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You’re a project manager on a team that is improving a product. You employ a variety of helpful tools and templates, along with your familiarity of popular project management styles, to help you document the project throughout its lifecycle. Which core project manager skill set are you demonstrating with these behaviors?

 

• Communicating and escalating
• Enabling decision-making
• Flexibility
• Strong organizational skills

 

 

As a project manager, you’re an expert at determining which tasks are most critical to the success of a project and helping team members identify and break down large tasks into smaller steps. What project management value does this represent?

 

• Delegation
• Prioritization
• Effective communication
• Optimism

 

 

Yui is a project manager working for a clothing company developing a new line of winter sleepwear. Which of the following is necessary for Yui to manage this project effectively?

 

• Yui must know every single detail about the project at all times.
• Yui must ensure team members understand their objectives and have what they need to be successful in their tasks.
• Yui must directly manage her team members while they do their tasks.
• Yui must be able to do the things that each of her team members can do.

 

 

Why is it important for a project manager to build relationships with customers?

 

• Because customers make money for the business
• So that the other team members don’t have to talk to customers
• Because a satisfied customer will attract more customers
• Because customers define the project requirements

 

 

As a project manager, one of your team members suddenly must leave your project to deal with a family emergency. To stay on schedule, you pull another team member off of a task that is not time-sensitive and assign him to the urgent task that your departing team member was working on. Which flexible planning strategy did you use to deal with this unexpected circumstance?

 

• Enabling decision-making
• Assessing external constraints
• Planning for risks and challenges
• Calculating “float” in your schedule.

 

 

As a project manager on a product team, which of the following responsibilities are part of your role within the team? Select all that apply.

 

• Hold all team members accountable for their assigned tasks.
• Directly manage each team member working on the project.
• Ensure that issues and risks are tracked and visible.
• Collaborate with other teams at the organization.