Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have signed a contract with the client to provide manpower for 50 USD/hour. Moreover, you will also be reimbursed for any costs incurred, along with a fixed fee of 25,000 USD. What kind of contract is this?

1. FPIF
2. T&M
3. CPAF
4. CPIF

Q3. You have been just assigned to take over a project from another project manager who is leaving the company. The previous project manager tells you that the project is on schedule, but only because he has constantly pushed the team to perform. What is the FIRST thing you should do as the new project manager?

1. Check risk status.
2. Check cost performance.
3. Determine a management strategy.
4. Tell the team your objectives.

Q4. When writing the roles and responsibilities for team members, you should document the role, authority, responsibility, and competency for each team member. Where must you document this information?

1. Resource management plan
2. RACI chart
3. Resource calendar
4. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Q5. You have found you do not yet have an accurate estimate of the number and skill levels of resources needed for the scheduled activity Build Racks for Data Center. You need this estimate for presentation to your Human Resources department later in the week. You have decided to decompose the Build Racks for Data Center activity into smaller components such as take equipment out of box, review equipment for completeness, build frame, and install rails. Then you plan to estimate the resources for each smaller component and combine those estimates into an aggregate. This is an example of:

1. Aggregate Estimating
2. Alternative Analysis
3. Bottom-up Estimating
4. Rolling Wave Estimating

Q6. The project manager on a large software installation project is working with her team on a critical set of activities. They are working late on Saturday night. Circumstances create the wherein the project manager must decide to change the schedule that will push the end date of the project out two weeks. What has MOST likely happened?

1. An emergency project change has taken place.
2. Scope creep has occurred
3. A status change to the implementation has taken place.
4. Risk assessment failure has taken place

Q7. Which of these is not an established Estimate Activity Durations technique?

1. Three Point Estimating
2. Parametric Estimating
3. Analogous Estimating
4. Critical Path Estimation

Q8. All of the following are parts of the scope baseline EXCEPT the:

1. Scope management plan
2. Project scope statement
3. Work breakdown structure
4. WBS dictionary

Q9. What percentage of the total distribution is 3 sigma from the mean equal to?

1. 68.26 percent
2. 99.99 percent
3. 95.46 percent
4. 99.73 percent

Q10. Rosanne is an experienced project manager working on a pharmaceutical project. This project involves two large vendors supplying chemical products with specific compositions for preparing drugs. While reviewing documents to see how a seller is performing, she notices the seller did not meet some of the contractual terms. Since it is a first-time violation, she would like to initiate a corrective action to bring the seller’s performance in line with the statement of work. Which of the following are not outputs of Rosanne’s effort?

1. Work performance data and approved change requests
2. Work performance information and change requests
3. Change requests and Organizational process assets update
4. Change requests and Project management plan updates