Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Lee is the project manager of a project, and he is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct result of implementing these risk responses, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These are:

1. Secondary risks
2. Primary risks
3. Planned risks
4. Workaround

Q3. Which of the following includes all of the relationships represented on an activity-on-node diagram?

1. Finish-to-start
2. Finish-to-finish
3. Finish-to-start, start-to-finish, finish-to-finish, start-to-start
4. Start-to-start, start-to-finish 36

Q4. The Actual Cost (AC) is the total cost actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed for an activity or work breakdown structure component. What is the upper limit for the AC?

1. 50 percent over and above the Planned Value (PV)
2. The Actual Cost (AC) is limited to the Planned Value (PV).
3. 100 percent over and above the Planned Value (PV)
4. There is no upper limit for the Actual Cost (AC).

Q5. A project manager uses the precedence diagramming method (PDM) for constructing a project schedule network and creates a network diagram for the purpose. He decides to use the most common type of precedence relationship for all activities. Which of the following relationships would he use?

1. Start-to-finish (SF)
2. Finish-to-finish (FF)
3. Start-to-start (SS)
4. Finish-to-start (FS)

Q6. The Close Project process includes all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Analysis of project success
2. Ensuring that records include final specifications
3. Creating a project risk management plan
4. A collection of project records

Q7. According to your project network diagram, the critical path for the project is six weeks. One week into the project, the manager of the project management office informs you that the executive steering committee has moved the project’s finish date to two weeks sooner than your published finish date. Assuming you are on schedule, what is the project float?

1. Two weeks
2. Four weeks
3. Minus four weeks
4. Minus two weeks 50

Q8. You have decided to apply Resource Leveling to a project because of a critically required resource being available only at certain times. Which of the following will likely be true?

1. Resource Leveling can often cause the original critical path to change.
2. Resource Leveling will over-allocate resources to schedule the project before the deadline.
3. Resource Leveling will require additional resources to complete the project.
4. Resource Leveling will never alter the original critical path.

Q9. You have received many bids from contractors and are now separating them according to their experience, technical expertise, and capabilities. After segregating these responses, you are reviewing them to see if they are capable of doing the job or not. What process is this?

1. Conduct procurement
2. Plan procurement management
3. Proposal evaluation technique
4. Manage quality

Q10. You are a project manager on a $7,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, you notice a series of activities that can be worked in parallel but must finish in a specific sequence. What type of activity sequencing method is required for these activities?

1. Precedence diagramming method
2. Arrow diagramming method
3. Critical path method
4. Operational diagramming method