Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Gene is the project manager of a large highway expansion project. He has a number of stakeholders with competing priorities and agendas, and he often has to resolve conflicts among stakeholders. Which knowledge area manages communications with the project stakeholders?

1. Project Quality Management
2. Project Stakeholder Management
3. Project Communications Management
4. Project Resource Management

Q3. A project has faced major difficulties in the quality of its deliverables. Management now states that quality is the most important project constraint. If another problem with quality were to occur, what would be the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Fix the problem as soon as possible.
2. Allow the schedule to slip by cutting cost.
3. Allow cost to increase by fixing the root cause of the problem.
4. Allow risk to increase by cutting cost.

Q4. While developing the project schedule, you find that the completion of a successor activity depends on the completion of its predecessor activity. What is this dependency called?

1. Start-to-Finish
2. Start-to-Start
3. Finish-to-Start
4. Finish-to-Finish

Q5. A project manager is estimating project costs and needs to decide whether the estimates will include direct costs only or include indirect costs, as well. In which of the following phases does this decision need to take place?

1. Define Scope
2. Estimate Costs
3. Plan Expenses
4. Determine Budget

Q6. The objective of a transformation project is to move an organization from one state to another state. The desired result of the change driven by the project is described as the:

1. Good state
2. Future state
3. Happy state
4. Transition state

Q7. Jane is currently reviewing a list of project proposals. All the proposed projects achieve some of the organizational strategic objectives and their expected costs are known. However, Jane cannot execute all the projects due to the funding limitation. How shall Jane determine which projects she needs to execute this year?

1. Select the high-budget projects and drop the low-budget projects
2. Select the low-budget projects and drop the high-budget projects
3. Select the projects that maximize organizational revenue
4. Select the projects that maximize the business value

Q8. Which of the following BEST explains why the team needs to approve the final schedule?

1. To ensure activities can be completed as scheduled
2. To enhance team buy-in and loyalty
3. To get a better cost estimate
4. To improve communications

Q9. Which of the following best describes the Validate Scope process?

1. Validating that the project quality requirements are met
2. Controlling changes to the scope of the project
3. Obtaining the stakeholders' formal acceptance of the project deliverables
4. Validating that all of the project's objectives are met

Q10. The authorized time phased budget which you use to monitor and control the cost of the project is known as:

1. Funding limit reconciliation
2. EAC
3. Cost baseline
4. Schedule baseline