Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are managing a multi-million dollar project that is a joint venture between your company and another organization. You have repeatedly tried to get the contact and the project charter finalized between the two organizations, but there has been a great deal of arguing over language and details. The project’s scope has been expanding, cost has been increasing, and the schedule has regularly been lengthening. You learn very suddenly that the project has been cancelled because the other organization withdrew its share of the funding for the project. What is the MOST likely reason that this occurred?

1. Failure to understand the budgetary process
2. Inadequate scope management
3. Lack of sponsor commitment
4. Poorly done initial cost-benefit analysis

Q3. What risk management process MOST affects the project management plan?

1. Identify Risks
2. Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Plan Risk Responses
4. Control Risks

Q4. Which of these is not a component of the scope baseline that is contained in the project management plan?

1. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
2. Requirements documentation
3. WBS Dictionary
4. Project Scope Statement

Q5. During a project update meeting, one of the key stakeholders expressed his displeasure over the project management approach. One percent of the produced deliverables had minor defects which required a rework. This stakeholder has been a resisting stakeholder so far. What must the project manager do to bring the future project performance in line with the approved quality requirements?

1. Investigate the root cause and identify the required defect repair.
2. Investigate the root cause and identify the required preventive action.
3. Investigate the root cause and identify the required corrective action.
4. Ignore the complaint from the resisting stakeholder.

Q6. A cost baseline is an output of which cost management process?

1. Estimate Activity Resources
2. Estimate Costs
3. Determine Budget
4. Control Costs.

Q7. All of the following are outputs of the Estimate Costs process EXCEPT:

1. An understanding of the cost risk in the work that has been estimated.
2. The prevention of inappropriate changes from being included in the cost baseline.
3. An indication of the range of possible costs for the project
4. Documentation of any assumptions made during the Estimate Costs process.

Q8. After the kickoff meeting, two team members engage in a casual conversation about the project objectives and deliverables. It is clear they heard different messages during the meeting. One team member is so adamant that the other team member give up arguing the point. After talking to the project manager, the second team member confirms that the first team member is mistaken. At this point, what is the BEST course of action?

1. The second team member should send the other team member an e-mail describing what he discovered.
2. At the next project meeting, the team member should ask the mistaken team member to describe his interpretation so the project manager can get everyone on the same page.
3. The project manager should send out an e-mail to the team restating the project objectives and deliverables.
4. At the next project meeting, the project manager should spend time reviewing the documented project scope statement for the purpose of identifying this and other false assumptions.

Q9. The product manager for the product the project is developing notifies the project manager that she has decided the product should be able to be used by an additional market. The BEST thing for the project manager to do would be to:

1. Immediately notify the project sponsor that there is a project scope change.
2. Notify the project change control board that the project scope will have to change
3. Inform the product manager that the potential impacts to the project will be reviewed.
4. Do nothing, as this is an example of progressive elaboration.

Q10. The client needs a small modification in the project scope, and he discusses it with you. He has told you that this may not increase the cost and may actually save some money. What will your next step be?

1. Approve it
2. Reject it
3. Review it
4. Discuss it with the management