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Foundations of Project Management – Module 4 Challenge Answers 2025

Question 1

Which of the following best describe organizational structure?

  • How the organization’s identity and personality is demonstrated

  • How leadership creates operational processes within the organization

  • How changes are implemented within the organization

  • How members of the organization relate to and interact with one another

✅ Correct Answer: How members of the organization relate to and interact with one another

🔹 Explanation:
Organizational structure defines roles, reporting relationships, and how people connect and collaborate across the company.

Question 2

Which main function of a PMO involves training employees about optimal approaches and best practices?

  • Resource management

  • Productivity assessment

  • Strategic planning and governance

  • Common project culture

✅ Correct Answer: Common project culture

🔹 Explanation:
Creating and maintaining a common project culture includes standardizing methods, training staff on best practices, and promoting consistent ways of working.

Question 3

How does a company’s organizational structure impact project management?

  • It affects the project manager’s authority and the availability of resources.

  • It affects the project’s success rate and a team’s ability to improve.

  • It affects the project manager’s authority and the success of change management.

  • It affects the success of change management and the availability of resources.

✅ Correct Answer: It affects the project manager’s authority and the availability of resources.

🔹 Explanation:
Structure determines reporting lines and decision rights (authority) and influences how easily resources are allocated to projects.

Question 4

Fill in the blank: An organization’s culture provides context and acts as a guide for what their people value, how they operate on a daily basis, how they relate to one another, and how they can be expected to perform. In other words, organizational culture can be thought of as the company’s _____ .

  • strengths

  • personality

  • goals

  • structure

✅ Correct Answer: personality

🔹 Explanation:
Culture reflects the organization’s character and norms — essentially its “personality.”

Question 5

Which of the following questions can help project managers learn about a company’s organizational culture? Select all that apply.

  • When was the organization founded?

  • What is the company’s best-selling product/service?

  • How are projects typically run?

  • Are there company sanctioned social events?

✅ Correct Answer: How are projects typically run?; Are there company sanctioned social events?

🔹 Explanation:
Questions about how work is done and workplace rituals (social events) reveal norms, behaviors, and collaboration styles. Founding date and best-selling product reveal history/market, not culture directly.

Question 6

Which of the following best describes an example of successful change management?

  • HR adopts the new onboarding process that your project team was tasked to develop.

  • Your team is selected to implement a key project for your company’s Office of Procurement.

  • Your company is restructuring and you have been chosen to manage a key project.

  • Your team develops software that meets the success criteria presented to you by your company’s CFO.

✅ Correct Answer: HR adopts the new onboarding process that your project team was tasked to develop.

🔹 Explanation:
Successful change management is demonstrated by stakeholder adoption of the new process — actual behavioral change, not just project selection or meeting technical criteria.

Question 7

What questions can project managers ask themselves in order to help manage change effectively? Select all that apply.

  • How will the organization react to the change?

  • What are the best means of communication to convey the change?

  • Which leaders shouldn’t be informed of the change?

  • Which influencers in the organization can affect the change?

✅ Correct Answer: How will the organization react to the change?; What are the best means of communication to convey the change?; Which influencers in the organization can affect the change?

🔹 Explanation:
Understanding reactions, communication channels, and influencers helps plan and drive adoption. Deliberately excluding leaders is not a best practice.

Question 8

As someone interviewing for a project management role, you ask questions about how team members provide feedback to one another, ways the company celebrates success, and whether risk-taking is encouraged. Which part of a company’s culture do these questions help you learn more about?

  • Atmosphere

  • Processes

  • Policies

  • Mission

✅ Correct Answer: Atmosphere

🔹 Explanation:
These questions reveal the workplace climate — how people interact, celebrate, and tolerate risk — which is the organization’s atmosphere.

Question 9

As a project manager, you want to integrate change management into your project. You do this by ensuring stakeholders are aware of the upcoming changes. You introduce the deliverable to stakeholders by hosting a demonstration and a question and answer forum. These actions represent which change management best practice?

  • Follow a consistent process

  • Practice empathy

  • Use tools

  • Be proactive

✅ Correct Answer: Be proactive

🔹 Explanation:
Hosting demos and Q&A sessions engages stakeholders early and proactively addresses concerns before resistance grows.

Question 10

Which of the following refers to the council that helps project managers make and approve strategic decisions that affect both the company and the project?

  • Steering committee

  • Stakeholder

  • Chief Executive Officer

  • Office of legal affairs

✅ Correct Answer: Steering committee

🔹 Explanation:
A steering committee is a group of senior stakeholders who provide strategic guidance and approve major project decisions.