Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. How does MOST communication occur?

1. Nonverbally
2. Verbally
3. Paralingually
4. Referentially

Q3. Which of the following is the MOST beneficial result of the project manager knowing the critical path?

1. She would know where the extra resources should be placed
2. She would know what activities she needs to focus on while managing the project.
3. She would know where stakeholders need to be assigned to the project.
4. She would know where there is float on the project

Q4. When managing a project, which of the following is the BEST order to deal with problems that arise?

1. Go to the team, go to management, go to resource managers.
2. Go to resource manager, go to management, go to the customer.
3. Handle it yourself, go to the customer, go to management.
4. Resolve the problem with resources you control, go to the resource manager, go to the customer.

Q5. Analysis of project spending against project budget and calculation of the percentage complete of tasks currently underway are examples of:

1. Control Chart
2. PERT analysis
3. Performance reviews
4. Expert judgment

Q6. An activity-on-node (AON) network diagram shows the following activities on two critical paths; Start, D, E, J, L, End and Stat, D, E, G, I, L, End. Each activity is at least three days in duration, except for activity L, which is one day in duration. If you are directed to reduce the project by one day, which activities are MOST likely to change?

1. Activity L
2. Activity E or activity J
3. Activity G or activity I
4. Activity D or activity E

Q7. What is the traditional way to display a reporting structure among project team members?

1. Text-oriented role description
2. Flowchart
3. Project organization charts
4. Matrix-based responsibility chart

Q8. John, a project manager for Code Crashers, Inc., has a project with a group of inexperienced programmers that will develop a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This situation strongly resembles a project his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?

1. Parametric Estimating
2. Bottom Up Estimating
3. Three-point estimate
4. Analogous Estimating

Q9. The organization’s strategy provides a strategic direction and performance parameters for identifying, selecting, and delivering the right mix of projects. If it is determined that some of the CEO’s favorite projects do not fully align with the business objective, the PMO manager must:

1. Recommendation a realignment of the strategy
2. Terminate the project
3. Recommend a realignment of the project objectives
4. Honor the CEO’s desires and execute the project

Q10. A project post-mortem is an activity, usually performed at the project’s conclusion, to determine and analyze a project’s outcome which also includes a lessons-learned gathering exercise. Project post-mortems help to mitigate future risks and are often a key component of, and ongoing precursor to, effective risk management. Which of the following is a terrible mistake when collecting lessons learned?

1. Documenting both the success stories and the failed attempts
2. Calculating project’s final statistics
3. Focusing purely on the negatives and analyzing failures
4. Conducting a comprehensive performance review