Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are a project manager for a new product developmental project that has four levels in the work breakdown structure, and has been sequenced using the precedence diagramming method. The activity duration estimates have been received. What schedule management activity would you do NEXT?

1. Schedule compression
2. Collect historical records from previous projects
3. Create an activity list
4. Update the work breakdown structure

Q3. You are finalizing the monthly project status report due now to your manager when you discover that several project team members are not reporting actual hours spent on project activities. This results in skewed project statistics. What is the MOST appropriate action to be taken?

1. Discuss the impacts of these actions with team members.
2. Report the team members’ actions t their functional managers.
3. Continue reporting information as presented to you.
4. Provider accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.

Q4. All of the following are used in quality management EXCEPT:

1. Marginal analysis
2. Selected sellers
3. Standard deviation
4. The Delphi technique.

Q5. You are halfway through a major network rollout. There are 300 locations in the United States, with another 20 in England. A software seller has just released a major software upgrade for some of the equipment being installed. The upgrade would provide the customer with functionality they requested that was not available at the time the project began. What is the BEST course of action under these circumstances?

1. Continue as planned, your customer has not requested a change
2. Inform the customer of the upgrade and the impacts to the project’s timeline and functionality if the upgrade is implemented
3. Implement the change and adjust the schedule as necessary because this supports the customer’s original request
4. Implement the change to the remaining sites and continue with the schedule.

Q6. A new software development project is in progress and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department. They want to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Completed checklists
2. A quality control plan
3. Results of quality control measurements
4. Rework.

Q7. You have identified a risk that will negatively affect your security project. You and your team have decided to use an older encryption technology because of the high risk associated with the new technology. What type of risk strategy are you using?

1. Mitigation
2. Exploitation
3. Avoidance
4. Transfer

Q8. You are planning a project. The functional managers will not commit any particular people to your project, because it will not begin for a few months. All of the following methods could be used to handle this situation EXCEPT:

1. Use the average productivity factor for each department.
2. Use the average daily rate of the resource in each department times the number of resource needed of each resource type.
3. Use the results of the Delphi Technique for the number of hours.
4. Use the average probability of successful completion multiplied by the number of resource needed each day.

Q9. The client has requested a change in a deliverable which you have processed through a change request and it is approved. Now, you are in the process of implementing this change into the project. In which of the following processes do you implement the approved change?

1. Monitor and control project work
2. Direct and manage project work
3. Perform integrated change control
4. Control scope

Q10. You are in the process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations and address issues as they occur. Which option is a tool and technique of this process?

1. Interpersonal skills
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Analytical technique
4. Change request