Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are the project manager for a $3,000,000 product development project. Your project is well into the executing process group and remains on time, on budget and no specification. This morning your project sponsor called to express concern about he project. Based on the schedule baseline, the project should be nearing implementation, but the sponsor does not know the current status of the project. You remind the sponsor that your team produces a detailed status report weekly and distributes it via e-mail. The sponsor indicates that e-mail is too impersonal and verbal updates are preferred. This situation suggests problems with which of the follow project management processes?

1. Plan Communications
2. Distribute Information
3. Report Performance
4. Stakeholders Management

Q3. A project manager overhears a conversation between two stakeholders who are talking about how unhappy they are with the impacts of the project on their own departments. Stakeholder A asks I the project is on time, and Stakeholder B replies that the SPI is 1.05. Stakeholder A asks if the project manager for the project knows o Stakeholder B’s concern. Stakeholder B responds that he is not sure. What is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Make sure stakeholders see that the project manager overheard. Then ask them to direct any questions to the project manager in writing.
2. Make a presentation to all the stakeholders regarding the status of the project.
3. Send both stakeholders a copy of the issue log, and ask for additional comments.
4. Arrange a meeting with both stakeholders to allow them to voice any concerns they may have.

Q4. Your project sponsor is extremely happy with the project performance to date. To celebrate, he wants to hold a party with dancing and liquor for the entire team. You are concerned because the company policy states that “no alcohol can be served at company events.” What should you do?

1. The project sponsor is responsible. Hold the event as a good teambuilding experience.
2. Inform human resources that the sponsor is serving alcohol at a company function
3. Tell the project sponsor that the party is a great idea, but no alcohol can be served.
4. Suggest the event be held outside of working hours

Q5. You are developing a product for your client. During the development of the product, the client has indicated that he needs some changes in the product, so you process his request. How do you manage changes in product specification?

1. Change management
2. Integration management
3. Product management
4. Configuration management

Q6. A cost performance plan contains a description of:

1. The project costs.
2. How resources are allocated.
3. The budgets and how they were calculated.
4. The WBS level at which earned value will be calculated.

Q7. Negative risks can either be ______, transferred, or mitigated as a countermeasure.

1. enhanced
2. avoided
3. exploited
4. ignored

Q8. You just found out that a major subcontractor for our project consistently provides deliverables late. The subcontractor approaches you and asks you to continue accepting late deliverables in exchange for a decrease in project costs. This offer is an example of.

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

Q9. Your project is going full steam and to prepare a monthly report you collect some data and give it to John who is your team member. You ask him to provide you with work performance information. He analyzes the information, compiles the data, and gives you the requested information which includes the status of deliverables, the number of change requests, implementation status for change requests, and forecasted estimates to complete. Among this information, which does not represent the information you requested?

1. Number of change requests
2. Status of deliverables
3. Forecasted estimates to complete
4. Implementation status for change requests

Q10. You are a project manager creating the final project report. Which information would you NOT include in this report?

1. Scope objectives
2. Lessons learned from previous similar projects
3. Risk summaries
4. Cost objectives