Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. A customer has given you a procurement of work for a complex, eightmonth project that has a few unknowns. The customer has asked you to just “get it done” and only wants to see you at the end of eight months when you deliver the finished project. Under these circumstances, which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Complete the project as requested, but verify its scope with the customer occasionally throughout.
2. Complete the project within eight months without contacting the customer during this time.
3. Ask management to check in with the customer occasionally.
4. Complete the project, but document that the customer did not want contact.

Q3. A project has a schedule reserve of 28 days when the customer adds scope not previously planned for. The change has a 40 percent chance of delaying the project by an additional 14 days. What should be done?

1. Add more resources to the project.
2. Look for ways to cut 14 days of work from another activity.
3. Add 5.6 days to the schedule reserve.
4. Plan to add 14 days of overtime to the project.

Q4. Payment for any decision made or encouraged by a foreign official with respect to whether a company will be awarded business is BEST described as:

1. A common practice
2. A sunk cost
3. A bribe
4. A progress fee

Q5. A project team is having difficulty communicating over long distances. There are 13 team members from two countries when five people from Indian are added to the project. How many communication channels are there?

1. 153
2. 180
3. 324
4. 362

Q6. Which of the following does NOT assess the value a project brings to an organization?

1. Benefit cost analysis
2. Net present value
3. Value analysis
4. Needs assessment

Q7. When do stakeholders have the MOST influence on a project?

1. At the beginning of the project
2. In the middle of the project
3. At the end of the project
4. Throughout the project

Q8. The project manager is working to clearly describe the level of involvement expected from everyone involved in the project in order to prevent rework, conflict, and coordination problems. Which of the following BEST describes the project manager’s efforts?

1. Develop Project Management Plan and Plan Quality Management
2. Problem solving, control, and discovering gold plating
3. Validate Scope and Control Quality
4. Control Risks, Develop Project Team, and lessons learned

Q9. A project team is scattered across North America, South America, and Europe. There are seven companies working on the project and 67 core team members. Which of the following would have the GREATEST impact on making the situation easier to manage?

1. A project scope statement
2. A staffing management plan
3. A change control system
4. More time spent scope planning.

Q10. A software team tracing the root cause of an application failure can use this to help determine the cause(s) of the failure:

1. Ishikawa diagram
2. Rummler-Brache swim lane diagram
3. Threading analysis
4. Deming chart