Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Sandra is managing a software development project. The project has many stakeholders having a negative attitude toward the project. Sandra knows she can’t keep everybody happy but still can try her best to manage them. Which of the following can help Sandra manage these negative stakeholders better?

1. Ignore them
2. Send them project updates
3. Engage them in project decisions
4. Send inaccurate project reports

Q3. The manager of a project that your company is running in another country is at the corporate headquarters for a company-wide project management meeting. During a break, you overhear the project manager discussing payments made to local municipal governments for construction permits for the project. Your company has a strict policy about paying or taking bribes. What should you do?

1. Report him to PMI
2. Report him to his manager
3. Notify his project stakeholders
4. Do nothing

Q4. Which statement BEST explains the phrase “Quality is planned in, not inspected in.”

1. It is more expensive to determine quality by inspection than by planning it.
2. Quality activities occur during the planning process group of the project
3. Quality is part of planning, not inspection
4. Planning for quality is after the fact.

Q5. If a project manager focuses on ensuring that the project satisfies the needs for which it was undertaken, the project manager is involved in:

1. Cost management
2. Time management
3. Quality management
4. Scope management

Q6. The project manager is trying to recall a stakeholder's preferred communication method. Where can she find that information?

1. RACl chart
2. Stakeholders engagement assessment matrix
3. Stakeholder management plan
4. Human resource management plan 44

Q7. Which of these statements is true?

1. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is much less than the cost of preventing them.
2. The cost of preventing mistakes is generally much less than the cost of correcting them as revealed by inspection.
3. It does not matter where a defect is captured as long as the finished work product does not have a defect.
4. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is more or less the same as the cost of preventing them since the same effort goes into both activities.

Q8. You took over a project from an individual who was fired. You are reading the project documentation and find that five managers signed the project charter. What should be your primary concern at this time?

1. Determining reporting structure
2. Communicating in a matrix organization
3. Getting a single sponsor
4. Identifying who can represent the project for change control

Q9. Your organization is having a difficult time managing all of is projects. You have been asked to help senior management get a better understanding of the problems. What do you do FIRST?

1. Meet with individual project managers to get a better sense of what is happening
2. Send a formal memo to all project managers requesting their project management plans
3. Meet with senior managers to help them develop a new tracking system for managing projects
4. Review the project charters and bar charts for all projects.

Q10. The project was going well when all of a sudden there were changes to the project coming from multiple stakeholders. After all the changes were determined, the project manager spent time with all the stakeholders to find out why there were changes and to discover any more. The project work has quieted down when a team member casually mentions to the project manager that he added functionality to a product of the project. Do not worry he says, “I did not impact time, cost, or quality!”

1. Ask the team member how the need for functionality was determined
2. Hold a meeting to review the team member’s completed work
3. Look for other added functionality.
4. Ask the team member how he knows there is no time, cost, or quality impact.