Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. What is the LAST thing that occurs in the Close Project process?

1. Formal acceptance is received
2. Lessons learned are created
3. Financial closure is achieved
4. Resources are released

Q3. As project progress is tracked according to the project management plan, the project manager discovers that final deliverables will be completed two months after the deliverable dates imposed by management. What should the project manager do?

1. Look for options with stakeholders using some combination of scaling back work, re-evaluating discretionary dependencies, and adding resources
2. Evaluate the impact on the company of completing this project late.
3. Drive the project team to work faster to make up for lost time
4. Recalculate the project schedule and distribute it according to the communications management plan

Q4. A project manager is finalizing the resources for the project team. All of the following will help the project manager complete this work EXCEPT:

1. Staffing pool description
2. Work breakdown structure
3. Staffing management plan
4. Reward and recognition systems.

Q5. How many types of relationships between activities can be found on a precedence (AON) diagram?

1. 4
2. 3
3. 2
4. 1

Q6. The project manager of a large construction project is responsible for ensuring that all changes to the building plans are approved and tracked before they are implemented. These activities form part of which process?

1. Validate Scope
2. Perform Configuration Management
3. Perform Integrated change control
4. Control Quality

Q7. You are constructing a big mall for a client. During the execution phase, the client requests additional work and you agree. The scope of work is clear but you are lacking expertise and time, so you decide to procure this part of the work. What kind of contract will you select considering you can review invoices submitted by a contractor?

1. Firm fixed price
2. Cost plus fixed fee
3. Fixed price incentive fee
4. Time & material

Q8. All the monitoring and controlling processes and many of the executing processes can produce change requests as an output. Change requests may require corrective actions and preventive actions. Which of the following are normally affected by corrective and preventive actions?

1. Defect repair
2. Regressive baselines
3. The project baselines
4. The performance against baselines

Q9. Midway through a project, a project manager determined the project was running far behind schedule. If the project manager needs to shorten the project schedule without changing the project scope, which of the following schedule compression techniques could he use?

1. Crashing
2. Reserve Analysis
3. Forecasting
4. Last Tracking

Q10. Due to corporate restructuring, the project sponsor, a major stakeholder, and the CEO have level the company. The project manager’s project is past the halfway point and the remaining members of the management team have been lukewarm toward the project. The new CEO does not place a high value on project management methodology, and the project team is nervous about its future. Under these circumstances, what is the project manager’s primary responsibility?

1. Try to determine if the tea should continue to work on the project.
2. Ensure that a conflict of interest does not compromise the legitimate interests of the customer.
3. Interact with others in a professional manner while completing the project.
4. Provide accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.