Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A program management office (PMO) chose you to write a purchase order because of your expertise in business writing. You learned the PMO has already selected a seller for a software product and would like to award the procurement contract to the selected seller as a purchase order, which you must prepare. In this scenario, the PMO is administering:

1. The monitor stakeholder engagement process
2. The control procurements process
3. The plan procurement management process
4. The conduct procurements process

Q3. Who determines the project scope requirements of a new project?

1. The customer
2. The stakeholders
3. The project manager
4. Senior management

Q4. A project is seriously delayed. Earned value analysis shows the project needs to be completed 10 percent faster than the work has been going. To get the project back on track, management wants to add 10 people to an activity currently assigned to one person. The project manager disagrees, noting that such an increase will not produce an increase in speed. This is an example of:

1. The law of diminishing returns
2. Fast tracking
3. Earned value
4. Life cycle costing

Q5. It is not practical, and usually not necessary, to engage with all stakeholders with the same level of intensity at all times. A project manager must prioritize stakeholders depending upon on who they are, what level of influence they have on the project, and what their interests are. Which of the following techniques helps in stakeholder prioritization?

1. Stakeholder engagement matrix
2. Stakeholder register
3. Stakeholder classification models
4. Resource histograms

Q6. How does the role of a project manager change based on managing projects using a predictive development life cycle then managing projects in adaptive environments?

1. The role of the project manager changes to a facilitator in predictive environments.
2. The role of the project manager changes to a facilitator in adaptive environments.
3. The role of the project manager does not change.
4. The role of the project manager is replaced with a scrum master in adaptive environments.

Q7. All of the following come after the Define Scope process EXCEPT:

1. Estimate Activity Durations
2. Develop Human Resource Plan
3. Estimate Costs
4. Collect Requirements

Q8. 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

Q9. The customer on a project tells the project manager he has run out of money to pay for the project. What should the project manager do FIRST?

1. Shift more of the work to later in the schedule to allow time for the customer to get the funds
2. Enter project closure
3. Stop work
4. Release part of the project team

Q10. Which of the following best describes a control chart?

1. A bar chart showing project activities and their schedule
2. A chart showing the upper and lower control limits
3. A chart showing potential causes of issues
4. A chart showing loops between activities