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Module 3 Challenge (Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project) Answers 2025

Question 1

Which of the following responsibilities does project management include?

  • Apply technical expertise to execute the project’s day-to-day tasks

  • Sign off on budget and resources

  • Oversee the scope, schedule, budget, and quality of a project

  • Ensure that the business meets its overall objectives

✅ Correct Answer: Oversee the scope, schedule, budget, and quality of a project

🔹 Explanation:
Project managers are responsible for balancing scope, time, cost, and quality — the four pillars of project management.

Question 2

What is a responsibility of the project sponsor?

  • To ensure the successful completion of a project

  • To conduct meetings with the team members and assign tasks

  • To create the project charters and RACI charts

  • To complete the daily tasks of the project

✅ Correct Answer: To ensure the successful completion of a project

🔹 Explanation:
Sponsors provide vision, resources, and authority, and they are ultimately accountable for the project’s success.

Question 3

Which stakeholders are indirectly impacted by a project’s success?

  • Key players

  • Secondary stakeholders

  • Minor players

  • Primary stakeholders

✅ Correct Answer: Secondary stakeholders

🔹 Explanation:
Secondary stakeholders are not directly involved but are still affected by the project’s outcomes (e.g., other departments, communities).

Question 4

Who uses technical and interpersonal skills to carry out day-to-day project tasks?

  • Project sponsors

  • Project team members

  • Secondary stakeholders

  • Project managers

✅ Correct Answer: Project team members

🔹 Explanation:
Team members apply technical and interpersonal skills to deliver tasks and produce project outputs.

Question 5

What type of chart is a visual representation of all stakeholders in a project?

  • Project task chart

  • RACI chart

  • Stakeholder analysis chart

  • Project budget summary

✅ Correct Answer: Stakeholder analysis chart

🔹 Explanation:
A stakeholder analysis chart identifies and categorizes stakeholders, often by influence and interest.

Question 6

What does a power grid represent when conducting a stakeholder analysis?

  • A power grid visualizes how many tasks each stakeholder can complete

  • A power grid visualizes each stakeholder’s interest and influence in the project

  • A power grid determines out accomplishments of each stakeholder

  • A power grid determines the stakeholders’ roles based on their position on the grid

✅ Correct Answer: A power grid visualizes each stakeholder’s interest and influence in the project

🔹 Explanation:
The power/interest grid maps stakeholders based on their level of power and their level of interest in the project.

Question 7

Which of the following statements are true of RACI charts? (Select all that apply)

  • Assess each stakeholder’s ability to participate and build necessary partnerships

  • Define project roles and responsibilities to ensure efficiency

  • Determine which stakeholders are responsible for which tasks

  • Record the level of risk stakeholders bring to the project

✅ Correct Answer: Define project roles and responsibilities to ensure efficiency; Determine which stakeholders are responsible for which tasks

🔹 Explanation:
RACI clarifies who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for each task, ensuring efficiency and clarity.

Question 8

As a project manager, you have a team member who is a subject matter expert and will answer questions as needed during the execution of the project. What role will this person be assigned in a RACI chart?

  • Responsible

  • Consulted

  • Accountable

  • Informed

✅ Correct Answer: Consulted

🔹 Explanation:
SMEs (subject matter experts) provide input and advice, so they are “Consulted” in a RACI chart.

Question 9

As a project manager, you make considerations when building a team. You decide how many people should be on the team, if they have the time to work on the project, and what expertise each team member needs for their tasks. What else should you consider when building a team?

  • Degree of project sponsor engagement

  • Likelihood of project success

  • Whether the project has a strong business case

  • Team member motivation

✅ Correct Answer: Team member motivation

🔹 Explanation:
Motivation affects productivity and collaboration — critical factors for team effectiveness.

Question 10

As a project manager, you’re prioritizing stakeholders with a power grid. One stakeholder has high power and low interest. What level of engagement should the team have with the stakeholder?

  • Manage closely

  • Show consideration

  • Monitor

  • Meet their needs

✅ Correct Answer: Meet their needs

🔹 Explanation:
High-power/low-interest stakeholders should have their needs met without excessive updates — keep them satisfied but not overloaded.