CTL Project Planning & Execution 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: When conducting a project kickoff meeting, the team leader's PRIMARY goal is to:
- Finalize the project budget
- Align the team on objectives, roles, and expectations (Correct answer)
- Assign all tasks to individual team members
- Identify and mitigate all project risks
Correct answer: Align the team on objectives, roles, and expectations
A kickoff meeting establishes shared understanding of goals, roles, and expectations before execution begins.
Question 2: A team leader is using Earned Value Management (EVM). If EV < PV, the project is:
- Ahead of schedule
- Behind schedule (Correct answer)
- Over budget
- Under budget
Correct answer: Behind schedule
When Earned Value is less than Planned Value, the project has completed less work than planned — indicating a schedule lag.
Question 3: Which planning document breaks down the total project scope into smaller, manageable deliverables?
- Risk register
- Project charter
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (Correct answer)
- Communication plan
Correct answer: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
The WBS decomposes project scope into hierarchical deliverables, making work manageable and assignable.
Question 4: A team leader discovers that scope creep is affecting the project timeline. The BEST way to address this is to:
- Accept all changes to maintain client satisfaction
- Implement a formal change control process (Correct answer)
- Reduce the original project scope to compensate
- Assign additional resources to absorb extra work
Correct answer: Implement a formal change control process
A formal change control process ensures all scope changes are evaluated for impact before being approved.
Question 5: During project planning, a team leader identifies interdependent tasks. Which scheduling method BEST accounts for task dependencies?
- Responsibility assignment matrix
- Network diagram (PDM) (Correct answer)
- Stakeholder register
- Risk matrix
Correct answer: Network diagram (PDM)
A Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) network diagram explicitly maps task dependencies and sequencing.
Question 6: A project team is asked to fast-track a project. This means they will:
- Reduce the project budget to speed up approvals
- Perform activities in parallel that were originally planned sequentially (Correct answer)
- Cut low-priority tasks from the project scope
- Increase quality inspections to avoid rework delays
Correct answer: Perform activities in parallel that were originally planned sequentially
Fast-tracking overlaps sequential activities to compress the schedule, though it may increase risk.
Question 7: Which element is MOST critical to include in a project communication plan?
- Team members' personal contact details
- The project's financial projections
- Who receives what information, how, and how often (Correct answer)
- The vendor selection criteria
Correct answer: Who receives what information, how, and how often
A communication plan must specify the audience, medium, frequency, and content of project communications.
CTL Project Planning & Execution 3
When conducting a project kickoff meeting, the team leader's PRIMARY goal is to: