Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s role relating to changes?

1. Serve the customer and do what the customer wants.
2. Monitor and track changes to ensure they benefit the project.
3. Influence the factors that cause changes
4. Deny change requests whenever possible 9

Q3. Your drug manufacturing project requires the synthesis of many pharmaceutical chemicals to produce an active ingredient for a drug. You are managing a contractor to supply all these chemicals. Recent quality testing of the drugs raised concerns over the quality of the chemicals supplied by the contractor. Which of the following must be your first action to ensure that the contractor is meeting all contractual obligations?

1. Escalate this issue to the sponsor and submit all drug testing reports
2. Reject all poor quality drugs and penalize the contractor
3. Convene a meeting with stakeholders and communicate the findings
4. Carry out audits and inspections to verify compliance in the seller's deliverables

Q4. During the Define Activities process, a team member begins to discuss activities that the project manager has never heard discussed. What should the project manager do?

1. Make sure he has a good understanding of the activities and include the activities in the activity list.
2. Ask the team member to explain why such activity would be needed to complete the work package
3. Make sure the entire team agrees that the activities should be done
4. Evaluate the impact of the change.

Q5. The project cost and schedule for deliverables can be reasonably estimated at what level of the WBS?

1. The highest level
2. The middle level
3. The work package level
4. Both A and C

Q6. A project has a team member assigned to the project full time. What is the MOST likely effect on the project if that resource completes her activity sooner than planned?

1. Lower quality deliverables
2. Wasted cost
3. A subsequent activity will be delayed
4. Changes to the risk resource plan

Q7. A project manager is trying to coordinate all the activities on the project and has determined the following: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1 week. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 4 weeks. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed has an estimated duration of 5 weeks. Activity 4 can start after activity 1 is completed and has estimated duration of 8 weeks. Both activities 3 and 4 must be completed before the end of the project. What is the duration of the critical path for this project?

1. 10
2. 11
3. 14
4. 8

Q8. You are constructing an office building for your client. You decide to outsource painting and electric work from a third party. You create a detailed work description and ask bidders to apply for this part of the project. The document you just prepared is known as:

1. Procurement SOW
2. RFQ
3. RFP
4. Requirement document

Q9. You are managing a project and find you need to apply resource leveling. Which of the following tools can help you identify resources that are overallocated?

1. Resource Assignment Matrix
2. Network diagram
3. Resource Histogram
4. Resource Breakdown Structure

Q10. You have joined a new organization and are assigned a project. This is a new type of project but the organization has completed many similar projects in the past. You decide to review the lessons learned from past projects. You go to the archives and ask for the lessons learned from past projects. Lessons learned is a part of which of the following?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environment factor
3. Project management plan
4. Project archive