Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are managing a project with a budget of 500,000 USD, and 250,000 USD has been spent. Upon review, you observe that only 40% of the work has been completed. Your schedule says that you should have completed 50% of the work. What is estimate at completion (EAC)?

1. 625,000 USD
2. 500,000 USD
3. 400,000 USD
4. 375,000 USD

Q3. The networking vendor has contacted the project manager to inform her that the recent earthquake will impact the delivery of critical components. The project team meets to determine the impact on the overall project and determines that staffing will not be affected, but that changes will need to be made in the areas of risk and cost management. It is too soon to tell if quality baselines will be affected by this schedule change. What is the project team involved in here?

1. Configuration management
2. Work authorization analysis
3. Status review meeting
4. Integrated change control

Q4. Which of these types of precedence relationships is least commonly used in the Precedence Diagramming Method?

1. Start to Start
2. Finish to Finish
3. Finish to Start
4. Start to Finish

Q5. You have just been assisted as project manager for a large manufacturing project. This one-year project is about halfway done. It involves five different sellers and 20 members of your company on the project team. You want to quickly review where the project now stands. Which of the following reports would be the MOST helpful in finding such information?

1. Work status
2. Progress
3. Forecast
4. Communications

Q6. A software vendor on your project is hoping to be awarded a contract providing software for another project at your company. You are not the manager of the other project. However, the vendor offers you tickets to an upcoming professional sports event if you will "put in a good word" for his company to the vendor selection team of the other project. What do you do?

1. Fire the vendor
2. Decline the tickets but provide a recommendation for the vendor
3. Decline the tickets and notify appropriate management of the situation
4. Accept the tickets if company policy allows it and provide a recommendation for that vendor to the other project team

Q7. Two months into a design project, the customer requested a modification to the product. The change was made without notifying the project manager. During the final testing phase, results were different then what was planned for. This scenario is BEST thought of as an example of which of the following?

1. Poor scope control
2. Poor adherence to the communications management plan
3. Poor development of the quality management plan
4. Poor definition of the test plan

Q8. The financial systems project has a relatively high profile in the organization and has received great support from the sponsor. There are over 230 activities on the project, and a few have remained relatively large due to the nature of the work to be accomplished. One of these larger activities has an estimate to complete (ETC) that is longer than planned. If the project manager wants to look at non-value-added activities that might be causing the delay, the manager should:

1. Measure using quality metrics
2. Complete process analysis
3. Perform a quality audit
4. Use a Pareto chart

Q9. Two people are arguing about what needs to be done to complete a work package. If the project manager wants to know what is going, she should pay MOST attention to:

1. What is said and when.
2. What is being said, who is saying it and the time of day.
3. Physical mannerisms and what is being said.
4. The pitch and tone of the voices, and physical mannerisms.

Q10. A project manager is estimating project costs and needs to decide whether the estimates will include direct costs only or include indirect costs, as well. In which of the following phases does this decision need to take place?

1. Define Scope
2. Estimate Costs
3. Plan Expenses
4. Determine Budget