Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During the executing process group, a functional manager asks you to use a model C generator instead of model B on your project. The functional manager says that model C will solve the needs of the project and provide some benefits to the manufacturing department. You look at the cost associated with model C and discover that it is substantially higher than model B. If you are not sure you can justify the more expensive model, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Review the specifications of each to validate the manager’s claim
2. Analyze the differences in using each model and present them to the sponsor.
3. Use model C and cut other activities to make up for the added cost.
4. Do a life cycle analysis and present the results to your boss.

Q3. Testing the entire population would:

1. Take too long
2. Provide more information than wanted
3. Be mutually exclusive
4. Show many defects.

Q4. A resource histogram includes which two data points?

1. Resource and time estimate
2. Resource and calendar date
3. Activity and resource
4. Resource and usage.

Q5. The Project Charter defines the high level scope and objectives of a project. Which of the following is not a correct statement about inputs to the Project Charter?

1. Government or industry standards cannot be used as an input to develop a project charter.
2. The project's business case is an input to the Develop Project Charter process.
3. Organizational process assets are input to the Develop Project Charter process.
4. When projects are executed for external customers, a contract or an agreement is used as an input to the charter.

Q6. Conflict resolution techniques that may be used on a project include confronting, smoothing, forcing, and:

1. Withdrawing
2. Directing
3. Organizing
4. Controlling.

Q7. Your organization has received two projects. One project is to design a call center for the client, and the other is research work in pollution control. How are you going to manage these two projects?

1. Under project management
2. Under portfolio management
3. Under program management
4. None of the above

Q8. Which of the following is NOT used in initiating a project?

1. Project statement of work.
2. The contract.
3. Enterprise environmental factors.
4. Earned value analysis.

Q9. All of the following are parts of the team’s stakeholder management effort EXCEPT:

1. Determining stakeholders’ needs.
2. Identifying stakeholders.
3. Giving stakeholders extras.
4. Managing stakeholders’ expectations.

Q10. Which of these items are important to address when determining each person's role in the project team?

1. Role, authority, responsibility, and competency
2. Role, responsibility, and competency
3. Role and responsibility
4. Role, authority, and competency