Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A team member is visiting the manufacturing plant of one of the suppliers. Which of the following is the MOST important thing to be done in any telephone calls the project manager might make to the team member?

1. Ask the team member to repeat back what the project manager says.
2. Review the list of contact information for all stakeholders.
3. Ask the team member to look for change requests.
4. Review the upcoming schedule.

Q3. To a project manager, which of the following is the BIGGEST disadvantage of progress reports as compared to watching what is going on in a project, asking questions, and assisting team members?

1. Progress reports include information from all team.
2. Progress reports require expending time gathering information from stakeholders.
3. Progress reports generally show problems after they have occurred.
4. Progress reports supply information about trends.

Q4. Mary is a project manager for an infrastructure upgrade project in a government agency. She realized recently that a critical scheduled task exceeded its deadline, and the stakeholders are aware of it. The resource manager has permitted Mary to use three more resources to work on and complete the delayed task. Although the three additional resources prove helpful, Mary is still concerned about the task because:

1. Allocating more resources may result in rework
2. Allocating more resources may shorten the duration but results in increased risk or cost
3. Resources may need training to complete the task
4. Allocating more resources needs stakeholders approval

Q5. You have a contract to build a manufacturing plant in Kuala Lumpur. However, you are not familiar with the building codes in Kuala Lumpur or Malaysia, so you are reviewing all their building codes prior to “turning a shovelful of earth.” This is an example of:

1. Project initiation
2. Quality assurance
3. Quality planning
4. Quality control

Q6. Which motivational theory says that what motivates people is the work itself, including such things as responsibility, self-actualization, and professional growth?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg.

Q7. In order to facilitate project configuration and change management on complex projects, a project manager relies on configuration and change management tools. Such tools:

1. Can be manual or automatic; the selection depends on the project’s environment and requirements.
2. Must be manual; a complex project requires all change requests to be manually signed.
3. Must be automatic; a complex project requires complex change control procedures.
4. Change control must be manual, but the configuration control may be automatic.

Q8. Who of the following has primary responsibility for establishing design and test specifications?

1. Senior management
2. Procurement
3. Engineering
4. Quality control

Q9. During project executing, a team member identifies a risk that is not in the risk register. What should you do?

1. Get further information on how the team member identified the risk, because you already performed a detailed analysis and did not identify the risk
2. Disregard the risk, because risks were identified during project planning
3. Inform the customer about the risk.
4. Analyze the risk.

Q10. A project is over budget to date. Which of the following is NOT A REASON this could have occurred?

1. More work than planned was accomplished.
2. There was a cost increase from the supplier
3. Work was delayed.
4. Work was done inefficiently.