Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The scope baseline provides a detailed description of project deliverables and their components that provide a basis for the measurement of changes from that baseline. In which process is the scope baseline developed?

1. Plan scope management
2. Create WBS
3. Collect requirement
4. Define scope

Q3. Due to an error in the process, a defect is occurring in a deliverable. You identified the root cause of the problem and made some changes to the process to stop the defect from occurring. This process is known as:

1. Root cause analysis
2. Corrective action
3. Defect repair
4. Preventive action

Q4. All of the following are components of cost management EXCEPT:

1. Vendor bid analysis
2. Analogous estimating
3. Earned value management
4. Estimate Activity Resources

Q5. A ranking of risk and a list of risks for additional analysis are all outputs of which process of risk management?

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

Q6. You have been assigned to manage the development of an organization’s new website. The site will be highly complex and interactive, and neither your project team nor the client has much experience with this type of website development. The timeline is extremely aggressive. Any delay will be costly for both your firm and the client. You have a project sponsor and have achieved agreement and sign-off on both the project charter and the project management plan. Client personnel have been kept fully informed of the project's progress through status reports and regular meetings. The project is on schedule and within budget, and a final perfunctory review has been scheduled. Suddenly you hear that the entire effort may be cancelled because the product being developed is totally unacceptable. What is the MOST likely cause of this situation?

1. A key stakeholder was not adequately involved in the project.
2. The project charter and project management plan were not thoroughly explained to or adequately reviewed by the client.
3. Communications arrangements were inadequate and did not provide the required information to interested parties.
4. The project sponsor failed to provide adequate support for the project.

Q7. You are finding it difficult to evaluate the exact cost impact of risks. You should evaluate on a (n):

1. Quantitative basis.
2. Numerical basis.
3. Qualitative basis.
4. Econometric basis.

Q8. One of the senior team members, who is the best performer in your project, plays favorites. A few of the other team members who work closely with this team member have gotten exceptionally good appraisal reports in the past, even though they may not have deserved them. As the project manager, what do you need to actively do?

1. Ask all the members of your team who are appraisers of other team members to be liberal in their appraisals. This will help compensate for the appraisals the senior team member does.
2. Speak to the senior team member and ask him or her to do appraisals fairly, in accordance with the appraisal guidelines.
3. Ignore the matter since you would otherwise lose a senior team member who is key to your project.
4. Ensure that the senior team member does not get to appraise anybody.

Q9. During the Define Activities process, a team member begins to discuss activities that the project manager has never heard discussed. What should the project manager do?

1. Make sure he has a good understanding of the activities and include the activities in the activity list.
2. Ask the team member to explain why such activity would be needed to complete the work package
3. Make sure the entire team agrees that the activities should be done
4. Evaluate the impact of the change.

Q10. Although the stakeholders thought there was enough money in the budget, halfway through the project the cost performance index (CPI) is 0.7. To determine the root cause, several stakeholders audit the project and discover the project budget was estimated analogously. Although the activity estimates add up to the project estimate, the stakeholders think something was missing in how the estimate was completed. Which of the following describes what was missing?

1. Estimated costs should be used to measure CPI.
2. SPI should be used, not CPI
3. Bottom-up estimating should have been used
4. Past history was not taken into account.