Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project charter is a document which initiates the project, establishes your authority and contains some high-level information. Which of the following information will not be included in the project charter?

1. Project purpose
2. High-level requirements
3. High-level risks
4. Name of the competitor

Q3. During what part of the project management process is MOST of a project’s budget expended?

1. Planning
2. Executing
3. Monitoring and Controlling
4. Closing

Q4. As part of a new project you just started on as project manager, you are assembling your team and discovering that one of the critical pieces of work requires a specialist from one of the functional departments. However, you are aware the functional manager may be reluctant to assign that resource to your project since your project is not a high-profile one. Which of the following techniques will you need to apply?

1. Acquisition
2. Coercion
3. Politics
4. Negotiation

Q5. Administrative closure involves all the activities in a step-by-step manner to satisfy various completion and exit criteria for the project. This is part of which Project Management Knowledge Area?

1. Project Communications Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Integration Management
4. Project Procurement Management

Q6. A project manager believes that modifying the project scope may provide added value for the customer. What should the project manager do?

1. Change the scope baseline
2. Contact the customer to determine if the change adds value
3. Call a meeting of the change control board
4. Change the project’s objectives.

Q7. You are responsible for IT maintenance in your organization. The head of the IT department comes to you with an internet security expert and tells you to disable auto login and force authentic login based on a new password. The password will be 15 characters long and consist of letters, numerals, and one special character, and this password must expire after every 30 days. This is an example of:

1. Operation
2. Project
3. Maintenance
4. None of the above

Q8. Who determines the project scope requirements of a new project?

1. The customer
2. The stakeholders
3. The project manager
4. Senior management

Q9. Your company took over the management of a project from another company that went out of business. To minimize disruptions related to the transition, your company hired a number of the employees from the other company. One of these employees has delivered a 300-page document a week ahead of schedule. However, while walking past his desk, you notice that his computer is displaying a document with the logo of his former employer. You suspect that some of his work may have been based on documentation that is the property of the other company. What do you do?

1. Report this to your project stakeholders immediately.
2. Determine if any materials belonging to the other company have been copied.
3. The copyright material is owned by the client, for whom you are working so this is not a copyright issue.
4. Do nothing. Because the company is now out of business, no one now owns the copyright on that material.

Q10. The authorized time phased budget which you use to monitor and control the cost of the project is known as:

1. Funding limit reconciliation
2. EAC
3. Cost baseline
4. Schedule baseline