Project Management Question Bank
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Project Management- Q2. During the team member acquiring process, you observe that a particular employee from another department can be used for your project for some work. Therefore, you ask their functional manager to provide the employee on alternate days. The functional manager says they can provide you with the particular employee for only two days a week. Which technique are you using here?

1. Acquire project team
2. Negotiation
3. Pre-assignment
4. Develop project team

Project Management- Q3. Which motivational theorist said that people cannot ascend to the next level until the levels below are fulfilled?

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

Project Management- Q4. You have advertised in several newspapers to inform interested contractors to apply for a bid for some of your procurement needs. Which process are you currently in?

1. Plan procurement management
2. Conduct procurement
3. Control procurement
4. None of the above

Project Management- Q5. Gene is the project manager of a large highway expansion project. He has a number of stakeholders with competing priorities and agendas, and he often has to resolve conflicts among stakeholders. Which knowledge area manages communications with the project stakeholders?

1. Project Quality Management
2. Project Stakeholder Management
3. Project Communications Management
4. Project Resource Management

Project Management- Q6. A project manager is appointed to head highly technical project in an area with which this person has limited familiarity. The project manager delegates the processes of Develop Schedule, Estimate Costs, Define Activities, and Estimate Activity Resources to various project team members, and basically serves as an occasional referee and coordinator of activities. The results of this approach are likely to be:

1. A team that is not highly productive, but that stays together because of the work environment created by the project manager.
2. A team that is characterized by poor performance, low morale, high level of conflict and high turnover
3. A team functioning throughout the project at a very high level, demonstrating creativity and commitment.
4. A team that initially experiences some amounts of confusion but that after a period of time becomes a cohesive and effective unit

Project Management- Q7. A team member determines that the scope for her activity is no longer valid. She comes to you for advice on making the change. To which of the following documents should the project manager refer to make this change?

1. The project management information system
2. The scope management plan
3. The cost management plan
4. The work authorization system

Project Management- Q8. The network expansion project you just took over is said to be doing pretty well. The previous project manager only used variances to tell the current project status. In the last report you find SV = US $50,000, CV = US $10,000, PV = US $500,000. You know the rate of spending and schedule progress are important as well. Based on the details you have been given what are the SPI and CPI?

1. 0.90, 1.02
2. 1.10, 1.02
3. 0.91, 0.98
4. 1.11, 0.98

Project Management- Q9. Which of the following are AL items included in the cost management plan?

1. The level of accuracy needed for estimates, rules for measuring cost performance, specifications for how duration estimates should be stated.
2. Specifications for how estimates should be stated, rules or measuring cost performance, the level of accuracy needed for estimates
3. Rules for measuring team performance, the level of accuracy needed for estimates, specifications for how estimates should be stated.
4. Specifications for how estimates should be stated, the level of risk needed for estimates, rules for measuring cost performance.

Project Management- Q10. A technical team can begin to edit a large document 15 days after it begins writing it. What kind of dependency would this represent?

1. Start-to-start with a 15-day lead
2. Finish-to-finish with a 15-day lead
3. Start-to-start with a 15-day lag
4. Finish-to-start with a 15-day lag