Module 3 Challenge :Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project (Google Project Management Professional Certificate) Answers 2025

1. Who interacts with stakeholders throughout a project?

❌ Project sponsor
❌ Product vendor
✅ Project manager
❌ Product lead

Explanation:
The project manager is responsible for ongoing communication with stakeholders.

2. Responsibilities of the project sponsor (Select all)

✅ Ensure the project delivers agreed value
❌ Plan and organize the project
✅ Play a key leadership role
✅ Fund the project

Explanation:
Sponsors fund, support, and guide the project—not manage day-to-day planning.

3. Who helps define goals and outcomes?

✅ Stakeholders
❌ Minor players
❌ Project vendors
❌ Team members

Explanation:
Stakeholders define project needs and success criteria.

4. Typical responsibilities of project team members (Select all)

❌ Initiate the project
✅ Take on multiple tasks
✅ Carry out day-to-day work
✅ Provide technical expertise

Explanation:
Team members execute tasks and provide domain expertise; initiation is leadership’s role.

5. In stakeholder analysis, what does interest measure?

❌ How much money they invested
✅ How much the project outcome will affect them
❌ How much their actions affect outcome
❌ How many meetings they attend

Explanation:
Interest = the degree to which the project impacts the stakeholder.

6. After identifying stakeholder interest & influence, next step is:

❌ Complete a budget analysis
❌ Determine influence (already done)
✅ Assess their ability to participate & find ways to involve them
❌ Schedule a meeting

Explanation:
After mapping influence/interest, PM decides how to engage each stakeholder.

7. What does RACI stand for?

❌ Responsible, Appeased, Consulted, Interested
✅ Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed
❌ Responsible, Accountable, Considered, Interested
❌ Responsible, Accountable, Considered, Informed

Explanation:
This is the standard RACI responsibility assignment model.

8. What leads to role confusion? (Select all)

✅ Team members performing overlapping work
❌ Only one person designated as accountable
✅ Ownership of decisions is unclear
❌ Workloads are unbalanced

Explanation:
Role confusion happens when duties overlap or decision ownership is unclear.

9. After listing required tasks & number of team members, next step is:

✅ Assign roles for each team member
❌ Provide sponsorship
❌ Determine business value
❌ Gauge interest

Explanation:
The next staffing step is to match people to roles.

10. Helping a stakeholder who needs more time to decide (Select all)

❌ Start work before decision
✅ Over-communicate early
❌ Send daily progress emails
✅ Hold frequent meetings

Explanation:
Increasing communication and discussions helps stakeholders make informed decisions.

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