Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A problem occurs on an activity with free float and the project manager has extended its duration. What is MOST likely to be affected?

1. Project duration
2. Resource schedules
3. Project scope management plan
4. The latest start for the successor activity

Q3. Based on historical data, the amount of overtime associated with the design effort of a project is estimated at 100 hours with 0.4 probability, 200 hours with 0.4 probability, and 300 hours with 0.2 probability. What is the expected monetary value of the amount of overtime?

1. 100 hours
2. 160 hours
3. 180 hours
4. 260 hours.

Q4. You have been hired by ABC Inc. and appointed as a project manager for their new project. The project charter has been signed and currently you are busy with preparing a detailed description of your project and the product. The description is in detail, the final requirements are identified, the product boundaries are defined, and you have outlined what is included and what is excluded. Once you complete this process, which of the following documents will you not update next?

1. Issue log
2. Stakeholder register
3. Requirements documentations
4. Requirement traceability matrix

Q5. A work breakdown structure is an input to all of the following processes EXCEPT:

1. Define Activities
2. Estimate Costs
3. Perform Quality Assurance
4. Plan Procurements

Q6. Mark is managing a telecom network deployment project. The buyer of the telecom network is an external entity. Recently, the customer requested that all future project updates be posted to their information system automatically. In order to implement this, the project team needs to customize their project management information system so it can be integrated with the customer’s information system. This is a new customer requirement that was not a part of the original project’s scope. What should the project manager do?

1. Request that the customer terminate the current contract and award a new contract.
2. Ask the project team to customize the project management information system.
3. Ignore the request; this is outside the project’s scope.
4. Initiate the formal change control process.

Q7. Which of the following graphical techniques visually depict the product scope by showing a business system and how other systems interact with it?

1. Ishikawa diagram
2. Histogram
3. Influence diagram
4. Context diagram

Q8. If the optimistic estimate is 1, the pessimistic is 9, and the mostly estimate is 8, what is the PERT estimate?

1. 9
2. 7
3. 8
4. 3

Q9. The Create WBS process identifies the deliverables at the __________ level in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

1. Lowest
2. Any
3. Tenth
4. Highest

Q10. Which of these statements is true?

1. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is much less than the cost of preventing them.
2. The cost of preventing mistakes is generally much less than the cost of correcting them as revealed by inspection.
3. It does not matter where a defect is captured as long as the finished work product does not have a defect.
4. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is more or less the same as the cost of preventing them since the same effort goes into both activities.