Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager has made a change to the project. What should she do NEXT?

1. Assign resources
2. Revise the project management plan and/or project documents
3. Evaluate impact
4. Request change control board involvement

Q3. Your project team members have just started to work together and are now adjusting their work habits and behaviors to support each other. Which stage of the Tuckman ladder has your team just entered?

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

Q4. A team member in your project is constantly providing incomplete deliverables and not performing well. What should you do first?

1. Discuss the issue with the team member in private
2. Discuss the issue with the team member in the presence of the project sponsor
3. Discuss the issue with the team member in the presence of other team members
4. Discuss the issue with the team member in the presence of the company's HR manager

Q5. Your project team has identified a major project risk. After talking to the project management office, they determine that a reserve on the project is not necessary. What is the NEXT step?

1. List the time or cost overrun expected on the project in your project management plan.
2. Develop risk transference strategies.
3. Create a risk response plan that includes the risk.
4. Ignore he risk until it happens.

Q6. You evaluate your critical path and determine the project will be completed two weeks ahead of management’s expected due date. What should you do?

1. Delay the project for two weeks
2. Prepare a list of identified risks that did not occur
3. Pull resources off the critical path to work on noncritical path activities
4. Add extra features that will enhance the project and require two more weeks to complete.

Q7. A person who has been working as a project expeditor for the past three years has just been named as project manger for a construction project in a neighboring state. The construction crew has worked together for a number of years. One of the project manager’s responsibilities is to pursue all of the historical risk information available, but he does not have enough time to access all available resources. The project manager would be best served by relying LEAST on which of these sources?

1. Lessons learned databases 0
2. Project files
3. Published benchmarking reports
4. Project team knowledge

Q8. Your team has built an exotic sports car for a wealthy client. The project team verified every deliverable against the quality requirements, and the client accepted. Now the project manager is arranging for the car delivery. This is part of which process group?

1. Closing
2. Monitoring and Controlling
3. Planning
4. Execution

Q9. The project manager has a team scattered across four countries. The team members are experts in their fields and a few are certified project managers. To deal with the distance, the project manager creates ground rules with the team, and has virtual meetings to deal with the cultural differences. Which of the following additional activities would have the GREATEST impact on the project?

1. Plan Communications
2. Acquire Project Team
3. Define Scope
4. Sequence Activities

Q10. Melissa is managing a hardware deployment project and is creating a risk management plan. Which of the following would not be included in this plan?

1. Templates
2. Roles and responsibilities
3. Budgeting
4. Methodology