Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project team has created a plan for how they will implement the quality policy. It addresses the organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, and other information about plans for quality. If this changes during the project, WHICH of the following plans will also change?

1. Quality assurance.
2. Quality management
3. Project management
4. Quality control.

Q3. A good friend at work tells you that when his wife was diagnosed with cancer, he stole items from work and sold them, using the money for her treatment. He has since paid back the money taken, in ways that kept his theft secret. Ethically, what should you do?

1. Advise your friend to tell his company and do nothing
2. Report him to his manager
3. Talk with a lawyer to see if this can be justified
4. Attempt to gather evidence to determine whether or not the theft in fact occurred.

Q4. A project manager has completed identification of stakeholders and has started planning for a flow instruments installation project in a hospital. While developing the project management plan, a team member states that a stakeholder in the X-ray department is missing from the stakeholder list. Which of the following would be the best response from the project manager?

1. Authenticate the information from the team member
2. Include and involve the stakeholder immediately
3. It is too late to involve a stakeholder in the planning, so ignore the stakeholder
4. Wait until the execution phase to involve the new stakeholder

Q5. Which of the following is the WORST way to resolve conflict?

1. Compromising
2. Forcing
3. Smoothing
4. Withdrawal.

Q6. A project involves arranging for the closing of the company office where the team works and relocating everyone to a new city. The BEST thing the project manager can do is:

1. Spend time carefully creating the work breakdown structure.
2. Have a strong quality control plan.
3. Decrease the fringe benefits
4. Carefully consider the reward system for the project.

Q7. A project manager analyzed a US $200,000 project that involves 30 team members and has three customers. Why is there a need for an analysis of secondary risks on this project?

1. It provides a vehicle for efficient stakeholder involvement.
2. It provides a way to effectively decrease the amount of contracting on the project.
3. It helps create a prioritized list of risks.
4. It helps determine which new risks have been created as a result of the risk response strategies chosen.

Q8. On any project, the configuration control should be focused on the specification of:

1. Deliverables and processes
2. Scope and cost
3. Risk and resources
4. Schedule and quality

Q9. Which chart allows a project manager to indicate the number of resources used each month?

1. Responsibility assignment matrix
2. Resource histogram
3. Project organizational chart
4. Pareto chart.

Q10. While testing the strength of concrete poured on your project, you discover that over 35 percent of the concrete does not meet your company’s quality standards. You feel certain the concrete will function as it is, and you don’t think the concrete needs to meet the quality level specified. What should you do?

1. Change the quality standards to meet the level achieved.
2. State in your reports that the concrete simply “meets our quality needs.”
3. Ensure that the remaining concrete meets the standard
4. Report the lesser quality level and try to find a solution.