Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of these is not an input to the Control Procurements process?

1. Agreements
2. Change requests
3. Work performance data
4. Project management plan

Q3. Which of the following is a chief characteristic of the Delphi technique?

1. Extrapolation from historical records from previous projects
2. Expert opinion
3. Analytical hierarchy process
4. Bottom-up approach.

Q4. You are the project level manager with several project activities underway. In the executing process group, you begin to become concerned about the accuracy of progress reports from the projects. What would BEST support your opinion that there is a problem?

1. Quality audits
2. Risk quantification reports
3. Regression analysis
4. Monte Carlo analysis

Q5. Which of the following should be avoided while applying logical relationships to project activities:

1. Applying the SS relationship with a lead
2. Applying the SS relationship with a lag
3. Applying the SF relationship
4. Applying multiple relationships between the same activities

Q6. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s role regarding project changes?

1. Discover changes as early as possible
2. Prevent changes that affect the project scope
3. Prevent the addition of profit in sellers’ changes
4. Have the sponsor approve all changes

Q7. A project manager needs to determine if the manufacturing process planned for the new micro-satellites will meet quality standards. Each satellite takes about three days to manufacture and costs US $125,000. The satellites are so small that inspection would destroy them. Under these circumstances, what should the project manager do?

1. Outsource the inspection to another company with more expertise.
2. Evaluate the attributes of the population.
3. Inspect a sample of the satellites.
4. Decrease the cost of quality.

Q8. All technical work is completed on the project. Which of the following remains to be done?

1. Validate Scope
2. Plan Risk Responses
3. Create a staffing management plan
4. Complete lessons learned.

Q9. A project manager has put in place rules covering who will have access to controlled documents, how changes to these items will be recorded and approved, and how everyone will know what the current version is. The project manager is therefore creating a:

1. Work authorization system
2. Change control system
3. Configuration management system
4. Project management information system

Q10. You are managing a project where your team is physically located with client personnel at a remote location. There is a high level of interaction between your team and client personnel, and client satisfaction is considered very important. Since the client is expressing a very high level of satisfaction with the project’s progress, your management has indicated no concerns about the project. However, you are behind schedule and over budget. In addition, morale among team members is low, and several team members have talked about quitting. Team members complain regularly about priority adjustments and alteration of activities. The weekly reports you receive about activities completed are often difficult to relate to the WBS and the project management plan. What action should you take to MOST effectively address these problems?

1. You should enforce scope control.
2. You should identify ways to make team members’ work more satisfying using the most applicable motivational theory.
3. You should incur the extra expenses necessary to be on-site to more closely monitor the activities of the project team.
4. You should create a reward and punishment system to ensure that project team members complete activities within the timeframes outlined in the project management plan.