Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Two people are arguing about what needs to be done to complete a work package. If the project manager wants to know what is going, she should pay MOST attention to:

1. What is said and when.
2. What is being said, who is saying it and the time of day.
3. Physical mannerisms and what is being said.
4. The pitch and tone of the voices, and physical mannerisms.

Q3. The project sponsor has asked you to prepare a summary level description of each phase of the project, and also include a summary of the validation information for the final project deliverables. Which document is the sponsor asking you to prepare?

1. Project charter
2. Project management plan
3. Project final report
4. Project scope statement

Q4. A project has had some problems, but now seems under control. In the last few months almost all the reserve has been used up and most of the negative impacts of events that had been predicted have occurred. There are only four activities left and two of them are on critical plan. Management now inform the project manager that it would be in the performing organization’s best interest to finish the project two weeks earlier than scheduled in order to receive an additional profit. In response, the project manager send out a request for proposal for some work that the team was going to do, in the hopes that another company might be able to do the work faster. The project manager can BEST be said to be attempting to work with:

1. Reserve.
2. Opportunities.
3. Scope verification.
4. Threats.

Q5. Your company is concerned about improving its project performance. Internal measures have been created and have helped to identify areas needing improvement. Additional measures of performance are still needed. Which of the following would be the BEST thing to do?

1. Calculate the benefit to cost of purchasing a new piece of equipment.
2. Determine the project scope and measures to ensure the scope is met
3. Perform a root cause analysis on the quality problems that have occurred on the project
4. Read a project management magazine each month, and look at the results of other companies’ projects to help determine quality measures for future projects.

Q6. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s role as an integrator?

1. Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole
2. Help team members become familiar with the project.
3. Put all the pieces of a project into a program
4. Get all the team members together into a cohesive whole

Q7. Which of the following is NOT possible outcome of risk acceptance?

1. The project will suffer no damages
2. The project will use the risk reserve
3. The project will recover cost from the insurance company
4. The project will experience a cost or schedule overrun.

Q8. The communications management plan for the project has been completed and approved by the customer when a major stakeholder requests that the project manager issue reports on the amount o testing done throughout the life of the project. However, testing is only a minor aspect of the quality control plan. It would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Issue the report, as this is a major stakeholder. Her needs would have been included in the staffing management plan.
2. Not issue the report. Project resources should be expended on communication information that contributes to success.
3. Request details of the information the stakeholder needs in the report. Provide that information to those handling the quality control function on the project.
4. Have the stakeholders meet with the project sponsor to get the sponsor’s agreement that project funds should be expended on this effort.

Q9. A data point on a control chart that requires investigation is called:

1. A special cause
2. Gold plated
3. A rule of seven
4. A specification limit

Q10. All of the follow are correct statements about a project manager EXCEPT:

1. He or she is assigned after the project chart is created.
2. He or she may initiate changes to the project
3. He or she manages changes and factors that create change
4. He or she is held accountable for project success or failure.