Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During a project management process, you are reviewing proposals from many bidders using some predetermined criteria. Based on this review, you prepare a final list of bidders and then select a bidder from this list. What project management process is this?

1. Plan procurement
2. Conduct procurement
3. Control procurement
4. Define scope

Q3. At a critical design review meeting for a large project, several important issues surfaced. After hearing about a major technical problem, one of the subcontractor’s engineers mentions that he experienced a similar situation on another project, he has some ideas on how to solve the current problem. What type of power is the engineer using?

1. Manipulative
2. Formal
3. Expert
4. Referent.

Q4. You call your team member and give some instructions. She receives your message and gives her feedback. What is the role of the team member in this conversion?

1. Sender
2. Receiver
3. Medium
4. None of the above

Q5. A hierarchical structure of project resources organized by category and resource type, used in planning, managing and controlling project work, is:

1. Team structure
2. Resource Pool
3. Organization Breakdown Structure
4. Resource Breakdown Structure

Q6. Which of the following processes will determine the correctness of deliverables?

1. Plan Deliverables
2. Plan Quality Management
3. Control Quality
4. Manage Quality

Q7. Three items from the issue log have been assigned to a team member. However, no action has been taken by the agreed-upon due date. After three calls to the team member, the work is finally completed. Which of the following is the BEST preventive action to take NOW?

1. Remove the team member from the team if possible
2. Meet with the team member to uncover the reasons why there were problems
3. Make sure the action item list is distributed to all the right parties
4. Make sure items assigned in the action item list are accepted by the team members they are assigned to.

Q8. A resource histogram includes which two data points?

1. Resource and time estimate
2. Resource and calendar date
3. Activity and resource
4. Resource and usage.

Q9. A project manager is taking over a project from another project manager during the planning process group. If the new project manager wants to see what the previous project manager planned for managing changes to the schedule, it would be BEST to look at the:

1. Communications management plan
2. Update management plan
3. Staffing management plan
4. Schedule management plan 71

Q10. A project manager on a multinational website implementation project is at a party and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new website when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current website. The project manager takes this feedback to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

1. Scope validation
2. Integrated change control
3. Stakeholder analysis
4. Scope planning