Page 40 - Project+

Answers to Assessment Test

1. B. Tasks with zero float are critical path tasks, and if delayed, they will cause the
delay of the project completion date. For more information, please see Chapter 5.

2. B. Remote and in-house resources are categorized as personnel management
activities in the CompTIA objectives. For more information, please see Chapter 6.

3. A. A weighted scoring model is a tool that weights evaluation criteria and provides a
way to score vendor responses. Bidder conferences, IFB, and SOW are all used
during vendor solicitation. For more information, please see Chapter 9.

4. A, C, F. The five stages of team development are forming, storming, norming,
performing, and adjourning. For more information, please see Chapter 6.

5. A. This describes a projectized organization because the project manager works in a
division whose sole responsibility is project management, and once the team
members are assigned to the project, the project manager has the authority to hold
them accountable to their tasks and activities. For more information, please see
Chapter 1.

6. A. Acceptance criteria describe how to determine whether the deliverables are

complete and meet the requirements of the project. For more information, please
see Chapter 4.

7. E. A project sponsor is responsible for obtaining financial resources for the project,
monitoring the progress of the project, and handling escalations from the project
manager. For more information, please see Chapter 2.

8. D. Project managers may spend up to 90 percent of their time communicating. For

more information, please see Chapter 1.

9. A. Smoothing is a lose-lose conflict-resolution technique. It is a temporary way to
resolve conflict. Avoiding can also be a lose-lose conflict technique, but it isn’t
temporary in nature and doesn’t emphasize anything because one of the parties
leaves the discussions. For more information, please see Chapter 6.

10. C. Cost-benefit analysis, expert judgment, and scoring model are all project
selection techniques. Top-down estimating is a type of cost estimating. For more
information, please see Chapter 1.

11. A, C. Any time there’s a significant change to the project, the project management
plan must be updated and the stakeholders notified of the change. Options D and E
would have been done before the approval by the CCB. Options A and C occur after
an approval. For more information, please see Chapter 9.

12. C. This situation describes varying work styles that are a common cause of conflict.
Competing resource demands and constraints are also common causes of conflict.

40