Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Testing the entire population:

1. Take too long.
2. Provide more information than wanted.
3. Be mutually exclusive.
4. Show many defects.

Q3. Lucy is managing a website development project in an agile environment. She wants to create a burndown chart to present the project’s progress to the stakeholders. She adds a diagonal line representing the ideal burndown and a line for daily actual remaining work. She now needs to show the likely variance at the iteration completion. What should she do?

1. Add a forecast trend line to the ideal burndown line
2. Add a correlation line between the daily actual remaining work and the ideal burndown
3. Add a forecast trend line to the daily actual remaining work
4. Add a median line between the daily actual remaining work and the ideal burndown

Q4. You are planning resources for your project and the team charter has been established. This charter provides a clear guideline of the acceptable behavior of team members. Which of the following is not included?

1. Communication guidelines
2. Decision making criteria
3. Conflict resolution process
4. Motivational processes

Q5. A project manager is working on a major new product development project when a risk occurs that does not have a risk response plan. What should the project manager do?

1. Hold a risk assessment and plan a workaround
2. Inform management and communicate the new risk to the team
3. Communicate the planned response to the stakeholders
4. Use some of the reserve to accommodate the risk.

Q6. You gave the responsibility of collecting requirements from project stakeholders to four of your team members. After starting the requirements collection process one of your team members left the job and the requirements could not be compiled properly. Initially, you did not notice this, however, during a product review, a few stakeholders told you that some of the features in the products were not requested by them. Therefore, to verify their comments you review the product requirements and identify the issue. This is an example of:

1. Scope creep
2. Scope slippage
3. Gold plating
4. Opportunity

Q7. Performance reporting is important during administrative closure, in order to:

1. Show progress made on activities.
2. Communicate the team’s success.
3. Gain approval to start the lesions learned.
4. Prove formal acceptance has been achieved.

Q8. If you are working on a project with constantly changing scope, which type of contract would work best when hiring an outside vendor to complete a portion of the work?

1. Lump sum
2. Cost-reimbursable
3. Time and material
4. Fixed price

Q9. All of the following are inputs to the procurement process EXCEPT:

1. Project scope statement
2. Market conditions
3. Product description
4. Procurement statement of work.

Q10. Clear criteria for rewards and a planned system for their use promotes and reinforces desired behaviors in the project. Creating a recognition plan with established times for rewards ensures that recognition takes place and is not forgotten. This is usually part of the:

1. Project Dashboard
2. Resource Management Plan
3. Company HR plan
4. Communications Management Plan