Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following defines the total scope of the project and represents the work specified in the current approved project scope statement?

1. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
2. Bill of Material (BOM)
3. Project Charter
4. Requirements Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Q3. You are the project manager for a new international project, and your project team includes people from four countries. Most of the team members have not worked on similar projects before, but the project has strong support from senior management. What is the BEST thing to do to ensure that cultural differences do not interfere with the project?

1. Spend a little more time creating the work breakdown structure and making sure it is complete
2. As the project manager, make sure you choose your words carefully whenever you communicate
3. Ask one person at each team meeting to describe something unique about their culture.
4. Carefully encode all the project manager’s communications.

Q4. Determining the physical resources, quantities of each, and when they would be used is the process of:

1. Resource selection
2. Estimate Activity Resources
3. Resource leveling
4. Define Activities

Q5. The project manager has had some difficulty in getting the team to complete work efforts but he feels that the changes he made to the reward system will fix the problem. The number of stakeholders on the project has grown by 20 percent and the number of activities being completed late is growing. The project manager has heard from management that the project might become a higher priority if their competition comes out with a new product that uses wireless technology. Based on this, it would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Re-estimate the activities and prepare to create a new schedule
2. Perform configuration management
3. Recreate the project work authorization system
4. Better respond to risk event triggers 30

Q6. Communications management plans should include all of the following except:

1. Stakeholder communication requirements
2. Reasons for information distribution
3. Escalation process
4. Risk Register

Q7. Michael and John are having some conflicts and they come to you. Since you are too busy and the problem is complex, you go with the midway of both parties and partially satisfy both of them. What conflict resolution technique are you using here?

1. Accommodate
2. Withdraw
3. Collaborate
4. Compromise

Q8. As per the PMBOK Guide, which of the following is not a communication method that you use to share information among project stakeholders?

1. Online communication
2. Interactive communication
3. Push communication
4. Pull communication

Q9. You are finalizing the monthly project status report due now to your manager when you discover that several project team members are not reporting actual hours spent on project activities. This results in skewed project statistics. What is the MOST appropriate action to be taken?

1. Discuss the impacts of these actions with team members.
2. Report the team members’ actions t their functional managers.
3. Continue reporting information as presented to you.
4. Provider accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.

Q10. 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