Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A project manager has made a change to the project. What should she do NEXT?

1. Assign resources
2. Revise the project management plan and/or project documents
3. Evaluate impact
4. Request change control board involvement

Q3. Which technique is NOT commonly used to align the timing of activities with available resources?

1. Critical Path Method
2. Resource Leveling
3. Resource optimization
4. Resource Smoothing

Q4. While developing your project schedule, you have asked everyone to provide a list of planned vacations over the next three months, and you have applied this information to the tasks that each person is responsible for. What also needs updating?

1. Resource Calendars
2. Leads
3. Schedule Variances
4. Lags

Q5. A project manager on a multinational website implementation project is at a party and talks to friends who will be heavy users of this new website when the project is complete and the site is rolled out. They describe some annoying aspects of the current website. The project manager takes this feedback to the sponsor, and encourages design and scope changes. Which of the following BEST describes what the project manager has done?

1. Scope validation
2. Integrated change control
3. Stakeholder analysis
4. Scope planning

Q6. The construction phase of a new software product is near completion. The next phases are testing and implementation. The project is two weeks ahead of schedule. What should the project manager be MOST concerned with before moving on to the final phase?

1. Validate Scope
2. Perform Quality Control
3. Performance Reports
4. Control Costs

Q7. Statistical sampling involves choosing part of a population for inspection. Appropriate sampling can often ___________the cost of quality control.

1. Neutralize
2. Reduce
3. Increase
4. Mitigate

Q8. Your company puts a new product into the marketplace without any reports of problems. However, your internal research indicates that there is a possibility of serious injuries that would cost $20,000,000 to fix. What should you do?

1. Make the necessary modifications to the products in production
2. Recall all the existing product
3. Wait until an injury to verify the impact
4. Obtain insurance to cover the anticipated damages

Q9. What is a control chart?

1. A type of RACI chart
2. A chart that shows the root cause of a problem
3. A type of fishbone diagram
4. A chart that shows the stability of a process

Q10. Which list includes a process where recommended corrective action is NOT an output?

1. Control Quality, Control Costs, Report Performance
2. Control Costs, Manage Quality, Direct and Manage Project Work
3. Control Scope, Distribute Information, Control Risks
4. Monitor and Control Project Work, Manage Stakeholder Expectations, Manage Quality.