Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager received executive orders to deliver the project two weeks earlier than scheduled, doing whatever it takes. He decided that the least costly means would be to add resources to critical path activities in order to shorten the time of those activities. In this case, the project manager has:

1. Fast tracked the critical path part of the project schedule
2. Decomposed the critical path WBS
3. Leveled resources
4. Crashed the critical path

Q3. Henry is the project manager for a process improvement project. Henry is a recently hired Six Sigma expert. David is the process owner of the process Henry must optimize. During the project kick-start meeting with the project sponsor, David said he supports all continuous improvement efforts. However, David is unaware of the Six Sigma technique and feels threatened by the newly hired expert, and as a result, is blocking Henry’s ideas. What is David’s current engagement level with the project?

1. Unaware
2. Supportive
3. Resistant
4. Neutral

Q4. Which of the following gives you the cost estimate of your project if you continue to perform with the same cost performance?

1. ETC
2. VAC
3. EAC
4. BAC

Q5. You need to hire several subject matter experts for your project. Time is limited and the scope of work is also not very clear. In this situation what kind of procurement contract will you utilize to hire experts?

1. Cost plus fixed fee
2. Firm fixed price
3. Fixed price economic price adjustment
4. Time and material

Q6. You are setting up your project team, and you are looking at a chart that shows that Systems Development will perform programming, Infrastructure Systems will implement the infrastructure, and the Call Center will handle the customer communication. This is an example of what type of chart?

1. RACI
2. Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
3. Work Breakdown Structure
4. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Q7. In an activity-on-node diagram, the nodes represent:

1. Work packages
2. Activities
3. Dependencies
4. Discretionaries 40

Q8. Which of the following is least likely to be a project?

1. Regular updates of the company website
2. Responding to a contract solicitation
3. Running a campaign for a political office
4. An endeavor that lasts for 10 years

Q9. Stakeholder notifications must be archived for future reference. Whenever the Manage Communications process produces a stakeholder notification, the notification must be:

1. Updated to the organizational process assets
2. Updated to the project management plan
3. Updated to the project communications management plan
4. Updated to the stakeholder register

Q10. You are managing four projects in your organization. Two projects are of a similar type, but the other two are entirely different. What is your role in the organization?

1. Portfolio manager
2. Program manager
3. Project manager
4. Program coordinator