Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project team member has completed his work on the project. Which of the following MUST the project manager do?

1. Provide the team member with copies of his work on the project
2. Update the employee’s records with the new skills acquired.
3. Invite him to the project closure party
4. Check to make sure he is happy with his performance.

Q3. A project team is having difficulty communicating over long distances. There are 13 team members from two countries when five people from Indian are added to the project. How many communication channels are there?

1. 153
2. 180
3. 324
4. 362

Q4. The project has 13 team members and affects over 15 departments in the organization. Because the project is 20 percent complete to date and the team has had successful performance reports from five of the affected departments, the project manager holds a party to celebrate. The project manager invites key stakeholders from all of the departments to the party, in order to give those providing good reviews an informal opportunity to communicate good things to those departments that have not yet been affected by the project. At the party, the project manager walks around to try to discover any relevant information that would help the project be more successful. He happens to hear a manager of one of the departments talking about setting up more regular meetings on the project. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to FIRST:

1. Record the effectiveness of the part in the project lessons learned.
2. Review the information distribution methods on the project.
3. Hold a meeting of all the stakeholders to discuss their concerns.
4. Make sure the manager has a copy of the communications management plan so he is reminded that such concerns should be sent to the project manager.

Q5. 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

Q6. You are planning a storage device migration in a data center. During this phase of the project, who should control the project?

1. Project Manager
2. SMEs
3. Sponsor
4. Management

Q7. Adaptive project lifecycles, in comparison with predictive project lifecycles, are developed with the intent of:

1. Eliminating cost of changes throughout the project’s lifecycle
2. Providing agility in responding to change
3. Maximizing cost of changes throughout the project’s lifecycle
4. Minimizing cost of changes throughout the project’s lifecycle

Q8. A new project manager is planning a complex hardware installation project. The team consists of 13 people who are experts in their fields. The project manager does not want to micromanage the project. How far should he decompose the work?

1. As small as possible because the work is complex.
2. As large as possible because he is dealing with experts
3. To 1000-hour work packages because he is dealing with experts
4. To about 80-hour work packages because it will make the work less complex 8

Q9. As part of tracking a project, a project manager is validating the completion of project scope. He or she would measure this against:

1. Requirements traceability matrix
2. The Project Management Plan
3. The Project Charter
4. The requirements management plan

Q10. The Conduct Procurements process receives bids or proposals and applies criteria to select one or more sellers who are both qualified and acceptable as a seller. Which of the following techniques is not a valid technique for this process?

1. Make-or-buy analysis
2. Proposal Evaluation Techniques
3. Advertising
4. Bidder Conference