Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Scope decomposition involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller pieces to:

1. Improve the accuracy of estimates, define a baseline for performance and assist with responsibility assignments.
2. Provide more activities to assign to resources
3. Provide the project duration, provide project control, and assign control charts.
4. Assist in stakeholder assignment to project activities.

Q3. Which of the following sequences represents straight line depreciation?

1. $100, $100, $100
2. $100, $120, $40
3. $100, $120, $160
4. $160, $140, $120

Q4. A project manager wants to use a group decision-making technique to generate, classify and prioritize requirements. Which of these is not a valid group decision-making technique?

1. Plurality
2. Singularity
3. Majority
4. Unanimity

Q5. Allocating ownership of a risk to a third party who is best able to capture the opportunity is an example of ________ the risk.

1. Sharing
2. Enhancing
3. Exploiting
4. Accepting

Q6. You have a choice of four ongoing projects that you can take over as project manager. Project 1 has a benefit cost ratio (BCR) of 1.4, is a high priority project and has a critical path length of 16 months. Its cost performance index (CPI) is 1.2. Project 2 has a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.1, is using three critical resources, has a low priority, and has a BCR of 1.1. Project 3 has a CPI of 1.2, an SPI of 0.89, a BCR of 1.6, and a critical path length of 19 months. Project 4 has a CPI of 0.82, an activity with 33 days of float, a hard-to-get resource assigned to activity L, and a priority of keeping cost low. Based on the above, which project would you prefer to take over?

1. Project 1
2. Project 2
3. Project 3
4. Project 4

Q7. Which of the following is the BEST way to describe the outputs of the Identify Risks process?

1. A list of risks
2. A list of triggers
3. A list of the risk response owners
4. An understanding of the project risks

Q8. Which of the following roles in a project is most likely to be involved in negotiations on procurements during the Conduct Procurements phase?

1. Procurement administrator
2. Project coordinator
3. Project manager
4. Project sponsor

Q9. You have recently finished an advanced project management training course your project budget paid for. Because the budget for your project is not large enough to train any other resources on the project, your manager has asked you to make copies of the course materials and distribute them to the rest of the staff. What do you do?

1. Make the copies
2. Provide a single copy of the materials
3. Scan the materials and place them on the corporate intranet for easy access
4. Refuse the request

Q10. A team member assigned to the project needs two days of training to satisfactorily complete certain activities. No one else with the necessary skills is available to the project team. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Add two days to the schedule and inform management of the delay
2. Ask management for additional personnel because you cannot afford the extra schedule time.
3. Offer a bonus to the team member if he/she gets the training on his/her own time.
4. Include training in the project management plan.