Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. All of the following are tools of Plan Quality EXCEPT:

1. A scatter diagram
2. Benchmarking
3. Cost-benefit analysis
4. Cost of quality

Q3. While visiting the country where a new branch office is being built, you are told that you must pay a US $5,000 fee to the government permit office to obtain the facility permit required by law to start construction. The construction company tells you this is standard practice and is required by law. What should you do?

1. Pay the fee
2. Refuse to pay the fee
3. Have the construction company pay the fee
4. Have the customer pay the fee

Q4. The project has a critical deliverable that requires certain expertise to complete. The person who was going to complete the activity has left the company and there is no one who can complete the work within the company. For this reason, the project manager needs to acquire the services of a consultant as soon as possible. To do this, the project manager should:

1. Follow the requirements set up by the company for using outside services
2. Bypass the company procedures as they are not relevant to the situation
3. Expedite and go directly to his/her preferred consultant.
4. Ask his/her manager what to do.

Q5. You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization’s new website. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with this type of website development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. Any delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan. Client personnel have been kept fully informed of the project's progress through status reports and regular meetings. The project is on schedule and within budget, and a final perfunctory review has been scheduled. Suddenly you hear that the entire effort may be cancelled because the product being developed is totally unacceptable. What is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

1. A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project.
2. The project charter and project management plan were not thoroughly explained to or adequately reviewed by the client.
3. Communications arrangements were inadequate and did not provide the required information to interested parties.
4. The project sponsor failed to provide adequate support for the project.

Q6. Which of the following BEST describes what a project charter may be used for when the work is being completed?

1. To make sure all the team members are rewarded
2. To help determine if a scope change should be approved
3. To assess the effectiveness of the change control system
4. To make sure that all the documentation on the project is completed

Q7. You are having difficulty estimating the cost of a project. Which of the following BEST describes the most probable cause of your difficulty?

1. Inadequate scope definition
2. Unavailability of desired resources
3. Lack of historical records from previous projects.
4. Lack of company processes.

Q8. Analogous Estimating is an estimation technique that uses the values of parameters such as scope, cost, budget, and duration from a previous similar activity as the basis of activity. It is frequently used for estimation when there is a limited amount of information about the project. This is a form of:

1. Gross value estimation
2. Function point estimation
3. Fixed point estimation
4. Precision Estimation

Q9. All of the following are parts of effective problem solving EXCEPT:

1. Waiting to make decisions
2. Reviewing the decision
3. Confirming that the decision solved the problem
4. Analyzing the problem.

Q10. Your company requires that before you purchase any routers or switches for the data center you are building, you need to solicit quotes from three separate suppliers prior to submitting the purchase request to the finance department. This policy belongs to:

1. Organizational Process Assets
2. Enterprise Environmental Factors
3. Procurement Management Knowledge Area
4. Make-or-Buy Decision