You are the program manager for your organization and are working with Tracy, one of the project managers in your program. Tracy is having some trouble understanding the concept of the critical path in her project's network diagram. Which one of the following is the best definition of the critical path?
You are the program manager for your organization. You're currently working with the program director, Nancy Holmes, to define a new program and the benefits the program should create. Of the following, which is the best definition of a benefit a program creates?
You are the program manager for a construction program. In this program you are requiring that all workers adhere to the identified safety requirements. Some of the work in the program you've decided is too risky for the program team members so you've hired specialists to manage the dangerous work. The outsourcing of the dangerous work to a specialist is what type of risk response?
Your program has a budget at completion of $1,550,000 and is expected to last one year.
Currently your program is 45 percent complete and has spent $725,000. According to the program schedule you are actually to be fifty percent complete by this time, but due to some vendor delays your program is running just a bit late. Based on this information which is performing worse, the cost or schedule?
How does a portfolio’s collection of work differ from that of a program’s collection of work?
A program manager recognizes that a successful resource being used in project A could also be used in project B.
What should the program manager do first to leverage the utilization of this resource?
A program manager is working on benefits. The program team created and updated a benefits register earlier in the program.
The benefits register should include which of the following?
The program manager of a multinational program must reconcile data including subject matter experts’ labor hour estimates, and other direct resource hour estimates. In addition, the program manager must prepare the cash flow analysis.
Which of the following should be considered to get a baseline budget?
What is the primary purpose of a project kick-off meeting?
You are the program manager for your organization. Your program has a budget of $750,000 and is expected to last one year. The program is currently 30 percent complete and has spent $245,000. The program is supposed to be 40 percent at this time. What is the schedule performance index (SPI) for this program?
