Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project manager has completed the Plan Risk Responses process, and has identified risk management strategies with the team. The team’s manager has asked for the amount of risk reserves needed for the project. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. Create the risk reserves
2. Prioritize the list of risks
3. Create the overall risk rating for the project
4. Determine secondary risks.

Q3. A ______ is a collection of projects or programs grouped together for strategic business needs.

1. Portfolio
2. Management System
3. Enterprise
4. Array

Q4. You have a team of engineers working on your project. Two of the engineers have frequent disagreements. You ask them to resolve their differences through a discussion. However, that does not yield any results. Subsequently, you intervene, and based on your analysis of the situation, you suggest some changes in the way they work with each other. This still does not yield results, and you find that the project schedule is beginning to suffer. What is your next course of action?

1. Take disciplinary action, if required, since the needs of the project are not being met.
2. Don't do anything. Differences of opinion among the team members are a healthy situation.
3. Speak to the two team members and ask them to resolve their conflict amicably.
4. Ensure that they work in different shifts so that they don't clash with each other.

Q5. Payment for any decision made or encouraged by a foreign official with respect to whether a company will be awarded business is BEST described as:

1. A common practice
2. A sunk cost
3. A bribe
4. A progress fee

Q6. You are taking over a project during the planning process group and discover that six individuals have signed the project charter. Which of the following should MOST concern you?

1. Who will be a member of the change control board
2. Spending more time on configuration management
3. Getting a single project sponsor
4. Determining the reporting structure

Q7. A team member notifies the project manager after the fact that certain project deliverables have been attained without performing all the associated work packages in the WBS. What should the project manager do FIRST?

1. Immediately communicate the changes to all team members and stakeholders and have team members’ performance reviewed.
2. Review work packages and deliverables to determine impact, if any. Recommend changes to the project to the project management plan.
3. Change the project performance measurement baselines and the WBS.
4. Change the reporting process to get information sooner, then review the communications management plan to see if it is still appropriate to the needs of the project.

Q8. What conflict resolution technique is a project manager using when he says, “I cannot deal with this issue now!”

1. Problem solving
2. Forcing
3. Withdrawal
4. Compromising.

Q9. You are part of a team that has been told by your management that they require you to take and pass the PMP exam by the end of the year. After studying, you are the first of the group to take the actual exam. When you return to work to tell everyone you passed, you are bombarded with questions. Management tells you that since everyone else is so worried about the exam, they want you to write out all the questions you can remember from the exam and provide copies to the rest of the team. In this situation, you could do all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Do your best to provide only what you remember exactly
2. Offer to assist the others by motivating them
3. Explain that providing questions from the actual exam is specifically prohibited
4. Explain that you may have passed the exam, but you are not an expert. The team should follow the expert advice that they were given on how to study and pass the exam.

Q10. What might historical records from previous projects used as an input to the Define Activities process include?

1. Activities
2. Resources
3. Costs
4. Schedule