Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are managing two projects. The first project is to design and construct a school building, and the second project is to construct an office building for your company's employees. What is your current role?

1. Project manager
2. Program manager
3. Portfolio manager
4. None of the above

Q3. You are the project manager for one part of a new program in your organization. You are four months into a three-year project when your project team makes significant discoveries on your project. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Make certain the discoveries are included in the project lessons learned
2. Make certain the discoveries are in the monthly status report.
3. Make certain you mention the discoveries at the senior management meeting in two months
4. At the weekly meeting, make certain you tell the other project managers involved in this program about the discoveries.

Q4. Which process group corresponds to the "act" component of the plan-docheck- act cycle?

1. Monitoring & Controlling
2. Executing
3. Planning
4. Initiating

Q5. You are in the identifying risks process. You are meeting with your team members and stated that the project may be delayed because of the late delivery of certain consumables for your project. Now you ask the team members to find ways in which this problem can occur. What technique are you using here?

1. Assumption and constraint analysis
2. Brainstorming
3. Sensitivity analysis
4. Root cause analysis

Q6. A business is considering more than a dozen infrastructure upgrade projects. These projects, once delivered, will add to the organization’s overall performance but will not contribute to any of the revenue streams. Prior to initiating any such project, the value of the project to the organization must be determined. Which of the following is the most important factor to consider in such a scenario?

1. Net Present Value (NPV) of the projects
2. Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of the projects
3. Alignment with the strategic goals
4. Investment requirement

Q7. What conflict resolution technique is a project manager using when he says, “I cannot deal with this issue now!”

1. Problem solving
2. Forcing
3. Withdrawal
4. Compromising.

Q8. In a small office construction project, the following activities are scheduled in sequence. i) Digging and pouring footings: five days. ii) Working on the slab and pouring: three days. iii) Framing the floor: five days. iv) Wall framing: four days. v) Roof framing: six days. vi) Insulation and drywall: seven days. vii) Interior doors and trim: three days. viii) Hardware and fixtures: two days. What is the minimum time to complete the project if all activities are on a critical path except activity viii, and activity iii is delayed by one day?

1. 32 days
2. 33 days
3. 34 days
4. 35 days

Q9. Agile release planning provides a high-level summary timeline of the release schedule based on the project roadmap. Agile release planning also determines the number of iterations required for the product development. These iterations are also known as:

1. Epics
2. Kanbans
3. Sprints
4. Phases

Q10. You have been assigned as project manager to conduct a study to find the impact of pollution on the environment. After the project charter is signed, you have completed the identify project stakeholders process and are now about to classify them. Which of the following models of classifying the project stakeholders is not mentioned in the PMBOK Guide 6th Edition?

1. Power / Interest grid
2. Power / Influence grid
3. Impact / Influence grid
4. Impact / Power grid