Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A team member determines that the scope for her activity is no longer valid. She comes to you for advice on making the change. To which of the following documents should the project manager refer to make this change?

1. The project management information system
2. The scope management plan
3. The cost management plan
4. The work authorization system

Q3. The customer has accepted the completed project scope. However, the lessons learned required by the project management office have not been completed. What is the status of the project?

1. The project is complete because the project has reached the due date.
2. The project is incomplete because the project needs to be re-planned.
3. The project is incomplete until all project and product deliverables are completed and accepted.
4. The project is complete because the customer has accepted the deliverables.

Q4. You have been producing ball bearings in large numbers. For this kind of process, what technique will you use to verify if the products are of the right quality?

1. Inspection of all products
2. Statistical sampling
3. Inspection of the first three samples
4. Inspection of the last three samples

Q5. Julia is currently assessing her project stakeholders’ engagement levels. During this exercise, she finds she also needs to document an escalation process, which will come in handy in the future. Where does she need to document the project’s escalation process?

1. Communications management plan
2. Stakeholder engagement plan
3. Either the stakeholder engagement plan or the communications management plan
4. Both the stakeholder engagement plan and the communications management plan

Q6. A team member from research and development tells you that her work is too creative to provide you with a fixed single estimate for the activity. You both decide to use the average labour hours per installation from past projects to predict the future. This is an example of which of the following?

1. Parametric estimating
2. Three-point estimating
3. Analogous estimating
4. Monte Carlo analysis 48

Q7. Jim is managing a road network design project for a government agency. He is currently performing the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process for the project. Which of the following documents will provide the list of project stakeholders to Jim for this process?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environmental factors
3. Stakeholder register
4. Project management plan

Q8. During a weekly status meeting, a team member suggests adding a component to the project. As the project manager, you maintain that all focus should stay on the current scope and not on any enhancements. Focusing on the current scope is an example of:

1. Gold-plating
2. Scope verification
3. Scope management
4. Change control

Q9. You are a project manager leading a cross-functional project team in a weak matrix environment. None of your project team members report to you functionally and you do not have the ability to directly reward their performance. The project is difficult, involving tight date constraints and challenging quality standards. Which of the following types of project management power will likely be the MOST effective in this circumstance?

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

Q10. 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