Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Define Activities, Sequence Activities, and Estimate Durations all occur before:

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Create WBS
3. Develop Schedule
4. Project development

Q3. A project manager working for a construction company works closely with a design firm. Part of his responsibility is to negotiate and approve bid documents with the design firm. The design firm offers the project manager a job with the firm, which he accepts. When the project manager gives his two weeks’ notice to the construction company, he is not asked nor does he mention that the design firm will employ him. For the next two weeks, the project manager continues to negotiate and approve bids and designs submitted by the design firm. In this situation:

1. The departure of the project manager provides both companies with benefits by allowing the companies to strengthen their relationship and enhance communication
2. The construction company did not ask and the project manager is not obligated to inform the company of his new job description
3. There is a conflict of interest.
4. The project manager is required to inform the construction company in his departure interview.

Q4. You are constructing a school building and due to some unforeseen incidents, your project is delayed. To bring the project on schedule, you are thinking about running several activities in parallel which were earlier planned to run sequentially. So, you started reviewing activities such as excavation of foundation, building walls, carpentry work, electrical work, and plumbing work, etc. After the review, you decide to run the carpentry, electrical, and plumbing works together. Excavating the foundation for the construction of a wall is an example of which of the following?

1. Mandatory dependency
2. Discretionary dependency
3. External dependency
4. Internal dependency

Q5. A project manager wants to more extensively involve the stakeholders on the project. Which of the following would be the BEST way to accomplish this?

1. Have the stakeholders periodically review the list of project requirements.
2. Invite the stakeholders to attend project status meetings.
3. Send status reports to the stakeholders.
4. Update the stakeholders on the status of all project changes.

Q6. One of the project objectives for your company was to acquire additional expertise completing a large scale design project. The project is mostly completed when your client terminates the contract. A change in their business means the work is no longer needed. What is the MOST effective thing to do?

1. Stop work immediately
2. Complete the project, but do not charge the client for the time
3. Tell the client that work will stop after it is completed
4. Move on to the Close Project or Phase process

Q7. Bill is the project manager of an external project for a customer. The project is expected to take about a year to complete. Six months into the project, the customer informs Bill that he or she needs to scrap the project. During which of the following processes would procedures be developed to handle early termination of a project?

1. Develop Project Charter
2. Close Project or Phase
3. Define Scope
4. Monitor Risks

Q8. A project manager discovers that two team members discussed what was needed to complete a work package on the project and made many changes to the project scope. The work package is now completed and the team members are planning to go on to the next work package. In looking at what was done, the project manager determines that the work does NOT meet the requirements of the project. What is the BEST course of action for the project manager?

1. Add another work package, formatted with the correct scope, to the project.
2. Refuse the submittal of the work package.
3. Have the team begin the work package again and include the incident in their performance reviews.
4. Ask the team member’s manager to assign different people to the work package.

Q9. While creating the agenda for a status meeting with the team, a project manager receives input from one team member that an item should be added. Another team member says the team is not ready to resolve the item during the meeting. After much discussion, the project manager decides to put the item on the agenda as an initial discussion item only. Which conflict resolution technique is the project manager using?

1. Compromise
2. Smoothing
3. Forcing
4. Withdrawal.

Q10. To a project manager, which of the following is the BIGGEST disadvantage of progress reports as compared to watching what is going on in a project, asking questions, and assisting team members?

1. Progress reports include information from all team.
2. Progress reports require expending time gathering information from stakeholders.
3. Progress reports generally show problems after they have occurred.
4. Progress reports supply information about trends.