Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. While managing a project, you have included the product acceptance criteria in the Quality Management Plan. While reviewing your plan, a senior manager asks you to reconsider this. You then realize that what you did is incorrect. Where should you place the product acceptance criteria?

1. Project Charter
2. Change control process
3. Project Scope Statement
4. Scope Verification Plan

Q3. During project planning in a matrix organization, the project manager determines that additional human resources are needed. From whom would he request these resources?

1. The project manager
2. The functional manager
3. The team
4. The project sponsor.

Q4. A project manager uses the precedence diagramming method (PDM) for constructing a project schedule network and creates a network diagram for the purpose. He decides to use the most common type of precedence relationship for all activities. Which of the following relationships would he use?

1. Start-to-finish (SF)
2. Finish-to-finish (FF)
3. Start-to-start (SS)
4. Finish-to-start (FS)

Q5. You are taken to lunch by one of your sellers who has become a friend. He gives you an opportunity to participate in a new venture in association with his company, unrelated to your current employment. What should you do?

1. Refuse to participate
2. Participate
3. Participate but advise your employer of the offer
4. Request your employer’s consent for your participation.

Q6. Originally a project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes three weeks, activity B takes five weeks, and activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before activity C can start. Activity C takes six weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before activity E can start, and activity E takes two weeks. Activity F can start as soon as activity C completes and has duration of four weeks. Activity G takes three weeks and cannot start until activity E is completed. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. However, during project executing, a dependency was discovered between activities E and F. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Tell management that the project will take longer than 18 weeks.
2. Redo schedule development
3. Call a team meeting and determine if crashing or fast tracking are possible solutions to meeting the original schedule
4. Call a meeting of stakeholders and communicate schedule risks.

Q7. The approximate resource costs necessary for completing project activities are compiled during which project management process?

1. Cost Reserve Analysis
2. Estimate Costs
3. Cost aggregation
4. Forecasting.

Q8. Using the chart, in order to handle some resources changes on your project, activity H is going to be done concurrently with activity G instead of after it. What impact will this have on the project?

1. It will cause the project to be completed four time periods sooner
2. It will cause a decrease in project risk
3. It will have no effect on the critical path
4. It will affect activity
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Q9. A project manager creates a component-specific tool to verify that a set of required steps has been performed. This tool is called a:

1. Risk Register
2. Assumptions log
3. Checklist
4. Plan-Do-Act-Check

Q10. Scope decomposition involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller pieces to:

1. Improve the accuracy of estimates, define a baseline for performance and assist with responsibility assignments.
2. Provide more activities to assign to resources
3. Provide the project duration, provide project control, and assign control charts.
4. Assist in stakeholder assignment to project activities.