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Module 3 Challenge :Foundations of Project Management (Google Project Management Professional Certificate) Answers 2025

1. Question 1 – Creating a timeline & defining tasks is part of which phase?

❌ Close the project
❌ Initiate the project
✅ Making a plan
❌ Execute and complete tasks

Explanation:
Defining tasks and timelines occurs during the planning phase.


2. Question 2 – After documenting deliverables & getting project approval, next phase is

❌ Execute the project
❌ Initiate the project
❌ Close the project
✅ Plan the project

Explanation:
Approval moves the project from initiation into planning.


3. Question 3 – Methodology where tasks/phases can overlap

❌ Ordered methodology
✅ Agile methodology
❌ Process methodology
❌ Linear methodology

Explanation:
Agile allows flexibility and overlapping phases for continuous delivery.


4. Question 4 – Best description of Waterfall methodology

❌ Move quickly by doing tasks at once
❌ Eighties method defining measuring, analyzing, improving
✅ Created in the seventies, sequential ordering: initiating → planning → executing → closing
❌ Eighties method combining/eliminating tasks

Explanation:
Waterfall is a 1970s method with a strict sequential order of phases.


5. Question 5 – Strict deliverables & rigid timelines require

✅ Waterfall methodology
❌ Scrum methodology
❌ Agile methodology
❌ Control methodology

Explanation:
Waterfall works best when requirements are fixed and predictable.


6. Question 6 – Preventing reversion to inefficient ways is in which Six Sigma phase?

✅ Control
❌ Analyze
❌ Define
❌ Improve

Explanation:
Control ensures the improved process is maintained.


7. Question 7 – Setting schedule & defining team roles occurs in

❌ Closing
❌ Updating
❌ Initiating
✅ Planning

Explanation:
Scheduling and assigning roles are key planning activities.


8. Question 8 – Notifying clients about delays due to obstacles occurs during

✅ Execution
❌ Planning
❌ Closing
❌ Initiation

Explanation:
Issues typically arise and are communicated during execution.


9. Question 9 – Documenting what went well & improvement ideas occurs in

❌ Make a plan
❌ Execute the project
❌ Initiate the project
✅ Close the project

Explanation:
Reflection and lessons learned belong to project closure.


10. Question 10 – Tool with sticky notes for “To Do → In Progress → Done”

❌ Lean
✅ Kanban
❌ Waterfall
❌ Agile

Explanation:
Kanban uses visual task boards to track workflow.


🧾 Summary Table

Q No. Correct Answer Key Concept
1 Making a plan Planning tasks & timeline
2 Plan the project Post-approval step
3 Agile methodology Overlapping phases
4 1970s sequential phases Waterfall definition
5 Waterfall Strict timelines & deliverables
6 Control Sustain improvements
7 Planning Scheduling & role setup
8 Execution Delays surface in execution
9 Close the project Lessons learned
10 Kanban Visual task workflow