Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During project executing, a large number of changes are made to the project. The project manager should:

1. Wait until all changes are known and print out a new schedule
2. Make sure the project charter is still valid
3. Change the schedule baseline
4. Talk to management before any changes are made

Q3. While developing your project schedule, you have asked everyone to provide a list of planned vacations over the next three months, and you have applied this information to the tasks that each person is responsible for. What also needs updating?

1. Resource Calendars
2. Leads
3. Schedule Variances
4. Lags

Q4. Nancy is engaged in the construction of three office buildings. Although the construction sites are in various places, she has managed each team efficiently to complete the work on time and within budget. Which of the following statements describes the effort Nancy is doing?

1. Construction of each building is an operational work because it is repetitive in nature.
2. The building construction is considered neither a project nor operational work.
3. Construction of all three buildings is considered one project.
4. Construction of each building is a project because each building is separate in nature.

Q5. The requirements of many stakeholders were not approved for inclusion in your project. Therefore, you had a difficult time receiving formal approval of the project management plan for this project. The stakeholders argued and held up the project while they held meeting after meeting about their requirements. The project was finally approved and work was begun six months ago. All of the following would be good preventive actions to implement EXCEPT:

1. Keep a file of what requirements were not included in the project.
2. Make sue the change control process is not used as a vehicle to add back the requirements into the project.
3. Maintain an issue log.
4. Hold meetings with the stakeholders to go over the work that will not be added to the project.

Q6. A project manager has managed four projects for the company and is being considered to join the project management office team. The following is discovered during the evaluation of his performance. The project manager’s first project had an ending cost variance of -500, used two critical resources, needed to rework the project charter during project executing and was ranked 14th in priority within the company. The second project finished with a schedule variance of +100, was completed with a vastly compressed schedule and received a letter of recommendation from the sponsor, but the product of the project was not used. The third project had 23 percent more changes than expected, had an SPI of 0.90, and 25 open items in the issue log when the project was completed. Each of these projects had a cost budget of US $1,000 and 20 to 28 percent more changes than others of its size. The project management office decided not to add this project manager to the team. Which of the following BEST describes why this might have happened?

1. The project manager has only managed low-priority projects and he had to compress the schedule, showing that he does not have the skill to work in the project management office.
2. Issue logs should not be used on projects of this size, showing that the project manager does not have the knowledge to work in a project management office
3. The project manager did not effectively involve the stakeholders, showing that he does not have the knowledge to work in the project management office
4. The project manager had two critical resources on their team and still needed to rework the project charter, showing that he does not have the discipline to work in the project management office.

Q7. Many quality problems plagued a project. The quality of the work products deviated considerably from specifications. The project manager decided to do a root cause analysis. What activities does a root cause analysis include?

1. Discovery of the underlying causes of a problem
2. Problem Identification and discovery of the underlying causes of a problem
3. Identification of a problem
4. Problem identification, discovery of the underlying causes of a problem, and development of preventive actions

Q8. Which of the following processes are usually performed once or at predefined points in the project:

1. “Develop Project Charter” and “Close Project or Phase”
2. “Develop Project Charter” and “Develop Project Management Plan”
3. “Develop Project Management Plan” and “Direct and Manage Project Work”
4. “Direct and Manage Project Work” and “Monitor and Control Project Work”

Q9. You have been offered a position managing a project that will last 12 months. However, you know that in six months, you will be relocating to another state for family reasons. What should you do?

1. Turn down the position
2. Accept the position and provide four weeks’ notice before leaving the job
3. Accept the position and compress the schedule to complete the project in six months
4. Disclose your relocation plans to the hiring manager

Q10. Which process group corresponds to the "act" component of the plan-docheck- act cycle?

1. Monitoring & Controlling
2. Executing
3. Planning
4. Initiating