Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Originally a project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes three weeks, activity B takes five weeks, and activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before activity C can start. Activity C takes six weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before activity E can start, and activity E takes two weeks. Activity F can start as soon as activity C completes and has duration of four weeks. Activity G takes three weeks and cannot start until activity E is completed. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. However, during project executing, a dependency was discovered between activities E and F. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Tell management that the project will take longer than 18 weeks.
2. Redo schedule development
3. Call a team meeting and determine if crashing or fast tracking are possible solutions to meeting the original schedule
4. Call a meeting of stakeholders and communicate schedule risks.

Q3. Which of the following is NOT a knowledge management tools and technique?

1. Networking
2. Change requests
3. Knowledge fairs and cafes
4. Storytelling

Q4. Which of the following components of a project scope statement is useful in reducing scope creep?

1. Acceptance criteria
2. Deliverables
3. Scope description
4. Exclusions

Q5. You are project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?

1. The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.
2. The project manager should add an activity to he project management plan with no associated time.
3. The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.
4. The project manager should create a change control form, and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.

Q6. A project manager is estimating project costs and needs to decide whether the estimates will include direct costs only or include indirect costs, as well. In which of the following phases does this decision need to take place?

1. Define Scope
2. Estimate Costs
3. Plan Expenses
4. Determine Budget

Q7. During which stage of risk planning are risks prioritized based on their relative probability and impact?

1. Perform Qualitative risk analysis
2. Identify Risks
3. Perform Quantitative risk analysis
4. Plan Risk Responses

Q8. During a key stakeholders’ update meeting, George’s project was challenged. The project is currently in the executing phase. One of the key stakeholders claimed the project no longer makes any business sense. What must George do next?

1. Update the issue log and request that the stakeholder provide more details
2. Request the project sponsor to intervene
3. Prematurely terminate the project
4. Redo the business case for the project

Q9. A project manager uses the precedence diagramming method (PDM) for constructing a project schedule network and creates a network diagram for the purpose. He decides to use the most common type of precedence relationship for all activities. Which of the following relationships would he use?

1. Start-to-finish (SF)
2. Finish-to-finish (FF)
3. Start-to-start (SS)
4. Finish-to-start (FS)

Q10. Which motivational theory is based on ideas about hygiene factors?

1. Maslow
2. Deming
3. McGregor
4. Herzberg