Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The objective of a transformation project is to move an organization from one state to another state. The desired result of the change driven by the project is described as the:

1. Good state
2. Future state
3. Happy state
4. Transition state

Q3. You are working for a large project organization with several project managers working on 15 projects. All project managers submit their status reports at month’s end. One of your fellow project managers, Jane, has reported an error in the past two months. From discussions with one of her project’s team members who is also working on one of your projects, you realize Jane is deliberately misreporting the project’s status to inflate her performance for the annual performance appraisal next month. The monthend review meeting is in two days, and you are preparing your own presentation for it. What should you say about her status report?

1. Investigate and verify the blame before reporting the incorrect status to the appropriate management.
2. Since there is no direct relationship between your project and hers, there is no need to intervene in this issue.
3. Prepare a brief of what you have discussed with her team member and report the inconsistency in the meeting
4. Send an email to her boss asking to check the contents of her report

Q4. The method used in the Manage Quality process to identify the factors that may influence specific characteristics of a product under development is:

1. The forecasting technique
2. The control chart
3. The statistical sampling
4. Design for X

Q5. Company A is developing a project similar to one it delivered nearly 12 months earlier. What is the MOST likely approach to defining project activities?

1. Review organizational process assets
2. Add similar, if not the same, skill sets to the project team
3. Gather the team for a brainstorming session
4. Hire a third party expert to avoid mistakes that were encountered during previous projects.

Q6. In an underground highway construction project, the project stakeholders have suggested many changes to the project scope. You had already defined the cost baseline in your project, and you would like to revisit the baseline to see how these changes might affect the overall cost of the project. You start an impact analysis to determine the impact and inform the concerned stakeholders of all approved changes and the corresponding costs. You perform these activities in which process?

1. Control Scope
2. Monitor Risks
3. Control Costs
4. Monitor Communications

Q7. Which of the following roles in a project is most likely to be involved in negotiations on procurements during the Conduct Procurements phase?

1. Procurement administrator
2. Project coordinator
3. Project manager
4. Project sponsor

Q8. Bill and Jake are two team members in a project. They do not get along well and are constantly involved in verbal conflicts. The project manager understands the characteristics of conflict and the conflict management process and tries to resolve the situation. Which of the following is not a correct statement?

1. Openness resolves conflict
2. Conflict is natural and forces a search for alternatives
3. Conflict is inevitable in a project environment.
4. The project manager is not responsible for conflict management.

Q9. Which of the following are ALL outputs of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

1. Approved corrective actions, validated defect repair, forecasts, deliverables
2. Deliverables, implemented corrective actions, rejected change requests, validated defect repair
3. Approved defect repair, validated defect repair, rejected change requests, approved corrective actions
4. Recommend corrective actions, validated defect repair, approved defect repair, and rejected change requests.

Q10. Project information has been distributed according to the communications management plan. Some project deliverables have been changed in accordance with the project management plan. One stakeholder expressed surprise to the project manager upon hearing of a previously published change to a project deliverable. All stakeholders received the communication containing notification of the change. What should the project manager do?

1. Determine why the stakeholder did not receive the information and let him know when it was published.
2. Ask the functional manager why the stakeholder did not understand his responsibility.
3. Review the communications management plan and make revisions if necessary.
4. Address the situation in the next steering committee meeting so others do not miss published changes.