University Project Management Assessment 2: Research & Questioning

This document presents the solution to Project Management Assessment 2, focusing on research and questioning. It begins with a series of multiple-choice questions covering core project management concepts, including project definition, risk management, project life cycle stages, work breakdown structure, and delegation. The answers are provided along with brief explanations. The document then includes answers to several questions related to organizational structure, project staffing, information systems, and stakeholder requirements. References are provided at the end. The assignment brief included tasks like creating a project charter, work breakdown structure, and Gantt chart for a website redesign project, and an assessment requiring answering multiple choice questions.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Assessment 2 – Research & Questioning
Name of the student:
Name of the University:

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Task 1-Multiple choice Questions
1) what is a project
a) A temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.
2) What is not including in Project Management?
a) Preparing a business case to justify the investment.
3) Project risk management is best described as:
d) Minimising threats and maximising opportunities
4) Which of the following choices is not one of the stages of a project life cycle?
b) Defining
5) Clearly documented work packages can inform all parties of:
b) What the deliverables are
6) Good delegation is done in three basic steps. Which of the items below is not one of them?
d) Draw their attention to any mistakes, offer criticism and suggest corrective actions
7) Which one of the following statements is true?
a) An increase in project scope is likely to increase project cost
8) Which one of the following statements best defines the purpose of a Product Breakdown
Structure (PBS)?

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a) To define the hierarchy of deliverables that are required to be produced on the project
9) Who owns the Project Management Plan (PMP)?
a) The project support office
10) A project is typically defined in terms of scope, time, cost and which other parameter?
a) Benefits.

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Answer to question 1
Different aspects like culture, organizational structure are the factors that influence an
entire project and the involved project processes as well.
Answer to question 2
Before staffing or recruiting project team the project supervisor should analyze the skills
and knowledge of the applicants. If all skilled and knowledgeable associates are recruited to the
project team then all the project objectives would meet successfully within assigned time and
budget.
Answer to question 3
While building appropriate Information System (IS) either for business or system fully
and clearly accurate phases are to be followed in terms of project design and development and
project testing. The project testing again must be completed through unit testing and integrated
testing and user acceptance testing.
Answer to question 4
In order to specify project requirements stakeholders play important roles to make sure
that all the requirements are properly identified and allocated to the respective project activities.
Answer to question 5
Risk management is referred to as knowledge management area or improvement process
which is comprises of five different phases in terms of risk identification, risks analysis, risk
prioritization, risk ranking and risk resolving approaches.

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Muszynska, K., Dermol, V., Trunk, A., Ðakovic, G., and Smrkolj, M. 2015. Communication
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