Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Which of the following is NOT part of the Define Scope process?

1. Facilitated workshops
2. Identifying alternatives
3. Product analysis
4. Inspection 11

Q3. Communication noise refers to influences on effective communication that influence the interpretation of conversations. Noise affects which components of communication?

1. Encoding and decoding
2. Decoding and feedback
3. Transmission and decoding
4. Encoding and feedback

Q4. Which of the following is generally the MOST CORRECT use of a project network diagram?

1. Showing the project schedule
2. Documenting activity interdependencies
3. Defining project resources
4. Defining project costs

Q5. James has been managing a hotel construction project on a busy street. He is in the process of estimating activity durations for building walls, and he calculates the most likely estimate as 15 days. If prefabricated material is used, it would take no more than 12 days to finish the work. The work may be delayed and could take up to 18 days if less experienced construction workers build the walls. What is the expected duration of building walls using the three-point estimate?

1. 12 days
2. 11 days
3. 16 days
4. 15 days

Q6. You are in the process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations and address issues as they occur. Which option is a tool and technique of this process?

1. Interpersonal skills
2. Stakeholder analysis
3. Analytical technique
4. Change request

Q7. You are in the identifying risks process. You are meeting with your team members and stated that the project may be delayed because of the late delivery of certain consumables for your project. Now you ask the team members to find ways in which this problem can occur. What technique are you using here?

1. Assumption and constraint analysis
2. Brainstorming
3. Sensitivity analysis
4. Root cause analysis

Q8. You have just returned from the weekly change control board meeting at which you presented the requested changes to the employee move project. You had five change requests approved and one request rejected. These are outputs of what process?

1. Control Quality
2. Control Scope
3. Monitor Risks
4. Perform Integrated Change Control

Q9. 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.

Q10. The customer is repeatedly requesting changes. You discover the contract does not include procedures or implementing change. There are no available funds in the customer’s budget to accommodate change. What should you do?

1. Ask your management to use money from the company’s cost reserve.
2. Tell the customer there is no budget for changes in the project
3. Discuss the situation with the customer to decide how to remedy this problem
4. Make only those changes that do not impact cost.