Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A team of experts come to your project and ask for approved procedures to verify your team is following these procedures. This is an example of which of the following?

1. Quality control
2. Manage quality
3. Verify scope
4. Control scope

Q3. You are working on an 18-month project with a small, co-located team. The project sponsor and senior management are in another city and have requested weekly updates. The customer requires monthly meetings. Because the team members are busy with the project executing processes, they would like to reduce the frequency of meetings. Which of the following BEST describes how status meetings should be managed on this project?

1. During project executing, you do not need to hold status meetings as long as you send the key stakeholders a status report every week.
2. Once a month the entire team, including senior management, should meet with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous month’s issues with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous months’ issues and the current status.
3. During project executing, it is only necessary for the project manager to meet with the customer once a month to fulfil your contractual obligation. Provide the customer once a month to fulfil your contractual obligation. Provide the customer with the status report and copy this report to key stakeholders.
4. The frequency and level of the meetings as well as the format and type of information to be exchanged should be defined in the project’s communications management plan during project planning.

Q4. A parking lot fencing project was bid at US $11 per foot, and one company is doing all the work. The parking lot has four equal sides of 125 feet and requires the installation of a six-foot diameter culvert on one side. Fencing should be installed at a rate of 100 feet per day. The culvert installation will cost US $500 and take one day to complete. The culvert must be installed before work can begin on that side of the fence. After three days of work, one side is complete, another project has 75 feet installed, and the culvert is completely installed. What is the current status of the project?

1. The budget is neutral with a cost variance of $0
2. It is over budget, with a cost variance of -$1,100.
3. It is under budget, with a cost variance of +$500 due to the completion of the culvert installation
4. It is over budget with a cost variance of +$125.

Q5. The project charter is the document that authorizes the existence of the project and contains a great deal of important information. Which of the following options shows the correct content of a project charter?

1. Project purpose, high level requirements, assumptions and constraints, summary budget
2. High-level risk, summary milestone, project management plan, summary budget
3. Project objective, stakeholder list, WBS, project approval authority
4. Name of the sponsor, name of the project manager, schedule baseline, summary budget

Q6. What should you do as a senior project manager if the PMP certification claimed by a recently recruited project manager does not appear in the PMI website?

1. Advise your new recruit to complete his certification
2. Report to the PMI
3. Report to the sponsor
4. Request more information from the new recruit

Q7. Which of the following statements correctly define the 100 percent rule for WBS?

1. The project is only considered complete once all requirements defined in the original scope statements have been completed.
2. The project is only considered complete once all requirements in the last approved scope baseline have been completed.
3. The final deliverables should fully conform to product requirements; nothing less, nothing more.
4. The total of the work at the work package level should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed.

Q8. A project manager is in the middle of the executing process of a very large construction project when he discovers that the time needed to complete the project is longer than the time available. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Cut product scope
2. Meet with the management and tell them that the required date cannot be met
3. Work overtime
4. Determine options for schedule compression and present management with his recommended option.

Q9. What should be done with risks on the watch list?

1. Document them for historical use on other projects.
2. Document them, and then revisit them during project monitoring and controlling
3. Document them, and set them aside because they are already covered in your contingency plans
4. Document them, and given to the customer.

Q10. 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.