Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In your project, you have two activities, D and E. These two activities have a common successor, Activity F. Activity D will be completed on the 10th and activity E will be completed on the 15th. Therefore, Activity D can be delayed by 5 days without affecting the early start of Activity F. This delay is known as:

1. Total float
2. Free float
3. Project buffers
4. Feeding buffer

Q3. You are working on a new oil purification project in a foreign country. A person informs you that you will have to pay him a “transfer fee” for the permit to move heavy equipment through the city. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Pay the fee, but only to the city
2. Do not pay the fee
3. Make sure the person is really a government official
4. Negotiate openly with the city officials.

Q4. Sandra is managing a software development project. The project has many stakeholders having a negative attitude toward the project. Sandra knows she can’t keep everybody happy but still can try her best to manage them. Which of the following can help Sandra manage these negative stakeholders better?

1. Ignore them
2. Send them project updates
3. Engage them in project decisions
4. Send inaccurate project reports

Q5. As the project manager, you are about to start the define scope process. You have the project charter and the organizational process assets list. Because there are no change requests in your project at this point, what must you have before you begin?

1. Product analysis
2. Requirements documentation
3. Updates to project documents
4. WBS

Q6. A project manager has discovered that a team member has gold plated the work done in an activity. In order to discover this, the project manager must have been performing:

1. Time management
2. Scope management
3. Cost management
4. Human Resource management

Q7. In which of the following situations would it be better to avoid using Analogous Estimating?

1. When the project team members have the needed expertise
2. When an accurate estimate is required
3. When a low value estimate is required
4. When the previous activities are similar in fact and not just appearance

Q8. Which of the following should you not use as an input into creating the WBS structure?

1. Bill of Material (BOM)
2. Project scope statement
3. Organizational process assets
4. Requirements documentation

Q9. During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, a project manager is usually dependent on the voice of the project stakeholders to obtain expert opinion. Which of the following is an important tool available to the project manager for gathering and organizing stakeholders’ information?

1. Fishbone diagrams
2. Control charts
3. Histograms
4. Focus groups

Q10. A cause and effect diagram and an Ishikawa diagram are both:

1. Flowcharts
2. Fishbone diagrams
3. Control charts
4. Pareto charts