Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project employs a virtual team with team members located in different offices in the same city as well as across different cities. The project manager wishes to build trust and good working relationships. One of the best ways to do this is:

1. To use team-building strategies
2. Write a memo to the team detailing the need for good working relationships
3. Plan for job-rotation on a weekly basis
4. To encourage the use of telephonic conversations as much as possible

Q3. You are in the process of collecting and disseminating performance information to the stakeholders in the project. You want to predict the future performance of the project based on the current information. This performance information includes status reports, current status of risks, and summary of changes approved in the period. Which of the following methods will help you in predicting the future performance of the project?

1. Forecasts
2. A Pareto chart
3. A run chart
4. A Work Breakdown Structure

Q4. You need to shorten the duration of this project by five months. Included in your solution, based on the chart, would be to crash activity C. However, further analysis reveals that this activity has two days of float. What should you do?

1. Crash activities F and H
2. Crash activity D
3. Crash activities D and H
4. Crash activity
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Q5. A project is in progress, and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department to improve stakeholders’ confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following is an output of this process?

1. Quality problems
2. Quality metrics
3. Recommend corrective action
4. Quality audits.

Q6. An experienced project manager has just begun working for a large information technology integrator. Her manager provided her with a draft project charter and immediately asks her to provide an analysis of the risks on the project. Which of the following would be the BEST help in this effort?

1. An article from PM Network Magazine.
2. Her project scope statement from the project planning process.
3. Her resource plan from the project planning process.
4. A conversation with a team member from a similar project that failed in the past.

Q7. Which of the following is a chief characteristic of the Delphi technique?

1. Extrapolation from historical records from previous projects
2. Expert opinion
3. Analytical hierarchy process
4. Bottom-up approach.

Q8. You evaluate your critical path and determine the project will be completed two weeks ahead of management’s expected due date. What should you do?

1. Delay the project for two weeks
2. Prepare a list of identified risks that did not occur
3. Pull resources off the critical path to work on noncritical path activities
4. Add extra features that will enhance the project and require two more weeks to complete.

Q9. Which of the following actions decreases the risk of the project failing to meet its goals and objectives?

1. Discouraging changes to the initial project scope
2. Acquiring more than required resources
3. Active management of stakeholders
4. Fast-tacking the project schedule to finish the project before deadline

Q10. A project manager has discovered that a team member has gold plated the work done in an activity. In order to discover this, the project manager must have been performing:

1. Time management
2. Scope management
3. Cost management
4. Human Resource management