Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You evaluate your critical path and determine the project will be completed two weeks ahead of management’s expected due date. What should you do?

1. Delay the project for two weeks
2. Prepare a list of identified risks that did not occur
3. Pull resources off the critical path to work on noncritical path activities
4. Add extra features that will enhance the project and require two more weeks to complete.

Q3. At a division project status meeting, all attendees receive a dashboard of cost metrics for each project, and each project manager is presenting the status of his or her project. The metrics for one project show a BAC of $1100, an EV of $998, and an EAC of $1099. However, the project manager is reporting an ETC of $354. What do you do?

1. Notify the appropriate management there is a calculation error
2. Do nothing
3. Advise the project manager to take the additional funds from her project contingency budget
4. Congratulate the project manager for being under budget

Q4. The MOST common source of conflict on projects is:

1. Personality
2. Cost
3. Priorities
4. Schedules

Q5. To create a quality product, the project management team invested in training the project team members and purchasing high-end equipment. Such costs are:

1. Failure costs
2. Costs of Nonconformance
3. Appraisal costs
4. Prevention costs

Q6. The line in the middle of a control chart is called the:

1. Mean
2. Specification limit
3. Rule of seven
4. Upper and lower control limit.

Q7. Administrative closure involves all the activities in a step-by-step manner to satisfy various completion and exit criteria for the project. This is part of which Project Management Knowledge Area?

1. Project Communications Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Integration Management
4. Project Procurement Management

Q8. Due to improper cost planning, your cost performance is not as planned and you are over budget. Therefore, you again estimate the cost of the project and find that you will require more money to complete the project. This will require an update of the cost baseline. What will you do?

1. Update the cost baseline
2. Raise the change request to update the cost baseline
3. Update the cost baseline and inform management
4. None of the above

Q9. The sponsor assigns you to be the project manager of a project that crosses functional lines and is designed to operate a 6 sigma levels. The sponsor has given you cost and schedule requirements. Which of the following would NOT be an appropriate action on your part?

1. Accepting the requirements
2. Evaluating the project risks
3. Creating a detailed estimate
4. Working with the team to come up with a project management plan

Q10. If a project manager wants to examine the project results over time to see if performance is improving, she would use a:

1. Trend report.
2. Forecasting report.
3. Status report.
4. Variance report.