Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your company is way behind schedule in the deployment of a government-mandated change to a health care processing system that must be in production by the end of the year. To meet the due date, you and your team have met and decided to hire an additional 50 programmers to work with the existing staff. This is an example of what?

1. Resource Leveling
2. Fast Tracking
3. Crashing
4. Risk Transference

Q3. The critical path method (CPM) calculates the theoretical early start and finish dates and late start and finish dates. The difference between the late and early start of a task is a:

1. Free float
2. Feeding buffer
3. Danger zone
4. Total float

Q4. The Control Procurements process receives a very important input from the Direct and Manage Project Work process. Which one is it?

1. Approved change requests
2. Work performance data
3. Procurement documents
4. Agreements

Q5. You are in charge of a project developing a complex product that does not resemble anything your organization has done previously. You are using a resource to develop this product, which is in high demand elsewhere in your organization. The project’s timeframe is very aggressive. In order to meet the schedule, only a limited amount of testing is done. Once the testing is completed, the resource is released. The product works fine when being tested, but in production, it performs poorly. This results in a substantial amount of rework and extra costs to reacquire the resource on an overtime basis. Which of the following BEST describes why this project had problems?

1. Poor quality management
2. Poor reporting
3. Poor risk identification
4. Poor resource management

Q6. The project management plan is LEAST useful for which of the following?

1. Guiding project execution
2. Documenting planning assumptions
3. Facilitating communication among stakeholders
4. Developing the project charter

Q7. During project executing, your project team member delivers a project deliverable to the buyer. However, the buyer refuses the deliverable, stating that it does not meet the requirement on page 300 of the technical specifications. You review the document and find that you agree. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Explain that the contract is wrong and should be changed.
2. Issue a change order
3. Review the requirements and meet with the responsible team member to review the WBS dictionary.
4. Call a meeting of the team to review the requirement on page 300.

Q8. In the process of reviewing the status of your team’s work assignments, you learn that the project has fallen behind schedule by one week. The project has high visibility within the organization and is completely datedriven. The project finish date is still two months out and you think you can recover the time over the next month or so. What is the BEST course of action for reporting the project status?

1. Report the project on schedule. This is not a significant slippage and there is still time to recover
2. Report the project on schedule. Most project management plans are not accurate to less than one or two weeks anyway
3. Report the project one week behind schedule and include recommended corrective actions
4. Report the project one week behind schedule and then issue a new report next week showing them the problem fixed

Q9. A change control system should be created:

1. As needed on the project
2. By management
3. As a formal documented procedure
4. By the team 4

Q10. A project manager is performing an audit on a deliverable when she hears that the team member who did the work is complaining to everyone that he is being picked on by having his activity audited. You know this is not true. What lesson learned could you take to future projects?

1. Tell all the team members at the beginning of the project that their deliverables will be audited
2. Set an audit policy in the scope management plan
3. Audit less frequently
4. Use a walk-through instead of audits