Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which motivational theory uses the concepts of esteem and selfactualization?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg

Q3. You manage the construction of a new airport in your home country. Since your organization does not have experience deploying the sophisticated air-traffic control system, you outsourced this to a specialist organization. PMBOK’s Procurement Management knowledge will help you successfully administer this deal; however, for the supplier of the system, all the PMBOK processes will apply since this will be a complete project for the supplying organization. Which of the following will be a common denominator between your project and the supplier projects?

1. Project management plan
2. Supply agreement
3. Project’s scope of work
4. Budget for the air-traffic control system

Q4. You are managing a highly complex drug manufacturing project, and your sponsor is highly motivated and influential. You are optimistic about the outcome of the project; however, you are unsure about the project approval requirements that measure the project’s success. You would like to document the name of the person who signs off on the project and the criteria that constitute the project’s success. Which of the following documents should you use first to incorporate project approval requirements?

1. The scope document
2. The project charter
3. The approval requirement plan
4. The project management plan

Q5. The project manager has a team scattered across four countries. The team members are experts in their fields and a few are certified project managers. To deal with the distance, the project manager creates ground rules with the team, and has virtual meetings to deal with the cultural differences. Which of the following additional activities would have the GREATEST impact on the project?

1. Plan Communications
2. Acquire Project Team
3. Define Scope
4. Sequence Activities

Q6. A project is plagued by changes to the project charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary?

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

Q7. Pareto charts help the project manager:

1. Focus on the most critical issues to improve quality
2. Focus on stimulating thinking.
3. Explore a desired future outcome
4. Determine if a process is out of control.

Q8. You are the project manager managing a project to design a print head for dot matrix printers. In order to determine ideal settings for print quality, the quality manager of the company suggests trying out various scenarios for printing by varying certain parameters on the print head. Identifying such variables which influence the product or process under development is called:

1. Benchmarking
2. Design of Experiments
3. Statistical Sampling
4. Brainstorming

Q9. During the project executing, a project team member informs the project manager that a work package has not met the quality metric, and that she believes it is not possible to meet it. The project manager meets with all parties concerned to analyze the situation. Which part of the quality management process is the project manager involved in?

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

Q10. You are a project manager for a large consulting firm. Your superior has just asked for your input on a decision about which project your company should pursue. Project A has an internal rate of return (IRR) of 12 percent. Project B has a predicted cost ratio (BCR) of 1.3. Project C has an opportunity cost of US $75,000. Project D has a payback period of six months. If you had to choose based on this data, which project would you select?

1. Project