Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Two team members come to you with a dispute. Since you are very busy, you briefly listen to one member, agree with him, and support his view. What kind of problem-solving technique is this?

1. Withdraw
2. Compromise
3. Force
4. Problem Solving

Q3. You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into the planning processes when a project stakeholder asks you for the project’s budget and cost baseline. What should you tell her?

1. The project budget can be found in the project charter, which has just bee completed
2. The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed
3. The project management plan will not contain the project budget and baseline; this is a small project
4. It is impossible to complete an estimate before the project management plan is created.

Q4. Which of the following graphical techniques visually depict the product scope by showing a business system and how other systems interact with it?

1. Ishikawa diagram
2. Histogram
3. Influence diagram
4. Context diagram

Q5. Julia is managing a software development project. Recently, an unexpected event delayed the project by 15 days. Julia has called a team meeting to identify measures to take to bring the project back on schedule. A measure that is taken to bring future results back in line with the project plan is best described as?

1. Change request
2. Preventive action
3. Corrective action
4. Defect repair

Q6. When planning risk responses, the strategy of changing the project management plan to eliminate the risk is known as:

1. Avoidance
2. Transference
3. Mitigation
4. Acceptance

Q7. Validate Scope is closely related to:

1. Perform Quality Control
2. Sequence Activities
3. Perform Quality Assurance
4. Time Management

Q8. A project manager wants to use a group decision-making technique to generate, classify and prioritize requirements. Which of these is not a valid group decision-making technique?

1. Plurality
2. Singularity
3. Majority
4. Unanimity

Q9. A project has experienced significant delays due to equipment problems, staff attrition, and slow client reviews. The project is 40 percent complete and has used 60 percent of the available calendar time. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Rebaseline the schedule to reflect the new date
2. Analyze the critical path activities for potential to fast track or crash the schedule
3. Document the lack of progress and associated issues to management
4. Identify activities that required more time than planned 49

Q10. The senior analyst on a project came up with Activity Duration Estimates as follows: Activity A: 10 days + a lag of two days; Activity B: 1 week + a lead of three days. The project manager who reviewed these estimates raised some objections to them. What would they most likely be?

1. The analyst should have included percent variance information while mentioning the Activity Duration Estimate. This would indicate a range of possible results.
2. Activity Duration Estimates should not include any lag or lead information.
3. It is advisable not to mix up units such as days and weeks while coming up with Activity Duration Estimates.
4. The Activity Duration Estimate should have also mentioned the predecessor or successor activity to which the lag or lead is attached.