Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Anne is a project manager. She has evaluated certain responses from prospective sellers and wants to select a contract model that will transfer risk to the seller. Which of the following should she select in order to achieve this?

1. Time and Material contract
2. Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee contract
3. Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee contract
4. Fixed-price contract

Q3. On-demand scheduling is one of the techniques used in agile environments. This type of scheduling ______ work from a backlog as resources become available.

1. Extrapolates
2. Predicts
3. Pulls
4. Pushes

Q4. To reduce delivery delays and process downtime, your organization has recognized a need to replace their legacy manufacturing system with a modern software application. Your IT director anticipates a project to fulfill this business need; however, he warns that the new project’s budget cannot exceed $75,000 due to shortages in the department budget. He also indicates that no additional staff will be allocated to this project other than the existing IT staff. If you become the project manager, you would document these initial project conditions as:

1. Project assumptions
2. Business case
3. Project constraints
4. Enterprise environmental factors

Q5. An employee approaches you and asks to tell you something in confidence. He advises you that he has been performing illegal activities within the company for the last year. He is feeling guilty about it and is telling you in order to receive advice as to what he should do. What should you do?

1. Ask for full details.
2. Confirm that the activity is really illegal.
3. Inform your manager of the illegal activity.
4. Tell the employee to inform his boss.

Q6. You are managing a project in a just-in-time environment. This will require more attention, because the amount of inventory in such an environmental is generally:

1. 45 percent
2. 10 percent
3. 12 percent
4. 0 percent

Q7. You have been assigned a very critical project. Although your team members are experts and efficient, your team performance is poor. What will you do to improve your team performance?

1. Train them
2. Warn them
3. Co-locate them
4. Punish them for poor performance

Q8. Having to constantly push the team to perform is an example of a LACK of:

1. Project continuity
2. Team buy-in
3. Management support
4. Team accord

Q9. A technique that iterates the project schedule many times to calculate a distribution of possible project completion dates is:

1. Monte Carlo Analysis
2. Montford analysis
3. Pareto Cost chart
4. Deming Analysis

Q10. Inputs to the Plan Communications Management process include all the following EXCEPT:

1. Communications requirements.
2. Stakeholder management strategy.
3. Company culture.
4. Forecasts.