Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Michael and John are having some conflicts and they come to you. Since you are too busy and the problem is complex, you go with the midway of both parties and partially satisfy both of them. What conflict resolution technique are you using here?

1. Accommodate
2. Withdraw
3. Collaborate
4. Compromise

Q3. You are an experienced project manager and have managed several data center migration projects. You are currently conducting training on the databases, spreadsheets, and management plans you will use during the lifecycle of the project. This training is a tool and technique in what process?

1. Manage Team
2. Acquire Resources
3. Develop Team
4. Control Quality

Q4. A project involved team members situated in Arizona, Nebraska, New York, and Ireland. Which of the following activities becomes crucial in such a team environment?

1. Team-building
2. Status reporting
3. Conflict resolution
4. Communication planning

Q5. You are working on a project which is under budget and ahead of schedule. The project is 85% complete, and the client comes and asks you to terminate the project because he fears a possible regulation can impact his project. You review the project parameters and find that you can complete the project before the proposed legislation comes into existence; moreover, you won’t need any extra funding. What will your next steps be?

1. Tell the client about your findings and ask him to reconsider his decision
2. Initiate the close project process
3. Immediately release your team members
4. Convince your management to discuss the issue with the client

Q6. How is the three-point estimating related to risk?

1. It tells you how much assumptions testing is required.
2. It indicates whether the risk estimate is acceptable.
3. It indicates the estimate’s degree of uncertainty
4. It indicates the risk variance

Q7. The customer starts to have cash flow problems, because other projects are being completed early. The customer notifies the project manager that there will be limits on when funds will be available for the project. The project CPI is currently 1.02, and the estimate to complete is US $927,000. If the project manager performs funding limit reconciliation, there will also MOST likely be a change to the:

1. Resource assigned.
2. Number of change requests
3. Cost baseline
4. Project schedule 21

Q8. Which of these is not a component of the scope baseline that is contained in the project management plan?

1. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
2. Requirements documentation
3. WBS Dictionary
4. Project Scope Statement

Q9. Team members are arguing about the location of specification limits on a control chart. The discussion is becoming heated when the project manager walks in and says: “… It seems that the real problem here is that we do not have enough information about the customer’s specifications. Let’s …”. This is an example of:

1. Asserting the project manager’s authority.
2. Problem solving.
3. Compromising.
4. Withdrawal.

Q10. During a team meeting, the team adds a specific area of extra work to the project because they have determined if would benefit the customer. What is wrong in this situation?

1. The team is gold plating
2. These efforts shouldn’t be done in meetings
3. Nothing. This is how to meet or exceed customer expectations.
4. Nothing. The project manager is in control of the situation.