Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The halo effect refers to the tendency to:

1. Promote from within
2. Hire the best
3. Move people into project management because they are good in their technical fields
4. Move people into project management because they have had project management training.

Q3. The organization’s strategy provides a strategic direction and performance parameters for identifying, selecting, and delivering the right mix of projects. If it is determined that some of the CEO’s favorite projects do not fully align with the business objective, the PMO manager must:

1. Recommendation a realignment of the strategy
2. Terminate the project
3. Recommend a realignment of the project objectives
4. Honor the CEO’s desires and execute the project

Q4. Which factor would NOT be considered when choosing between two projects to undertake?

1. Net present value (NPV)
2. Benefit cost ratio (BCR)
3. Payback period
4. Law of diminishing returns

Q5. Outputs of the Plan Risk Responses process include:

1. Residual risks, fallback plans, and contingency reserves
2. Risk triggers, contracts, and a risk list
3. Secondary risks, process updates, and risk owners
4. Contingency plans, project management plan updates, and change requests.

Q6. You have been given a project to build a park for a local community. Currently you are developing approaches to involve project stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, interests, and potential impact on the project. Which of the following is not an output of this process?

1. Communication management plan
2. Risk register
3. Stakeholder register
4. None of the above

Q7. You have decided to apply Resource Leveling to a project because of a critically required resource being available only at certain times. Which of the following will likely be true?

1. Resource Leveling can often cause the original critical path to change.
2. Resource Leveling will over-allocate resources to schedule the project before the deadline.
3. Resource Leveling will require additional resources to complete the project.
4. Resource Leveling will never alter the original critical path.

Q8. During project executing, a new project manager is assigned to the project and finds that the activity cost estimates for the project have rarely been accurate. Which of the following was MOST probably not done?

1. Obtain a cost constraint from management, create a work breakdown structure, and develop a project management plan.
2. Obtain a cost constraint from management, perform a risk assessment, and form a team.
3. Form a team, create a work breakdown structure, and use historical records from previous projects.
4. Form a team, develop a project management plan, and perform a risk assessment.

Q9. The sponsor’s role on a project is BEST described as:

1. Helping to plan activities
2. Helping to prevent unnecessary changes to project objectives.
3. Identifying unnecessary project constraints
4. Helping to put the project management plan together.

Q10. You are the project manager responsible for building a 100,000-squarefoot data center. One of the scheduled activities in your plan is to install the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units. However, before beginning the installation of the units, a raised floor must be installed for the units to bolt to. This is an example of what type of dependency?

1. External
2. Optional
3. Discretionary
4. Mandatory