Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Bill and Jake are two team members in a project. They do not get along well and are constantly involved in verbal conflicts. The project manager understands the characteristics of conflict and the conflict management process and tries to resolve the situation. Which of the following is not a correct statement?

1. Openness resolves conflict
2. Conflict is natural and forces a search for alternatives
3. Conflict is inevitable in a project environment.
4. The project manager is not responsible for conflict management.

Q3. Project knowledge management is concerned with managing which type of project knowledge?

1. Both “explicit” and “tacit” knowledge
2. “Explicit” knowledge; as this can be readily codified
3. “Tacit” knowledge; as this is difficult to express
4. “Tacit” knowledge; as this involves beliefs, insights, experience and “know-how”

Q4. A new project manager is planning a complex hardware installation project. The team consists of 13 people who are experts in their fields. The project manager does not want to micromanage the project. How far should he decompose the work?

1. As small as possible because the work is complex.
2. As large as possible because he is dealing with experts
3. To 1000-hour work packages because he is dealing with experts
4. To about 80-hour work packages because it will make the work less complex 8

Q5. During project executing, a team member identifies a risk that is not in the risk register. What should you do?

1. Get further information on how the team member identified the risk, because you already performed a detailed analysis and did not identify the risk
2. Disregard the risk, because risks were identified during project planning
3. Inform the customer about the risk.
4. Analyze the risk.

Q6. Which of the following is not an example of a work performance report?

1. Status report
2. Project charter
3. Progress report
4. Project dashboard

Q7. Which of the following may help in ensuring that certain bidders in the procurement process do not receive preferential treatment and that all prospective sellers have a clear and common understanding of the procurement?

1. Use of weighted criteria
2. Use of screening techniques
3. Use of bidder conferences
4. Use of expert judgment

Q8. The project manager controls the interfacing and overlapping areas of the organization’s procurement processes, along with the project schedule, with processes from this area:

1. Project Resource Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Risk Management
4. Project Integration Management

Q9. Your project has successfully completed; the deliverable is handed over to the client, and you are in the close phase or project process. Which of the following activities will you not perform in the close phase or project process?

1. Update lessons learned
2. Release the resources
3. Acceptance of deliverables
4. All of the above

Q10. A project manager wishes to illustrate the connections between the work that needs to be done and the project team members. According to the PMBOK, the resulting document is a:

1. Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
2. Resource Planning Chart (RPC)
3. Task Assignment Model (TAM)
4. Resource Assignment Chart (RAC)