Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which part of the risk management process receives input from risk response owners?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
4. Plan Risk Responses.

Q3. Near the end of your last project, additional requirements were demanded by a group of stakeholders when they learned they would be affected by your project. This became a problem because you had not included the time or cost in the project management plan for these requirements. What is the BEST thing you can do to prevent such a problem on future projects?

1. Review the WBS dictionary more thoroughly, looking for incomplete descriptions.
2. Review the project charter more thoroughly, examining the business case for “holes.”
3. Do a more thorough job of procurement planning.
4. Pay more attention to stakeholder management.

Q4. A large, one-year telecommunication project is about halfway done when you take the place of the previous project manager. The project involves three different sellers and a project team of 30 people. You would like to see the project’s communications requirements and what technology is being used to aid in project communications. Where will you find this information?

1. The project management plan
2. The information distribution plan
3. The bar chart
4. The communications management plan

Q5. You are managing a project with a budget of 500,000 USD, and 250,000 USD has been spent. Upon review, you observe that only 40% of the work has been completed. Your schedule says that you should have completed 50% of the work. What is the schedule performance index (SPI)?

1. 1.25
2. 0.8
3. 1
4. 1.5

Q6. The project manager must identify ____________, determine their requirements, and then manage and influence those requirements to ensure a successful project.

1. Functional managers.
2. Stakeholders
3. Scope.
4. End users

Q7. 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

Q8. For which of the following actions could a project manager incur a fine and be jailed?

1. Using people from outside the project manager’s country to work on the project
2. Failing to file the necessary permits in their own country
3. Paying a bribe to a foreign official
4. Not using minority workers on the project

Q9. While working on a project in another country, you are asked to make a “facilitating” payment so the country officials will issue a work order. What should you do?

1. Make the payment
2. Ask the person for proof the payment is required.
3. Seek legal advice on whether such a payment is a bribe
4. Do not pay and see what happens.

Q10. You have advertised in several newspapers to inform interested contractors to apply for a bid for some of your procurement needs. Which process are you currently in?

1. Plan procurement management
2. Conduct procurement
3. Control procurement
4. None of the above