Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The work breakdown structure (WBS) does all of the following except

1. Organizes and defines the entire scope of the project.
2. Divides the project into smaller, more manageable tasks.
3. Serves as a high-level planning tool for work planned but not yet approved.
4. Both A and B.

Q3. A new employee of the company is assigned to work on a project that is in the early planning processes. She has to decide if she will accept the assignment to the project or whether she wants to be assigned to a different project. However, the project manager is not at work and is not reachable. Where can the team member look to help her determine what work she is given on the project?

1. Activity definitions
2. Project management plan
3. Job descriptions
4. Responsibility assignment matrix

Q4. While testing the strength of concrete poured on your project, you discover that over 35 percent of the concrete does not meet your company’s quality standards. You feel certain the concrete will function as it is, and you don’t think the concrete needs to meet the quality level specified. What should you do?

1. Change the quality standards to meet the level achieved.
2. State in your reports that the concrete simply “meets our quality needs.”
3. Ensure that the remaining concrete meets the standard
4. Report the lesser quality level and try to find a solution.

Q5. A manager notices that a project manager is holding a meeting with some of the team and some stakeholders to discuss the quality of the project. The project schedule has been compressed, and the CPI is 1.1. They have worked hard on the project, the team has been rewarded according to the reward system the project manager put in place, and there is a strong sense of team. The manager suggests that the project manager does not have enough time to hold meetings about quality when the schedule is so compressed. Which of the following BEST describes why the manager is wrong?

1. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, increased cost effectiveness, and decreased cost risk
2. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, decreased cost effectiveness, and increased cost risk.
3. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, increased cost effectiveness, and increased cost risk
4. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, decreased cost effectiveness and decreased cost risk.

Q6. The process that links people and information is called:

1. Scope management.
2. Human resource management.
3. Communications management.
4. Time management.

Q7. Which of these tools and techniques is common to all seven Project Integration Management processes?

1. Meetings
2. Data analysis
3. Data gathering
4. Expert Judgment

Q8. During the Plan Risk Management process your team has come up with 434 risks and 16 major causes of those risks. The project is the last of a series of project which the team has worked on together. The sponsor is very supportive and a lot of time was invested in making sure he project was completed and signed off by all key stakeholders. During project planning, the team cannot come up with an effective way to mitigate or insure against a risk. It is not work that can be outsourced, nor can it be deleted. What would be the BEST solution?

1. Accept the risk.
2. Continue to investigate ways to mitigate the risk.
3. Look for ways to avoid the risk.
4. Look for ways to transfer the risk.

Q9. Funding requirements for a project are usually in incremental amounts that are not continuous. These increments appear as a step function in the graph depicting Cash flow, Cost baseline and Funding. Any gap at the end of the project between the funds allocated and the cost baseline represents:

1. Management reserves
2. Contingency reserves
3. Cost variance
4. Charting error

Q10. The product design your project team developed was extremely well received by the customer. There were two key contributors to this design. The customer calls you to tell you how pleased he is with the design. What do you tell him?

1. Ask to negotiate a bonus payment.
2. Thank the customer.
3. Thank him on behalf of the team and call out the contributions two of the team members made.
4. Tell the customer you worked very hard on the design, and you are happy he is pleased.