Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During construction of a new manufacturing facility in another country, one of your team members complains to you that the wage paid to the workers is below the acceptable wage in your home country. In this situation it is BEST to:

1. Pay the workers at the new facility the same wage as your country.
2. Pay the workers at the new facility a little less than the acceptable wage in your country
3. Pay the workers an appropriate wage for the country within which they work
4. Ignore the issue as you have not heard the workers complain

Q3. You are reviewing an old project file where you find a document which contains the project description, important requirements, milestones, and project budget. What document is it?

1. Scope statement
2. Project charter
3. Scope baseline
4. Procurement document

Q4. A company attorney, newly hired by the company, walks into the project manager’s office and tells her that he is ready to work with her on the procurement process. The project manager has little experience with procurement, so she is excited to have the assistance. With which of the following would it be BEST for the project manager to ask the attorney to help?

1. Claims administration, audit results, and updating organizational process assets.
2. Contract change control system, payments, and change requests.
3. Recommend corrective actions, performance reporting, and records management system.
4. Procurement documentation, project management plan updates, and procurement management plan updates.

Q5. What is a project management information system?

1. A computerized status tracking system
2. A manual status tracking system
3. A method to determine and archive how the project is doing
4. A method to gather, integrate and disseminate what or how the project is doing

Q6. You have found you do not yet have an accurate estimate of the number and skill levels of resources needed for the scheduled activity Build Racks for Data Center. You need this estimate for presentation to your Human Resources department later in the week. You have decided to decompose the Build Racks for Data Center activity into smaller components such as take equipment out of box, review equipment for completeness, build frame, and install rails. Then you plan to estimate the resources for each smaller component and combine those estimates into an aggregate. This is an example of:

1. Aggregate Estimating
2. Alternative Analysis
3. Bottom-up Estimating
4. Rolling Wave Estimating

Q7. You are a non-technical project manager. Two highly skilled and knowledgeable resources on your project are in conflict over the best technical solution to meet a project requirement. However, this is not affecting the project schedule. Who is initially responsible for the conflict resolution?

1. The project sponsor is initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
2. The project manager is initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
3. Both team members are initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
4. Either of the team members is responsible for the conflict resolution.

Q8. Performance reporting is important during administrative closure, in order to:

1. Show progress made on activities.
2. Communicate the team’s success.
3. Gain approval to start the lesions learned.
4. Prove formal acceptance has been achieved.

Q9. Which of the following inaccurately describes a prototype?

1. A prototype is tangible and allows stakeholders to fine-tune their expectations.
2. Requirements from a prototype are usually insufficient to move to the design phase.
3. Prototypes support the concept of progressive elaboration.
4. A prototype is a working model of the expected product.

Q10. What is one of the KEY objectives during contract negotiations?

1. Obtain a fair and reasonable price.
2. Negotiate a price under the seller’s estimate
3. Ensure that all project risks are thoroughly delineated
4. Ensure that an effective communications management plan is established.