Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of these is not an Enterprise environmental factor that can influence the Plan Resource Management process?

1. Organizational culture
2. Lessons learned on organizational structures
3. Marketplace conditions
4. Facilities and resources

Q3. A person is writing a document identifying the business need for a project and is including a description of the product is created by the project. She includes a list of stakeholders and pre-assigned resources. What is the role of this person on the project?

1. The project manager for the project or a company functional manager
2. A member of the project management team working at the direction of the project manager
3. The sponsor or the project manager
4. A manager or executive in the organization who is higher in the corporate hierarchy than the project manager.

Q4. You have met with your project sponsor who told you that you must complete the project by the end of the year, no exceptions. This should be included in the project scope statement as a:

1. Project Constraint
2. Project Boundary
3. Project Acceptance Criteria
4. Project Assumption

Q5. A project team has invited many of the project stakeholders to help them inspect quality on the project. Which of the following would NOT be an output of this activity?

1. Quality management plan
2. Quality control measurement
3. Recommend preventative actions
4. Validated deliverables

Q6. A project team is creating a project management plan when management asks them to identify project risks and provide some form of qualitative output as soon as possible. What should the project team provide?

1. Prioritized list of project risks
2. Risk triggers
3. Contingency reserves
4. Probability of achieving the time and cost objectives.

Q7. A software vendor on your project is hoping to be awarded a contract providing software for another project at your company. You are not the manager of the other project. However, the vendor offers you tickets to an upcoming professional sports event if you will "put in a good word" for his company to the vendor selection team of the other project. What do you do?

1. Fire the vendor
2. Decline the tickets but provide a recommendation for the vendor
3. Decline the tickets and notify appropriate management of the situation
4. Accept the tickets if company policy allows it and provide a recommendation for that vendor to the other project team

Q8. A project manager holds a meeting with his manager to explain that an activity has been delayed and the project manager will need additional resources to complete the project. The manager stops the meeting because the project manager has forgotten something. What might it have been?

1. To investigate undoing previous fast tracking activities
2. To try to compress the project schedule before asking for additional resources
3. To look for options with the customer before meeting with management
4. To eliminate float in the near-critical path

Q9. You are a project manager who was just assigned to take over a project from another project manager who is leaving the company. The previous project manager tells you that the project is on schedule, but only because he has constantly pushed the team to perform. What is the FIRST thing you should do as the new project manager?

1. Check risk status
2. Check cost performance
3. Determine a management strategy
4. Tell the team your objectives

Q10. A project manager is having problems with how two of the parts fit together on the new computer and the software uploads to the system. To plan a strategy for resolving these problems, it is BEST to determine if the problems are:

1. Nonconforming
2. Statistically independent
3. Impacting quality
4. Normally distributed.