Project Management: A Strategic Managerial Approach 10th Edition by Jack R. Meredith test bank

a) PMI
b) APM
c) PRINCE2
d) IPMA
 
Ans: a
Section Reference: 1.2 Why Project Management?
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
AACSB: Communication
Page: 12
 
26. Conflicting expectations among stakeholders related to performance, cost, and time will require the project manager to make appropriate ____________ in order to balance competing demands related to these objectives.
a) trade-offs
b) guidelines
c) weights
d) tasks
 
Ans: a
Section Reference: 1.2 Why Project Management?
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Comprehension
AACSB: Analysis
Page: 12
 
27. The foundational basis for education for project managers is the __________.
a) PMBOK Guidebook
b) Triple Play
c) PMI Guidebook
d) Project Management Rulebook
 
Ans: a
Section Reference: 1.2 Why Project Management?
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
AACSB: Communication
Page: 12-13
 
28. The Project Management Institute offers two certifications called the ______________ and the __________________.
a) PMP and CAPM
b) PMP and IBM
c) APM and PMP
d) CAPM and APM
 
Ans: a
Section Reference: 1.2 Why Project Management?
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Comprehension
AACSB: Communication
Page: 13
 
29. The process of creating artificial deadlines and budgets to accomplish specific, though routine, tasks within a functional department is called ______.
a) programming
b) routinizing
c) accepting
d) projectizing
 
Ans: d
Section Reference: 1.2 Why Project Management?
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Knowledge
AACSB: Analysis
Page: 15
 
30. A ____ is responsible for the evaluation and improvement of an organization’s project management skill and experience in managing projects.
a) vice president of project management
b) project management office
c) office of projects
d) project manager
 
Ans: b
Section Reference:
Level:
Bloom's:
AACSB: Analysis
Page: 15
 
31. Which of the following is not a trend that we see in project management?
a) Increase in virtual projects
b) Decreasing importance of project managers
c) Importance given to strategic goals
d) Regular accomplishment of routine goals
 
Ans: b
Section Reference: 1.2 Why Project Management?
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Comprehension
AACSB: Communication
Page: 15-16
 
32. The conventional project life cycle can be described as a pattern characterized by ____________.
a) parabolic progress
b) logarithmic progress
c) slow-rapid-slow progress
d) extremely slow progress
 
Ans: c
Section reference: 1.1 The Definition of a “Project”
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Comprehension
AACSB: Analysis
Page 16
 
33. A project that involves global teams with team members operating in different physical geographic locations and different time zones.
a) International project
b) Program
c) Online project
d) Virtual project
 
Ans: d
Section Reference:
Level:
Bloom's:
AACSB: Diversity
Page: 16
34. The “stretched-S” pattern observed during the project life cycle, for the most part, is a result of the _________.
a) changing levels of resources used during successive stages of the project life cycle
b) changing attitudes of the people who work in the project.
c) difficulty in performing the individual activities of a project.
d) principle that work expands to fill the allotted time
 
Ans: a
Section Reference: 1.3 The Project Life Cycle
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Comprehension
AACSB: Analysis
Page: 17
 
35. The largest amount of effort applied to a project is during its __________
a) conception
b) planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control
c) selection
d) evaluation and termination
 
Ans: b
Section Reference: 1.3 The Project Life Cycle
Level: Easy
Bloom’s: Comprehension
AACSB: Analysis
Page: 17
 
36. Earned value is based on the concept that the percentage of project completion is closely correlated with __________.
a) the number of levels in the project
b) relevance of the project
c) cost or the use of resources
d) final assembly of the output
 
Ans: c
Section reference: 1.3 The Project Life Cycle
Level: advanced
Bloom’s: Comprehension
AACSB: Analysis
Page: 20
 
37. In a conventional project life cycle, as work progresses, uncertainty about the expected outcome should __________.