Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project uses rounding of activity cost estimates data to the nearest $100, uses staff hours as the unit of measure for resources, and has a variance threshold of 10 percent deviation from the baseline plan. These approaches are typically documented in the:

1. Cost management plan
2. Scope Statement
3. WBS
4. Project charter

Q3. A project manager is assigned to a new project and is supplied with a preselected team. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should find out about the team?

1. Each team member wants to get out of the project.
2. What each team member wants to get out of the project.
3. Each team member’s project archives
4. Each team member’s role in the project management plan.

Q4. As part of the quality control in your project, you are exploring a technique that shows the history and pattern of variation. This is a line graph that shows data points plotted in the order in which they occurred. You are most likely looking at a:

1. Control chart
2. Pareto diagram
3. Histogram
4. Cause-and-effect diagram

Q5. In regards to WBS, which of the following is the correct way to decompose the project scope?

1. Total scope -> planning package -> control account -> work package
2. Total scope -> control account -> work package -> planning package
3. Total scope -> control account -> planning package -> work package
4. Total scope -> Work package -> control account -> planning package

Q6. An important aspect of project management is the handling of stakeholder expectations. Typically, at what level are the stakeholders with respect to the project manager?

1. At higher levels and with greater authority
2. At all levels and with varying degrees of authority
3. At higher levels but only the project sponsor has authority greater than the project manager
4. At the same level with varying degrees of authority

Q7. A project manager works in a company that has a matrix organizational structure. A server administrator is assigned to the project manager’s project team. The server administrator is not taking direction from the project manager and the delay in the server administrator’s activities is causing a negative variance to the schedule. The server administrator works for the director of server administration. Who is primarily responsible for solving this problem?

1. The project manager
2. The server administrator
3. The director of server administration
4. The sponsor

Q8. An activity has been delayed and the project manager needs to deal with the situation. What is the NEXT thing she should do?

1. Determine how much of a problem it is.
2. Report to management
3. Crash or fast track
4. Use contingency reserves

Q9. Outputs of the Develop Project Team process are:

1. Roles and responsibilities, project organization charts, and staffing management plan
2. Project organization charts, project staff assignments, and roles and responsibilities.
3. Project manager plan updates, staffing management plan, and project organization charts.
4. Roles and responsibilities, staffing management plan, and resource availability

Q10. You are developing a smartphone, when suddenly your competitor has launched a smartphone which is better than yours. Therefore, you make some changes to the product which causes WBS elements to be amended heavily. What kind of changes have you made to your project?

1. Change in scope
2. Change in schedule
3. Change in quality
4. None of the above