CompTIA Project+ Study Guide. Heldman Kim

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      B. Postmortem

      C. Lessons learned

      D. Post-project review

      15. This document authorizes the project to begin.

      A. Project request

      B. Project concept document

      C. Project charter

      D. Project scope statement

      16. Which of these can convey that you’ve achieved the completion of an interim key deliverable?

      A. Completion criteria

      B. Milestone

      C. Gantt chart

      D. Project sign-off document

      17. All of the following are factors that influence communication methods except which one?

      A. Language barriers

      B. Technological barriers

      C. Task completion

      D. Cultural differences

      E. Intraorganizational differences

      F. A, B, D

      G. All of the above

      18. This person is responsible for removing obstacles so the team can perform their work, assisting the product owner in defining backlog items, and educating the team on Agile processes.

      A. Project manager

      B. Scrum master

      C. Functional manager

      D. Subject-matter expert

      19. This project management methodology uses self-organized, self-directed teams; it uses an iterative approach; and it is highly interactive.

      A. PRINCE2

      B. PMI^®

      C. Agile

      D. Waterfall

      20. This is often added to the project schedule to determine whether the work is correct.

      A. Approval gate

      B. Quality gate

      C. Milestone gate

      D. Governance gate

      21. This is the final, approved version of the project schedule. All of the following are true regarding this term except for which of the following?

      A. It will prevent future schedule risk.

      B. It’s approved by the stakeholders, sponsor, and functional managers.

      C. It’s used to monitor project progress throughout the remainder of the project.

      D. This describes a schedule baseline.

      22. A well-written change control process should include which of the following components? Choose two.

      A. A description of the type of change requested

      B. The amount of time the change will take to implement

      C. The cost of the change

      D. How to update the affected project planning documents

      E. The stages at which changes are accepted

      23. Which cost-estimating technique relies on estimating work packages and then rolling up these estimates to come up with a total cost estimate?

      A. Top-down

      B. Parametric

      C. Bottom-up

      D. Analogous

      24. In project management, the process of taking high-level project requirements and breaking them down into the tasks that will generate the deliverables is called what?

      A. Analyzing

      B. Decomposing

      C. Process flow diagram

      D. Documenting

      25. Who is responsible for assembling the project’s team members?

      A. Project sponsor

      B. Project stakeholders

      C. Project customer

      D. Project manager

      26. All of the following represent a category of contract most commonly used in procurement except for which one?

      A. Time-and-materials

      B. Cost-reimbursable

      C. Fixed-price

      D. Requests for proposal

      27. This is a deliverables-oriented hierarchy that defines the work of the project.

      A. Scope document

      B. Work breakdown structure

      C. Scope management plan

      D. Project plan

      28. Your project sponsor has expressed their need to have real-time project information at their fingertips. Which of the following is the best way to meet this need?

      A. By creating a project dashboard with scope, cost, and time elements

      B. By updating the project status report on a daily basis

      C. By sending an email every morning to the sponsor describing the current project status

      D. By meeting face to face with the sponsor every day to update them on status

      29. Your project sponsor told you that the due date for the project is a key to its success and there is no chance of the date changing. What is this known as?

      A. A constraint

      B. An influence

      C. A deliverable

      D. A management directive

      30. Risk analysis includes all of the following except for which one?

      A. Identifying risk

      B. Determining a risk response plan

      C. Determining an order-of-magnitude estimate for responses

      D. Determining probability and impact and assigning a risk score

      31. Which of the following are project management phases? Choose three.

      A. Scheduling

      B. Planning

      C. Executing

      D. Communicating

      E. Documenting

      F. Budgeting

      G. Closing

      32. When taking over an incomplete project, what item should be of most interest to the new project manager?

      A. Project concept statement

      B. Project charter

      C. Project scope statement

      D. Project plan

      33. This chart or diagram is a type of histogram that rank-orders data by frequency over time.

      A. Run chart

      B. Scatter diagram

      C. Fishbone diagram

      D. Pareto chart

      34. These performance measurements are defined when you create the project management plan and are monitored and tracked during the Monitoring and Controlling phase to determine whether the project is meeting its goals.

      A. SPI

      B. Balanced score card

      C. CPI

      D. KPI

      35. What key meeting is held after the project charter is signed and/or at the beginning of the Executing process?

      A. Project kickoff

      B. Project review

      C. Project overview

      D. Project status meeting

      36. What is the best way to prevent scope creep?

      A.