Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following would BEST prevent cultural problems on your international project?

1. Training in the project management process to be used
2. Training in the language of one of the countries involved in the project.
3. Training in cultural differences between the other countries
4. Training on mannerisms of the other countries

Q3. You are currently in a process whose main benefit is to increase support and minimize resistance from stakeholders as the project evolves and environment changes. Which is not a tool and technique of this process?

1. Ground rules
2. Expert judgment
3. Document analysis
4. Meetings

Q4. As a project manager, you are analyzing the costs incurred in a project. Which of the following costs cannot be classified under cost of nonconformance?

1. Quality Assurance Costs
2. Warranty costs
3. Costs due to loss of reputation
4. Rework costs

Q5. To manage a project effectively, work should be broken down into small pieces. Which of the following does NOT describe how far to decompose the work?

1. Until it has a meaningful conclusion
2. Until it cannot be logically subdivided further
3. Until it can be done by one person
4. Until it can be realistically estimated

Q6. While preparing your risk responses, you identify additional risks. What should you do?

1. Add reserves to the project to accommodate the new risks and notify management.
2. Document the risk items and calculate the expected monetary value based on probability and impact that result from the occurrences.
3. Determine the risk events and the associated cost, and then add the cost to the project budget as a reserve.
4. Add a 10 percent contingency to the project budget and notify the customer.

Q7. A SWOT analysis helps you identify opportunities which arise from organizational strengths threats dues to its weakness. According to this analysis, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses is a part of:

1. Internal factors
2. External factors
3. Discretionary factors
4. Mandatory factors

Q8. You are analyzing a particular task with your team members to determine if the task should be done by your team, or if it should be contracted out to a contractor. Which process is this?

1. Conduct procurement
2. Plan cost management
3. Plan human resource
4. Plan procurement

Q9. Which of the following is not a true statement about control charts?

1. Control charts can be used to establish, as well as maintain process control.
2. Control charts are used to determine acceptance limits when no limits when no limits are stipulated by th eproduct specification; otherwise, one should use the limits dictated by the specification.
3. All data points outside the control chart limits are variations explained by assignable causes.
4. B and C.

Q10. According to your project network diagram, the critical path for the project is six weeks. One week into the project, the manager of the project management office informs you that the executive steering committee has moved the project’s finish date to two weeks sooner than your published finish date. Assuming you are on schedule, what is the project float?

1. Two weeks
2. Four weeks
3. Minus four weeks
4. Minus two weeks 50