Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager would like to resolve conflicts by a give-and-take attitude rather than by a one-sided approach. Which of these approaches is he likely to use?

1. Forcing
2. Problem-solving
3. Directing
4. Withdrawing

Q3. Which of the following does NOT assess the value a project brings to an organization?

1. Benefit cost analysis
2. Net present value
3. Value analysis
4. Needs assessment

Q4. What term defines the work needed to deliver a product, service, or result?

1. Product scope
2. Scope creep
3. Scope verification
4. Project scope

Q5. The project work has begun when the project manager notices how many times meetings and discussions are disrupted by power outages and the lack of a warm place to meet. She turns her attention to influencing the organization to improve the team’s working conditions. She is following the concepts of which motivational theorist?

1. Herzberg
2. McGregor
3. Theory Y
4. Maslow’s hierarchy

Q6. “What information needs to be collected when” is part of which of the following?

1. Formal reporting
2. Plan communications
3. Stakeholder management
4. Earned value

Q7. A project manager for a large international bank has a project team that just implemented an electronic funds project involving four large vendors. The project manager struggled through every part of the procurement process since the bank had a weak internal procurement department. What would be the MOST appropriate thing to do to ensure the problems are resolved for future projects?

1. Document all of the issues in a memo, and schedule a meeting with the head of the procurement office.
2. Include a agenda item in the project closedown to discuss these issues in a non-threatening manner
3. Address this through contract change control.
4. Conduct a procurement audit.

Q8. In which project management process group is the project manager likely to do more directing?

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and controlling

Q9. After brainstorming potential project risks, what is the recommended method for prioritizing these risks and their mitigation plans?

1. RACI chart
2. Control chart
3. Fishbone diagram
4. Probability and impact matrix

Q10. Bill is the project manager of a software project that was originally estimated to be completed in 12 months. Two months into the project, it is discovered that the original estimating assumptions were fundamentally flawed. The Estimate at Completion (EAC) in such a project will be:

1. EAC = AC + Bottom-up ETC
2. EAC = BAC/CPI
3. EAC = AC + [BAC - EV]/CPI
4. EAC = AC + BAC - EV