Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The senior analyst on a project came up with Activity Duration Estimates as follows: Activity A: 10 days + a lag of two days; Activity B: 1 week + a lead of three days. The project manager who reviewed these estimates raised some objections to them. What would they most likely be?

1. The analyst should have included percent variance information while mentioning the Activity Duration Estimate. This would indicate a range of possible results.
2. Activity Duration Estimates should not include any lag or lead information.
3. It is advisable not to mix up units such as days and weeks while coming up with Activity Duration Estimates.
4. The Activity Duration Estimate should have also mentioned the predecessor or successor activity to which the lag or lead is attached.

Q3. Sarah is about to start developing her project stakeholder engagement plan. She is currently gathering all the required inputs for this process. She has already created the stakeholder register and has gotten access to the organizational process assets and enterprise environmental factors. Which of the following inputs is also critical for the process?

1. Expert Judgment
2. Benchmarking
3. Root cause analysis
4. Project management plan

Q4. A project manager is assigned to a new, high priority project. There are only five available resources because other resources are already committed to projects. The time available to complete the project is less than half the time needed, and the project manager cannot convince management to change the end date. The project manager should:

1. Coordinate with team members the overtime necessary to complete the work
2. Provide the team with opportunities to produce acceptable quality on the work that can be accomplished
3. Look for any scope that can be cut from the project.
4. Use more experienced resources to complete the work faster.

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. Conflict management is a tool and technique of which of the following processes?

1. Control Procurements
2. Identify Stakeholders
3. Close Project or Phase
4. Manage Team

Q7. The code development phase of a software project is nearly complete when the first code review is conducted. During the review, it s discovered that the application is missing functionality required to complete a key business process. However, the product scope never specified this functionality. What should the project manager do?

1. Reject the functionality as out of the project’s scope.
2. Agree to include the functionality in the current release
3. Agree to include the functionality in the next release.
4. Assess the impact on the project of including the functionality, and inform the sponsor.

Q8. You are developing a quality management plan for your project. During the planning process, one of your team members tells you that, in the past, the organization has completed a similar project. You start to review the old project and find that some of its quality metrics can be used in your project as well. This technique is known as:

1. Reviewing organization process assets
2. Benchmarking
3. Process analysis
4. Prototyping

Q9. A project manager is working with management to create the project estimate. During the initiating process group, what level of accuracy should the estimate have?

1. +/- 50 percent
2. -10 percent to +25 percent
3. -35 percent to +75 percent
4. -10 percent to +10 percent

Q10. You are currently managing an urban development project for a municipal authority. You and your team are managing the project and have outsourced most of the project work to specialist contractors. All the contracts awarded were FFP contracts. The project is almost 50 percent complete, and most of the contractors have requested amendments to their contacts. Work specifications were not clear at the time of contract awards, and as a result, new work requirements have come up. What is your lesson learned?

1. Never award FFP contracts in the future since they usually result in disputes and contests
2. Cost-plus contracts are ideal types of contracts for construction projects
3. Do not award FFP contracts unless the scope of work and specifications are precisely articulated.
4. Good and credible contractors were not selected for the project at the time of award