Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During the course of the project, the project management team developed a forecast for the estimate at completion (EAC) based on the project performance. Which of the following statements about EAC is correct?

1. The EAC forecast based on the Bottom-up estimate to complete (ETC) requires a new estimate.
2. The EAC forecast is best estimated using the estimate to complete (ETC) work performed considering both SPI and CPI factors.
3. The EAC forecast is best estimated using the estimate to complete (ETC) work performed at the present CPI.
4. The EAC forecast is best estimated using the estimate to complete (ETC) work performed at the budgeted rate.

Q3. Which of the following is an example of a tool used in Plan Quality?

1. Fishbone diagram.
2. Quality audit
3. Cause and effect diagram
4. Benchmarking.

Q4. A project team member has just completed work on the microprocessor for the new human system performance monitor and is now finished with the project. The project manager should:

1. Evaluate the project’s resource requirements
2. Provide input to the team member’s performance appraisal
3. Re-evaluate the activity duration estimates.
4. Change the staffing management plan

Q5. David was required to investigate a business problem and describe the higher-level needs of the business as a whole. David’s final reports describes in detail the features, functions and characteristics of the product that will meet the business and stakeholder requirements. What is wrong with David’s report?

1. David was asked to analyze the solution requirements, but he focused on the business requirements.
2. David was asked to analyze the business requirements, but he focused on the solution requirements.
3. David was asked to analyze the functional requirements, but he focused on the non-functional requirements.
4. David was asked to analyze the non-functional requirements, but he focused on the functional requirements.

Q6. You are about to take over a project from another project manager and find out the following information about the project. Activity Z has an early start (ES) of day 15 and a late start (LS) of day 20. Activity Z is a difficult activity. Cost performance index (CPI) is 1.1; schedule performance index (SPI) is 0.8. There are 11 stakeholders on the project. Based on this information, which of the following would you be the MOST concerned about?

1. Schedule
2. Float
3. Cost
4. The number of available resources.

Q7. While holding a risk reassessment meeting, the sponsor is looking at the latest list of top risks in the project report. A newly identified risk has undergone qualitative risk analysis and it was determined that it did not rank higher than already identified risks to continue through the risk process. Two fallback plans have been adjusted based on the severity of previous risk impacts. What has the project manager NOT done?

1. Provide the sponsor with the full list of noncritical risks
2. Perform quantitative risk analysis for the new risk
3. Look at the impact of the new risk to the project as a whole
4. Look for contingency risks from the fallback plan.

Q8. A project manager analyzed the project’s communication requirements and decided that 10 out of the 30 stakeholders in the project would only need voicemail updates of certain information. This type of communication is:

1. Push communication
2. Pull communication
3. Interactive communication
4. On-demand communication

Q9. A stakeholder register contains all the information about the stakeholders. Which of the following is not included in the stakeholder register?

1. List of stakeholders
2. Stakeholders’ classification
3. Responsibility of assignments
4. None of the above

Q10. A project has suffered many delays and the project manager has moved resources around, spent more time with risk management, and even fast tracked the project where possible. The project must be completed by its original agreed-to date, as resources are needed for another project at that time. The project manager is about to meet with the customer to tell them that product scope needs to be cut when you stop him. What would you advise him to do?

1. Cut quality before cutting scope
2. Move resources from a noncritical path to a critical path
3. Work overtime
4. Re-evaluate the project’s business case.