Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During what part of the project management process is the project scope statement created?

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and controlling

Q3. You are in the process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving, and the ultimate disposition of project information in accordance with the communications management plan. What is the output of this process?

1. Project management plan update
2. Communication management plan
3. Change requests
4. Work performance information

Q4. Pareto charts help the project manager:

1. Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality
2. Focus on stimulating thinking.
3. Explore a desired future outcome
4. Determine if a process is out of control.

Q5. During the risk analysis process, you find that a specific risk has a remote chance of happening and if it occurs, it will have very little effect on the project objective. What will you do with this risk?

1. Analyze it further
2. Assign it a risk owner
3. Keep it in watch list
4. You will ignore it

Q6. You are over budget and it is impossible to complete the project with the given budget. Therefore, you raise the change request which management approves. After the change request is approved, you update the cost baseline and update other project documents. The document used to register any changes which occur during the project execution is known as:

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Change log
4. RACI matrix

Q7. Although it is highly recommended that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project lifecycle, lessons learned are finalized during project closure. At this stage, responses to high-level questions may be gathered and documented. Which of the following is not an appropriate question to ask at this stage?

1. What were the top significant project successes?
2. How relevant the historic lessons learned were to this project during execution?
3. What obstacles or unanticipated circumstances made it difficult to complete the project?
4. What should have been done differently in this project?

Q8. If a project manager wants to examine the project results over time to see if performance is improving, she would use a:

1. Trend report.
2. Forecasting report.
3. Status report.
4. Variance report.

Q9. The project has been going well when one of the suppliers informs you that, as they warned you during project planning, they will deliver your equipment two days late. At the same time, you get a call from a team member informing you that the critical path activity she is working on will take longer to complete than planned. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Use a contingency reserve for the first, and find out how much later the activity will be
2. Ask for a change order for each
3. Have both reviewed with the change control board
4. Find out why the activity was late 8

Q10. The project was going well until the director of marketing discovered that two of her staff members were working different versions of the sampling plan, a product of your project. Which of the following BEST describes what needs the attention of the project manager on this project?

1. Stakeholder management
2. Resource allocation
3. Staffing management plan
4. Configuration management