Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A software system was accepted by the customer, but has found to give unexpected results. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager should do FIRST?

1. Review the customer’s inspection process
2. Change the activity sequencing
3. Apologize to the customer
4. Review the Validate Scope process.

Q3. Which of these statements is true?

1. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is much less than the cost of preventing them.
2. The cost of preventing mistakes is generally much less than the cost of correcting them as revealed by inspection.
3. It does not matter where a defect is captured as long as the finished work product does not have a defect.
4. The cost of correcting mistakes through an inspection is more or less the same as the cost of preventing them since the same effort goes into both activities.

Q4. Management wants the project completed in 40 days. The cost performance index (CPI) is 1.1; the project critical path duration is 38 days with a standard deviation of two days. What is the maximum project float?

1. Zero days
2. Two days
3. Four days
4. One day

Q5. You are a project manager for a large electrical system implementation. One of your key people has started to miss deadlines and work quality is beginning to suffer as well. This person has participated in project planning, and in fine-tuning the earned value estimating, and developing the reward systems for the project. You are confident that this person is well aware of the work deadlines and required quality specifications. What action should you take?

1. Report problem to the personnel or human resource department for corrective action.
2. Reassign some work to other team members until performance starts to improve.
3. Discuss the issues with the employee at the next team meeting and try to determine the factors impacting performance.
4. Escalate the situation to the employee’s functional manager and ask for assistance.

Q6. Theory X postulates that people:

1. Are motivated by pay
2. Have expectations
3. Need to be watched every second
4. Can direct their own efforts.

Q7. Over lunch with another project manager, you discuss ways to identify risks on your project. The next day, the other project manager sends you risk identification software created by her company with a copyright date of 1998. What should you do?

1. Find out if using an old format would be acceptable
2. Obtain approval from your legal department
3. Share some of your templates with her to improve competencies
4. Send the software back

Q8. Which of the following BEST describes why quality is planned in and not inspected in?

1. It reduces quality and is less expensive.
2. It improves quality and is more expensive
3. It reduces quality and is more expensive
4. It improves quality and is less expensive

Q9. An estimate at completion (EAC) is an output of which of the following?

1. Control Costs
2. Project performance review
3. Variance management
4. Performance measurement analysis

Q10. A client has asked you to add to the scope of the project. The project is under budget and a little ahead of schedule. What should you do?

1. Approve the change
2. Determine the effects of the change on the project.
3. Ask the sponsor for approval to make the change
4. Get approval from the configuration change board.