Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager presented premier performance certificates to project team members who delivered above and beyond their required activities at each project milestone. This is an example:

1. Project performance appraisal.
2. Gold plating
3. A recognition and reward system
4. Team building.

Q3. During project planning, you estimate the time needed for each activity and then add up the estimates to create the project estimate. You commit to completing the project by this date. What is wrong with this scenario?

1. The team did not create the estimate, and estimating takes too long using that method.
2. The team did not create the estimate, and a network diagram was not used.
3. The estimate is too long and should be created by management.
4. The project estimate should be the same as the customer’s required completion date.

Q4. There are two projects to choose between: Project A with an NPV of US $45,000, or Project B with an NPV of US $85,000. What is the opportunity cost of selecting project B?

1. $45,000
2. $85,000
3. $40,000
4. $130,0000

Q5. A team member notifies the project manager after the fact that certain project deliverables have been attained without performing all the associated work packages in the WBS. What should the project manager do FIRST?

1. Immediately communicate the changes to all team members and stakeholders and have team members’ performance reviewed.
2. Review work packages and deliverables to determine impact, if any. Recommend changes to the project to the project management plan.
3. Change the project performance measurement baselines and the WBS.
4. Change the reporting process to get information sooner, then review the communications management plan to see if it is still appropriate to the needs of the project.

Q6. A project manager has increased project costs by US $100,000, but completed the project four weeks earlier than planned. What activity is BEST described here?

1. Resource leveling
2. Schedule compression
3. Critical chain
4. Adjusting leads and lags

Q7. A program management office (PMO) chose you to write a purchase order because of your expertise in business writing. You learned the PMO has already selected a seller for a software product and would like to award the procurement contract to the selected seller as a purchase order, which you must prepare. In this scenario, the PMO is administering:

1. The monitor stakeholder engagement process
2. The control procurements process
3. The plan procurement management process
4. The conduct procurements process

Q8. All of the following are examples of Perform Quality Control EXCEPT:

1. Inspection
2. Cost of quality
3. Pareto chart
4. Fishbone diagram

Q9. You are a project manager on a US $5,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architects suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support this suggestion with an article from a leading software development journal. Which of the following BEST describes what this type of input is called?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Heuristic 33

Q10. A project is in the middle of the executing processes when a stakeholder suggests a major new change. This change will cause the third major overhaul of the project. At the same time, the project manager discovers that a major work package was not completed because a team member’s boss moved him to another project that had a higher priority. Which of the following is the BEST person for the project manager to address these issues with?

1. The team
2. Senior management
3. The customer
4. The sponsor.