Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager has completed a detailed WBS and cost estimates for each work package. To create a cost baseline from this data, the project manager would:

1. Use the highest level of the WBS to estimate analogously
2. Sum up the work package and risk contingency reserve estimates
3. Roll up work package estimates into a project total and add management reserves.
4. Gain expert opinions of the project total costs.

Q3. You are managing a large project with many contractors working on it. A stakeholder comes to you and informs you that he never received the status report from one of your contractors. What will your next step be?

1. Stop the payment and ask for clarification
2. Call the contractor
3. Review the communications management plan
4. Inform management

Q4. You have received a proposal for an RFP that was sent to vendors. One of the vendors has proposed doing the project for $12,500. The cost for the project is $10,000, and their profit will be $2,500. Which type of contract is most suitable if the type of work is predictable and the requirements are well-defined and not likely to change?

1. Cost Plus Fixed Fee
2. Cost Plus Percentage of Cost
3. Fixed price
4. Cost Plus Incentive Fee

Q5. You are a project manager for an automotive parts company. Your organization was hired to produce clutches for an exotic car company. This will involve the design and production of custom clutches. During the course of the project, as you review a quality control statistics chart that examines every clutch produced for the month, you notice several cases where the spring component of the clutch is expanding with too much force and is falling outside the upper control limit. Which type of Quality Control tool are you most likely using?

1. Control charts
2. Statistical Sampling
3. Cause-and-Effect diagram
4. Precedence Diagramming Method

Q6. You have created the project charter but could not get it approved. Your manager and his boss have asked that the project begin immediately. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Set up an integrated change control process.
2. Show your manager the impact of proceeding without approval.
3. Focus on completing projects that have signed project charters
4. Start work on only the critical path activities 7

Q7. Jennifer has recently been asked to manage an office refurbishment project. She finds out that the chief financial officer of the company is resisting the project. The chief financial officer is a key project stakeholder. What must Jennifer do first?

1. Seek expert judgment from the project initiator
2. Seek support from the project sponsor to force project decisions
3. Conduct a team meeting to discuss this issue
4. Analyze options that might change or influence the chief financial officer‘s perception

Q8. An output of Plan Procurements, the procurement documents are also an input to all of the following, EXCEPT:

1. Approved Change Requests
2. Administer Procurements
3. Manage Project Team
4. Conduct Procurements

Q9. You are halfway through a major network rollout. There are 300 locations in the United States, with another 20 in England. A software seller has just released a major software upgrade for some of the equipment being installed. The upgrade would provide the customer with functionality they requested that was not available at the time the project began. What is the BEST course of action under these circumstances?

1. Continue as planned, your customer has not requested a change
2. Inform the customer of the upgrade and the impacts to the project’s timeline and functionality if the upgrade is implemented
3. Implement the change and adjust the schedule as necessary because this supports the customer’s original request
4. Implement the change to the remaining sites and continue with the schedule.

Q10. A technical team can begin to edit a large document 15 days after it begins writing it. What kind of dependency would this represent?

1. Start-to-start with a 15-day lead
2. Finish-to-finish with a 15-day lead
3. Start-to-start with a 15-day lag
4. Finish-to-start with a 15-day lag