Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager decides to bring expected future schedule performance in line with the project management plan. What is this a definition of?

1. Corrective action
2. Lessons learned
3. Scope verification
4. Scope planning Activity Float (months) Start B 2 C 1 D 0 E 3 F 1 G 0 H 4 I 0 End 78

Q3. Your project is being completed in another country. It is going reasonably well and is ahead of the cost projections when one of the local officials informs you he will make sure the project work stops unless you pay him $50. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Make the payment
2. Offer to pay more than the requested amount to get more support from the official in the future.
3. Offer to pay a smaller amount to discourage future requests for larger amounts.
4. Do not make the payment 26

Q4. A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, activity B takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes 4 weeks and can start as soon as activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before activity G starts. Activity G requires 3 weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. Which activities have float available?

1. Activity A has two weeks float, activity F has one week
2. Activity F has one week float
3. There is no float available in the project.
4. Activity A has eight weeks float

Q5. A project manager is trying to manage a complex project at a 6 sigma level with 5 people. The project manager decides to use a trend report because it will help him:

1. Evaluate earned value.
2. Examine project results over time
3. Analyze the level of project complexity.
4. Determine the level of quality.

Q6. Which of the following is a set of technical guidelines that may be applied during the design of a product for the optimization of a specific aspect of the design?

1. Scope creeping
2. Rolling-wave planning
3. Design for X
4. Scrum master

Q7. Which of the following are ALL outputs of the Perform Integrated Change Control process?

1. Approved corrective actions, validated defect repair, forecasts, deliverables
2. Deliverables, implemented corrective actions, rejected change requests, validated defect repair
3. Approved defect repair, validated defect repair, rejected change requests, approved corrective actions
4. Recommend corrective actions, validated defect repair, approved defect repair, and rejected change requests.

Q8. A project manager holds a meeting with his manager to explain that an activity has been delayed and the project manager will need additional resources to complete the project. The manager stops the meeting because the project manager has forgotten something. What might it have been?

1. To investigate undoing previous fast tracking activities
2. To try to compress the project schedule before asking for additional resources
3. To look for options with the customer before meeting with management
4. To eliminate float in the near-critical path

Q9. You are a project manager of a construction project that is financially challenged and behind schedule. A foreman fails to deliver a deliverable of the project on time as promised. You need to address the issue with the foreman. How should you approach the foreman?

1. You are the project manager responsible for the whole of the project. To ensure you have control, remain firm, and reprimand the foreman and the team to ensure they do not slow down.
2. You disregard the issue, acknowledging that what is done is done and develop a plan for moving forward.
3. You meet with the foreman inquiring about what happened and seek to understand and solve the problem.
4. You reprimand the foreman n private and ask that he keep you better informed in the future.

Q10. If the optimistic estimate for an activity is 12 days, and the pessimistic estimate is 18 days, what is the standard deviation of this activity?

1. 1
2. 1.3
3. 6
4. 3