Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following statements correctly define the 100 percent rule for WBS?

1. The project is only considered complete once all requirements defined in the original scope statements have been completed.
2. The project is only considered complete once all requirements in the last approved scope baseline have been completed.
3. The final deliverables should fully conform to product requirements; nothing less, nothing more.
4. The total of the work at the work package level should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed.

Q3. You have signed a contract to have a customer care support system built for your company. In this contract, you have mentioned that you will pay all costs incurred plus a monetary benefit if you are happy with the work and the contractor fulfills some conditions set in the contract. What type of contract is this?

1. Cost plus incentive fee
2. Cost plus award fee
3. Time & material
4. Fixed price incentive fee

Q4. Which of the following is not an example of data that may be presented in a performance report?

1. Earned value
2. Quality metrics
3. Schedule variance
4. Project charter

Q5. You are busy with an important milestone, and after that, you have to deliver a deliverable to the client. Since the client is known for his difficult behavior, management is worried whether the client will accept the deliverable. Therefore, they tell you to check the product acceptance criteria again before calling the client. What document will you look at to get this information?

1. WBS
2. WBS dictionary
3. Project scope statement
4. RACI matrix

Q6. Instead of celebrating the end of the project, the stakeholders are breathing a sigh of relief. None of them were confident the product would meet the end date. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons this project had difficulty?

1. Lack of payback period
2. Lack of milestones
3. Lack of a communications management plan
4. Lack of a staffing management plan

Q7. Which of the following is NOT used in initiating a project?

1. Project statement of work.
2. The contract.
3. Enterprise environmental factors.
4. Earned value analysis.

Q8. You are asked to select tools and techniques to implement a quality assurance program to supplement existing quality control activities. Which of the following would NOT be appropriate for this purpose?

1. Quality audits
2. Statistical sampling
3. Pareto charts
4. Focus groups.

Q9. The project manager has a team scattered across four countries. The team members are experts in their fields and a few are certified project managers. To deal with the distance, the project manager creates ground rules with the team, and has virtual meetings to deal with the cultural differences. Which of the following additional activities would have the GREATEST impact on the project?

1. Plan Communications
2. Acquire Project Team
3. Define Scope
4. Sequence Activities

Q10. You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization’s new website. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with this type of website development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. Any delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan. Client personnel have been kept fully informed of the project's progress through status reports and regular meetings. The project is on schedule and within budget, and a final perfunctory review has been scheduled. Suddenly you hear that the entire effort may be cancelled because the product being developed is totally unacceptable. What is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

1. A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project.
2. The project charter and project management plan were not thoroughly explained to or adequately reviewed by the client.
3. Communications arrangements were inadequate and did not provide the required information to interested parties.
4. The project sponsor failed to provide adequate support for the project.