Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. As a project manager, you are concerned with both prevention and inspection of errors in a work product. The difference between prevention and inspection is:

1. Inspection is work the Quality Control (QC) team does; the Quality Assurance (QA) team does Prevention.
2. Inspection refers to keeping errors out of the process; prevention refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
3. Prevention refers to keeping errors out of the process; inspection refers to keeping errors out of the customer’s hands.
4. Inspection and prevention refer to the same activity depending on what stage of the project the activity is done.

Q3. A cost performance plan contains a description of:

1. The project costs.
2. How resources are allocated.
3. The budgets and how they were calculated.
4. The WBS level at which earned value will be calculated.

Q4. A new employee of the company is assigned to work on a project that is in the early planning processes. She has to decide if she will accept the assignment to the project or whether she wants to be assigned to a different project. However, the project manager is not at work and is not reachable. Where can the team member look to help her determine what work she is given on the project?

1. Activity definitions
2. Project management plan
3. Job descriptions
4. Responsibility assignment matrix

Q5. You are building a dam for a state government. Your organization is considered a specialist in dam design and overall management of construction activities. However, your organization lacks resources to execute the earth-works involved. You have subcontracted all the project’s earth-works to a local subcontractor. The quality of the subcontractor’s work is acceptable, but the subcontractor is not conforming to your organization’s health and safety standards. You escalated this to the subcontractor’s project manager, but he turned down your request. The subcontractor’s project manager is of the view that the request is out of the contract’s scope and none of the contract provisions require him to conform to your organization’s standards. You are agitated since you believe health and safety standards are globally accepted, and the contract does not have to explicitly state them. Further, according to the state law, you cannot terminate the contract since the subcontractor has not vio

1. Go for judicial arbitration as stated in the contact’s ADR provisions
2. Terminate the contract immediately since you will not compromise health and safety standards
3. Withhold the subcontractor’s payments to force compliance
4. Negotiate a contact amendment with the subcontractor requiring compliance to the standards

Q6. The Identify Risks process involves determining which risks may impact a project. It is considered an iterative process. What is the frequency of the iteration?

1. Every month
2. Every two weeks
3. The frequency of iteration will vary based on the situation
4. Every week

Q7. Fill in the blank. _______________ indicates that planning and documentation are iterative or ongoing activities.

1. Progressive management
2. Iterative elaboration
3. Waterfall development
4. Progressive elaboration

Q8. You are working for a large project organization with several project managers working on 15 projects. All project managers submit their status reports at month’s end. One of your fellow project managers, Jane, has reported an error in the past two months. From discussions with one of her project’s team members who is also working on one of your projects, you realize Jane is deliberately misreporting the project’s status to inflate her performance for the annual performance appraisal next month. The monthend review meeting is in two days, and you are preparing your own presentation for it. What should you say about her status report?

1. Investigate and verify the blame before reporting the incorrect status to the appropriate management.
2. Since there is no direct relationship between your project and hers, there is no need to intervene in this issue.
3. Prepare a brief of what you have discussed with her team member and report the inconsistency in the meeting
4. Send an email to her boss asking to check the contents of her report

Q9. During project executing, a project team member informs the project manager that based on her observations, the project cannot meet the quality standards set for it. The project manager meets with all parties concerned to analyze the situation. Which part of the quality management process is the pr manager involved in?

1. Manage Quality
2. Quality analysis
3. Perform Quality Control
4. Plan Quality

Q10. A project manager needs team members that report to a functional manager. What technique is the project manager most likely to use to obtain these resources?

1. Pre-assignment
2. Authority
3. Negotiation
4. Coercion