Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During project executing, an accepted risk occurs, and is handled. However, the project manager notes that the impact was greater than was anticipated. The BEST thing to do would be to:

1. Notify the sponsor
2. Create a workaround
3. Perform additional risk response planning
4. Revisit the Quantitative Risk Analysis process.

Q3. The Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is a very important project management process. An ineffective effort in this process can sabotage the whole project. Which of the following is the key benefit of this process?

1. It makes the Manage Communications process redundant.
2. It produces the stakeholder engagement plan.
3. It increases support and minimizes resistance from stakeholders.
4. Lessons learned are documented during this process.

Q4. You are working on a project to build a canal for irrigation purposes. Six months have passed, and now the team is working as a well-organized unit. Team members are interdependent, working smoothly, and working effectively. What team formation stage is this?

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

Q5. You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ______ during planning to improve your chance of success.

1. Your intuition and training
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Historical information
4. Configuration management

Q6. You are managing a project where your team is physically located with client personnel at a remote location. There is a high level of interaction between your team and client personnel, and client satisfaction is considered very important. Since the client is expressing a very high level of satisfaction with the project’s progress, your management has indicated no concerns about the project. However, you are behind schedule and over budget. In addition, morale among team members is low, and several team members have talked about quitting. Team members complain regularly about priority adjustments and alteration of activities. The weekly reports you receive about activities completed are often difficult to relate to the WBS and the project management plan. What action should you take to MOST effectively address these problems?

1. You should enforce scope control.
2. You should identify ways to make team members’ work more satisfying using the most applicable motivational theory.
3. You should incur the extra expenses necessary to be on-site to more closely monitor the activities of the project team.
4. You should create a reward and punishment system to ensure that project team members complete activities within the timeframes outlined in the project management plan.

Q7. The project manager is working on a high-profile project where completing the project within budget is critical. The project manager is new, but well trained and is excited to see that the project is spending less than budgeted. As a result, the project manager was planning to take a holiday when a more senior project manager warned him that he has some important work to do on the project. Why would the senior project manager give such a warning on this project?

1. The project manager needs to create a project control system to make sure there are no problems in the future.
2. Under budget could mean that work that was scheduled to e done has not been completed. The project manager should look at how the cost performance compares to the schedule performance
3. A project that is under budget may also have contracts that need to be managed.
4. Team meetings should be scheduled every week and a holiday would mean that one team meeting would have to be cancelled.

Q8. Based on the chart, while working on the project, you are told that you have to remove some resources to support a more important project for your customer. From which activity would it be BEST to remove resources?

1. Activity A
2. Activity B
3. Activity C
4. Activity D

Q9. A project manager must stress the importance of collecting and documenting lessons learned through the project lifecycle. One good way to collect this information is during weekly status meetings. Usually, weekly status meetings, if not managed properly, end up in firefighting since most of the time, attention goes to the burning issues. How can you ensure that the lessons-learned gathering does not get missed in such a situation?

1. Add a lessons-learned agenda item.
2. Record the minutes of the meeting.
3. Do not discuss burning issues in weekly status meetings.
4. Replace status update meetings with one-on-one meetings with the team members.

Q10. Another project manager in your company is having difficulty managing his project. You have found that he has not used a project charter and that is probably the cause of the problem. How can you help?

1. Provide him with a copy of an article about project charters
2. Work with his boss to get him a mentor
3. Develop a draft project charter for his use.
4. Talk to him about his project and offer help in creating a project charter.