Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are constructing a school building and due to some unforeseen incidents, your project is delayed. To bring the project on schedule, you are thinking about running several activities in parallel which were earlier planned to run sequentially. So, you started reviewing activities such as excavation of foundation, building walls, carpentry work, electrical work, and plumbing work, etc. After the review, you decide to run the carpentry, electrical, and plumbing works together. Excavating the foundation for the construction of a wall is an example of which of the following?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Internal dependency

Q3. Jane is worried about her project because many of her tasks are moving slowly, and two critical tasks may slip. She conducts a thorough resource analysis and finds out that there are five people who will be free next week. She would like to assign those people to finish her tasks early and prevent the project completion date from slipping. This is an example of:

1. Management reserves
2. Resource Leveling
3. Crashing
4. Fast tracking

Q4. The degree to which a particular stakeholder may be able to positively or negatively affect a project is his or her:

1. Level of engagement.
2. Level of interest.
3. Level of commitment.
4. Level of influence.

Q5. You are working for a large project organization with several project managers working on 15 projects. All project managers submit their status reports at month’s end. One of your fellow project managers, Jane, has reported an error in the past two months. From discussions with one of her project’s team members who is also working on one of your projects, you realize Jane is deliberately misreporting the project’s status to inflate her performance for the annual performance appraisal next month. The monthend review meeting is in two days, and you are preparing your own presentation for it. What should you say about her status report?

1. Investigate and verify the blame before reporting the incorrect status to the appropriate management.
2. Since there is no direct relationship between your project and hers, there is no need to intervene in this issue.
3. Prepare a brief of what you have discussed with her team member and report the inconsistency in the meeting
4. Send an email to her boss asking to check the contents of her report

Q6. Resource requirements are determined:

1. Before the project schedule and after the network diagram
2. After the project schedule and project scope statement
3. After the project schedule and WBS
4. Before the project scope statement and the network diagram 43

Q7. A project charter that formally authorized a project was created. The project charter documented the initial requirements to satisfy stakeholders' needs and expectations. How often should the project charter be revised?

1. At the beginning, middle, and end of a project
2. Once a month
3. Project charter is usually not updated during the course of the project.
4. As required by the PMO

Q8. You are the project manager of a large IT project. A manager from a company contracted to work on the project offers you free tickets to a local sporting event. The tickets are expensive, but your organization has no formal policy regarding gifts. What is the best way to handle the offer?

1. Refuse the tickets and report the offer to your employer
2. Accept the tickets but notify your employer
3. Politely refuse the tickets
4. Accept the tickets since there is no policy

Q9. Which parts of the risk management process do not generally use organizational process assets as an input?

1. Identify Risks and Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
2. Perform Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis and Plan Risk Responses
4. Plan Risk Responses and Control Risks

Q10. All of the following statements about workarounds are correct EXCEPT:

1. They are unplanned responses to risks
2. They are responses only to risk that were identified in project planning
3. They make use of the project management plan
4. They may result in a project change request.