Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are running one week behind on a project due to a late delivery by a vendor. You are forced to compress your project schedule due to a government-mandated end date that constrains your project. After meeting with your team, the decision is to work several tasks in parallel that were scheduled to be run consecutively. This is an example of:

1. Risk Acceptance
2. Crashing
3. Resource Leveling
4. Fast Tracking

Q3. Kate’s project is in execution. During an internal project review meeting, Kate learns that the stakeholder engagement plan needs an update. The last update was done two weeks earlier. According to the stakeholder engagement plan, the plan must be reviewed and updated on a monthly basis. The nature of the required update does not require following the formal change control process. What should Kate do?

1. Wait for a couple of weeks to do the required update
2. Update the plan review procedure first before making the required update
3. Go ahead and do the required update
4. Seek the project sponsor‘s guidance

Q4. A team member wants to make a technical change o her activity that will add time to the activity estimate. What is the FIRST thing the project manager should do?

1. See if there is any time available from another activity
2. See if there is enough reserve to handle the change
3. Send a change request to the change control board
4. Determine if the activity is on the critical path.

Q5. Kelly is part of a project management office (PMO). Her office is responsible for the centralized and coordinated management of 18 projects. Each project has its own project manager. Which of the following will not typically be a responsibility of her PMO?

1. Coaching, mentoring, training, and oversight
2. Development of a detailed description of each project and the product it produces
3. Managing shared resources across all the projects administered by the PMO
4. Developing and managing project policies

Q6. If a process has a lack of consistency and predictability it is said to be:

1. In control
2. Quality assured
3. Out of control
4. Assigned a cause

Q7. The WBS structure can be created in a number of forms except which of the following?

1. Using work packages as the second level of decomposition, with the project deliverables inserted at the third level
2. Using major deliverables as the second level of decomposition
3. Using phases of the project lifecycle as the second level of decomposition, with the product and project deliverables inserted at the third level
4. Using subcomponents, which may be developed by organizations outside the project team, such as contracted work

Q8. You receive 25 new computers from the seller, but were expecting only 20. In looking at the contract, you see that it says “sellers to provide twenty (20) computers.” What should you do FIRST?

1. Issue a change order through the contract manager
2. Return the five extra computers
3. Make payment for the 25 computers
4. Call the seller and ask for clarification

Q9. In an activity-on-node diagram, the nodes represent:

1. Work packages
2. Activities
3. Dependencies
4. Discretionaries 40

Q10. A company is looking for an experienced project manager to manage a large construction project. You meet all the requirements for the position except for one: The organization is looking for a certified PMP with five years of experience, but you have just four years of experience managing similar projects. What is the best way to fill out your application?

1. Show how you meet the requirements but include your actual years of experience
2. Do not fill out that particular section.
3. Explain why years of experience should not matter.
4. Since you have plenty of experience, embellish your actual years of experience.