Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. When entering into procurement, it is BEST to assume there will be disputes about the performance of the work as specified, and to:

1. Include a procedure in the contract describing the means for dispute resolution
2. Track claims to ensure the best position during litigation
3. Make sure disputes are never brought to public knowledge
4. Include a change order provision in the contract.

Q3. Anna has recently taken over a project as the project manager. The project is early in the executing phase. Although all the key stakeholders signed off on the project scope statement, Anna learns that some of the key stakeholders do not fully understand the project scope. The stakeholders’ constant support is crucial for the success of the project. What must Anna do?

1. Email the copy of the scope management plan to the key project stakeholders
2. Don’t do anything since all the key project stakeholders signed the scope statement.
3. Email the copy of the scope statement to the key project stakeholders.
4. Conduct one-to-one meeting sessions with these key stakeholders to ensure they understand the project scope

Q4. As an experienced PMP, you have found that running a WBS meeting is tricky because you need to find a balance between insufficient decomposition and excessive decomposition. When items are excessively decomposed, it leads to all the following except:

1. Breaking the 100 percent rule
2. Inefficient use of resources
3. Nonproductive management effort
4. Decreased efficiency when performing work

Q5. The sponsor has asked you to require that each piece of the project scope be planned, estimated, and scheduled. The sponsor also wants to authorize each piece of the project management plan after the documentation is assembled. What is the MOST appropriate response to these requests?

1. Politely advise the sponsor to forego the authorization of work.
2. Provide the sponsor with a schedule of when the components will be ready for authorization
3. Ask the sponsor to authorize each piece before it is completed
4. Tell the sponsor that the chance for authorization will come after the pieces of the project management plan are compiled

Q6. You have a contract to build a manufacturing plant in Kuala Lumpur. However, you are not familiar with the building codes in Kuala Lumpur or Malaysia, so you are reviewing all their building codes prior to “turning a shovelful of earth.” This is an example of:

1. Project initiation
2. Quality assurance
3. Quality planning
4. Quality control

Q7. About midway through the project, the project manager learns that most members of the project team are not reviewing the weekly project updates. What should the project manager do?

1. Create a signature log so team members can indicate when they have read the project updates.
2. Revise the communications management plan appropriately to meet the informational needs of the stakeholders.
3. Improve the layout of the weekly project updates to encourage reading by team members.
4. Require the reading of the project updates in order to receive any rewards on the project.

Q8. Which of the following is TRUE of inspections?

1. They may not be conducted by the project team.
2. They test future desires of prospective customers.
3. They can only be conducted on the final product.
4. They prevent defective deliverables from reaching the customer.

Q9. What type of method uses a weighting ranking system for quantifying qualitative data to minimize the effect of personal bias during the process of selecting a seller?

1. Independent estimates
2. Source Selection Criteria
3. Vendor audits
4. Sourcing workshops

Q10. The project manager on a large software installation project is working with her team on a critical set of activities. They are working late on Saturday night. Circumstances create the wherein the project manager must decide to change the schedule that will push the end date of the project out two weeks. What has MOST likely happened?

1. An emergency project change has taken place.
2. Scope creep has occurred
3. A status change to the implementation has taken place.
4. Risk assessment failure has taken place