You are the project manager of your enterprise. While performing risk management, you are given a task to identify where your enterprise stands in certain practice and also to suggest the priorities for improvements. Which of the following models would you use to accomplish this task?
Correct Answer: A
Section: Volume D Explanation: Capability maturity models are the models that are used by the enterprise to rate itself in terms of the least mature level (having nonexistent or unstructured processes) to the most mature (having adopted and optimized the use of good practices). The levels within a capability maturity model are designed to allow an enterprise to identify descriptions of its current and possible future states. In general, the purpose is to: * Identify, where enterprises are in relation to certain activities or practices. * Suggest how to set priorities for improvements Incorrect Answers: D: There is no such model exists in risk management process. B: Decision tree analysis is a risk analysis tool that can help the project manager in determining the best risk response. The tool can be used to measure probability, impact, and risk exposure and how the selected risk response can affect the probability and/or impact of the selected risk event. It helps to form a balanced image of the risks and opportunities connected with each possible course of action. This makes them mostly useful for choosing between different strategies, projects, or investment opportunities particularly when the resources are limited. A decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. C: Fishbone diagrams or Ishikawa diagrams shows the relationships between the causes and effects of problems.
Question 157
You are the project manager of the NKJ Project for your company. The project's success or failure will have a significant impact on your organization's profitability for the coming year. Management has asked you to identify the risk events and communicate the event's probability and impact as early as possible in the project. Management wants to avoid risk events and needs to analyze the cost-benefits of each risk event in this project. What term is assigned to the low-level of stakeholder tolerance in this project?
Correct Answer: C
is incorrect. Risk-reward describes the balance between accepting risks and the expected reward for the risk event. Risk-reward mentality is not a valid project management term.
Question 158
An organization is conducting a review of emerging risk. Which of the following is the BEST input for this exercise?
Correct Answer: D
Question 159
What are the three PRIMARY steps to be taken to initialize the project? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. (Choose three.)
Correct Answer: A,B,C
Section: Volume B Explanation: Projects are initiated by sponsors who gather the information required to gain approval for the project to be created. Information often compiled into the terms of a project charter includes the objective of the project, business case and problem statement, stakeholders in the system to be produced, and project manager and sponsor. Following are the steps to initiate the project: * Conduct a feasibility study: Feasibility study starts once initial approval has been given to move forward with a project, and includes an analysis to clearly define the need and to identify alternatives for addressing the need. A feasibility study involves: - Analyzing the benefits and solutions for the identified problem area - Development of a business case that states the strategic benefits of implementing the system either in productivity gains or in future cost avoidance and identifies and quantifies the cost savings of the new system. - Estimation of a payback schedule for the cost incurred in implementing the system or shows the projected return on investment (ROI) * Define requirements: Requirements include: - Business requirements containing descriptions of what a system should do - Functional requirements and use case models describing how users will interact with a system - Technical requirements and design specifications and coding specifications describing how the system will interact, conditions under which the system will operate and the information criteria the system should meet. * Acquire software: Acquiring software involves building new or modifying existing hardware or software after final approval by the stakeholder, which is not a phase in the standard SDLC process. If a decision was reached to acquire rather than develop software, this task should occur after defining requirements. Incorrect Answers: D: Risk management is planned latter in project development process, and not during initialization.
Question 160
An organization has identified a risk exposure due to weak technical controls in a newly implemented HR system. The risk practitioner is documenting the risk in the risk register. The risk should be owned by the: