Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager knows that she can delay the start of certain activities within the project schedule to coincide with the mitigation of a known risk. She knows exactly the work and duration needed, should the risk event occur. She is confident that the finish date will not be impacted by the time delay. Which of the following aspects of schedule development has the project manager used in this situation?

1. She has relied on her certainty that, for risk planning purposes, assumptions are considered to be true, real or certain.
2. GERT probability factors provide her with certainty that there will be activities in the current schedule that will not be performed at all.
3. Her float calculations have revealed those activities that allow sufficient time for the inserted activities.
4. The project manager’s risk management plan was to build in buffer time to all the project activities during schedule development in order to cover any risk event occurrence

Q3. The RACI chart is an example of a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM). The letters R and C in “RACI” stand for:

1. Responsible and consult
2. Resource and consultant
3. Responsible and categorize
4. Resource and consult

Q4. Your project team members have just started to work together and are now adjusting their work habits and behaviors to support each other. Which stage of the Tuckman ladder has your team just entered?

1. Norming
2. Performing
3. Forming
4. Storming

Q5. In projects following adaptive lifecycles, what are the two critical components of iterative scheduling with a product backlog?

1. User epics and time-bound accepted deliverables
2. User stories and time-boxed periods of work
3. Work packages and critical path
4. Scope management plan and a detailed WBS

Q6. Which of the following are the tools and techniques used in both the Plan Communications Management and Manage Communications processes?

1. Expert judgment
2. Project reporting
3. Communication requirements analysis
4. Communication methods

Q7. Allocating ownership of a risk to a third party who is best able to capture the opportunity is an example of ________ the risk.

1. Sharing
2. Enhancing
3. Exploiting
4. Accepting

Q8. Project information has been distributed according to the communications management plan. Some project deliverables have been changed in accordance with the project management plan. One stakeholder expressed surprise to the project manager upon hearing of a previously published change to a project deliverable. All stakeholders received the communication containing notification of the change. What should the project manager do?

1. Determine why the stakeholder did not receive the information and let him know when it was published.
2. Ask the functional manager why the stakeholder did not understand his responsibility.
3. Review the communications management plan and make revisions if necessary.
4. Address the situation in the next steering committee meeting so others do not miss published changes.

Q9. Based on the chart, what is the duration of the critical path?

1. 19
2. 13
3. 15
4. 14

Q10. You have just joined a new organization as a project manager. You have heard a number of rumors about the procurement manager having possible underhanded dealings with suppliers. However, you have no proof these rumors are true. Your project requires a large number of dump trucks. Company policy mandates that all purchases go through the procurement department rather than the department employees. The value of the dump truck purchase is US$395,000, and the contract went to a supplier your company regularly uses. Shortly after taking delivery of the dump trucks, you learn the procurement manager is driving a new car. What should you do?

1. Ask the procurement manager about the purchase of her new car
2. Report this to the appropriate management
3. Talk to the supplier to find out if there was a bribe involved in the project
4. Do nothing