Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Rob has been assigned to manage a complex project. Rob has recently acquired his PMP certification and is excited about applying his newly acquired knowledge to his project. During the project initiation, he produced the stakeholder register and impressed his project sponsor. Rob is now about to develop the stakeholder engagement plan for his project. This has made the project sponsor a bit uncomfortable because he thinks Rob is spending too much time doing paperwork instead of actually executing the project work. The project sponsor has asked Rob to explain the difference between the stakeholder register and the stakeholder engagement plan. How should Rob respond?

1. The stakeholder register only contains basic stakeholder assessment information, while the stakeholder engagement plan includes detailed stakeholder engagement strategy that ensures project success.
2. The stakeholder engagement plan is a component of the project management plan, while the stakeholder register is not.
3. The stakeholder register is produced during the project initiation, while the stakeholder engagement plan is produced during the project planning phase.
4. Developing the stakeholder engagement plan is a good project management practice.

Q3. The level of detail of performance reports is described in the:

1. Project charter.
2. Communications management plan.
3. Monthly requests for information by management.
4. Project’s monthly needs.

Q4. A key project in an organization has been ignored, due to high travel expenses associated with the movement of subject matter experts and other specialists across various project locations. Which of the following might allow such a project to be undertaken in a cost-efficient manner?

1. Management sign-off
2. Negotiation
3. Virtual teams
4. Co-location

Q5. Adam has just taken over a construction project. The project is currently in the planning phase of the project lifecycle. Adam’s next deliverable is to produce an effective stakeholder engagement strategy. Which of the following is the most important component of an effective stakeholder engagement plan?

1. Management style
2. Risk tolerance
3. Construction know-how
4. Communications

Q6. A project manager discovers that two team members discussed what was needed to complete a work package on the project and made many changes to the project scope. The work package is now completed and the team members are planning to go on to the next work package. In looking at what was done, the project manager determines that the work does NOT meet the requirements of the project. What is the BEST course of action for the project manager?

1. Add another work package, formatted with the correct scope, to the project.
2. Refuse the submittal of the work package.
3. Have the team begin the work package again and include the incident in their performance reviews.
4. Ask the team member’s manager to assign different people to the work package.

Q7. Lee is the project manager of a project, and he is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct result of implementing these risk responses, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These are:

1. Secondary risks
2. Primary risks
3. Planned risks
4. Workaround

Q8. When entering into procurement, it is BEST to assume there will be disputes about the performance of the work as specified, and to:

1. Include a procedure in the contract describing the means for dispute resolution
2. Track claims to ensure the best position during litigation
3. Make sure disputes are never brought to public knowledge
4. Include a change order provision in the contract.

Q9. During Plan Risk Responses process, the team is discussing ways to deal with a risk. They have come up with the following options: (a) outsource the work, (b) provide more training to the team members, (c) wait to see if the risk actually happens, (d) ignore the risk and (e) do the risky activity sooner in the project. Which of the following is a risk response strategy that was forgotten in the above situation?

1. Remove the activity causing the risk from the project.
2. Purchase insurance to cover the anticipated cost.
3. Assign the activity to a more experienced person to handle.
4. Prototype the product.

Q10. A risk with a positive outcome is an ___________.

1. Unlikely risk
2. Objective risk
3. Opportunity
4. Obsolete risk