Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following BEST describes the primary use of project management software?

1. Managing a project
2. Creating and controlling a schedule
3. Creating a complete project management plan
4. Creating a work breakdown structure

Q3. You have been assigned as a project manager for a project which was terminated a few years earlier due to some government regulations. Now you reviewing this document to start again. This document is an example of:

1. Enterprise environment factor
2. Organizational process assets
3. Stakeholder analysis
4. Control scope

Q4. To manage a project effectively, work should be broken down into small pieces. Which of the following does NOT describe how far to decompose the work?

1. Until it has a meaningful conclusion
2. Until it cannot be logically subdivided further
3. Until it can be done by one person
4. Until it can be realistically estimated

Q5. Project stakeholders are individuals and organizations who are actively involved in the project or who have an interest in it. Which of the following is not an internal stakeholder?

1. Program Manager
2. Project Sponsor
3. Competitor
4. Project Manager

Q6. A project manager is using a Risk Diagramming technique that is a graphical representation of situations showing causal influences, time ordering of events, and other relationships among variables and outcomes. This would be:

1. A system flow chart
2. An Influence Diagram
3. A Pareto chart
4. Histogram

Q7. You have the project management responsibility of a virtual team comprising team members from the same company who live in widespread geographic areas, employees who work from home offices and employees with mobility impairments. Virtual teams are formed as a result of which of the following processes?

1. Acquire Resources
2. Plan Resource Management
3. Estimate Activity Resources
4. Develop Schedule

Q8. A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the BEST way to accomplish this?

1. Create project management plans
2. Create lessons learned
3. Create network diagrams
4. Create status reports 2

Q9. You see an opportunity if you complete the project ahead of time: you may get a new project. Therefore, you try to complete the project early, but due to lack of resources, you are only able to shorten the duration of a few activities by starting the parallel or partially-parallel. Which risk response strategy are you employing here?

1. Exploit
2. Mitigate
3. Enhance
4. Accept

Q10. It is not practical, and usually not necessary, to engage with all stakeholders with the same level of intensity at all times. A project manager must prioritize stakeholders depending upon on who they are, what level of influence they have on the project, and what their interests are. Which of the following techniques helps in stakeholder prioritization?

1. Stakeholder engagement matrix
2. Stakeholder register
3. Stakeholder classification models
4. Resource histograms