Microsoft Project Fundamentals

AppendixAnswers to the Review Questions

Lesson 1. Project Management Basics

1. B. Although the organization has been working with volunteers for years, the training program is new and unique to the nonprofit and is therefore a project rather than an operation.
2. C. The branding and marketing materials development was a project, but one of the deliverables of the project was the designed e-newsletter and its process, which is now being used every month. Because editing and disseminating the e-newsletter is a routine task repeating each month, it's considered an operation.
3. D. Different projects will have different priorities and limitations. The project manager must be aware of which elements are fixed and which are more flexible in terms of time, cost, and scope and then make project adjustments accordingly as needed.
4. A. There's no flexibility on the finish date and very little flexibility on the budget. This means that when changes happen in the project, you might need to reduce the level of quality or the scope of the project, either of which would save time or money.
5. B. In the initiating process, the project scope, goals, and budget are framed. From that, the planning process develops the schedule and resource assignments. When the plan is established and the team is set in place, the executing process begins with the project start.
6. A. In the monitoring process, you gather and enter status about tasks and the budget, then analyze whether the project is on track, ahead, or behind. ...