Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of these is not an established Estimate Activity Durations technique?

1. Three Point Estimating
2. Parametric Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. Critical Path Estimation

Q3. The customer has accepted the completed project scope. However, the lessons learned required by the project management office have not been completed. What is the status of the project?

1. The project is complete because the project has reached the due date.
2. The project is incomplete because the project needs to be re-planned.
3. The project is incomplete until all project and product deliverables are completed and accepted.
4. The project is complete because the customer has accepted the deliverables.

Q4. People associated with the organization in which you are working with have been complaining about the lack of information regarding upcoming changes and want to get information now. Some of them feel what they have heard about your project means they will lose their job or be forced to find a different position with the company. Luckily for you, the SPI is at 1.08 and the CPI is at .99, so you feel confident of success. What is the BEST way to deal with this situation?

1. Update the organizational process assets and reassess the risks of this type of situation occurring again.
2. Use face-to-face meetings to gather further information about the issues and use the issue log to tract the issues to completion.
3. Use smoothing to let the people know they are not in act going to lose their jobs, and fight for better feedback in the future.
4. Have the people submit a change request so their concerns may be addressed and have the change control board review the change for merit.

Q5. Once a risk response is created, which of the following statements BEST describes the project manager’s role regarding risks while the project work is being completed?

1. Take actions when identified risks occur.
2. Look for unexpected impacts of implemented risk responses.
3. Implement planned work-arounds.
4. Make sure that risk responses are assigned to identify risks.

Q6. A project has a team member assigned to the project full time. What is the MOST likely effect on the project if that resource completes her activity sooner than planned?

1. Lower quality deliverables
2. Wasted cost
3. A subsequent activity will be delayed
4. Changes to the risk resource plan

Q7. What is the purpose of a decision tree?

1. It determines what events may take place
2. It demonstrates the path of events in a project.
3. It calculates the probability of an outcome
4. It takes into account future events for today’s choices

Q8. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate thing to do during the executing process group?

1. Forecast when the next milestone will be completed.
2. Recommend updates to the project management plan.
3. Recalculate how long the project will take.
4. Determine if project controls need to be updated.

Q9. The project cost and schedule for deliverables can be reasonably estimated at what level of the WBS?

1. The highest level
2. The middle level
3. The work package level
4. Both A and C

Q10. You are sitting in a group discussion with 13 stakeholders and collecting ideas. Now you are in the final stage and are selecting the final idea. As there are many ideas, you decide to vote. After voting you see that a particular idea receives 7 votes, so you go with that option. What kind of decision making is this?

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