Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your employee is three days late with a report. Five minutes before the meeting where the topic of the report is to be discussed, she hands you the report. You notice some serious errors in it. What should you do?

1. Cancel the meeting and reschedule when the report is fixed.
2. Go to the meeting and tell the other attendees there are errors in the report
3. Force the employee to do the presentation and remain silent as the other attendees find the errors.
4. Cancel the meeting and rewrite the report yourself.

Q3. When a project is executed under contract, the contractual provisions will generally be considered as _____________ for the project.

1. Constraints
2. Exclusions
3. Deliverables
4. Provisions

Q4. Your project team has recently identified a risk in the software development project and decided not to change the project management plan to deal with the risk. The risk response strategy that your team used in this scenario is an example of:

1. Mitigate
2. Transfer
3. Avoid
4. Acceptance

Q5. You are developing a smartphone, when suddenly your competitor has launched a smartphone which is better than yours. Therefore, you make some changes to the product which causes WBS elements to be amended heavily. What kind of changes have you made to your project?

1. Change in scope
2. Change in schedule
3. Change in quality
4. None of the above

Q6. A project team is having difficulty communicating over long distances. There are 13 team members from two countries when five people from Indian are added to the project. How many communication channels are there?

1. 153
2. 180
3. 324
4. 362

Q7. A project manager is trying to settle a dispute between two team members. One says the systems should be integrated before testing, and the other maintains each system should be tested before integration. The project involves over 30 people, and 2 systems need to be integrated. The sponsor is demanding that integration happens on time. What is the BEST statement the project manager can make to resolve the conflict?

1. Do it my way.
2. Let’s clam down and get the job done.
3. Let’s deal with this again next week after we all calm down.
4. Let’s do limited testing before integration and finish testing after integration.

Q8. The objective of a transformation project is to move an organization from one state to another state. Before the project begins, the organization is commonly referred to as being in the:

1. Hot State
2. Ready State
3. Historic State
4. Current State

Q9. Risk tolerances are determined in order to help:

1. The team rank the project risks
2. The project manager estimate the project
3. The team schedule the project
4. Management know how other managers will act on the project.

Q10. Change control tool selection should be based on the needs of the project stakeholders, including organizational and environmental considerations and/or constraints. Which of the following is not a key change management consideration while selecting an appropriate change control tool for a project?

1. Identifying and selecting a change item
2. Configuration item verification and audit
3. Documenting the change into a proper change request
4. Tracking change requests