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Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management
TRUE/FALSE
1. Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top
management in the military, computer, and construction industries.
ANS: T
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2. A research report showed that the U.S. spends $2.3 trillion on projects every year, an amount equal to
40 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.
ANS: F
PTS: 1
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3. One attribute that helps define a project is that a project has a unique purpose.
ANS: T
PTS: 1
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4. A project should be developed using progressive elaboration, starting from specific details and
broadening in scope as it progresses.
ANS: F
PTS: 1
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5. Projects are often defined narrowly when they begin.
ANS: F
PTS: 1
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6. Projects rarely involve uncertainty.
ANS: F
PTS: 1
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7. Every project is constrained in different ways by its scope and cost goals; these limitations are
sometimes referred to in project management as the double constraint.
ANS: F
PTS: 1
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8. Questions about how long a project’s schedule should be are related to the issue of the project’s scope.
ANS: F
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9. Because projects involve uncertainty and limited resources, projects rarely finish according to discrete
scope, time, and cost goals as originally planned.
ANS: T
PTS: 1
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10. Managing the triple constraint involves making trade-offs between scope, time, and cost goals for a
project.
ANS: T
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11. Some people refer to the “double constraint” of project management to include quality and customer
satisfaction.
ANS: F
PTS: 1
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12. In the example of building a new house, the support staff wou