Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A stakeholder wants to make a change to the work breakdown structure that does NOT affect the time or cost of the project. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Tell the stakeholder that this change cannot be made without revising the project management plan.
2. Make the change.
3. Meet with management.
4. Look for other impacts on the project.

Q3. During a work breakdown structure meeting, you have decomposed the deliverables into work packages and created your WBS dictionary. However, you now want to decompose the work packages to assist you in estimating, executing, and controlling the project. These decomposed work packages are:

1. Work packages can't be decomposed into smaller units
2. Activities
3. Milestones
4. Control Accounts

Q4. Which of the following statements about project teams is incorrect?

1. The project management team is usually a team external to the project team.
2. The project management team is a subset of the project team.
3. For smaller projects, the entire team can share the project management responsibilities.
4. For smaller projects, the project manager can solely administer project management responsibilities.

Q5. Which of the following Manage Quality techniques examines problems, constraints, and non-value-added activities that occur during project work?

1. Sensitivity Analysis
2. Expected monetary value analysis
3. Earned Value Analysis
4. Process Analysis

Q6. Recommended corrective actions result from which of the following?

1. Cost aggregation
2. Bottom-up estimating
3. Reserve analysis
4. Control costs.

Q7. A WBS is BEST described as a tool for tracking:

1. The schedule.
2. Resources
3. Cost
4. Scope

Q8. Which of these is not a component of the scope baseline that is contained in the project management plan?

1. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
2. Requirements documentation
3. WBS Dictionary
4. Project Scope Statement

Q9. You are the project manager of a project whose team has interacted with a number of stakeholders. You believe that in order to have an objective project performance appraisal, you would like to obtain feedback for the project team members from all the people they have worked with, including superiors, peers and subordinates. Project performance appraisals are performed during which of the following processes?

1. Close Project or Phase
2. Acquire Resources
3. Manage Team
4. Develop Team

Q10. A large project is underway when one of the team members reviews the project status report. He sees that the project is currently running late. As he looks at the report further, he notices that the delay will cause one of his activities to be scheduled during a time he will be out of the country and cannot work on the activity. This is of great concern because he is very committed to the project being successful and he does not want to be the cause of the project being further delayed. What is the BEST THING for him to do?

1. Contact the project manager immediately to provide the project manager with his schedule.
2. Include the information on his next report
3. Request that the issue be added to the project issue log
4. Recommend preventive action.