Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct has as its foundation four values identified by practitioners from the global project management community. They are:

1. Respect, fairness, transparency, and freedom
2. Responsibility, transparency, fairness, and honesty
3. Respect, freedom, honesty, and transparency
4. Responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty

Q3. You have found you do not yet have an accurate estimate of the number and skill levels of resources needed for the scheduled activity Build Racks for Data Center. You need this estimate for presentation to your Human Resources department later in the week. You have decided to decompose the Build Racks for Data Center activity into smaller components such as take equipment out of box, review equipment for completeness, build frame, and install rails. Then you plan to estimate the resources for each smaller component and combine those estimates into an aggregate. This is an example of:

1. Aggregate Estimating
2. Alternative Analysis
3. Bottom-up Estimating
4. Rolling Wave Estimating

Q4. 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

Q5. A planning package is a work breakdown structure component below the control account and above the work package with known work content but without:

1. Work packages
2. User stories
3. Schedule activities
4. Requirements

Q6. What percentage o the total distribution is 3 sigma from the mean equal to?

1. 68.26 percent
2. 99.99 percent
3. 95.46 percent
4. 99.73 percent

Q7. Fast tracking the project usually:

1. Decreases project duration
2. Decreases project costs
3. Decreases the amount of management oversight needed
4. Decreases the number of resources used

Q8. The halo effect refers to the tendency to:

1. Promote from within
2. Hire the best
3. Move people into project management because they are good in their technical fields
4. Move people into project management because they have had project management training.

Q9. A project manager is concerned about the amount of gold plating that has occurred on past projects. All the following would NOT be of use in controlling gold plating EXCEPT:

1. A staffing management plan
2. A project charter
3. A work breakdown structure dictionary
4. A risk management plan

Q10. Which of these is not a legitimate model used to analyze stakeholders?

1. Influence/impact grid
2. Power/influence grid
3. Sufficiency model
4. Salience model