Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your project will go through many phases to produce a high-priced product that will be sold to the public. You are currently starting the design phase. The price will include the product and scheduled maintenance. The team includes representatives from the engineering department, who will help determine the design of the project, the marketing department, who will determine the shape of the container for the product of the project and the accounting department who will help make sure the cost of the project allow ample profit margin. The project charter has been completed and signed by sponsors from all these departments. The product scope was completed in an earlier project that was two months delayed due to arguing over the scope. The team is now functioning well and past team building efforts have produced an effective team for this new project. Which of the following is the BEST thing to include that has not been included in planning?

1. The team working on the project does not include anyone from senior management and will thus not have enough support to be completed quickly and effectively.
2. There needs to be a representative from the quality department to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it is undertaken.
3. The project is not taking into account how the project work will affect future phases and thus future phases may cost more.
4. Team building efforts should still be done in the future to ensure an effective team.

Q3. Which of the following is NOT a valid WBS creation approach:

1. Parametric approach
2. Top-down approach
3. Use of organizational guidelines
4. Use of WBS templates

Q4. A project manager is preparing the WBS for a software project. The WBS includes all the product and project work but excludes the project management work. From the following choices, choose a statement that correctly describes this situation.

1. This is incorrect. Include product work and project management as part of the WBS but exclude project work.
2. This is incorrect. Project work and project management are part of the WBS, but product work is not.
3. This is incorrect. Include product work, project work, and project management work.
4. This is correct. Include product and project work as part of the WBS but exclude project management work.

Q5. You are a project manager for the construction of a major new manufacturing plant that has never been done before. The project cost is estimated at US $30,000,000 and will make use of three sellers. Once begun, the project cannot be cancelled, as there will be a large expenditure on plant and equipment. As the project manager, it would be MOST important to carefully:

1. Review all cost proposals from the sellers.
2. Examine the budget reserves.
3. Complete the project charter.
4. Perform an identification of risks.

Q6. You are constructing an office building. Work has started and you are in the middle of your project. You feel that if you add one more floor to the building it will cost much less than if the client decides to add it in the future. This change, however, will lead to a change in various baselines and the project charter as well. Therefore, you discuss the issue with all relevant stakeholders, and after their agreement, you process these change requests. In all of these changes, who is responsible for making this change in the project charter?

1. The project manager
2. The client
3. Management
4. The project management team

Q7. A project team is trying to decrease risk on the project. Management has a good relationship with a seller who is experienced in areas that your company is not experienced in. Management wants all activities with a US $50,000 or higher risk to be transferred to the seller. Management believes that this will remove the impact of those higher risks from the project. Why would this NOT be effective?

1. Working with sellers will add more than the $50,000 of risk to the project.
2. You would have to go through the contracting process.
3. The transference of a risk does not remove all impacts of the risk.
4. Management’s association with the seller is a conflict of interest for the project.

Q8. Near the end of your last project, additional requirements were demanded by a group of stakeholders when they learned they would be affected by your project. This became a problem because you had not included the time or cost in the project management plan for these requirements. What is the BEST thing you can do to prevent such a problem on future projects?

1. Review the WBS dictionary more thoroughly, looking for incomplete descriptions.
2. Review the project charter more thoroughly, examining the business case for “holes.”
3. Do a more thorough job of procurement planning.
4. Pay more attention to stakeholder management.

Q9. The product manager for the product the project is developing notifies the project manager that she has decided the product should be able to be used by an additional market. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to:

1. Immediately notify the project sponsor that there is a project scope change.
2. Notify the project change control board that the project scope will have to change
3. Inform the product manager that the potential impacts to the project will be reviewed.
4. Do nothing, as this is an example of progressive elaboration.

Q10. The project was going well when all of a sudden there were changes to the project coming from multiple stakeholders. After all the changes were determined, the project manager spent time with all the stakeholders to find out why there were changes and to discover any more. The project work has quieted down when a team member casually mentions to the project manager that he added functionality to a product of the project. Do not worry he says, “I did not impact time, cost, or quality!”

1. Ask the team member how the need for functionality was determined
2. Hold a meeting to review the team member’s completed work
3. Look for other added functionality.
4. Ask the team member how he knows there is no time, cost, or quality impact.