BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management
Last Update Apr 18, 2025
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A project manager needs the project team to make a group decision. Which of the following is a method that can be used to reach a group decision?
A project manager you are mentoring comes to you for help because he is about to face his first procurement audit. You might explain that he should NOT worry about such an audit because it:
The sponsor is worried about the seller deriving extra profit on the cost plus fixed fee (CPFF) contract. Each month the sponsor requires the project manager to submit CPI calculations and an analysis of the cost to complete. The project manager explains to the sponsor that extra profits should NOT be a worry on this project because:
Who is responsible for determining which processes from the Process Groups will be employed and who will be performing them?
Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling and Closing are called:
You are the project manager for a top-secret software project for an agency of the United States government. Your mission-should you choose to accept it-is to complete the project using internal resources. The reason is that finding contractors with top-secret clearances takes quite a bit of time, and waiting for clearances would jeopardize the implementation date. Your programmers are 80 percent of the way through the programming and testing work when your agency appoints a new executive director. Slowly but surely your programmers are taken off this project and reassigned to the executive director's hot new project.
Which of the following type of project ending is this?
The project team reviews identified risks and the risk response strategy. For one of the risks, the team realizes that the implementation of the risk response would generate another risk.
This new risk is which of the following types of risk?
You are the project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost.
What action should be taken?
Activity resource requirements and resource breakdown structure are outputs from what Project Time Management process?
You are the project manager for Xylophone Phonics. This company produces children's software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You are ready to assign project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
Which project Planning process are you working on?
The inputs of the Performance Reporting process include all of the following except for which one?
A project has experienced significant delays due to equipment problems, staff attrition, and slow client reviews. The project is 40 percent complete and has used 60 percent of the available calendar time.
What is the FIRST thing you should do?
Which of the following is a tool and technique for activity duration estimating?
Which process group can be performed outside the project's scope of control?
Which of the following does NOT assess the value a project brings to an organization?
Executing the risk response plan in order to react to risk events throughout the project is called:
While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only.
Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?
You are a project manager for Pizza Direct, which is a retail pizza delivery store. Your company is competing with another retail store for the option of opening two new stores in a foreign country.
You have been invited to dinner with the prospective foreign business partners and their spouses upon your arrival.
You know that all of the following statements are generally true except for which one?
You are negotiating with a seller. Time is of the essence but you have a limited budget, and the seller knows this.
What is your BEST negotiating strategy under these circumstances?
You are a contract project manager working with the State of Bliss. Your latest project involves rewriting the Department of Revenue's income tax system. As project manager, you have taken all the appropriate actions regarding confidentiality of data. One of the key stakeholders is a huge movie buff, and she has the power to promote you into a better position at the conclusion of this project. She's reviewing some report data that just happens to include confidential information regarding one of her favorite movie superstars.
What is the most appropriate response?
A company attorney, newly hired by the company, walks into the project manager's office and tells her that he is ready to work with her on the procurement process. The project manager has little experience with procurement, so she is excited to have the assistance.
With which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to ask the attorney for help?
What are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project's scope is managed?
All the techniques described below can be used to keep a meeting focused except:
Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the monitoring and controlling process group?
Company expenses such as auditing costs, supervision, office supplies, building rent and maintenance are elements of the:
In which of the following team development stages does the team begin to work together, develop trust, and adjust to the work habits and behavior?
A problem occurs on an activity with free float and the project manager has extended its duration.
What is MOST likely to be affected?
A project becomes officially authorized when which of the following occurs?
The customer's expectations for quality are shown on a control chart as the:
Communication in both project and non-project-driven organizations should occur in __________ directions.
Sally is a project manager working on a project that will require a specially engineered machine. Only three manufacturers can make the machine to the specifications Sally needs. The price of this machine is particularly critical to this project. The budget is limited, and there's no chance of securing additional funds if the bids for the machine come in higher than budgeted.
She's developing the evaluation criteria for the bidders' responses and knows all of the following are true except for which one?
Smoothing out resource requirements from period to period is called resource _____.
Negotiated Settlements are an example of a technique used in which Project Procurement Management Process?
All of the following are correct statements about a project manager EXCEPT:
What is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?
Which of the following techniques uses historical information to estimate the activity duration?
Which project management process ensures the seller's performance meets procurement requirements and that the buyer performs according to the terms of the legal contract?
You are assigned to implement the project control plan. What should you do to ensure the plan is effective and current?
Who MUST know when a risk event occurs so that a response can be implemented?
Which of the following is the LEAST effective way to influence the factors that create changes to the cost baseline?
You are a project manager of Software Product Company. After hired a person you got to know that many of this person's ideas were developed by the competing company.
Are you going to implement the same ideas?
Which type of control tool identifies whether or not a process has a predictable performance?
A project manager has limited authority in which type of organizational structure?
Your team is split between two buildings on either side of town. As a result, the team isn't very cohesive because the members don't know each other very well. The team is still in the storming stage because of the separation issues.
Which of the following should you consider?
Advantages of the functional (hierarchical) form of organization include _____ and creation of technical competence.
All of the following are tools and techniques of the Contract Administration process except for which one?
Which type of analysis is used to examine project results through time to determine if performance is improving or deteriorating?
Which of the following is generally the MOST CORRECT use of a project network diagram?
All of the following are typical concerns of matrixed team members EXCEPT:
You are working with XYZ organization. Your senior manager imposed new delivery date which is earlier than mentioned project deliverables date in scope statement.
To whom you are most accountable?
A project manager discovers an urgent need for outsourced resources on the project. He knows he has the money to cover the cost of these resources. He goes to the procurement manager and explains the situation, insisting a contract be drawn up today so he can obtain resources and circumvent the standard procedure. Is this the correct process to follow?
While implementing an approved change, a critical defect was introduced. Removing the defect will delay the product delivery.
What is the MOST appropriate approach to managing this situation?
Using the chart, what is the lowest cost of crashing this project to save four weeks?
A purchase order for a specified item to be delivered by a specified date for a specified price is the simplest form of what type of contract?
What defines the portion of work included in a contract for items being purchased or acquired?
TESTED 18 Apr 2025
