Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In your weekly status reports, you report the earned value for the project. This information is essential for you and the stakeholders to gauge the progress of the project. What process group is the cost and schedule control part of?

1. Closing
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and Controlling

Q3. What BEST describes the role of the project team members?

1. To perform the project’s work
2. To approve the change requests
3. To accept ultimate responsibility for the project’s success
4. To authorize the project

Q4. Which of the following is the correct logical sequence of the five process groups?

1. Planning, Monitoring and Controlling, Initiating, Executing, Closing
2. Planning, Initiating, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing
3. Initiating, Monitoring and Controlling, Planning, Executing, Closing
4. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, Closing

Q5. You are making another international trip and have been invited to a holiday celebration; you discover that all of the subcontracted work for the project has been given to one of the team member’s brothers. What should you do?

1. Do nothing if the project is progressing on schedule.
2. Evaluate the cost of the subcontracted work.
3. Determine what the common practices are in that country.
4. Tell the team member that such actions are not allowed.

Q6. Formal written correspondence with the customer is required when:

1. Defects are detected.
2. The customer requests additional work not covered under contract.
3. The project has a schedule slippage that includes changes to the critical path.
4. The project has cost overruns.

Q7. Jessica is managing an office refurbishment project. All the project stakeholders are identified and classified. The stakeholder engagement plan is also approved. Jessica is managing a project for the first time, and she is relying on the PMBOK guide as a reference to deliver an excellent project. Which of the following processes would provide guidance to Jessica regarding how to execute the approved stakeholder engagement plan?

1. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
2. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
3. Identify Stakeholders
4. Plan Stakeholder Engagement

Q8. Kevin is assigned to a software development project that will start in the near future and is currently tailoring the PMBOK processes to satisfy the project’s specific needs. Kevin wants to introduce a new process, “Identify Key Deliverables”, to the existing six project scope management processes. Although he understands that project deliverables identification is already in the PMBOK scope management processes, he believes that having a dedicated process will stress the importance of determining and agreeing to key project deliverables. The best position for the new “Identify Key Deliverables” process should be between which of the following two processes?

1. Define Scope and Create WBS
2. Create WBS and Validate Scope
3. Plan Scope Management and Collect Requirements
4. Collect Requirements and Define Scope

Q9. A new project manager is planning a complex hardware installation project. The team consists of 13 people who are experts in their fields. The project manager does not want to micromanage the project. How far should he decompose the work?

1. As small as possible because the work is complex.
2. As large as possible because he is dealing with experts
3. To 1000-hour work packages because he is dealing with experts
4. To about 80-hour work packages because it will make the work less complex 8

Q10. Which of the following BEST describes when a project phase is generally concluded?

1. When the work is done
2. When the deliverables are accepted
3. When the work for the next phase is ready to start
4. When it is scheduled in the milestone schedule