Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A team member notifies you, after the fact, that she has added extra functionality to the project. There was no impact on the cost or schedule. What should be done as a result of this change?

1. Inform the customer
2. Make sure marketing is aware of the change
3. Understand what functionality was added
4. Implement change control processes to track the change

Q3. You are project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?

1. The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.
2. The project manager should add an activity to he project management plan with no associated time.
3. The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.
4. The project manager should create a change control form, and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.

Q4. Communication is the key to the success of a project. As the project manager, you have three stakeholders with whom you need to communicate. As such, you have six channels of communication. A new stakeholder has been added that you also need to communicate with. How many communications channels do you have now?

1. 7
2. 10
3. 12
4. 16

Q5. Your employee is three days late with a report. She walks into a meeting where the report is to be discussed and hands you a copy five minutes before the topic is to be discussed. You noticed some serous errors in the report. How could this have been prevented?

1. Require periodic updates from the employee.
2. Coach and mentor the employee.
3. Make sure the employee was competent to do the work.
4. Cancel the meeting earlier because you did not have a chance to review the reports.

Q6. Which of the following is an advantage of centralized contracting?

1. Increased expertise
2. Easier access
3. No home
4. More loyalty to the project.

Q7. Which of the following is NOT included in a schedule change control system?

1. Approval levels necessary for authorizing changes
2. Tracking systems
3. Paperwork necessary for making changes
4. Limitations on the scope of changes

Q8. Mark is managing an airport construction project. He is currently identifying his project stakeholders, and he has compiled a long list of stakeholders already. Managing expectations of every project stakeholder is not practical. What should he do in this situation?

1. Project stakeholders should be prioritized based on their influence and interest.
2. Stakeholder analysis should be outsourced.
3. Non-key stakeholders should be dropped from the stakeholder register.
4. Stakeholder management processes should not be followed for such complex projects.

Q9. Which of the following is incorrect regarding a bidders conference?

1. Questions from each seller should be handled confidentially and not shared with other sellers.
2. No bidders should receive preferential treatment, even if they are part of the company's existing list of approved suppliers.
3. Bidder conferences should not involve individual face-to-face meetings.
4. All prospective sellers should be allowed to have a common understanding of the procurement.

Q10. You manage the construction of a new airport in your home country. Since your organization does not have experience deploying the sophisticated air-traffic control system, you outsourced this to a specialist organization. PMBOK’s Procurement Management knowledge will help you successfully administer this deal; however, for the supplier of the system, all the PMBOK processes will apply since this will be a complete project for the supplying organization. Which of the following will be a common denominator between your project and the supplier projects?

1. Project management plan
2. Supply agreement
3. Project’s scope of work
4. Budget for the air-traffic control system