Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In a software development project, you are having joint application development (JAD) sessions to collect product requirements from stakeholders. Which of the following mandatory standards in the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is met by having JAD sessions while gathering requirements?

1. Honesty
2. Fairness
3. Responsibility
4. Respect

Q3. Which of the following CANNOT be used as a tool in the Perform Quality Control process?

1. Pareto chart
2. Sampling
3. Work breakdown structure
4. Life cycle costing

Q4. Based on the chart, if the duration of activity F changes to 8, what is the effect on the project?

1. There is no effect on the critical path
2. The duration of the critical path becomes 16
3. The critical path changes
4. Activity A is now on the critical path

Q5. Which of the following defines things the project manager needs to do regarding cost?

1. Never just accept constraints from management, periodically recalculate the estimate to complete, meet any agreed-upon estimates
2. Meet any agreed-upon estimates, estimate larger-sized work components, accept constraints from management
3. Periodically recalculate the estimate to complete, increase estimates by eliminating risks, re-estimate when changes are requested
4. Never recalculate the estimate to complete, never just accept constraints from management, and only use historical records for accurate estimates.

Q6. Originally, your project had give team members. Now the scope has expanded, and there are total of eight people on the project team. How many communication channels have been added?

1. 9
2. 10
3. 18
4. 28

Q7. Two people on the same project team have just found out that they are working on the same work. This situation can be BEST characterized as a lack of:

1. A good work breakdown structure.
2. A matrix organization
3. Sponsor direction
4. Effective status meetings.

Q8. A project manager has just been assigned a team that comes from many countries, including Brazil, Japan, the US, and Britain. What is her BEST tool for success?

1. The responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)
2. The teleconference
3. Team communication with the WBS
4. Communication and well-developed people skills

Q9. What should you do as a senior project manager if the PMP certification claimed by a recently recruited project manager does not appear in the PMI website?

1. Advise your new recruit to complete his certification
2. Report to the PMI
3. Report to the sponsor
4. Request more information from the new recruit

Q10. A project manager is having problems with how two of the parts fit together on the new computer and the software uploads to the system. To plan a strategy for resolving these problems, it is BEST to determine if the problems are:

1. Nonconforming
2. Statistically independent
3. Impacting quality
4. Normally distributed.