Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your employee is three days late with a report. Five minutes before the meeting where the topic of the report is to be discussed, she hands you the report. You notice some serious errors in it. What should you do?

1. Cancel the meeting and reschedule when the report is fixed.
2. Go to the meeting and tell the other attendees there are errors in the report
3. Force the employee to do the presentation and remain silent as the other attendees find the errors.
4. Cancel the meeting and rewrite the report yourself.

Q3. An activity has an early start (ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an early finish (EF) of day 9 and a late finish (LF) of day 19. What is the duration of this activity?

1. 3
2. 6
3. 7
4. 10

Q4. The upper and lower control limits in a control chart indicate the:

1. Boundaries the customer will accept
2. Acceptable specifications limits.
3. Acceptable range of variation in the process
4. Statistical control points for judging the success or failure of the project.

Q5. A new software development project is in progress and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department. They want to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Completed checklists
2. A quality control plan
3. Results of quality control measurements
4. Rework.

Q6. Tim is the project manager for a shopping mall construction project which is in its fourth month of execution. According to the project contract, Tim can only issue project invoices when the project is 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% complete in terms of the approved project schedule. Recently the 25% milestone has been reached and Tim is ready to issue his first invoice. According to the contract, the project must be completed in 12 months. What is the project’s SPI?

1. 0.25
2. 0.75
3. 0.33
4. 1.33

Q7. All of the following relate to controlling the schedule EXCEPT:

1. Value analysis
2. Crashing
3. Float
4. Mandatory dependencies 66

Q8. A project manager has a large team consisting of people from many functional areas of the company. The BEST method to get the team’s cooperation is to use _______ power.

1. Formal
2. Penalty
3. Reward
4. Referent.

Q9. You realize that you have made an error in your monthly status meeting. Therefore, you send stakeholders the correct report by email. What kind of communication method are you using here?

1. Push
2. Pull
3. Interactive
4. None of the above

Q10. Which of the following is NOT a valid WBS creation approach:

1. Parametric approach
2. Top-down approach
3. Use of organizational guidelines
4. Use of WBS templates