Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. In complex and high value projects, which of the following activities will typically be performed by a business analyst prior to the project initiation?

1. Define project scope and develop WBS
2. Finalize the project scope statement and the WBS dictionary
3. Establish the project’s scope baseline
4. Determine problems, identify business needs and viable solutions

Q3. All technical work is completed on the project. Which of the following remains to be done?

1. Validate Scope
2. Plan Risk Responses
3. Create a staffing management plan
4. Complete lessons learned.

Q4. Your new project to outsource work has been going badly. The project deliverables have changed three times, the functional managers keep removing people from the team, and the project schedule baseline has been adjusted four times in the first week. This is MOST likely due to the lack of:

1. A staffing management plan
2. A signed project charter
3. Clear direction from the sponsor
4. A scope management plan

Q5. The customer’s expectations for quality are shown on a control chart as the:

1. Mean
2. Specification limits
3. Rule of seven
4. Upper and lower control limits

Q6. A customer has given you a procurement of work for a complex, eightmonth project that has a few unknowns. The customer has asked you to just “get it done” and only wants to see you at the end of eight months when you deliver the finished project. Under these circumstances, which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Complete the project as requested, but verify its scope with the customer occasionally throughout.
2. Complete the project within eight months without contacting the customer during this time.
3. Ask management to check in with the customer occasionally.
4. Complete the project, but document that the customer did not want contact.

Q7. You were in the middle of a two-year project to deploy new technology to field offices across the country. A hurricane caused power outages just when the upgrade was near completion. When the power was restored, all of the project reports and historical data were lost with no way of retrieving them. What should have been done to prevent this problem?

1. Purchase insurance
2. Plan for a reserve fund
3. Monitor the weather and have a contingency plan
4. Schedule the installation outside of the hurricane season.

Q8. A company is making an effort to improve its project performance and create historical records of past projects. What is the BEST way to accomplish this?

1. Create project management plans
2. Create lessons learned
3. Create network diagrams
4. Create status reports 2

Q9. A project manager in a seller organization discovered that certain deliverables had been delivered to the buyer without undergoing proper testing. Recalling the deliverables will result in a cost overrun on the project. What should the project manager do in such a case?

1. Recall the deliverables even though there will be a cost overrun.
2. Terminate the project.
3. Approach management to obtain additional funding to handle the potential cost overrun.
4. Wait for the procuring organization to get back with their list of defects in the deliverables.

Q10. A project was awarded based on a competitive proposal. Management made a commitment that a few key team members would work on the project. When such assignments happen, they are:

1. Bargaining agreements
2. Schedule constraints
3. Assignment risk
4. Pre-assignments