Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. 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

Q3. Rosanne is an experienced project manager working on a pharmaceutical project. This project involves two large vendors supplying chemical products with specific compositions for preparing drugs. While reviewing documents to see how a seller is performing, she notices the seller did not meet some of the contractual terms. Since it is a first-time violation, she would like to initiate a corrective action to bring the seller’s performance in line with the statement of work. Which of the following are not outputs of Rosanne’s effort?

1. Work performance data and approved change requests
2. Work performance information and change requests
3. Change requests and Organizational process assets update
4. Change requests and Project management plan updates

Q4. 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

Q5. The BEST description of costs that change with the amount of production is:

1. Variable costs
2. Fixed costs
3. Direct costs
4. Sunk costs 24

Q6. A project manager approaches you to understand the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in better detail. You tell her that:

1. The WBS is a detailed project plan and includes the effort, resources, and dates on which the tasks for the project are complete.
2. The WBS is a task-oriented decomposition of work that identifies each task and the resource required to accomplish the task.
3. The WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work the project team must accomplish to meet project objectives.
4. The WBS is a Gantt chart that contains details about the project deliverables the project team must do.

Q7. In order to provide one of your team members with a reward for excellent performance, you are going to allow him to acquire the new skill in which he is interested. Assuming that any activity shown in the chart would provide the team member with the benefit, which activity would you assign him to?

1. Activity D
2. Activity E
3. Activity F
4. Activity B

Q8. A heuristic is BEST described as a:

1. Control tool.
2. Scheduling method
3. Planning tool
4. Rule of thumb

Q9. Based on the chart, while working on the project, you are told that you have to remove some resources to support a more important project for your customer. From which activity would it be BEST to remove resources?

1. Activity A
2. Activity B
3. Activity C
4. Activity D

Q10. The project is NOT completed until:

1. The project scope is completed, administrative closure is completed, and payment is received.
2. Formal acceptance is received, and any other requirements for project closure as stated in the contract are met
3. The customer is satisfied and final payment is received
4. Lessons learned are completed