Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Upon obtaining the project charter, the Project Manager of a project starts acquiring the project team immediately. Is this correct?

1. Yes. Acquisition of the project team is primarily an Initiating Process Group activity.
2. Yes. The project manager needs to get the team together as soon as the project starts.
3. No. It is the responsibility of the project sponsor to provide the team for execution.
4. No. Acquisition of the project team is primarily an Executing Process Group activity.

Q3. Early in the life of your project, you are having a discussion with the sponsor about what estimating techniques should be used. You want a form of expert judgment, but the sponsor argues for analogous estimating. It would be BEST to:

1. Agree to analogous estimating as it is a form of expert judgment
2. Suggest life cycle costing as a compromise
3. Determine why the sponsor wants such an accurate estimate.
4. Try to convince the sponsor to allow expert judgment because it is typically more accurate.

Q4. During project executing, you find that the customer has requested a change to the scope of work even though it was previously not approved. There are no objections to the cost of the change. What should you do FIRST?

1. Follow the change control process
2. Discuss the change with the customer
3. Meet with the team and plan alternatives
4. Evaluate and document the risks that might result from this change

Q5. A project manager works in a company that has a matrix organizational structure. A server administrator is assigned to the project manager’s project team. The server administrator is not taking direction from the project manager and the delay in the server administrator’s activities is causing a negative variance to the schedule. The server administrator works for the director of server administration. Who is primarily responsible for solving this problem?

1. The project manager
2. The server administrator
3. The director of server administration
4. The sponsor

Q6. Your organization gets a new project and wants you to assign the project manager for this project. As management is busy with other activities, they ask you to develop the project charter so the project can get started. To develop the project charter, which of the following is not needed?

1. Strategic plan
2. Business case
3. Agreements
4. Project plan

Q7. A project manager and her team worked together to develop a work breakdown structure. However, it seems project team members are doing work that is not included in the work breakdown structure. The purpose of a work breakdown structure is to:

1. Guide the cost estimate for a project, not how the work is done.
2. Provide senior management with a high level view of the project scope.
3. Include the work required to create the products of the project.
4. Include the total project scope or all of the work that must be done to complete the project.

Q8. 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

Q9. All of the following are outputs of the Create WBS process EXCEPT:

1. Scope baseline
2. Change requests
3. WBS dictionary
4. Updates to the requirements documentation

Q10. If a process has a lack of consistency and predictability it is said to be:

1. In control
2. Quality assured
3. Out of control
4. Assigned a cause