Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Due to the scarce nature of organizational resources, several trends have become popular in the past several years. Which of the following is NOT a resource management method:

1. Kaizen
2. Critical path method
3. Total productive maintenance
4. Theory of constraints

Q3. The project team has created a plan for how they will implement the quality policy. It addresses the organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, and other information about plans for quality. If this changes during the project, WHICH of the following plans will also change?

1. Quality assurance.
2. Quality management
3. Project management
4. Quality control.

Q4. A software development project has been suffering through many major project changes. Because of this, the project manager has not been able to do much but complete change request forms. Which statement BEST describes the other activities the project manager should be doing?

1. Determine that changes have been made and whether the changes are beneficial. List all of them in the scope management plan
2. Determine if a change is needed. Determine whether that change is beneficial; notify stakeholders affected by the change.
3. List all changes in the project charter, notify stakeholders affected by changes and ensure the team signs off on all changes
4. Determine that a change has occurred. Notify all stakeholders affected by the change; list all the changes in the scope management plan

Q5. You are collecting requirements for your project. For a few requirements you are having difficulty reaching a consensus, so you decide to vote and select the choice which has the largest number of votes. What voting technique is this?

1. Minority
2. Unanimity
3. Majority
4. Plurality

Q6. When writing the roles and responsibilities for team members, you should document the role, authority, responsibility, and competency for each team member. Where must you document this information?

1. Resource management plan
2. RACI chart
3. Resource calendar
4. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Q7. Jim is managing a road network design project for a government agency. He is currently carrying out the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process for the project. Which of the following documents will provide the list of project stakeholders to Jim for this process?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Project management plan
3. Stakeholder register
4. Enterprise environmental factors

Q8. Your project is delayed because of some regulatory issues and the client has asked you to stop the work until he gets government clearance. The project team members are afraid that the project may be terminated early and you may need to enter into the close project process. In which of the following cases will you not perform the close project or close phase process?

1. When the project is terminated due to cost overrun
2. When the project is terminated due to schedule overrun
3. The client decided to terminate the project
4. None of the above

Q9. What is the MOST correct statement about conflict?

1. The primary source of conflict is personality
2. Conflict can be beneficial.
3. Conflict is best resolved by smoothing
4. The best way to prevent conflict in the procurement process is to make sure the project manager is not involved with negotiations.

Q10. After the kickoff meeting, two team members engage in a casual conversation about the project objectives and deliverables. It is clear they heard different messages during the meeting. One team member is so adamant that the other team member give up arguing the point. After talking to the project manager, the second team member confirms that the first team member is mistaken. At this point, what is the BEST course of action?

1. The second team member should send the other team member an e-mail describing what he discovered.
2. At the next project meeting, the team member should ask the mistaken team member to describe his interpretation so the project manager can get everyone on the same page.
3. The project manager should send out an e-mail to the team restating the project objectives and deliverables.
4. At the next project meeting, the project manager should spend time reviewing the documented project scope statement for the purpose of identifying this and other false assumptions.