Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. When a project is executed under contract, the contractual provisions will generally be considered as _____________ for the project.

1. Constraints
2. Exclusions
3. Deliverables
4. Provisions

Q3. A collection of formally documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation are controlled, changed, and approved is:

1. An authorization system
2. Project documentation
3. A change control board
4. A change control system

Q4. With a growing awareness of so-called unknowable-unknowns, the existence of emergent risk is becoming clear. These are risks that can only be recognized after they have occurred. Emergent risks can be tackled through developing:

1. Project resilience
2. Project charter
3. Project management plan
4. Project risk management plan

Q5. You are working with your team and are looking at the cost risks in the project. You and your team are currently creating a tornado diagram for the project risks. You do this as a part of which of the following processes?

1. Qualitative Risk Analysis
2. Risk Response Planning
3. Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. Monitor Risks

Q6. Your project team has identified a major project risk. After talking to the project management office, they determine that a reserve on the project is not necessary. What is the NEXT step?

1. List the time or cost overrun expected on the project in your project management plan.
2. Develop risk transference strategies.
3. Create a risk response plan that includes the risk.
4. Ignore he risk until it happens.

Q7. Halfway through the executing process of your project, a team member alerts you to a potential cost overrun for a specific deliverable. What do you do FIRST?

1. Determine the projected actual cost
2. Implement a change control process to track the change
3. Inform the customer.
4. Determine the cause of the overage

Q8. A team of experts come to your project and ask for approved procedures to verify your team is following these procedures. This is an example of which of the following?

1. Quality control
2. Manage quality
3. Verify scope
4. Control scope

Q9. The project has been working through some difficult technical issues relating to how the work should be done. The most recent problem related to the way each test was to be completed. There have also been disagreements with two of the eight managers and the sponsor has had to intervene once. The testing work is done when the project manager discovers that one of the changes agreed to has not been adequately completed. What did the project manager NOT do?

1. Ask those doing the work describe the change, to make sure they understood it.
2. Get the sponsor to sign off on the change.
3. Make sure the functional manager closely supervised the testing.
4. Provider more training for those doing the testing.

Q10. The project manager on a large software installation project is working with her team on a critical set of activities. They are working late on Saturday night. Circumstances create the situation wherein the project manager must decide to change the schedule that will push the end date of the project out two weeks. What BEST action should the project manager take next as a result of her decision?

1. Immediately document and capture the changes and present them to the change control board the next time that board is available for contact.
2. Look for free float to bring the project back into schedule
3. Implement configuration management in order to obtain senior management approval and then make the change.
4. Review her detailed risk assessment development process to ensure that other unidentified risks are included and a plan for mitigation is created.