Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is not a Project Schedule Management process?

1. Source Activities
2. Estimate Activity Durations
3. Define Activities
4. Sequence Activities

Q3. Which technique is NOT commonly used to align the timing of activities with available resources?

1. Critical Path Method
2. Resource Leveling
3. Resource optimization
4. Resource Smoothing

Q4. By policy, the project management office regularly evaluates project performance. This is done in order to ensure standards are being followed. This is an example of:

1. Plan Quality
2. Manage Quality
3. Control Quality
4. Quality Management

Q5. You have just been assigned to take over a project that your management has told you is “out of control”. When you asked your management what the problems were, they had no specifics, but said that the project was behind schedule, over budget, and the client was dissatisfied. Which of the following should be of the MOST concern to you?

1. The project is over budget and behind schedule
2. There is very little documentation related to the project.
3. The client is very dissatisfied with the project’s progress.
4. Your management is looking for rapid and visible action on this project to rectify the problems.

Q6. During the planning phase, you have created the WBS for the work that you are about to complete. However, because of a lack of information you are not able to create the WBS for the rest of the work, so you leave it until you get the correct and detailed information. This is an example of:

1. Progressive elaboration
2. Improper collecting requirement process
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Improper scope statement

Q7. What conflict resolution technique is a project manager using when he says, “I cannot deal with this issue now!”

1. Problem solving
2. Forcing
3. Withdrawal
4. Compromising.

Q8. Team members are arguing about the location of specification limits on a control chart. The discussion is becoming heated when the project manager walks in and says: “… It seems that the real problem here is that we do not have enough information about the customer’s specifications. Let’s …”. This is an example of:

1. Asserting the project manager’s authority.
2. Problem solving.
3. Compromising.
4. Withdrawal.

Q9. Melissa is managing a hardware deployment project and is creating a risk management plan. Which of the following would not be included in this plan?

1. Templates
2. Roles and responsibilities
3. Budgeting
4. Methodology

Q10. Risks may be identified during the entire lifecycle of a project. Identify Risks is what type of process?

1. Qualitative
2. Effort-driven
3. Discrete
4. Iterative