Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. James has been managing a hotel construction project on a busy street. He is in the process of estimating activity durations for building walls, and he calculates the most likely estimate as 15 days. If prefabricated material is used, it would take no more than 12 days to finish the work. The work may be delayed and could take up to 18 days if less experienced construction workers build the walls. What is the expected duration of building walls using the three-point estimate?

1. 12 days
2. 11 days
3. 16 days
4. 15 days

Q3. A team member notifies you that she has added extra functionality to the project. She tells you there was no impact on the cost or schedule. What should be done as a result of this change?

1. Implement change control processes to track the change
2. Understand what functionality was added
3. Instruct the team member to remove the extra functionality
4. Issue an approved change request

Q4. A project team includes five people when the project manager adds two more. How many additional channels of communication are there?

1. 7
2. 10
3. 21
4. 11

Q5. Which estimating method tends to be MOST costly for creating a project cost estimate?

1. Bottom-up
2. Analogous
3. Parametric
4. 50/50 rule

Q6. Due to corporate restructuring, the project sponsor, a major stakeholder, and the CEO have level the company. The project manager’s project is past the halfway point and the remaining members of the management team have been lukewarm toward the project. The new CEO does not place a high value on project management methodology, and the project team is nervous about its future. Under these circumstances, what is the project manager’s primary responsibility?

1. Try to determine if the tea should continue to work on the project.
2. Ensure that a conflict of interest does not compromise the legitimate interests of the customer.
3. Interact with others in a professional manner while completing the project.
4. Provide accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.

Q7. During which stage of risk planning are risks prioritized based on their relative probability and impact?

1. Perform Qualitative risk analysis
2. Identify Risks
3. Perform Quantitative risk analysis
4. Plan Risk Responses

Q8. Information in the stakeholder register should be:

1. Accessible only to the project manager.
2. Available to the project manager and PMO staff.
3. Available to all stakeholders and team members.
4. Shared with others at the discretion of the project manager.

Q9. A project team is worried that the integration of the components of the project will result in uncovering flaws. Instead of continuing their work, they are constantly looking for flaws to try to prevent their system from being the only one found o have flaws during integration. Quality and technical experts were called in to advise and found little possibility of errors for this project. An agreement was reached by all parties on what will be done to prevent errors. It might be BEST for the project manager to:

1. Smooth the situation
2. Compromise the situation
3. Tell the team to create quality testing plans
4. Let management know of the concern.

Q10. The code development phase of a software project is nearly complete when the first code review is conducted. During the review, it s discovered that the application is missing functionality required to complete a key business process. However, the product scope never specified this functionality. What should the project manager do?

1. Reject the functionality as out of the project’s scope.
2. Agree to include the functionality in the current release
3. Agree to include the functionality in the next release.
4. Assess the impact on the project of including the functionality, and inform the sponsor.