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Project Management Final_1
Final Exam Prep
40
Business
Undergraduate 3
05/04/2017

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Maslow suggests that each level of the hierarchy of needs is not necessarily a prerequisite for the levels above.

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FALSE

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It is important for project managers to focus on indirect costs because they can be easily controlled.

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FALSE
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Managing the triple constraint primarily involves making trade-offs between resources and quality.

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FALSE
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The scope management plan can be informal and broad or formal and detailed, based on the needs of the project.

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TRUE
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Assignment, budget, promotion, money, and penalty influence bases are automatically available to project managers as part of their position.

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FALSE
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The only responsibility of a project manager is to meet the specific scope, time, and cost goals of a project.

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FALSE
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In project time management, the primary output of defining activities is a schedule management plan.

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FALSE
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A project’s stakeholders includes its customers, users, and suppliers.

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TRUE
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An activity is an element of work that has an expected duration, cost, and resource requirements.

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TRUE
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Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in a project.

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TRUE
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The project’s size, complexity, importance, and other factors do not affect how much effort is spent on collecting requirements for scope planning.

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FALSE
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Every project should have a well-defined objective.

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TRUE
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To define activities, the project team should start with reviewing the schedule management plan, scope baseline, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational processes.

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TRUE
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Projects should be developed in increments.
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TRUE
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Contingency plans are predefined actions that the project team will take if an identified risk event occurs.

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TRUE
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Milestones are easy to achieve and are always achieved through one main activity.

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FALSE
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Deliverables are only product-related, such as a piece of hardware or software

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FALSE
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The primary output of the planning cost management process is a change request.

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FALSE
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Intangible costs can be easily measured in monetary terms.
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FALSE
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Opponents of a project do not belong to the category of stakeholder

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FALSE
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A project manager’s primary role is to provide the funding for a project.

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FALSE
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IT project managers must be able to present and discuss project information both in financial and technical terms.

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TRUE
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Risks can have both negative and positive effects on meeting project objectives.

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TRUE
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Overrun is the additional percentage amount by which estimates exceed actual costs.

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FALSE
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In project time management, the next step after sequencing activities is to define these activities.

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FALSE

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After defining project activities, the next step in project time management is developing the schedule.

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FALSE

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In order to be realistic, a project manager should always set discrete goals instead of a range of objectives.

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FALSE
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If an important supplier goes out of business, management reserves can be set aside to cover the resulting costs.

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TRUE
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Extrinsic motivation causes people to participate in an activity for their own enjoyment.

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FALSE
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Project schedules grow out of basic documents such as the project charter.

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TRUE
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Project managers must conduct cash flow analysis to determine net present value.

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TRUE
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Questions about how a team will track schedule performance is related to a project’s scope.

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FALSE
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A difference between operations and projects is that operations end when their objectives have been reached, whereas projects do not.

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FALSE
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A schedule management plan includes information which describes the format and frequency of schedule reports required for the project.

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TRUE
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Resources in a project should be used effectively because they are limited.

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TRUE
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One of the main reasons why project management is challenging is because of the factor of uncertainty.

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TRUE
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Scope refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them.

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TRUE
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When deciding what projects to invest in or continue, one should include sunk costs.

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FALSE
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It is important for the activity list and activity attributes to be in agreement with the work breakdown structure.

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TRUE
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Unknown risks can be managed proactively.

Definition
FALSE
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