Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are a project manager for a large electrical system implementation. One of your key people has started to miss deadlines and work quality is beginning to suffer as well. This person has participated in project planning, and in fine-tuning the earned value estimating, and developing the reward systems for the project. You are confident that this person is well aware of the work deadlines and required quality specifications. What action should you take?

1. Report problem to the personnel or human resource department for corrective action.
2. Reassign some work to other team members until performance starts to improve.
3. Discuss the issues with the employee at the next team meeting and try to determine the factors impacting performance.
4. Escalate the situation to the employee’s functional manager and ask for assistance.

Q3. Where should a new project manager look to determine resource requirements?

1. Resource leveling chart
2. Resource bar chart
3. Activity list
4. Project schedule

Q4. You are the project manager for GeoThermal Systems. Which of the following must be done FIRST before proceeding with a new project?

1. Create the Project Scope Statement
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Product analysis
4. Obtain Project Charter approval

Q5. Work Performance Information is not an output of which of the following processes?

1. Validate Scope
2. Manage Communications
3. Monitor Risks
4. Control Scope

Q6. You have a project with four activities as follows: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of one. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of four. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of five. Activity 4 can start after activity 1 is completed and must be completed when activity 3 is completed. The estimate for activity 4 is 10. What is the SHORTEST amount of time in which the project can be completed?

1. 10
2. 9
3. 18
4. 11

Q7. A project manager has just completed subjectively evaluating risks on the project. Which of the following is the MOST important output of this process?

1. Decrease in the risk ranking for the project
2. A determination of which risks to process further and which to simply document
3. Probabilistic analysis of the project and identification of risk triggers
4. Probability of achieving cost objectives.

Q8. A project manager approaches you to understand the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in better detail. You tell her that:

1. The WBS is a detailed project plan and includes the effort, resources, and dates on which the tasks for the project are complete.
2. The WBS is a task-oriented decomposition of work that identifies each task and the resource required to accomplish the task.
3. The WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work the project team must accomplish to meet project objectives.
4. The WBS is a Gantt chart that contains details about the project deliverables the project team must do.

Q9. The on-demand scheduling approach used in agile environments is based on the theory-of-constraints and pull-based scheduling concepts from lean manufacturing to limit a team’s work in progress. This is also called:

1. 5S
2. Kanban
3. Andon
4. Gemba

Q10. 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