Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are working on a project which is under budget and ahead of schedule. The project is 85% complete, and the client comes and asks you to terminate the project because he fears a possible regulation can impact his project. You review the project parameters and find that you can complete the project before the proposed legislation comes into existence; moreover, you won’t need any extra funding. What will your next steps be?

1. Tell the client about your findings and ask him to reconsider his decision
2. Initiate the close project process
3. Immediately release your team members
4. Convince your management to discuss the issue with the client

Q3. Which of the following approaches deliberately spends less time trying to define and lock project scope early during the project and spends more time establishing the process for requirements gathering, scope definition and refinement?

1. Waterfall methods
2. Predictive methods
3. Agile methods
4. Kanban methods

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. During every project team meeting, the project manager asks each team member to describe the work he or she is doing, and the project manager assigns new activities to team members. The length of these meetings has increased because there are many different activities to assign. This could be happening for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

1. Lack of a WBS
2. Lack of a responsibility assignment matrix.
3. Lack of resource leveling
4. Lack of team involvement in project planning.

Q6. You are in the middle of a complex negotiation when the other party says, “We need to finish in one hour because I have to catch my plane.” That person is using which of the following negotiation strategies?

1. Good guy, bad guy
2. Delay
3. Deadline
4. Extreme demands.

Q7. Which of the following techniques can help clarify the structure, requirements, and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement between a buyer and a seller can be reached prior to signing the contract?

1. Independent estimates
2. Advertising
3. Bidder conferences
4. Procurement negotiations

Q8. The Close Project process includes all of the following EXCEPT:

1. Analysis of project success
2. Ensuring that records include final specifications
3. Creating a project risk management plan
4. A collection of project records

Q9. While working on a project in another country, you are asked to make a “facilitating” payment so the country officials will issue a work order. What should you do?

1. Make the payment
2. Ask the person for proof the payment is required.
3. Seek legal advice on whether such a payment is a bribe
4. Do not pay and see what happens.

Q10. Project A has had ineffective project meetings since its inception. There have been complaints that information does not get to the right people, some people are talking too much during meetings, and the right people are not there to resolve the issues. What is MOST likely missing from this project?

1. A scope management plan
2. A staffing management plan
3. A communications management plan
4. A process improvement plan