Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. As the project manager of a large project, you have just completed the Estimate Costs process. As you begin the Determine Budget process, which of the following would you require as inputs to the process from the Estimate Costs process?

1. Activity cost estimates, basis of estimates
2. Activity cost estimates, activity resource estimates
3. Resource breakdown structure, agreements
4. Activity cost estimates, staff management plan

Q3. The success of your new project requires several of your people to work in a foreign country for six months. The team informs you that in this country a payment is required to obtain visas. What should you do?

1. Cancel the project.
2. Make the payment
3. Do not pay and see what happens.
4. Do not send your people.

Q4. A new project manager has just been assigned a project that is in progress. The project is two weeks behind schedule. The team members are about to be distributed to another project based on original time estimates provided by the functional manager. What is the FIRST step the project manager should take?

1. She should first revise the bar chart with new timelines
2. She should initially contact the sponsor and begin with a new team
3. She should first show sympathy with the current team and delay decision making for another week.
4. She should check the project management plan for contingencies concerning resources and talk to the functional manager.

Q5. Which document describes the project's deliverables and the work required to create those deliverables?

1. Project authorization document
2. Project scope statement
3. Project scope management plan
4. Project charter

Q6. As an external vendor, you are managing a complex software project on a time-and-materials (T&M) contract. One of your team members reports a breakthrough in automating some of the testing activities. This may result in cost savings to the project and completion of the project one month ahead of schedule. Which of the following actions would you take?

1. This is confidential information within your project team and there is no need to share with the customer. The savings will be additional profits on the project.
2. Communicate the current status and inform the customer you will incorporate some additional features to use up the savings in cost and time since it was budgeted.
3. Communicate the current status to the customer and indicate the potential changes to cost and schedule.
4. Communicate the savings in cost and time to the customer. At the end of the project, notify your billing department that they need to prepare an invoice for 50 percent of the cost saved.

Q7. You work at a software company that authors Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for chemical companies. Prior to releasing the MSDS to the company, you have created a list of items for review to ensure they appear in the document. These items include chemical name, CAS#, protection required, what to do in an emergency, etc. This list is an example of what type of tool?

1. Checklist
2. Process Improvement Plan
3. Quality Management Plan
4. Quality Metrics

Q8. David was required to investigate a business problem and describe the higher-level needs of the business as a whole. David’s final reports describes in detail the features, functions and characteristics of the product that will meet the business and stakeholder requirements. What is wrong with David’s report?

1. David was asked to analyze the solution requirements, but he focused on the business requirements.
2. David was asked to analyze the business requirements, but he focused on the solution requirements.
3. David was asked to analyze the functional requirements, but he focused on the non-functional requirements.
4. David was asked to analyze the non-functional requirements, but he focused on the functional requirements.

Q9. As per the PMBOK Guide, which of the following is not a communication method that you use to share information among project stakeholders?

1. Online communication
2. Interactive communication
3. Push communication
4. Pull communication

Q10. You need to hire several subject matter experts for your project. Time is limited and the scope of work is also not very clear. In this situation what kind of procurement contract will you utilize to hire experts?

1. Cost plus fixed fee
2. Firm fixed price
3. Fixed price economic price adjustment
4. Time and material