Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You need to shorten the duration of this project by five months. Included in your solution, based on the chart, would be to crash activity C. However, further analysis reveals that this activity has two days of float. What should you do?

1. Crash activities F and H
2. Crash activity D
3. Crash activities D and H
4. Crash activity
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Q3. A project manager new to project management is taking on a new project. When is the BEST time to help build the people working on the project into a team?

1. During project initiating
2. Before committing to a project cost estimate
3. Throughout the project
4. During project planning

Q4. A project manager has discovered that a team member has gold plated the work done in an activity. In order to discover this, the project manager must have been performing:

1. Time management
2. Scope management
3. Cost management
4. Human Resource management

Q5. A critical project rollout was delayed because one of the stakeholders did not receive necessary communication on time. On further analysis, the project manager discovered that the communication was sent to the wrong teams. This could have happened because:

1. Communication broke down between the project team and the stakeholder.
2. The project manager failed to manage stakeholder expectations.
3. The stakeholder communications requirements were not properly analyzed during the Plan Communications Management process.
4. The stakeholder did not proactively ask for updates.

Q6. When the project manager completes the detailed project schedule, it would be MOST important to get it approved by the:

1. Project sponsor
2. Team
3. Functional managers
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Q7. Stakeholders can be identified in which project management process group?

1. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing
2. Initiating and planning
3. Planning and monitoring and controlling
4. Monitoring and controlling and closing

Q8. All of the following are part of the Perform Quality Control process EXCEPT:

1. Pareto chart
2. Control charts
3. Inspection
4. Quality audits.

Q9. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do when a project activity will take longer than planned and the project can no longer be completed on time?

1. Compress the schedule
2. Ask for an extension of time
3. Negotiate for more resources
4. Work overtime to make up the time

Q10. Few project managers collect lessons-learned information throughout the project’s life. Most tackle this in the final days of the project or, worse, after the project is complete. What is the negative consequence of this approach?

1. It makes compiling and obtaining project information difficult.
2. It might result in further expenses on the project.
3. The project’s NPV becomes zero.
4. It requires hiring a specialist to do the job.