Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of these items are important to address when determining each person's role in the project team?

1. Role, authority, responsibility, and competency
2. Role, responsibility, and competency
3. Role and responsibility
4. Role, authority, and competency

Q3. There are several communication methods used to share and distribute information to stakeholders, team members, and management. Which of the following communication methods is used when you notify the public about environmental effects from your project after implementation by posting reports on the project's website?

1. Pull communication
2. Interactive communication
3. Informal communication
4. Push communication

Q4. Which of the following statements is not accurate about the initial phase of a project?

1. The highest uncertainty is at this stage of the project.
2. The cost associated at the beginning of the project is highest.
3. Stakeholders have maximum influence during this phase.
4. Staffing levels are the lowest at this stage.

Q5. Which motivational theory says that working conditions, salary, and relationships at work do NOT improve motivation?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg

Q6. You have just walked into your office when you receive an e-mail from the sponsor notifying you that the auditing team will soon be your office to start a risk audit of your project. The next e-mail you receive has been forwarded to you, and involves conflict between two team members. You are immediately bombarded with phone calls from both parties to the e-mail complaining about the other. Which conflict resolution technique would you immediately use with team member?

1. Forcing
2. Compromising
3. Avoiding
4. Confronting

Q7. The stakeholder engagement plan is developed early during project planning phase. However, as the project moves into its execution phase, project stakeholders’ needs, interests and/or influence might change. If a significant change happens, what should the project manager do?

1. Refer the issue to the project sponsor
2. Hold all project communications until the issue has a resolution
3. Seek expert judgment from the project sponsor
4. Revisit the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process

Q8. Another project manager has a family emergency and must leave. He has asked you to fill in for him during a team meeting to discuss a minor problem with the project. He has already distributed a detailed agenda and provided with a copy. When you attend the meeting, several members of the team are making fun of the absent project manager’s ethnic heritage. Your company does not have a formal diversity policy covering such behavior. What should you do?

1. Because your company does not have a written diversity policy, there is nothing you can do.
2. Report the incident to the other project manager
3. Hold the meeting as if nothing happened
4. Begin the meeting with a discussion of diversity and professional behavior.

Q9. Which of the following is not a tool or technique of the Acquire Resources process?

1. Negotiation
2. Multi-criteria decision analysis
3. Pre-assignment
4. Conflict management

Q10. In order to provide one of your team members with a reward for excellent performance, you are going to allow him to acquire the new skill in which he is interested. Assuming that any activity shown in the chart would provide the team member with the benefit, which activity would you assign him to?

1. Activity D
2. Activity E
3. Activity F
4. Activity B