Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have been given a big project to complete. This is an important project for your company, therefore management does not want any delay in completion. As soon as the project charter is signed, you start identifying and categorizing stakeholders using various data representation tools. Which of the following tools will you not use here?

1. Brain writing
2. Stakeholder cube
3. Direction of influence
4. Salience model

Q3. A new software development project is in progress and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department. They want to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Completed checklists
2. A quality control plan
3. Results of quality control measurements
4. Rework.

Q4. A collection of formally documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation are controlled, changed, and approved is:

1. An authorization system
2. Project documentation
3. A change control board
4. A change control system

Q5. You are analyzing the risk in a project. You decide to do a sensitivity analysis to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. You consider using a tool to help compare the relative importance of variables that have a high degree of uncertainty with those variables that are more stable. One such tool is:

1. Beta Distribution
2. S-Curve
3. Control Chart
4. Tornado Diagram

Q6. You are asked to select tools and techniques to implement a quality assurance program to supplement existing quality control activities. Which of the following would NOT be appropriate for this purpose?

1. Quality audits
2. Statistical sampling
3. Pareto charts
4. Focus groups.

Q7. Senior management is complaining that they are not able to easily determine the status of ongoing projects in the organization. Which of the following types of reports would help provide summary information to senior management?

1. Detailed cost estimates
2. Project management plans
3. Bar charts
4. Milestone reports

Q8. You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into the planning processes when a project stakeholder asks you for the project’s budget and cost baseline. What should you tell her?

1. The project budget can be found in the project charter, which has just bee completed
2. The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed
3. The project management plan will not contain the project budget and baseline; this is a small project
4. It is impossible to complete an estimate before the project management plan is created.

Q9. Which of the following is an output of the collect requirements process?

1. Scope management plan
2. Requirements management plan
3. Requirements risk breakdown
4. Requirements traceability matrix 7

Q10. What does a Cost Performance Index (CPI) of more than 1.0 indicate?

1. The project is over budget.
2. The project is right on budget.
3. The project is under budget.
4. The project is ahead of schedule.