Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. Senior management asks the project manager how the project would be affected if two resources were removed from the project. To calculate a response, the project manager should complete:

1. Resource leveling
2. What-if scenario analysis
3. Schedule compression
4. Fast tracking

Q3. You have been assigned as the project manager for a construction project that has had two previous project managers, when you discover that a deliverable will be late. Your analysis shows that the item can be purchased from another seller at a higher price without affecting the schedule. What is the BEST thing to do?

1. Evaluate the impact of the decision
2. Discuss the impact with the customer and ask for a decision
3. Crash or fast track the project.
4. Change the project management plan to reflect the new due date.

Q4. A control chart is used to determine whether a process is stable or has predictable performance. When a process is within acceptable limits, the process does not need adjustment. How are these upper and lower control limits determined?

1. Statistical calculations
2. Variance analysis
3. Pareto chart
4. ROM estimate

Q5. During project executing, a large number of changes are made to the project. The project manager should:

1. Wait until all changes are known and print out a new schedule
2. Make sure the project charter is still valid
3. Change the schedule baseline
4. Talk to management before any changes are made

Q6. Lee is the project manager of a project, and he is planning responses to a set of risks. As a direct result of implementing these risk responses, he anticipates certain other risks to arise. These are:

1. Secondary risks
2. Primary risks
3. Planned risks
4. Workaround

Q7. Bill is managing a website development project. He has recently received feedback from one of the key project stakeholders. The feedback is positive overall, but it contains some recommendations. After analyzing the recommendations, Bill accepts them, gets them approved, and incorporates them into the project management plan. The recommendations were then implemented and the new ideas were found to be successful. What needs to be done with this feedback now?

1. Discard it since it is no longer required
2. Publish it on the corporate intranet
3. Add it to the organizational process assets
4. Send it back to the stakeholder

Q8. Which of the following cane create the MOST misinterpretation in the project scope statement?

1. Imprecise language
2. Poor pattern, structure, and chronological order
3. Small variation in size of work packages or detail of work
4. Too much detail 03

Q9. The project has a critical deliverable that requires certain expertise to complete. The person who was going to complete the activity has left the company and there is no one who can complete the work within the company. For this reason, the project manager needs to acquire the services of a consultant as soon as possible. To do this, the project manager should:

1. Follow the requirements set up by the company for using outside services
2. Bypass the company procedures as they are not relevant to the situation
3. Expedite and go directly to his/her preferred consultant.
4. Ask his/her manager what to do.

Q10. A project manager decides to bring expected future schedule performance in line with the project management plan. What is this a definition of?

1. Corrective action
2. Lessons learned
3. Scope verification
4. Scope planning Activity Float (months) Start B 2 C 1 D 0 E 3 F 1 G 0 H 4 I 0 End 78