Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The buyer asks the project manager for the status of the project that his team is working on. What is the BEST way to determine the status of a project?

1. Compare the project performance against the project baselines
2. Compare the earned value to the planned value
3. Compare the project performance against the integrated change control plan.
4. Compare the number of people used on each work package to the planned number to be used.

Q3. All of the following are results of adding to the risk register in the Plan Risk Responses process EXCEPT:

1. You are in control of the project as it progresses with few surprises
2. By managing the plan, you are able to avoid risks while mitigating the effects of others
3. The need for workarounds is minimized
4. The need for contingency reserves is minimized.

Q4. A team member comes to you to tell you that there is a problem on her activity. It cannot be started on the day it is scheduled to start. A manager overhears this conversation and reports that the project will be late. Later the project manager completes his own report saying “the project is still scheduled to be completed on time.” Which of the following could be the reason the project manager made such a statement?

1. The activity has free float and can be rescheduled later in its early-start to late-finish window
2. The activity is on a near-critical path with less float than the length of the delay
3. The activity is on the critical path but is to be done after another activity that does have float.
4. The activity has a mandatory dependency, allowing the project manager to place it in the pro schedule at any location that he wants it be done.

Q5. You are the project manager for GeoThermal Systems. Which of the following must be done FIRST before proceeding with a new project?

1. Create the Project Scope Statement
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Product analysis
4. Obtain Project Charter approval

Q6. The sponsor’s role on a project is BEST described as:

1. Helping to plan activities
2. Helping to prevent unnecessary changes to project objectives.
3. Identifying unnecessary project constraints
4. Helping to put the project management plan together.

Q7. Mark is managing a telecom network deployment project. The buyer of the telecom network is an external entity. Recently, the customer requested that all future project updates be posted to their information system automatically. In order to implement this, the project team needs to customize their project management information system so it can be integrated with the customer’s information system. This is a new customer requirement that was not a part of the original project’s scope. What should the project manager do?

1. Request that the customer terminate the current contract and award a new contract.
2. Ask the project team to customize the project management information system.
3. Ignore the request; this is outside the project’s scope.
4. Initiate the formal change control process.

Q8. A project manager is performing an audit on a deliverable when she hears that the team member who did the work is complaining to everyone that he is being picked on by having his activity audited. You know this is not true. What lesson learned could you take to future projects?

1. Tell all the team members at the beginning of the project that their deliverables will be audited
2. Set an audit policy in the scope management plan
3. Audit less frequently
4. Use a walk-through instead of audits

Q9. The project was going well until the director of marketing discovered that two of her staff members were working different versions of the sampling plan, a product of your project. Which of the following BEST describes what needs the attention of the project manager on this project?

1. Stakeholder management
2. Resource allocation
3. Staffing management plan
4. Configuration management

Q10. Along with the project communications management plan, work performance reports are vital inputs to the Manage Communications process. Where do these work performance reports come from?

1. Project integration management process
2. All monitoring and controlling processes
3. Plan Communications Management processes
4. Organizational process assets