Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is TRUE of inspections?

1. They may not be conducted by the project team.
2. They test future desires of prospective customers.
3. They can only be conducted on the final product.
4. They prevent defective deliverables from reaching the customer.

Q3. Validate Scope is closely related to:

1. Perform Quality Control
2. Sequence Activities
3. Perform Quality Assurance
4. Time Management

Q4. You gave the responsibility of collecting requirements from project stakeholders to four of your team members. After starting the requirements collection process one of your team members left the job and the requirements could not be compiled properly. Initially, you did not notice this, however, during a product review, a few stakeholders told you that some of the features in the products were not requested by them. Therefore, to verify their comments you review the product requirements and identify the issue. This is an example of:

1. Scope creep
2. Scope slippage
3. Gold plating
4. Opportunity

Q5. The customer wants to make a change to the project scope. The BEST thing for the project manager to evaluate is the:

1. Effect of the change on scope management
2. Effect of the change on the project scope.
3. Effect of the change on the project schedule, cost, quality and risk.
4. Effect of the change on the project baselines.

Q6. Which of the following represents the estimated value of the work actually accomplished?

1. Earned value (EV)
2. Planned value (PV)
3. Actual cost (AC)
4. Cost variance (CV)

Q7. Bottom-up Cost estimating is typically motivated by the size and complexity of:

1. The project management software
2. The statistical relationship between historical data and other variables
3. The project budget
4. The individual schedule activity or work package

Q8. The sponsor of the project you are managing asks you to compress the schedule. Which of the following is CORRECT?

1. Crashing always shortens the timeline but often increases risk.
2. Fast tracking often results in rework, and crashing often results in increased cost
3. Crashing is only a viable alternative if earned value analysis indicates that the project is ahead of schedule and under budget
4. Fast tracking will result in less parallel activities than crashing the project

Q9. A project manager and team from a firm that designs railroad equipment are tasked to design a machine to load stone onto railroad cars. The design allows for two percent spillage, amounting to over two tons of spilled rock per day. In which of the following does the project manager document quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvements for this project?

1. Quality management plan
2. Quality policy
3. Control charts
4. Project management plan

Q10. A new software development project is in progress and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department. They want to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Completed checklists
2. A quality control plan
3. Results of quality control measurements
4. Rework.