Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. When a project manager is engaged in negotiations, nonverbal communication skills are of:

1. Little importance.
2. Major importance.
3. Importance only when cost and schedule objectives are involved.
4. Importance only to ensure you win the negotiation.

Q3. Which of the following is not an activity related to the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. Inspecting the project deliverables for completeness
2. Implementing approved changes
3. Creating project deliverables to meet the planned project work
4. Performing activities to accomplish project objectives

Q4. All of the following are parts of the Close Project or Phase process EXCEPT:

1. Update employee skills
2. Record the reasons for termination
3. Transfer information from one phase to the next phase
4. Validate Scope

Q5. What would be the BEST explanation for the following: Both the cost variance and schedule variance are negative, but the cost variance is lower than the schedule variance.

1. The project underspent because all work was not completed, but overspent for work that was done.
2. The project overspent due to increased costs and yet completed some activities faster.
3. The project activities took longer than expected, but costs were lower.
4. The project underspent, because costs were lower than planned and activities were easier to complete than planned.

Q6. A project manager believes that modifying the project scope may provide added value for the customer. What should the project manager do?

1. Change the scope baseline
2. Contact the customer to determine if the change adds value
3. Call a meeting of the change control board
4. Change the project’s objectives.

Q7. Linda is a first-time project manager and is analyzing a project schedule. She intends to apply resource leveling, and she has the following guidelines on Resource Leveling. Which of these four statements is incorrect?

1. Resource Leveling can often cause the critical path to change.
2. Resource Leveling is applied to a schedule before it has been analyzed by the critical path method.
3. Resource Leveling is applied to keep resource usage at a constant level.
4. Resource Leveling is necessary when resources have been over-allocated.

Q8. A project manager created a resource histogram. On the histogram, some bars extended beyond the maximum available hours. What does this usually signify?

1. This means that the resources on those bars are being underused.
2. This means that a resource optimization strategy needs to be applied.
3. This means the resources are producing outputs at a rate faster than the average rate.
4. This means that resources need to be reduced from the project.

Q9. During the project execution, a stakeholder comes to you and tells you that she suspects that some team members are not doing their tasks and are busy with other activities. You discuss her concerns with her and show her a document. After seeing it, she agrees with that the team members are doing the right job. What document was this?

1. RACI chart
2. GANTT chart
3. Organizational chart
4. WBS

Q10. If you finish your project early, there is a chance that you may get another project, so you are trying very hard to get your project finished. You use fast tracking, crashing, overtime, etc. Which strategy is this?

1. Exploit
2. Enhance
3. Accept
4. Mitigate