Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Risk response owners can potentially have conflict with risk auditors because risk auditors:

1. Report to the project manager
2. Investigate the effectiveness of the risk response owner
3. Measure the effectiveness of the risk thresholds.
4. Report to the stakeholders

Q3. Based on the chart, what will be the effect on the project if activity C now takes four months?

1. There will be a new critical path
2. The project will take longer
3. There is no change to the critical path
4. Activity B is now on the critical path

Q4. A project manager on a multinational Web site implementation project is at a part and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new Web site when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current Web site. The project manager takes this feedback back to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

1. Verify scope.
2. Integrated change control
3. Scope planning
4. Stakeholder analysis

Q5. The project CPI is 1.02, the benefit cost ratio is 1.7 and the latest round of performance reviews identified few needed adjustments. The project team was co-located into a new building when the project started. Everyone commented on how excited they were to have all new facilities. The sponsor is providing adequate support for the project and few unidentified risks have occurred In an attempt to improve performance, the project manager spends part of the project budget on new chairs for the team members and adds the term “senior” to each team member’s job title. Which of the following is the MOST correct thing that can be said of this project or the project manager?

1. The project manager has misunderstood Herzberg’s theory
2. The project is slowly spending more money than it should. The project manager should begin to watch cost more carefully
3. The performance review should be handled better to find more adjustments
4. The project manager should use good judgment to determine which variances are important.

Q6. Work on a project is ongoing when the project manager overhears two workers arguing over what a set of instructions means. The project manager investigates and discovers that the instructions for the construction of the concrete footings currently being poured were poorly translated between the different languages in use on the project. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do FIRST?

1. Get the instructions translated by a more experienced party.
2. Look for quality impacts o the poor translation of the instructions for the footings.
3. Bring the issue to the attention of the team, and ask them to look for other translation problems.
4. Inform the sponsor of the problem in the next project report.

Q7. You are in a process which helps you evaluate the effectiveness of the risk process throughout the project. Which of the following documents will not be updated here?

1. Assumption log
2. Issue log
3. Risk report
4. Change log

Q8. The widget production project is well underway. The requirements are clear that each widget must weigh between 0.320 and 0.325 ounces. The first day of test production resulted in 1247 widgets. Of the widgets inspected, 47 percent fell within the acceptable weight range. This is an example of:

1. Control limits
2. Quality assurance
3. Control charting
4. Corrective action

Q9. Two efficiency indicators that reflect the cost and schedule performance of a project are:

1. Cost Projection Index (CPI) and Schedule Projection Index (SPI)
2. Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
3. Actual Cost (AC) and Planned Value (PV)
4. Cost Pricing Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI)

Q10. An obstacle to team building in a matrix organization is that the:

1. Team organization is technically focused
2. Team members are borrowed resources and can be hard to motivate.
3. Teams are too centralized
4. Teams are too large and therefore very hard to handle.