Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Large organizations typically manage a wide range of projects; from small projects to large initiatives requiring long-term commitments. Which of the following factors can be used in scaling such projects:

1. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational complexity, technical complexity, and funds availability.
2. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance and organizational complexity.
3. Team size, geographical distribution and regulatory compliance.
4. Team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational complexity and technical complexity.

Q3. Your project team is having a dispute with a vendor about whether a specific task is within the project’s scope. The scope statement does not provide implementation-level details that could resolve this dispute. There is no WBS, however, because the project sponsor insisted that the project be started right away without pausing to create standard project planning documentation. Who is at fault?

1. The project manager
2. The project sponsor
3. The project stakeholders
4. The project vendor

Q4. Your boss tells you that one of your resources is needed on another project. All the activities in the chart are occurring at the same time. Assuming that all the resources listed have the necessary skills to work on the other project, who would you pick to move to the other project?

1. The resource working on Activity D
2. The resource working on Activity C
3. The resource working on Activity H
4. The resource working on Activity B

Q5. While planning the project, you discover that an expert resource might be available to work on you project. However, the resource manager will not commit to the resource being on your team at the present time. The BEST thing to do would be to estimate the activity:

1. As if the expert resources were available.
2. As though you had an average resource doing the activity.
3. As if you had an inexperienced resource
4. Using the Delphi technique.

Q6. 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.

Q7. During the Control Scope process, analysis of the scope performance resulted in a change request to the scope baseline. This change request will be processed for review and disposition in the:

1. Control Quality
2. Perform Integrated Change Control
3. Monitor and Control Project Work
4. Validate Scope

Q8. In which of the following is a scope management plan created?

1. Validate Scope
2. Develop Project Management Plan
3. Define Scope
4. Create WBS

Q9. Which of the following is the LEAST effective way to influence the factors that create changes to the cost baseline?

1. Review the project scope with the functional manager responsible for the greatest number of requested changes.
2. Explain to those requesting changes the negative impact of change to the project.
3. Eliminate the scope causing the most changes
4. Notify all stakeholders that no more changes will be allowed.

Q10. You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Show how the resources were originally promised to your project.
2. Re-plan the project without the resources
3. Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available
4. Crash the project