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Who wants to be a Project Manager?

Q1. You have been asked by your boss to calculate the payback period of a project. Which of the following will the calculation provide?

A. An assessment of how quickly an implemented system will produce a profit.
B. An estimate of how much future income from the implemented project will be worth in present day terms.
C. The discount rate that would give a payback with a net present value of zero.
D. The overall income that the implemented system should produce, less any initial investment.

Q2. You are required as a project manager to produce a regular report for the project board. Which of the following would you most expect it to include?

A. Costs and benefits
B. Progress against plan
C. Configuration status information
D. Current activity

Q3. You have been asked to appoint a change control board for an upcoming project. Who would you invite?

A. representatives of the key stakeholders in the project
B. the project manager and team leader
C. the people on the project board
D. the project support office

Q4. You have been asked to write a report on the implications of ISO 9001:2000 on a forthcoming project. ISO 9001:2000 is a standard that defines which of the following?

A. Project management standards
B. IT project deliverables
C. Quality management systems
D. Software testing procedures

Q5. Your staff have managed to develop information systems at a rate of five function points per staff-day. A new system has been assessed as requiring 120 function points to implement, but the staff available are relatively inexperienced and are only 80% as productive as the staff usually used in such projects. What would be the best estimate of effort for the project?

A. 30 days
B. 25 days
C. 24 days
D. 20 days

Q6. You have joined a new company where staff are responsible to a project manager for the duration of a project but also have a manager who is responsible for their long-term staff development and work programme. Which of the following terms describes this type of organizational structure?

A. the Tuckman model
B. configuration management
C. matrix management
D. task orientation/relationship orientation


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Project Management for IT-Related Projects - Textbook for the ISEB Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management
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