Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. If you are managing changes to the project's cost baseline, which process are you using?

1. Negotiate Costs
2. Estimate Costs
3. Control Costs
4. Determine Budget

Q3. The list of identified risks is found in the risk register. However, the overall high-level project risks is first listed in the:

1. Scope statement
2. Requirement document
3. Project charter
4. Risk management plan

Q4. Based on the chart, if you needed to shorten the duration of the project, which activity would you to shorten?

1. Activity B
2. Activity D
3. Activity H
4. Activity C 39

Q5. You are responsible for IT maintenance in your organization. The head of the IT department comes to you with an internet security expert and tells you to disable auto login and force authentic login based on a new password. The password will be 15 characters long and consist of letters, numerals, and one special character, and this password must expire after every 30 days. This is an example of:

1. Operation
2. Project
3. Maintenance
4. None of the above

Q6. Erica is managing a kitchen tools manufacturing project, which is intended to produce modern cooking ovens. This project is hugely important for the company as well as for Erica‘s career. Although the project scope statement was well-defined and requirements were gathered from stakeholders in the planning phase, many design change requests have come in from customers during project execution. Which of the following tasks must Erica perform to avoid scope creep caused by uncontrollable changes?

1. Perform validate scope process and process all changes through the plan risk responses process
2. Perform integrated change control process and process all changes through the control quality process
3. Perform scope control and process all changes through the integrated change control process
4. Perform scope control and process all changes through the validate scope process

Q7. Based on the chart, what is the float of activity B?

1. 2
2. 3
3. 5
4. 0

Q8. All technical work is completed on the project. Which of the following remains to be done?

1. Validate Scope
2. Plan Risk Responses
3. Create a staffing management plan
4. Complete lessons learned.

Q9. Three years back, your organization awarded a fixed price contract to a reputable local contractor to construct a new airport terminal in the city. A few days back, you received a change request from the contractor requesting to adjust the contract’s price. The contractor is claiming that as a result of the recent national recession, the prices of raw materials have gone up and he cannot complete the rest of the project at the contract price. Is the contactor’s request legitimate?

1. Yes, you cannot penalize the contactor for price escalations due to force majeure.
2. Yes, unless there is no Economic Price Adjustment provision in the contract.
3. No, the price of the contract is fixed and cannot be changed.
4. No, the price hike due to recession must be adjusted against the contractor’s profit.

Q10. The role of the project manager relating to integration is MOST appropriately described as:

1. Ensuring that the stakeholders’ role is integrated with the rest of the team.
2. Ensuring that management’s role is integrated into the everyday workings of the project.
3. Ensuring that the various project elements are properly coordinated
4. Ensuring that team members work together.