Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A team member notifies the project manager that a quality requirement for the project cannot be met. What is the LEAST effective thing for the project manager to do?

1. Notify management
2. Hold a team meeting
3. Look for alternative ways to meet quality level.
4. Ask management to come up with options.

Q3. While completing the Plan Resource Management process on your project, you visited the functional manager of engineering many times, but she refused to supply resources for the project. First, the excuse was that her department was too busy. The next time, the department was undergoing a re-organization. This is causing your project to slip the schedule. Which of the following is the MOST probable reason for her lack of support?

1. The priority of the project has increased
2. The project does not have a project charter and the functional manager was not involved in approving the project management plan.
3. The project schedule network diagram was not time-phased
4. The WBS did not include all resources needed on the project.

Q4. Which of the following is not an example of a work performance report?

1. Status report
2. Project charter
3. Progress report
4. Project dashboard

Q5. Linda is a first-time project manager and is analyzing a project schedule. She intends to apply resource leveling, and she has the following guidelines on Resource Leveling. Which of these four statements is incorrect?

1. Resource Leveling can often cause the critical path to change.
2. Resource Leveling is applied to a schedule before it has been analyzed by the critical path method.
3. Resource Leveling is applied to keep resource usage at a constant level.
4. Resource Leveling is necessary when resources have been over-allocated.

Q6. Which motivational theory says that working conditions, salary, and relationships at work do NOT improve motivation?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg

Q7. Due to a tight project schedule, a project manager did not document lessons learned throughout the project cycle. However, at the end of the project, he finally documented the lessons learned. Your comment on this is:

1. This is not OK. Lessons learned must be documented throughout the project as well as at the end of the project.
2. This is OK. Lessons learned should be documented at the end of the project.
3. This is not OK. Lessons learned need to be documented throughout the project and must not be done at the project’s end.
4. This is correct. Lessons learned are intended to be documented only at the project’s end.

Q8. A cost performance plan contains a description of:

1. The project costs.
2. How resources are allocated.
3. The budgets and how they were calculated.
4. The WBS level at which earned value will be calculated.

Q9. Which of the following scenarios is likely to occur in a project?

1. Cost and staffing levels are low at the start of the project.
2. Stakeholders' influence on the project is lowest at the start of the project.
3. Risk and uncertainty are lowest at the start of the project.
4. Cost of changes are the highest at the start of the project.

Q10. In addition to a project management plan, the project team must create plans for each component of the project. These plans are called:

1. Sub-plans
2. Process plans
3. Component plans
4. Management plans