Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are an electrical engineer with extensive experience in managing transmission projects but limited experience with electronic design projects. However, in a stretch assignment, you were recently transferred to another department in your company that focuses on electronic design. Furthermore, you were asked to lead a highly important project involving both transmission and electronic design. In preparation for a meeting with your manager to discuss this opportunity, you review the initial project design brief. Due to your limited background in electronic design, a number of items in this document seem unclear to you. When you arrive at your meeting, your manager asks if you will be leading the project. How do you respond?

1. Accept the project and tell your manager that your expertise in transmission makes you an ideal manager for this project.
2. Decline the project, citing your lack of experience in electronics design.
3. Accept the project, but do not discuss your qualifications or lack thereof.
4. State that you would like to lead the project, but you must disclose that your primary domain of expertise is transmission, and that you may need supplementary training in electronics design.

Q3. A project manager calls you in as a consultant to provide input on developing the Project Charter. According to the PMBOK, your contribution to the project could best be termed as:

1. Professional Consultant
2. Expert Judgment
3. Charter Consultant
4. Expert Consultancy

Q4. A project team member has been having a big disagreement with another team member for over two months when the other team members become involved. The issues are complex, but you have specific experience in the area and know what needs to be done. The BEST choice would be to:

1. Make the decision yourself
2. Strive for fair resolution of the issue
3. Ask the other team members to stay out of the issue
4. Bring the team together and work out the issue to a win-win solution.

Q5. Dina, the project manager of a hardware project, is performing a structured review of the procurement process. She would like to examine each document from the Plan Procurement Management process through the Control Procurements process to identify failures. What tool should Dina use?

1. Procurement audits in the control procurements process
2. Performance reports in the conduct procurements process
3. Negotiated settlements in the control procurements process
4. Procurement audits in the conduct procurements process

Q6. The project has been going well, except for the number of changes being. The project is being installed into even different department within the company and will greatly improve departmental performance when operational. There are 14 project management processes selected for use on this project. The project manager is a technical expert as well as having been trained in communications and managing people. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the project problems?

1. The project manager was not trained in understanding the company environment.
2. The project should have more management oversight since it will result in such great benefits to the company.
3. The project should have used more of the project management processes.
4. Some stakeholders were not identified

Q7. You are working in Lab-X, a laboratory experimental project to research the effect of a virus on human male bodies. This project needs local government approval for carrying out tests on living people. However, the local authorities informed you were informed it would take at least three weeks to obtain authorization for such approval because of the documents involved in the review and approval process. You consider this a risk to the project and would like to send the paperwork in advance to reduce the approval time to one week. Which of the following describes the risk response techniques being employed in this scenario?

1. Risk mitigation
2. Risk transfer
3. Risk accept
4. Risk avoid

Q8. Under which of the following scenarios would you not use a decision tree?

1. When some future scenarios are unknown
2. When you need to look at the implications of not choosing certain alternatives
3. When the future scenarios are known
4. When the outcomes of some of the actions are uncertain

Q9. The key objective of stakeholder management is:

1. Communication.
2. Coordination.
3. Satisfaction.
4. Relationships.

Q10. A project manager is trying to settle a dispute between two team members. One says the systems should be integrated before testing, and the other maintains each system should be tested before integration. The project involves over 30 people, and 2 systems need to be integrated. The sponsor is demanding that integration happens on time. What is the BEST statement the project manager can make to resolve the conflict?

1. Do it my way.
2. Let’s clam down and get the job done.
3. Let’s deal with this again next week after we all calm down.
4. Let’s do limited testing before integration and finish testing after integration.