Level 0 exam — Project management

Exam — fresh questions

12 questions to validate the fundamentals: project nature, lifecycle, golden triangle and approach choice.
Answer everything, then click Check: your score and explanations will appear.

0.1 · Recall

1. What characterizes a project (vs an ongoing operation)?

It involves only one person It is temporary (start/end) and produces a unique deliverable It is repetitive It has no end

A project is a temporary effort for a unique outcome.

0.1 · Application

2. Must you be the domain's technical expert to lead a project?

Yes, always Only in IT They have no team No: the project manager is first an orchestrator

Their key skills are methodological and human.

0.2 · Recall

3. What are a project's classic phases?

Before, during, after Initiation, planning, execution, closure Analysis, code, delivery Idea, test, sale

Milestones (duration-free) mark decisions between phases.

0.2 · Application

4. Bilal places “validated mockup” between scoping and delivery. What is it?

A budget A risk A long task A milestone: a duration-free control/decision point

"Specifications validated", "acceptance pronounced" are milestones.

0.2 · Arbitration

5. Bilal wants to skip initiation to “save time”. What do you answer?

No: a false economy leading to drift and rework Always A good idea on big projects Yes, that's clever

Upfront invested time pays back generously in execution.

0.3 · Recall

6. What does the golden triangle link?

Cost, schedule, quality/scope Start, middle, end Risk, budget, schedule Client, team, management

These three constraints balance out; don't maximize everything.

0.3 · Application

7. Facing “faster, cheaper and more complete”, what does Bilal do?

He rejects the project He secretly cuts quality He asks for THE priority and proposes costed trade-offs He promises everything

Making constraints explicit protects the project.

0.3 · Arbitration

8. Budget is fixed and the date imposed, but the client adds features. What is the best lever?

Promise the date anyway Reduce scope rather than sacrifice quality Ignore the sponsor Secretly cut quality

Cutting quality creates debt paid later.

0.3 · Application

9. Why does Bilal list stakeholders from the scoping stage?

To fill a document To lengthen the project It is not useful Because neglecting an influential stakeholder causes failure

Their sometimes contradictory expectations weigh on trade-offs.

0.4 · Application

10. When to prefer an agile approach?

When the need is frozen Never When the need is uncertain or evolving Always

Predictive for stable needs, agile for uncertainty.

0.4 · Application

11. Frozen host migration vs fuzzy-need app: what does Bilal choose?

Predictive everywhere on principle Agile everywhere on principle Predictive for the migration, agile iterations for the app No method, improvise

The choice is contextual; hybrid combines by phase.

0.4 · Arbitration

12. A colleague claims: “agile is better, and means no planning”. Your answer?

No: each excels in its context, and agile plans by iterations No, predictive always wins They are identical Yes, agile always wins

The right reflex: choose or combine by project; agile doesn't mean plan-free.

What's next?

Score ≥ 80%: move on to Level 1 — V3 (scoping, SMART objectives, scope, stakeholders, project charter).
Score < 80%: review the missed sections (0.1 project vs operation, 0.2 phases and milestones, 0.3 triangle and trade-offs, 0.4 predictive vs agile), reread the explanations above, then retake the test.