders are. The project manager, the team, the sponsor (or client), the customers and people who
will use the software, the senior managers at the company—they’re all stakeholders. Competitors aren’t
stakeholders, because even though they’re affected by the project, they don’t actually have any direct
influence over it.
3. Answer: C
The Procurement Management knowledge area deals with contracts, contractors, buyers and sellers. If
you’ve got a question about a type of contract or how to deal with contract problems, you’re being asked
about a Procurement Management process.
4. Answer: A
People who will be directly affected by the project are stakeholders, and when you’re creating a list of
them you’re performing the Identify Stakeholders process. That’s one of the two processes in the Initiating
process group.
5. Answer: A
The first things that are created on a project are the charter (which you create in the Develop Project
Charter process) and the Stakeholder Register (which you create in the Identify Stakeholders process).
You do those things when you’re initiating the project.
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6. Answer: C
The work of an IT support department doesn’t have an end date—it’s not temporary. That’s why it’s
not a project. Now, if that support team had to work over the weekend to move the data center to a
new location, then that would be a project!
I see—so even when
something is a process and
not a project, there could
be projects related to it.
7. Answer: B
Agile development is a really good example of an iterative approach to project phases. In an Agile
project, the team will typically break down the project into phases, where they work on the current
phase while planning out the next one.
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8. Answer: B
If there’s an increased risk of a project because one phase can’t start until another one ends, that means your project
phases aren’t overlapping. When you’ve got overlapping phases, that means that you typically have multiple teams
that start their phases independently of each other.
Also, take another look at answer C, because it’s an important point about overlapping phases. When your
phases have an overlapping relationship, there’s an increased risk of rework. This typically happens when one
team delivers the results of their project, but made assumptions about what another team is doing as part of their
phase. When that other team delivers their work, it turns out that the results that both teams produced aren’t quite
compatible with each other, and now both teams have to go back and rework their designs. This happens a lot
when your phases overlap, which is why overlapping phases have an increased risk of rework.
9. Answer: D
In a projectized organization, the project manager has the power to assign tasks, manage the budget, and release the
team.
10. Answer: D
In a weak matrix, project managers have very limited authority. They have to share a lot of responsibility with
functional managers, and those functional managers have a lot of leeway to make decisions about how the team
members are managed. In an organization like that, the project manager isn’t given a lot of responsibility.
That’s why you’re likely to
find a project expediter
in a weak matrix.
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