CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW
(E) 1. In today’s market, which of the following industries appears to have a need for project
management?
(M) 2. Which of the following is not one of the PMBOK Guide’s five process groups?
(E) 3. Which of the following is normally not one of the traditional components of the triple
constraint?
(M) 4. Which of the following is a potential benefit of using project management?
(E) 5. Which of the following functions of classical management is generally not performed
by the project manager?
(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?
(E) 7. Which of the following is not an organizational stakeholder?
(E) 8. Which of the following is not a product/market stakeholder?
(E) 9. Which of the following is not a capital market stakeholder?
(M) 10. Which of the following is directly controlled by the project manager?
(H) 11. Which of the following is reflective of the changes in project management according
to Dr. Thamhain?
(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
to multiple bosses.
(E) 14. The project manager’s role as an integrator of activities does not include integration of
activities necessary to:
(M) 15. The PM’s role with regard to interface management does not include interfacing:
(H) 16. Which of the following is the role of the PM rather than the role of the functional
manager?
(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?
(H) 19. When team members take direction from both the project and line managers, the type
of project manager is usually
(H) 20. On a project headed up by a lightweight project manager, employees have their
performance reviews made by:
(H) 21. Which of the following is normally not part of a team member’s role?
(M) 22. In which life cycle phase do project sponsors become most actively involved in the
project?
(M) 23. Which of the following is not part of the project sponsor’s role?
(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?
(H) 26. Which of the following most likely represents a project champion rather than a project
manager?