CIS 517 Review Quiz Chapter 5 Questions And Answers (100% Correct)

CIS 517 Review Quiz Chapter 5 1. You are the project manager for your organization and you're working on a new project. In this project you'll need to define the subsidiary plans to help direct and manage the project work. Which of the following subsidiary plans cannot be used to direct and manage the project work? 2. The documentation of a project planning states that there are twenty-five stakeholders with the project. What will be the number of communication channels for the project? 3. Beth is the project manager of the GHB Project for her company. She has been working on the project for the past six months and there are still three months of work scheduled. In this project she can creates lots of project communications, reports, memos, emails, and other documentation. As part of the PMI approach to managing project communications Beth may have three project document types that need to be updated. Which one of the following project documents will not be updated as an output of managing project communications? 4. You are the project manager for your organization and you've just taken over a project that has been failing on time and costs. As you begin the project work you learn that the previous project manager ignored a group of stakeholders that would likely be opposed to the project. You learn that this group of stakeholders haven't even heard of the project and they're upset about being left out of the conversation. How would you classify the group of stakeholders? 5. You are about to start a project. You have made rough estimates of both time and cost. Which of the following is the correct term to represent such estimates? 6. Vicky is the project sponsor of Robert's project. She has requested several changes for the project scope and these changes have, of course, been approved. Robert needs to incorporate the project scope changes into the activity list. Where else should Robert reflect these project 7. You are the project manager of the NGH Project for your company. This company will create and deploy new software for 1,456 customers. The project scope has been defined but you and the project team now need to create the scope baseline. What is the scope baseline? 8. You are the project manager of a large construction project. In this project, you've assigned a project team to create a project Website that will allow stakeholders to retrieve project information, check project status, and read reports about the project. Your site will even have a camera that will stream live video feed to the Website. What type of communication is this Website? 9. Hank is a project manager for the NHY Project. His project has a very tight budget with little room for project overruns on costs. Hank needs to control costs and reduce expenses as much as possible within the project in order for the project to be deemed successful in the organization. On the NHY Project, Hank is using many contractors that are integrated into the project team. What can Hank do to keep project costs down in this scenario? 10. You are the project manager of the NHQ Project for your organization and you're working with some project team members and stakeholders who are in an argument about the project work. While you've tried to help the stakeholders to resolve the differences, they are being obstinate about the work and don't want to work with you or the project team to really resolve the difference. You've decided that you need to escalate the problem onto management. Which plan defines the escalation process? 11. You're the project manager for the ABC organization. Your current project has 75 internal stakeholders and 245 external stakeholders. Many of the risks within your project will only affect internal stakeholders, but several of the identified risk events will affect external stakeholders. Management would like to know the total number of communication channels in the project. How many communication channels exist in this project? 12. Nancy is the project manager of a project with 78 stakeholders. This is a high-profile project and she needs to express to her project team and to the management the importance of communication in this project. She would like to show the number of stakeholder communication channels in the project. Based on this information, how many communication channels exist within this project? a. 13. You have been hired as a contract project manager for Tech Perfect Inc. The project has already started and several details of the project have already been structured. You are working with your team on the cost estimation for the project. Which of the following estimating techniques 14. Which of the following documents is described in the statement given below? "It is a document that contains information that is required by the stakeholders. It also documents when the information should be distributed and how the information will be delivered. It describes the information delivery needs, its format and level of detail. It is contained in or is a subsidiary of the project management plan." 15. You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves deployment of a new software application to all your organization's users. Your project team consists of 9 members to date. Recently, you have started observing a slippage on your project schedule due to resource constraints. You convince the senior management to add a senior module expert to the project team. How many additional communication channels do you have now? a. 9 16. You are project manager for a large construction project. You are using your company's intranet sites for reporting progress of your project. Which of the following types of communication is that? 17. You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new large-scale project, which involves installation of new solar water heaters in your Client's community. You have completed developing approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete the project activities. Which of the following describes accurately the activity that you just completed? 18. Which of the following estimating methods has the greatest level of specified detail to estimate 19. Which of the following are examples of interactive communication? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply. 20. You are a project manager for GTX project. The project has ten active stakeholders. How many communication channels will be required for effective communication with the stakeholders? 21. Mark is the project manager of the GHQ Project for his company. This project is to build a new park in the community and there over 15,000 stakeholders when Mark considers the public. In order to communicate effectively and cost effectively with these stakeholders Mark has created a public website to share the project information, photos, and status updates. The public stakeholders can query the website for news and information about the new park and the project's progress. What type of communication is this?