Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. While managing a project, you have included the product acceptance criteria in the Quality Management Plan. While reviewing your plan, a senior manager asks you to reconsider this. You then realize that what you did is incorrect. Where should you place the product acceptance criteria?

1. Project Charter
2. Change control process
3. Project Scope Statement
4. Scope Verification Plan

Q3. Your boss has asked you for a cost baseline for the project, but it is early in the project management process and there is very little project information. In this circumstance, what is the BEST way to estimate this project?

1. Extrapolate from historical data
2. Ask the team for estimates of each activity
3. Provide a rough order of magnitude estimate
4. Calculate an estimate using the schedule model

Q4. There have been numerous changes on your project. All approved changes are BEST reflected in the:

1. Performance measurement variance
2. Validate Scope process
3. Change control procedures
4. Project management plan

Q5. The code development phase of a software project is nearly complete when the first code review is conducted. During the review, it s discovered that the application is missing functionality required to complete a key business process. However, the product scope never specified this functionality. What should the project manager do?

1. Reject the functionality as out of the project’s scope.
2. Agree to include the functionality in the current release
3. Agree to include the functionality in the next release.
4. Assess the impact on the project of including the functionality, and inform the sponsor.

Q6. You have always been asked by your management to cut your project estimate by 10 percent after you have given it to them. The scope of your new project is unclear and there are over 30 stakeholders. Management expects a 25 percent reduction in downtime as a result of the project. Which of the following is the BEST course of action in this situation?

1. Re-plan to achieve a 35 percent improvement in downtime
2. Reduce the estimates and note the changes in the risk response plan
3. Provide an accurate estimate of the actual costs and be able to support your estimate
4. Meet with the team to identify where you can find 10 percent savings.

Q7. You work as an engineer for a large engineering firm. During this past week, you have corresponded with your department supervisor about the horizontal stabilizers required for the wings on a new aircraft you are designing. Which communication dimension does this represent?

1. Horizontal
2. Formal
3. External
4. Upward

Q8. During the first half of the project, five team members left for other projects without being replaced, two team members went on vacation without informing you, and other team members expressed uncertainty about the work they were to complete. In this situation, it is BEST if you create a _______ for the second half of the project?

1. Work breakdown structure
2. Resource histogram
3. Staffing management plan
4. Responsibility assigned matrix.

Q9. A project manager is unsure of how much cost reserve to add to the project. There is a 50 percent chance of a weather delay causing an impact of US $100,000 and a 30 percent chance of a delay in the testing center with a US $20,000 impact. How much should the cost reserve be?

1. Less than $50,000
2. More than $120,000
3. Less than $20,000
4. More than $56,000

Q10. Which document defines how the project is to be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed?

1. Project scope
2. Project charter
3. Project management information system
4. Project management plan