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BCS ISEB-PM1 - BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management

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Total 625 questions

Management styles associated with production environments, such as assembly lines commonly include:

A.

assumption that workers lack ambition and dislike responsibility

B.

All of the other alternatives apply.

C.

a directing style of leadership.

D.

a lack of confidence in their workers

E.

a Theory X style of leadership

What name(s) is (are) associated with the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle?

A.

Pareto

B.

Ishikawa

C.

Shewart-Deming

D.

Delphi

A project team member tells you that she went to her project manager with a good idea for a useful change to the project. Instead of giving her approval to make the change, the project manager asked her to write a report describing the benefits of the change.

What is the MOST appropriate advice for the situation?

A.

The project manager is being unreasonable and should do that kind of work herself.

B.

Remind the project manager that the benefit cost analysis for the project was done during project planning.

C.

A project manager must be able to weigh the benefits of the change versus the costs and compare them to other possible changes. The team member should do what was asked.

D.

The team member should do what was asked because this sort of information must be given to the project sponsor to make the change.

Which enterprise environmental factors are considered during cost estimating?

A.

Marketplace conditions and commercial databases

B.

Marketplace conditions and company structure

C.

Commercial databases and company structure

D.

Existing human resources and market place conditions

Which of the following defines a characteristic of a project?

A.

Repetitive

B.

Unique

C.

No outcome

D.

Permanent

In which process might you use risk reassessment as a tool and technique?

A.

Qualitative risk analysis

B.

Risk monitoring and control

C.

Monitor and control project work

D.

Risk response planning

Total funding requirements and periodic funding requirements are derived from:

A.

funding limit reconciliation

B.

scope baseline

C.

activity cost estimates.

D.

cost baseline.

During which process would you obtain stakeholders' formal acceptance of the completed project scope?

A.

Quality control

B.

Scope verification

C.

Scope control

D.

Close project

Which knowledge area is concerned with the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information?

A.

Project Integration Management

B.

Project Communications Management

C.

Project Information Management System (PIMS)

D.

Project Scope Management

In crashing a task, you would focus on:

A.

Accelerate performance by minimizing cost.

B.

As many tasks as possible and accelerate performance by minimizing cost.

C.

Non critical tasks.

D.

Accelerating performance of tasks on critical path.

E.

As many tasks as possible.

Which of the following is an example of contract administration?

A.

Negotiating the contract

B.

Authorizing contractor work

C.

Developing the statement of work

D.

Establishing evaluation criteria

A project team member has been having a big disagreement with another team member for over two months when the other team members become involved. The issues are complex, but you have specific experience in the area and know what needs to be done. The BEST choice would be to:

A.

Make the decision yourself.

B.

Strive for fair resolution of the issue.

C.

Ask the other team members to stay out of the issue.

D.

Bring the team together and work out the issue to a win-win solution.

Who is responsible for issuing the project charter?

A.

The project sponsor

B.

The senior Project Manager

C.

The project team

D.

The project manager

Which of the following is a technique for resolving conflict?

A.

Collaborating

B.

Issue log

C.

Leadership

D.

Motivation

A contract management plan is a subsidiary of what other type of plan?

A.

Resource plan

B.

Project management plan

C.

Cost control plan

D.

Expected monetary value plan