Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You created the logic diagram for your project based on the chart when all of a sudden the person completing activity C says that you must plan for a lag of two weeks after the completion of the activity before starting the next activity. Which of the following would be the FIRST thing to do?

1. See if the duration of activity H can be shortened
2. Nothing because the two weeks could be assigned to activity
3. Make Start, A, D, G, End the critical path in order to save time
4. Calculate project float after the insertion of the lag

Q3. The formula for Cost Variance is:

1. CV=EV-AC
2. CV=AC-EV
3. CV=BAC-(AC-EV)
4. CV=SV-BC

Q4. You are a project manager for a major information systems project. Someone from the quality department comes to see you about beginning a quality audit of your project. The team, already under pressure to complete the project as soon as possible, objects to the audit. You should explain to the team that the purpose of a quality audit is:

1. Part of an ISO 9000 investigation
2. To check if the customer is following the quality process
3. To identify inefficient and ineffective policies.
4. To check the accuracy of costs submitted by the team.

Q5. The project has been challenging to manage. Everyone has been on edge due t pressure to complete the project on time. Unfortunately, the tension has grown to the point where team meetings have become shouting matches and little work is accomplished during the meetings. One team member asks to be excused from future meetings, as all the shouting upsets him. Meanwhile, the sponsor has asked to attend team meetings in order to better understand how the project is going and issues involved in completing the project, and the customer has started discussions about adding scope to the project. In this situation, it would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Ask the sponsor if the information needed could be sent in a report rather than have him attend the meeting
2. Inform the team member who asked to be excused from the meeting of the value of communication in such meetings
3. Create new ground rules for the meetings and introduce them to the team
4. Hold a team building exercise that involves all the team members.

Q6. Which of the following is a set of technical guidelines that may be applied during the design of a product for the optimization of a specific aspect of the design?

1. Scope creeping
2. Rolling-wave planning
3. Design for X
4. Scrum master

Q7. As you examine a list of job candidates for your project, you find that your cousin is one of the three shortlisted candidates. You know that she was desperately looking for a job. After reviewing the three resumes, you will send them to the electronics engineer for a technical interview. From your review of these resumes, you see that all three shortlisted candidates have similar qualifications and experiences. What should you do?

1. To avoid conflict of interest, ignore your cousin’s resume but forward the other two resumes.
2. Forward all three resumes.
3. Call your cousin and conduct an informal interview yourself before forwarding the resumes.
4. Consult your boss before forwarding the resumes for interview.

Q8. A customer has given you a procurement of work for a complex, eightmonth project that has a few unknowns. The customer has asked you to just “get it done” and only wants to see you at the end of eight months when you deliver the finished project. Under these circumstances, which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Complete the project as requested, but verify its scope with the customer occasionally throughout.
2. Complete the project within eight months without contacting the customer during this time.
3. Ask management to check in with the customer occasionally.
4. Complete the project, but document that the customer did not want contact.

Q9. Kate’s project is in execution. During an internal project review meeting, Kate learns that the stakeholder engagement plan needs an update. The last update was done two weeks earlier. According to the stakeholder engagement plan, the plan must be reviewed and updated on a monthly basis. The nature of the required update does not require following the formal change control process. What should Kate do?

1. Wait for a couple of weeks to do the required update
2. Update the plan review procedure first before making the required update
3. Go ahead and do the required update
4. Seek the project sponsor‘s guidance

Q10. You are managing two projects. The first project is to design and construct a school building, and the second project is to construct an office building for your company's employees. What is your current role?

1. Project manager
2. Program manager
3. Portfolio manager
4. None of the above