Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are managing a construction project. Your company does not specialize in construction design so you outsourced the construction design to a third party. You are conducting regular procurement performance reviews and are dissatisfied. You want to carry out a detailed audit of the design supplier’s work processes to determine the root cause. Can you do that?

1. Yes, it is a good project management technique advocated by the PMBOK guide.
2. Yes, if there is a provision in the contract allowing work process audits.
3. No, you are only authorized to perform quality audits on the delivered products and not the supplier’s internal work processes.
4. No, a detailed procurement audit cannot be performed until you terminate the contract.

Q3. You are a consulting project manager and an investment bank has a contract with you to run a large information technology project that is expected to last 15 months. During the Direct and Manage Project Work process, you discover that several regulatory requirements were addressed in the project management plan but missed from the scope statement. Failure to meet these requirements could result in legal action against the company. However, implementing the technology to comply with these regulations could exceed the budget and scope of the project and result in the cancellation of the project. What should you do?

1. Do not do anything as these requirements are not a part of the scope baseline.
2. Request additional funds to implement these requirements.
3. Submit a change request to incorporate the missed requirements in the project's scope.
4. This is a classic example of scope creep and such requirements must be ignored.

Q4. You are managing a fund-raising golf tournament that has a hole-in-one contest. However, your company cannot afford to pay the $1,000,000 award if someone does get a hole in one, so it has elected to take out an insurance policy in the event someone does get lucky. This is an example of:

1. Sharing
2. Mitigation
3. Transference
4. Avoidance

Q5. All of the following could occur during the Close Process or Phase process EXCEPT:

1. Creating lessons learned
2. Formal acceptance
3. Reducing resource spending
4. Performing benefit cost analysis

Q6. In order to facilitate project configuration and change management on complex projects, a project manager relies on configuration and change management tools. Such tools:

1. Can be manual or automatic; the selection depends on the project’s environment and requirements.
2. Must be manual; a complex project requires all change requests to be manually signed.
3. Must be automatic; a complex project requires complex change control procedures.
4. Change control must be manual, but the configuration control may be automatic.

Q7. A team member comes to you (the project manager) privately and informs you that an employee of your customer is making unwelcome advances. The team member has repeatedly requested that this person stop, but the advances continue. What is the BEST course of action?

1. Privatively confront the customer employee and threaten legal action if the advances do not stop.
2. Suggest that the team member avoid contact with the customer employee.
3. Contact the employee’s manager to arrange a meeting to discuss the matter.
4. Facilitate a meeting with the team member, the customer employee, and yourself to allow the two to work it out amicably.

Q8. 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

Q9. As per the PMBOK Guide, which of the following is not a communication method that you use to share information among project stakeholders?

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

Q10. Which of these is an input to the Monitor Risks process?

1. Risk audits
2. Change requests
3. Work performance information
4. Work Performance Reports