Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The product manager for the product the project is developing notifies the project manager that she has decided the product should be able to be used by an additional market. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to:

1. Immediately notify the project sponsor that there is a project scope change.
2. Notify the project change control board that the project scope will have to change
3. Inform the product manager that the potential impacts to the project will be reviewed.
4. Do nothing, as this is an example of progressive elaboration.

Q3. Two people are in the process of estimating probabilities for each of their identified risks. Which step of risk management is this?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Plan Risk Responses
4. Control Risks.

Q4. The calculated duration of a project of 28.166. The standard deviation is 5.5. What technique would you use to compute the probability of completing a project on a specific day?

1. Reserve analysis
2. Monte Carlo analysis
3. Probability analysis
4. Variance analysis 44

Q5. A project manager is assigned to a new, high priority project. There are only five available resources because other resources are already committed to projects. The time available to complete the project is less than half the time needed, and the project manager cannot convince management to change the end date. The project manager should:

1. Coordinate with team members the overtime necessary to complete the work
2. Provide the team with opportunities to produce acceptable quality on the work that can be accomplished
3. Look for any scope that can be cut from the project.
4. Use more experienced resources to complete the work faster.

Q6. Warranty and inventory costs are going up, causing the project manager to worry about the costs of non-conformance. What is the BEST advice you can give the project manager?

1. Increase scrap.
2. Increase rework
3. Perform a quality audit.
4. Look for benchmarks.

Q7. A team member complains to the project manager that another team member has once again failed to provide necessary information. The project manager meets with both team members to uncover the reason for the problem. This is an example of:

1. Withdrawal
2. Confronting
3. Compromising
4. Smoothing.

Q8. The Direct and Manage Project Work process has three tools and techniques. Two of them are Expert Judgment and Meetings. What is the third one?

1. Scheduling System
2. Configuration Management System
3. Project Management Information System
4. Change Control System

Q9. A project manager has discovered that a team member has gold plated the work done in an activity. In order to discover this, the project manager must have been performing:

1. Time management
2. Scope management
3. Cost management
4. Human Resource management

Q10. A dependency requiring that design be completed before manufacturing can start is an example of:

1. Discretionary dependency
2. External dependency
3. Mandatory dependency
4. Scope dependency