Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In order to facilitate project configuration and change management on complex projects, a project manager relies on configuration and change management tools. Such tools:

1. Can be manual or automatic; the selection depends on the project’s environment and requirements.
2. Must be manual; a complex project requires all change requests to be manually signed.
3. Must be automatic; a complex project requires complex change control procedures.
4. Change control must be manual, but the configuration control may be automatic.

Q3. You have been asked to create a graphic display of schedule-related information, listing schedule activities on the left side of the chart, dates on the top, and activity durations as date-placed horizontal bars on the right side. What is such a chart called?

1. PERT chart
2. Gantt chart
3. Hunt chart
4. GERT chart

Q4. An activity-on-node (AON) network diagram shows the following activities on two critical paths; Start, D, E, J, L, End and Stat, D, E, G, I, L, End. Each activity is at least three days in duration, except for activity L, which is one day in duration. If you are directed to reduce the project by one day, which activities are MOST likely to change?

1. Activity L
2. Activity E or activity J
3. Activity G or activity I
4. Activity D or activity E

Q5. The paint on the exotic cars that are manufactured in your plant is bubbling about a year after application. What would be the best tool for your team to use to find potential causes of the peeling paint?

1. Scatter diagram
2. Ishikawa Diagram
3. Control Chart
4. Inspection

Q6. A project manager asked various stakeholders to determine the probability and impact of a number of risks. He then analyzed assumptions. He is about to move to the next step of risk management. Based on this information, what has the project manager forgotten to do?

1. Evaluate tends in risk analysis.
2. Identify triggers.
3. Provide a standardized risk rating matrix.
4. Create a fallback plan.

Q7. Performance reporting is important during administrative closure, in order to:

1. Show progress made on activities.
2. Communicate the team’s success.
3. Gain approval to start the lesions learned.
4. Prove formal acceptance has been achieved.

Q8. You have recently finished an advanced project management training course your project budget paid for. Because the budget for your project is not large enough to train any other resources on the project, your manager has asked you to make copies of the course materials and distribute them to the rest of the staff. What do you do?

1. Make the copies
2. Provide a single copy of the materials
3. Scan the materials and place them on the corporate intranet for easy access
4. Refuse the request

Q9. In projects with adaptive life cycles, the overall scope of the project will be decomposed into a set of requirements and work to be performed, sometime referred to as:

1. Assumptions backlog
2. Feature list
3. Project attributes
4. Product backlog

Q10. A project manager has some authority to manage the budget; however, he does not have any full-time employees under him. In what type of organization is he working?

1. Strong matrix
2. Weak matrix
3. Balanced matrix
4. Projectized