Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are in the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable parts so the project management team can get a structured vision of what has to be delivered. Which of the following is an output of this process?

1. Scope baseline
2. RBS
3. Network diagram
4. OBS

Q3. You just completed a cost estimate on the project, and you’re assuming there is a 15 percent chance you will exceed this estimate. You are:

1. Below the mean
2. Above the mean
3. Above the median
4. Below the median.

Q4. A project organizational chart shows resources and:

1. WBS work packages
2. Activity resource estimates
3. Responsibilities
4. Schedule.

Q5. Which statement is TRUE of quality planning?

1. Quality planning should be performed regularly throughout the project
2. Quality planning is done to compile a risk response plan
3. Quality planning is done only during development of a project management plan
4. Quality planning is not considered during project executing.

Q6. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager made a long list of risks identified by all the stakeholders using various methods. He then made sure that all the risks were understood and that triggers had been identified. Later, in the Plan Risk Responses process, he took all the risks identified by the stakeholders and determined ways to mitigate them. What has he done wrong?

1. More people should be involved in the Plan Risk Responses process
2. Triggers are not identified until the Identify Risks process.
3. The project manager should have waited until the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process to get the stakeholders involved.
4. The project manager should have created workarounds

Q7. Team member are investigating quality standards that other companies are using, in order to help determine what quality standards to use on the project. What part of quality management is the team involved in?

1. Quality execution
2. Perform Quality Control
3. Manage Quality
4. Plan Quality

Q8. A project manager needed to shorten a project schedule and decided to employ crashing, a schedule compression technique. Which of the following activities would not be an example of crashing?

1. Bringing in additional resources
2. Reducing project scope
3. Paying to expedite delivery activities
4. Approving overtime

Q9. A first-time project manager was assigned to a project that had a duration of three months. In order to get a head start on the project, the manager took an older, completed the project and incorporated all the tools, techniques, and checklists in their entirety from that project into the current one. The older project was completed in 14 months’ time and was remarkably similar in nature. The most appropriate comment on this would be:

1. This is an excellent example of re-use of artifacts from prior projects.
2. This may be unnecessary. The project management team needs to decide what is appropriate for the project.
3. This is not the correct procedure. The project manager should always create processes and documents afresh for new projects.
4. This is not correct. The project manager is violating copyright and intellectual property rights of the organization's prior customers.

Q10. A project post-mortem is an activity, usually performed at the project’s conclusion, to determine and analyze a project’s outcome which also includes a lessons-learned gathering exercise. Project post-mortems help to mitigate future risks and are often a key component of, and ongoing precursor to, effective risk management. Which of the following is a terrible mistake when collecting lessons learned?

1. Documenting both the success stories and the failed attempts
2. Calculating project’s final statistics
3. Focusing purely on the negatives and analyzing failures
4. Conducting a comprehensive performance review