Project Management Processes for a Project

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The five Project Management Process Groups are: A. Planning, checking, directing, monitoring, and recording. B. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. C. Planning, executing, directing, closing, and delivering. D. Initiating, executing, monitoring, evaluating, and closing

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Project Management Process Groups are: A. Overlapping activities that occur at varying levels of intensity throughout the project. B. Overlapping activities that occur at the same level of intensity throughout each phase of the project. C. Discrete, one-time events. D. Discrete, repetitive events that occur at the same level of intensity throughout each phase of the project.

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The linkages between Project Management Process Groups are best described by the following: A. The Work Breakdown Structure links Process Groups.

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B. Process Groups are linked by their planned objectives – the summary objective of one often becomes the detailed action plan for another. C. Process Groups are linked by the objectives they produce- the output of one process often becomes an input to another process, or is a deliverable of the project. D. There are no significant links between discrete Process Groups.

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The relationship between Project Management Process Groups and project life cycle phases is best described by the following: A. They are unrelated, incompatible concepts. B. They are the same concept described by different terms to satisfy application area extensions. C. Phase cross Process Groups such that closing one Process Group provides an input to initiating the next phase. D. Process Groups interact within a project phase and also may cross the project phases.

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Reviewing the initiating processes at the start of each phase: A. Is wasteful and should be avoided whenever possible. B. Helps to keep the project focused on the business need that the project was undertaken to address. C. Helps ensure that the project continues regardless of changes in the business needs. D. Helps ensure continuous employment of project team members even if the project is unlikely to satisfy the business need that it was undertaken to address.

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6.

Identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them should be addressed during: A. The conceptual phase. B. The planning process. C. Project implementation. D. Risk identification.

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The schedule control process for a project: A. Focuses on starting the project earlier than scheduled. B. Is necessary for controlling changes to the project schedule. C. Is concerned only with activities that are on the critical path. D. Should focus entirely on activities that are difficult to carry out.

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For a project to be successful, the project team must generally do all of the following EXCEPT: A. Comply with requirements to meet stakeholder needs, wants, and expectations. B. Balance the competing demands of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and risk to produce a quality product. C. Apply all processes within the Project Management Process Groups uniformly to meet project objectives. D. Select appropriate processes within the Project Management Process Groups that are required to meet the project objectives.

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An underlying concept for the interaction among the project management processes is the: A. Plan-do-check-act cycle (as defined by Shewhart and modified by Deming). B. Plan-do-analyze-check-act-standardize cycle (as defined Shewhart and modified by Deming). C. Ready-aim-fire cycle linked by results. D. Conceptualize-design-execute-finish (CDEF) cycle.

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All of the following are characteristics of Project Management Process Groups EXCEPT: A. The process Groups are linked by the objectives they produce. B. The output of one process generally becomes an input to another process or is a deliverable of the project. C. All of the processes will be needed on all projects, and all of the interactions will apply to all projects or project phases. D. When a project is divided into phases, the Process Groups are normally repeated within each phase throughout the project’s life to effectively drive the project to completion.

10. The Initiating Process Groups consists of the processes that: A. Facilitate the formal authorization to start a new project or a project phase. B. Deploy risk mitigation strategies. C. Establish and describe the need for a project selection process.

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D. Approve the market analysis to ensure resolution of contract disputes.

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