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Telecommunications Project Management (TPM) Exam Questions and Answers, Exams of Information Technology

A comprehensive set of questions and answers related to telecommunications project management (tpm). It covers key concepts, processes, and knowledge areas within tpm, including project constraints, stakeholder analysis, project planning, and risk management. Designed to help students and professionals prepare for exams or gain a deeper understanding of tpm principles.

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RTPM EXAM {160+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS}
1. What are the two distinct processes of telecommunications project management?
correct answerdesign and implementation/instillation
2. List the nine project constraints. correct answerCost, time, quality, risk, resources,
stakeholders, technology, safety, environment
3. In order for a project to run effectively and efficiently, the ICT professional should create a list
of targeted objectives, identifying each as well as the . correct
answermilestones, project's overall outcome
4. The project's objectives should be developed in an effort to provide information about the job
location and , , , , , and . correct
answerwork area, customer requirements, project schedule, materials, safety issues and desired
outcomes
5. ICT Professional is responsible for knowing the: correct answerbackground of the project, project
milestones, specific roles, specific tasks, challenges and issues, methods and techniques, applicable
standards, security requirements, safety requirements, evaluation of work process, recordkeeping,
status and monitoring of both the company and customer, required meetings
6. What is a project stakeholder? correct answerA project stakeholder is a person who can positively
or negatively affect or be affected by the project.
7. Do stakeholders vary on projects? correct answeryes
8. Should a stakeholder analysis be done for individual projects? correct answeryes
9. Who is the person or group that provides financial support for the project? correct answerSponsor
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RTPM EXAM {160+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS}

  1. What are the two distinct processes of telecommunications project management? correct answerdesign and implementation/instillation
  2. List the nine project constraints. correct answerCost, time, quality, risk, resources, stakeholders, technology, safety, environment
  3. In order for a project to run effectively and efficiently, the ICT professional should create a list of targeted objectives, identifying each as well as the. correct answermilestones, project's overall outcome
  4. The project's objectives should be developed in an effort to provide information about the job location and , , , , , and. correct answerwork area, customer requirements, project schedule, materials, safety issues and desired outcomes
  5. ICT Professional is responsible for knowing the: correct answerbackground of the project, project milestones, specific roles, specific tasks, challenges and issues, methods and techniques, applicable standards, security requirements, safety requirements, evaluation of work process, recordkeeping, status and monitoring of both the company and customer, required meetings
  6. What is a project stakeholder? correct answerA project stakeholder is a person who can positively or negatively affect or be affected by the project.
  7. Do stakeholders vary on projects? correct answeryes
  8. Should a stakeholder analysis be done for individual projects? correct answeryes
  9. Who is the person or group that provides financial support for the project? correct answerSponsor
  1. Who initiates the project? correct answerSponsor
  2. Who is responsible for strategic planning of projects and programs? correct answerPortfolio Manager/Portfolio Review Board
  3. Who ensures that projects and programs meet the overall long-term objectives of the organization? correct answerPortfolio Manager/Portfolio Review Board
  4. Who is the primary beneficiaries (internal or external) of the completed project? correct answerClients/Users
  5. What is the term used to describe vendors, suppliers or contractors? correct answerSellers
  6. Who is an external organization that enters into a contractual agreement to provide components or services necessary for the project? correct answerBusiness Partners
  7. Who are external companies that have a special relationship with the enterprise? correct answerBusiness Partners
  8. Who can be potentially attained through a certification process? correct answerBusiness Partners
  9. Who fills a specified role such as installation, customization, training, or support? correct answerBusiness Partners
  10. Who have a management role in a core business area such as research and development, design, manufacturing, provisioning, testing, or maintenance? correct answerOperations Managers
  11. Who deals directly with producing and maintaining the marketable products or services of the enterprise? correct answerOperations Managers
  12. What incorporates completed projects into normal operations and provides the long-term support? correct answerOperations Managers
  1. defines the type, amounts, and limits of the work to be performed during the execution of the project. correct answerScope Management
  2. What is the breakup of a large project into multiple small projects? correct answerIntegration Management
  3. What covers time estimates and schedules? correct answerTime Management
  4. What includes the development of a cost estimate and project budget? correct answerCost Management
  5. What includes a detailed review of the design documentation throughout the project? correct answerQuality Management
  6. If the ICT professional is responsible for the build portion of the project, what two components are added to the quality management? correct answerDetailed review, physical quality, client value
  7. What includes scheduled meetings and the use of electronic media? correct answercommunication management
  8. What includes injury, professional damage, scheduling conflicts, and errors & omissions? correct answerrisk management
  9. What should be completed before a company submits a proposal on a project? correct answerrisk management
  10. What includes the identification of all internal and external stakeholders? correct answerstakeholder management
  11. Who is responsible for integrating and mitigating the influence and interests of each stakeholder into the project plan? correct answerThe Project Manager
  1. Who is responsible for ensuring the stakeholders' expectations are addressed within the overall constraints of the project? correct answerThe project manager
  2. An ICT professional must understand the client's , , , and. correct answerbusiness, industry, technology, and strategic plan.
  3. The ICT professional should understand the client's: , , and . correct answerstrengths and weaknesses, vertical market and unique requirements
  4. The purpose of a project plan is to provide: correct answerA tool for managing understanding of the work, a list of project objectives, specific tasks, staffing, roadblocks, a definition of documents used and a way to get a committed team.
  5. How do you end each project? correct answerwith a lesson learned meeting
  6. What is a lessons-learned meeting? correct answera meeting at the end of a project to figure out what went well and what to improve
  7. What is developed for the purpose of continuous quality improvement? correct answerA corrective action program
  8. List four questions to be asked during a lessons-learned meeting correct answerwhat went right or wrong, did we learn anything new, what process can we improve, what characteristics of the team worked the best
  9. What type of request is commonly used for design build contracts? correct answerRFP
  10. What is an invitation to contractors to submit a proposal for services? correct answerRFP
  11. Who is responsible for understanding the legal content of the RFP? correct answerPM

Who is the firm or individual hired by the owner to assist with the management of the bidding process and construction activities? correct answerConstruction manager Can a CM also be a general contractor? correct answeryes Who is the firm or individual that acts as a consultant to the owner in the design phase and as a general contactor during the construction phase? correct answerConstruction manager at risk Who is the firm or individual hired by the owner to complete the work required by the design documents? correct answerGeneral Contractor Who are the firms hired by the GC to complete portions of the work? correct answerContractors or Sub Contractors What is prepared for the OWNER and includes sketches, graphics, logical diagrams, general design criteria, and preliminary cost estimates? correct answerSchematic Design Once the owner approves the Schematic Design, what is the next step? correct answerDesign development In Design Development, at what point are the two formal reviews conducted? correct answer50 and 80 percent After the Design Development is approved, what is the next step? correct answerConstruction Document What communicate the owner's detailed requirements, coordination, and quality requirements in a set of construction drawings and specifications? correct answerThe Construction Document Who supplies the bidding and contracting requirements to be included in the project documentation? correct answerThe owner

Who coordinates advertising and sending invitations to the prospective bidders? correct answerThe owners Who produces addenda required to clarify the contact documents based on questions on bid documents (ABD)? correct answerThe design team Who participates during the evaluation or negotiation of the bids and helps the owner determine the successful bidder by considering alternates and substitutions? correct answerConstruction Manager To whom do subcontractors submit their pricing? correct answerGeneral Contractor To whom does the General Contractor submit his bid? correct answerThe Owner What is an invitation for the design professionals or contractors to submit a proposal for services? correct answerRFP - Request for Proposal What dictates the scope of the project but may leave many of the design and construction decisions in the hands of the responding firm? correct answerRFP - Request for Proposal What is used to solicit prices from prospective providers of products or services? correct answerRFQ - Request for Quoteation What is the primary objective of the RFQ? correct answerCompetitive pricing What is the delivery method whereby the owner contracts with separate design and correct answerThe design - Bid - Build What is the delivery method whereby the owner contracts with a single entity? correct answerThe design build Who comprises the DB team? correct answerGeneral contractor, subcontractor and a design professional.

  1. Who coordinates construction activities and is in charge of the construction site? correct answerThe CM
  2. Whose primary role during the construction phase is the complete the work? correct answerThe GC and subcontractor
  3. Who is responsible for obtaining permits? correct answerThe GC and subcontractor
  4. Who is responsible for arranging required tests? correct answerThe GC and subcontractor
  5. Who is responsible for maintaining record documents? correct answerThe GC and subcontractor
  6. Who is responsible for preparing submittals? correct answerThe GC and subcontractor
  7. Who is responsible for maintaining a clean and safe work environment? correct answerThe GC and subcontractor
  8. Who is responsible for correcting any work rejected by the owner's representative? correct answerThe GC and subcontractor
  9. List the three types of contracts: correct answerStipulated sum, cost plus fee, unit price
  10. What type of contract is the result of negotiations between the owner and contractor correct answerStipulated sum Most low-bid contracts are contracts. correct answerStipulated sum What type of contract has a shared savings clause or incentives for early completion? correct answerCost plus fee
  1. This form of contract often leads to value engineering that can generate savings during the construction phase of the building. correct answerCost plus fee
  2. What type of contract is used when the actual scope of work cannot be determined at the time of the bid? correct answerUnit price
  3. What is the key to obtaining effective bids? correct answerUnit price
  4. List the eight commonly required forms during construction administration. correct answernotice to proceed, meeting minutes, request for information, field order, proposal request, change order request, change order, punch list
  5. What is the form that tells the contractor to begin work on a particular date? correct answerNotice to proceed
  6. What document keeps track of the issues raised in meetings? correct answerMeeting minutes
  7. What is used to obtain a formal response to the contract documents? correct answerRequest for information
  8. What document is used to facilitate minor changes to the requirements that do not require a change order? correct answerField order
  9. True or False: A contractor may submit a change order request in response to a field order. correct answerProposal request
  10. What is used to solicit a quotation from the contractor for a proposed change to the project scope? correct answerChange order request
  11. What is submitted by the contractor in response to a field order OR as an uninitiated request for a change in scope? correct answerChange order
  1. What is made well after occupancy and once the owner deems the project is complete? correct answerFinal payments and release of retainage amounts
  2. During post-construction phase, who accepts responsibility for the operation of the building correct answerOwner
  3. What three elements are included in telecommunications designs? correct answerSpecifications, drawings, cost estimates
  4. What are the four types of specifications that can be used to define requirements? correct answerPerformance, proprietary, descriptive, reference
  5. What is the benchmark against which the respondent's performance is measured? correct answerA quality SOW
  6. True or False: The SoW should contain only qualitative and quantitative design and performance requirements. correct answeryes
  7. How does the ICT professional manage project expectations? correct answerDevelop detailed documents to manage expectations
  8. What is the contractual vehicle for expressing the specific agreement between the contractor and the owner of the project? correct answerScope of Work
  9. The SoW must include what 5 components? correct answerWhat needs to be performed, who is responsible for performing the work, when the work will be completed, where the work will be performed, how the contract performance will be determined.
  10. What are three types of SoWs? correct answerA performance type, procurement type, or a combo of both
  11. Which type of SoW tells the contractor the objectives and parameters to be accomplished and the end goal or desired achievement? correct answerPerformance type
  1. In which type of SoW is the contractor directed to use specific products and materials? correct answerProcurement type
  2. What are the four steps to preparing a SoW? correct answerBasic planning, outlining the SOW process, organizing the project team & writing and reviewing.
  3. List the seven areas required when outlining a SoW? correct answerobjectives, context of the project, technical considerations, tasks, acceptance, schedule, deliverables.
  4. What is the PM's main objective in developing a SoW? correct answerTo arrange and present the information in a manner that is: logical and readable, emphasizes important elements and conveys what is required.
  5. What is a summary that describes the purpose of the work and end product desired? correct answerthe scope statement
  6. What must provide the means of determining that the work is being performed properly? correct answerthe SOW
  7. True or False: The SoW should specify the number of copies of reports and the person to whom they will be delivered. correct answertrue
  8. True or False: The SoW should specify any physical arrangements necessary to assure the owner's capability to examine end products. correct answertrue
  9. When can safety be excluded from the scope? correct answerWhen the project only has the PM issuing the design documentation only
  10. When will safety be an area of greatest risk to the project? correct answerConstruction
  1. What type of risk analysis involves measuring the probability and impact of each risk? correct answerquantitative risk
  2. Impact can be assessed in terms of its effect on which four areas? correct answerTime, cost, quality, risk proximity
  3. What involves identifying the strategy for minimizing the effects of the risk to a level where the risk can be controlled and managed to ensure that the project objectives are achieved? correct answerrisk mitigation
  4. List 5 risk mitigation strategies. correct answeravoidance, transference, sharing, moderation, acceptance
  5. What is one way to avoid risk? correct answerAdd an assumption or exclusion in the SOW
  6. Risk control forms have 9 fields which are: correct answerunique ID, description, probability, impact, timescale, cost, owner, response, early warning signs
  7. How does an OBS (organization breakdown structure) differ from a traditional organizational chart? correct answerIt covers everyone involved regardless of the company or organization
  8. The WBS must cover all of the elements of the project including: , , and . correct answerplanning, implementing and closing out the project
  9. True or False: The WBS should be as specific as possible. correct answerTrue
  10. What uses network diagrams to identify predecessor and successor relationships on projects? correct answerPERT
  11. What uses a network diagram by identifying the chain of events that take the longest time to complete on the project? correct answerCPM
  1. List the four network diagram dependencies. correct answerfinish-start (Task A can't start til task B is finished), finish-finish , start-start, start-finish
  2. is the amount of time the start of a task can be delayed without affecting the duration of the project. correct answerSlack
  3. Tasks that have no slack are considered part of the. correct answercritical path
  4. What type of estimates are based on the time or cost it took to perform similar work in the past? correct answerAnalogous
  5. What type of estimates are based on dollar/foot, dollar/drop, and cost? correct answerParametric
  6. What type of estimates are developed by the client for budgetary purposes? correct answerengineering
  7. What are used to develop cost and time estimates for work that requires special tools or skills? correct answersubcontractor bids
  8. What is an estimate of each and every work package in the WBS? correct answerbottom-up
  9. What type of estimate is developed from the material and labor required to implement the project based on contract documents? correct answerdefinitive
  10. What is the PERT formula? correct answer(Optimistic+(4 x Most likely)+pessimistic)/
  11. What is a methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resources measurements to assess project performance and progress? correct answerEarned value management
  12. What is formerly known as BCWP and is the measure of work performed in terms of the budge authorized for that work? correct answerEarned value
  1. List the four types of NEW building commissioning. correct answerContinuous commissioning, milestone commissioning, acceptance phone commissioning and network operability commissioning.
  2. List two forms of commissioning for EXISTING buildings. correct answerretro-commissioning and re- commissioning
  3. When should systems and subsystems be thoroughly tested and all adjustments and calibrations completed? correct answerPreliminary testing & calibration
  4. How long is a burn-in period? correct answerTwo - fourteen day periods
  5. What should the commissioning technician do prior to scheduling the final acceptance test? correct answerConstruction phase
  6. What is the next step after completing the site survey and formulating a project implementation plan? correct answerHold an initial meeting with the entire ICT installation team
  7. What is the next step after completing the initial construction meeting? correct answerUpdate project implementation plan, conduct a pre-installation meeting
  8. What type of meetings may occur daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or as necessary to ensure that team members know the status of the project and what is expected of them? correct answerProgress meeting
  9. What is the next step after the project plan is accepted and submittals are approved? correct answerOrdering materials
  10. List the 3 basic locations for storing materials. correct answerWork site, company - controlled location, distributor from which the materials were purchased
  11. Study page 1-70, 1-71, 1-72 = know the difference between the kickoff meeting, the prime contractor and subcontractor coordination meetings, and the weekly progress meetings. Know who is

responsible for holding them, who is in attendance, and what happens during the meeting correct answer

  1. Study page 2-11 and 2-12. Know the pros and cons of each storage location and type correct answer
  2. How frequently is the cabling installation schedule updated? correct answerDaily
  3. When does the closeout phase of a project begin? correct answerAt the end of the testing and commissioning phase of a project
  4. When does the closeout phase of a project end? correct answerWhen there is a final acceptance of a project.
  5. List 4 PM considerations to complete prior to conducting OSP surveys. correct answerObtain all available documentation, obtain work safety requirements, obtain applicable pole attachment agreement, contact one-call system center
  6. What assists the OSP design PM in considering all of the information that may be pertinent to the OSP project? correct answerOutside plant design checklist
  7. is best accomplished by an electronic program that generates reproducible results using industry standard units of work and production rates for labor specific to OSP Work. correct answerOSP Cost Estimating
  8. What type of drawings are represented with an A? correct answerArchitectural drawings
  9. What type of drawings are represented with an M? correct answerMechanical drawings
  10. What type of drawings are represented with an E? correct answerElectrical drawings
  11. What type of drawings are represented with a P? correct answerPlumbing drawings