Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A SWOT analysis helps you identify opportunities which arise from organizational strengths threats dues to its weakness. According to this analysis, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses is a part of:

1. Internal factors
2. External factors
3. Discretionary factors
4. Mandatory factors

Q3. A project manager has just started planning his project. If he has only limited information about the project, he should use the following technique to estimate the duration for each activity using historical data from a similar project:

1. Four-point estimating
2. Three-point estimating
3. Analogous estimating
4. Parametric estimating

Q4. While you are in the execution phase of your project, management informs you that some ISO certified people are coming to your project to see if you’re complying with standards, policies, and procedure. This act is part of which of the following processes?

1. Quality control
2. Manage quality
3. Verify scope
4. Control scope

Q5. Lee is the project manager of a project, and he is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct result of implementing these risk responses, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These are:

1. Secondary risks
2. Primary risks
3. Planned risks
4. Workaround

Q6. The project management team performed activities such as measuring, examining, and verifying to determine whether work and deliverables met requirements and product acceptance criteria. Which of the following choices refers to a different set of activities than the ones just mentioned?

1. Walkthroughs
2. Prevention
3. Inspection
4. Reviews

Q7. What is the primary risk when including reserves, or contingency allowances, in your cost estimate?

1. Cancelling your project
2. Understating the cost estimate
3. Overstating the cost estimate
4. Tracking the funds

Q8. You have just been assigned as the project manager for a project that is in the middle of the executing process group, and you are determining how you will control the project. The BEST way to control the project is to:

1. Use a combination of communication methods.
2. Hold status meetings because they have worked best for you in the past.
3. Refer to the bar chart weekly.
4. Meet with management regularly.

Q9. Project setup costs are an example of:

1. Variable costs
2. Fixed costs
3. Overhead costs
4. Opportunity costs 14

Q10. Payment for routine government action by a foreign official is:

1. A bribe
2. Allowed
3. Not payable upon violation of government law
4. Allowed only if they process the project schedule