# Test your knowledge: Learning more about project manager roles and responsibilities

1. **Fill in the blank: \_\_\_\_\_ is how a project manager makes use of productivity tools and creates processes. The project manager may need to use certain tools and processes to do tasks like create a schedule and share information.**
    
    * Budgeting and controlling costs
        
    * Managing tasks
        
    * <mark>Planning and organizing</mark>
        
    * Removing unforeseen barriers
        
2. **Fill in the blank: \_\_\_\_\_ is how a project manager keeps track of the team's workload, ensures that things are getting done within a set period of time, and demonstrates progress to people outside the immediate team, like stakeholders.**
    
    * Budgeting and controlling costs
        
    * Planning and organizing
        
    * Removing unforeseen barriers
        
    * <mark>Managing tasks</mark>
        
3. **Fill in the blank: \_\_\_\_\_ is how a project manager oversees the financial components of a project and mitigates project issues and risks as they come up.**
    
    * Planning and organizing
        
    * Managing tasks
        
    * <mark>Budgeting and controlling costs</mark>
        
    * Removing unforeseen barriers
        
4. **Fill in the blank: A cross-functional project team is a team that has \_\_\_\_\_.**
    
    * similar skill sets and works toward a common goal
        
    * diverse skill sets and works toward individual goals
        
    * similar skill sets and works toward individual goals
        
    * <mark>diverse skill sets and works toward a common goal</mark>