Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are managing a six-month project and have held bi-weekly meetings with your project stakeholders. After five-and-a-half months of work, the project is on schedule and budget, but the stakeholders are not satisfied with the deliverables. This situation will delay the project completion by one month. The MOST important process that could have prevented this situation is:

1. Monitor and Control Risks
2. Control Schedule
3. Define Scope
4. Control Scope

Q3. Where should a new project manager look to determine resource requirements?

1. Resource leveling chart
2. Resource bar chart
3. Activity list
4. Project schedule

Q4. You are working on a waste management project that, upon completion, will be turned over to the local municipality for steady-state operation. Parking of trucks and other vehicles has become a serious problem because no parking area was allotted to you on the main dumping site. As a result, your trucks are parked on nearby roadsides. One of the fleet supervisors informs you that close to the main site, there is a large tract of land a local charity owns. Many locals park their cars on this tract of land. What should you do?

1. Since the piece of land is already used as parking, you can park your trucks over there.
2. Don’t park the trucks on that piece of land because it will be a violation of other’s property rights.
3. Check the local parking laws.
4. Ask the supervisor to get contact information of the local charity.

Q5. A project to design and build a new aircraft is cancelled after the project has been underway for some time. What process is employed to document what work was done and to what extent it was completed?

1. Validate Scope
2. Control Scope
3. Control Quality
4. Close Project or Phase

Q6. Which of the following MUST be an agenda item at all team meetings?

1. Discussion of project risks
2. Status of current activities
3. Identification of new activities
4. Review of project problems.

Q7. Which of the following is a KEY way to improve activity cost estimates?

1. Use historical data.
2. Let management create the management reserve and the activity cost estimate.
3. Base activity estimates on the upper and lower control limits.
4. Let the project manager create the activity cost estimate.

Q8. What should be done with risks on the watch list?

1. Document them for historical use on other projects.
2. Document them, and then revisit them during project monitoring and controlling
3. Document them, and set them aside because they are already covered in your contingency plans
4. Document them, and given to the customer.

Q9. Which of the following statements correctly define the 100 percent rule for WBS?

1. The project is only considered complete once all requirements defined in the original scope statements have been completed.
2. The project is only considered complete once all requirements in the last approved scope baseline have been completed.
3. The final deliverables should fully conform to product requirements; nothing less, nothing more.
4. The total of the work at the work package level should roll up to the higher levels so that nothing is left out and no extra work is performed.

Q10. During which stages of a project should the project manager be most active in managing project stakeholders’ needs and expectations?

1. Initiating and planning
2. Planning and executing
3. Executing and controlling
4. Controlling and closing