Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. All of the following are outputs of the Control Scope process EXCEPT:

1. Change requests
2. Updated organizational process assets.
3. Updates to the project management plan
4. Accepted deliverables.

Q3. A project manager is quantifying risk for her project. Several of her experts are offsite, but wish to be included. How can this be done?

1. Use Monte Carlo analysis using the Internet as a tool
2. Apply the critical path method
3. Determine options for recommended corrective action
4. Apply the Delphi technique.

Q4. An e-mail is forwarded to you highlighting conflict between two team members. Which conflict resolution technique would you use?

1. Forcing
2. Compromising
3. Avoiding
4. Confronting

Q5. When possible, the detailed project schedule _________ throughout the project to adjust for knowledge gained, increased understanding of the risk, and value-added activities.

1. Should stand firm
2. Should remain flexible
3. Must be avoided
4. Must be inflated

Q6. Your company is having problems delivering the finished product from the factory to the warehouses, which are located in different geographical areas. To smooth out the process, you have identified all critical stages for this procedure. What will be your next step?

1. You will use a Tornado diagram
2. You will use an Ishikawa diagram
3. You will use a Scatter diagram
4. You will use a Pareto analysis

Q7. Adam has just taken over a construction project. The project is currently in the planning phase of the project lifecycle. Adam’s next deliverable is to produce an effective stakeholder engagement strategy. Which of the following is the most important component of an effective stakeholder engagement plan?

1. Management style
2. Risk tolerance
3. Construction know-how
4. Communications

Q8. Which of these tools and techniques is common to all seven Project Integration Management processes?

1. Meetings
2. Data analysis
3. Data gathering
4. Expert Judgment

Q9. A project manager analyzed a US $200,000 project that involves 30 team members and has three customers. Why is there a need for an analysis of secondary risks on this project?

1. It provides a vehicle for efficient stakeholder involvement.
2. It provides a way to effectively decrease the amount of contracting on the project.
3. It helps create a prioritized list of risks.
4. It helps determine which new risks have been created as a result of the risk response strategies chosen.

Q10. A fire has just destroyed a warehouse that was being constructed as part of a large project you are managing. What would have been the easiest way to ensure that this force majeure would not significantly impact the cost of the project?

1. Reduce the impact of such risk by transference
2. Reduce the probability that the event will take place
3. Accept the risk
4. Eliminate the threat by not building the warehouse.