Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. An activity has an early start (ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an early finish (EF) of day 9, and a late finish (LF) of day 19. The activity:

1. Is on the critical path
2. Has a lag
3. Is progressing well
4. Is not on the critical path 55

Q3. 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

Q4. Your company requires that before you purchase any routers or switches for the data center you are building, you need to solicit quotes from three separate suppliers prior to submitting the purchase request to the finance department. This policy belongs to:

1. Organizational Process Assets
2. Enterprise Environmental Factors
3. Procurement Management Knowledge Area
4. Make-or-Buy Decision

Q5. You have a project in which you are responsible for building a condo complex in a resort town. The project is expected to take two years to complete. During your work breakdown structure meeting, you have decomposed many deliverables into work packages and schedule activities. However, there are some work packages that will occur a year from now, so you have elected not to decompose those deliverables and work packages at this time. This is an example of what tool or technique?

1. Scope Creep
2. Poor Planning
3. Rolling Wave Planning
4. Time-delayed Decomposition

Q6. Ideally the relationship between a project manager and a business analyst should be:

1. Business analyst should directly report to the project manager
2. A collaborative partnership
3. Project manager should directly report to the business analyst
4. Business analyst must audit the project manager

Q7. Your drug manufacturing project requires the synthesis of many pharmaceutical chemicals to produce an active ingredient for a drug. You are managing a contractor to supply all these chemicals. Recent quality testing of the drugs raised concerns over the quality of the chemicals supplied by the contractor. Which of the following must be your first action to ensure that the contractor is meeting all contractual obligations?

1. Escalate this issue to the sponsor and submit all drug testing reports
2. Reject all poor quality drugs and penalize the contractor
3. Convene a meeting with stakeholders and communicate the findings
4. Carry out audits and inspections to verify compliance in the seller's deliverables

Q8. You have decided to apply Resource Leveling to a project because of a critically required resource being available only at certain times. Which of the following will likely be true?

1. Resource Leveling can often cause the original critical path to change.
2. Resource Leveling will over-allocate resources to schedule the project before the deadline.
3. Resource Leveling will require additional resources to complete the project.
4. Resource Leveling will never alter the original critical path.

Q9. You are in the middle of a complex negotiation when the other party says, “We need to finish in one hour because I have to catch my plane.” That person is using which of the following negotiation strategies?

1. Good guy, bad guy
2. Delay
3. Deadline
4. Extreme demands.

Q10. Decision tree analysis is used to calculate the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. What are a decision node’s inputs and outputs?

1. Input: Cost of each decision; Output: Probability of occurrence
2. Input: Cost of each decision; Output: Decision made
3. Input: Scenario probability; Output: Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
4. Input: Cost of each decision; Output: Payoff