Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Adaptive project lifecycles, in comparison with predictive project lifecycles, are developed with the intent of:

1. Eliminating cost of changes throughout the project’s lifecycle
2. Providing agility in responding to change
3. Maximizing cost of changes throughout the project’s lifecycle
4. Minimizing cost of changes throughout the project’s lifecycle

Q3. If a project manager focuses on ensuring that the project satisfies the needs for which it was undertaken, the project manager is involved in:

1. Cost management
2. Time management
3. Quality management
4. Scope management

Q4. Which of the following techniques can help a project manager review a supplier’s internal work processes to ensure compliance to standards during the production of the deliverables? (Assume that all of the given choices are available to the project manager.)

1. Audits
2. Performance reporting
3. Contract change control
4. Inspections

Q5. Which of the following processes are usually not performed continuously, but rather, performed periodically as needed:

1. Acquire Resources
2. Monitor Risks
3. Monitor Communications
4. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

Q6. You are a project manager of a construction project that is financially challenged and behind schedule. A foreman fails to deliver a deliverable of the project on time as promised. You need to address the issue with the foreman. How should you approach the foreman?

1. You are the project manager responsible for the whole of the project. To ensure you have control, remain firm, and reprimand the foreman and the team to ensure they do not slow down.
2. You disregard the issue, acknowledging that what is done is done and develop a plan for moving forward.
3. You meet with the foreman inquiring about what happened and seek to understand and solve the problem.
4. You reprimand the foreman n private and ask that he keep you better informed in the future.

Q7. The installation project has a CPI of 1.03 and an SPI of 1.0. There are 14 team members and each team member had input into the final project management plan. The customer has accepted the three deliverables completed so far without complaint and the responsibility assignment matrix has not changed since the project began. The project is being completed in a matrix environment and there are no contracts needed for the project. Though the sponsor is happy with the status of the project, one of the team members is always complaining about how much time his project work is taking. Which of the following is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Review the reward system for the project.
2. Try to improve schedule performance of the project
3. Meet with the customer to try to extend the schedule.
4. Gain formal acceptance in writing from the customer.

Q8. Your employee is three days late with a report. Five minutes before the meeting where the topic of the report is to be discussed, she hands you the report. You notice some serious errors in it. What should you do?

1. Cancel the meeting and reschedule when the report is fixed.
2. Go to the meeting and tell the other attendees there are errors in the report
3. Force the employee to do the presentation and remain silent as the other attendees find the errors.
4. Cancel the meeting and rewrite the report yourself.

Q9. You are assigned as a project manager to lead a new quality improvement project. Management is asking for a project management plan. Which of the following should you create FIRST?

1. A process assurance plan
2. A quality management plan
3. A project management plan
4. A project scope statement

Q10. The term Progressive Elaboration incorrectly represents which of the following?

1. Changes to project scope
2. Rolling wave planning
3. Detailing out the product requirements developed during the initiation process.
4. Production of fabrication and construction drawings from the design drawings for a chemical plant.