Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. During a project team meeting, a team member suggests an enhancement to the scope that is beyond the scope of the project charter. The project manager points out that the team needs to concentrate on completing all the work and only the work required. This is an example of:

1. Change management process
2. Scope management
3. Quality analysis
4. Scope decomposition 12

Q3. A person is writing a document identifying the business need for a project and is including a description of the product is created by the project. She includes a list of stakeholders and pre-assigned resources. What is the role of this person on the project?

1. The project manager for the project or a company functional manager
2. A member of the project management team working at the direction of the project manager
3. The sponsor or the project manager
4. A manager or executive in the organization who is higher in the corporate hierarchy than the project manager.

Q4. Who of the following would be LEAST likely to be involved in the Define Activities process?

1. End user
2. Team
3. Experts
4. Project manager

Q5. You are a project manager of a construction project that is financially challenged and behind schedule. A foreman fails to deliver a deliverable of the project on time as promised. You need to address the issue with the foreman. How should you approach the foreman?

1. You are the project manager responsible for the whole of the project. To ensure you have control, remain firm, and reprimand the foreman and the team to ensure they do not slow down.
2. You disregard the issue, acknowledging that what is done is done and develop a plan for moving forward.
3. You meet with the foreman inquiring about what happened and seek to understand and solve the problem.
4. You reprimand the foreman n private and ask that he keep you better informed in the future.

Q6. Stakeholders can be identified in which project management process group?

1. Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing
2. Initiating and planning
3. Planning and monitoring and controlling
4. Monitoring and controlling and closing

Q7. The project manager is working on a high-profile project where completing the project within budget is critical. The project manager is new, but well trained and is excited to see that the project is spending less than budgeted. As a result, the project manager was planning to take a holiday when a more senior project manager warned him that he has some important work to do on the project. Why would the senior project manager give such a warning on this project?

1. The project manager needs to create a project control system to make sure there are no problems in the future.
2. Under budget could mean that work that was scheduled to e done has not been completed. The project manager should look at how the cost performance compares to the schedule performance
3. A project that is under budget may also have contracts that need to be managed.
4. Team meetings should be scheduled every week and a holiday would mean that one team meeting would have to be cancelled.

Q8. A project has the following risks: 20 percent probability of a 14 day delay in the receipt of customer requirements; 10 percent probability of a 21 day delay in the procurement process; 50 percent probability the integration will take 14 days longer. What is the expected monetary value of these events?

1. 11.9 days.
2. 35.8 days.
3. 49 days.
4. 7 days.

Q9. You are working on a waste management project that, upon completion, will be turned over to the local municipality for steady-state operation. Parking of trucks and other vehicles has become a serious problem because no parking area was allotted to you on the main dumping site. As a result, your trucks are parked on nearby roadsides. One of the fleet supervisors informs you that close to the main site, there is a large tract of land a local charity owns. Many locals park their cars on this tract of land. What should you do?

1. Since the piece of land is already used as parking, you can park your trucks over there.
2. Don’t park the trucks on that piece of land because it will be a violation of other’s property rights.
3. Check the local parking laws.
4. Ask the supervisor to get contact information of the local charity.

Q10. Quality is:

1. Meeting and exceeding the customer’s expectations
2. Adding extras to make the customer happy
3. The degree to which the project meets requirements
4. Conformance to management’s requirements.