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Question 1: What is the main target of a project phase gate?

To compare the project’s performance and progress to project and business documents.
To present the project status to the project stakeholders.
To get acceptance from the customer for the already completed deliverables.
To get approval from the sponsor for the already completed deliverables.

Question 2: Which one of the following is correct regarding the relationship between projects, programs and portfolios?

Programs focus on “doing things right”.
All projects within a portfolio must be related.
Projects and programs focus on “doing things right”, while portfolios focus on “doing right things”.
Programs and the corresponding projects are usually managed from a program manager.

Question 3: What would not be included in the role of a PMO?

Monitoring compliance with project management standards
Providing technical training to a number of software developers
Coaching, training, mentoring and oversight
Coordinating communication across projects

Question 4: When is the Project Charter created?

Before the Business Case
During the project acceptance from the customer
After the sign-off of the Project Management Plan
After the Business Case has been created

Question 5: Which one of the following is a tool for Quantitative Risk Analysis?

Brainstorming
Affinity Diagram
Gantt Chart
Decision Tree

Question 6: You have recently started working in a company with a reputation for failed projects. You want to make sure that your projects do not run into the same problems as the previous ones. What would You consider as the most important input of your project initiation and planning activities?

Historical information.
Tight cost control procedures.
Project quality control methods.
Change Management System.

Question 7: Early in their research project, a project team is preparing a working prototype in order to review it together with their internal customer. They are most probably in which process?

Develop Project Charter
Define Scope
Collect Requirements
Define Activities

Question 8: What is the duration of the following project?

8
9
7
None of the above is corect

Question 9: You are working in a major IT company. Lately, you are receiving complaints from the management about the efficiency of your project processes. The management is claiming that lately, the project procedures do not follow the company policies and rules. What would be the first thing to do in response to this situation?

Have a project status meeting
Define appropriate quality metrics
Terminate the project
Arrange a quality audit

Question 10: The company “You, Me and Co” is starting a major new project. People from all departments and most of the branches of the company will work for this project, and most of them have not met before. The project has started recently, and most team members are currently trying to finalize their project role definition, they are forming alliances and they are setting targets and success criteria. According to Tuckman’s ladder model, they are in which team development phase?

Adjourning
Performing
Forming
Storming