Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A key output of Plan Resource Management is a list of project roles and responsibilities. What should this document include?

1. Work packages, Effort, Authority, Duties
2. Role, Responsibility, Authority, Risk
3. Role, Title, Resource Cost, Responsibility
4. Role, Authority, Responsibility, Competence

Q3. You are in the middle of your project and working on a deliverable which is 90% completed. It is time for the yearly audit. A team of auditors are about to come and verify if you are following the process as defined or not. However, as the deliverable is about to be completed, you check it and measure all dimensions to find any possible dimensional defects. What process is this?

1. Control quality
2. Manage quality
3. Plan quality management
4. Control scope

Q4. You are managing a two-year project involving staff from several departments. The project is on schedule and within budget. A key team member leaves for a four-week vacation without completing a highly technical and specialized activity assigned to him (activity A). The project team cannot begin activity B or active E (a critical path activity) until activity A is completed. Activity A has three days float and is not on the critical path. A team member, a vendor, and a non-team member work overtime to complete activity A within its float time. You need to reimburse the nonteam member’s department and pay the vendor at an overtime rate. What action should you take?

1. Send a complaint letter to the key team member’s boss, and ask him to fund the extra cost expended.
2. Re-evaluate your communications management plan
3. Thank the others for filing in, but tell them not to waste time on noncritical path activities
4. Pay the cost out of your project reserves 5

Q5. All of the following are results of adding to the risk register in the Plan Risk Responses process EXCEPT:

1. You are in control of the project as it progresses with few surprises
2. By managing the plan, you are able to avoid risks while mitigating the effects of others
3. The need for workarounds is minimized
4. The need for contingency reserves is minimized.

Q6. In projects where there is a gap between the real business requirements and the stated business requirements, agile methods are extremely helpful. Agile methods provide a solution to this problem by:

1. Completing the project quickly so that gap is significantly reduced.
2. Replacing the project manager with a Scrum master in order to expedite the project.
3. Purposefully building and reviewing prototypes and release versions to refine requirements.
4. Eliminating the documentation altogether from the project management approach.

Q7. While staffing a project in another country, the project leader from that country comes to you with a suggested team consisting of members of the project leader’s family. Your FIRST course of action should be to:

1. Inquire if hiring only through family lines is common practice in the project leader’s country.
2. Review the resumes of the individuals to see if they are qualified.
3. Ask the project leader to provide additional names of people unrelated to him/her.
4. Use a different project leader to prevent problems later in the project.

Q8. The cost of choosing one project and giving up another is called:

1. Fixed cost
2. Sunk cost
3. Net present value (NPV)
4. Opportunity cost 6

Q9. You are working in a large organization and managing a project to construct a road. To help you in your project, your PMO is providing you with their support and require you to comply with them. What kind of PMO is this?

1. Supportive
2. Controlling
3. Directive
4. Helping

Q10. A storm has damaged the manufacturing facility that is under construction as part of your project. You have just discovered that although the project risk management plan mandated that the facility have insurance against damage and loss, this policy was never acquired, and the project budget must cover the losses. Who is at fault?

1. The risk manager
2. The project manager
3. The facilities manager
4. The construction crew