Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Robert is managing a road construction project. Due to unseasonal weather conditions, the team productivity might be above or below target. This is an example of:

1. Ambiguity risk
2. Variability risk
3. Mitigated risk
4. Opportunity risk

Q3. The project budget is proving to be inaccurate. The SPI is 1.1. The team has had a negative deviation from the activity attributes, and the sponsor has inserted herself on the change control board. What is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Try to encourage the sponsor to remove herself from the change control board
2. Re-compute the project schedule
3. Re-estimate the activity attributes
4. Calculate the cost performance index

Q4. Bottom-up Cost estimating is typically motivated by the size and complexity of:

1. The project management software
2. The statistical relationship between historical data and other variables
3. The project budget
4. The individual schedule activity or work package

Q5. 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

Q6. Your boss is worried about the project schedule. There is a critical deliverable due to the federal government in two weeks. If you miss the deliverable, you could lose the entire contract. To help reduce the boss’s stress you show him the earned value calculations you just completed. They show your cost performance index (CPI) is 1) is US $490 million. Should your boss be comfortable?

1. Yes, your SV is $10 million.
2. No, your CPI is too high
3. He needs more data
4. Yes, your SPI is 1.05.

Q7. Which of the following BEST explains why the team needs to approve the final schedule?

1. To ensure activities can be completed as scheduled
2. To enhance team buy-in and loyalty
3. To get a better cost estimate
4. To improve communications

Q8. Why is the project change log a prime input to the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process?

1. So that the changes and their impact can be communicated to the appropriate stakeholders
2. So that the new identified changes can be appended to the log
3. So that stakeholders can review the log and prioritize the issues
4. So that the Integrated Change Control process is made redundant

Q9. The project deadline is the end of the year. The project consists of two activities. Activity A has a duration of two months and activity B has a duration of three months. Activities A and B can be performed concurrently. The start date for the project is set for the beginning of July. What is the MAXIMUM duration of the project?

1. Two months
2. Three months
3. Five months
4. Six months 45

Q10. A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, activity B takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes 4 weeks and can start as soon as activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before activity G starts. Activity G requires 3 weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. Which activities have float available?

1. Activity A has two weeks float, activity F has one week
2. Activity F has one week float
3. There is no float available in the project.
4. Activity A has eight weeks float