Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In managing project communications, what should the project manager keep in mind?

1. Communication skills are most important during project executing.
2. The receiver is responsible for making sure communications are clear.
3. Only the team members need to be concerned about communication with each other.
4. A choice must be made about how to communicate properly.

Q3. Which of the following leadership traits is MOST importance for a project manager?

1. Communication
2. Team building
3. Technical expertise
4. Project control

Q4. A project manager needs to analyze the project costs to find ways to decrease costs. IT would be BEST if the project manager looks at:

1. Variable costs and fixed costs
2. Fixed costs and indirect costs.
3. Direct costs and variable costs
4. Indirect costs and direct costs

Q5. Many quality problems plagued a project. The quality of the work products deviated considerably from specifications. The project manager decided to do a root cause analysis. What activities does a root cause analysis include?

1. Discovery of the underlying causes of a problem
2. Problem Identification and discovery of the underlying causes of a problem
3. Identification of a problem
4. Problem identification, discovery of the underlying causes of a problem, and development of preventive actions

Q6. Based on the chart, while completing the project, a team member tells you that the team forgot something during planning. Activity F needs the results of activity E before it can begin. Taking this new dependency into account, what would be the effect on the project?

1. It would increase the critical path
2. Communication would be more complex
3. There would be no effect
4. It would delay activity F

Q7. Linda has been assigned to establish a PMO in her organization. Linda believes this project cannot succeed unless all the key project stakeholders support the project. She also believes she needs to pay special attention to stakeholder management to ensure success of this project. First, she needs to develop her stakeholder register. To produce the project stakeholder register, which of the following processes must Linda start?

1. Plan Stakeholder Engagement
2. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
3. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
4. Identify Stakeholders

Q8. There are two activities on your schedule: 1) Install server in lab, and 2) Move server into the data center. However, the second task cannot start until the server has run in the lab for five days without failure. This is an example of what?

1. Fast Track
2. Lead
3. Crashing
4. Lag

Q9. You are just starting on a project as project manager. The project sponsor asks you for weekly status updates by email and monthly project status meetings to review the project’s progress. These requirements are documented in the:

1. Scope statement
2. Communications management plan
3. Project charter
4. Organizational plan

Q10. A project manager would like to resolve conflicts by a give-and-take attitude rather than by a one-sided approach. Which of these approaches is he likely to use?

1. Forcing
2. Problem-solving
3. Directing
4. Withdrawing