CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW
(Difficulty: E = easy, M = medium, H = hard)
(E) 1. In today’s market, which of the following industries appears to have a need for project
management?
A. Aerospace and defense
(M) 2. Which of the following is not one of the PMBOK
Guide’s five process groups?
D. Closure
(E) 3. Which of the following is normally not one of the traditional components of the triple
constraint?
A. Within time
*D. Accepted by the customer
(M) 4. Which of the following is a potential benefit of using project management?
A. Maximization of continuous reporting
(E) 5. Which of the following functions of classical management is generally not performed
by the project manager?
A. Planning
(M) 6. Which of the following three types of deliverables discussed in the book would be
used to classify the final report that must be presented to the customer at the end of the
project?
A. Hardware deliverables
(E) 7. Which of the following are not organizational stakeholders?
A. Executive officers
(E) 8. Which of the following are not product/market stakeholders?
D. Governments
(E) 9. Which of the following are not capital market stakeholders?
A. Banks
(M) 10. Which of the following is directly controlled by the project manager?
A. Money
(H) 11. Which of the following is reflective of the changes in project management according
to Dr. Thamhain?
A. Moving from dynamic to linear processes
(E) 12. Successful project management requires a good daily working relationship between
project and line managers.
(E) 13. Successful project management does not require that people understand how to report
(E) 14. The project manager’s role as an integrator of activities does not include integration of
activities necessary to:
A. Develop the plan
(M) 15. The PM’s role with regard to interface management does not include interfacing:
A. Within the project team
(H) 16. Which of the following is the role of the PM rather than the role of the functional
manager?
*A. What work will be done
(E) 17. Which of the following problems affects the functional manager’s ability to staff and
support a project during execution?
(H) 18. What type of project manager would have employees (i.e., team members) that report
directly to the project manager full-time for the duration of the project?
A. Lightweight team leader
(H) 19. When team members take direction from both the project and line managers, the type
of project manager is usually a:
A. Lightweight team leader
(H) 20. On a project headed up by a lightweight project manager, employees have their
performance reviews made by:
D. Project managers only
(H) 21. Which of the following is normally not part of a team member’s role?
D. Completing the work at the earliest possible time.
(M) 22. In which life cycle phase do project sponsors become most actively involved in the
project?
D. Closure
(M) 23. Which of the following is not part of the project sponsor’s role?
A. Conflict resolution
(M) 24. Project sponsorship almost always resides at the executive levels
(M) 25. Which of the following promises can project managers make to functional employees
assigned to a project?
A. Promotions
(H) 26. Which of the following most likely represents a project champion rather than a project
manager?
D. Prefers to work in groups