Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A critical resource is on another project team. It is essential that you get his time for your project. You have contacted the resource’s team manager several times but have received a poor response. What should you consider doing next?

1. Plan for an alternate resource since this resource is not available.
2. Try to use management influence to obtain the resource's time.
3. Contact the manager once again to see if he can help.
4. Train another resource within your project.

Q3. You have a project with a cost of 10,000 USD, and the duration is 10 months. Five months have passed, 45% of the work is completed and you have spent 5,500 USD. The value of this 45% of the work is known as:

1. Planned value
2. Earned value
3. Actual cost
4. Schedule variance

Q4. Executing the risk response plan in order to react to risk events throughout the project is called:

1. Contingency planning
2. Monitoring and control
3. Mitigation
4. Life cycle costing.

Q5. 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.

Q6. Work on a project is ongoing when the project manager overhears two workers arguing over what a set of instructions means. The project manager investigates and discovers that the instructions for the construction of the concrete footings currently being poured were poorly translated between the different languages in use on the project. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do FIRST?

1. Get the instructions translated by a more experienced party.
2. Look for quality impacts o the poor translation of the instructions for the footings.
3. Bring the issue to the attention of the team, and ask them to look for other translation problems.
4. Inform the sponsor of the problem in the next project report.

Q7. You have just been assigned as project manager for a large telecommunications project. This one-year project is about halfway done. The project team consists of five sellers and 20 of your company’s employees. You want to understand who is responsible for doing what on the project. Where would you find such information?

1. Responsibility assignment matrix
2. Resource histogram
3. Bar chart
4. Project organization chart.

Q8. Team member are investigating quality standards that other companies are using, in order to help determine what quality standards to use on the project. What part of quality management is the team involved in?

1. Quality execution
2. Perform Quality Control
3. Manage Quality
4. Plan Quality

Q9. You are the project manager of a project. As part of the planning process, you use a planning technique to subdivide the project scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. What is this technique called?

1. Unit task analysis
2. Decomposition
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Arrow Diagramming Method

Q10. Which of the following activities occurs during the Plan Procurements process?

1. Make-or-buy decisions
2. Answering sellers’ questions about the bid documents
3. Advertising
4. Proposal evaluation.