Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager has been instructed to use the project charter to help identify risks on the project. This does not make sense to him. If you were asked to explain the reason the project charter is used in this way, what is the BEST explanation?

1. The project charter describes the business needs of the project
2. Reviewing what is said and not said in the project charter will help determine risks.
3. The project charter is issued by the sponsor
4. Reviewing the project charter will help determine a description of the product of the project.

Q3. The morale of the team members of a project is very low. The team members feel they were not given opportunities to participate in the organizational team development activities due to over-allocation to project tasks, and so, they missed opportunities to develop. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this situation?

1. Use of zero-sum rewards in the project
2. A poorly defined resource calendar
3. Too many senior team members
4. Poor interpersonal skills in the team

Q4. Which of the following is a basic rule or guideline for creating a work breakdown structure?

1. The first row should describe the products of the project
2. Each level of a work breakdown structure is a smaller segment of the level above
3. A work breakdown structure should be like a to-do list, listing in chronological order every activity that needs to be done to complete the project.
4. A work breakdown structure should be organized by functional areas.

Q5. You have decided to terminate a contract because you no longer need the work from the seller. What is the BEST way to communicate this to the seller?

1. Call the seller immediately.
2. Send the seller a notification by e-mail.
3. Send the seller a stop work order by overnight mail.
4. Hold an immediate meeting with the seller.

Q6. You are in charge of constructing the Ferris wheel in each town a carnival visits. However, this is something you have never done before, and you are getting different opinions from others on how long it takes. Joe is new and has given you what you believe to be an optimistic estimate of three hours; Bill says it will take 10 hours, which seems too long to you and quite pessimistic. Last, Margie, who is the most experienced at this task, is telling you it will take eight hours. You are not sure whom to believe, so you decide to do three-point estimation (based on beta distribution). Based on this, how many hours will it take you to assemble the Ferris wheel?

1. 7.5 hours
2. 8 hours
3. 21 hours
4. 7 hours

Q7. Uncontrolled project scope changes are often referred to as ________ .

1. Scope creep
2. Scope verification
3. Value Added Scope
4. Scope control

Q8. Few project managers collect lessons-learned information throughout the project’s life. Most tackle this in the final days of the project or, worse, after the project is complete. What is the negative consequence of this approach?

1. It makes compiling and obtaining project information difficult.
2. It might result in further expenses on the project.
3. The project’s NPV becomes zero.
4. It requires hiring a specialist to do the job.

Q9. An activity-on-node (AON) network diagram shows the following activities on two critical paths; Start, D, E, J, L, End and Stat, D, E, G, I, L, End. Each activity is at least three days in duration, except for activity L, which is one day in duration. If you are directed to reduce the project by one day, which activities are MOST likely to change?

1. Activity L
2. Activity E or activity J
3. Activity G or activity I
4. Activity D or activity E

Q10. While planning the project, you discover that an expert resource might be available to work on you project. However, the resource manager will not commit to the resource being on your team at the present time. The BEST thing to do would be to estimate the activity:

1. As if the expert resources were available.
2. As though you had an average resource doing the activity.
3. As if you had an inexperienced resource
4. Using the Delphi technique.