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Module 5 Challenge (Project Execution: Running the Project) Answers 2025

Question 1

Who is ultimately responsible for coordinating incoming and outgoing communication, connecting individuals to necessary information, and tracking who needs to receive what information and when?

  • The stakeholders

  • The project manager ✅

  • The project team members

  • The client

🔹 Explanation: The project manager owns the communication plan and ensures the right people get the right info at the right time.

Question 2

What are the potential downsides of using instant messaging? (Select all that apply.)

  • Distraction ✅

  • Quick response

  • Difficult to track ✅

  • Informality ✅

🔹 Explanation: Instant messaging can distract, be informal, and hard to track compared to documented channels.

Question 3

Fill in the blank: In order to set clear meeting expectations, help attendees prepare, keep everyone focused on the right topics, and clarify meeting expectations and goals, your meeting should have a(n) _____.

  • Agenda ✅

  • Timeline

  • Guest speaker

  • Leader

🔹 Explanation: A meeting agenda ensures clarity and focus.

Question 4

What is a benefit of making project meetings more accessible?

  • Stakeholders will provide better feedback for the project manager.

  • Project managers will get good reviews and a bonus.

  • Project managers get to assign more tasks to team members.

  • Team members feel included during the project meetings. ✅

🔹 Explanation: Accessibility helps all team members feel included, improving participation and communication.

Question 5

Which meeting type is the official beginning of the project and serves as a way to align the team’s understanding of the project goals with actual plans and procedures?

  • Project review

  • Stakeholder review

  • Project kickoff ✅

  • Status update

🔹 Explanation: A project kickoff meeting launches the project and aligns everyone.

Question 6

Which of the following is a best practice when trying to keep your content concise in an email?

  • Remove any details in the email that don’t contribute to your readers’ needs. ✅

  • Send the same email content to both executives and teammates.

  • Leave out key information in the email so that the reader has engaging questions.

  • Think of all questions the reader may have and answer them in the email.

🔹 Explanation: Trim irrelevant details so the reader quickly understands the main point.

Question 7

A project manager presents slides in a meeting and includes closed captioning for each video. How are they practicing inclusivity in the meeting?

  • They are speaking fast to get through material quickly.

  • They are aiming to impress the stakeholders.

  • They are making the presentation more interesting by including videos.

  • They are helping team members with hearing loss understand what is in the spoken presentation. ✅

🔹 Explanation: Closed captions make the presentation accessible to those with hearing loss.

Question 8

A project manager schedules a recurring meeting with team members across different time zones. What best practice can they employ to ensure the meeting is productive?

  • Keep the meeting time for all team members exactly the same for the duration of the project.

  • Keep the meeting times as early as possible for the project manager.

  • Prioritize the stakeholder’s availability when scheduling the meeting.

  • Alternate the meeting time across time zones so that all team members feel equal priority. ✅

🔹 Explanation: Alternating meeting times spreads inconvenience fairly across time zones.

Question 9

Which items should the team discuss during a status update meeting?

  • An individual’s performance review and feedback

  • Details of an upcoming project for the team

  • Reflections from a past team project

  • Change in the scope and quality of a project task ✅

🔹 Explanation: Status update meetings focus on current project progress, including scope and quality changes.

Question 10

In what type of meeting does the agenda include topics such as lessons learned about what’s going well, what the team should keep doing, and what can be improved?

  • Retrospective ✅

  • Stakeholder review

  • Project kickoff

  • Status update

🔹 Explanation: Retrospective meetings reflect on successes and opportunities for improvement after or during a project phase.

✅ Summary of Correct Answers

  • Q1: The project manager

  • Q2: Distraction; Difficult to track; Informality

  • Q3: Agenda

  • Q4: Team members feel included

  • Q5: Project kickoff

  • Q6: Remove details not needed

  • Q7: Helping team members with hearing loss

  • Q8: Alternate meeting time across time zones

  • Q9: Change in scope and quality of a project task

  • Q10: Retrospective