Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. When is it BEST to perform the Close Project or Phase process?

1. At the beginning of the project with verification throughout the project.
2. At the end of project planning
3. During project closure
4. At the end of each project phase

Q3. Based on the chart, how is the project doing?

1. You are in the trouble because there are three activities with no float
2. You have a lot of flexibility because you have activities with float
3. You do not have enough information to make a decision
4. Everything is fine because you have an even number of activities with and without float.

Q4. You are an experienced project manager and have managed several data center migration projects. You are currently conducting training on the databases, spreadsheets, and management plans you will use during the lifecycle of the project. This training is a tool and technique in what process?

1. Manage Team
2. Acquire Resources
3. Develop Team
4. Control Quality

Q5. Your company is way behind schedule in the deployment of a government-mandated change to a health care processing system that must be in production by the end of the year. To meet the due date, you and your team have met and decided to hire an additional 50 programmers to work with the existing staff. This is an example of what?

1. Resource Leveling
2. Fast Tracking
3. Crashing
4. Risk Transference

Q6. The manager of a project that your company is running in another country is at the corporate headquarters for a company-wide project management meeting. During a break, you overhear the project manager discussing payments made to local municipal governments for construction permits for the project. Your company has a strict policy about paying or taking bribes. What should you do?

1. Report him to PMI
2. Report him to his manager
3. Notify his project stakeholders
4. Do nothing

Q7. You are managing a project for your company constructing an office complex in another country. The construction work on two of the buildings is complete, and those buildings are ready for move-in. However, the construction supervisor informs you that you must pay a fee to a local government agency to issue an occupancy permit for any new construction in that country. What should you do?

1. Pay the fee
2. Ask your legal department if this is legal
3. Notify project stakeholders that you have been asked to pay a bribe
4. Do not pay the fee

Q8. You are working as a project manager for a wind-powered vehicle manufacturing project which is in its planning phase. You carefully gathered all your requirements from your key stakeholders and prepared a system requirements specification and project requirements specification. While presenting your specifications to the project team, an enthusiastic project team member started talking about the duration estimates for each activity. Which of the following statements indicates your response to your team member?

1. WBS creation and Schedule development must be done after estimating durations.
2. Schedule development and Costs estimation must be done before estimating durations.
3. Scope definition, WBS creation, Quality planning, and Communication planning must be done before estimating durations.
4. Scope definition, WBS creation, Activity definition, and Activity sequencing must be done before estimating durations.

Q9. A project is considered closed when the:

1. Client accepts the product
2. Lessons learned are completed
3. Archives are completed
4. Contract is finished

Q10. A work breakdown structures numbering system allows the project staff to:

1. Systemically estimate costs of work breakdown structure elements.
2. Provide project justification
3. Identify the level at which individual elements are found
4. Use it in project management software.