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Module 1 Challenge (Project Execution: Running the Project) Answers 2025

Question 1

Imagine you are managing a project that hits a major milestone early, putting the team ahead of schedule. This alters the project plan’s original course of action. What is the name for this type of event?

  • A risk

  • An issue

  • A reset

  • A deviation

✅ Correct Answer: A deviation

🔹 Explanation:
Any change (positive or negative) from the original project plan is called a deviation.

Question 2

What item should you track during the project execution phase to ensure the project successfully moves towards its completion date?

  • Retrospective notes

  • Team performances

  • Project proposal

  • Project schedule

✅ Correct Answer: Project schedule

🔹 Explanation:
Tracking the schedule ensures the project is progressing toward its planned completion date.

Question 3

Which tool provides an overview of a project’s common elements, summarizes them as a snapshot, and communicates project status to the team and stakeholders in a centralized place?

  • Gantt chart

  • Project status report

  • Burndown chart

  • Roadmap

✅ Correct Answer: Project status report

🔹 Explanation:
A project status report gives a snapshot summary of progress, milestones, and risks to both team and stakeholders.

Question 4

Which tool is most useful near the end of a project, when meeting deadlines is the top priority?

  • Probability and impact matrix

  • Burndown chart

  • Gantt chart

  • Roadmap

✅ Correct Answer: Burndown chart

🔹 Explanation:
Burndown charts track work remaining against time, making them especially useful when deadlines are critical.

Question 5

A software company builds an application to track employee satisfaction. A contractor delays the completion of a key task. Which of the triple constraints does this change impact the most?

  • Scope

  • Timeline

  • Budget

✅ Correct Answer: Timeline

🔹 Explanation:
Delays caused by a contractor directly affect the timeline of the project.

Question 6

Which of the following methods can be used to communicate change to stakeholders during a project? (Select all that apply.)

  • Work breakdown structure

  • Escalation email

  • Change request form

  • Project charter

✅ Correct Answer: Escalation email, Change request form

🔹 Explanation:
Both escalation emails and formal change request forms are appropriate methods to communicate change.

Question 7

Imagine that a toy company is known for making a popular doll, but their design team decides to test out a new material for the doll’s clothes before beginning a new batch. This test has what types of dependencies? (Select all that apply.)

  • Internal dependency

  • Priority dependency

  • Discretionary dependency

  • External dependency

✅ Correct Answer: Internal dependency, Discretionary dependency

🔹 Explanation:
The test is an internal dependency (done by the team) and a discretionary dependency (a choice, not mandatory).

Question 8

What are the types of documentation you should create as a project manager to track potential events that might affect a project’s outcome? (Select all that apply.)

  • Task List

  • Risk Register

  • Probability and impact matrix

  • Project Scope Summary

✅ Correct Answer: Risk Register, Probability and impact matrix

🔹 Explanation:
These are the main tools for tracking and analyzing risks. Task lists and scope summaries don’t track risks.

Question 9

When writing an escalation email, you open the email with “I hope you all had a great, long weekend.” Which of the five keys to writing a strong escalation email is this an example of?

  • Make a request

  • Explain the consequences

  • Maintain a friendly tone

  • Explain the issue

✅ Correct Answer: Maintain a friendly tone

🔹 Explanation:
A polite, friendly introduction softens the tone of an escalation email and builds goodwill.

Question 10

During the execution phase, an issue arises that will cause the project’s costs to overrun the budget. How can the project manager address the issue?

  • Ask your team to work more hours to meet timelines

  • Document the issue and move forward

  • Make a mental note to discuss in the retrospective

  • Escalate the issue to leadership

✅ Correct Answer: Escalate the issue to leadership

🔹 Explanation:
Budget overruns require escalation to leadership/stakeholders, since they own budget decisions.

Question 11

As a project manager, you’re implementing the ROAM technique for a new risk. You assign the risk to a team member so they can resolve it and monitor it to completion. Which ROAM action did you take?

  • Resolved

  • Owned

  • Accepted

  • Mitigated

✅ Correct Answer: Owned

🔹 Explanation:
Assigning responsibility for a risk means it is owned by that person, who must monitor and address it.