Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Complex projects usually demand preparation and distribution of periodic project performance reports. The contents of performance reports are usually determined early and documented in the project communications management plan. Which of the following is least likely to be a section on a work performance report?

1. Analysis of project forecasts
2. Current status of risks and issues
3. Stakeholder engagement strategy
4. Reserve burn down charts

Q3. Which of the following actions decreases the risk of the project failing to meet its goals and objectives?

1. Discouraging changes to the initial project scope
2. Acquiring more than required resources
3. Active management of stakeholders
4. Fast-tacking the project schedule to finish the project before deadline

Q4. Conflict management is a tool and technique of which of the following processes?

1. Control Procurements
2. Identify Stakeholders
3. Close Project or Phase
4. Manage Team

Q5. Your company requires that before you purchase any routers or switches for the data center you are building, you need to solicit quotes from three separate suppliers prior to submitting the purchase request to the finance department. This policy belongs to:

1. Organizational Process Assets
2. Enterprise Environmental Factors
3. Procurement Management Knowledge Area
4. Make-or-Buy Decision

Q6. The degree to which a particular stakeholder may be able to positively or negatively affect a project is his or her:

1. Level of engagement.
2. Level of interest.
3. Level of commitment.
4. Level of influence.

Q7. A project manager takes over an existing project, only to find that there are no quality standards. What part of the quality process should the project manager be in?

1. Plan Quality
2. Manage Quality
3. Quality analysis
4. Perform Quality Control

Q8. You are managing a large project with many contractors working on it. A stakeholder comes to you and informs you that he never received the status report from one of your contractors. What will your next step be?

1. Stop the payment and ask for clarification
2. Call the contractor
3. Review the communications management plan
4. Inform management

Q9. Your project team is having a dispute with a vendor about whether a specific task is within the project’s scope. The scope statement does not provide implementation-level details that could resolve this dispute. There is no WBS, however, because the project sponsor insisted that the project be started right away without pausing to create standard project planning documentation. Who is at fault?

1. The project manager
2. The project sponsor
3. The project stakeholders
4. The project vendor

Q10. Given multiple alternatives, the group decision method that allows the largest block in a group to decide (even if more than 50 percent of the members of the group do not support the decision) is:

1. Dictatorship
2. Plurality
3. Unanimity
4. Majority