Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following BEST describes why quality is planned in and not inspected in?

1. It reduces quality and is less expensive.
2. It improves quality and is more expensive
3. It reduces quality and is more expensive
4. It improves quality and is less expensive

Q3. You are working with your customers on completing deliverables in your electronic parts manufacturing project. Since these parts will be exported to other countries, they will need more testing before your customers accept them. In this scenario, which of the following statements about the completed deliverables is correct?

1. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must be forwarded to the close project or phase process.
2. Deliverables formally accepted by customers must be moved to organizational process assets.
3. Deliverables formally accepted by customers are forwarded to the validate scope process.
4. Completed deliverables not accepted by customers must require a change request for defect repair.

Q4. In a project that was yet to begin, many of the project team members were known in advance. This is:

1. Proactive planning
2. Skill matching
3. Pre-assignment
4. Staffing assignment

Q5. If earned value (EV) = 35o, actual cost (AC) = 400, planned value ((PV) = 325, what is the cost variance (CV)?

1. 350
2. -75
3. 400
4. -50

Q6. You are in the process of defining policies, procedures, and guidance to help you manage the project costs. In which process you are working?

1. Determine budget
2. Develop schedule
3. Control costs
4. Plan cost management

Q7. A collection of formally documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation are controlled, changed, and approved is:

1. An authorization system
2. Project documentation
3. A change control board
4. A change control system

Q8. A manager has responsibility for a project that has the support of a senior manager. From the beginning, you have disagreed with the manager as to how the project should proceed and what the deliverables should be. You and she have disagreed over many issues in the past. Your department has been tasked with providing some key work packages for the project. What should you do?

1. Provide the manager with what she needs
2. Inform your manager of your concerns to get her support
3. Sit down with the manager at the beginning of the project, attempt to describe why you object to the project, and discover a way to solve the problem
4. Ask to be removed from the project.

Q9. On any project, the configuration control should be focused on the specification of:

1. Deliverables and processes
2. Scope and cost
3. Risk and resources
4. Schedule and quality

Q10. Which of the following is an output of the collect requirements process?

1. Scope management plan
2. Requirements management plan
3. Requirements risk breakdown
4. Requirements traceability matrix 7