Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The principal use of a Pareto chart is to:

1. Focus attention on the most critical issues
2. Quantify risks
3. Help predict future problems
4. Improve risk management.

Q3. In response to a risk, the project manager meets with the team and management to develop a strategy. After discussions, they decide that it would be best to make sure the risk definitely happens. This is an example of which risk response strategy?

1. Share
2. Exploit
3. Accept
4. Enhance.

Q4. After conducting a bidder conference, you receive an email from one of the bidders requesting additional information. The information was neither included in your request for proposal, nor did anyone ask for it during the bidder conference. You realize the answer to this question is critical to understanding the scope of the project. If the answer is not communicated to bidders, they cannot size their teams accurately or estimate the total duration of the project. The answer also greatly affects cost. However, the answer contains some proprietary information that, if disclosed to a competitor, may reveal the future product strategy of your company. Such a disclosure could be disastrous for a major product launch you are planning next year. You decide to send the answer to all the bidders, but you realize one of the bidders is also working closely with one of your competitors on a similar project. What should you do?

1. Don’t send this information in writing; instead, telephone each bidding company.
2. Send this information to all bidders except the bidder working with your competitor.
3. Send this information to only the supplier who requested it.
4. Require all bidders to sign a nondisclosure agreement. You may then send the information to each company that signed the NDA.

Q5. A project manager is meeting with a team member and says, “I know you want to become involved in meetings with the customer. Because of the performance on the project so far, I have rearranged things so you can become involved with the customer.” This is an example of:

1. Team performance assessment.
2. Reward power.
3. Team building
4. Project performance appraisals.

Q6. Bill is managing a website development project. He has recently received feedback from one of the key project stakeholders. The feedback is positive overall, but it contains some recommendations. After analyzing the recommendations, Bill accepts them, gets them approved, and incorporates them into the project management plan. The recommendations were then implemented and the new ideas were found to be successful. What needs to be done with this feedback now?

1. Discard it since it is no longer required
2. Publish it on the corporate intranet
3. Add it to the organizational process assets
4. Send it back to the stakeholder

Q7. You have noticed that some of your team members are not attending meetings, a few are always late and are frequently disruptive. Therefore, to remove these issues you set guidelines and establish clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members. Who will be responsible for implementing these rules?

1. Project manager
2. Client
3. Management
4. All team members

Q8. You were in the middle of a two-year project to deploy new technology to field offices across the country. A hurricane caused power outages just when the upgrade was near completion. When the power was restored, all of the project reports and historical data were lost with no way of retrieving them. What should have been done to prevent this problem?

1. Purchase insurance
2. Plan for a reserve fund
3. Monitor the weather and have a contingency plan
4. Schedule the installation outside of the hurricane season.

Q9. Which of the following is not an effective influencing technique?

1. Withdrawing from conflicts
2. Using a flexible interpersonal style
3. Leading by example
4. Clarifying how decisions will be made

Q10. A project to design and build a new aircraft is cancelled after the project has been underway for some time. What process is employed to document what work was done and to what extent it was completed?

1. Validate Scope
2. Control Scope
3. Control Quality
4. Close Project or Phase