Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are responsible for IT maintenance in your organization. The head of the IT department comes to you with an internet security expert and tells you to disable auto login and force authentic login based on a new password. The password will be 15 characters long and consist of letters, numerals, and one special character, and this password must expire after every 30 days. This is an example of:

1. Operation
2. Project
3. Maintenance
4. None of the above

Q3. All of the following are outputs of the Control Scope process EXCEPT:

1. Change requests
2. Updated organizational process assets.
3. Updates to the project management plan
4. Accepted deliverables.

Q4. You have been assigned to manage a portion of a larger project that is supposed to be finished within a two-week period. You have met with the leadership of the area to gather requirements, and you have a project charter, project scope statement and project management plan that have been approved by these individuals. You are told to meet with the actual user of the results of the project to to demonstrate how the system will work. When you give the demonstration, it is clear that the user’s requirements are very different from the ones you were initially given and to which both you and the client agreed. What is the BEST thing for you to do now?

1. Generate a change request for the user’s requirements.
2. Convene another meeting with the leadership of the area and the user to generate a revised set of requirements
3. Attempt to meet as many of the user’s requirements as possible within the project’s established budget and schedule.
4. Complete the work as originally specified and formulate a new project to meet the user’s requirements.

Q5. If you are managing changes to the project's cost baseline, which process are you using?

1. Negotiate Costs
2. Estimate Costs
3. Control Costs
4. Determine Budget

Q6. Clear criteria for rewards and a planned system for their use promotes and reinforces desired behaviors in the project. Creating a recognition plan with established times for rewards ensures that recognition takes place and is not forgotten. This is usually part of the:

1. Project Dashboard
2. Resource Management Plan
3. Company HR plan
4. Communications Management Plan

Q7. You are halfway through a major network rollout. There are 300 locations in the United States, with another 20 in England. A software seller has just released a major software upgrade for some of the equipment being installed. The upgrade would provide the customer with functionality they requested that was not available at the time the project began. What is the BEST course of action under these circumstances?

1. Continue as planned, your customer has not requested a change
2. Inform the customer of the upgrade and the impacts to the project’s timeline and functionality if the upgrade is implemented
3. Implement the change and adjust the schedule as necessary because this supports the customer’s original request
4. Implement the change to the remaining sites and continue with the schedule.

Q8. You have been given a multi-year project to build a refinery. This is a very large and complex project, and you now need to estimate the cost for this project. What basic assumption will you need to make while estimating the cost for this project?

1. If you get the project budget in phases
2. You will be given all costs and resources at the beginning of the project
3. Whether the estimate will be limited to direct costs or if it will include the indirect costs as well
4. If the project schedule is fixed or based on events

Q9. What is the primary risk when including reserves, or contingency allowances, in your cost estimate?

1. Cancelling your project
2. Understating the cost estimate
3. Overstating the cost estimate
4. Tracking the funds

Q10. If the project's current total earned value (EV) is $100,000 and the actual amount spent (AC) is $95,000, what is the cost variance of the project?

1. The cost variance is $1.05
2. The cost variance is $5,000
3. The cost variance is $0.95
4. The cost variance is $-5,000