Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. All of the following are inputs to the Determine Budget process EXCEPT:

1. Activity cost estimates
2. Work breakdown structure
3. Project scope statement
4. Project performance reviews.

Q3. A new project manager has been hired in your company, and you have been asked to mentor her. Because she is well trained, she is planning her project in great detail. Her first project for the company is relatively low priority, and you feel that the project manager is planning too many project control meetings. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to tell her?

1. Strike a balance between the extent of the control system and the risk of unfavorable project outcomes.
2. Make sure you identify more than 40 risks, and then have more than one meeting a month
3. A good project management plan should be about90 percent complete before starting work
4. Make sure you include milestones to help plan the project charter.

Q4. What is the purpose of a bidder conference?

1. Awarding a contract to the most suitable vendor
2. Pre-qualifying the potential sellers
3. Ensuring all vendors have a clear understanding of the procurement
4. Developing a comprehensive seller's list

Q5. You are setting up your project team, and you are looking at a chart that shows that Systems Development will perform programming, Infrastructure Systems will implement the infrastructure, and the Call Center will handle the customer communication. This is an example of what type of chart?

1. RACI
2. Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
3. Work Breakdown Structure
4. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Q6. The project manager of a highly visible project is new to project management. He has carefully followed the steps to create a project management plan. During a status meeting, two of the team members argue over what needs to happen next. Whose responsibility is it to correct the problem?

1. The team
2. The project manager
3. The functional manager
4. the individual team members who disagree

Q7. Although the business value is unique to each organization, each organization strives to attain business value for its activities. Which of the following does NOT create value for an organization?

1. Escalation of commitment on projects involving significant sunk cost
2. Effective management of ongoing operations
3. Strategic alignment of project objectives
4. Successful management of nonprofit business-related activities

Q8. You and your management are inspecting project deliverables with the client and are determining if this is as per the stated requirements or not. Which of the following statement is true about the above process?

1. You are in the verify scope process.
2. You are in the validate scope process.
3. You are in the executing process group.
4. You are doing the quality control process.

Q9. Which of the following is an advantage of centralized contracting?

1. Increased expertise
2. Easier access
3. No home
4. More loyalty to the project.

Q10. 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