Event Management Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Event Management is a comprehensive course that introduces students to the principles and practices of planning, organizing, and executing events across various scales and industries. The curriculum covers essential topics such as event design, budgeting, marketing, logistics, risk management, and the use of technology in event coordination. Through a combination of theoretical insights and practical case studies, students develop skills in project management, teamwork, and effective communication required for successful event delivery. By the end of the course, learners are equipped to manage diverse events such as conferences, festivals, corporate functions, and social gatherings, addressing both the creative and operational challenges of the field.
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Project Management in Practice 5th Edition by Jack R. Meredith
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Chapter 1: The World of Project Management
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Q1) A key deficiency of the aggregate project plan is that it provides little information about the resources committed to the various projects.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A project that is selected because it is necessary for continued operations exemplifies a sacred cow.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) A matrix that illustrates the magnitude of both product and process changes resulting from a project is called
A) the aggregate project plan
B) the product-process matrix
C) the aggregate master production schedule
D) the balanced scorecard
E) the R&D project portfolio
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Manager, the Organization, and the Team
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Q1) List the key characteristics of effective project team members.
Answer: Not Answered
Q2) During project formation stage, the major sources of conflict are all of the following except:
A) Priorities
B) Procedures
C) Technical
D) Schedules
Answer: C
Q3) What is a "virtual project?"
Answer: Not Answered
Q4) Why are negotiation skills an important criterion of a successful project manager?
Answer: Not Answered
Q5) The functional manager has expertise in the function he or she manages, but the project manager rarely has expertise in many of the project's technical areas.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Planning the Project
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Q1) List some of the results of the project launch meeting. Answer: Not Answered
Q2) Explain the process of developing a WBS.
Answer: Not Answered
Q3) Predecessors must be listed in the WBS because they are critical for scheduling.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The project manager can plan at all levels of the project.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) You can depict who is responsible for a task on a RACI.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q6) RACI stands for remove all cost information. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Budgeting the Project
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Q1) By very careful planning, a project manager can do away with cost uncertainty.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain how you would use the shape of a project's life cycle to resolve budget conflicts between a superior and subordinate.
Q3) Organizational tradition has little or no impact on the firm's project budgeting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Contingency planning is generally begun at that point in time when an organization finds itself in serious financial trouble.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Reason for cost uncertainty in projects include;
A) Prices may escalate
B) Different resources may be required
C) The project may take a different amount of time than was expected
D) All of the following
Q6) What are the key elements of contingency planning?
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Chapter 5: Scheduling the Project
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Q1) A start-to-finish linkage is the most common way of linking to successive task.
A)True
B)False
Q2) AON and AOA networks can both be used to depict any project network.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following terms is most closely associated with a task required by the project?
A) activity
B) event
C) milestone
D) network
E) path
Q4) What is activity slack?
Q5) When it was originally developed, PERT used certain (deterministic) methods to estimate activity duration.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Contrast "total slack" and "free slack"
Q7) What is a merger and what problems do mergers create?
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Chapter 6: Allocating Resources to the Project
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Q1) List and briefly explain five priority rules used to assign preference to activities when allocating scarce resources.
Q2) When crashing a task, the usual assumption is that a task is crashed the full amount or none at all.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All tasks can be crashed to some extent.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following priority rules makes resources available so that activities start on their LSTs whenever possible without increasing the project's duration?
A) as soon as possible
B) as late as possible
C) shortest task duration first
D) minimum slack first
E) most critical successor
Q5) Projects often compete with each other for the same resources.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Monitoring and Controlling the Project
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Q1) A common mistake is to focus too much on results and not enough on the intensity of activity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All good project plans have a change control system as a component. Briefly explain the change control process.
Q3) Define the terms monitoring and control.
Q4) It is often the case with particularly challenging or uncertain projects that the planning-monitoring-controlling effort is minimized so that the "real work" can be done. A)True
B)False
Q5) Mechanisms to gather and store data rarely need to be designed. A)True
B)False
Q6) The 50-50 approach for estimating progress overstates the EV of tasks that are near completion and understates the EV of tasks that have recently begun. A)True B)False
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Chapter 8: Evaluating and Terminating the Project
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Q1) Early project audits usually focus on the project's budget and schedule.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is most closely associated with the output of a project becoming a standard part of the operating systems of the sponsoring firm or client?
A) termination-by-addition
B) termination-by-extinction
C) termination-by-integration
D) termination-by-starvation
E) termination-by-elimination
Q3) A general audit is usually constrained by time and cost and limited to a brief investigation of project essentials.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The original criteria for selecting and funding the project are largely irrelevant for project evaluation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What content should be included in the audit report?
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