Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are in the process of reviewing bids from various vendors for work on your project. One of the bidding vendors has a history of delivering on time and within budget, and you have personally worked with this company successfully on previous engagements. You receive a call from the manager submitting the bid inquiring about how the process is going. He asks to have lunch with you to discuss the bid. What is the BEST response?

1. Do not mention the other bidders but simply inform him that based on past experience, he has a good chance of winning the business.
2. Inform him that it would be inappropriate to discuss the matter at all and document the conversation.
3. Inform him that it would not be appropriate to discuss the matter over the phone during business hours, but that an informal lunch discussion would be more appropriate.
4. Politely avoid continuing the conversation and disregard the bid.

Q3. Large organizations typically manage a wide range of projects; from small projects to large initiatives requiring long-term commitments. Which of the following factors can be used in scaling such projects:

1. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational complexity, technical complexity, and funds availability.
2. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance and organizational complexity.
3. Team size, geographical distribution and regulatory compliance.
4. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational complexity and technical complexity.

Q4. Some of your team members do not come to meetings on time. A few other members keep themselves busy with other activities during meetings, and their behavior is not proper. Therefore, to improve the environment what step will you take?

1. Co-locate team members
2. Bring them into the war room
3. Warn them, and if they don’t listen, punish them
4. Implement ground rules

Q5. You are in the middle of a complex negotiation when the other party says, “We need to finish in one hour because I have to catch my plane.” That person is using which of the following negotiation strategies?

1. Good guy, bad guy
2. Delay
3. Deadline
4. Extreme demands.

Q6. Which of the following is not a Risk Diagramming technique?

1. Influence diagrams
2. Control charts
3. Decision trees
4. Tornado diagram

Q7. Andy has just become the project manager of a multi-million-dollar construction project. Andy also has an approved project charter that authorizes him to apply organizational resources to the project. Now, Andy wants to take all key stakeholders onboard with the project charter. Where can Andy find a preliminary list of all key stakeholders?

1. Project charter
2. Stakeholder register
3. Project management plan
4. Risk register

Q8. Instead of celebrating the end of the project, the stakeholders are breathing a sigh of relief. None of them were confident the product would meet the end date. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons this project had difficulty?

1. Lack of payback period
2. Lack of milestones
3. Lack of a communications management plan
4. Lack of a staffing management plan

Q9. A list of risks for additional study is an output of:

1. Identify risks
2. Plan risk management
3. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
4. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis.

Q10. John, a project manager for Code Crashers, Inc., has a project with a group of inexperienced programmers that will develop a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This situation strongly resembles a project his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?

1. Parametric Estimating
2. Bottom Up Estimating
3. Three-point estimate
4. Analogous Estimating