Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Project information has been distributed according to the communications management plan. Some project deliverables have been changed in accordance with the project management plan. One stakeholder expressed surprise to the project manager upon hearing of a previously published change to a project deliverable. All stakeholders received the communication containing notification of the change. What should the project manager do?

1. Determine why the stakeholder did not receive the information and let him know when it was published.
2. Ask the functional manager why the stakeholder did not understand his responsibility.
3. Review the communications management plan and make revisions if necessary.
4. Address the situation in the next steering committee meeting so others do not miss published changes.

Q3. All of the following are examples of the cost of non-conformance EXCEPT:

1. Scrap
2. Warranty costs
3. Rework
4. Quality training

Q4. While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only. Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?

1. Compromise
2. Smoothing
3. Forcing
4. Withdrawal.

Q5. A project manager is preparing the WBS for a software project. The WBS includes all the product and project work but excludes the project management work. From the following choices, choose a statement that correctly describes this situation.

1. This is incorrect. Include product work and project management as part of the WBS but exclude project work.
2. This is incorrect. Project work and project management are part of the WBS, but product work is not.
3. This is incorrect. Include product work, project work, and project management work.
4. This is correct. Include product and project work as part of the WBS but exclude project management work.

Q6. When managing a project, which of the following is the BEST order to deal with problems that arise?

1. Go to the team, go to management, go to resource managers.
2. Go to resource manager, go to management, go to the customer.
3. Handle it yourself, go to the customer, go to management.
4. Resolve the problem with resources you control, go to the resource manager, go to the customer.

Q7. Which of the following best describes the Validate Scope process?

1. Validating that the project quality requirements are met
2. Controlling changes to the scope of the project
3. Obtaining the stakeholders' formal acceptance of the project deliverables
4. Validating that all of the project's objectives are met

Q8. The float of an activity is determined by:

1. Performing a Monte Carlo analysis
2. Determining the waiting time between activities
3. Determining lag
4. Determining the amount of time the activity can be delayed before it delays the critical path

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. You are the project manager responsible for building a 100,000-squarefoot data center. One of the scheduled activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units. However, a raised floor must be installed in the data center before installation of the units can begin. This is an example of what type of precedence relationship?

1. Finish to Finish
2. Start to Finish
3. Start to Start
4. Finish to Start