Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You have a project with four activities as follows: Activity 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of one. Activity 2 can start after activity 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of four. Activity 3 can start after activity 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of five. Activity 4 can start after activity 1 is completed and must be completed when activity 3 is completed. The estimate for activity 4 is 10. What is the SHORTEST amount of time in which the project can be completed?

1. 10
2. 9
3. 18
4. 11

Q3. You are managing a complex submarine causeway construction project. When you started the project, the scope of work was not clear and was based on a rather high-level estimate. Now that you are in the middle of the project, more information has become available. As a result, you now need to change some of the key subcontracts on the project. Which of the following will guide you through the change process?

1. Change control terms of the individual subcontracts
2. Project management plan’s change control procedures
3. Organizational process assets
4. Supplier’s contract administrator

Q4. A project manager has completed identification of stakeholders and has started planning for a flow instruments installation project in a hospital. While developing the project management plan, a team member states that a stakeholder in the X-ray department is missing from the stakeholder list. Which of the following would be the best response from the project manager?

1. Authenticate the information from the team member
2. Include and involve the stakeholder immediately
3. It is too late to involve a stakeholder in the planning, so ignore the stakeholder
4. Wait until the execution phase to involve the new stakeholder

Q5. In your project, you have two activities, D and E. These two activities have a common successor, Activity F. Activity D will be completed on the 10th and activity E will be completed on the 15th. Therefore, Activity D can be delayed by 5 days without affecting the early start of Activity F. This delay is known as:

1. Total float
2. Free float
3. Project buffers
4. Feeding buffer

Q6. A project manager may use _________ to make sure the team members clearly know what work is included in each of their work packages.

1. The project scope statement
2. The product scope
3. A WBS dictionary
4. A schedule

Q7. The client asks you for some minor changes to the project and you discuss this matter with your team members. One of your team members told you that he thinks that it will not affect any other project objective. What will you do now?

1. Review the request according to integrated change control process
2. Since the team member thinks it will not affect any project objective, implement it
3. Ignore it
4. None of the above

Q8. The paint on the exotic cars that are manufactured in your plant is bubbling about a year after application. What would be the best tool for your team to use to find potential causes of the peeling paint?

1. Scatter diagram
2. Ishikawa Diagram
3. Control Chart
4. Inspection

Q9. In adaptive lifecycles, such as the agile approach for product development, requirements are documented as user stories that are then __________ just prior to construction.

1. Analyzed and curtailed
2. Benchmarked and standardized
3. Prioritized and refined
4. Examined and outsourced

Q10. The project budget is proving to be inaccurate. The SPI is 1.1. The team has had a negative deviation from the activity attributes, and the sponsor has inserted herself on the change control board. What is the BEST thing for the project manager to do?

1. Try to encourage the sponsor to remove herself from the change control board
2. Re-compute the project schedule
3. Re-estimate the activity attributes
4. Calculate the cost performance index