Question

1) "Once you have identified all of the stakeholders, it is important to determine which group of stakeholders holds the most power and which group may have the greatest impact in the overall outcome of the project. "

a) true

b) false

2) You are leading an international team and you are considering how this might impact your communications and decision making processes as a team. Your goal is to _______________.

a) adapt the work processes to cope with the cultural differences.

b) eliminate any type of bias

c) decrease the common culture

d) increase the unique differences between the cultures

3) At which level of the WBS is an individual or group assigned responsibility to complete that specific deliverable? This is also the level where the time and cost estimates would be assigned.

a) phase one

b) work packages

c) major deliverables

d) milestones

4) It is a good idea to limit interaction with stakeholders to weekly reports from the project team.

a) true

b) false

5) "When you are creating a WBS, you continue to breakdown the larger deliverables until you have work packages that are small enough to perform an estimate of time and cost."

a) true

b) false

6) Which of the following statements is true in regards to the structure of a WBS?

a) It is a bottom's up approach starting with the smallest task and building up to the largest deliverable.

b) It includes the sequencing of each of the tasks.

c) The WBS aggregates the tasks into the proper timeline.

d) It is a hierarchical decomposition of the project into deliverables and work packages.

7) "If you are considering the various stakeholders in your project and trying to determine what each stakeholder wants to gain from the project -- in other words ""What's in it for them?"" -- then you are using which of the following techniques?"

a) determining their cultural expectations

b) assessing influence

c) keeping stakeholders involved

d) keeping stakeholders informed

Answer 1

Question 1: Answer: a) True

Once, stakeholder identification is complete, stakeholder classification based on power, interest, influence and other factors needs to be carried out in order to develop stakeholder management plan suitably.

Question 2: Answer: a) adapt the work processes to cope with the cultural differences.

In an international team, cultural differences play a major role during managing a team. Hence, to improve communication among them members and decision making, cultural difference which result in interface issues have to be eliminated.

Question 3: Answer: b) work packages

Work packages are lowest level of WBS which are allocated time, cost and responsibility of execution.

Question 4: Answer: b) False

Stakeholders have to be involved in the project based on project requirements. It is essential that they are informed as regularly as possible.

Question 5: Answer: a) True

Work packages are lowest level of WBS which are allocated time, cost and responsibility of execution.

Question 6: Answer: d) It is a hierarchical decomposition of the project into deliverables and work packages.

WBS is a decomposition of higher-level tasks of the project into lower level deliverables and work packages which are more manageable.

Question 7: Answer: b) assessing influence

If we are assessing what a stakeholder wants from the project, it means that we are assessing his influence he can have on the project.