Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have just received an invoice from your supplier that contains some uncertified items. Payments to the supplier are processed through your corporate accounts payable system only after certification of satisfactory work by the project quality control specialist. What should you do?

1. Process the supplier’s invoice since this is your liability
2. Call the supplier and obtain more information
3. Ask the supplier to stop all deliveries until the matter has a resolution
4. Seek judicial arbitration

Q3. Which of the following stakeholder groups, especially if the size of the group is large, is ideal for the success of the project?

1. Supportive stakeholders
2. Leading stakeholders
3. Neutral stakeholders
4. Unaware stakeholders

Q4. As project progress is tracked according to the project management plan, the project manager discovers that final deliverables will be completed two months after the deliverable dates imposed by management. What should the project manager do?

1. Look for options with stakeholders using some combination of scaling back work, re-evaluating discretionary dependencies, and adding resources
2. Evaluate the impact on the company of completing this project late.
3. Drive the project team to work faster to make up for lost time
4. Recalculate the project schedule and distribute it according to the communications management plan

Q5. All of the following are outputs of the Estimate Costs process EXCEPT:

1. An understanding of the cost risk in the work that has been estimated.
2. The prevention of inappropriate changes from being included in the cost baseline.
3. An indication of the range of possible costs for the project
4. Documentation of any assumptions made during the Estimate Costs process.

Q6. Which of these is not a legitimate model used to analyze stakeholders?

1. Influence/impact grid
2. Power/influence grid
3. Sufficiency model
4. Salience model

Q7. All of the following should be done by the project manager during the project monitoring and controlling process group EXCEPT:

1. Determine that a change has occurred
2. Ensure that a change is beneficial
3. Make sure all changes are approved by management
4. Manage changes as they occur.

Q8. All of the following are risk response strategies EXCEPT:

1. Retain
2. Accept
3. Share
4. Avoid 99

Q9. You are finalizing the monthly project status report due now to your manager when you discover that several project team members are not reporting actual hours spent on project activities. This results in skewed project statistics. What is the MOST appropriate action to be taken?

1. Discuss the impacts of these actions with team members.
2. Report the team members’ actions t their functional managers.
3. Continue reporting information as presented to you.
4. Provider accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.

Q10. You manage an airport construction project. Since sophisticated technology and systems are involved, your project procurements require significant lead times. Your procurement specialist has recently proposed a new procurements management process that will significantly reduce these lead times and result in cost savings for the project. Besides implementing this new process, what else should you do?

1. Resell your current inventory at the purchase price
2. Shut down the project warehouse
3. Update the lessons-learned database
4. Do not include the over-processing costs