Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Large variations in the periodic expenditure of funds are undesirable for organizational operations. Therefore, the expenditure of funds is frequently reconciled with the disbursement of funds for the project. According to the PMBOK, this is known as:

1. Disbursement Reconciliation
2. Expenditure Reconciliation
3. Budget Reconciliation
4. Funding Limit Reconciliation

Q3. The project management team performed activities such as measuring, examining, and verifying to determine whether work and deliverables met requirements and product acceptance criteria. Which of the following choices refers to a different set of activities than the ones just mentioned?

1. Walkthroughs
2. Prevention
3. Inspection
4. Reviews

Q4. You have a team of engineers working on your project. Two of the engineers have frequent disagreements. You ask them to resolve their differences through a discussion. However, that does not yield any results. Subsequently, you intervene, and based on your analysis of the situation, you suggest some changes in the way they work with each other. This still does not yield results, and you find that the project schedule is beginning to suffer. What is your next course of action?

1. Take disciplinary action, if required, since the needs of the project are not being met.
2. Don't do anything. Differences of opinion among the team members are a healthy situation.
3. Speak to the two team members and ask them to resolve their conflict amicably.
4. Ensure that they work in different shifts so that they don't clash with each other.

Q5. Which of the following activities fall under the planning process group but not under project schedule management?

1. Estimating activity durations
2. Developing the Schedule Management Plan
3. Identification of various activities to produce the project deliverables
4. Developing a detailed description of the project and product being developed

Q6. The project manager is expecting a deliverable to be submitted by e-mail from a team member today. AT the end of the day, the project manager contacts the team member to notify him that it has not been received. The team member apologizes and says that he was not able e-mail the deliverable, and it was sent through the mail instead. The team member goes on to explain that he notified the project manager that this would occur during a phone conversation they had while the or manager was traveling. “Wasn’t that the conversation we had when I told you I cold not hear you well due to poor cell phone coverage?” ask the project manager. “Yes,” replies the team member. What could have avoided this problem?

1. Paralingual communication
2. Adding to the issue log after the phone call
3. Better attention to determining communications requirements.
4. Feedback during the communication

Q7. You are the project manager for GeoThermal Systems. Which of the following must be done FIRST before proceeding with a new project?

1. Create the Project Scope Statement
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Product analysis
4. Obtain Project Charter approval

Q8. Activity A has ES-5, EF-10 and Activity B has ES-7, and the duration is 4 days. What kind of relationship exists between these two activities?

1. Finish to Start
2. Finish to Finish
3. Start to Finish
4. Start to Start

Q9. Changes in projects are inevitable. Therefore, project managers must develop or use a system to manage and control changes. There are four types of changes that need to be controlled in a project: Project changes, deliverable changes, process changes, and baseline changes. The impact of each of these changes must be evaluated, and approved or rejected changes must be communicated to all stakeholders, as and when required. Which of the following helps control these changes?

1. Configuration control and Control chart
2. Configuration control and Change control
3. Control chart and Cost control
4. Change control and Control chart

Q10. How many types of relationships between activities can be found on a precedence (AON) diagram?

1. 4
2. 3
3. 2
4. 1