Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Risks may be identified during the entire lifecycle of a project. Identify Risks is what type of process?

1. Qualitative
2. Effort-driven
3. Discrete
4. Iterative

Q3. Which of the following tools helps you to determine whether the subcontractor’s work is meeting the quality requirements?

1. Quality control
2. Quality audit
3. Inspection of deliverables
4. Delphi technique

Q4. Paul has recently been asked to manage an office refurbishment project. He finds out that the chief financial officer of the company is resisting the project. The chief financial officer is a key project stakeholder. What must Paul do first?

1. Conduct a team meeting to discuss this issue.
2. Seek support from the project sponsor to force project decisions.
3. Analyze options that might change or influence the chief financial officer's perception.
4. Seek expert judgment from the project initiator.

Q5. During the executing process group of the project, you realize the subcontractors are working with incomplete and different project scope statements. As the project manager, what should you do FIRST?

1. Check the work completed against the correct project scope statement.
2. Review the scope with the stakeholders.
3. Document the inconsistencies to the sponsor, calculating the cost of non-conformance.
4. Stop work until the scope issue is resolved.

Q6. 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.

Q7. A project uses rounding of activity cost estimates data to the nearest $100, uses staff hours as the unit of measure for resources, and has a variance threshold of 10 percent deviation from the baseline plan. These approaches are typically documented in the:

1. Cost management plan
2. Scope Statement
3. WBS
4. Project charter

Q8. The sponsor and the project manager are discussing what type of contract the project manager plans to use on the project. The buyer points out that the performing organization spent a lot of money hiring a design team to come up with the design. The project manager is concerned that the risk for the buyer be as small as possible. An advantage of a fixed price contract for the buyer is:

1. Cost risk is lower
2. Cost risk is higher
3. There is little risk
4. Risk is shared by all parties.

Q9. Communications under a contract should tend toward:

1. Formal written communication.
2. Formal verbal communication.
3. Informal written communication.
4. Informal verbal communication

Q10. The project is not going well and many changes are being made. Which of the following should you do FIRST to gain control of the project?

1. Review the project scope with the stakeholders
2. Create a new change form
3. Remind everyone of the change procedures
4. Ask the sponsor to review the project charter