Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During the executing process group, a functional manager asks you to use a model C generator instead of model B on your project. The functional manager says that model C will solve the needs of the project and provide some benefits to the manufacturing department. You look at the cost associated with model C and discover that it is substantially higher than model B. If you are not sure you can justify the more expensive model, what is the BEST thing to do?

1. Review the specifications of each to validate the manager’s claim
2. Analyze the differences in using each model and present them to the sponsor.
3. Use model C and cut other activities to make up for the added cost.
4. Do a life cycle analysis and present the results to your boss.

Q3. A project manager has completed identification of stakeholders and has started planning for a flow instruments installation project in a hospital. While developing the project management plan, a team member states that a stakeholder in the X-ray department is missing from the stakeholder list. Which of the following would be the best response from the project manager?

1. Authenticate the information from the team member
2. Include and involve the stakeholder immediately
3. It is too late to involve a stakeholder in the planning, so ignore the stakeholder
4. Wait until the execution phase to involve the new stakeholder

Q4. A work breakdown structures numbering system allows the project staff to:

1. Systemically estimate costs of work breakdown structure elements.
2. Provide project justification
3. Identify the level at which individual elements are found
4. Use it in project management software.

Q5. Which of the following is the BEST tool for showing the team the project schedule status during project executing?

1. Milestone chart.
2. Bart chart.
3. Work breakdown structure.
4. Network diagram

Q6. You have been given a project to construct a small dam. Currently, you are visiting your project stakeholders and asking about their needs and expectations. You also have had many workshops and brainstorming sessions with them. Which process is this?

1. Identify stakeholders
2. Collect requirements
3. Define scope
4. Control scope

Q7. You have found you do not yet have an accurate estimate of the number and skill levels of resources needed for the scheduled activity Build Racks for Data Center. You need this estimate for presentation to your Human Resources department later in the week. You have decided to decompose the Build Racks for Data Center activity into smaller components such as take equipment out of box, review equipment for completeness, build frame, and install rails. Then you plan to estimate the resources for each smaller component and combine those estimates into an aggregate. This is an example of:

1. Aggregate Estimating
2. Alternative Analysis
3. Bottom-up Estimating
4. Rolling Wave Estimating

Q8. A project uses rounding of activity cost estimates data to the nearest $100, uses staff hours as the unit of measure for resources, and has a variance threshold of 10 percent deviation from the baseline plan. These approaches are typically documented in the:

1. Cost management plan
2. Scope Statement
3. WBS
4. Project charter

Q9. The Close Project process includes all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Analysis of project success
2. Ensuring that records include final specifications
3. Creating a project risk management plan
4. A collection of project records

Q10. The network expansion project you just took over is said to be doing pretty well. The previous project manager only used variances to tell the current project status. In the last report you find SV = US $50,000, CV = US $10,000, PV = US $500,000. You know the rate of spending and schedule progress are important as well. Based on the details you have been given what are the SPI and CPI?

1. 0.90, 1.02
2. 1.10, 1.02
3. 0.91, 0.98
4. 1.11, 0.98