Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have four projects from which to choose one. Project A is being done over a six year period and has a net value (NPV) of US $70,000. Project B is being done over a three year period and has an NPV of US $30,000. Project C is being done over a five year period and has an NPV of US $40,000. Project D is being done over a one year period and has an NPV of US $60,000. Which project would you choose?

1. Project A
2. Project B
3. Project C
4. Project D

Q3. After analyzing the status of your project, you determine that the project is two weeks behind schedule. You want to recover the original schedule if possible, and there is plenty of remaining in the budget for the current plan. What is the BEST option?

1. Crash the schedule
2. Inform the team that overtime will be required for a short time to recover the schedule
3. Reduce the project scope with a change request
4. Compress the testing and quality management portion of the project 54

Q4. You need to shorten the project by exactly four months, but spend no more than US $22,000 to do it. Based on the information in the chart, you would include activity A as part of the solution. However, during planning, the resource completing activity A strongly argued for a particular method of completing the scope in order to agree to be on the team. His scope was accepted because his expertise was needed on the project. The BEST way to crash this project would be to crash which activity(s)?

1. Activities A and H
2. Activity D
3. Activities F and H
4. Activity C

Q5. You are planning resources for your project and the team charter has been established. This charter provides a clear guideline of the acceptable behavior of team members. Which of the following is not included?

1. Communication guidelines
2. Decision making criteria
3. Conflict resolution process
4. Motivational processes

Q6. Your project team is spending so much time reviewing potential changes to a project that you do not have time to complete project work. Which of the following is the LEAST likely reason for this problem?

1. No change control board
2. Not enough of an effort to identify the project stakeholders
3. A poor communications management plan
4. An unclear project charter 0

Q7. You call your team member and give some instructions. She receives your message and gives her feedback. What is the role of the team member in this conversion?

1. Sender
2. Receiver
3. Medium
4. None of the above

Q8. You are setting up your project team, and you are looking at a chart that shows that Systems Development will perform programming, Infrastructure Systems will implement the infrastructure, and the Call Center will handle the customer communication. This is an example of what type of chart?

1. RACI
2. Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
3. Work Breakdown Structure
4. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)

Q9. Which of the following processes are usually not performed continuously, but rather, performed periodically as needed:

1. Acquire Resources
2. Monitor Risks
3. Monitor Communications
4. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

Q10. A project manager is trying to budget time for the various processes in the Project Schedule Management Knowledge Area. As project activities are performed, in which of these processes will the majority of effort occur?

1. Control Schedule
2. Estimate Activity Durations
3. Define Activities
4. Develop Schedule