Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. How does time-boxing help minimize scope creep in agile projects?

1. It forces the team to create project WBS using the user stories.
2. It forces the sponsor to allocate a Scrum master who helps in eliminating scope creep.
3. It forces the team to process essential features first, then other features.
4. It forces the team to convert the user stories into epics.

Q3. Communication noise refers to influences on effective communication that influence the interpretation of conversations. Noise affects which components of communication?

1. Encoding and decoding
2. Decoding and feedback
3. Transmission and decoding
4. Encoding and feedback

Q4. Which of the following is least likely to be a project?

1. Regular updates of the company website
2. Responding to a contract solicitation
3. Running a campaign for a political office
4. An endeavor that lasts for 10 years

Q5. A project is considered closed when the:

1. Client accepts the product
2. Lessons learned are completed
3. Archives are completed
4. Contract is finished

Q6. Which of the following is an output of the Create WBS process?

1. Scope baseline
2. Project scope statement
3. Decomposition
4. Requirements documentation

Q7. You have just completed the initiating processes of a small project and are moving into the planning processes when a project stakeholder asks you for the project’s budget and cost baseline. What should you tell her?

1. The project budget can be found in the project charter, which has just bee completed
2. The project budget and baseline will not be finalized and accepted until the planning processes are completed
3. The project management plan will not contain the project budget and baseline; this is a small project
4. It is impossible to complete an estimate before the project management plan is created.

Q8. A software vendor on your project is hoping to be awarded a contract providing software for another project at your company. You are not the manager of the other project. However, the vendor offers you tickets to an upcoming professional sports event if you will "put in a good word" for his company to the vendor selection team of the other project. What do you do?

1. Fire the vendor
2. Decline the tickets but provide a recommendation for the vendor
3. Decline the tickets and notify appropriate management of the situation
4. Accept the tickets if company policy allows it and provide a recommendation for that vendor to the other project team

Q9. You are working on a medium-sized project and management has decided to forego the perform quantitative risk analysis process. So, after identifying risks, you start the qualitative risk analysis process and now you are going to prioritize them. Which of the following techniques are you going to use?

1. Probability and impact
2. Fishbone diagram
3. Scatter diagram
4. Sensitive analysis

Q10. A project manager wants to make sure his plans for meeting the training needs of resources, and plans for releasing resources are complete. All of the following are inputs to this activity EXCEPT:

1. Enterprise environmental factors
2. Historical information
3. Project organizational charts
4. Activity resource requirement.