IRGST

Home Question Bank Online Exams Job Interview Q&A Job Description How To Quotes and Sayings Articles Jobs In Mirrors Personality Types About Contact Us Sign in/up

Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Select Knowledge area

Question:

You are building a dam for a state government. Your organization is considered a specialist in dam design and overall management of construction activities. However, your organization lacks resources to execute the earth-works involved. You have subcontracted all the project’s earth-works to a local subcontractor. The quality of the subcontractor’s work is acceptable, but the subcontractor is not conforming to your organization’s health and safety standards. You escalated this to the subcontractor’s project manager, but he turned down your request. The subcontractor’s project manager is of the view that the request is out of the contract’s scope and none of the contract provisions require him to conform to your organization’s standards. You are agitated since you believe health and safety standards are globally accepted, and the contract does not have to explicitly state them. Further, according to the state law, you cannot terminate the contract since the subcontractor has not vio
  1. Go for judicial arbitration as stated in the contact’s ADR provisions
  2. Terminate the contract immediately since you will not compromise health and safety standards
  3. Withhold the subcontractor’s payments to force compliance
  4. Negotiate a contact amendment with the subcontractor requiring compliance to the standards






Q2. It is extremely important for a project manager to determine and map key stakeholder engagement levels early in the project. Which of the following statements support this claim:

  1. Stakeholder engagement levels change during the lifecycle of the project
  2. Stakeholder engagement throughout the lifecycle of the project is critical to project success
  3. Leading stakeholders assume a supportive role during project execution
  4. Development of the stakeholder assessment matrix is a mandatory PMBOK requirement
Correct Answer

Q3. What term defines the work needed to deliver a product, service, or result?

  1. Product scope
  2. Scope creep
  3. Scope verification
  4. Project scope
Correct Answer

Q4. You have recently finished an advanced project management training course your project budget paid for. Because the budget for your project is not large enough to train any other resources on the project, your manager has asked you to make copies of the course materials and distribute them to the rest of the staff. What do you do?

  1. Make the copies
  2. Provide a single copy of the materials
  3. Scan the materials and place them on the corporate intranet for easy access
  4. Refuse the request
Correct Answer

Q5. Which of these tools and techniques is common to all seven Project Integration Management processes?

  1. Meetings
  2. Data analysis
  3. Data gathering
  4. Expert Judgment
Correct Answer

Q6. You were recently appointed as a project manager in an organization. You are well recognized in the organization because of your connection with management, and team members obey you because of this relationship. What kind of power do you possess here?

  1. Relational power
  2. Punishment power
  3. Expert power
  4. Reward power
Correct Answer

Q7. Two months into a design project, the customer requested a modification to the product. The change was made without notifying the project manager. During the final testing phase, results were different then what was planned for. This scenario is BEST thought of as an example of which of the following?

  1. Poor scope control
  2. Poor adherence to the communications management plan
  3. Poor development of the quality management plan
  4. Poor definition of the test plan
Correct Answer

Q8. People associated with the organization in which you are working with have been complaining about the lack of information regarding upcoming changes and want to get information now. Some of them feel what they have heard about your project means they will lose their job or be forced to find a different position with the company. Luckily for you, the SPI is at 1.08 and the CPI is at .99, so you feel confident of success. What is the BEST way to deal with this situation?

  1. Update the organizational process assets and reassess the risks of this type of situation occurring again.
  2. Use face-to-face meetings to gather further information about the issues and use the issue log to tract the issues to completion.
  3. Use smoothing to let the people know they are not in act going to lose their jobs, and fight for better feedback in the future.
  4. Have the people submit a change request so their concerns may be addressed and have the change control board review the change for merit.
Correct Answer

Q9. Which of the following is accurate regarding the Estimate Activity Resources process?

  1. It produces project resource calendars as the output.
  2. It determines dependencies that may require a lead or lag to define the relationship.
  3. This process is coordinated independent of the Estimate Cost process.
  4. It involves determining what and how many resources to use.
Correct Answer

Q10. Changes in projects are inevitable. Therefore, project managers must develop or use a system to manage and control changes. There are four types of changes that need to be controlled in a project: Project changes, deliverable changes, process changes, and baseline changes. The impact of each of these changes must be evaluated, and approved or rejected changes must be communicated to all stakeholders, as and when required. Which of the following helps control these changes?

  1. Configuration control and Control chart
  2. Configuration control and Change control
  3. Control chart and Cost control
  4. Change control and Control chart
Correct Answer








User Agreement| |Privacy Policy