Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project manager has just received a change from the customer that does not affect the project schedule and is easy to complete. What should the project manager do FIRST?

1. Make the change happen as soon as possible.
2. Contact the project sponsor for permission.
3. Go to the change control board.
4. Evaluate the impacts on other project constraints.

Q3. You are performing the inspection of a deliverable with your contractor to determine if the deliverable is meeting requirements. After being satisfied with the inspection, you accept the deliverable. Which process are you in?

1. Quality control
2. Validate scope
3. Close procurement
4. Procurement audit

Q4. What percent of time do project managers spend communicating?

1. 90%
2. 20%
3. 70%
4. 25%

Q5. There are numerous ways to share information among project stakeholders. Which of the following is the most efficient communication method?

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

Q6. A new project manager has been hired in your company, and you have been asked to mentor her. Because she is well trained, she is planning her project in great detail. Her first project for the company is relatively low priority, and you feel that the project manager is planning too many project control meetings. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to tell her?

1. Strike a balance between the extent of the control system and the risk of unfavorable project outcomes.
2. Make sure you identify more than 40 risks, and then have more than one meeting a month
3. A good project management plan should be about90 percent complete before starting work
4. Make sure you include milestones to help plan the project charter.

Q7. A responsibility assignment matrix includes which two data points?

1. Resource and time estimate
2. Activity and calendar date
3. Activity and resource
4. Resource and usage each month

Q8. Warranty and inventory costs are going up, causing the project manager to worry about the costs of non-conformance. What is the BEST advice you can give the project manager?

1. Increase scrap.
2. Increase rework
3. Perform a quality audit.
4. Look for benchmarks.

Q9. Long hours to meet a looming deadline and immense pressure for success from management are causing a decline in team morale. There are occasional conflicts between team members over priorities and resources. How should these non-disruptive conflicts be handled?

1. Use of disciplinary actions
2. Using a private, direct, and collaborative approach first
3. Escalation to senior management
4. Arbitration

Q10. You are working on a big project and team members are located in different geographic locations. Your team has encountered some issues while communicating. During phone calls, some voices get lost and members also face difficulties in understanding the problems. So, you decide to find a better communication method to discuss issues. Which of the following is the most effective communication method?

1. Intranet site
2. Email
3. Fax
4. Video conferencing