Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The manager of a project that your company is running in another country is at the corporate headquarters for a company-wide project management meeting. During a break, you overhear the project manager discussing payments made to local municipal governments for construction permits for the project. Your company has a strict policy about paying or taking bribes. What should you do?

1. Report him to PMI
2. Report him to his manager
3. Notify his project stakeholders
4. Do nothing

Q3. At a critical milestone in development project, it is determined that implementation is two months behind schedule. The project manager is concerned that the root cause is lack of conformance to requirements in the design of the new billing system. More extensive measurements are taken to see if this is, in fact, the problem. Such measurements are:

1. Not needed. The schedule should be compressed
2. An example of Control Quality
3. Not going to show why the schedule is delayed
4. Part of integrated change control.

Q4. Robert’s project is a high-priority project for his organization. Project stakeholder engagement is crucial for the project’s success. Robert needs to discuss the project stakeholder engagement levels with his project team on a regular basis. Which of the following is the best platform where Robert can review this with his team?

1. Phase gates
2. Project status review meetings
3. Kill points
4. Information management system

Q5. All of the following are inputs to the Determine Budget process EXCEPT:

1. Activity cost estimates
2. Work breakdown structure
3. Project scope statement
4. Project performance reviews.

Q6. Which of the following and is the BEST method of completing “what if” scenarios to determine what combination of resources and interdependence will produce the best schedule?

1. Critical chain method
2. Monte Carlo
3. Parametric estimating
4. Resource leveling

Q7. You are managing a construction project. Your company does not specialize in construction design so you outsourced the construction design to a third party. You are conducting regular procurement performance reviews and are dissatisfied. You want to carry out a detailed audit of the design supplier’s work processes to determine the root cause. Can you do that?

1. Yes, it is a good project management technique advocated by the PMBOK guide.
2. Yes, if there is a provision in the contract allowing work process audits.
3. No, you are only authorized to perform quality audits on the delivered products and not the supplier’s internal work processes.
4. No, a detailed procurement audit cannot be performed until you terminate the contract.

Q8. All of the following are the responsibility of a project manager EXCEPT:

1. Maintain the confidentiality of customer confidential information
2. Determine the legality of company procedures.
3. Ensure that a conflict of interest does not compromise the legitimate interest of the customer
4. Provide accurate and truthful representations in cost estimates

Q9. Rearranging resources so that a constant number of resources is used each month is called:

1. Crashing
2. Floating
3. Leveling
4. Fast tracking

Q10. You have just walked into your office when you receive an e-mail from the sponsor notifying you that the auditing team will soon be your office to start a risk audit of your project. The next e-mail you receive has been forwarded to you, and involves conflict between two team members. You are immediately bombarded with phone calls from both parties to the e-mail complaining about the other. Which conflict resolution technique would you immediately use with team member?

1. Forcing
2. Compromising
3. Avoiding
4. Confronting