Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following does NOT need to be done if there is a major delay on a noncritical path activity?

1. Investigate the delay
2. Re-evaluate which path is critical
3. Change the project schedule
4. Review the float time for the activity

Q3. You are working for an international construction company. Your project involves pulling together over 13 different subprojects. You are having difficulty in ensuring three subcontractors are doing their work correctly. As you review the project results you notice you have spent US $1,200,000 at the last reporting point. You know the schedule is not too bad, since your schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.1. Considering you feel you should have spent US $1,300,000 to this point, what is the cost performance index (CPI), and the schedule and cost variances?

1. 1.19, $130,000, and $$230,000
2. 1.1, ($230,000), and $130,000
3. 1.19, $230,000, and ($230,000)
4. 1.46, $130,000, and ($130,000)

Q4. A functional manager in your organization has recently filed a complaint against a junior project manager regarding his project management certification. The functional manager claims that the PMP certification claimed by the junior project manager is invalid and needs to be checked. What should be your response as a senior project manager?

1. Report to PMI
2. Suspend the junior project manager
3. Ask your project manager to provide evidence for his/her PMP certification
4. Ask your functional manager to provide evidence for his argument

Q5. The most detailed level of the WBS is the _______________ .

1. Control Account
2. Work package
3. Scope statement
4. Accepted Deliverable

Q6. While preparing your risk responses, you identify additional risks. What should you do?

1. Add reserves to the project to accommodate the new risks and notify management.
2. Document the risk items and calculate the expected monetary value based on probability and impact that result from the occurrences.
3. Determine the risk events and the associated cost, and then add the cost to the project budget as a reserve.
4. Add a 10 percent contingency to the project budget and notify the customer.

Q7. Your boss is worried about the project schedule. There is a critical deliverable due to the federal government in two weeks. If you miss the deliverable, you could lose the entire contract. To help reduce the boss’s stress you show him the earned value calculations you just completed. They show your cost performance index (CPI) is 1) is US $490 million. Should your boss be comfortable?

1. Yes, your SV is $10 million.
2. No, your CPI is too high
3. He needs more data
4. Yes, your SPI is 1.05.

Q8. A project manager has access to a tremendous amount of historical information on a pr and charts it over time. Which of the following is the project manager MOST likely to use?

1. Benchmarking
2. Trend analysis
3. Variance analysis
4. Decision trees

Q9. Jim is managing a road network design project for a government agency. He is currently performing the Plan Stakeholder Engagement process for the project. Which of the following documents will provide the list of project stakeholders to Jim for this process?

1. Organizational process assets
2. Enterprise environmental factors
3. Stakeholder register
4. Project management plan

Q10. Tracey is managing an ERP system implementation project. Which of the following tools can help her uncover a number of hidden process requirements during the Collect Requirements process?

1. Observation
2. Questionnaires
3. Surveys
4. Nominal group technique