Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager must publish a project schedule. Activities, start/end times, and resource are identified. What should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Distribute the project schedule according to the communications management plan.
2. Confirm the availability of the resources.
3. Refine the project management plan to reflect more accurate costing information.
4. Publish a bar chart illustrating the timeline.

Q3. Which of the following is not a project competing constraint?

1. Budget
2. Procurement
3. Risk
4. Resource

Q4. Which of the following is least likely to be a project?

1. Regular updates of the company website
2. Responding to a contract solicitation
3. Running a campaign for a political office
4. An endeavor that lasts for 10 years

Q5. Which document describes the project's deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables?

1. Project authorization document
2. Project scope statement
3. Project scope management plan
4. Project charter

Q6. A government agency has awarded your company a massive software project. This project has an early completion incentive, and your company has a policy of paying a bonus to the project manager if such an incentive is awarded. However, this particular government agency has a reputation for being extremely difficult to work with; there is a great deal of bureaucracy within this agency, and stonewalling and hostility toward contractors are common. The project manager will need to have excellent political skills to lead this project successfully. You have been asked to lead the project because of your expertise with this type of project. However, you have never worked within such a highly charged and political environment. What should you do?

1. Decline the project citing lack of experience.
2. Accept the project but disclose your lack of experience in this type of environment.
3. Accept the project and request that a corporate liaison be assigned to your project.
4. Accept the project.

Q7. You realize that you have made an error in your monthly status meeting. Therefore, you send stakeholders the correct report by email. What kind of communication method are you using here?

1. Push
2. Pull
3. Interactive
4. None of the above

Q8. The Direct and Manage Project Work process has three tools and techniques. Two of them are Expert Judgment and Meetings. What is the third one?

1. Scheduling System
2. Configuration Management System
3. Project Management Information System
4. Change Control System

Q9. After identifying the risks, you analyze them qualitatively and quantitatively to see if your risk response planning will effectively minimize the project risk or not. If not, you will tweak your risk response plan so the project risks fall within the stakeholders’ tolerance limits. Which of the following statements is correct about the quantitative risk analysis process?

1. It is performed before qualitative risk analysis
2. It is performed on each project
3. Performed after qualitative risk analysis, if required
4. None of the above

Q10. What is the BEST method of estimating the time for an activity that has never been done by your company before?

1. Analogous estimating
2. Three-point estimating
3. Monte Carlo analysis
4. Parametric estimating 60