GISP GIS Project Management 3

Question 1

A Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) in GIS project management is used to:

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Assign roles and responsibilities to project activities

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Track project schedule milestones

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Document functional requirements of GIS software

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Allocate budget to work packages

Question 2

Which communication model component in project management accounts for potential misunderstandings caused by differences in knowledge, culture, or language between sender and receiver?

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Noise

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Feedback loop

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Encoding

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Channel selection

Question 3

In GIS project change management, the primary purpose of a Change Control Board (CCB) is to:

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Review, approve, or reject proposed changes to project baselines

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Develop the project's risk mitigation strategies

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Monitor project quality metrics and audits

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Assign tasks to project team members

Question 4

Which project closure activity ensures that lessons learned are documented and made available for future GIS projects?

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Administrative closure

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Contract closure

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Final performance reporting

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Procurement auditing

Question 5

A GIS project scope statement describes the project as developing a web-based parcel mapping application. Adding mobile offline capabilities mid-project without a formal change request is an example of:

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Scope creep

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Risk acceptance

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Schedule compression

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Resource leveling

Question 6

When a GIS project manager uses fast-tracking as a schedule compression technique, this means:

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Performing tasks in parallel that would normally be done sequentially

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Hiring additional resources to complete tasks faster

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Reducing task scope to meet the deadline

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Using automated tools to accelerate data processing

Question 7

In GIS project human resource management, the tool that graphically illustrates how the project is organized and depicts the relationships between project activities and the organizational units responsible for performing them is the:

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Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)

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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)

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Resource histogram