Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Another project manager in your company is having difficulty managing his project. You have found that he has not used a project charter and that is probably the cause of the problem. How can you help?

1. Provide him with a copy of an article about project charters
2. Work with his boss to get him a mentor
3. Develop a draft project charter for his use.
4. Talk to him about his project and offer help in creating a project charter.

Q3. A project manager decides to bring expected future schedule performance in line with the project management plan. What is this a definition of?

1. Corrective action
2. Lessons learned
3. Scope verification
4. Scope planning Activity Float (months) Start B 2 C 1 D 0 E 3 F 1 G 0 H 4 I 0 End 78

Q4. The business case to justify a project typically contains:

1. The project's BAC and ETC
2. Identification of alternatives
3. Project WBS
4. Variance Analysis

Q5. The role of the project manager relating to integration is MOST appropriately described as:

1. Ensuring that the stakeholders’ role is integrated with the rest of the team.
2. Ensuring that management’s role is integrated into the everyday workings of the project.
3. Ensuring that the various project elements are properly coordinated
4. Ensuring that team members work together.

Q6. You are managing a project that has a task to translate several pages of a document into Spanish. This is similar to a project done last year when a document was translated into German. You are not sure how long it will take to translate into Spanish, so you look at the project plan from the German translation and use that activity duration for your current project. What type of estimating is this an example of?

1. Hypothesis
2. Parametric Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. What-if Scenario Analysis

Q7. You have been given a project to clean an area where hundreds of families are living and to develop residential flats for them. Since there so many stakeholders involved, how will you manage them?

1. Ignore low-power stakeholders
2. Pick the dominating stakeholders
3. Find a way to manage them all
4. Manage only high power and high-interest group stakeholders

Q8. You provide a project cost estimate for the project to the project sponsor. He is unhappy with the estimate because he thinks the price should be lower. He asks you to cut 15 percent off the project estimate. What should you do?

1. Start the project and constantly look for cost savings
2. Tell the team members to cut 15 percent from their estimates
3. Inform the sponsor of the activities to be cut
4. Add additional resources with low hourly rates.

Q9. The output of the Validate Scope process is accepted deliverables that are formally signed off by the stakeholders. The stakeholders, on some projects, can get involved with the project as early as:

1. During the project initiation
2. During the project planning
3. During the project execution
4. During the project monitoring & controlling

Q10. Which of the following is NOT needed in order to come up with a project estimate?

1. A WBS
2. A network diagram
3. Risks
4. A change control system