Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting at which you presented the requested changes to the employee move project. You had five change requests approved and one request rejected. These are outputs of what process?

1. Control Quality
2. Control Scope
3. Monitor Risks
4. Perform Integrated Change Control

Q3. You are two days late on reporting the status for a project you are managing. The status report indicates that the project is lagging behind schedule. During the current week, you are confident of making up some of the lost time. How should you report project status?

1. Since the status report is already due, do nothing. Send out the status report next week when the project is back on track.
2. Since the status report is already two days overdue, you may communicate to stakeholders that you will send a consolidated status report next week. In this manner, you can avoid being untruthful or falsifying reports.
3. Send out a status report to all stakeholders indicating that the project is on track. Once this week goes by, things will be fine, and the status reports will be back to normal.
4. You should report project status exactly as it is. You may also mention that you expect to make up some of the lost ground but will truthfully represent current status.

Q4. Your company is undergoing a change in ownership and the new owners are looking at the total cost of a new product. Which of the following would BEST provide that information?

1. Estimate at completion
2. Life cycle cost
3. Earned value
4. Net present value

Q5. A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, activity B takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6 weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes 4 weeks and can start as soon as activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before activity G starts. Activity G requires 3 weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. Which activities have float available?

1. Activity A has two weeks float, activity F has one week
2. Activity F has one week float
3. There is no float available in the project.
4. Activity A has eight weeks float

Q6. A complicated software project was authorized by a project sponsor. However, the users who were intended to use the product found it extremely difficult to articulate their requirements. What technique can be employed to elicit requirements for such a project?

1. Job overlaying
2. Hidden participant
3. Job duplication
4. Job shadowing

Q7. Which motivational theory defines the hierarchy of needs?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg

Q8. You are managing an electronic chip design project for a customer. There are a number of engineers and subject matter experts from the customer’s organization that have been assigned as resources to the project plus several additional design engineers that your company has supplied. All the engineers were involved in the development of a prototype chip, an extremely time-consuming and expensive process. Upon the completion of the prototype, you submit it for review to ensure there are no patent infringement issues with the design. However, the review determines there are several issues that could result in an intellectual property dispute with the patent owners should the prototype design be released commercially. Resources from your company developed the affected prototype elements, as well as from your customer’s organization. What should you do?

1. Ask the engineers to revise the design and resubmit it
2. Notify the project stakeholders immediately
3. Request permission to use the copyright material
4. Submit the prototype as is since the budget and schedule do not accommodate rework

Q9. Bill is managing a healthcare software development project using stateof- the-art technology. Stakeholder management is crucial for the project’s success. Stakeholder involvement and influence are significant. During which of the following project stages will stakeholder management be most challenging for Bill?

1. Early during the project execution
2. Toward the end of the project execution
3. Toward the closure of the project
4. Halfway through the project execution

Q10. Which of the following CANNOT be used as a tool in the Perform Quality Control process?

1. Pareto chart
2. Sampling
3. Work breakdown structure
4. Life cycle costing