Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. As you examine a list of job candidates for your project, you find that your cousin is one of the three shortlisted candidates. You know that she was desperately looking for a job. After reviewing the three resumes, you will send them to the electronics engineer for a technical interview. From your review of these resumes, you see that all three shortlisted candidates have similar qualifications and experiences. What should you do?

1. To avoid conflict of interest, ignore your cousin’s resume but forward the other two resumes.
2. Forward all three resumes.
3. Call your cousin and conduct an informal interview yourself before forwarding the resumes.
4. Consult your boss before forwarding the resumes for interview.

Q3. A large, complex construction project in a foreign country requires coordination to move the required equipment through crowded city streets. To ensure the equipment is transported successfully, your contact in that country informs you that you will have to pay the local police a fee for coordinating traffic. What should you do?

1. Do not pay the fee because it is a bribe
2. Eliminate the work
3. Pay the fee
4. Do not pay the fee if it is not part of the project estimate

Q4. The new software installation project is in progress. The project manager is working with the quality assurance department to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Quality problems.
2. Quality improvement
3. Quality control measurements
4. Rework

Q5. Your project team has identified a major project risk. After talking to the project management office, they determine that a reserve on the project is not necessary. What is the NEXT step?

1. List the time or cost overrun expected on the project in your project management plan.
2. Develop risk transference strategies.
3. Create a risk response plan that includes the risk.
4. Ignore he risk until it happens.

Q6. Your construction project is in execution, and you require a major change to one of your supplier agreements. Can you directly make this change with mutual consent of the supplier during the Control Procurements process, or do you have to visit the Perform Integrated Change Control process, as well?

1. The change request needs to be approved through the Control Procurements process prior to making the change through the Integrated Change Control process.
2. The change request can be directly processed through the Control Procurements process since the change requests only affects a particular supplier agreement.
3. The Control Procurements process is about identifying variances. The supplier contract can directly be altered through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.
4. The change request needs to be approved through the Perform Integrated Change Control process prior to making the change through the Control Procurements process.

Q7. The customer requests a change to the project that would increase the project risk. Which of the following should you do before all the others?

1. Include the expected monetary value of the risk in the new cost estimate
2. Talk to the customer about the impact of the change
3. Analyze the impacts of the change with the team
4. Change the risk management plan

Q8. While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only. Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?

1. Compromise
2. Smoothing
3. Forcing
4. Withdrawal.

Q9. You are in the middle of a new product development project for your publicly traded company when you discover that the previous project manager made a $3,000,000 payment that was not approved in accordance with your company policies. Luckily, the project cost performance index (CPI) is 1.2. What should you do?

1. Put the payment in an escrow account.
2. Bury the cost in the largest cost center available.
3. Ignore the payment
4. Contact your manager

Q10. A project manager has been overwhelmed with problems on his project. He would like to identify the root cause of the problems in order to determine where to focus his attention. Which of the following tools would be BEST for the project manager to use?

1. A Pareto chart
2. Conflict resolution techniques
3. A fishbone diagram
4. Trend analysis