Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Quality is:

1. Meeting and exceeding the customer’s expectations
2. Adding extras to make the customer happy
3. The degree to which the project meets requirements
4. Conformance to management’s requirements.

Q3. You are managing a project. An audit team wants to know where they can find information on training plans for the project team members and certification requirements. This are in the:

1. Resource Breakdown Structure
2. Staff Release Plan
3. Resource Management Plan
4. Communications Management Plan

Q4. You are a project manager for a new product developmental project that has four levels in the work breakdown structure, and has been sequenced using the precedence diagramming method. The activity duration estimates have been received. What schedule management activity would you do NEXT?

1. Schedule compression
2. Collect historical records from previous projects
3. Create an activity list
4. Update the work breakdown structure

Q5. John, a project manager for Code Crashers, Inc., has a project with a group of inexperienced programmers that will develop a software package that creates Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for a chemical company. This situation strongly resembles a project his colleague, Peter, worked on in 2006. If John needs to come up with a rough order of magnitude estimate, what tool or technique should he use?

1. Parametric Estimating
2. Bottom Up Estimating
3. Three-point estimate
4. Analogous Estimating

Q6. For your project, you have broken down the work package into activities and just now completed the network diagram. Which process is this?

1. Develop schedule
2. Sequence activities
3. Define schedule
4. Create WBS

Q7. During which project management process group are budget forecasts created?

1. Monitoring and controlling
2. Planning
3. Initiating
4. Executing

Q8. In the course of completing work on the project, the project manager needs to complete an activity that she has never done before. During this time, the project manager attends a professional association discussion where the presenter discusses how he completed a difficulty activity on his project that is similar to the project manager’s activity. He provides a handout describing his process. The project manager should:

1. Use the process to complete the activity
2. Ask the speaker for permission to use the information
3. Ignore the information
4. Ask her manager for guidance.

Q9. As per the chart, the resource completing activity E is not performing very well. After much argument, the functional manager agrees to assign a different resource to activity E, but this will increase activity E’s duration to seven months. What is the effect of this change?

1. None, because activity E was not on the critical path
2. The project will be delayed because activity E is on the critical path
3. The project will be delayed because activity E has float of five
4. None, because activity E has float of four.

Q10. Gene is the project manager of a large highway expansion project. He has a number of stakeholders with competing priorities and agendas, and he often has to resolve conflicts among stakeholders. Which knowledge area manages communications with the project stakeholders?

1. Project Quality Management
2. Project Stakeholder Management
3. Project Communications Management
4. Project Resource Management