Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The project for the accounting department has been going well when the company says that it must reduce the cost of the project without changing the quality requirements. The project manager has looked to trim any resources, paid more attention to risk on upcoming activities, and even has reduced product scope, but the project remains over the new budget limit. Which of the following should the project manager do NEXT?

1. Get an extension of time
2. Review expensive customer requirements that add the least benefit
3. Suggest the project be terminated
4. Cut 10 percent off the cost estimate of each remaining activity.

Q3. Project coordination is enhanced through progress reporting, variance reporting, and team meetings. These are all forms of:

1. Staffing management.
2. Risk management.
3. Time management.
4. Communications management.

Q4. You are a non-technical project manager. Two highly skilled and knowledgeable resources on your project are in conflict over the best technical solution to meet a project requirement. However, this is not affecting the project schedule. Who is initially responsible for the conflict resolution?

1. The project sponsor is initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
2. The project manager is initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
3. Both team members are initially responsible for the conflict resolution.
4. Either of the team members is responsible for the conflict resolution.

Q5. You have joined AVC Corp and are immediately assigned a project. The project charter is signed, stakeholders have been identified and now you are classifying them according to the direction of influence. Which of the following is not a way to classify the project stakeholders under this technique?

1. Upward
2. Downward
3. Inward
4. Outward

Q6. 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.

Q7. All of the following statements about workarounds are correct EXCEPT:

1. They are unplanned responses to risks
2. They are responses only to risk that were identified in project planning
3. They make use of the project management plan
4. They may result in a project change request.

Q8. Which of the following graphical techniques visually depict the product scope by showing a business system and how other systems interact with it?

1. Ishikawa diagram
2. Histogram
3. Influence diagram
4. Context diagram

Q9. You are the project manager of a large IT project. A manager from a company contracted to work on the project offers you free tickets to a local sporting event. The tickets are expensive, but your organization has no formal policy regarding gifts. What is the best way to handle the offer?

1. Refuse the tickets and report the offer to your employer
2. Accept the tickets but notify your employer
3. Politely refuse the tickets
4. Accept the tickets since there is no policy

Q10. The Direct and Manage Project Work process has three tools and techniques. Two of them are Expert Judgment and Meetings. What is the third one?

1. Scheduling System
2. Configuration Management System
3. Project Management Information System
4. Change Control System