Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have a project with four activities as follows: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of one. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of four. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of five. Activity 4 can start after activity 1 is completed and must be completed when activity 3 is completed. The estimate for activity 4 is 10. What is the SHORTEST amount of time in which the project can be completed?

1. 10
2. 9
3. 18
4. 11

Q3. As project manager o a project, you just handled a risk event that impacted the project cost and schedule. Because the impact is 15 percent total project cost, what is the MOST appropriate action?

1. Control the cost
2. Inform the appropriate stakeholders
3. Act to bring the cost of the event within acceptable limits
4. Update the project budget.

Q4. A software development project team has determined that the best way to mitigate the risk of not having the computational resources to complete all bug testing on schedule is to add three more servers to the test bed. However, the network may not have enough capacity to handle the extra load of those three servers and could fail. This type of risk is a _______________ risk.

1. Secondary
2. Simulation
3. Bottleneck
4. Hidden

Q5. The project has been going well, except for the number of changes being made. The product of the project is being installed into seven different departments within the company and will greatly improve departmental performance when operational. The team has selected the appropriate processes for use on the project. The project manager is a technical expert as well as having been trained in communications and managing people. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the project problems?

1. The project manager was not trained in understanding the company environment.
2. The project should have more management oversight since it will result in such great benefits to the company.
3. The project should have used more of the project management processes.
4. Some stakeholders were not identified.

Q6. All of the following are responsibilities of the project manager EXCEPT:

1. Carefully select the appropriate stakeholders for the project.
2. Get stakeholders' sign-off that the requirements are finalized.
3. Figure out when stakeholders will be involved in the project and how extensively.
4. Ask stakeholders to let you know about problems in project communications and relationships.

Q7. A project has gone out of control, and the project manager is trying to bring it back under control. There have been a number of changes to the project scope. Some of these changes resulted in further changes, causing project cost to spiral upward and causing the project to go out of schedule. This is known as:

1. Scope creep
2. Scope jump
3. Project creep
4. Scope control

Q8. The project manager is working on a high-profile project where completing the project within budget is critical. The project manager is new, but well trained and is excited to see that the project is spending less than budgeted. As a result, the project manager was planning to take a holiday when a more senior project manager warned him that he has some important work to do on the project. Why would the senior project manager give such a warning on this project?

1. The project manager needs to create a project control system to make sure there are no problems in the future.
2. Under budget could mean that work that was scheduled to e done has not been completed. The project manager should look at how the cost performance compares to the schedule performance
3. A project that is under budget may also have contracts that need to be managed.
4. Team meetings should be scheduled every week and a holiday would mean that one team meeting would have to be cancelled.

Q9. Jack is the project manager of a project that is halfway through its execution. He is currently looking at the work schedule. He adjusts a few of the schedule milestones and imposes date constraints for some of the work packages. This relates to which of the following processes?

1. Control Quality
2. Develop Schedule
3. Control Scope
4. Control Schedule

Q10. The sponsor of the project you are managing asks you to compress the schedule. Which of the following is CORRECT?

1. Crashing always shortens the timeline but often increases risk.
2. Fast tracking often results in rework, and crashing often results in increased cost
3. Crashing is only a viable alternative if earned value analysis indicates that the project is ahead of schedule and under budget
4. Fast tracking will result in less parallel activities than crashing the project