Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. What is a project management information system?

1. A computerized status tracking system
2. A manual status tracking system
3. A method to determine and archive how the project is doing
4. A method to gather, integrate and disseminate what or how the project is doing

Q3. Your project team members have just started to work together and are now adjusting their work habits and behaviors to support each other. Which stage of the Tuckman ladder has your team just entered?

1. Norming
2. Performing
3. Forming
4. Storming

Q4. Identify stakeholders is a process where you identify stakeholders for your project. Which of the following statements is not true regarding this process?

1. This process happens throughout the project
2. This process happens in the planning phase
3. This process happens in the executing phase
4. This process is started only when the project charter is signed

Q5. 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.

Q6. Which of the following processes involves creating a coherent, consistent document that can be used to guide all the work in both project executing and project monitoring and controlling?

1. Risk management
2. Develop Project Management Plan
3. Develop Project Scope Statement
4. Plan Quality Management

Q7. You are a project manager on an international project of great importance to the client. The client is from another country and is so excited by how well the project is going that he presents you with a company automobile for your personal use. The BEST thing for you to do would be:

1. Thank him and offer a gift in exchange
2. Politely turn down the gift
3. Ask that the gift be exchanged for something that can be shared by the team
4. Ask for a gift that can be used up before you return home

Q8. Which of the following components of a project scope statement is useful in reducing scope creep?

1. Acceptance criteria
2. Deliverables
3. Scope description
4. Exclusions

Q9. You are managing the project when you discover an estimated completion date will occur after the desired date. What should you do FIRST?

1. Add resources to the project.
2. Evaluate the possibility of doing more activities in parallel.
3. Negotiate for more time
4. Explain to the customer that the project cannot be done on schedule.

Q10. A resource histogram includes which two data points?

1. Resource and time estimate
2. Resource and calendar date
3. Activity and resource
4. Resource and usage.