Section Six Quiz

1. Management has asked you to pause your project at the end of the first phase so that you can
provide an accurate cost estimate of the next phase before continuing. This is also known as what?
A. Phased gated planning
B. Phased gated estimating
C. Phased gated budgeting
D. Iterations

2. Jerry’s project isn’t doing well on cost at the end of phase 2. Management has elected to cancel the
project rather than move forward with the expense. This is called what?
A. Murder board
B. Kill point
C. Cancelled initiation
D. Sunk costs

3. Your project customer is performing a walk-through and audit of the software your team has
created. What is this activity called?
A. Quality assurance
B. Scope validation
C. Quality control
D. Warranty

4. Your project team has just completed a new piece of software to be implemented for your
company. Before the project is complete the team must move the software into operations and
train the support staff. What project management plan address this activity?
A. Training plan
B. Operational transfer plan
C. Project closure and handoff plan
D. Project management plan

5. What meeting does the project manager and the project team complete together to review the
details of the project, its successes, and any project failures?
A. Retrospective
B. Postmortem
C. Lessons learned
D. Team debriefing

Answer key on next page.

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Section Six Quiz Answer Key

1. Management has asked you to pause your project at the end of the first phase so that you can
provide an accurate cost estimate of the next phase before continuing. This is also known as what?
A. Phased gated planning
B. Phased gated estimating
C. Phased gated budgeting
D. Iterations
B. This is an example of phased-gated estimating. Management is asking for an estimate of the next
project phase. Choices A, C, and D are incorrect choices for this question.

2. Jerry’s project isn’t doing well on cost at the end of phase 2. Management has elected to cancel the
project rather than move forward with the expense. This is called what?
A. Murder board
B. Kill point
C. Cancelled initiation
D. Sunk costs

B. This is an example of a kill point; the project is killed at this phase due to poor performance and costs.
A, C, and D are incorrect choices for this question. A murder board is a board of executives that
determine if a project should be launched. C isn’t a valid term. Sunk costs describes the monies that
have been spent on the project.

3. Your project customer is performing a walk-through and audit of the software your team has
created. What is this activity called?
A. Quality assurance
B. Scope validation
C. Quality control
D. Warranty

B. This is scope validation as the customer is inspecting the work before accepting the work as complete.
Choices A, C, and D are incorrect choices for this question.

4. Your project team has just completed a new piece of software to be implemented for your
company. Before the project is complete the team must move the software into operations and
train the support staff. What project management plan address this activity?
A. Training plan
B. Operational transfer plan
C. Project closure and handoff plan
D. Project management plan

B. The operational transfer plan defines how to move the deliverables into product and help with the
support of the project deliverables. Choices A, C, and D are incorrect choices for this question.

5. What meeting does the project manager and the project team complete together to review the
details of the project, its successes, and any project failures?
A. Retrospective
B. Postmortem

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 C. Lessons learned
D. Team debriefing

B. This is a project postmortem to review what’s worked and didn’t work in the project. The project
manager and the project team complete this activity together once the project has been closed. Choices
A, C, and D are incorrect choices for this question.

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