Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. If a project manager is using observation and conversation to help control the project, she must be involved in which process?

1. Develop Project team
2. Distribute information
3. Manage Stakeholder Expectations
4. Manage Project team.

Q3. You are asked to select tools and techniques to implement a quality assurance program to supplement existing quality control activities. Which of the following would NOT be appropriate for this purpose?

1. Quality audits
2. Statistical sampling
3. Pareto charts
4. Focus groups.

Q4. After identifying a risk to your project, you determine that there is a high probability of risk occurring with a low consequence. What mitigation strategy is BEST to adopt?

1. Eliminate the consequence of the risk.
2. Avoid the risk
3. Add the risk to the watch list
4. Insure against the risk.

Q5. Establishing control accounts for the work packages and a unique identifier from a code of accounts finalizes the WBS. This provides a structure for hierarchical summation of:

1. Schedule and requirements information
2. Cost and requirements information
3. Cost and resource information
4. Scope, budget and schedule information

Q6. Henry is the project manager for a process improvement project. Henry is a recently hired Six Sigma expert. David is the process owner of the process Henry must optimize. During the project kick-start meeting with the project sponsor, David said he supports all continuous improvement efforts. However, David is unaware of the Six Sigma technique and feels threatened by the newly hired expert, and as a result, is blocking Henry’s ideas. What is David’s current engagement level with the project?

1. Unaware
2. Supportive
3. Resistant
4. Neutral

Q7. If a project team is subdividing project work packages into smaller, more manageable components, they are:

1. Creating WBS
2. Decomposing
3. Network diagramming
4. Activity sequencing

Q8. A project manager is trying to plan for a contingency reserve as part of the cost estimates for the project. Which of these would be an incorrect way to plan for contingency reserves?

1. Start the project with a zero value for contingency reserve.
2. Plan for contingency reserve as a fixed number.
3. Plan for contingency reserve as a percentage of the estimated cost.
4. Use quantitative analysis methods to arrive at the contingency reserve.

Q9. Scope decomposition involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller pieces to:

1. Improve the accuracy of estimates, define a baseline for performance and assist with responsibility assignments.
2. Provide more activities to assign to resources
3. Provide the project duration, provide project control, and assign control charts.
4. Assist in stakeholder assignment to project activities.

Q10. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s role relating to changes?

1. Serve the customer and do what the customer wants.
2. Monitor and track changes to ensure they benefit the project.
3. Influence the factors that cause changes
4. Deny change requests whenever possible 9