Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Based on the chart that shows activities on the critical path, which activity(s) would you crash to save exactly four weeks?

1. Activity F
2. Activities A and E
3. Activities C and E
4. Activities A and C

Q3. The key difference between Validate Scope and Control Quality is:

1. Validate Scope is concerned with meeting the quality standards specified.
2. Validate Scope is concerned with the acceptance of deliverables.
3. Validate Scope does not apply in projects that have been cancelled.
4. Validate Scope can never be performed in parallel with Control Quality.

Q4. By policy, the project management office regularly evaluates project performance. This is done in order to ensure standards are being followed. This is an example of:

1. Plan Quality
2. Manage Quality
3. Control Quality
4. Quality Management

Q5. When is it BEST to perform the Close Project or Phase process?

1. At the beginning of the project with verification throughout the project.
2. At the end of project planning
3. During project closure
4. At the end of each project phase

Q6. While preparing your risk responses, you identify additional risks. What should you do?

1. Add reserves to the project to accommodate the new risks and notify management.
2. Document the risk items and calculate the expected monetary value based on probability and impact that result from the occurrences.
3. Determine the risk events and the associated cost, and then add the cost to the project budget as a reserve.
4. Add a 10 percent contingency to the project budget and notify the customer.

Q7. During which stage of risk planning are risks prioritized based on their relative probability and impact?

1. Perform Qualitative risk analysis
2. Identify Risks
3. Perform Quantitative risk analysis
4. Plan Risk Responses

Q8. A company attorney, newly hired by the company, walks into the project manager’s office and tells her that he is ready to work with her on the procurement process. The project manager has little experience with procurement, so she is excited to have the assistance. With which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to ask the attorney to help?

1. Claims administration, audit results, and updating organizational process assets.
2. Contract change control system, payments, and change requests.
3. Recommend corrective actions, performance reporting, and records management system.
4. Procurement documentation, project management plan updates, and procurement management plan updates.

Q9. The financial systems project has a relatively high profile in the organization and has received great support from the sponsor. There are over 230 activities on the project, and a few have remained relatively large due to the nature of the work to be accomplished. One of these larger activities has an estimate to complete (ETC) that is longer than planned. If the project manager wants to look at non-value-added activities that might be causing the delay, the manager should:

1. Measure using quality metrics
2. Complete process analysis
3. Perform a quality audit
4. Use a Pareto chart

Q10. Early in the project, you are meeting with your team and would like to address all the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats the project is facing. What tool should be used?

1. SWOT Analysis
2. Interviewing
3. Delphi Technique
4. Brainstorming