Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. On-demand scheduling is one of the techniques used in agile environments. This type of scheduling ______ work from a backlog as resources become available.

1. Extrapolates
2. Predicts
3. Pulls
4. Pushes

Q3. If the project's current total earned value (EV) is $100,000 and the actual amount spent (AC) is $95,000, what is the cost variance of the project?

1. The cost variance is $1.05
2. The cost variance is $5,000
3. The cost variance is $0.95
4. The cost variance is $-5,000

Q4. Which of the following stakeholder groups, especially if the size of the group is large, is ideal for the success of the project?

1. Supportive stakeholders
2. Leading stakeholders
3. Neutral stakeholders
4. Unaware stakeholders

Q5. Julia is managing a complex industrial process reengineering project. She has identified all her key project stakeholders and has conducted individual interviews with them to identify other project stakeholders, as well. However, Julia is still not satisfied with her project’s stakeholders list; she believes there may be more key external stakeholders missing from the list. What can help Julia in this situation?

1. Use stakeholder register templates from the organizational process assets
2. Conduct more meetings with the key stakeholders
3. Get over her fear and finalize the project stakeholder register
4. Seek expert judgment from subject matter experts

Q6. A project is contracted on a Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) basis with a fee of 10 percent of estimated costs. The estimated cost is US$50,000. If the project comes in at US$75,000 with no changes in project scope, what would be the total cost of the contract?

1. US$55,000
2. US$125,000
3. US$75,000
4. US$80,000

Q7. The engineering department has uncovered a problem with the cost accounting system and has asked the systems department to analyze what is wrong and fix the problem. You are a project manager working with the cost accounting programs on another project. Management has issued a change request to the change control board to add the new work to your project. Your existing project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.2 and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.3 so you have some room to ad work without delaying your existing project. After some analysis, you determine that the new work and existing work do not overlap and can be done concurrently. They also require different skill sets. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Re-estimate the project schedule with input from the engineering department
3. Verify the scope of the new work with the help of the stakeholders
4. Identify specific changes to the existing work.

Q8. A project manager holds a meeting with his manager to explain that an activity has been delayed and the project manager will need additional resources to complete the project. The manager stops the meeting because the project manager has forgotten something. What might it have been?

1. To investigate undoing previous fast tracking activities
2. To try to compress the project schedule before asking for additional resources
3. To look for options with the customer before meeting with management
4. To eliminate float in the near-critical path

Q9. Jack is the project manager of a project that is halfway through its execution. He is currently looking at the work schedule. He adjusts a few of the schedule milestones and imposes date constraints for some of the work packages. This relates to which of the following processes?

1. Control Quality
2. Develop Schedule
3. Control Scope
4. Control Schedule

Q10. Communications are often enhanced when the sender _______ the receiver.

1. Speaks up to
2. Uses more physical movements when talking to
3. Talks slowly to
4. Shows concern for the perspective of