Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are managing a construction project. Your company does not specialize in construction design so you outsourced the construction design to a third party. You are conducting regular procurement performance reviews and are dissatisfied. You want to carry out a detailed audit of the design supplier’s work processes to determine the root cause. Can you do that?

1. Yes, it is a good project management technique advocated by the PMBOK guide.
2. Yes, if there is a provision in the contract allowing work process audits.
3. No, you are only authorized to perform quality audits on the delivered products and not the supplier’s internal work processes.
4. No, a detailed procurement audit cannot be performed until you terminate the contract.

Q3. Which process group corresponds to the "act" component of the plan-docheck- act cycle?

1. Monitoring & Controlling
2. Executing
3. Planning
4. Initiating

Q4. Senior management has imposed a project delivery date prior to acceptance of the project scope statement. To whom is the project manager MOST accountable?

1. Project sponsor
2. Project team
3. Customer
4. Senior management

Q5. A project manager is assigned to a new, high priority project. There are only five available resources because other resources are already committed to projects. The time available to complete the project is less than half the time needed, and the project manager cannot convince management to change the end date. The project manager should:

1. Coordinate with team members the overtime necessary to complete the work
2. Provide the team with opportunities to produce acceptable quality on the work that can be accomplished
3. Look for any scope that can be cut from the project.
4. Use more experienced resources to complete the work faster.

Q6. A team of experts come to your project and ask for approved procedures to verify your team is following these procedures. This is an example of which of the following?

1. Quality control
2. Manage quality
3. Verify scope
4. Control scope

Q7. A project manager is trying to manage a complex project at a 6 sigma level with 5 people. The project manager decides to use a trend report because it will help him:

1. Evaluate earned value.
2. Examine project results over time
3. Analyze the level of project complexity.
4. Determine the level of quality.

Q8. Which of the following is an output of the Define Activities process?

1. Milestone list
2. Project schedule activity diagrams
3. Resource calendar
4. Activity duration estimates

Q9. The project charter is the document that authorizes the existence of the project and contains a great deal of important information. Which of the following options shows the correct content of a project charter?

1. Project purpose, high level requirements, assumptions and constraints, summary budget
2. High-level risk, summary milestone, project management plan, summary budget
3. Project objective, stakeholder list, WBS, project approval authority
4. Name of the sponsor, name of the project manager, schedule baseline, summary budget

Q10. During the execution of the project, a new ISO version of standard 9000 is issued and the project team is meeting with the quality department to determine how the standard will apply to the project. This is part of which quality process?

1. Plan Quality
2. Perform Quality Control
3. Quality Analysis
4. Manage Quality.