Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A software system was accepted by the customer, but has found to give unexpected results. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager should do FIRST?

1. Review the customer’s inspection process
2. Change the activity sequencing
3. Apologize to the customer
4. Review the Validate Scope process.

Q3. After the kickoff meeting, two team members engage in a casual conversation about the project objectives and deliverables. It is clear they heard different messages during the meeting. One team member is so adamant that the other team member give up arguing the point. After talking to the project manager, the second team member confirms that the first team member is mistaken. At this point, what is the BEST course of action?

1. The second team member should send the other team member an e-mail describing what he discovered.
2. At the next project meeting, the team member should ask the mistaken team member to describe his interpretation so the project manager can get everyone on the same page.
3. The project manager should send out an e-mail to the team restating the project objectives and deliverables.
4. At the next project meeting, the project manager should spend time reviewing the documented project scope statement for the purpose of identifying this and other false assumptions.

Q4. You are working as the project manager on a mega-construction project. You need to prepare a quarterly report for the project investors. You need to collect work performance data and convert that into work performance information. Which of the following processes produces work performance data?

1. Direct and Manage Project Work
2. Control Schedule
3. Control Costs
4. Manage Communications

Q5. Which of the following is not an input to the Develop Project Charter process?

1. Agreements
2. Business Case
3. Benefits management plan
4. Stakeholder register

Q6. The networking vendor has contacted the project manager to inform her that the recent earthquake will impact the delivery of critical components. The project team meets to determine the impact on the overall project and determines that staffing will not be affected, but that changes will need to be made in the areas of risk and cost management. It is too soon to tell if quality baselines will be affected by this schedule change. What is the project team involved in here?

1. Configuration management
2. Work authorization analysis
3. Status review meeting
4. Integrated change control

Q7. Quality on your project must be as high as possible, yet this type of project is new for your company. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Audit work as it is being completed to look for any needed improvements
2. Improve your work authorization system
3. Use cause and effect diagrams when there is a defect
4. Make sure your staffing management plan is up to date.

Q8. Workarounds are determined during which risk management process?

1. Identify risks
2. Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
3. Plan Risk Responses
4. Control risks

Q9. You are finalizing the monthly project status report due now to your manager when you discover that several project team members are not reporting actual hours spent on project activities. This results in skewed project statistics. What is the MOST appropriate action to be taken?

1. Discuss the impacts of these actions with team members.
2. Report the team members’ actions t their functional managers.
3. Continue reporting information as presented to you.
4. Provider accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.

Q10. 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.