Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager holds a meeting with his manager to explain that an activity has been delayed and the project manager will need additional resources to complete the project. The manager stops the meeting because the project manager has forgotten something. What might it have been?

1. To investigate undoing previous fast tracking activities
2. To try to compress the project schedule before asking for additional resources
3. To look for options with the customer before meeting with management
4. To eliminate float in the near-critical path

Q3. Which document describes the project's deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables?

1. Project authorization document
2. Project scope statement
3. Project scope management plan
4. Project charter

Q4. You have just received an invoice from your supplier that contains some uncertified items. Payments to the supplier are processed through your corporate accounts payable system only after certification of satisfactory work by the project quality control specialist. What should you do?

1. Process the supplier’s invoice since this is your liability
2. Call the supplier and obtain more information
3. Ask the supplier to stop all deliveries until the matter has a resolution
4. Seek judicial arbitration

Q5. Which document defines how the project is to be executed, monitored, controlled, and closed?

1. Project scope
2. Project charter
3. Project management information system
4. Project management plan

Q6. Which of the following BEST describes an opportunity on a project?

1. Team members will learn more about spy satellites, and will be able to use that information on future projects.
2. The requirements might need updating later.
3. The quality requirements are hard to achieve.
4. Additional engineering may be needed in order to get the satellite to meet the customer’s requirements.

Q7. Unless an enterprise-wide ERP is deployed in an organization, disparate IT systems perform specialized tasks in a project. Which of the following systems typically processes supplier’s payments after obtaining all the necessary certification of satisfactory work?

1. Project management information system
2. Accounts payable system
3. Change control and tracking system
4. Supply chain management system

Q8. The customer wants to expand the product scope after the performance measurement baseline has been established. Which document will the customer need to submit?

1. Change request
2. Project scope statement
3. Performance measurements
4. Activity attributes 02

Q9. You have been given a project to develop some gaming software for the client. You have developed many similar games in the past and possess the knowledge and skills that are needed to build the game. You have recruited your team and many of them are new, however all of them respect you a lot. What kind of power are you showing here?

1. Coercive power
2. Positional power
3. Expert power
4. Referent power

Q10. A project has faced major difficulties in the quality of its deliverables. Management now states that quality is the most important project constraint. If another problem with quality were to occur, what would be the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Fix the problem as soon as possible.
2. Allow the schedule to slip by cutting cost.
3. Allow cost to increase by fixing the root cause of the problem.
4. Allow risk to increase by cutting cost.