Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager has a project with a team member’s performance. What is the BEST form of communication for addressing this problem?

1. Formal written communication
2. Formal verbal communication
3. Informal written communication
4. Informal verbal communication

Q3. The complexity of the information flow in any project depends upon the complexity of the project itself. Information flows through various channels in complex projects. The project management team is responsible for gathering, compiling, analyzing, and reporting this information. Which of the following processes finally releases the project information to the project stakeholders?

1. Plan Communications Management
2. Monitor Communications
3. Manage Communications
4. Manage Stakeholder Engagement

Q4. You are the project manager of a project. As part of the planning process, you use a planning technique to subdivide the project scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. What is this technique called?

1. Unit task analysis
2. Decomposition
3. Rolling wave planning
4. Arrow Diagramming Method

Q5. A project manager and her team worked together to develop a work breakdown structure. However, it seems project team members are doing work that is not included in the work breakdown structure. The purpose of a work breakdown structure is to:

1. Guide the cost estimate for a project, not how the work is done.
2. Provide senior management with a high level view of the project scope.
3. Include the work required to create the products of the project.
4. Include the total project scope or all of the work that must be done to complete the project.

Q6. A project activity on the critical path is delayed. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Obtain more resources
2. Tell the customer the project will be late
3. Compress the schedule
4. Cut scope.

Q7. The project charter is a document which initiates the project, establishes your authority and contains some high-level information. Which of the following information will not be included in the project charter?

1. Project purpose
2. High-level requirements
3. High-level risks
4. Name of the competitor

Q8. Which of the following is TRUE of inspections?

1. They may not be conducted by the project team.
2. They test future desires of prospective customers.
3. They can only be conducted on the final product.
4. They prevent defective deliverables from reaching the customer.

Q9. You have been appointed a project manager for ABC Inc. and are given a project. While in the planning stage, you find that your organization is lacking the skills and manpower to complete a part of the work and the scope is also unclear. You decide to contract this work to a third party. What kind of contract will you select in this case?

1. Cost reimbursable
2. Time & material
3. Fixed fee
4. PO

Q10. Although it is highly recommended that lessons learned are captured and documented throughout the project lifecycle, lessons learned are finalized during project closure. At this stage, responses to high-level questions may be gathered and documented. Which of the following is not an appropriate question to ask at this stage?

1. What were the top significant project successes?
2. How relevant the historic lessons learned were to this project during execution?
3. What obstacles or unanticipated circumstances made it difficult to complete the project?
4. What should have been done differently in this project?