Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Management has promised you part of the incentive fee from the customer if you complete the project early. While finalizing a major deliverable, your team informs you that the deliverable meets the requirements in the contract, but will not provide the functionality the customer needs. If the deliverable is late, the project will not be completed early. What action should you take?

1. Provide the deliverable as it is.
2. Inform the customer of the situation, and work out a mutually agreeable solution.
3. Start to compile a list of delays caused by the customer to prepare for negotiations.
4. Cut other activities in a way that be unnoticed to provide more time to fix the deliverable.

Q3. Which of the following should you not use as an input into creating the WBS structure?

1. Bill of Material (BOM)
2. Project scope statement
3. Organizational process assets
4. Requirements documentation

Q4. For the last three months, a customer has been from two to four days late with her approvals on deliverables. After analyzing the situation, the project manager decides withdrawal is the best conflict resolution technique to use. Which of the following reflects withdrawal?

1. Inform the customer that late approvals are not a problem, but ask him or her to try to get them in on time in the future.
2. Meet with the customer to determine a new due date for approvals.
3. Postpone a decision
4. Call the customer and demand that you receive the approvals today.

Q5. Your project is complete and the product is ready to be delivered. The client inspects the deliverable and accepts it. What process is this?

1. Close procurement
2. Close project
3. Validate scope
4. Verify scope

Q6. The sponsor has asked you to require that each piece of the project scope be planned, estimated, and scheduled. The sponsor also wants to authorize each piece of the project management plan after the documentation is assembled. What is the MOST appropriate response to these requests?

1. Politely advise the sponsor to forego the authorization of work.
2. Provide the sponsor with a schedule of when the components will be ready for authorization
3. Ask the sponsor to authorize each piece before it is completed
4. Tell the sponsor that the chance for authorization will come after the pieces of the project management plan are compiled

Q7. While sequencing activities for a project, the project management team applied certain discretionary dependencies. This was based on their knowledge of best practices within the project application area. What is the potential risk involved in using such dependencies?

1. They can create fixed float values and create external dependencies.
2. They can create arbitrary float values and limit later scheduling options.
3. They can create arbitrary float values and create external dependencies.
4. They can create arbitrary float values and create mandatory dependencies.

Q8. How can a project manager ensure continued active support of the project supporters and at the same time minimize negative impacts from the negative stakeholders?

1. By ensuring that stakeholders clearly understand the communication management plan
2. By ensuring that stakeholders clearly understand the stakeholder management strategy
3. By ensuring that stakeholders are kept disengaged throughout the project lifecycle
4. By ensuring that stakeholders clearly understand project goals, objectives, benefits, and risks

Q9. From the project perspective, quality attributes:

1. Determine how effectively the performing organization supports the project.
2. Provide the basis for judging the project’s success or failure
3. Are specific characteristics on which a product is designed and tested.
4. Are objective criteria that must be met.

Q10. Crashing helps you bring the project back on schedule if it is late. Which of the following statements is true about crashing?

1. Crashing should be done on the critical path
2. Crashing does not increase the cost
3. In crashing, you don’t start activities in parallel
4. All of the above