Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. What should you do as a senior project manager if the PMP certification claimed by a recently recruited project manager does not appear in the PMI website?

1. Advise your new recruit to complete his certification
2. Report to the PMI
3. Report to the sponsor
4. Request more information from the new recruit

Q3. In response to a risk, the project manager meets with the team and management to develop a strategy. After discussions, they decide that it would be best to make sure the risk definitely happens. This is an example of which risk response strategy?

1. Share
2. Exploit
3. Accept
4. Enhance.

Q4. During the project execution, some people stole your consumables. You did not identify this threat earlier, though you were able to manage the situation through a workaround. This risk did not have much of an impact on your cost baseline but the schedule was impacted. Management is aware of the issue and to get the complete picture they insist you provide them the performance report. Which of the following information will you provide to them?

1. Status of deliverables
2. Actual cost, actual duration, etc.
3. Milestones status
4. Memos

Q5. Your company is purchasing the services of a consultant. You own stock in one of the consulting companies interested in the work. What should you do?

1. Work hard to get the consulting company selected for the project.
2. Tell your manager and remove yourself from the selection committee.
3. Tell the people from the consulting company that you hope they get the work.
4. Keep the information to yourself.

Q6. A project team member has been having a big disagreement with another team member for over two months when the other team members become involved. The issues are complex, but you have specific experience in the area and know what needs to be done. The BEST choice would be to:

1. Make the decision yourself
2. Strive for fair resolution of the issue
3. Ask the other team members to stay out of the issue
4. Bring the team together and work out the issue to a win-win solution.

Q7. If the probability of one event occurring does not affect the probability of another event occurring, the events are:

1. False events
2. Mutually exclusive
3. Statistically independent
4. Just in-time.

Q8. During the first half of the project, five team members left for other projects without being replaced, two team members went on vacation without informing you, and other team members expressed uncertainty about the work they were to complete. In this situation, it is BEST if you create a _______ for the second half of the project?

1. Work breakdown structure
2. Resource histogram
3. Staffing management plan
4. Responsibility assigned matrix.

Q9. Complex projects usually demand preparation and distribution of periodic project performance reports. The contents of performance reports are usually determined early and documented in the project communications management plan. Which of the following is least likely to be a section on a work performance report?

1. Analysis of project forecasts
2. Current status of risks and issues
3. Stakeholder engagement strategy
4. Reserve burn down charts

Q10. Early in the life of your project, you are having a discussion with the sponsor about what estimating techniques should be used. You want a form of expert judgment, but the sponsor argues for analogous estimating. It would be BEST to:

1. Agree to analogous estimating as it is a form of expert judgment
2. Suggest life cycle costing as a compromise
3. Determine why the sponsor wants such an accurate estimate.
4. Try to convince the sponsor to allow expert judgment because it is typically more accurate.