Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager is trying to manage a complex project at a 6 sigma level with 5 people. The project manager decides to use a trend report because it will help him:

1. Evaluate earned value.
2. Examine project results over time
3. Analyze the level of project complexity.
4. Determine the level of quality.

Q3. Your project is delayed and you are trying to compress the schedule so that you can bring your project on track. While reviewing the activities of your project, you notice that plumbing work starts after completing electrical work. You discuss these two activities with your team members and reach a conclusion that these two activities can start at the same time. Therefore, you make a change to the plan to start these two activities together. Which technique are you using here?

1. Resource leveling
2. Resource optimization
3. Fast tracking
4. Crashing

Q4. Who of the following are ALWAYS stakeholders?

1. A person who does not want the project to be completed.
2. An assembly line worker that will use the product of the project
3. A functional manager from the engineering department.
4. A person who might lose his or her position in the company because of the project

Q5. The project manager has a project that is three months behind but, surprisingly, markedly under budget. She has decided to try to make up some time, but needs to minimize the project risk. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Crash
2. Fast track
3. Redefine the scope
4. Resource level

Q6. Increasing the number of resources in order to crash a project schedule does not always cut the time by the same factor. In worst cases, too many resources assigned to an activity may actually increase the activity duration. This is because:

1. Decrease in cost budget
2. Required additional coordination
3. Funding limit reconciliation
4. Additional risk introduced due to crashing

Q7. The Identify Risks process involves determining which risks may impact a project. It is considered an iterative process. What is the frequency of the iteration?

1. Every month
2. Every two weeks
3. The frequency of iteration will vary based on the situation
4. Every week

Q8. You are in the Validate Scope process of your electronic goods manufacturing project. While reviewing some products, you have noticed that the tolerance for one product is 0.01 percent less than what was listed in the requirements documentation. This deviation may not be a problem for the customers, and it may not impair the product’s operation. What is your best immediate action in such a situation?

1. Notify the stakeholders about the deviation
2. Change the project management plan to allow for small deviation
3. Reject all products and restart the project
4. Discuss with your team about the quality testing

Q9. A project needed to monitor the technical performance of the project and capture data related to how many errors or defects had been identified and how many remained uncorrected. Which of the following techniques should the project use?

1. Scatter diagram
2. Flowchart
3. Histogram
4. Control chart

Q10. You are building a dam for a state government. Your organization is considered a specialist in dam design and overall management of construction activities. However, your organization lacks resources to execute the earth-works involved. You have subcontracted all the project’s earth-works to a local subcontractor. The quality of the subcontractor’s work is acceptable, but the subcontractor is not conforming to your organization’s health and safety standards. You escalated this to the subcontractor’s project manager, but he turned down your request. The subcontractor’s project manager is of the view that the request is out of the contract’s scope and none of the contract provisions require him to conform to your organization’s standards. You are agitated since you believe health and safety standards are globally accepted, and the contract does not have to explicitly state them. Further, according to the state law, you cannot terminate the contract since the subcontractor has not vio

1. Go for judicial arbitration as stated in the contact’s ADR provisions
2. Terminate the contract immediately since you will not compromise health and safety standards
3. Withhold the subcontractor’s payments to force compliance
4. Negotiate a contact amendment with the subcontractor requiring compliance to the standards