Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are in the identifying risks process. You are meeting with your team members and stated that the project may be delayed because of the late delivery of certain consumables for your project. Now you ask the team members to find ways in which this problem can occur. What technique are you using here?

1. Assumption and constraint analysis
2. Brainstorming
3. Sensitivity analysis
4. Root cause analysis

Q3. You are in the process of defining policies, procedures, and guidance to help you manage the project costs. In which process you are working?

1. Determine budget
2. Develop schedule
3. Control costs
4. Plan cost management

Q4. There are two activities on your schedule: 1) Install server in lab, and 2) Move server into the data center. However, the second task cannot start until the server has run in the lab for five days without failure. This is an example of what?

1. Fast Track
2. Lead
3. Crashing
4. Lag

Q5. In planning your project, which would generally have the highest priority; quality, cost, or schedule?

1. Cost is most important, quality next, and then schedule
2. Quality is more important than cost or schedule
3. Schedule is most important, quality next, and then cost
4. It should be decided for each project.

Q6. A team member assigned to the project needs two days of training to satisfactorily complete certain activities. No one else with the necessary skills is available to the project team. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Add two days to the schedule and inform management of the delay
2. Ask management for additional personnel because you cannot afford the extra schedule time.
3. Offer a bonus to the team member if he/she gets the training on his/her own time.
4. Include training in the project management plan.

Q7. All of the following are inputs to the Validate Scope process EXCEPT:

1. Work breakdown structure
2. Project scope statement
3. WBS dictionary
4. Inspection

Q8. You are a project manager for the construction of a major new manufacturing plant that has never been done before. The project cost is estimated at US $30,000,000 and will make use of three sellers. Once begun, the project cannot be cancelled, as there will be a large expenditure on plant and equipment. As the project manager, it would be MOST important to carefully:

1. Review all cost proposals from the sellers.
2. Examine the budget reserves.
3. Complete the project charter.
4. Perform an identification of risks.

Q9. Earned value measurement is an example of:

1. Performance reporting
2. Planning control
3. Ishikawa diagrams
4. Integrating the project components into a whole.

Q10. A government agency has awarded your company a massive software project. This project has an early completion incentive, and your company has a policy of paying a bonus to the project manager if such an incentive is awarded. However, this particular government agency has a reputation for being extremely difficult to work with; there is a great deal of bureaucracy within this agency, and stonewalling and hostility toward contractors are common. The project manager will need to have excellent political skills to lead this project successfully. You have been asked to lead the project because of your expertise with this type of project. However, you have never worked within such a highly charged and political environment. What should you do?

1. Decline the project citing lack of experience.
2. Accept the project but disclose your lack of experience in this type of environment.
3. Accept the project and request that a corporate liaison be assigned to your project.
4. Accept the project.