Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. The requirements elicitation team has generated a large number of ideas during sessions to gather product and project requirements. Which of the following techniques is best suited to sorting these ideas into groups for review and analysis?

1. Control chart
2. Venn diagram
3. Affinity diagram
4. Brainstorming

Q3. You are over budget and it is impossible to complete the project with the given budget. Therefore, you raise the change request which management approves. After the change request is approved, you update the cost baseline and update other project documents. The document used to register any changes which occur during the project execution is known as:

1. Risk register
2. Issue log
3. Change log
4. RACI matrix

Q4. A single point of failure (SPOF) is the part of a system that, upon failure, stops the entire system from working or makes the system useless. Which of the following events can render a knowledge management system ineffective?

1. If project team is not motivated.
2. Project team is geographically distributed.
3. When project knowledge cannot be classified as explicit or tacit.
4. Knowledge is shared using a mixture of knowledge management tools and techniques.

Q5. The project has had a major defect, and the project manager has involved the project team and process engineers in analyzing the situation. Someone from the group says that the real fault is the age of the equipment. Another says it is the lack of material of the correct quality. To address the root of the problem, the project manager decides to use an Ishikawa diagram. Which of the following BEST describes the part of the quality management process in which the group is involved in this situation?

1. Quality analysis
2. Manage Quality
3. Perform Quality Control
4. Plan Quality.

Q6. Which of the following tools give a visual representation of an organization’s data, described in business language that is independent of any specific technology?

1. Matrix diagrams
2. Mind maps
3. Flowcharts
4. Logical data model

Q7. A project manager is trying to convince management to use more formal project management procedures and has decided to start improving the company’s project management by obtaining a project charter. Which of the following BEST describes why the project charter would help the project manager?

1. It describes the details of what needs to be done.
2. It lists the names of all team members.
3. It gives the project manager authority.
4. It describes the project’s history.

Q8. The business case to justify a project typically contains:

1. The project's BAC and ETC
2. Identification of alternatives
3. Project WBS
4. Variance Analysis

Q9. The technique of comparing actual or planned project practices to those of other projects to generate ideas for improvement and to provide a basis by which to measure performance is known as:

1. Workbench
2. Benchmarking
3. Quality control
4. Dependency

Q10. In your weekly status reports, you report the earned value for the project. This information is essential for you and the stakeholders to gauge the progress of the project. What process group is the cost and schedule control part of?

1. Closing
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and Controlling