1. Which of the following is NOT a project constraint?

A. Quality
B. Scale
C. Time
D. Cost

2. A project manager is running a data center installation project. He finds that his stakeholder
is angry that he’s run over his budget because the staff turned out to be more expensive than
planned. The stakeholder’s unhappy that when the project is over, the servers won’t have as much drive space as
he needs. Which of the following constraints was not affected by this problem?
A. Quality
B. Resources
C. Time
D. Cost

3. Which of the following is NOT an example of operational work?

A. Building a purchase order system for accounts payable
B. Submitting weekly purchase orders through a purchase order system
C. Deploying weekly antivirus software updates
D. Yearly staff performance evaluations

4. You’re managing a project to build a new accounting system. One of the accountants in another department
really likes the current system and is refusing to be trained on the new one. What is the BEST way to handle this
situation?
A. Refuse to work with him because he’s being difficult
B. Appeal to the accountant’s manager and ask to have him required to take training
C. Get a special dispensation so that the accountant doesn’t have to go to the training
D. Work with him to understand his concerns and do what you can to help alleviate them without
compromising your project

5. Which of the following is used for identifying people who are impacted by the project?
A. Resource list
B. Stakeholder register
C. Enterprise environmental factors
D. Project plan

6. Your manager asks you where to find a list of projects that should be managed together. What is the BEST place
to find this information?
A. Project plan
B. Project charter
C. Portfolio charter
D. Program charter

7. You want to know specifically which business goal a group of projects and programs is going to accomplish.
Which is the BEST place to look for this information?
A. Project plan
B. Project charter
C. Portfolio charter
D. Program charter

8. A project coordinator is having trouble securing programmers for her project. Every time she asks her boss to
give a resource to the project he says that they are too busy to help out with her project. Which type of organization
is she working in?
A. Functional
B. Weak matrix
C. Strong matrix
D. Projectized
9. A project manager is having trouble getting customer feedback on her project. Even though she knows the
product won’t be complete for several months, the company guidelines say she should release an early version and
get feedback from end users. Which type of organization is she working for?

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 A. Functional
B. Virtual
C. Hybrid
D. Projectized

10. The project manager for a construction project discovers that a new water line is being created in the
neighborhood where he’s managing a project. Government regulations require that a series of forms for city
environmental changes need to be filled out before his team can continue work on the project. This is
an example of:
A. A portfolio
B. A program
C. An enterprise environmental factor
D. A project

ANSWERA

1. Answer: B
Scale is not a project constraint. The constraints are scope, time, cost, quality, resource, and risk.

2. Answer: C
There is no mention of the project being late or missing its deadlines in the example. The project was overbudget, which
affects the project’s cost. The project won’t meet the stakeholder’s requirements, which is a
quality problem. And the staff was more expensive than planned, which is another cost problem.

3. Answer: A
Building a purchase order system for accounts payable is a project. It’s a temporary effort that has a unique result.

4. Answer: D
When a stakeholder is negatively impacted by your project, you need to manage his expectations and help him to buy into
your project.

5. Answer: B
The stakeholder register is where you identify all of the people who are impacted by your project.

6. Answer: D
A program is a group of projects that should be managed together because of interdependencies. A
program charter fits the description in this question.

7. Answer: C
A portfolio charter will give the business goal that a group of projects and programs will accomplish as part of a portfolio

8. Answer: A
Since the project manager has to ask permission from the functional manager and can’t overrule him, she’s working in a
functional organization.

9. Answer: C
The project manager in this scenario is working for a hybrid organization. She used predictive methods to understand that
her project won’t be completed for several months and is about to use adaptive methods to get early feedback on the
unfinished product.

10. Answer: C
Since the project manager is filling out the forms because of a government regulation, this is a good example
of an enterprise environmental factor—specifically, an external enterprise environmental factor.

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