Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which motivational theory uses the concepts of esteem and selfactualization?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg

Q3. 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.

Q4. You are working on a waste management project that, upon completion, will be turned over to the local municipality for steady-state operation. Parking of trucks and other vehicles has become a serious problem because no parking area was allotted to you on the main dumping site. As a result, your trucks are parked on nearby roadsides. One of the fleet supervisors informs you that close to the main site, there is a large tract of land a local charity owns. Many locals park their cars on this tract of land. What should you do?

1. Since the piece of land is already used as parking, you can park your trucks over there.
2. Don’t park the trucks on that piece of land because it will be a violation of other’s property rights.
3. Check the local parking laws.
4. Ask the supervisor to get contact information of the local charity.

Q5. Crashing is an effective schedule compression technique at times when a project is struggling behind schedule. However, increasing the number of resources to twice the original number of the resources does not always cut the time by half. This is due to:

1. Fast tracking the project
2. Risk mitigation due to crashing the project
3. The law of diminishing returns
4. Critical path analysis

Q6. Where would you find a detailed list and description of specific project assumptions associated with the project?

1. Project charter
2. Project scope statement
3. Project configuration document
4. Change management plan

Q7. A project manager is working on his first project with outside sellers. He is familiar with project change control systems but not contract change control systems. In explaining how a contract change control system differs from a project change control system, it is BEST to point out that a contract change control system:

1. Includes procedures
2. Includes trend analysis
3. Requires more sign-offs
4. Requires less documentation.

Q8. Upon obtaining the project charter, the Project Manager of a project starts acquiring the project team immediately. Is this correct?

1. Yes. Acquisition of the project team is primarily an Initiating Process Group activity.
2. Yes. The project manager needs to get the team together as soon as the project starts.
3. No. It is the responsibility of the project sponsor to provide the team for execution.
4. No. Acquisition of the project team is primarily an Executing Process Group activity.

Q9. The WBS, estimates for each work package, and the network diagram are completed. The NEXT thing for the project manager to do is:

1. Sequence Activities
2. Develop Schedule
3. Verify Scope
4. Resource Simulation 37

Q10. All of the following are NOT parts of a project management plan EXCEPT:

1. Baselines
2. Milestone list
3. Risk register
4. Lessons learned