Project Management Question Bank
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Q2. While testing the strength of concrete poured on your project, you discover that over 35 percent of the concrete does not meet your company’s quality standards. You feel certain the concrete will function as it is, and you don’t think the concrete needs to meet the quality level specified. What should you do?

1. Change the quality standards to meet the level achieved.
2. State in your reports that the concrete simply “meets our quality needs.”
3. Ensure that the remaining concrete meets the standard
4. Report the lesser quality level and try to find a solution.

Q3. Documents that serve as historical records for future projects are archived:

1. Throughout the project
2. Before the end of planning
3. Before the end of execution
4. During closure

Q4. Two team members come to you with a dispute. Since you are very busy, you briefly listen to one member, agree with him, and support his view. What kind of problem-solving technique is this?

1. Withdraw
2. Compromise
3. Force
4. Problem Solving

Q5. Julia is currently recruiting her project team. She has carried out various interviews and has shortlisted potential candidates. Now, according to the project communication management plan, she has to submit the shortlisted profiles to the project client (customer) for approval. Only then, can she formally hire the approved candidates for the project. The submission of the profiles to the client will go through which of the following processes?

1. Manage Stakeholder Engagement
2. Acquire Resources
3. Manage Communications
4. Plan Resource Management

Q6. You have been given a project to clean an area where hundreds of families are living and to develop residential flats for them. Since there so many stakeholders involved, how will you manage them?

1. Ignore low-power stakeholders
2. Pick the dominating stakeholders
3. Find a way to manage them all
4. Manage only high power and high-interest group stakeholders

Q7. Some project managers take communication lightly while managing a project. However, a good project manager must take communication very seriously and must be an effective and efficient communicator. Which of the following is not a fundamental attribute of effective communication?

1. Clarity on the purpose
2. Understanding receiver's communications requirements
3. Relying on verbal communications
4. Monitoring communications

Q8. You have been appointed a project manager for a project which involves more than 3,000 stakeholders. After identifying your project stakeholders, you are in the process of determining the method to use for transferring information to your stakeholders. Which of the following factors will not affect your choice of technology?

1. Sensitivity of the information
2. Project environment
3. Ease of use
4. Number of stakeholders

Q9. Which of the following processes are usually not performed continuously, but rather, performed periodically as needed:

1. Acquire Resources
2. Monitor Risks
3. Monitor Communications
4. Monitor Stakeholder Engagement

Q10. To a project manager, which of the following is the BIGGEST disadvantage of progress reports as compared to watching what is going on in a project, asking questions, and assisting team members?

1. Progress reports include information from all team.
2. Progress reports require expending time gathering information from stakeholders.
3. Progress reports generally show problems after they have occurred.
4. Progress reports supply information about trends.