Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are an electrical engineer with extensive experience in managing transmission projects but limited experience with electronic design projects. However, in a stretch assignment, you were recently transferred to another department in your company that focuses on electronic design. Furthermore, you were asked to lead a highly important project involving both transmission and electronic design. In preparation for a meeting with your manager to discuss this opportunity, you review the initial project design brief. Due to your limited background in electronic design, a number of items in this document seem unclear to you. When you arrive at your meeting, your manager asks if you will be leading the project. How do you respond?

1. Accept the project and tell your manager that your expertise in transmission makes you an ideal manager for this project.
2. Decline the project, citing your lack of experience in electronics design.
3. Accept the project, but do not discuss your qualifications or lack thereof.
4. State that you would like to lead the project, but you must disclose that your primary domain of expertise is transmission, and that you may need supplementary training in electronics design.

Q3. The credibility of your risk management depends on the unbiased probability and impact of identified risks. If these parameters are not correctly assessed, your risk management is not worth following. In which of the following process do you define the definition of probability of risks?

1. Plan risk management
2. Identify risks
3. Plan risk responses
4. Perform qualitative risk analysis

Q4. During project executing, the project manager is spending a lot of time solving problems that arise. It would be BETTER for the project manager to transfer his efforts to:

1. Having the team solve the problems, thus freeing his time to hold more meetings
2. Executing the project management plan and making sure the quality management plan is viable.
3. Identifying additional risks and following the risk management process
4. Performing sensitivity analysis on past problems and transferring them to other projects.

Q5. You are the project manager for one part of a new program in your organization. You are four months into a three-year project when your project team makes significant discoveries on your project. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Make certain the discoveries are included in the project lessons learned
2. Make certain the discoveries are in the monthly status report.
3. Make certain you mention the discoveries at the senior management meeting in two months
4. At the weekly meeting, make certain you tell the other project managers involved in this program about the discoveries.

Q6. Which of the following quality control tools and techniques may not be used for root cause analysis?

1. Fishbone diagram
2. Scatter diagram
3. Ishikawa diagram
4. Cause-and-effect diagram

Q7. The project manager is working to clearly describe the level of involvement expected from everyone involved in the project in order to prevent rework, conflict, and coordination problems. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s efforts?

1. Develop Project Management Plan and Plan Quality Management
2. Problem solving, control, and discovering gold plating
3. Validate Scope and Control Quality
4. Control Risks, Develop Project Team, and lessons learned

Q8. Project performance measurements assess the magnitude of variation from the original cost baseline. Once the degree of cost variation is known, what step is performed next?

1. Audit the project team
2. Upgrade the configuration management database with new controls.
3. Replanning
4. Perform root cause analysis of the variance’s cause relative to the cost baseline

Q9. As part of your resource management plan, you have created a chart indicating the number of hours (Y-axis) that a senior programmer will be working over the months (X-axis) of the project. This is an example of a:

1. Pareto Chart
2. Ishikawa Diagram
3. Resource Histogram
4. Staff Acquisition Chart

Q10. Stakeholders can be identified in which project management process group?

1. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing
2. Initiating and planning
3. Planning and monitoring and controlling
4. Monitoring and controlling and closing