Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are a non-technical project manager. Two highly skilled and knowledgeable resources on your project are in conflict over the best technical solution to meet a project requirement. However, this is not affecting the project schedule. Who is initially responsible for the conflict resolution?

1. The project sponsor is initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
2. The project manager is initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
3. Both team members are initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
4. Either of the team members is responsible for the conflict resolution.

Q3. The Close Project process includes all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Analysis of project success
2. Ensuring that records include final specifications
3. Creating a project risk management plan
4. A collection of project records

Q4. Which of the following would generally lead to the LEAST amount of quality improvement?

1. TQM
2. Quality planning
3. Implementing an ISO 9000 standard
4. Increasing inspection

Q5. Recently, a junior team member has challenged the project management approach since not all requirements identified during the Collect Requirements process were documented in the project scope statement. You are the project manager, what should you do first?

1. Remove the junior team member from the team as this is a disciplinary issue.
2. Analyze the objection and determine if the requirements were deliberately dropped during the Define Scope process.
3. Engage the project sponsor to resolve the issue.
4. Accept your mistake and include the missed requirements.

Q6. A project is seriously delayed. Earned value analysis shows the project needs to be completed 10 percent faster than the work has been going. To get the project back on track, management wants to add 10 people to an activity currently assigned to one person. The project manager disagrees, noting that such an increase will not produce an increase in speed. This is an example of:

1. The law of diminishing returns
2. Fast tracking
3. Earned value
4. Life cycle costing

Q7. The highest point of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is called:

1. Physiological satisfaction
2. Attainment of survival
3. Need for association
4. Esteem.

Q8. The Verify Scope process is different than the Perform Quality Control process in that:

1. Perform Quality Control focuses on the quality of the project, while Verify Scope focuses on customer acceptance
2. Verify Scope is performed throughout the project and Perform Quality Control is done throughout the project.
3. Perform Quality Control is considered part of Plan Quality while Verify Scope is not.
4. Scope verification is provided to the project management team while quality control is provided to the project.

Q9. Jim is managing a road network design project for a government agency. He is currently carrying out the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process for the project. Which of the following documents will provide the list of project stakeholders to Jim for this process?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Project management plan
3. Stakeholder register
4. Enterprise environmental factors

Q10. Gordon is currently developing his project’s stakeholder management strategy. All enterprise environmental factors should be considered during this process. Which of the following enterprise environmental factors should be paid special attention during this process?

1. Project templates
2. The organization's culture and structure
3. Commercial databases
4. Lessons learned from past similar projects