Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Based on the chart, while working on the project, you are told that you have to remove some resources to support a more important project for your customer. From which activity would it be BEST to remove resources?

1. Activity A
2. Activity B
3. Activity C
4. Activity D

Q3. Due to an error in the process, a defect is occurring in a deliverable. You identified the root cause of the problem and made some changes to the process to stop the defect from occurring. This process is known as:

1. Root cause analysis
2. Corrective action
3. Defect repair
4. Preventive action

Q4. You take over a project that is in a lot of trouble. There are apparently problems with the team dynamics, project scope, sponsor, and timeline. The project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 0.75 and schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.2. The FIRST action you should take is to:

1. Meet with the project sponsor
2. Review all the project deliverables
3. Meet with the team
4. Meet with each team member individually

Q5. A project manager is appointed to head highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be:

1. A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager.
2. A team that is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high level of conflict and high turnover
3. A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment.
4. A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit

Q6. You have a signed project charter, and are in the process of creating a project scope statement. You have asked the team for input to ensure that the project scope statement is complete. However, the team is struggling with defining the scope. Which of the following BEST describes the problem?

1. A WBS was not completed before scope statement was begun.
2. The team is working on the project scope statement without the benefit of organizational process assets.
3. The team is in the Define Scope process and needs the project scope statement as an input
4. The project objectives were not identified before scope statement was begun.

Q7. Information in the stakeholder register should be:

1. Accessible only to the project manager.
2. Available to the project manager and PMO staff.
3. Available to all stakeholders and team members.
4. Shared with others at the discretion of the project manager.

Q8. 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

Q9. Which of these is an input to the Monitor Risks process?

1. Risk audits
2. Change requests
3. Work performance information
4. Work Performance Reports

Q10. You have a team of 10 members. They started to work together and are learning to trust each other. In which stage are they working?

1. Forming
2. Storming
3. Performing
4. Norming