Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Tracey is managing an ERP system implementation project. Which of the following tools can help her uncover a number of hidden process requirements during the Collect Requirements process?

1. Observation
2. Questionnaires
3. Surveys
4. Nominal group technique

Q3. A project involves arranging for the closing of the company office where the team works and relocating everyone to a new city. The BEST thing the project manager can do is:

1. Spend time carefully creating the work breakdown structure.
2. Have a strong quality control plan.
3. Decrease the fringe benefits
4. Carefully consider the reward system for the project.

Q4. You are part of a team that has been told by your management that they require you to take and pass the PMP exam by the end of the year. After studying, you are the first of the group to take the actual exam. When you return to work to tell everyone you passed, you are bombarded with questions. Management tells you that since everyone else is so worried about the exam, they want you to write out all the questions you can remember from the exam and provide copies to the rest of the team. In this situation, you could do all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Do your best to provide only what you remember exactly
2. Offer to assist the others by motivating them
3. Explain that providing questions from the actual exam is specifically prohibited
4. Explain that you may have passed the exam, but you are not an expert. The team should follow the expert advice that they were given on how to study and pass the exam.

Q5. Inputs to the Report Performance process include all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Completion forecasts.
2. Change requests.
3. Details of work performance.
4. Deliverable status

Q6. During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, a project manager is usually dependent on the voice of the project stakeholders to obtain expert opinion. Which of the following is an important tool available to the project manager for gathering and organizing stakeholders’ information?

1. Fishbone diagrams
2. Control charts
3. Histograms
4. Focus groups

Q7. Senior management asks the project manager how the project would be affected if two resources were removed from the project. To calculate a response, the project manager should complete:

1. Resource leveling
2. What-if scenario analysis
3. Schedule compression
4. Fast tracking

Q8. In a Finish-to-Start relationship between predecessor and successor activities, a project manager decides to schedule a successor activity five days before its predecessor is complete. This is accomplished by providing five days of:

1. Lag
2. Load
3. Fast-tracking
4. Lead

Q9. During a walk-through of a work package, you discover that a team member is completing the work differently than stated in the WBS dictionary. How should you deal with this?

1. Replace the team member
2. Determine if the alternative way is acceptable to the functional manager
3. Ask the team member if the changes are necessary
4. Determine if the changes also change the scope of the work package.

Q10. Which of the following is not a project competing constraint?

1. Budget
2. Procurement
3. Risk
4. Resource