Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are planning resources for your project and the team charter has been established. This charter provides a clear guideline of the acceptable behavior of team members. Which of the following is not included?

1. Communication guidelines
2. Decision making criteria
3. Conflict resolution process
4. Motivational processes

Q3. During project planning, you estimate the time needed for each activity and then add up the estimates to create the project estimate. You commit to completing the project by this date. What is wrong with this scenario?

1. The team did not create the estimate, and estimating takes too long using that method.
2. The team did not create the estimate, and a network diagram was not used.
3. The estimate is too long and should be created by management.
4. The project estimate should be the same as the customer’s required completion date.

Q4. A project manager and his team are using an Ishikawa diagram, trying to determine how various factors might have contributed to project problems. The project manager is involved in which part of the quality management process?

1. Plan Quality
2. Utilize Quality tools
3. Manage Quality
4. Perform Quality Control

Q5. A project manager is starting work on a complex project. There will be people from two different countries involved. The project sponsor is from a third country, and the work is being done on an expedited schedule in your country with 14 electrical engineers, 4 architects and their staffs, 3 mechanical engineers, and 2 maintenance experts. What should the project manager do to make sure all the work in this project is identified?

1. Create a clear management plan, and put it in writing.
2. Create a WBS with input from all parties involved.
3. Identify the laws of each country involved.
4. Create a scope control system.

Q6. You need to shorten the project by exactly four months, but spend no more than US $22,000 to do it. Based on the information in the chart, you would include activity A as part of the solution. However, during planning, the resource completing activity A strongly argued for a particular method of completing the scope in order to agree to be on the team. His scope was accepted because his expertise was needed on the project. The BEST way to crash this project would be to crash which activity(s)?

1. Activities A and H
2. Activity D
3. Activities F and H
4. Activity C

Q7. A project manager has just been assigned to a project that has been in progress for two months when a team member requests more time on an activity he is working on. The project manager discovers that the only impact to the project will be a delay on a noncritical path activity. The customer has emphasized the importance of completing the project on schedule. What should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Submit the information to the change control board, determine if this event might impact the team member’s future work, inform the team member of the board’s decision
2. Ask the team member why they need more time, begin integrated change control, adjust the project schedule as needed
3. Look for impacts to quality, cut unneeded scope from the project, ask for more resources
4. See if any stakeholders object to the change, calculate the exact impact on the project, look at removing this resource from the project

Q8. At a critical design review meeting for a large project, several important issues surfaced. After hearing about a major technical problem, one of the subcontractor’s engineers mentions that he experienced a similar situation on another project, he has some ideas on how to solve the current problem. What type of power is the engineer using?

1. Manipulative
2. Formal
3. Expert
4. Referent.

Q9. You are managing a project and find you need to apply resource leveling. Which of the following tools can help you identify resources that are overallocated?

1. Resource Assignment Matrix
2. Network diagram
3. Resource Histogram
4. Resource Breakdown Structure

Q10. You have floated a firm fixed price contract for some work. Since the scope of the work is not clear, the risk is higher and contractors are hesitant to bid for your contract. You are very busy and don't have time to monitor the contractor’s bill. In this case, what kind of contract will you select?

1. CPIF
2. CPAF
3. T&M
4. FPIF