Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The sponsor of your facilities upgrade project has left the company to join another organization. Several weeks later, you are reviewing the business case for the project, and you find that there are several inconsistencies between what is stated in the business case and what is described in the project scope. Further research shows that the business case as a whole is based on inaccurate information. What do you do?

1. Notify your project stakeholders immediately
2. Add this to the risk log
3. Update the requirements
4. Call the sponsor for clarification

Q3. Which of the following interpersonal skills is of prime importance during the collection and analysis of stakeholders’ needs and expectations?

1. Trust building
2. Conflict resolution
3. Overcoming resistance
4. Active listening

Q4. A project manager has been instructed to use the project charter to help identify risks on the project. This does not make sense to him. If you were asked to explain the reason the project charter is used in this way, what is the BEST explanation?

1. The project charter describes the business needs of the project
2. Reviewing what is said and not said in the project charter will help determine risks.
3. The project charter is issued by the sponsor
4. Reviewing the project charter will help determine a description of the product of the project.

Q5. Which of the following is not an input to the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. Approved Change Requests
2. Consultants
3. Project Management Plan
4. Project files from prior projects

Q6. Which of the following BEST describes the difference between the Control Scope process and Perform Integrated Change Control?

1. Control Scope focuses on making changes to the product scope and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on making changes to integration.
2. Control Scope focuses on controlling the scope of the project and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on determining the impact of a change of scope on time, cost, quality, risk, resources, and customer satisfaction
3. Control Scope focuses on controlling the scope of the project and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on making changes to integration
4. Control Scope focuses on making changes to the product scope and Perform Integrated Change Control focuses on determining the impact of a change to scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and customer satisfaction.

Q7. A particular stakeholder has a reputation for making many changes on projects. What is the BEST approach a project manager can take at the beginning of the project to manage this situation?

1. Say “No” to the stakeholder a few times to dissuade him from submitting more changes.
2. Get the stakeholder involved in the project as early as possible.
3. Talk to the stakeholder’s boss to find ways to direct the stakeholder’s activities to another project.
4. Ask that the stakeholder not be included in the stakeholder listing.

Q8. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager identifies a risk that, no matter what the company does, a dire could occur in the building during the test. It would be BEST to _____ the risk.

1. Deflect.
2. Accept
3. Avoid
4. Change

Q9. Which of the following techniques incorporates a form of risk assessment?

1. Arrow diagramming method
2. Network diagramming
3. Critical path method
4. Three-point estimating

Q10. A project manager has just been assigned to a project that has been in progress for two months when a team member requests more time on an activity he is working on. The project manager discovers that the only impact to the project will be a delay on a noncritical path activity. The customer has emphasized the importance of completing the project on schedule. What should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Submit the information to the change control board, determine if this event might impact the team member’s future work, inform the team member of the board’s decision
2. Ask the team member why they need more time, begin integrated change control, adjust the project schedule as needed
3. Look for impacts to quality, cut unneeded scope from the project, ask for more resources
4. See if any stakeholders object to the change, calculate the exact impact on the project, look at removing this resource from the project