Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is one of the most prominent features of a project following agile approach for product development?

1. Produce defect-free deliverables
2. Zero tolerance for rework
3. Deliver incremental value to the customer
4. Delivery of the product in a single sprint

Q3. A project manager on a multinational Web site implementation project is at a part and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new Web site when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current Web site. The project manager takes this feedback back to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

1. Verify scope.
2. Integrated change control
3. Scope planning
4. Stakeholder analysis

Q4. Your boss has asked you for a cost baseline for the project, but it is early in the project management process and there is very little project information. In this circumstance, what is the BEST way to estimate this project?

1. Extrapolate from historical data
2. Ask the team for estimates of each activity
3. Provide a rough order of magnitude estimate
4. Calculate an estimate using the schedule model

Q5. Which of the following is not a Tuckman's team development stage?

1. Confronting
2. Forming
3. Norming
4. Adjourning

Q6. At a critical design review meeting for a large project, several important issues surfaced. After hearing about a major technical problem, one of the subcontractor’s engineers mentions that he experienced a similar situation on another project, he has some ideas on how to solve the current problem. What type of power is the engineer using?

1. Manipulative
2. Formal
3. Expert
4. Referent.

Q7. A team member tells the project manager that her activity will be delayed four weeks. The project manager investigates and determines that the delay will affect the project’s completion date. Who should approve the change?

1. Change control board
2. Project manager
3. Team member
4. Sponsor

Q8. Which part of the risk management process receives input from risk response owners?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. Plan Risk Responses.

Q9. The project has been working through some difficult technical issues relating to how the work should be done. The most recent problem related to the way each test was to be completed. There have also been disagreements with two of the eight managers and the sponsor has had to intervene once. The testing work is done when the project manager discovers that one of the changes agreed to has not been adequately completed. What did the project manager NOT do?

1. Ask those doing the work describe the change, to make sure they understood it.
2. Get the sponsor to sign off on the change.
3. Make sure the functional manager closely supervised the testing.
4. Provider more training for those doing the testing.

Q10. A resource assigned to your project contacts you, trying to get off the team. He knows that an important project in his department is going to be approved and will take place at the same time as yours. He wants to work on the other project. Under the circumstances, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Keep him if he is a valuable resource.
2. Talk to the functional manager about releasing him from the team
3. Release him after he finds a suitable replacement
4. Wait until the last minute to see if the other project is approved.