IRGST

Home Question Bank Online Exams Job Interview Q&A Job Description How To Quotes and Sayings Articles Jobs Personality Tests Personality Types About Contact Us Sign in/up

Project Management Question Bank
for Exam preparation

Select Knowledge area

Question:

You are managing a project where your team is physically located with client personnel at a remote location. There is a high level of interaction between your team and client personnel, and client satisfaction is considered very important. Since the client is expressing a very high level of satisfaction with the project’s progress, your management has indicated no concerns about the project. However, you are behind schedule and over budget. In addition, morale among team members is low, and several team members have talked about quitting. Team members complain regularly about priority adjustments and alteration of activities. The weekly reports you receive about activities completed are often difficult to relate to the WBS and the project management plan. What action should you take to MOST effectively address these problems?
  1. You should enforce scope control.
  2. You should identify ways to make team members’ work more satisfying using the most applicable motivational theory.
  3. You should incur the extra expenses necessary to be on-site to more closely monitor the activities of the project team.
  4. You should create a reward and punishment system to ensure that project team members complete activities within the timeframes outlined in the project management plan.






Q2. As a project manager, you are presented with the following information on the paycheck period for several possible projects. Which project is your BEST choice?

  1. Project A with a payback period of 6 months
  2. Project B with a payback period of 9 months
  3. Project C with a payback period of 12 months
  4. Project D with a payback period of 18 months
Correct Answer

Q3. While managing a project, you have included the product acceptance criteria in the Quality Management Plan. While reviewing your plan, a senior manager asks you to reconsider this. You then realize that what you did is incorrect. Where should you place the product acceptance criteria?

  1. Project Charter
  2. Change control process
  3. Project Scope Statement
  4. Scope Verification Plan
Correct Answer

Q4. A ______ is a collection of projects or programs grouped together for strategic business needs.

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

Q5. During risk planning, a team member comes to you and informs you about a risk. This risk was not important; therefore, you tell him to just note down the risk and you will manage this risk if it occurs. What risk response strategy you are using here?

  1. Mitigate
  2. Accept
  3. Avoid
  4. Exploit
Correct Answer

Q6. Which of the following is NOT a factor in the project manager’s acquiring the best resources for the project?

  1. Schedule model
  2. Activity attributes
  3. Quantified resource requirements by activity.
  4. Directive of the project manager.
Correct Answer

Q7. You are managing two projects. The first project is to design and construct a school building, and the second project is to construct an office building for your company's employees. What is your current role?

  1. Project manager
  2. Program manager
  3. Portfolio manager
  4. None of the above
Correct Answer

Q8. One of the risks your team has discovered is a high probability that the equipment you are developing will not perform under the pressure it needs to in the workplace. In order to handle this risk, you have chosen to prototype the equipment. This is an example of risk:

  1. Mitigation.
  2. Avoidance
  3. Transference.
  4. Acceptance.
Correct Answer

Q9. The calculated duration of a project of 28.166. The standard deviation is 5.5. What technique would you use to compute the probability of completing a project on a specific day?

  1. Reserve analysis
  2. Monte Carlo analysis
  3. Probability analysis
  4. Variance analysis 44
Correct Answer

Q10. You are working on a project with all the team members located in geographically different areas, and all communication is by email and chat. It is sometimes hard to infer the true meaning of these messages because you cannot see facial expressions or hear tones of voice. This is an example of:

  1. Encoding
  2. Medium
  3. Decoding
  4. Noise
Correct Answer








User Agreement| |Privacy Policy