Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The costs on a project are typically classified as direct and indirect costs. The cost of electric utilities for the office is:

1. An indirect cost
2. Appraisal cost
3. A specific cost
4. A direct cost

Q3. A project manager is concerned about the amount of gold plating that has occurred on past projects. All the following would NOT be of use in controlling gold plating EXCEPT:

1. A staffing management plan
2. A project charter
3. A work breakdown structure dictionary
4. A risk management plan

Q4. Which of the following processes involves creating a coherent, consistent document that can be used to guide all the work in both project executing and project monitoring and controlling?

1. Risk management
2. Develop Project Management Plan
3. Develop Project Scope Statement
4. Plan Quality Management

Q5. A project team is having difficulty communicating over long distances. There are 13 team members from two countries when five people from Indian are added to the project. How many communication channels are there?

1. 153
2. 180
3. 324
4. 362

Q6. As a project manager, you perform various project performance measurements to assess the magnitude of variation. You then attempt to determine the cause and decide whether corrective action is necessary. This is:

1. Scope Analysis
2. Variance Analysis
3. Performance Reporting
4. Configuration Management

Q7. Linda is currently drafting her project stakeholder management plan. Since she is a new hire, she is not aware of the company’s policies and procedures. If she wants to know more about the company’s general issues management procedures, where must she look?

1. Project charter
2. Scope statement
3. Organizational process assets
4. Issue register

Q8. In attempting to complete the project faster, the project manager looks at the cost associated with crashing each activity. The BEST approach to crashing would also include looking at the:

1. Risk impact of crashing each activity
2. Customer’s opinion of which activities to crash
3. Boss’s opinion of which activities to crash and in what order.
4. Project life cycle phase in which the activity is due to occur

Q9. You are in charge of constructing the Ferris wheel in each town a carnival visits. However, this is something you have never done before, and you are getting different opinions from others on how long it takes. Joe is new and has given you what you believe to be an optimistic estimate of three hours; Bill says it will take 10 hours, which seems too long to you and quite pessimistic. Last, Margie, who is the most experienced at this task, is telling you it will take eight hours. You are not sure whom to believe, so you decide to do three-point estimation (based on beta distribution). Based on this, how many hours will it take you to assemble the Ferris wheel?

1. 7.5 hours
2. 8 hours
3. 21 hours
4. 7 hours

Q10. Which of the following is a basic rule or guideline for creating a work breakdown structure?

1. The first row should describe the products of the project
2. Each level of a work breakdown structure is a smaller segment of the level above
3. A work breakdown structure should be like a to-do list, listing in chronological order every activity that needs to be done to complete the project.
4. A work breakdown structure should be organized by functional areas.