Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. What does “resource leveling” mean in project management?

1. Shortening the time it takes to complete the project
2. Making the most efficient use of the available resources
3. Hiring contractors to fill in during “peak” times on the project schedule
4. Reducing the project costs

Q3. During the project execution, some people stole your consumables. You did not identify this threat earlier, though you were able to manage the situation through a workaround. This risk did not have much of an impact on your cost baseline but the schedule was impacted. Management is aware of the issue and to get the complete picture they insist you provide them the performance report. Which of the following information will you provide to them?

1. Status of deliverables
2. Actual cost, actual duration, etc.
3. Milestones status
4. Memos

Q4. The project management processes communicate with each other through their inputs and outputs. Which of the following outputs of the Direct and Manage Project Work process is a prime input of the Monitor Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. Change requests
2. Work performance information
3. Work performance data
4. Expert judgment

Q5. Ground rules are established to set clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by the project team members. Whose responsibility is it to enforce ground rules?

1. The project manager
2. All project team members share the responsibility for enforcing the rules once they are established in the Team Charter
3. The HR team
4. The project manager and senior team members

Q6. 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

Q7. During the executing process group of the project, a team member identifies a new risk. What should occur in light of this identification?

1. Include it in the risk triggers
2. Test its assumptions
3. Add it to the risk management plan
4. Assess this risk.

Q8. Two very important stakeholders are having a conflict which may affect your project. They come to you but you are very busy. In this case what kind of conflict resolution technique should you select?

1. Problem solve
2. Force
3. Avoid
4. Smooth

Q9. In a Finish-to-Start relationship between predecessor and successor activities, a project manager decides to schedule a successor activity five days before its predecessor is complete. This is accomplished by providing five days of:

1. Lag
2. Load
3. Fast-tracking
4. Lead

Q10. 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