Questions ????

You are a project manager at a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics, personal computers and peripherals. Unfortunately, your company is facing a rapidly maturing market characterized by consolidation and commoditization. Hence, you have been assigned a project to drive growth and profit by integrating an online CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution. Industry benchmarks suggested the CRM solution could generate $100-$300M in bottom line benefits.
 
The previous project manager for the project lacked an understanding of project management principles. In fact,upon closer investigation, you've determined that the project lacks clearly defined project deliverables and lacks management control. Which of the following would be the BEST approach to resolve these shortcomings?



(A) Implement a project control system
(B) Integrate a lessons learned for each project phase
(C) Incorporate a life cycle approach for the project
(D) Subdivide the project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components until the work is defined to the work package level .


 2)  You are currently analyzing the schedule for a project. You've noticed that for certain activities in the project, large schedule variances exist. Which of the following statements are true?



(A) Such schedule variances will impact the schedule
(B) Such schedule variances are a result of scope changes
(C) Such schedule variances may sometimes impact the schedule
(D) Such schedule variances will not impact the schedule
 


3)  All of the following statements are true regarding managing stakeholders EXCEPT:



(A) The tools / techniques used to manage stakeholders includes communication methods and issue logs
(B) The Manage Stakeholder Expectations process is part of the Project Monitoring and Control Process Group.
(C) Managing stakeholders increases the likelihood that the project will not veer off track due to unresolved
stakeholder issues
(D) The project manager is usually responsible for stakeholder management


4) You are in the process of identifying and documenting project risks. You are using various information gathering
techniques to identify the project risks. All of the following are information gathering techniques EXCEPT:
(A) SWOT analysis
(B) Delphi technique
(C) assumptions analysis
(D) root cause identification


 


 

duongnt's picture

May be answer D

Here are my answers..

1 - D
2 - C
3 - B
4 - D


Regards,
Ramana

Hi Ravi,


 


My answers are:


 


D


C


B


D


 


If you ask, I may send explanations for all the 4 questions.


 


Warmly, Kranti Kumar aka KK....

1.D
2.B
3.B

4.C 

C


A


A AND B


C

Respected Pawarji Sir,


 


Lemme explain you Sir on 3 and 4, with utmost regard. For  1 and 2, let us leave it on the moderator.


 


Q 3:--- Out of all the options, the one which is grossly incorrect is option  "B" that says Manage SH Expectations is in Monitoring and Controlling PG where as it is an Execution process or Execution process, respected Pawarji Sir.


 


Q 4:-- The Ts&Ts of Identify Risks are as follows respected Pawarji Sir:


 


(A) Documentation Reviews


(B) SWOT Analysis


(C) Info Gathering Techniques


(D) Checklist Analysis


(E) Assumption Analysis


(F) Diagramming Techniques, and


(G) EJ


 


Warmly, KK....

Most of you got question 1 and 4 th wrong.


What do you think about Qualities of these questions? Let me know your feedback. Here are the correct answers:


 


1) (C) Incorporate a life cycle approach for the project


Explaination: Incorporating a life cycle approach will help improve management control of the project and clarify the project deliverables. On the other hand, subdividing the project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components helps to clarify the project deliverables, but fails to address the issue of improving management control.


2) (C) Such schedule variances may sometimes impact the schedule


Explaination: Specifically, changes to non-critical path activities may NOT impact the schedule


3) B  The Manage Stakeholder Expectations process is part of the Project Monitoring and Control Process Group


Explaination: It is part of execution process group not monitoring and control process.


 (C) assumptions analysis


Explaination: Question asked about Information gathering techniques not about Tools & Techniques 


Information gathering techniques include: 
 
        Brainstorming
        Delphi technique
        Interviewing
        Root cause identification
        SWOT analysis
 
 
On the other hand, assumptions analysis is NOT an information gathering tool / technique, but rather another tool used in the Identify Risks process.


 


 

Hi RD,


 


The standard of the question or its quality is very nice, for sure. Q4 is called a real brain-twister. I liked it.


 


What is the source BTW?


 


Warmly, KK

KK,


I had got these from my company intranet system.


RD

Great. Please keep sharing RD.


 


Warmly, KK....