Project Management Set 8

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Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS)

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This set of Project Management Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Project Management Set 8

Q1 | The three stages of the change process are:
  • unfreezing, adjustment, and refreezing.
  • adjustment, unfreezing, and refreezing.
  • adjustment, unfreezing, and re-adjustment.
  • adjustment, re-adjustment, and unfreezing.
Answer: unfreezing, adjustment, and refreezing.
Q2 | The five stages of the coping cycle are (in order):
  • Denial, defence, discarding, adaptation, internalization
  • Defence, denial, discarding, adaptation, internalization
  • Denial, resistance, discarding, adaptation, internalization
  • Denial, defence, resistance, adaptation, internalization
Answer: Denial, defence, discarding, adaptation, internalization
Q3 | Dunphy and Stace (1993) identified:
  • Three styles of change management
  • Two styles of change management
  • Four styles of change management
  • Five styles of change management
Answer: Four styles of change management
Q4 | Improving quality through small, incremental improvements is a characteristic of what type of quality management system?
  • Just-in-time
  • Six Sigma
  • Total Quality Management
  • Kaizen
Answer: Kaizen
Q5 | Where was Total Quality Management first developed?
  • USA
  • UK
  • Japan
  • Korea
Answer: Japan
Q6 | Which of the following are key components of a Total Quality Management system?
  • Individual responsibility, incremental improvement, use of raw data
  • Collective responsibility, continual improvement, use of raw data
  • Group responsibility, staged improvement, knowledge
  • Involves everyone, continual improvement, use of data and knowledge
Answer: Involves everyone, continual improvement, use of data and knowledge
Q7 | What is the term for the monitoring of events both internal and external to the organisation that affects strategy?
  • Operational control
  • Strategic surveillance
  • Strategic control
  • Environmental scanning
Answer: Strategic surveillance
Q8 | When a manager monitors the work performance of workers in his department to determine if the quality of their work is 'up to standard', this manager is engaging in which function?
  • Planning
  • Controlling
  • Organising
  • Leading
Answer: Controlling
Q9 | How will conflicts over resources/facility usage between this and other projects be settled?", is critically settled at level
  • Main program
  • Project formation
  • Project Buildup
  • Project Buildup
Answer: Project formation
Q10 | Level which includes disposition of project’s assets and personnel, is
  • First Stage
  • Second Stage
  • Third stage
  • Fourth stage
Answer: Fourth stage
Q11 | A mean for monitoring and controlling organization's strategic projects is
  • Project Monitoring process
  • Project Portfolio Process
  • Project Portfolio Plan
  • Project Portfolio Phase
Answer: Project Portfolio Process
Q12 | Projects provide an excellent growth environment for future executives and for developing
  • Sales skills
  • Manufacturing skills
  • Managerial skills
  • Execution skills
Answer: Managerial skills
Q13 | Favored technique for resolving conflict is
  • Negotiating
  • Conciliation
  • Removal of participants
  • Not entertaining them
Answer: Negotiating
Q14 | What is the critical path through the network above?
  • ABGHIF
  • ABDEF
  • ABGHIF& ABDEF
  • ABCEF
Answer: ABDEF
Q15 | What would be the critical path if the duration of activity C increased to 10?
  • ABCF
  • ABCEF
  • ABGHIF
  • ABGHIF & ABDEF
Answer: ABCF
Q16 | If the Earned Value is equal to Actual Cost, it means:
  • Project is on budget and on schedule
  • Schedule Variance Index is 1
  • There is no schedule variance
  • There is no cost variance
Answer: There is no cost variance
Q17 | A critical path network diagram does NOT:
  • Help determine the amount of float
  • Identify the particularly important activities
  • Calculate earned value
  • Calculate the duration of the whole project
Answer: Calculate earned value
Q18 | A Gantt chart is used to show a project timeline diagramatically.
  • True
  • False
  • none
  • all
Answer: True
Q19 | Changes to the project involve moving from:
  • Project control stage to project definition stage
  • Project control stage to project planning stage
  • Project control stage to understanding the project environment stage
  • None of the above
Answer: Project control stage to project definition stage
Q20 | The project life cycle consists of
  • Understanding the scope of the project
  • Objectives of the project
  • Formulation and planning various activities
  • All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Q21 | Developing a technology is an example of
  • Process
  • Project
  • Scope
  • All of the above
Answer: Project
Q22 | Resource requirement in project becomes constant while the project is in its _____ progress stage.
  • 40 to 55%
  • 55 to 70%
  • 70 to 80%
  • 80 to 95%
Answer: 80 to 95%
Q23 | Five dimensions that must be managed on a project
  • Constraint, Quality, Cost, Schedule, Staff
  • Features, Quality, Cost, Schedule, Staff
  • Features, priority, Cost, Schedule, Staff
  • Features, Quality, Cost, Schedule, customer
Answer: Features, Quality, Cost, Schedule, Staff
Q24 | Considers the total cost of ownership, or development plus support costs, for a project.
  • Learning Curve Theory
  • Life Cycle Costing
  • Parametric Modeling
  • Rate of Performance
Answer: Life Cycle Costing
Q25 | A time-phased budget that project managers use to measure and monitor cost performance.
  • Cost Baseline
  • Cost Budgeting
  • Cost Estimating
  • Cost Variance
Answer: Cost Baseline
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