Skip to content

Module 1 Challenge (Project Planning: Putting It All Together) Answers 2025

Question 1

You create a work breakdown structure. One of the major milestones is securing a venue for a conference. There are smaller jobs that must be done to reach each milestone. What are the smaller jobs known as?

  • Deliverables

  • Checklist items

  • Tasks and sub-tasks

  • Roles and responsibilities

✅ Correct Answer: Tasks and sub-tasks

🔹 Explanation:
A WBS breaks milestones into smaller pieces of work — tasks and sub-tasks — that roll up to each milestone.

Question 2

Before starting the planning phase, you complete the initiation phase. What steps do stakeholders or the clients take during the initiation phase?

  • Stakeholders assign a project manager, approve goals, determine the scope and deliverables, and approve the project charter.

  • Stakeholders assign a project manager, review risk management tools, and approve the budget.

  • Stakeholders assign a project manager, select the tools to manage the project, view meeting notes, and approve the budget.

  • Stakeholders assign a project manager, determine the scope and deliverables, and select the team.

✅ Correct Answer: Stakeholders assign a project manager, approve goals, determine the scope and deliverables, and approve the project charter.

🔹 Explanation:
Initiation clarifies high-level goals, scope, deliverables, and produces/approves the project charter and sponsor assignment.

Question 3

During the project planning phase, which of the following occur?

  • The client selects which vendors work on the project.

  • The project manager creates the schedule, budget, and risk management plan.

  • The project manager completes a plan, then puts it away until the project closing phase.

  • The client reviews the project plans for approval.

✅ Correct Answer: The project manager creates the schedule, budget, and risk management plan.

🔹 Explanation:
Planning is when the PM develops the schedule, budget, resources, and risk/communication plans to guide execution.

Question 4

As a project manager, you notice that a new government regulation may add additional tasks to the project. You bring your concern about the new regulation to the stakeholders for a discussion on how to lessen its impacts. What component of the planning phase does this situation represent?

  • Schedule

  • Budget

  • Risk management

  • Task management

✅ Correct Answer: Risk management

🔹 Explanation:
Identifying external changes (like regulation) and discussing mitigation with stakeholders is part of risk management.

Question 5

As a project manager, you facilitate a kick-off meeting. During the meeting, you introduce the shared vision of the project and why it matters. Where on the agenda should this be?

  • Roles

  • Background

  • Questions

  • Goals and scope

✅ Correct Answer: Background

🔹 Explanation:
The shared vision and project context belong in the background/context section of a kickoff agenda to set purpose and alignment.

Question 6

Suppose as a project manager, you’re running a kick-off meeting. You accurately define what work is and is not included in the project. What agenda item does this represent?

  • Scope

  • Roles

  • Intended outcome

  • Project purpose

✅ Correct Answer: Scope

🔹 Explanation:
Defining what is and isn’t included is specifying the project scope.

Question 7

Fill in the blank: Reaching a project milestone is an important point within the project schedule. It indicates progress and usually signifies the _____ of a deliverable or phase of the project.

  • time

  • scope

  • completion

  • goals

✅ Correct Answer: completion

🔹 Explanation:
Milestones typically mark the completion of a key deliverable or phase.

Question 8

Suppose that as a project manager you had a goal of publishing a report. Which of the following would you consider the milestone for this goal?

  • Interview a writer

  • Conduct research

  • Draft sections of the report

  • Complete first draft of report

✅ Correct Answer: Complete first draft of report

🔹 Explanation:
A milestone is a significant checkpoint — completing the first draft is a clear, measurable milestone toward publishing.

Question 9

You create deadlines for each milestone on a project. You have met with team members to get an estimate of how long it will take to complete tasks. What is another important consideration when you are setting deadlines?

  • The needs of your stakeholders

  • The team’s performance reviews

  • Your teammates’ skill sets

  • Team members’ interest

✅ Correct Answer: The needs of your stakeholders

🔹 Explanation:
Stakeholder needs (e.g., launch dates, business events) often drive deadlines and must be balanced with team estimates.

Question 10

What is the outcome of creating a successful work breakdown structure (WBS)?

  • A set of project milestones that ladder up to each of your tasks

  • A resource for team members to choose which tasks they will work on

  • A set of project tasks that ladder up to each of your milestones

  • A resource for stakeholders to choose their favorite milestone

✅ Correct Answer: A set of project tasks that ladder up to each of your milestones

🔹 Explanation:
A WBS decomposes milestones/deliverables into tasks and sub-tasks that roll up to those milestones.