Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Two team members are having a big disagreement about how to accomplish an activity. The project is low risk and is taking place in a strong matrix environment with 34 team members. To resolve this dispute, the project manager should:

1. Make the decision
2. Send the team members to their managers for advice on resolving the dispute
3. Ask for a benchmark analysis
4. Have the team member’s compromise.

Q3. When is it MOST important that integration is performed?

1. During project planning
2. During project executing
3. At key interface points
4. At the end of each project management process

Q4. Which of the following techniques is the BEST way to determine project objectives?

1. Delphi technique
2. Earned value analysis
3. Expert interviews
4. Pareto 8

Q5. A project is seriously delayed. Earned value analysis shows the project needs to be completed 10 percent faster than the work has been going. To get the project back on track, management wants to add 10 people to an activity currently assigned to one person. The project manager disagrees, noting that such an increase will not produce an increase in speed. This is an example of:

1. The law of diminishing returns
2. Fast tracking
3. Earned value
4. Life cycle costing

Q6. You have been assigned as the project manager for a software development project. You are currently communicating with stakeholders and addressing their issues and expectations. Which of the following documents are inputs to this effort?

1. The Issue log, Project charter, and Configuration management system
2. The stakeholder engagement plan, communications management plan, and the change log
3. The Project risk register, Work performance information, and Accepted deliverables
4. Business case, change requests, and control charts

Q7. All of the following are parts of effective problem solving EXCEPT:

1. Waiting to make decisions
2. Reviewing the decision
3. Confirming that the decision solved the problem
4. Analyzing the problem.

Q8. Risk response owners can potentially have conflict with risk auditors because risk auditors:

1. Report to the project manager
2. Investigate the effectiveness of the risk response owner
3. Measure the effectiveness of the risk thresholds.
4. Report to the stakeholders

Q9. A project manager has just started planning his project. If he has only limited information about the project, he should use the following technique to estimate the duration for each activity using historical data from a similar project:

1. Four-point estimating
2. Three-point estimating
3. Analogous estimating
4. Parametric estimating

Q10. The current update to the schedule performance report shows no schedule variance. Based upon this report, you tell the client that the project is on time. However, your team members know that you just missed a major milestone and the project will not meet its startup date. This is an indication of poor:

1. Communications planning.
2. Scope planning.
3. Team trust.
4. Schedule planning.