Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are constructing an office building. Work has started and you are in the middle of your project. You feel that if you add one more floor to the building it will cost much less than if the client decides to add it in the future. This change, however, will lead to a change in various baselines and the project charter as well. Therefore, you discuss the issue with all relevant stakeholders, and after their agreement, you process these change requests. In all of these changes, who is responsible for making this change in the project charter?

1. The project manager
2. The client
3. Management
4. The project management team

Q3. Which of the following approaches encourages plan definition but also acknowledges that once work starts, the priorities may change and the plan needs to be updated to reflect this change?

1. Waterfall approach
2. Adaptive planning
3. Predictive life cycle
4. Upfront planning

Q4. A new software development project is in progress and the project manager is working with the quality assurance department. They want to improve everyone’s confidence that the project will satisfy the quality standards. Which of the following MUST they have before they start this process?

1. Completed checklists
2. A quality control plan
3. Results of quality control measurements
4. Rework.

Q5. Which of the following aspects of planning is concerned with decomposing the work of a project into manageable chunks?

1. Scope
2. Schedule
3. Cost
4. Quality 6

Q6. Which of these types of precedence relationships is least commonly used in the Precedence Diagramming Method?

1. Start to Start
2. Finish to Finish
3. Finish to Start
4. Start to Finish

Q7. A project to design and build a new aircraft is cancelled after the project has been underway for some time. What process is employed to document what work was done and to what extent it was completed?

1. Validate Scope
2. Control Scope
3. Control Quality
4. Close Project or Phase

Q8. The project manager has had some difficulty in getting the team to complete work efforts but he feels that the changes he made to the reward system will fix the problem. The number of stakeholders on the project has grown by 20 percent and the number of activities being completed late is growing. The project manager has heard from management that the project might become a higher priority if their competition comes out with a new product that uses wireless technology. Based on this, it would be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Re-estimate the activities and prepare to create a new schedule
2. Perform configuration management
3. Recreate the project work authorization system
4. Better respond to risk event triggers 30

Q9. The project manager is involved in the Develop Schedule process for the project. He has analyzed the project, compressed the schedule and completed a Monte Carlo analysis. Which of the following is an output of Develop Schedule?

1. Activity duration estimates
2. Change requests
3. Resource requirement updates
4. Work breakdown structure

Q10. The project budget is proving to be inaccurate. The SPI is 1.1. The team has had a negative deviation from the activity attributes, and the sponsor has inserted herself on the change control board. What is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Try to encourage the sponsor to remove herself from the change control board
2. Re-compute the project schedule
3. Re-estimate the activity attributes
4. Calculate the cost performance index