Module 1 Challenge :Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project (Google Project Management Professional Certificate) Answers 2025

1. Question 1 – Project initiation includes determining resources, documenting key components, and _____

❌ onboarding the team
❌ establishing a schedule
❌ finalizing budgets
✅ solidifying scope

Explanation:
Scope is defined during project initiation—schedules and budgets come later during planning.

2. Question 2 – Analysis comparing project value with financial/time costs

✅ Cost-benefit analysis
❌ Goals analysis
❌ Benefit analysis
❌ Visual analysis

Explanation:
Cost-benefit analysis compares expected gains vs. expenses.

3. Question 3 – Key components of project initiation

✅ Goals, scope, deliverables, success criteria, stakeholders, and resources
❌ Findings, scope, planning, deliverables, success criteria, resources
❌ Findings, scope, deliverables, monitoring progress, stakeholders, resources
❌ Goals, scope, planning, documentation, success criteria, resources

Explanation:
The correct set includes goals, scope, deliverables, success criteria, stakeholders, and resources.

4. Question 4 – Setting what is or isn’t part of the project

❌ Project charter
✅ Scope
❌ Success criteria
❌ Resources

Explanation:
Scope defines boundaries—what’s included and excluded in the project deliverables.

5. Question 5 – Who determines goals and success criteria?

❌ Project developers
❌ Project vendors
❌ Project caterers
✅ Project stakeholders

Explanation:
Stakeholders define goals and determine what success looks like.

6. Question 6 – Document defining goals and what’s needed to accomplish them

✅ project charter
❌ project schedule
❌ cost-benefit analysis
❌ risk analysis

Explanation:
The project charter sets goals, scope, and key details for approval.

7. Question 7 – Intangible benefits (Select all that apply)

✅ Brand perception
✅ Employee satisfaction
❌ Income earned
✅ Customer satisfaction

Explanation:
Intangibles are non-financial—brand image, employee morale, customer sentiment.

8. Question 8 – Calculate ROI after 12 months

First compute:
Revenue (G) = $22,000
Costs (C) = $10,000 + $2,400 = $12,400

ROI formula → (G – C) ÷ C = ROI
ROI → (22,000 – 12,400) ÷ 12,400 = 9,600 ÷ 12,400 ≈ 0.77 → 77%

Correct answer:

❌ (15,000 – 10,000) ÷ 12,400 = 45%
✅ (22,000 – 12,400) ÷ 12,400 = 77%
❌ (22,000 – 12,400) ÷ 22,000 = 25%
❌ (12,400 – 10,000) ÷ 22,000 = 8%

Explanation:
Using correct values for gain and cost yields a 77% ROI.

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