Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. 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.

Q3. Your project team is spending so much time reviewing potential changes to a project that you do not have time to complete project work. Which of the following is the LEAST likely reason for this problem?

1. No change control board
2. Not enough of an effort to identify the project stakeholders
3. A poor communications management plan
4. An unclear project charter 0

Q4. During a meeting with some of the project stakeholders, the project manager is asked to add work to the project scope. The project manager had access to correspondence about the project before the project charter was signed and remembers that the project sponsor specifically denied funding for the scope mentioned by these stakeholders. The BEST thing for the project manager to do is to:

1. Let the sponsor know of the stakeholders’ request
2. Evaluate the impact of adding the scope
3. Tell the stakeholders the scope cannot be added
4. Add the work if there is time available in the project schedule

Q5. A project manager would like to resolve conflicts by a give-and-take attitude rather than by a one-sided approach. Which of these approaches is he likely to use?

1. Forcing
2. Problem-solving
3. Directing
4. Withdrawing

Q6. Which document describes the project's deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables?

1. Project authorization document
2. Project scope statement
3. Project scope management plan
4. Project charter

Q7. Which option is not representative of the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. PMIS, Project Management Plan, and Deliverables
2. Deliverables, Approved Change Requests, and Project Management Information System
3. Approved Change Requests, Validated Changes, and PMIS
4. Approved Change Requests, Project Management Plan, and Work Performance Data

Q8. You are a risk manager of a project and the project manager has given you the responsibility of developing the risk management plan. So, you start collecting the risks and then you categorize them based on their impact on the project objectives. Afterward, you analyze them and develop the risk response plan for positive risks and negative risks. After developing these response plans, what will your next step be?

1. Develop the risk response plan for neutral risks
2. Update the project management plan
3. Assign the risk action owner to each risk
4. Change the critical path to reflect the risk impact

Q9. A project manager for a large international bank has a project team that just implemented an electronic funds project involving four large vendors. The project manager struggled through every part of the procurement process since the bank had a weak internal procurement department. What would be the MOST appropriate thing to do to ensure the problems are resolved for future projects?

1. Document all of the issues in a memo, and schedule a meeting with the head of the procurement office.
2. Include a agenda item in the project closedown to discuss these issues in a non-threatening manner
3. Address this through contract change control.
4. Conduct a procurement audit.

Q10. Which of the following is the MOST beneficial result of the project manager knowing the critical path?

1. She would know where the extra resources should be placed
2. She would know what activities she needs to focus on while managing the project.
3. She would know where stakeholders need to be assigned to the project.
4. She would know where there is float on the project