Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager is trying to coordinate all the activities on the project and has determined the following: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of 1 week. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of 4 weeks. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed has an estimated duration of 5 weeks. Activity 4 can start after activity 1 is completed and has estimated duration of 8 weeks. Both activities 3 and 4 must be completed before the end of the project. What is the duration of the critical path for this project?

1. 10
2. 11
3. 14
4. 8

Q3. Which of the following is incorrect regarding a bidders conference?

1. Questions from each seller should be handled confidentially and not shared with other sellers.
2. No bidders should receive preferential treatment, even if they are part of the company's existing list of approved suppliers.
3. Bidder conferences should not involve individual face-to-face meetings.
4. All prospective sellers should be allowed to have a common understanding of the procurement.

Q4. You have met with your project sponsor who told you that you must complete the project by the end of the year, no exceptions. This should be included in the project scope statement as a:

1. Project Constraint
2. Project Boundary
3. Project Acceptance Criteria
4. Project Assumption

Q5. Under which circumstances is it BEST to use a network diagram rather than a bar chart?

1. To report to the sponsor
2. To show interdependence between activities
3. To track progress or to report to the team
4. To create a work breakdown structure

Q6. You are trying to decide whether to lease or buy an item for your project. The daily lease cost is US $150. The investment cost to purchase the item is US $2,000, and the daily cost is US $50. In how many days will the lease cost be the same as the purchase cost?

1. 10
2. 15
3. 20
4. 25

Q7. As per the PMBOK Guide, which of the following is not a communication method that you use to share information among project stakeholders?

1. Online communication
2. Interactive communication
3. Push communication
4. Pull communication

Q8. The Manage Stakeholder Engagement process is a very important project management process. An ineffective effort in this process can sabotage the whole project. Which of the following is the key benefit of this process?

1. It makes the Manage Communications process redundant.
2. It produces the stakeholder engagement plan.
3. It increases support and minimizes resistance from stakeholders.
4. Lessons learned are documented during this process.

Q9. The client has given you a project to install a new kind of elevator, so you start designing it from scratch. The planning phase is completed and you are now about to install the elevator. Suddenly a team member comes to you and asks for a change in the quality management plan as he has identified a flaw in the process. In which process can you perform the integrated change control?

1. During the monitoring & controlling phase
2. During the execution phase
3. Throughout the project
4. During the executing, and monitoring & controlling phase

Q10. As the Project Manager for Midway Carnival Rides, you are beginning the Define Scope process. Which of the following is a key input to this process?

1. Project Scope Statement
2. Expert Judgment
3. Project Charter
4. WBS