Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are developing a quality management plan for your project. During the planning process, one of your team members tells you that, in the past, the organization has completed a similar project. You start to review the old project and find that some of its quality metrics can be used in your project as well. This technique is known as:

1. Reviewing organization process assets
2. Benchmarking
3. Process analysis
4. Prototyping

Q3. What is the MAIN reason for controlling the project scope?

1. To enable scope creep
2. To prevent changes from affecting the project
3. To ensure timely closure of the project
4. Preventing scope creep

Q4. All of the following are outputs of the Plan Quality process EXCEPT:

1. Quality management plan
2. Validated deliverables
3. Checklists
4. Metrics.

Q5. For complex and high value projects, activities of business analysis get started well before the project is initiated. Typically in such cases, the requirements management process starts with:

1. Plan Scope Management
2. Collect Requirements
3. Define Scope
4. Needs Assessment

Q6. In an IT project, after several brainstorming sessions with customers, Kurt established various project deliverables. Two weeks later, while reviewing the plan, Kurt identifies two similar deliverables and decides to merge them into a single deliverable. What should Kurt do next?

1. Merge the deliverables and inform the customer
2. Submit the need to merge to the customer
3. Merge the deliverables but do not inform the customer
4. Merge the deliverables but do not update the project management plan

Q7. The project has been going relatively well, although there have been some problems with resource availability and the project scope has changed more than was expected. The project is now completing one of its phases. Of all decisions the sponsor must consider during and end-of-phase review meeting, the MOST difficult is:

1. Authorizing scope change for the next phase
2. Authorizing budget increases for the next phase based on scope changes
3. Cancelling the project
4. Decreasing scope to maintain budget

Q8. You are managing a project for your company constructing an office complex in another country. The construction work on two of the buildings is complete, and those buildings are ready for move-in. However, the construction supervisor informs you that you must pay a fee to a local government agency to issue an occupancy permit for any new construction in that country. What should you do?

1. Pay the fee
2. Ask your legal department if this is legal
3. Notify project stakeholders that you have been asked to pay a bribe
4. Do not pay the fee

Q9. Which of the following techniques is the BEST way to determine project objectives?

1. Delphi technique
2. Earned value analysis
3. Expert interviews
4. Pareto 8

Q10. During the middle of the project, things have been going well. The work authorization system has allowed people to know when to start work and the issue log has helped keep track of the stakeholders’ needs. The benefit cost ratio has been improving and the sponsor has expressed his appreciation for the team members’ efforts by hosting a milestone party for the team. The project manager gets a call from a team member saying that the results from the completion of their activity’s predecessor is two days late. Which of the following reasons would BEST describe why this occurred?

1. The project manager was focusing on the sponsor’s needs.
2. Functional management was not included in the communications management plan.
3. The successor activities should have been watched, not the predecessors.
4. The right people were not invited to the milestone party.