Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. All of the following are tools of Perform Quality Control EXCEPT:

1. Cost of quality
2. Inspection
3. Control charts
4. Flowcharting

Q3. All of the following are inputs to the Validate Scope process EXCEPT:

1. Work breakdown structure
2. Project scope statement
3. WBS dictionary
4. Inspection

Q4. Which term best describes the Identify Risks process?

1. Finite
2. Redundant
3. Iterative
4. Inconsequential

Q5. A project team member has been having a big disagreement with another team member for over two months when the other team members become involved. The issues are complex, but you have specific experience in the area and know what needs to be done. The BEST choice would be to:

1. Make the decision yourself
2. Strive for fair resolution of the issue
3. Ask the other team members to stay out of the issue
4. Bring the team together and work out the issue to a win-win solution.

Q6. You are the project manager of a project executing work under a contract signed with a buyer organization. Just after the project has started, you notice that the buyer organization had made a mistake in the financial terms, and your organization stands to benefit considerably from this oversight. What should your stance be?

1. Do not take any action since a contract is a binding and legal document.
2. Discuss with your management how you could gain a bonus due to the increased revenue your company stands to gain.
3. Informally check with your counterpart in the buyer organization to see whether he or she noticed this error.
4. Bring the error to the notice of the buyer organization and have an amendment made to the contract since this was in good faith.

Q7. Conflict on projects is usually caused by:

1. Schedules, project priorities, resources, and technical opinions
2. Schedules, personality, priorities, and resources
3. Schedules, personalities, priorities, and technical opinions.
4. Schedules, cost, priorities, and resources.

Q8. Which statement BEST explains the phrase “Quality is planned in, not inspected in.”

1. It is more expensive to determine quality by inspection than by planning it.
2. Quality activities occur during the planning process group of the project
3. Quality is part of planning, not inspection
4. Planning for quality is after the fact.

Q9. Fast tracking the project usually:

1. Decreases project duration
2. Decreases project costs
3. Decreases the amount of management oversight needed
4. Decreases the number of resources used

Q10. A process that states how formal validation and acceptance of the completed project deliverables will be achieved is documented in the:

1. Scope Management plan
2. Procurement Management plan
3. Risk Management plan
4. Communications Management plan