Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During a walk-through of a work package, you discover that a team member is completing the work differently than stated in the WBS dictionary. How should you deal with this?

1. Replace the team member
2. Determine if the alternative way is acceptable to the functional manager
3. Ask the team member if the changes are necessary
4. Determine if the changes also change the scope of the work package.

Q3. All the monitoring and controlling processes and many of the executing processes can produce change requests as an output. Change requests may require corrective actions and preventive actions. Which of the following are normally affected by corrective and preventive actions?

1. Defect repair
2. Regressive baselines
3. The project baselines
4. The performance against baselines

Q4. The client has given you a project to build a research center for him. You have met with all stakeholders, noted down their requirements, and you are now deciding which requirements should be included in the project and which should not. What process is this?

1. Identify stakeholders
2. Collect requirements
3. Define scope
4. Define requirements

Q5. Which of the following BEST describes when additional risk responses are documented?

1. When you are in the Plan Risk Management process
2. When an unknown risk occurs
3. When the impact of a known risk event is more significant than expected
4. When a risk due to happen multiple times on a project does not occur the first time it is expected.

Q6. You provide a project cost estimate for the project to the project sponsor. He is unhappy with the estimate because he thinks the price should be lower. He asks you to cut 15 percent off the project estimate. What should you do?

1. Start the project and constantly look for cost savings
2. Tell the team members to cut 15 percent from their estimates
3. Inform the sponsor of the activities to be cut
4. Add additional resources with low hourly rates.

Q7. Which of the following BEST describes when a project baseline should be changed?

1. When a major delay occurs
2. When an official change is made
3. When a cost increase occurs
4. Changes should never be made to the baseline

Q8. You are in a process which helps you evaluate the effectiveness of the risk process throughout the project. Which of the following documents will not be updated here?

1. Assumption log
2. Issue log
3. Risk report
4. Change log

Q9. The project manager has had some difficulty in getting the team to complete work efforts but he feels that the changes he made to the reward system will fix the problem. The number of stakeholders on the project has grown by 20 percent and the number of activities being completed late is growing. The project manager has heard from management that the project might become a higher priority if their competition comes out with a new product that uses wireless technology. Based on this, it would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Re-estimate the activities and prepare to create a new schedule
2. Perform configuration management
3. Recreate the project work authorization system
4. Better respond to risk event triggers 30

Q10. You have always been asked by your management to cut your project estimate by 10 percent after you have given it to them. The scope of your new project is unclear and there are over 30 stakeholders. Management expects a 25 percent reduction in downtime as a result of the project. Which of the following is the BEST course of action in this situation?

1. Re-plan to achieve a 35 percent improvement in downtime
2. Reduce the estimates and note the changes in the risk response plan
3. Provide an accurate estimate of the actual costs and be able to support your estimate
4. Meet with the team to identify where you can find 10 percent savings.