Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager needs to determine the resources needed for the project. Select the primary process from the following options.

1. Estimate Activity Resources
2. Develop Schedule
3. Plan Resource Management.
4. Develop Human Resource Plan

Q3. You are taken to lunch by one of your sellers who has become a friend. He gives you an opportunity to participate in a new venture in association with his company, unrelated to your current employment. What should you do?

1. Refuse to participate
2. Participate
3. Participate but advise your employer of the offer
4. Request your employer’s consent for your participation.

Q4. Acceptance is a strategy adopted because it is not possible to eliminate all risks from a project. This strategy indicates that the project management team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk. What action does passive acceptance require?

1. Passive acceptance is no longer adopted in projects and is a poor project management practice.
2. Passive acceptance requires no action except to document the strategy and come up with a risk management strategy.
3. Passive acceptance requires no action.
4. Passive acceptance requires no proactive action except periodic review of the threat.

Q5. With a clear procurement statement of work, a seller completes work as specified, but the buyer is not pleased with the results. The contract is considered to be:

1. Null and void.
2. Incomplete.
3. Complete.
4. Waived.

Q6. A control chart should always contain:

1. Upper and lower warning limits
2. The moving average
3. Upper and lower control limits
4. Upper and lower specification limits

Q7. You are the project manager of a large IT project. A manager from a company contracted to work on the project offers you free tickets to a local sporting event. The tickets are expensive, but your organization has no formal policy regarding gifts. What is the best way to handle the offer?

1. Refuse the tickets and report the offer to your employer
2. Accept the tickets but notify your employer
3. Politely refuse the tickets
4. Accept the tickets since there is no policy

Q8. Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include confronting, smoothing, forcing, and:

1. Withdrawing
2. Directing
3. Organizing
4. Controlling.

Q9. Erica is managing a kitchen tools manufacturing project, which is intended to produce modern cooking ovens. This project is hugely important for the company as well as for Erica‘s career. Although the project scope statement was well-defined and requirements were gathered from stakeholders in the planning phase, many design change requests have come in from customers during project execution. Which of the following tasks must Erica perform to avoid scope creep caused by uncontrollable changes?

1. Perform validate scope process and process all changes through the plan risk responses process
2. Perform integrated change control process and process all changes through the control quality process
3. Perform scope control and process all changes through the integrated change control process
4. Perform scope control and process all changes through the validate scope process

Q10. Crashing helps you bring the project back on schedule if it is late. Which of the following statements is true about crashing?

1. Crashing should be done on the critical path
2. Crashing does not increase the cost
3. In crashing, you don’t start activities in parallel
4. All of the above