Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your project sponsor has asked you to present your project’s high-level risk register to him in the next project update meeting. To create your high-level risk register, which of the following processes must be performed?

1. Plan Risk Management
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Identify Risks
4. Monitor Risks

Q3. You have just joined the project management office after five years of working on projects. One of the things you want to introduce to your company is the need to create and utilize WBSs. Some of the project managers are angry that you are asking them to do “extra work.” Which of the following would be the BEST thing you could tell the project managers to convince them to use WBSs?

1. Tell them it will prevent work from slipping through the cracks.
2. Tell them that it is not needed.
3. Tell them it is required only if the project involves contracts.
4. Tell them it is the only way to identify risks.

Q4. Your boss tells you that one of your resources is needed on another project. All the activities in the chart are occurring at the same time. Assuming that all the resources listed have the necessary skills to work on the other project, who would you pick to move to the other project?

1. The resource working on Activity D
2. The resource working on Activity C
3. The resource working on Activity H
4. The resource working on Activity B

Q5. A control chart shows that the last eight pipes produced were all less than average weight. You need to inform management that there is a problem because the situation violates the:

1. Rule of seven
2. Rule of eight
3. 50/50 rule
4. 3 sigma rule.

Q6. Which of the following is NOT a valid WBS creation approach:

1. Parametric approach
2. Top-down approach
3. Use of organizational guidelines
4. Use of WBS templates

Q7. Risks will be identified during which risk management process(es)?

1. Identify Risks.
2. Identify Risks and Control Risks
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Identify Risks
4. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis and Control Risks 07

Q8. A project manager wishes to illustrate the connections between the work that needs to be done and the project team members. According to the PMBOK, the resulting document is a:

1. Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
2. Resource Planning Chart (RPC)
3. Task Assignment Model (TAM)
4. Resource Assignment Chart (RAC)

Q9. What is the MOST correct statement about conflict?

1. The primary source of conflict is personality
2. Conflict can be beneficial.
3. Conflict is best resolved by smoothing
4. The best way to prevent conflict in the procurement process is to make sure the project manager is not involved with negotiations.

Q10. A customer has given you a procurement of work for a complex, eightmonth project that has a few unknowns. The customer has asked you to just “get it done” and only wants to see you at the end of eight months when you deliver the finished project. Under these circumstances, which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Complete the project as requested, but verify its scope with the customer occasionally throughout.
2. Complete the project within eight months without contacting the customer during this time.
3. Ask management to check in with the customer occasionally.
4. Complete the project, but document that the customer did not want contact.