Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are a project manager working on a multimillion-dollar project. As the project has progressed, you have become friends with the general contractor. You are working on a US $100,000 change request. She has offered to let you use her boat on the lake this weekend while she is away. What should you do?

1. Accept the offer with thanks
2. Decline the offer
3. Decline the offer and report it to your supervisor
4. Ask your boss to approve your use of the boat

Q3. During the weekly change control board meeting, you invited the facilities manager to speak about the change request to increase the BTUs of the air conditioning system in the new data center. This is an example of what type of tool and technique in the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

1. Variance Analysis
2. Expert Judgment
3. Project Management Methodology
4. Project Management Information System

Q4. 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

Q5. Nancy’s project is 80 percent complete. Which of the following project documents is least likely to be updated during the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process performed at this stage?

1. Project charter
2. Risk register
3. Stakeholder register
4. Issue log

Q6. You are a project manager working on a project to create high-efficiency electric motors for a company introducing a new electric golf cart. Your company’s president is keenly interested in the project and requests a chart that shows the number of defects by type ordered by their frequency of occurrence. Which type of chart would BEST meet this request?

1. Histogram
2. Control chart
3. Statistical sampling
4. Scatter diagram

Q7. Your project has a medium amount of risk and is not very well defined. The sponsor hands you a project charter and asks you to confirm that the project can be completed within the project cost budget. What is the BEST method to handle this?

1. Build an estimate in the form of a range of possible results.
2. Ask the team members to help estimate the cost based on the project charter.
3. Based on the information you have, calculate a parametric estimate.
4. Provide an analogous estimate based on past history.

Q8. While managing a project, you have included the product acceptance criteria in the Quality Management Plan. While reviewing your plan, a senior manager asks you to reconsider this. You then realize that what you did is incorrect. Where should you place the product acceptance criteria?

1. Project Charter
2. Change control process
3. Project Scope Statement
4. Scope Verification Plan

Q9. Which of the following is NOT a reason to measure variances from the baseline?

1. To catch deviations early
2. To allow early corrective action
3. To determine if there are any wild fluctuations
4. To create a project control system

Q10. A technique that enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to rank the most useful ideas so they can be taken up for further brainstorming is:

1. Six thinking hats
2. Nominal group technique
3. Affinity diagram
4. Mind mapping