Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. If a project manager is concerned with gathering, integrating, and disseminating the outputs of all project management processes, she should concentrate on creating a better:

1. WBS
2. Communications management plan
3. Project management information system
4. Project scope management plan.

Q3. Jane is worried about her project because many of her tasks are moving slowly, and two critical tasks may slip. She conducts a thorough resource analysis and finds out that there are five people who will be free next week. She would like to assign those people to finish her tasks early and prevent the project completion date from slipping. This is an example of:

1. Management reserves
2. Resource Leveling
3. Crashing
4. Fast tracking

Q4. In your project, two important stakeholders are having some issues. To keep this issue from escalating further you intervene and resolve the issue. After the issue is resolved you asked your team member to record the issue so in the future a lesson can be learned from it. Where will you note the issues between stakeholders?

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Stakeholder register
4. Change log

Q5. The project is being completed faster than planned. Which of the following would NOT account for why this has occurred?

1. Trend analysis was used to eliminate the need for some testing
2. A pre-made item was purchased instead of the team creating it.
3. A critical path and a noncritical path activity were fast tracked.
4. A critical path activity was compressed

Q6. Your company wants to assign a resource to your project and asks you to bill that resource to the customer. This concerns you because you get a bonus for maximizing billings to the customer. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Maximize customer billings in any ethical manner possible.
2. Ask for the customer’s approval before adding the resource to the project scope.
3. Ask for clarification of the intent of adding the resource.
4. Remind the appropriate members of the billing organization that monetary compensation is not worth compromising the integrity of the individual or the organization.

Q7. After analyzing the status of your project, you determine that the earned value (EV) is lower than the planned value (PV). What should you expect as an outcome if this trend continues?

1. The actual cost will be lower than planned
2. The estimate at completion will be lower than planned
3. The project will finish behind schedule
4. The project will finish below the original cost estimate

Q8. The morale of the team members of a project is very low. The team members feel they were not given opportunities to participate in the organizational team development activities due to over-allocation to project tasks, and so, they missed opportunities to develop. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this situation?

1. Use of zero-sum rewards in the project
2. A poorly defined resource calendar
3. Too many senior team members
4. Poor interpersonal skills in the team

Q9. In the earned value management technique, the cost performance baseline is:

1. Cost Measurement Baseline (CMB)
2. Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)
3. Performance Base Value (PBV)
4. Actual Baseline (AB)

Q10. Work Performance Information is not an output of which of the following processes?

1. Validate Scope
2. Manage Communications
3. Monitor Risks
4. Control Scope