Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During the first half of the project, five team members left for other projects without being replaced, two team members went on vacation without informing you, and other team members expressed uncertainty about the work they were to complete. In this situation, it is BEST if you create a _______ for the second half of the project?

1. Work breakdown structure
2. Resource histogram
3. Staffing management plan
4. Responsibility assigned matrix.

Q3. In which part of the cost management process is earned value (EV) used?

1. Performance measurement analysis and variance management
2. Forecasting and project performance reviews.
3. Creating the cost baseline and the cost control system
4. Reserve analysis and cost aggregation

Q4. To reduce delivery delays and process downtime, your organization has recognized a need to replace their legacy manufacturing system with a modern software application. Your IT director anticipates a project to fulfill this business need; however, he warns that the new project’s budget cannot exceed $75,000 due to shortages in the department budget. He also indicates that no additional staff will be allocated to this project other than the existing IT staff. If you become the project manager, you would document these initial project conditions as:

1. Project assumptions
2. Business case
3. Project constraints
4. Enterprise environmental factors

Q5. Your construction project is in execution, and you require a major change to one of your supplier agreements. Can you directly make this change with mutual consent of the supplier during the Control Procurements process, or do you have to visit the Perform Integrated Change Control process, as well?

1. The change request needs to be approved through the Control Procurements process prior to making the change through the Integrated Change Control process.
2. The change request can be directly processed through the Control Procurements process since the change requests only affects a particular supplier agreement.
3. The Control Procurements process is about identifying variances. The supplier contract can directly be altered through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.
4. The change request needs to be approved through the Perform Integrated Change Control process prior to making the change through the Control Procurements process.

Q6. Which of the following is not an input to the Direct and Manage Project Work process?

1. Approved Change Requests
2. Consultants
3. Project Management Plan
4. Project files from prior projects

Q7. Cost of quality includes all costs incurred over the lifetime of the product by investing in the prevention of nonconformance to requirements, appraising the product or service for conformance to requirements, and failing to meet requirements. Which is not an example of the cost of non-conformance?

1. Rework
2. Scrap
3. Liabilities
4. Destructive testing loss

Q8. A project has experienced significant delays due to equipment problems, staff attrition, and slow client reviews. The project is 40 percent complete and has used 60 percent of the available calendar time. What is the FIRST thing you should do?

1. Rebaseline the schedule to reflect the new date
2. Analyze the critical path activities for potential to fast track or crash the schedule
3. Document the lack of progress and associated issues to management
4. Identify activities that required more time than planned 49

Q9. As a project manager, you are in the process of preparing the project schedule for the project. Which of the following accurately depicts the sequence of your activities before you began to prepare the project schedule?

1. Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule
2. Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Define Activities
3. Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence Activities, Develop Schedule
4. Define Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence Activities

Q10. The project has been working through some difficult technical issues relating to how the work should be done. The most recent problem related to the way each test was to be completed. There have also been disagreements with two of the eight managers and the sponsor has had to intervene once. The testing work is done when the project manager discovers that one of the changes agreed to has not been adequately completed. What did the project manager NOT do?

1. Ask those doing the work describe the change, to make sure they understood it.
2. Get the sponsor to sign off on the change.
3. Make sure the functional manager closely supervised the testing.
4. Provider more training for those doing the testing.