Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. You are about to begin negotiations with people from another country. Which of the following should provide guidance on what business practices are allowed and not allowed?

1. The company code of conduct
2. The project charter
3. The scope management plan
4. The negotiation plan

Q3. Ron is a project manager handling an alternate water-supply project. During a project performance review, he notices the following: (i) Activity A, on the critical path, is delayed by four days. (ii) Activity B, not on the critical path, is delayed by nine days. (iii) Activity C, on the critical path, is delayed by two days. (iv) Activity D, not on the critical path, is delayed by five days. In what sequence should Ron prioritize his efforts in addressing these delays?

1. First Activities A and B, and then Activities C and D
2. First Activities A and C, and then Activities B and D
3. First Activities C and D, and then Activities A and B
4. First Activities A and D, and then Activities B and C

Q4. During the status review with your stakeholders, one of the stakeholders told you that they were not asked for their opinion, and now they need a change in the product characteristics. This change may lead to a change in your cost and schedule baseline. Which of the following processes could have helped you prevent this issue?

1. Collect requirements
2. Control scope
3. Identify risks
4. Scope creep

Q5. You are project manager on an information technology project on which you and the sponsor have already approved the scope. An information specialist on your team, after having lunch with a low ranking customer representative working with him on a software project, learns that a simple alteration in the display would be a great addition to the project. The information specialist installs the change with no negative effect on the project schedule and at no additional cost. What action should be taken?

1. The information specialist should be recognized for exceeding customer expectations without affecting project cost or schedule.
2. The project manager should add an activity to he project management plan with no associated time.
3. The information specialist should be told that his behavior was unacceptable, as it may have negatively affected the overall project.
4. The project manager should create a change control form, and have the customer approve the change since the change has already been made.

Q6. You have created the project charter but could not get it approved. Your manager and his boss have asked that the project begin immediately. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?

1. Set up an integrated change control process.
2. Show your manager the impact of proceeding without approval.
3. Focus on completing projects that have signed project charters
4. Start work on only the critical path activities 7

Q7. The technique most commonly used by project management software packages to construct a project schedule model is:

1. Precedence diagramming method (PDM)
2. Finish-to-Start (FS)
3. Activity-In-Node (AIN)
4. Node-On-Activity (NOA)

Q8. You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised at the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is to:

1. Show how the resources were originally promised to your project.
2. Replan the project withour the resources.
3. Explain the impact if the promised resources are not made available.
4. Crash the project.

Q9. You are working on a project to build a canal for irrigation purposes. Six months have passed, and now the team is working as a well-organized unit. Team members are interdependent, working smoothly, and working effectively. What team formation stage is this?

1. Performing
2. Storming
3. Norming
4. Forming

Q10. Which of the following CANNOT be used as a tool in the Perform Quality Control process?

1. Pareto chart
2. Sampling
3. Work breakdown structure
4. Life cycle costing