Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your boss says that in order to your new product to market sooner, the project must be completed four months earlier. However, he does not want to shorten the schedule if the project cost will go up more than US $22,000. Provided with the chart, which critical path activity(s) would you crash?

1. Activity D
2. Activities A and F
3. Activities A and H
4. Activity C

Q3. Some project managers take communication lightly while managing a project. However, a good project manager must take communication very seriously and must be an effective and efficient communicator. Which of the following is not a fundamental attribute of effective communication?

1. Clarity on the purpose
2. Understanding receiver's communications requirements
3. Relying on verbal communications
4. Monitoring communications

Q4. During Control risks process, the risk response owner should be:

1. Identifying which risks he/she wants to monitor
2. Controlling the identification of response strategies
3. Informing the project manager of any midcourse correction needed
4. Updating stakeholders of new strategies for mitigating risks.

Q5. You are collecting requirements for your project. For a few requirements you are having difficulty reaching a consensus, so you decide to vote and select the choice which has the largest number of votes. What voting technique is this?

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

Q6. Based on the chart, how is the project doing?

1. You are in the trouble because there are three activities with no float
2. You have a lot of flexibility because you have activities with float
3. You do not have enough information to make a decision
4. Everything is fine because you have an even number of activities with and without float.

Q7. Which of the following should be avoided while applying logical relationships to project activities:

1. Applying the SS relationship with a lead
2. Applying the SS relationship with a lag
3. Applying the SF relationship
4. Applying multiple relationships between the same activities

Q8. When one factor used to determine the effort required to produce a unit of work is increased while all other factors remain fixed, a point will eventually be reached at which additions of that one factor start to yield progressively decreased productivity. This is known as:

1. The 100 percent rule
2. The Pareto Law
3. The law of diminishing returns
4. The theory of constraints

Q9. A project manager is using a Risk Diagramming technique that is a graphical representation of situations showing causal influences, time ordering of events, and other relationships among variables and outcomes. This would be:

1. A system flow chart
2. An Influence Diagram
3. A Pareto chart
4. Histogram

Q10. A project manager overhears a conversation between two stakeholders who are talking about how unhappy they are with the impacts of the project on their own departments. Stakeholder A asks I the project is on time, and Stakeholder B replies that the SPI is 1.05. Stakeholder A asks if the project manager for the project knows o Stakeholder B’s concern. Stakeholder B responds that he is not sure. What is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Make sure stakeholders see that the project manager overheard. Then ask them to direct any questions to the project manager in writing.
2. Make a presentation to all the stakeholders regarding the status of the project.
3. Send both stakeholders a copy of the issue log, and ask for additional comments.
4. Arrange a meeting with both stakeholders to allow them to voice any concerns they may have.