Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project team member has completed his work on the project. Which of the following MUST the project manager do?

1. Provide the team member with copies of his work on the project
2. Update the employee’s records with the new skills acquired.
3. Invite him to the project closure party
4. Check to make sure he is happy with his performance.

Q3. The primary customer of a project has requested an application change during user testing. As project manager, how should you BEST address this issue?

1. Develop a risk mitigation plan.
2. Create a formal change request.
3. Inform the project sponsor of changes to scope, cost and schedule.
4. Ensure the scope change compies with all relevant contractual provisions.

Q4. The installation project has a CPI of 1.03 and an SPI of 1.0. There are 14 team members and each team member had input into the final project management plan. The customer has accepted the three deliverables completed so far without complaint and the responsibility assignment matrix has not changed since the project began. The project is being completed in a matrix environment and there are no contracts needed for the project. Though the sponsor is happy with the status of the project, one of the team members is always complaining about how much time his project work is taking. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Review the reward system for the project.
2. Try to improve schedule performance of the project
3. Meet with the customer to try to extend the schedule.
4. Gain formal acceptance in writing from the customer.

Q5. A team member wants to make a technical change o her activity that will add time to the activity estimate. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. See if there is any time available from another activity
2. See if there is enough reserve to handle the change
3. Send a change request to the change control board
4. Determine if the activity is on the critical path.

Q6. How many types of relationships between activities can be found on a precedence (AON) diagram?

1. 4
2. 3
3. 2
4. 1

Q7. Julia is managing a software development project. Recently, an unexpected event delayed the project by 15 days. Julia has called a team meeting to identify measures to take to bring the project back on schedule. A measure that is taken to bring future results back in line with the project plan is best described as?

1. Change request
2. Preventive action
3. Corrective action
4. Defect repair

Q8. A client has asked you to add to the scope of the project. The project is under budget and a little ahead of schedule. What should you do?

1. Approve the change
2. Determine the effects of the change on the project.
3. Ask the sponsor for approval to make the change
4. Get approval from the configuration change board.

Q9. All of the following are inputs to the procurement process EXCEPT:

1. Project scope statement
2. Market conditions
3. Product description
4. Procurement statement of work.

Q10. A project manager wants to make sure his plans for meeting the training needs of resources, and plans for releasing resources are complete. All of the following are inputs to this activity EXCEPT:

1. Enterprise environmental factors
2. Historical information
3. Project organizational charts
4. Activity resource requirement.