Engineering Project Management Practice
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Course Introduction
Engineering Project Management introduces students to the principles, methodologies, and tools required to effectively plan, execute, and control engineering projects. This course covers essential topics such as project life cycle, scope definition, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, quality assurance, and resource allocation. Students will learn how to apply project management frameworks and software tools to real-world engineering scenarios, enabling them to collaborate efficiently, navigate project constraints, and deliver successful project outcomes within time and budget. The course also emphasizes leadership, communication, and teamwork skills necessary for managing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
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Successful Project Management with Microsoft Project 2010 5th Edition by Jack Gido
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Chapter 1: Project Management Concepts
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Q1) A group volunteered to keep a section of highway clean. This is an example of a project.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Describe five things that a project manager can do to make sure a customer is satisfied:
Answer: The schedule for a project specifies when each task should start and finish. A schedule for a project is a timetable that specifies when each task or activity should start and finish.
Q3) The collapse of a retaining wall could be a risk to the project objective for a garden construction project.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) A project has a sponsor or customer.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Identifying and Selecting Projects
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Q1) Some RFPs mention the type of contract the customer intends to use.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The first step in project selection is to
A) develop a set of criteria against which a project will be evaluated.
B) gather data and information for each project.
C) list assumptions.
D) evaluate each project against the criteria.
Answer: A
Q3) James must gather information from a potential project's stakeholders for an upcoming meeting with management. The project would be to add 50 beds and an oncology center to the local hospital. List three stakeholders of the project and a possible way that James could gather information from the stakeholders.
Answer: List answers should include surveys, focus groups, interviews, and analysis of available reports.
Methods for gathering information from project stakeholders include surveys, focus groups, interviews, and analysis of available reports.
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Chapter 3: Developing Project Proposals
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Q1) Taking credit for outcomes that others have accomplished is a way to build yourself for others to respect you.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The contractor should state its understanding of the customer's need
A) in its own words with description of the customer's current condition.
B) by restating the problem statement that appears in the RFP.
C) by including complex graphics to show expertise.
D) adding lots of information about other projects that are similar.
Answer: A
Q3) Establishing and building trust is key to developing effective and successful relationships with clients and partners.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Local travel is usually not included in the project costs.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Defining Scope, Quality, Responsibility, and Activity Sequence
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Q1) There can be situations where the project objective needs to be modified as the project proceeds.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The project manager should involve every project member in developing the WBS to have special expertise, knowledge, or experience that will help develop a more comprehensive and complete WBS.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The __________ defines the major tasks or work elements that will need to be performed to accomplish the work that needs to be done and produce all the project deliverables.
A) statement of work
B) project scope document
C) network diagram
D) work breakdown structure
Q4) Some activities in a network diagram may be done concurrently.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Developing the Schedule
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Q1) Changes might be initiated by the customer or the project team, or they might be the result of an unanticipated occurrence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) At the beginning of every project, it is possible to estimate the durations for all activities with a high level of confidence regarding their accuracy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The project control process starts with establishing a baseline plan that shows how the project scope will be accomplished on schedule and over budget.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The latest finish time for a specific activity must be the same as or earlier than the earliest of all the latest start times of all the activities emerging directly from that specific activity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Schedule control involves four steps. List the four steps in order.
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Chapter 6: Resource Utilization
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Q1) Select which of the following does not describe how the sequence of activities can be drawn to reflect the availability of a limited quantity of resources.
A) The activities using the limited resources are shown in a ladder relationship as they are available.
B) The activities using the limited resources are shown in a loop relationship as they are available.
C) The activities requiring the limited resource are assigned at different times.
D) If there is no technical constraint for the activities, the activities could be arranged serially by the availability of the resources.
Q2) The start of noncritical activities are delayed beyond their earliest start times (but not beyond their latest start times) in order to
A) schedule with a technical constraint.
B) schedule with a resource constraint.
C) level the costs of the project.
D) maintain a uniform level of required resources.
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Chapter 7: Determining Costs, Budget, and Earned Value
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Q1) It is important to manage the cash flow on a project.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The _____ is the product of the percent complete and the sum of the estimated costs of all the specific activities that make up a work package or the project.
A) total budgeted cost (TBC)
B) cumulative budgeted cost (CBC)
C) cumulative actual cost (CAC)
D) cumulative earned value (CEV)
Q3) A third method for determining the forecasted cost at completion is to re-estimate the costs for all the remaining work to be performed and then add this re-estimate to the cumulative actual cost. If the amount of cumulated actual costs is less than difference between the total budgeted cost and the re-estimate, then
A) the FCAC is greater than the TBC.
B) the FCAC is less than the TBC.
C) the FCAC cannot be calculated with the values given.
D) additional information is needed to predict the FCAC.
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Chapter 8: Managing Risk
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Q1) A risk assessment matrix is a tool for
A) making a person responsible for the risk.
B) stating if the risk will be avoided, accepted, or mitigated.
C) examining the results of the project.
D) assessing and managing risks.
Q2) Risk management involves identifying, assessing, and responding to project risks in order to minimize the likelihood of occurrence and/or potential impact of adverse events on the accomplishment of the project objective.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If the risks seem too great, the contractor may decide to not bid on a proposed project.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The project team can progressively elaborate and identify new risks as more information is known or becomes clear.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Closing the Project
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Q1) The post-project evaluation meeting with the project sponsor should contain an opportunity to ask closed-ended questions about possible additional projects and obtain permission to use the customer as a reference with potential customers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During project closing, the project team or contractor should ensure that copies of appropriate project documentation are properly organized, filed, and archived so that A) they can be stored easily.
B) they can be readily retrieved for future use.
C) the files are ready for audit.
D) the project sponsor could review them.
Q3) The project manager should schedule the meeting immediately following the delivery of the final report rather than waiting for a time when the customer is in a position to really determine whether the project met expectations and achieved the anticipated benefits.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 10: The Project Manager
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Q1) The project manager establishes ongoing communication with the customer to keep the customer at a distance and to determine whether there are any changes in expectations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How to do the task should be left up to the individuals so that they can be creative.
A)True B)False
Q3) The project manager can improve her or his ability to handle stress by keeping physically fit through regular exercise and good nutrition.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The project manager has self-confidence and exhibits distrust in the project team members.
A)True B)False
Q5) Describe at least three potential subjects of negotiations in which a project manager would participate for a project.
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Chapter 11: The Project Team
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Q1) One of the first things that a project manager must do is to
A) review the plan to be sure of the payment dates.
B) determine the earned value of work performed.
C) obtain and put together a project team.
D) compare actual progress to planned progress.
Q2) In addition to organizing social activities, the team can periodically call team meetings, as opposed to project meetings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the __________ approach, the project team members place high value on both the outcome and the relationship between the individuals.
A) Collaborating, Confronting, or Problem Solving
B) Avoiding or Withdrawing
C) Competing or Forcing
D) Accommodating or Smoothing
Q4) Team members need to be careful to jump to the first solution suggested or the most obvious solution.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Project Communication and Documentation
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Q1) Written reports, like verbal communication, leave an impression-positive or negative-with the audience.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A high degree of face-to-face communication is especially important early in a project to foster team building, develop good working relationships, and establish mutual expectations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Half of making communication effective is
A) listening.
B) responding.
C) understanding.
D) talking.
Q4) Distribute an agenda well in advance of the project meeting.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Find a meeting room and select visual aids as the meeting is about to start. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Project Management Organizational Structures
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Q1) Companies with _______are in the projects business; they do not produce standard products.
A) an autonomous project organizational structure
B) a functional organizational structure
C) a matrix organizational structure
D) a project management office
Q2) ______ is found primarily in companies that are involved in very large projects.
A) An autonomous project organizational structure
B) A functional organizational structure
C) A matrix organizational structure
D) A project management office
Q3) In _______, employees work on multiple projects at any given time.
A) an autonomous project organizational structure
B) a functional organizational structure
C) a matrix organizational structure
D) a project management office
Q4) A disadvantage of an autonomous project organizational structure is that there is a high level of knowledge transfer among projects.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Project Management Information Systems
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Q1) ________ feature of project management information systems is the ability to document a project from beginning to end.
A) The communication
B) The budgeting and cost management
C) The sales and business development
D) The documentation management
Q2) When selecting a PMIS, the ___________ considerations are the memory required, the amount of hard disk space required, the processing speed and power required, the type of graphics display needed, and operating system requirements.
A) procedure requirements
B) installation requirements
C) adoption requirements
D) integration requirements
Q3) Project management information systems can generate a single of report about the project, its milestones, financials, earned value, resource allocation, and variance.
A)True
B)False
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