Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project is just starting out and consists of people from 14 different departments. The project charter was signed by one person and contains over 30 major requirements that must be met on the project. The sponsor has informed the project manager that the SPI must be kept between 0.95 and 1.1. A few minutes of investigation resulted in the identification of 34 stakeholders, and schedule objectives on the project are constrained. A project manager has just been hired. Which of the following types of project management power will BEST help the project manager gain the cooperation of others?

1. Formal
2. Referent
3. Penalty
4. Expert.

Q3. You are working on an 18-month project with a small, co-located team. The project sponsor and senior management are in another city and have requested weekly updates. The customer requires monthly meetings. Because the team members are busy with the project executing processes, they would like to reduce the frequency of meetings. Which of the following BEST describes how status meetings should be managed on this project?

1. During project executing, you do not need to hold status meetings as long as you send the key stakeholders a status report every week.
2. Once a month the entire team, including senior management, should meet with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous month’s issues with the customer. You should discuss the details of the previous months’ issues and the current status.
3. During project executing, it is only necessary for the project manager to meet with the customer once a month to fulfil your contractual obligation. Provide the customer once a month to fulfil your contractual obligation. Provide the customer with the status report and copy this report to key stakeholders.
4. The frequency and level of the meetings as well as the format and type of information to be exchanged should be defined in the project’s communications management plan during project planning.

Q4. Which of the following approaches deliberately spends less time trying to define and lock project scope early during the project and spends more time establishing the process for requirements gathering, scope definition and refinement?

1. Waterfall methods
2. Predictive methods
3. Agile methods
4. Kanban methods

Q5. Based on the chart, what will be the effect on the project if activity C now takes four months?

1. There will be a new critical path
2. The project will take longer
3. There is no change to the critical path
4. Activity B is now on the critical path

Q6. On one of your company’s medical research projects, you object to how the research is being handled. However, you signed a confidentiality agreement with the company that prohibits you from talking about your research. It would be BEST to:

1. Quit and do not talk about what you know.
2. Quit and begin talking to the community.
3. Continue working and begin to talk about your objections to the research to newspapers in other cities.
4. Destroy the research.

Q7. Early in the project, you are meeting with your team and would like to address all the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats the project is facing. What tool should be used?

1. SWOT Analysis
2. Interviewing
3. Delphi Technique
4. Brainstorming

Q8. You are having difficulty estimating the cost of a project. Which of the following BEST describes the most probable cause of your difficulty?

1. Inadequate scope definition
2. Unavailability of desired resources
3. Lack of historical records from previous projects.
4. Lack of company processes.

Q9. Approved corrective action is an input to which of the following processes?

1. Validate Scope
2. Direct and Manage Project Work
3. Develop Project Charter
4. Develop Schedule

Q10. As part of the quality control in your project, you are exploring a technique that shows the history and pattern of variation. This is a line graph that shows data points plotted in the order in which they occurred. You are most likely looking at a:

1. Control chart
2. Pareto diagram
3. Histogram
4. Cause-and-effect diagram