Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Rina and Gimo are the senior developers in a website development project. They have argued about the best web design product to use in developing the new website. As the project manager, you use a forcing approach to make a decision and reduce the conflict. What is the main characteristic of this approach?

1. Forcing to close the project
2. Highlighting areas of agreement rather than areas of disagreement
3. Asserting one‘s viewpoint at the expense of others
4. Withdrawing from the actual conflict

Q3. You are just about to present your project’s status to your company’s executive team. Just as you are leaving your desk for the meeting, one of your resources hands you an updated report on the progress of a critical deliverable. As you are walking to the conference room, you review the report and notice there is an error in it. What do you do?

1. Do not report on that part of the project
2. Disclose that you have just discovered there is an error in some of the information you intended to present and only present the information that you know is true
3. Cancel the meeting
4. Present the information as-it-is and revise it in the meeting minutes, which will be sent after two days

Q4. A manager notices that a project manager is holding a meeting with some of the team and some stakeholders to discuss the quality of the project. The project schedule has been compressed, and the CPI is 1.1. They have worked hard on the project, the team has been rewarded according to the reward system the project manager put in place, and there is a strong sense of team. The manager suggests that the project manager does not have enough time to hold meetings about quality when the schedule is so compressed. Which of the following BEST describes why the manager is wrong?

1. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, increased cost effectiveness, and decreased cost risk
2. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, decreased cost effectiveness, and increased cost risk.
3. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, increased cost effectiveness, and increased cost risk
4. Improved quality leads to increased productivity, decreased cost effectiveness and decreased cost risk.

Q5. You have accepted a position at a company where you will manage a group of projects in a coordinated way. This organization specifically hired you to start a project management office to help it develop a more structured approach to project management. What should you do FIRST?

1. Study the history of the organization
2. Get your job description changed to either project management or project management office work, but not both
3. Meet with key stakeholders to better understand the organization and projects.
4. Focus on communications with your boss and other senior managers

Q6. All of the following are part of the Close Project or Phase process EXCEPT:

1. Collection of records
2. Analysis of project success and effectiveness
3. Coordinating the operations and maintenance phase of the project
4. Archiving project information

Q7. In an activity-on-node diagram, the nodes represent:

1. Work packages
2. Activities
3. Dependencies
4. Discretionaries 40

Q8. All of the following are relevant for analyzing a cost overrun, EXCEPT:

1. Labor rates
2. Resources used
3. Communications management plan
4. Lag

Q9. The project manager is allocating overall cost estimates to individual activities to establish a baseline for measuring project performance. What process is this?

1. Cost Management
2. Estimate Costs
3. Determine Budget
4. Control Costs

Q10. During the Develop Schedule process, which of the following would BEST provide the basis for the MOST likely activity duration estimate?

1. Labour productivity rates published by a professional association
2. A consultant’s estimate of the overall labour man-hours required.
3. The initial estimate used to budget the project
4. The schedule for a similar project at the same facility completed two years earlier.