Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are in the Validate Scope process of your electronic goods manufacturing project. While reviewing some products, you have noticed that the tolerance for one product is 0.01 percent less than what was listed in the requirements documentation. This deviation may not be a problem for the customers, and it may not impair the product’s operation. What is your best immediate action in such a situation?

1. Notify the stakeholders about the deviation
2. Change the project management plan to allow for small deviation
3. Reject all products and restart the project
4. Discuss with your team about the quality testing

Q3. In order to complete work on your projects, you have been provided confidential information from all of your clients. A university contacts you to help it in its research. Such assistance would require you to provide the university with some of the client data from your files. What should you do?

1. Release the information, but remove all references to the client’s names
2. Provide high-level information only
3. Contact your clients and seek permission to disclose the information
4. Disclose the information

Q4. While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only. Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?

1. Compromise
2. Smoothing
3. Forcing
4. Withdrawal.

Q5. If a project manager wants to examine the project results over time to see if performance is improving, she would use a:

1. Trend report.
2. Forecasting report.
3. Status report.
4. Variance report.

Q6. You are working on a project which is under budget and ahead of schedule. The project is 85% complete, and the client comes and asks you to terminate the project because he fears a possible regulation can impact his project. You review the project parameters and find that you can complete the project before the proposed legislation comes into existence; moreover, you won’t need any extra funding. What will your next steps be?

1. Tell the client about your findings and ask him to reconsider his decision
2. Initiate the close project process
3. Immediately release your team members
4. Convince your management to discuss the issue with the client

Q7. You just found out that a major subcontractor for your project consistently delivers items late. You decide to postpone dealing with the issue until you have more time. What conflict resolution method are you using?

1. Ignoring
2. Compromise
3. Smoothing
4. Withdrawal.

Q8. Which of these is accurate regarding risk management?

1. Organizations are not likely to perceive risk as a threat to project success.
2. It has its origins in the uncertainty present in all projects.
3. The attitudes of individuals and organizations must not be a factor affecting risk management.
4. It is a passive activity in project management.

Q9. You are the project manager of a project executing work under a contract signed with a buyer organization. Just after the project has started, you notice that the buyer organization had made a mistake in the financial terms, and your organization stands to benefit considerably from this oversight. What should your stance be?

1. Do not take any action since a contract is a binding and legal document.
2. Discuss with your management how you could gain a bonus due to the increased revenue your company stands to gain.
3. Informally check with your counterpart in the buyer organization to see whether he or she noticed this error.
4. Bring the error to the notice of the buyer organization and have an amendment made to the contract since this was in good faith.

Q10. No matter how good you are in communicating, information distribution to stakeholders as planned is a challenging task. Many tools and techniques are used during the Manage Communications process except:

1. Project reporting
2. Work performance reports
3. Communication technologies
4. Communication skills