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

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Total 625 questions

Manage Project Team belongs to which knowledge area?

A.

Project Integration Management

B.

Project Time Management

C.

Project Procurement Management

D.

Project Human Resource Management

The management theory that all people can direct their own efforts is:

A.

Theory Y.

B.

Herzberg's theory.

C.

Maslow's hierarchy.

D.

Theory X.

Which of the following would most likely increase the accuracy of estimating the project cost?

A.

Using historical data.

B.

Pricing out the work at lower levels in the work breakdown structure.

C.

Both 1) Pricing out the work at lower levels in the work breakdown structure, and 2) Talking to people who have worked on similar projects.

D.

Talking to people who have worked on similar projects.

E.

1) Pricing out the work at lower levels in the work breakdown structure, and 2) Talking to people who have worked on similar projects, and 3) Using historical data.

The work that must be done in order to deliver a product with the specified features and functions is:

A.

Project verification

B.

Project scope

C.

Project control

D.

Product scope

What is a tool to improve team performance?

A.

Staffing plan

B.

External feedback

C.

Performance reports

D.

Co-Location

The Java development of a project is outsourced to India. The project schedule is starting to slip.

What is the LEAST likely cause of the slippage?

A.

Lack of competent programmers

B.

Cultural influences

C.

Internationalization

D.

Communication

Which one of the following is true regarding the change control board?

A.

Describes how changes are managed.

B.

Approves or rejects change requests.

C.

Needs updated project management plans to approve or reject a change.

D.

Describes how changes are documented.

While preparing your risk responses, you realize that you have not planned for unknown risk events. You need to make adjustments to the project to compensate for unknown risk events. These adjustments are based on your past project experience when unknown risk events occurred and knocked the project off track.

What should you do?

A.

Include a management reserve in the budget to try to compensate for the unknown risks, and notify management to expect unknown risks to occur.

B.

Document the unknown risk items and calculate the expected monetary value based on probability and impact that may result from the occurrence.

C.

Determine the unknown risk events and the associated cost, then add the cost to the project budget as reserves.

D.

With the stakeholders, determine a percentage of the known risk budget to allocate to a management reserve budget.

A contract change control system defines which of the following?

A.

Process by which the procurement is being satisfied

B.

Process by which the procurement can be modified

C.

Process by which the procurement can be obtained

D.

Process by which the procurement can be disposed

Who authorizes a project?

A.

Sponsor

B.

Project manager

C.

Project team

D.

Buyer

You are a project manager for Cinema Snicker Productions. Your company specializes in producing comedy films for the big screen. Your latest project has just been completed and accepted. You've been given your next project, which starts right away.

Which of the following statements is true?

A.

This project ended due to integration because it was completed and accepted.

B.

This project ended due to extinction because it was completed and accepted.

C.

This project ended due to integration because it was completed and accepted and the project manager moved on to a new project.

D.

This project ended due to addition because it was completed and accepted and archived into the company's catalog of available films.

The Monitoring and Controlling process group contains which of the following processes?

A.

Plan Quality

B.

Perform Quality Assurance

C.

Perform Quality Control

D.

Identify Stakeholders

If you know expected value is 500 and the standard deviation is 12, you can say with approximately a 95 percent confidence rating which of the following?

A.

The activity will take from 464 to 536 days.

B.

The activity will take from 494 to 506 days.

C.

The activity will take from 476 to 524 days.

D.

The activity will take from 488 to 512 days.

Which quality control technique illustrates the 80/20 Principle?

A.

Ishikawa diagram

B.

Control Chart

C.

Run Chart

D.

Pareto Chart

To complete performance index (TCPI) is represented by which of the following?

A.

BAC - EV/BAC - AC

B.

A measure of the value of work completed compared to the actual cost or progress

C.

A measure of progress achieved compared to progress planned

D.

AC + (BAC - EV)