Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Julia is currently assessing her project stakeholders’ engagement levels. During this exercise, she finds she also needs to document an escalation process, which will come in handy in the future. Where does she need to document the project’s escalation process?

1. Communications management plan
2. Stakeholder engagement plan
3. Either the stakeholder engagement plan or the communications management plan
4. Both the stakeholder engagement plan and the communications management plan

Q3. During construction of a new manufacturing facility in another country, one of your team members complains to you that the wage paid to the workers is below the acceptable wage in your home country. In this situation it is BEST to:

1. Pay the workers at the new facility the same wage as your country.
2. Pay the workers at the new facility a little less than the acceptable wage in your country
3. Pay the workers an appropriate wage for the country within which they work
4. Ignore the issue as you have not heard the workers complain

Q4. Which of the following tools and techniques is useful to process work performance data to identify sources of project defects during the Control Quality process?

1. Data analysis
2. Salience model
3. Schedule model
4. Communication model

Q5. There have been numerous changes on your project. All approved changes are BEST reflected in the:

1. Performance measurement variance
2. Validate Scope process
3. Change control procedures
4. Project management plan

Q6. You are working in Lab-X, a laboratory experimental project to research the effect of a virus on human male bodies. This project needs local government approval for carrying out tests on living people. However, the local authorities informed you were informed it would take at least three weeks to obtain authorization for such approval because of the documents involved in the review and approval process. You consider this a risk to the project and would like to send the paperwork in advance to reduce the approval time to one week. Which of the following describes the risk response techniques being employed in this scenario?

1. Risk mitigation
2. Risk transfer
3. Risk accept
4. Risk avoid

Q7. The project you are working on has an increase in cost effectiveness, increased productivity, and increased morale. What might be the reason for these changes?

1. Project objectives are in line with those of the performing organization
2. Increased quality
3. Management’s focus on cost containment
4. Rewards presented for individual efforts

Q8. During project planning in a matrix organization, the project manager determines that additional human resources are needed. From whom would he request these resources?

1. The project manager
2. The functional manager
3. The team
4. The project sponsor.

Q9. The sponsor has informed you that the resources for your project will be cut. The sponsor wants to know how long the project will take if only nine resources each month are committed to your project. What is this activity called?

1. Crashing
2. Floating
3. Leveling
4. Fast tracking

Q10. As project manager, you scheduled a status update meeting. During the meeting, a problem developed, and the group discussed it. The day after the meeting, Kevin approached you and expressed his concern that the problem was not truly resolved. After thinking about it, he felt that his concerns were still valid and should be addressed. What conflict resolution method was likely used at the status meeting?

1. Smoothing
2. Forcing
3. Withdrawal
4. Collaboration