Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Your organization is having a difficult time managing all of is projects. You have been asked to help senior management get a better understanding of the problems. What do you do FIRST?

1. Meet with individual project managers to get a better sense of what is happening
2. Send a formal memo to all project managers requesting their project management plans
3. Meet with senior managers to help them develop a new tracking system for managing projects
4. Review the project charters and bar charts for all projects.

Q3. You are in the executing process group of a major project with an estimated cost of US $22 million. Two team members are having a disagreement over the potential sellers of a project, and the project manager has offered to help. The project manager suggests a compromise, and the team members want to solve the problem. Who should decide on the BEST course of action?

1. Management
2. Team member
3. Project manager
4. Customer

Q4. Which of the following are GENERALLY illustrated BETTER by bar charts than network diagrams?

1. Logical relationships
2. Critical paths
3. Resource trade-offs
4. Progress or status.

Q5. Which of the following tools can enhance the visibility of traditional written project plans and other documents to provide a real-time overview of the project status?

1. Visual management tools
2. Expert judgement
3. Product backlog
4. Change control system

Q6. During the development of the project stakeholder engagement plan, the project manager is usually dependent on the expert judgment of senior stakeholders to identify and plan effective stakeholder management strategies. Which of the following stakeholders cannot guide the project manager in developing effective strategies for internal stakeholders?

1. Sponsor
2. Identified key stakeholders
3. Customers
4. Project team members

Q7. A complicated software project was authorized by a project sponsor. However, the users who were intended to use the product found it extremely difficult to articulate their requirements. What technique can be employed to elicit requirements for such a project?

1. Job overlaying
2. Hidden participant
3. Job duplication
4. Job shadowing

Q8. The project manager is looking at the project’s resource needs and lessons learned from past projects. This information causes the project manager to be concerned about the ability to acquire enough resources from the project in six months. Which of the following would be the LEAST effective preventive action?

1. Make sure functional managers have a copy of the resource histogram
2. Show the sponsor the data, and explain the project manager’s concern
3. Determine metrics to use as an early warning sign that resources will not be available.
4. Ask functional managers for their opinions.

Q9. The project has been going well, except for the number of changes being. The project is being installed into even different department within the company and will greatly improve departmental performance when operational. There are 14 project management processes selected for use on this project. The project manager is a technical expert as well as having been trained in communications and managing people. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the project problems?

1. The project manager was not trained in understanding the company environment.
2. The project should have more management oversight since it will result in such great benefits to the company.
3. The project should have used more of the project management processes.
4. Some stakeholders were not identified

Q10. Which of the following is an output of the collect requirements process?

1. Scope management plan
2. Requirements management plan
3. Requirements risk breakdown
4. Requirements traceability matrix 7