Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is NOT an output of the Manage Stakeholders process?

1. Approved corrective actions
2. Deliverables
3. Updates to the project management plan
4. Organizational process asset updates 46

Q3. You have been assigned a very critical project. Although your team members are experts and efficient, your team performance is poor. What will you do to improve your team performance?

1. Train them
2. Warn them
3. Co-locate them
4. Punish them for poor performance

Q4. What theory proposes that efforts will lead to effective performance and will be rewarded for accomplishments?

1. Conditional reinforcement
2. Maslow’s hierarchy
3. McGregor’s
4. Expectancy.

Q5. During the completion of project work, the sponsor asks the project manager to report on how the project is going. In order to prepare the report, the project manager asks all the team members what percent complete their work is. There is one team member who has been hard to manage from the beginning. In response to being asked what percent complete he is, the team member asks, “Percent complete of what?”. Tired of such comments, the project manager reports to the team member’s boss that the team member is not cooperating. Which of the following is MOST likely the real problem?

1. The project manager did not get buy-in from the manager for the resources on the project.
2. The project manager did not create an adequate reward system for team members to improve their cooperation.
3. The project manager should have had a meeting with the team member’s boss the first time the team member caused trouble.
4. The project manager does not have the work packages.

Q6. The project has 13 team members and affects over 15 departments in the organization. Because the project is 20 percent complete to date and the team has had successful performance reports from five of the affected departments, the project manager holds a party to celebrate. The project manager invites key stakeholders from all of the departments to the party, in order to give those providing good reviews an informal opportunity to communicate good things to those departments that have not yet been affected by the project. At the party, the project manager walks around to try to discover any relevant information that would help the project be more successful. He happens to hear a manager of one of the departments talking about setting up more regular meetings on the project. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to FIRST:

1. Record the effectiveness of the part in the project lessons learned.
2. Review the information distribution methods on the project.
3. Hold a meeting of all the stakeholders to discuss their concerns.
4. Make sure the manager has a copy of the communications management plan so he is reminded that such concerns should be sent to the project manager.

Q7. Nate is the project manager for a research and development project. According to the project communication management plan, Nate has to call in weekly project progress update meetings. The last few meetings were a disaster since more time was spent in arguments and less on decisions. Which of the following techniques does Nate need to quickly acquire?

1. Presentation techniques
2. Listening techniques
3. Writing style
4. Meeting management techniques

Q8. During project executing, a large number of changes are made to the project. The project manager should:

1. Wait until all changes are known and print out a new schedule
2. Make sure the project charter is still valid
3. Change the schedule baseline
4. Talk to management before any changes are made

Q9. A project is facing the following risks: 20 percent chance a part is not available, creating an additional fee of US $30,000; 10 percent chance the team requires additional training for a cost of US $12,000; 25 percent chance the second planned quality test costing US $8,000 is unnecessary. What is the expected monetary value of these risks?

1. $50,000
2. $5,200
3. $42,000
4. $7,200 86

Q10. The engineering department has uncovered a problem with the cost accounting system and has asked the systems department to analyze what is wrong and fix the problem. You are a project manager working with the cost accounting programs on another project. Management has issued a change request to the change control board to add the new work to your project. Your existing project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.2 and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.3 so you have some room to ad work without delaying your existing project. After some analysis, you determine that the new work and existing work do not overlap and can be done concurrently. They also require different skill sets. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Re-estimate the project schedule with input from the engineering department
3. Verify the scope of the new work with the help of the stakeholders
4. Identify specific changes to the existing work.