Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. To define the logical relationship among dependencies accurately, a project manager is determining which ones require a lead or a lag. Which of the following correctly describes leads or lags?

1. A lead allows a successor activity to be delayed.
2. A lag directs a delay in the predecessor activity.
3. A lag allows acceleration of the successor activity.
4. A lead allows an acceleration of the successor activity.

Q3. The project manager is involved in the Develop Schedule process for the project. He has analyzed the project, compressed the schedule and completed a Monte Carlo analysis. Which of the following is an output of Develop Schedule?

1. Activity duration estimates
2. Change requests
3. Resource requirement updates
4. Work breakdown structure

Q4. A project manager is in the middle of the executing process of a very large construction project when he discovers that the time needed to complete the project is longer than the time available. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Cut product scope
2. Meet with the management and tell them that the required date cannot be met
3. Work overtime
4. Determine options for schedule compression and present management with his recommended option.

Q5. Which of the following stakeholder groups, especially if the size of the group is large, is ideal for the success of the project?

1. Supportive stakeholders
2. Leading stakeholders
3. Neutral stakeholders
4. Unaware stakeholders

Q6. You have just completed a solid waste management project in an underdeveloped country. The contractor you are working for has a strict policy of abiding by local laws and rules although the local resources working on the project have a much more lax approach to following laws and policies. Now at the end of the project, you are handing over the operational equipment to the local operators and disposing of the leftover inventory and other materials that were used during the project. More than 50 percent of the toxic materials used during the project remains in your inventory. There is no law that would prohibit you from disposing of either the type or quantity of remaining materials in the local sewage system. What should you do?

1. Give the material to local resources to dispose of by selling it to a recycling facility
2. Do not dispose of the materials improperly
3. Dispose of the material in the local sewage system; there is no law applicable here
4. Abandon the materials in the project facility you are handing over to the local operators

Q7. A new software development project is in progress and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department. They want to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Completed checklists
2. A quality control plan
3. Results of quality control measurements
4. Rework.

Q8. Identifying ways to eliminate the causes of unsatisfactory performance would MOST likely lead to:

1. Quality audits
2. Work performance information
3. Recommend corrective actions
4. Updates to the performance measurement baseline.

Q9. All of the following are common results of risk management EXCEPT:

1. Contract terms and conditions are created
2. The project management plan is changed
3. The communications management plan is changed
4. The project charter is changed.

Q10. You are setting up your project team, and you are looking at a chart that shows that Systems Development will perform programming, Infrastructure Systems will implement the infrastructure, and the Call Center will handle the customer communication. This is an example of what type of chart?

1. RACI
2. Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
3. Work Breakdown Structure
4. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)