Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project employs a virtual team with team members located in different offices in the same city as well as across different cities. The project manager wishes to build trust and good working relationships. One of the best ways to do this is:

1. To use team-building strategies
2. Write a memo to the team detailing the need for good working relationships
3. Plan for job-rotation on a weekly basis
4. To encourage the use of telephonic conversations as much as possible

Q3. A trend report was given to the project manager, who reacted to the report by investigating what activity or activities had not been done, but should have been done, to date. What did the report show?

1. Actual cost was below planned and schedule progress was less than planned
2. The cost performance index (CPI) was 0.8 and the schedule performance index (SPI) was 1.2.
3. The budget at completion (BAC) was higher than planned
4. The schedule performance index (SPI) was 1.3 and the estimate at completion (EAC) was greater than planned.

Q4. The method used in the Manage Quality process to identify the factors that may influence specific characteristics of a product under development is:

1. The forecasting technique
2. The control chart
3. The statistical sampling
4. Design for X

Q5. Robert is managing a road construction project. Due to unseasonal weather conditions, the team productivity might be above or below target. This is an example of:

1. Ambiguity risk
2. Variability risk
3. Mitigated risk
4. Opportunity risk

Q6. Bill is managing a website development project. He has recently received feedback from one of the key project stakeholders. The feedback is positive overall, but it contains some recommendations. After analyzing the recommendations, Bill accepts them, gets them approved, and incorporates them into the project management plan. The recommendations were then implemented and the new ideas were found to be successful. What needs to be done with this feedback now?

1. Discard it since it is no longer required
2. Publish it on the corporate intranet
3. Add it to the organizational process assets
4. Send it back to the stakeholder

Q7. A project manager needs to determine if the manufacturing process planned for the new micro-satellites will meet quality standards. Each satellite takes about three days to manufacture and costs US $125,000. The satellites are so small that inspection would destroy them. Under these circumstances, what should the project manager do?

1. Outsource the inspection to another company with more expertise.
2. Evaluate the attributes of the population.
3. Inspect a sample of the satellites.
4. Decrease the cost of quality.

Q8. During the Identify Risks process, a project manager made a long list of risks identified by all the stakeholders using various methods. He then made sure that all the risks were understood and that triggers had been identified. Later, in the Plan Risk Responses process, he took all the risks identified by the stakeholders and determined ways to mitigate them. What has he done wrong?

1. More people should be involved in the Plan Risk Responses process
2. Triggers are not identified until the Identify Risks process.
3. The project manager should have waited until the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process to get the stakeholders involved.
4. The project manager should have created workarounds

Q9. Work Performance Information is not an output of which of the following processes?

1. Validate Scope
2. Manage Communications
3. Monitor Risks
4. Control Scope

Q10. During a cost performance review with certain senior officers from the finance department, you discover there are certain inconsistencies in the way cost performance reporting is done, and you obtain data that shows these officers are deliberately misleading senior management. What should you do?

1. Write an anonymous letter to senior management about these activities.
2. Bring this to the notice of senior management even though there are no formal policies in place for whistleblowers.
3. Do nothing but make sure that the data for your project is clean.
4. Do nothing. The corrupt behavior of the finance department officials has nothing to do with your project.