Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In the process of reviewing the status of your team’s work assignments, you learn that the project has fallen behind schedule by one week. The project has high visibility within the organization and is completely datedriven. The project finish date is still two months out and you think you can recover the time over the next month or so. What is the BEST course of action for reporting the project status?

1. Report the project on schedule. This is not a significant slippage and there is still time to recover
2. Report the project on schedule. Most project management plans are not accurate to less than one or two weeks anyway
3. Report the project one week behind schedule and include recommended corrective actions
4. Report the project one week behind schedule and then issue a new report next week showing them the problem fixed

Q3. 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.

Q4. 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

Q5. During project executing, a large number of changes are made to the project. The project manager should:

1. Wait until all changes are known and print out a new schedule
2. Make sure the project charter is still valid
3. Change the schedule baseline
4. Talk to management before any changes are made

Q6. Who determines the project scope requirements of a new project?

1. The customer
2. The stakeholders
3. The project manager
4. Senior management

Q7. You are managing a project for your company constructing an office complex in another country. The construction work on two of the buildings is complete, and those buildings are ready for move-in. However, the construction supervisor informs you that you must pay a fee to a local government agency to issue an occupancy permit for any new construction in that country. What should you do?

1. Pay the fee
2. Ask your legal department if this is legal
3. Notify project stakeholders that you have been asked to pay a bribe
4. Do not pay the fee

Q8. As per the chart, the resource completing activity E is not performing very well. After much argument, the functional manager agrees to assign a different resource to activity E, but this will increase activity E’s duration to seven months. What is the effect of this change?

1. None, because activity E was not on the critical path
2. The project will be delayed because activity E is on the critical path
3. The project will be delayed because activity E has float of five
4. None, because activity E has float of four.

Q9. A project manager is trying to coordinate all the activities on the project and has determined the following: Activity A can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1 week. Activity B can start after activity A is completed and has an estimated duration of 4 weeks. Activity C can start after activity B is completed and has an estimated duration of 5 weeks. Activity D can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 8 weeks. Both activities C and D must be completed before the end of the project. If there is an approved change to activity D and it now takes 10 weeks, what is the duration of the critical path?

1. 10 weeks
2. 11 weeks
3. 14 weeks
4. 8 weeks 70

Q10. You and your management are inspecting project deliverables with the client and are determining if this is as per the stated requirements or not. Which of the following statement is true about the above process?

1. You are in the verify scope process.
2. You are in the validate scope process.
3. You are in the executing process group.
4. You are doing the quality control process.