Mock Question.

(1) A Project Manager is at the project kick-off meeting. He confidently states the vision and mission for the project. This PM is exhibiting the following leadership style:

1.     Hierarchal

2.     Authoritarian

3.     Charismatic

4.     Associative

(2) You are in charge of developing a new product for an organization. Your quality metrics are based on the 80th percentile of each of the last three products developed. This is an example of:

1.     Statistical sampling

2.     Metrics

3.     Benchmarking

4.     Operational definitions

(3) The two closing procedures are called:

1.     Contract close out and scope verification

2.     Contract close out and Close Project

3.     Project closure and product verification

4.     Project closure and lessons learned

(4) During the schedule development process the Project Manager may have to go through several iterations of the schedule before establishing the schedule baseline. All of the following are tools and techniques that may be used during this process:

1.     Critical Path Method, GERT, Resource Requirements

2.     Resource Leveling Heuristics, Mathematical Analysis, Calendars

3.     Duration compression, Resource Leveling Heuristics, PERT

4.     GERT, PERT, Leads and Lags

(5) Which of the following models of conflict resolution allows a cooling off period, but seldom resolves the issue in the long term?

1.     Problem solving

2.     Withdrawal

3.     Forcing

4.     Smoothing

(6) The receiver filters messages based on all but the following:

1.     Culture

2.     Semantics

3.     Language

4.     Distance

5.     Knowledge

(7) How much time does the typical project manager spend communicating both formally and informally?

1.     40-60%

2.     50-70%

3.     60-80%

4.     75-90%

(8) Group brainstorming encourages all of the following except:

1.     Team building

2.     Analysis of alternatives

3.     Convergent thinking

4.     Uninhibited verbalization

(9) The critical element in a project's communication system is the:

1.     Progress report

2.     Project directive

3.     Project manager

4.     Customer

(10) System integration consists of:

1.     Assuring that the pieces of a project come together at the right time

2.     Planning for contingencies that may occur throughout the life cycle of the project

3.     The pieces of the project function as an integration unit

4.     a and c