Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following quality control tools and techniques may not be used for root cause analysis?

1. Fishbone diagram
2. Scatter diagram
3. Ishikawa diagram
4. Cause-and-effect diagram

Q3. A project manager has increased project costs by US $100,000, but completed the project four weeks earlier than planned. What activity is BEST described here?

1. Resource leveling
2. Schedule compression
3. Critical chain
4. Adjusting leads and lags

Q4. The Human Resources department wants to hire a new project manager from within the company. They can choose from the following candidates: Candidate A has good management knowledge; Candidate B has good project management knowledge; Candidate C has solid technical knowledge; and Candidate D has general management, project management, and technical skills. Who is the BEST candidate?

1. Candidate A
2. Candidate B
3. Candidate C
4. Candidate D

Q5. Your project team is having a dispute with a vendor about whether a specific task is within the project’s scope. The scope statement does not provide implementation-level details that could resolve this dispute. There is no WBS, however, because the project sponsor insisted that the project be started right away without pausing to create standard project planning documentation. Who is at fault?

1. The project manager
2. The project sponsor
3. The project stakeholders
4. The project vendor

Q6. A project manager is considering various classification methods to share information among project stakeholders. Which of the following correctly classifies the different methods used?

1. Pull communication—Meetings; Push communication—Newsletters; Interactive communication—E-learning repository
2. Interactive communication—Meetings; Push communication—E-learning repository; Pull communication—Newsletters
3. Push communication—Meetings; Pull communication—Newsletters; Interactive communication—E-learning repository
4. Interactive communication—Meetings; Push communication— Newsletters; Pull communication—E-learning repository

Q7. Which of the following best describes the Validate Scope process?

1. Validating that the project quality requirements are met
2. Controlling changes to the scope of the project
3. Obtaining the stakeholders' formal acceptance of the project deliverables
4. Validating that all of the project's objectives are met

Q8. Which factor would NOT be considered when choosing between two projects to undertake?

1. Net present value (NPV)
2. Benefit cost ratio (BCR)
3. Payback period
4. Law of diminishing returns

Q9. You are managing an electronic chip design project for a customer. There are a number of engineers and subject matter experts from the customer’s organization that have been assigned as resources to the project plus several additional design engineers that your company has supplied. All the engineers were involved in the development of a prototype chip, an extremely time-consuming and expensive process. Upon the completion of the prototype, you submit it for review to ensure there are no patent infringement issues with the design. However, the review determines there are several issues that could result in an intellectual property dispute with the patent owners should the prototype design be released commercially. Resources from your company developed the affected prototype elements, as well as from your customer’s organization. What should you do?

1. Ask the engineers to revise the design and resubmit it
2. Notify the project stakeholders immediately
3. Request permission to use the copyright material
4. Submit the prototype as is since the budget and schedule do not accommodate rework

Q10. Which of the following is not a Project Schedule Management process?

1. Source Activities
2. Estimate Activity Durations
3. Define Activities
4. Sequence Activities