Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have been offered a position managing a project that will last 12 months. However, you know that in six months, you will be relocating to another state for family reasons. What should you do?

1. Turn down the position
2. Accept the position and provide four weeks’ notice before leaving the job
3. Accept the position and compress the schedule to complete the project in six months
4. Disclose your relocation plans to the hiring manager

Q3. The X in the DfX can be:

1. Competing project constraints
2. Different aspects of product development
3. Design assumptions
4. Discretionary dependencies

Q4. You are in the executing process group of a major project with an estimated cost of US $22 million. Two team members are having a disagreement over the potential sellers of a project, and the project manager has offered to help. The project manager suggests a compromise, and the team members want to solve the problem. Who should decide on the BEST course of action?

1. Management
2. Team member
3. Project manager
4. Customer

Q5. As project progress is tracked according to the project management plan, the project manager discovers that final deliverables will be completed two months after the deliverable dates imposed by management. What should the project manager do?

1. Look for options with stakeholders using some combination of scaling back work, re-evaluating discretionary dependencies, and adding resources
2. Evaluate the impact on the company of completing this project late.
3. Drive the project team to work faster to make up for lost time
4. Recalculate the project schedule and distribute it according to the communications management plan

Q6. After brainstorming potential project risks, what is the recommended method for prioritizing these risks and their mitigation plans?

1. RACI chart
2. Control chart
3. Fishbone diagram
4. Probability and impact matrix

Q7. Which of the following BEST describes what a network diagram is used for when the work is being completed?

1. To track the flow of information in system, looking at all the interfaces
2. To determine if the evaluation criteria should be created before the contract statement of work is written
3. To see if the cost of a change exceeds the project cost baseline
4. To evaluate the reward system’s effectiveness 35

Q8. As part of earned value management (EVM), a project manager is calculating the to-complete performance index (TCPI) based on EAC. The data he has is as follows: The budget at completion for the project is $100,000. The earned value for the project is $25,000. The actual costs to date are $40,000, and the estimate at completion is $115,000. What is the TCPI that he will get?

1. 1.1
2. 0.9
3. 1
4. 0

Q9. On one of your company’s medical research projects, you object to how the research is being handled. However, you signed a confidentiality agreement with the company that prohibits you from talking about your research. It would be BEST to:

1. Quit and do not talk about what you know.
2. Quit and begin talking to the community.
3. Continue working and begin to talk about your objections to the research to newspapers in other cities.
4. Destroy the research.

Q10. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s role as an integrator?

1. Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole
2. Help team members become familiar with the project.
3. Put all the pieces of a project into a program
4. Get all the team members together into a cohesive whole