Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your project team has recently identified a risk in the software development project and decided not to change the project management plan to deal with the risk. The risk response strategy that your team used in this scenario is an example of:

1. Mitigate
2. Transfer
3. Avoid
4. Acceptance

Q3. The customer starts to have cash flow problems, because other projects are being completed early. The customer notifies the project manager that there will be limits on when funds will be available for the project. The project CPI is currently 1.02, and the estimate to complete is US $927,000. If the project manager performs funding limit reconciliation, there will also MOST likely be a change to the:

1. Resource assigned.
2. Number of change requests
3. Cost baseline
4. Project schedule 21

Q4. Co-location can help with:

1. Bringing customers together
2. Building a team
3. Decreasing project rental costs
4. Decreasing project time.

Q5. You are managing two projects. The first project is to design a simulator for a client which he will use in his driving school. The second project is to install a security system on a client’s premises to ensure its security around the clock. What is your role here?

1. Project manager
2. Portfolio manager
3. Program manager
4. Project coordinator

Q6. Senior management has imposed a project delivery date prior to acceptance of the project scope statement. To whom is the project manager MOST accountable?

1. Project sponsor
2. Project team
3. Customer
4. Senior management

Q7. Which of the following scenarios is likely to occur in a project?

1. Cost and staffing levels are low at the start of the project.
2. Stakeholders' influence on the project is lowest at the start of the project.
3. Risk and uncertainty are lowest at the start of the project.
4. Cost of changes are the highest at the start of the project.

Q8. Mary is a project manager for an infrastructure upgrade project in a government agency. She realized recently that a critical scheduled task exceeded its deadline, and the stakeholders are aware of it. The resource manager has permitted Mary to use three more resources to work on and complete the delayed task. Although the three additional resources prove helpful, Mary is still concerned about the task because:

1. Allocating more resources may result in rework
2. Allocating more resources may shorten the duration but results in increased risk or cost
3. Resources may need training to complete the task
4. Allocating more resources needs stakeholders approval

Q9. Your employee is three days late with a report. Five minutes before the meeting where the topic of the report is to be discussed, she hands you the report. You notice some serious errors in it. What should you do?

1. Cancel the meeting and reschedule when the report is fixed.
2. Go to the meeting and tell the other attendees there are errors in the report
3. Force the employee to do the presentation and remain silent as the other attendees find the errors.
4. Cancel the meeting and rewrite the report yourself.

Q10. Once a risk response is created, which of the following statements BEST describes the project manager’s role regarding risks while the project work is being completed?

1. Take actions when identified risks occur.
2. Look for unexpected impacts of implemented risk responses.
3. Implement planned work-arounds.
4. Make sure that risk responses are assigned to identify risks.