Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project has a payback period of nine months. What does this mean?

1. It will take the project nine months to start incurring costs
2. The project will be complete in nine months
3. The first nine months of the project will provide profit to the company
4. It will take the project nine months to cover the investment and start generating revenue

Q3. A project team is in the design stage of a new mountain bicycle prototype. The team is in the process of identifying which type of frame and material will provide high performance at a low cost. Which of the following is the MOST likely technique used to determine these variables?

1. Benefit cost analysis
2. Ishikawa diagram
3. Design of experiments
4. System flowchart

Q4. The level of detail of performance reports is described in the:

1. Project charter.
2. Communications management plan.
3. Monthly requests for information by management.
4. Project’s monthly needs.

Q5. Earned value measurement is an example of:

1. Performance reporting
2. Planning control
3. Ishikawa diagrams
4. Integrating the project components into a whole.

Q6. The key difference between Validate Scope and Control Quality is:

1. Validate Scope is concerned with meeting the quality standards specified.
2. Validate Scope is concerned with the acceptance of deliverables.
3. Validate Scope does not apply in projects that have been cancelled.
4. Validate Scope can never be performed in parallel with Control Quality.

Q7. Which of the following BEST describes when additional risk responses are documented?

1. When you are in the Plan Risk Management process
2. When an unknown risk occurs
3. When the impact of a known risk event is more significant than expected
4. When a risk due to happen multiple times on a project does not occur the first time it is expected.

Q8. 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

Q9. A project needed to monitor the technical performance of the project and capture data related to how many errors or defects had been identified and how many remained uncorrected. Which of the following techniques should the project use?

1. Scatter diagram
2. Flowchart
3. Histogram
4. Control chart

Q10. 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